Andres reaches the Mexican border to cross into the United Sates. There between each attempt, he discovers that Tijuana is a troubled city. As he waits there, Andres is not only confronted with his feelings and what he left behind, but also with those he meets.
Record Producer Raymond Saxx, Jr. (Goran Visnjic, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, “Red Widow”,“ER”), has never seen anything like this before. After a weekend of binge drinking and drug use, he wakes in a jail cell completely oblivious of what happened and how he got there. Ray…
Taking Stock begins as a documentary about a South African family business which is failing, and the shopkeeper who is trying to save it. The shopkeeper is the filmmaker's father, and the business has been in the family since the 1940s, beginning as a grocery store, growing eventually into a mom-and-pop…
Jon Bang Carlsen’s filmic essay about his way of approaching reality with a camera. Following the filming of "It's Now or Never", the story of an Irish bachelor's quest for love, Jon Bang Carlsen elaborates on how he manipulates reality in order to get to the core of it. “…
It feels wrong that mothers can die. But they do - reflects Jon Bang Carlsen at the end of this film poem to his mother. The mother was always in motion, afraid of stagnation, of death, but remained in the little Danish village, while Jon Bang Carlsen fled the village riding the freight trains from the…
I Am Happiness On Earth is the latest from Mexican auteur Julián Hernández (A Thousand Peace Clouds Encircle The Sky, Broken Sky, Raging Sun, Raging Sky). Emiliano looks at his life with the eyes of a film director, mixing the objective reality with the processes of the artistic…
A tiny village on the west coast of Jutland decides to stage "Hamlet" as an amateur comedy. The young gravedigger at the local cemetery, who doesn’t know who of the local men are his father, plays Hamlet, his own voluptuous mother also volunteers to be Hamlet’s mother, but there…
"Whisper-quiet and weirdly endearing." -The New York Times With no place to call home, 19-year-old Elena takes a job as a live-in aide. She finds herself thrust into the middle of a family in crisis: all the things that go on between a father, grandmother, mother, and cat. Eventually,…
Matias and Jeronimo have known each other since childhood. During the holiday before they begin high school, their friendship takes a new turn when they both experience their sexual awakening. However, Matias’s father forces them apart when he takes a new job far away. Distance and family contempt…
"Leo gives an absolutely devastating performance in this elliptical, mesmerizing microbudget drama." - New York Magazine, Critics Pick After years of incarceration, a quiet, lonely woman, Francine (Academy Award® winner Melissa Leo), is released to start a new life in a small, rural…
After a painful divorce, Mathew, an 11-year-old Lakota Native-American boy, of mixed blood, goes out to eat with his father, Ray, at an all-white restaurant in rural South Dakota when all hell breaks loose. Old wounds rupture, and Ray pushes Mathew further and further away, into the freedom of a new…
On November 15th 1938, 180 men on the Port Kembla wharves stopped loading scrap iron on one ship, the Dalfram. They believed the pig iron being loaded was destined for Japan to be used in the invasion of China where hundreds of thousands of innocent people were being killed. They also held an unshakeable…
