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Learning from the same mentor in spite of their disparate personalities, Darcy Whitt falls for an unscrupulous lawyer who plots to steal her family's land while her sister-in-law, Cara, struggles with sudden isolation in her rickety cabin.

Wend Kuuni is a landmark in African filmmakers' attempts to "return to the sources" of their culture, to recover a "usable" African past to solve the problems of the African present. Filmmaker Gaston Kaboré adapts the measured rhythms of traditional African storytelling to create an authentically African cinematic language. He retells an ancient fable about a mute, memoryless orphan, driven from his homeland, who is renamed Wend Kuuni ("God's Gift")...

We hear the thoughts of Amy, a girl from a rural area of Senegal who works as a domestic for a well-to-do family in Dakar. She complains about her employer, who continuously criticizes her and gets on her case, and she talks about her dream of one day opening her own eatery. In Dakar, some 150,000 young women work as housekeepers for rich families in Dakar to survive and help their families instead of going to school.

"Effie Bilfrey has lived her entire life on Talon Ridge, a dead-end Appalachian town that generations have tried, and failed, to leave. When her only daughter Sarah disappears without explanation, leaving her two-year-old daughter Lottie behind, Effie is left to search her home and heart for a reason the young mother would leave her small child and family. As Lottie comes of age, her obsession with unraveling her mother's story and leaving Talon Ridge...

Bitter rivals fight for control of the Women's Institute in a rural English town as it struggles with the onset of World War II. Separated from husbands, fathers, sons and brothers for years at a time, some permanently, they find themselves under extraordinary pressures in a rapidly fragmenting world.

A fearless group of journalists maintain India's only women-led news outlet. All from the Dalit caste, the women of Khabar Lahariya prepare to transition the newspaper from print to digital while fighting for marginalized voices in the world's largest democracy. The film chronicles the astonishing determination of these reporters as they redefine what it means to be powerful.