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…
“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.…
Drei New Yorker Anwälte werden mit einem plötzlichen Besucher konfrontiert, der ihnen die, wie er sagt, wahren Hintergründe des Todes von Michael Jackson aufdeckt. Anfänglich noch skeptisch, tauchen sie doch nach und nach ein, in eine unglaubliche Welt der Intrige und der Manipulation.…
Based on the Irish play by acclaimed writer Joseph O'Connor and directed by Tamar Simon Hoffs, Red Roses and Petrol is an award-winning, darkly comedic drama. In it, Malcolm McDowell stars as Enda Doyle, an Irish poet, University librarian, and rascal whose sudden death triggers the dysfunction…
"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…
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…
An American actress decides to live amongst the homeless of Brussels in order to get the lead in the movie of her husband. When things go wrong she ends up in the unique Miss Homeless pageant of Brussels. Miss Homeless is a docu-fiction, black comedy. Most of the actors are homeless who improvised…
Sometimes the best way to let go of a troubled past is to literally walk as far away from it as possible. Hard Way Home is an intimate journey of the filmmaker as she struggles physically and emotionally to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine. Filled with a cast of misfit hikers, wandering…
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…
