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Drama

Wasp (2003) directed by Andrea Arnold — Natalie Press as Zoe on a council estate in Dartford

WASP

Andrea Arnold
UNITED KINGDOM
2003

A single mother on a Dartford council estate refuses to let four children stand between her and one night for herself. A modern British classic.

the mother in the interrogation room or a frame with translator in mid‑shadow

LISTEN

Hamy Ramezan & Rungano Nyoni
DENMARK
2014

A woman asks for help. What the translator says next changes everything.

Ian Golovin standing in a desolate Soviet‑era city and looking ahead, burdened by departure — still from Goodbye Golovin.

Goodbye Golovin

Mathieu Grimard
UKRAINE
2019

A father dies. A son finally feels free. But leaving is never simple.

A young man with cropped hair stands shirtless against a plain wall, his skin marked with red blemishes and a gold cross necklace around his neck, looking off‑screen with a tense, searching expression — a still from Brendan Canty’s short film Christy.

CHRISTY

Brendan Canty
Ireland
2019

Sixteen, restless, and already let down by everyone. One day in Cork that doesn't forgive.

A GIRL LOOKING OVER HER SHOULDER

UMBRA (Tariki)

Saeed Jafarian
IRAN
2020

She wakes and he's gone. A woman searches Tehran's empty streets for answers the night won't give.

Sonia hadad sitting in classroom

EXAM

Sonia Hadad
IRAN
2021

A teenage girl carries a package she cannot put down through a day that cannot afford mistakes.