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Dipa is fierce, funny, forthright, a divorcee "menace" in a rural town in '90s Bangladesh who defies social stigma and the burden of family honour to live on her own terms.

In 1939, José Garcés is in French prison camp after the defeat of Spain's Republicans. To entertain and inspire his fellow prisoners, he tells the story of becoming a man in 1919, the year he realized that learning to live is the same as learning to die. His stiff and demanding father loses a fortune in German war bonds, takes a job in Caspe, and leaves José on his own in Zaragoza to finish high school while apprenticing in a pharmacy. José courts his beloved Valentina via letters, becomes intimate with Isabel, a maid he meets in a cinema who shares his ideas of free love, and comes under the influence of El Checa, an anarchist and gentle teacher who leads a doomed revolt.

identical twins are separated at birth. One grows up as a farmer in tough surroundings and hard work; while the other grows up with a wealthy family. The wealthy one is abused, beaten, drugged and tormented in order to keep him subdued and controlled by the rest of the family and certain employees, so that they can continue to live an easy life at his cost. Things change dramatically when the twins are switched, with the hardworking one ending up with the wealthy family and the other ending up with his mother and a hard life.

Sodura is a young woman from the Tsaatan, the reindeer people of the eastern Mongolian taiga, a formerly nomadic tribe who have now settled. As a little girl, she relocated to the big city when her parents died, but growing up there she found herself unable to adapt to the city lifestyle, and ran away from an abusive lover, returning to her home in the taiga, heartbroken. Her tribe blames her coming home pregnant with outsider's child. The only person who understands her pain is a childhood friend. Sodura falls in love with him, but he is engaged to a girl from a western tribe, in a marriage arranged by his father the tribal leader, to diversify their bloodline because inbreeding is bearing too many retarded children and the tribe is in danger of perishing. Tribesmen discover illegal poachers who have killed all but three of the endangered moose of the taiga, and one of the tribe is suspected of aiding the poachers. Sodura contemplates aborting the baby, but decides to ask the help of the tribe's shaman who suggests Sodura should be the one to go on envoy to preserve the life of the reindeer people of the taiga.

A modern part of a forgotten history, "Shiro's Head" takes us to the Pacific island of Guam, USA where outcast Vince Flores struggles to come to terms with his family's history of secrets and a dark past of his own. Shunned from his family for the death of his father, his attempt to reconcile causes his family's past to catch up to him for the last time. Based on a universal theme of family, faith and forgiveness, "Shiro's Head" features a talented cast of unknowns including a unique setting with a character all its own.