A Romance of Two Worlds

Borderlands is the story of Maria Lara, a 74 year old Mexican-American woman and her life as she experiences the daily struggles of keeping her neurotic, dysfunctional family together while being haunted by enigmatic and increasingly disturbing hallucinations.

This film is about women in Iranian society. The role of beard in social security depicts the importance of the family in securing the children.

Aninhas (Aida Lupo), a paralyzed girl, asks for a miracle from the saint of her devotion, Our Lady of Lourdes, at the chapel of Penha (Guimarães), but her prayer is not heard - She turns her devotion to the Blessed Virgin directly, and joins the multitude that goes on a pilgrimage to the village where, ten years before, the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared to three child sheepherders.

A poem about coming of age--a young girl seeing the possibilities. A short poem. A short film. A memory.

The main idea of the film is revealed through the fate of a simple Kazakh family - Zhakupovs. Zhakupovs came from a far common village. They have to go through all changes of the Soviet Union collapse and finally, find new faith and new perspectives on a stage of renovation and development of independent Kazakhstan.