Originally screened on commercial TV in Australia (Channel 7) and the Australian Christian Channel, this program imagines the original Easter story in a modern-day context, particularly through the eyes of Pontius Pilate. There are also interviews with many other key figures in the drama including John…
“An elegantly choreographed and archly stylized marriage of Fassbinder and Archie comics, the Montreal-made Memoirs is basically an end-of-the-world teen romance. A bright-eyed and idealistic young writer named Johnny Daze (Philippe Baylaucq) comes to town prowling for something to write about.…
An enigmatic phone call from a psychic, catapults a family into a state of suspended belief while waiting for their recently deceased mother to be resurrected. One sister believes the claim, and the other staunchly opposes it until she encounters a chance at love, giving her hope that anything, even…
This heartwarming romance finds Amy (Krysten Ritter of VERONICA MARS) as a young woman raising her two, slightly younger, but overly needy siblings. Amy has to balance her personal life with her responsibilities. But when Sam (Brian Geraghty of BOARDWALK EMPIRE and TRUE BLOOD), a young handsome stranger…
"LOTUS is a beautiful, well-acted film about a mother who must decide whether her little girl's life will be led by a respected woman who enforces tradition, or a rebellious woman who offers freedom. This story is not only a fascinating truth about the past in China, it is a story about our…
Dry Branches of Iran follows a young dancer who one day wakes up in an Iranian prison cell without any recollection of how he ended up there. Slowly he starts remembering what happened to him and in doing so, we get a glimpse of the current explosive political situation in Iran and the entire Middle…
Eric Stoltz gives one of his most powerful performances as Frank Stirn, who moves with his family to become a barber for the American Army and POW camp at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, in the summer of 1944. Embittered that he cannot fight, Frank must take a stand when a Nazi SS Officer threatens his wife (Kate…
Leeward, a idealistic would-be composer-musician, his wife Mary, a nurse and the only breadwinner in their family, and their three-year-old daughter Maggie (sometimes Rainbow), live in a tiny apartment in Chinatown New York. Mary wants to buy a house in New Jersey and asks her artist husband to accept…
On a houseboat called Traumland an unusual meeting takes place. Dominique, a hermit-like editor is working on a documentary about Congolese child witches as he is disturbed by a noise coming from the cargo deck. He finds the wounded Congolese Caporal and takes him in to recover. From that moment strange…
What do you do when your country is at war, your town is at war, your friends are at war and there’s a war inside your head? You run. One morning Jade wakes bruised and bleeding on the beach. She thinks she’s alone, that no one will know, but someone was watching from the cave above the…
Two Hoods ride the train each night to a wrecking yard on the outskirts of the city. Here, in this cemetery of stories, they are storytellers with the power to fast forward, pause and rewind. Tonight, they tell the story of three kids left in a car. It’s Friday, KFC night and the last day of…
Three lost children stumble across an abandoned orphanage in the bush. They become trapped in a timeless world, haunted by spirits from the past. They are tormented, too, by the Black Skirt, a cruel governess who floats up and down the orphanage corridors wielding enormous scissors. But as the stories…
