
Once a naïve, love-struck girl now forsaken by her lover, Maija leaves her island home to work as a housemaid in the city, only to be seduced by her employer's son Erkki, then forced to leave the household in order to avoid the scandal of a pregnancy. With few prospects for a decent job, Maija is reduced to working as a bar hostess to make ends meet, ever fending off the advances of disreputable clients, even as she continues to hold out hope for an enduring love that will redeem her from her fate.
A socially conscious film that draws attention to the plight of American military veterans.
'The Last Black Man in San Francisco' is part fiction, part documentary. Jimmie longs for the old Victorian home that he grew up in — the house that his grandfather built. However, this home is now in an overpriced, White, San Francisco neighborhood.
Based on the bestselling memoir, viewers get a glimpse of the challenges of autistic people.
Despite the film’s efforts to reframe its heroine with modern complexity, a certain emotional distance lingers.
One of the reasons that people with albinism have a difficult time being seen and represented in media is probably because there is a small percentage of them.