New Orleans, Louisiana: Die Zeit scheint stillzustehen, die Luft ebenso. Inmitten der nebligen Sümpfe des Mississippi gedeihen sie, die...

Eine kreolische Hochstaplerin rächt ihre uneheliche Mutter an bornierten Spießern und widersteht eine Zeitlang ihrer Liebe zu einem...

African-American documentary filmmaker Marlon Riggs was working on this final film as he died from AIDS-related complications in 1994; he addresses...

A teenager, disinterested in her Louisiana Creole heritage, finds herself having to entertain a visitor who only speaks what sounds like French....

Returning to the island that her father left 50 years earlier, the filmmaker goes back in time to retrace the history of her name.

After accidentally killing a bearded goat with their father’s pick-up truck, two incompatible siblings in their teenage years, embark on a...

When the immigrants came to America, their cultures entered the "great melting pot." In Michigan's Upper Peninsula Finnish immigrants mixed their...

Shot on location in rural Southwestern Louisiana, Zydeco combines cinema verite style footage, interviews and musical performance to present a...

Following the unexpected death of his fiancée the night before his wedding, Ralph's desire to ever love again is shattered. Then he meets...

Young Anita's life consists of working as a servant to a wealthy family, leaving her little time for anything else. Her servitude (which some would...