Tamio and his father Nobuo are both unable to mature and break out of their roles as father and son. When Tamio is to be married, they both go through extraordinary pains to make the event special.
A prison gang leader’s growing misgivings about his life, he joins a reform-minded warden’s efforts to improve the prison, eyeing a path to early release. Gang resistance forces a deadly choice upon the changing man he has become.
The Nun’s Kaddish is a short film that portrays a true story of inter-religious kindness when a Nun observes a Jewish ritual, raising the spirituality of the two faiths towards a higher feeling of universal brotherhood. O Kaddish da freira é uma curta-metragem que retrata uma história…
The Passionate romance between Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, a 17th Century Mexican nun and the Countess Maria Luisa de Paredes, Vicereine of Mexico. Two soulmates who are in a predicament where social rules forbid the consummation of their love.
The International Ballet Theatre presents the must-see Christmas tradition in the way it's meant to be seen—on stage! Ana Sophia Scheller as Clara Alexander Stoyanov as The Nutcracker Prince Polina Kucher as Young Clara Leo Rose as Herr Drosselmeyer With traditional choreography,…
When a drifter offers to settle an old debt with a grizzled bartender by telling him a story, the night's events quickly spin into a dark tale of mistaken identities, double-crosses and shocking violence.
On the coldest night of the year, understated legend Jack Jarlsberg accepts an invitation from his mute co-worker, Boots, to what promises to be a delightful dinner party. Shelby Denehee, afflicted by her leech of an ex-lover, Peter, and her perhaps possessed current fling, the obsessive Bonnie Watt,…
THE OCEAN OF HELENA LEE, 2015, Shootist Films, 88 min. Writer-director Jim Akin’s autobiographical second feature film follows 12 year old Helena Lee’s lyrical pilgrimage from summer to spring with her self destructive surf-rat father in the carnival of California’s Venice beach. The…
The oddest couple takes an unforgettable journey through the American Southwest, finding happiness in the unlikeliest of places and seeing in each other what no one else has seen before. Maya (Willis) is a product of childhood abuse who escapes her shattered life in Los Angeles and meets Duncan (Marquette),…
NOMINEE - BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (Ben Kasulke) - INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS Francine (Amy Seimetz, Upstream Color) is a waitress whose liberation from her mundane existence is long overdue. In the restless world of the night shift at a highway diner, her life consists of casual encounters and transient…
Adapted from the controversial play by a famed Japanese playwright, this frenzied tale of blood and lust chronicles the life and murder of the beautiful wife of a wealthy oil merchant in 18th century Japan.
Blending politics with romance, noted director of "The Housewife" weaves a story of two activists in hiding in a remote shack. The intimate setting proves to be fertile ground for hidden desires.
