From his small Tokyo apartment, Philip Vandarploeg watches the warm light of other people’s lives. He sees families sharing meals,...

“This is not the afterlife we imagined,” the princess muses. Her soul has been cast into a purgatory of rust-colored...

“I’m scared, come and get me.” The voice is small, trembling, and belongs to six-year-old Hind Rajab. Her words, recorded...

A hand-carved wooden mirror, presented as a confirmation gift, begins the trouble. Its glass reflects something more than the Pennsylvania...

The telegram arrives without ceremony: "MOTHER DECEASED. BURIAL TOMORROW." For Meursault, a French shipping clerk in the stifling heat of...

The film opens with a Hadith: “Satan flows through man as blood flows through his veins.” This ancient warning sets...

A grainy video image flickers. We hear a voice, disarmingly gentle and sweet, describing the pure high of domination, the...

The walk-in freezer is stocked with frozen fish. For Sophie Monahan, a chef honing her craft in the demanding kitchens...

The camera shakes, a frantic scramble of motion. Then, a gunshot. This jarring image, captured on a simple video camera,...

A boat named the Rose of Nevada bobs innocuously in the harbour, its sudden appearance a quiet tear in the...