Anna (Kathryn Worth) arrives in Italy to stay with her school friend Verena (Roscoe) and her family in their rented villa in Tuscany. Her partner Alex was meant to accompany her, but Anna tells Verena (at the last minute) that he has to stay in London due to his work. Over the course of the film…
Luchino Visconti's award-winning classic examines the solitary life of a retired American professor (Burt Lancaster) who lives alone in a luxurious palazzo in Rome. When he is confronted by a vulgar Italian marchesa and her companions - her lover, her daughter and the daugther's boyfriend -…
Ten year-old Yachine and his 13-year-old brother Hamid live in Sidi Moumen, an impoverished slum on the outskirts of Casablanca. Hamid, though just a child, works hard to sustain his family by any means, but eventually get involved with the ""wrong crowd"" and becomes one of the local…
AFTER THE TRIUMPH OF YOUR BIRTH Shootist Films 2012, 99 mins. Written and directed by Jim Akin Critics on Akin’s debut feature - “Lots of influences flood the mind: Robert Altman and Jacques Demy; the L.A. skid-row poetics of Charles Bukowski, the dust of John Fante.” “Fusing…
In Mussolini's Italy, repressed Jean-Louis Trintignant, trying to purge memories of a youthful, homosexual episode--and murder--joins the Fascists in a desperate attempt to fit in. As the reluctant Judas motors to his personal Gethsemane (the assassination of his leftist mentor), he flashes back…
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…
From the creators of the films Ña Noniep and Yokwe Bartowe comes a film that explores the tradition of kindness of the Marshallese culture and people. Lañinbwil's Gift is the story of Jacob, an old island man with a complicated secret. When Jacob was a teenager, a noniep, a Marshallese…
From the award winning creators of the film Lañinbwil's Gift comes a film that explores the tribulations of a family of nuclear survivors from Bikini Atoll. Ainikien Jidjid ilo Boñ (The Sound of Crickets at Night) is the story of a family displaced as a result of nuclear testing…
Part gay romance, part inquisitive self-journey, FUTURO BEACH is a stunning examination of lives lost and found. Donato (Wagner Moura) works as a lifeguard at the spectacular but treacherous Praia do Futuro beach in Brazil; Konrad (Clemens Schick) is an ex-military thrill-seeker from Germany vacationing…
A hotel clerk searches all over Le Havre for the fairy who made two of his three wishes come true before disappearing.
A sister and her younger brother have summoned their parents to appear before the court of their childhood. The children demand explanations of the themes of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.
“Sleeping Dogs sets the bar very highly for this year’s Raindance, and indeed micro-budget indie films in general. Overall a gritty, harrowing thriller that’s not to be missed, with a very promising cast and director.” CRITICS ASSOCIATED Having been attacked in suspicious circumstances,…
