Two Drifting Life Rafts on a Sea of Circumstance
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Thereâs not a single wrong note in âLiberty Kid,â Ilya Chaikenâs poignant drama about marginal lives strained to breaking by the aftermath of Sept. 11.
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A mother who was swept away by the tsunami knew she could not hold on to both of her young boys and had to decide which one to let go of.
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Trying to make sense of what is left behind envelops "Dying City," Christopher Shinn's remarkable tale of loss and how two very different people handle their grief.
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These lives, abruptly transformed by illness, had one element in common: they pinned their hopes on experimental or unproven treatments.
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âWoman on the Beachâ is a bittersweet accounting of the geography of desire.
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Floridaâs season of âsturgeon strikesâ â collisions between the leaping fish and hapless boaters is already under way.
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From floating houses to city seals on the loose, Floridians salvage stories from debris.
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With their latest work, Walter Martin and Paloma MuÃ±oz have climbed into their own distinct niche by preserving the human condition in water and a touch of alcohol.
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At some time, most adults experience floaters, sensations that many people describe as specks, bugs or cobwebs floating in their fields of vision.
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As parents come to terms with the tsunami calamity, children here are sharing stories of survival.
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Two films tackle a subject that Hollywood usually prefers to avert its eyes from
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The two heroes may be losers, but Sideways is not. It finds hilarity in life's large and little disasters
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Alaska's Old Believers are accustomed to struggle. But even for them, these are the most trying of times.
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Too often, inspirational movies about extreme bravery in the face of affliction are pure goo. They only manage to inspire a few rolls of the eyes in those of us with more ironic constitutions.
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The sight of a sobbing orphan stranded in a landscape of death and disaster moves people deeply.
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Two new films shed light on Pakistan's deep-rooted social and political problems by looking at them through the eyes of a child.
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Those left homeless by this summer's storms aren't the only ones roughing it in these arduous times.