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The early teens are difficult years, but rarely so insurmountable as depicted in Perfume de Violetas, a noir feminist Mexican film directed by Maryse Sistach. Thirteen-year-old Yessica (played by Ximena Ayala) is trying to enjoy a happy life, but the odds are against her. Her father is dead. Her stepfather does not care about her. Her

The title role of The Torturer, directed by Graham Green, is an American contractor employee named Rick (played by Andrew Walker). For most of the film, he is in the office of a psychiatrist (played by Nichelle Nichols), who is trying to bring back his sanity so that he can continue to work as an interrogator.

Two countries have failed to ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Anarchic Somalia is one. The United States is the other. Many Senators ostensibly refuse to do so for fear that children, supported by meddling attorneys, will sue their parents and thus destroy family unity. Similarly, the media has focused on the

Knowing, directed by Alex Proyas, begins when an elementary school in Massachusetts deposits a time capsule with envelopes containing pictures drawn by its pupils. Fifty years later, the capsule is opened, but one envelope has numbers. The pupil who opens the capsule is Caleb Koestler (played by Chandler Canterbury), whose father John (played by Nicholas

Tôkyô Sonata, directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, focuses on the impact of Japan’s lagging economy that has produced increasing unemployment, officially 4.4 percent in March 2009 but nearer 25 percent if the underemployed are counted. On several occasions, there is a scene of unemployed males camped out together, seeking free food. Some are dressed in business