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Two girls spend summers together with father who is against female education
Summer
A girl and her mother deal with an absent father.
In the Summers
On a journey that spans the formative years of their lives, two sisters navigate their loving but volatile father during their yearly summer visits to his home in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
A Father's Diary
Suspicions relationship of a teenager girl with another girl from a conservative South Asian family leads into a big domestic violence and catastrophe to the family.
One Summer
11-year old Sashka is spending his summer at his grandma's together with his elder brother, and they both happen to fall for the same girl.
Three Summer Days
A vacationing family’s dissimilar takes on an event threatens to drive them apart. A father takes his two kids on a beach holiday, where the girl, Cris, has fallen for a boy, causing a rift in her friendship with pal Miri. Her brother Dani, feeling isolated, spends the summer confined to his room, fixated on Miri. Meanwhile, their father is engaged in a secret affair he desperately tries to conceal from them. Over these three days at the beach, the family will struggle to reconnect as insecurities, jealousy and hidden truths unravel their close-knit world.
Her Summer
Two years ago, I accidentally met Zhuoma, a young girl who loves to dance while shooting with a teaching team. She was worrying about entering junior high school. After spending a few days with her, I returned to my city but promised her to come back again when I parted. Two years later, I decided to go back and look for her based on the limited information in my hand. With her mother and sister going out to work, the family economy has improved, but new problems have swept across the face-the popularization of 12-year compulsory education has made her no longer worry about enrolling in middle and high schools, but because of her poor grades, she may be forced to marry Be a woman. 13-year-old Droma strives to improve her studies in a remote Chinese village. She knows that if she doesn’t, she’ll be forced into a traditional role as a housewife and mother.
Sparrow Village
In a rural village of southwestern China a bevy of young girls yearn for an education. Their parents are poor and illiterate. It is difficult for them to scrape together the money to send their daughters to school in another village. The money for tuition, books, and room and board away from home is often more than parents can spare.We follow several as they make the weekly three-hour trek to the local school. Among the teachers there is only one female who is an inspiration to them all. She encourages them in their studies and challenges them to progress. But we also witness the pain of one family who simply cannot pay for their daughter's schooling. She must drop out and put off her dreams for a while. The son who is less talented is favored for schooling.Beautifully photographed in the lush mountain greenery, these fresh faced girls hold onto their hopes of becoming teachers and doctors against great odds.
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