Keep your head up
Salim, a young Palestinian musician returns home to celebrate his parent’s wedding anniversary. Upon his arrival, he and his family’s true priorities are put into question when his mother requests that he drop out of college in order to help their struggling family business. Now with his future on the line, Salim must choose between his personal ambitions and his responsibilities to the family that raised him.
Rated 6.7 on TMDB
Mahree Bok lives on a farm in South Africa. Her father is a policeman who cannot hide his joy when activist Steve Biko is caught by the South African authorities. Piper Dellums is the daughter of a US congressman from California and who lives in a nice home in Washington DC. When Mahree is chosen to spend a semester at the Dellums' house, she doesn't expect that her host family would be black. Nor do her hosts suspect that she is not a black South African.
Rated 6.4 on TMDB
When a rebellious teen embarks on a solo summer journey to connect with her roots, she finds herself in a new world, geared up for the ride of her life, and discovers she had the drive in her all along.
Rated 6.7 on TMDB
An optimistic, talented teen clings to a huge secret: she's homeless and living on a school bus. When tragedy strikes, can she learn to accept a helping hand?
Rated 6.2 on TMDB
Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission to fix their community's broken school and ensure a bright future for their children. The two women refuse to let any obstacles stand in their way as they battle a bureaucracy that's hopelessly mired in traditional thinking, and they seek to re-energize a faculty that has lost its passion for teaching.
Rated 6.6 on TMDB
Feeling awkward and isolated, an imaginative and strong-willed teenage girl runs away from home with an older punk rock drifter.
Rated 6.4 on TMDB
Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes.
