Institutional bureaucracies affect a researcher's relationship; in turn, a break-up sends him towards a diagnostic assessment.

In the 1950s, my grandmother's sister moved to Germany with her husband. The photographs she was sending documented their new life in the West.

Yohei Yamakado has not returned to his native Japan for eight years; his friend Olivier Cheval therefore embarks on an exploration of the land of the Rising Sun, evoking his friend’s memories, almost in a re-enactement of his friend’s life by proxy. Cheval travels, moving from Tokyo to Kyoto, from Kobe to Lake Towada, and in the meantime he juggles, in an equally exploratory way, between childhood and memory, between exile and friendship, making the invisible tangible.

It is a question that almost anybody who has ever come to the Upper Midwest in winter asks: "Why on earth did you ever settle here?" Merely to say it is cold doesn't quite capture it. Bone-chilling is closer. Raw, relentless, unfathomable, mind numbing cold - that says it better still. In the book Bring Warm Clothes, Minneapolis Star Tribune reporter Peg Meier finds the answer to the - True stories from some of the people who settled here. People whose courage and fears, humor and hardships helped shape who we Minnesotans are today.

After the pandemic separates them, an international couple writes long-distance letters to each other while they face uncertainty and wait to be reunited.

Husband and wife Michiko and Takao move from their urban existence in Tokyo to the isolated, rural farming village where Takao grew up.

Ten families read letters from their loved ones killed during Operation Iraqi Freedom in this powerful and moving HBO documentary by Oscar and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Bill Couturie (Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam). Photos of the soldiers in military and civilian life are shown as family members read the final correspondence received from Iraq and share their thoughts and memories about the fallen troops and the realities of war.

Mother Teresa, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, is considered one of the greatest humanitarians of modern times. Her selfless commitment changed hearts, lives and inspired millions throughout the world. The Letters, as told through personal letters she wrote over the last 40 years of her life, reveal a troubled and vulnerable women who grew to feel an isolation and an abandonment by God.

16-year-old Maria is forced into Serra D'Aires convent, secretly run by Satanists.

In a desolate world following the nuclear apocalypse, a scholar helps a small group of adults and children survive in the basement of a former museum of history. In his mind, he writes letters to his only son that will never be read and tries to find shreds of hope in his new reality.