Takeaway

A teenager faces an uphill battle when she fights to give women the opportunity to play competitive soccer.

Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.

A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law.

In a small suburb on the outskirts of Rome, the cheerful heat of summer camouflages a stifling atmosphere of alienation. From a distance, the families seem normal, but it’s an illusion: in the houses, courtyards and gardens, silence shrouds the subtle sadism of the fathers, the passivity of the mothers and the guilty indifference of adults. But it’s the desperation and repressed rage of the children that will explode and cut through this grotesque façade, with devastating consequences for the entire community.