简介:IN THE LAND OF BROTHERS is the intertwined story of Afghan refugees of Iran, in three decades. Starting in 1990, there is a ten-year gap between each episode. Masoumeh: An Afghan woman is searching for her missing husband who hasn't come home in two days, in the middle of a riot in Mashhad. Her daughter Hanieh is losing her hearing and wonders where her father is. Mohammad: A teenage Afghan boy is constantly being captured by the police and taken to the station for forced labor. His family works precariously in greenhouses, and he needs to find a solution on his own. Leila: A female janitor finds her husband dead before the new year's big celebration. As she and her son are illegally living in Iran, she needs to bury her husband without the house owners noticing, otherwise she might be deported. Qasem: The brother of Leila finds out his son had been killed in a proxy war in Syria. The government wants to grant citizenship to the Afghan families that've lost sons. The man struggles to reveal this to his wife Hanieh.
简介:Quebec, 1980s. 10-year-old Jo, inspired by her cartoon heroine, dreams of saving her unhappy father. Surrounded by her three sisters and a busy mother, she finds an ally in Monsieur Roger, their gruff neighbor who hides a tender heart.
简介:Charles Augustus Howell was John Ruskin's secretary, agent and model for Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and exhumer of Lizzie Siddal. But he is also said to have been a master blackmailer and a forger of works of art.
简介:Alice is a famous youtuber who lives for her channel. Until one day, while preparing for an important live, she runs into a powerful virus and gets sucked into her computer. To get back home, Alice will have to face the Queen of the Bots who is determined to keep her forever in the digital world
简介:10-year-old Ellie is fascinated by nature and birds, she spends her time reading about them. One day, a few miles from school, she goes onto a little island on the Loire River to take a bird book back to the library. It's an island full of birds.
简介:8-year-old Billie leans on her vivid imagination, and her loyal best friend Sherry, to unravel the web of secrets shrouding her mother's true identity.