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Social class shapes life choices.
- Director
- Hanna, R. J. Daniel
- Description
- Cast includes Uzo Aduba, Aunjanue Ellis, Niles Fitch, Nadji Jeter, Matthew Modine, Adina Porter, Amirah Vann, and Vanessa Williams.
Fearing for her son's safety and future, Virginia (played by Uzo Aduba) transfers him to a private school in Washington, D.C., that she can't afford and then works to institute a scholarship program.
- Year
- 2019
- Director
- Diop, Mati
- Description
- Cast includes Amadou Mbow, Mama Sané, and Ibrahima Traoré.
In Dakar, Ada (played by Mama Sané) is in love with Suleiman (played by Ibrahima Traoré), but he leaves for Spain in search of a better life, and she is getting ready for a marriage to a wealthy man that has been arranged by her conservative parents.
- Year
- 2019
- Director
- Cabral, Natalia; Estrada, Oriol
- Description
- Cast includes Ana María Arias, Pachy Méndez, Frank Perozo, Dulce Rodríguez, Carolina Rohana, and Vicente Santos.
In the Dominican Republic, biracial Miriam (played by Dulce Rodríguez) plans to celebrate her quinceañera with her white upper-class friend Jennifer (played by Carolina Rohana) and wants to introduce her working-class white parents to her online boyfriend, but when she discovers he's black, she feels compelled to start lying about everything.
- Year
- 2018
- Director
- Thavat, Gaysorn
- Description
- Cast includes Essie Davis, Thomasin McKenzie, Lively Nili, Erroll Shand, Bridie Sisson, Angus Stevens, and Xana Tang.
Bunny King (played by Essie Davis) teams up with niece Tonyah (played by Thomasin McKenzie) in New Zealand to earn money while living on the streets and tries to regain custody of her two children.
- Year
- 2022
- Director
- Morris, Michael
- Description
- Cast includes James Landry Hébert, Allison Janney, Marc Maron, Andrea Riseborough, Stephen Root, Andre Royo, and Owen Teague.
Former lottery winner Leslie (played by Andrea Riseborough) is now struggling with alcoholism and poverty in West Texas.
- Year
- 2023
- Director
- Carrère, Emmanuel
- Description
- Cast includes Juliette Binoche, Hélène Lambert, Steve Papagiannis, Louise Pociecka, and Aude Ruyter.
Author Marianne Winckler (played by Juliette Binoche) works undercover as a cleaner on the cross-channel ferry to investigate how the working class is exploited in northern France.
- Year
- 2021
- Director
- Zhao, Chloé
- Description
- Cast includes Linda May, Frances McDormand, David Strathairn, Swankie, and Bob Wells.
Fern (played by Frances McDormand) loses her job when the gypsum plant in Empire, Nevada, shuts down, and she decides to live in a van, work seasonal jobs, and travel the country.
- Year
- 2021
- Director
- Kogut, Sandra
- Description
- Cast includes Regina Casé, Gisele Fróes, Rogério Fróes, and Otávio Müller.
Madá (played by Regina Casé), the housekeeper at a vacation condo in Brazil, takes charge and makes the most of any situation to try to improve her life.
- Year
- 2019
- Director
- Choudhury, Nazrin
- Description
- Cast includes Juliet Donenfeld, Redding Munsell, and Brittany Snow.
Waitress and single parent Rachel (played by Brittany Snow) has to cross state lines in search of an abortion.
- Year
- 2023
- Director
- Bertuccelli, Julie
- Description
- Cast includes Laure Calamy, Catherine Deneuve, Samir Guesmi, Chiara Mastroianni, and Alice Taglioni.
Elderly French millionaire Claire Darling (played by Catherine Deneuve) sets all her belongings on her lawn for sale, and the items trigger both memories of her past and a visit from her estranged daughter.
- Year
- 2019
