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Lucy Honeychurch shares a brief romance with George Emerson in Florence. Yet as she tries to move on with her life and look for marriage elsewhere, can she truly forget the events of that summer?

Young lovers, and soon to wed, Hero and Claudio conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles, Benedick and Beatrice, to wed as well.

In the midst of the Hundred Years War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.

Domestic and professional tensions mount when a husband and wife work as opposing lawyers in a case involving a woman who shot her husband.

A chronicle of the lives of sisters growing up in 19th-century New England.

Six former college friends, with two new friends, gather for a New Year's Eve weekend reunion at a large English countryside manor after ten years to reminisce about the good times now long gone.

In 1830s France, pianist/composer Frédéric Chopin is pursued romantically by the determined, individualistic woman who uses the name George Sand.

Pat is a women's sports sensation unless her fiancé is around. Her new shady manager Mike keeps them apart and develops feelings for her.

On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.

A young carer discovers an unlikely talent for stand-up comedy.

When an out-of-work actor accidentally discovers through Facebook that he's been wildly famous in a faraway land for almost two decades, he sets out to discover the reasons why.

Jimmy is a self-loathing and frustrated musician who works at a candy shop. He takes out his rage on his long suffering wife and his business partner and best friend, who lives next door. Jimmy's marital problems come to a head when his wife discovers that she's pregnant and one of her friends, an actress, comes to stay with them. Based on the play, the story takes place in England in the 1950's.

In Southeastern Ohio, April works in a scrap yard. Daphany waits for customers in a fast food window. Lee spends the day waiting for school to be over. But the local circus school offers a departure from daily tedium and checked-out adults. Combining elements of fiction and documentary, In the Air is a portrait of a place that has endured an economic crisis for decades. The film features real people acting out scenes from everyday life and examines the force they are capable of in a deindustrialized world. In the Air is shot in the filmmaker's hometown-Portsmouth, Ohio-with the collaboration of the Cirque D'Art circus school.

Winning the top award at a national competition might seem like the highest possible achievement for the Amazing Technicolor Show Choir. As the next year unfolds, though, this Omaha show choir continues to pursue excellence in singing and dancing. They start out the year as a group of talented individuals, but they have quite a distance to go to be their best as a group. From auditions through the competition season, the 46 students of ATSC push the limits of performance as they figure out what it means to leave it on the stage.

What draws together a physician, an exotic dancer, a pageant queen, a legal assistant, an entrepreneur, and a musician who used to work with Prince? They have all been called "beautiful." But what does beauty mean to them? Surprising stories emerge as they talk about childhood, careers, relationships, and life happiness.

This is the contemporary story of Tania and Nastia - a close-knit mother and daughter in Minsk, Belarus, whose relationship begins to suffer when each becomes romantically attached to a man the other despises. The daughter's unfolding love affair and the mother's painful relationship to her ex-husband are two narratives which lead to their current troubles, misunderstandings, and their constant parent/child role switching. Rejecting her mothers warnings, Nastia gets deeper involved with Slava, a married man with mysterious and illicit money-making practices. In response Tania returns to Igor, a high-art, out-of-work actor and poet, for whom Nastia has harbored a deep resentment since childhood. The family feud culminates in the days preceding Nastia's wedding when Igor confronts the bride, forcing Tania to chose between him and her daughter.

A girl flees a makeshift tent city. A man finds a trombone. A worker watches the ocean from under a moving house, while its owner gazes at the view from her shifting living room. In ten very short stories, residents of the destroyed Mississippi Gulf Coast act out atmospheric scenes of everyday life and the relentlessness of labor in their extreme landscape.

Lucy Honeychurch, a young Englishwoman, makes her first visit to Florence, Italy in the early 1900's. There, she meets a quiet yet eccentric young man named George Emerson. Upon her return to England, Lucy must decide whether to follow through with her marriage to her stoic fiancée, Cecil, or follow her heart and her growing attraction to George.