Tall, dark, androgynously handsome, Pierre wears eyeliner and a black lace g-string, while having sex with both boys and girls. The confusion only goes deeper when the teenager's single, working-class mom is arrested for having stolen him at birth. Thanks to the wonders of DNA, he's returned to his biological parents: bourgeois, straight- laced and thrilled to have him back, at least until he shows up in a zebra-print mini dress.

Inspired by a true incident, Shen Yu's debut OLD TOWN GIRLS tells a tale about how an unsustained economic boom desolates working-class communities and familial relations. Tempted by living a new life as a professional dancer in big cities, Qu Ting bid farewell to her marriage in a decaying rust bell town, leaving behind her infant daughter Shui Qing, who’s been alienated by her dad’s new family since. Never felt equally loveable as her peers,...

“Richard Billingham’s blisteringly honest photos of his alcoholic dad and his mountainous, tattooed mom – RAY AND LIZ, as they have come to be intimately known – were the toast of Charles Saatchi’s epochal late ‘90s exhibition Sensation.” – Elizabeth Fullerton, British art critic. One of Britain’s most celebrated artists, Billingham has made an autobiographical debut feature that immerses the viewer in his Midlands childhood of...

It's Elementary features elementary and middle schools where (mainly heterosexual) teachers are challenging the prevailing political climate and its attempt to censor any dialogue in schools about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.. Rather than focusing on the debate between adults, though, the film takes the point of view of the school children, starting as young as first grade. The results are surprising and, as the LA Reader says, "funny,...

In I Learn America, five resilient immigrant teenagers come together at the International High School at Lafayette and struggle to learn their new land.. The International High School is a New York City public school dedicated to serving newly arrived immigrant teenagers, with more than 300 students speaking two-dozen languages from 50 countries.. Meet the students:. SING is a refugee from Myanmar who has recently relocated to Brooklyn, leaving his...

Through the eyes of funeral director Isaiah Owens, the beauty and grace of African American funerals are brought to life. Filmed at the Owens Funeral Home in Harlem and the rural South, director Christine Turner's Homegoings takes an up-close look at the rarely seen world of undertaking in the black community, where funeral rites draw on a rich palette of tradition, history and celebration. It reveals the special status of undertakers in the community;...

Join the adventures of Martin and Chris as they meet up with cool creatures from around the world and witness many never-before-seen wildlife moments. With their creature smarts plus their newly invented Creature Power Suits, the brothers Kratt are using amazing animal abilities to rescue their animal friends when they get into trouble.

Christy is a single mom valiantly trying to overcome a lifetime of questionable choices. Now a year clean and sober, she's tested daily by her seventeen-year-old daughter Violet, her young son Roscoe, and her newly sober mom, Bonnie in this pulls-no-punches comedy.

The Kratt brothers travel the world and go on exciting adventures where they encounter different animals.

As middle-agged, middle-class, middle-of-the-country mom Frankie Heck tackles the mundane chaos of everyday life her kids manufacture drama, and her husband offers his support while sitting on the living room couch.