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…
Imagine Pedro Almodovar’s 'Volver' meeting Craig Gillespie’s 'Lars and the Real Girl' and you’ll find 'Moon and Sun,' the story of two psychic sisters in Astoria, working to solve the mystery behind the man who murdered their mother. Exploring the often…
“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.…
Faith Under Fire is the true story of the first time a gunman entered a house of worship and committed mass murder in East Texas in 1980. Survivors share their journey from the pit of heartbreak and despair to restoration. They share about the shock to their faith, pain of loss, forgiveness, revenge…
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…
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…
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…
Zurich narcotics detective Herbert Straehl is a pill-popping choleric detoxifying from love. During his attempt to arrest a prominent Albanian drug pusher, René and Carol, a junkie couple, thwart him. When Straehl loses his job he suddenly finds himself caught in the two junkiesÂ’ mercy. But Straehl…
