Too Afraid to Go Home

Two countries, two towns, one river. The Oder River separates not only Frankfurt in Germany from Slubice in Poland, but entire worlds. People,...

The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and a widower, decides to emigrate to the US with all...

War journalist Paul Prior returns to his New Zealand hometown after his father’s death, rekindling strained relationships with his brother and...

In a nursing home, a young man visits his grandmother. As she constantly repeats that she wants to go home, his grandson visits her now empty...

At a dining table shrouded in silence since Mother’s passing, Nadia and her father are locked in a silent of pride and unspoken grief, until an...

Teen skater Ken Park (nicknamed Krap Nek; his name spelled and pronounced backward) kills himself at a Visalia skate park; his death bookends the...

The Pickles family welcome a new arrival, Dil, whose constant crying and need for attention quickly exhaust the other toddlers. Seeking to return the...

In the inflation era, Jacob, who recently got kicked out, is desperate to find a home, when landing on a cheap listing he doesn’t read the fine...

Two long-time internet friends - Ted, the hometown artist, and Liz, a globe-hopping humanitarian. On the night of his gallery opening, on a river...

A Comorian village. Djibril spends his frees time taking care of an abandoned villa. While he is busy there, his cabin catches fire. Homeless, he...

The three friends Ertan, Kemal and Mehdi live in Kiel. They are foreigners, "Kanaks", as they proudly call themselves. For them, this term is an...