The Desert Ark

In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne enlists in the military and is assigned to the Sahara Desert under the...

A cargo aircraft crashes in a sandstorm in the Sahara with less than a dozen men on board. One of the passengers is an airplane designer who comes up...

27 years after 1962, Antoine returns to Algiers...

Natsume Mochizuki works as a teen model in Tokyo, but she learns that she has to move to her father's hometown of Ukigumo. She is in a desperate situ...

A commander in the Foreign Legion romances a mysterious and exotic princess.

Xiao Xiao is sold into arranged marriage with a 2 year old boy, who she must raise as his nanny until he is old enough to marry her. She is expected t...

Pas De Blanc À La Une, by Youcef Bouchouchi, treatises the brutality of the conflict during the war of independence in Algeria from 1854 to 1962, and...

In the midst of the Algerian liberation war, two characters, a meddah (traditional storyteller) and a guerrab (water distributor),having become aware...

A small suburban town receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward.

The little nomad girl, Nansal, finds a baby dog in the Mongolian veld, who becomes her best friend - against all rejections of her parents. A story ab...

A young man upsets his Punjabi family when he falls in love with an Irish schoolteacher.

Bilike has never seen a ping-pong ball before. He and his family live without electricity and running water in a solitary tent home among the vast ste...

An aged father and his younger, mentally challenged son have been working hard every day to keep the bathhouse running for a motley group of regular c...

On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, w...