Birds, Orphans and Fools

A multigenerational saga (1887-1917) parallels a bee colony, with the queen representing family roots and tradition. The Pichanda family faces love, work, crisis, and war, weaving reality with dreams.

A carpenter in the Fascist Slovak State is appointed "Aryan controller" of a Jewish widow's store.

Two underground black marketeers, Marko and Blacky, sell weapons to the Communist resistance in wartime Belgrade, living the good life along the way.

The staff of a Korean War field hospital uses humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.

Two war veterans help an orphaned child find her grandfather.

A military pilot makes a valiant effort to be certified insane during World War II so that he can be excused from flying missions. But there's a catch.

In 1944 Spain, a girl is sent to live with her ruthless stepfather. During the night, she meets a fairy who takes her to an old faun. He tells her she's a princess, but must prove her royalty by survi

A young French girl orphaned in a German air attack is befriended by the son of a poor farmer, and together they try to come to terms with the realities of death.

A mentally unstable American general orders a hydrogen bomb attack on the Soviet Union, triggering a path to global nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries

During World War I, a British private, sent ahead to a French town to scout for enemy presence, is mistaken for a King by the colorful patients of an insane asylum.

A tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteenth century.

A church bell chimes. An old woman stops to feed pigeons on her way to work in the men's lavatory in the basement of a public building. She sits all day by the lavatory door as little dramas play out