Archive
COLOMBIA
Directed By Alexander Giraldo
Running Time: 90 Minutes
Zico and his hacker sister Angie plan a major robbery on the day of Colombia's World Cup qualifying match with Uruguay. It's to be their final heist, providing enough money to keep them set for life. Along for the ride is their long-time assistant El Guajaro and a newbie named Rincon who is a replacement for their incarcerated ex-partner. Their plan seems flawless. As pros, they know how to orchestrate an easy set-up that leaves... {more}
PARAGUAY
Directed By Juan Carlos Maneglia, Tana Schémbori
Running Time: 105 Minutes
Victor is a teenage delivery boy in Paraguay who dreams of being a famous movie star. Every day he passes by the electronics store in the market, staring at the television screens. When he discovers that cellphones can record video, he tries to get more work so he can buy one. Soon he stumbles onto an opportunity to make $100 and quickly accepts. His mission is to deliver seven crates by wheelbarrow to a secret... {more}
USA
Directed By Audrey Ewell, Aaron Aites, Lucian Read, Nina Krstic
Running Time: 92 Minutes
When the Occupy Movement began in September 2011, many people wrote it off as a silly waste of time for unemployed college kids starving for attention. What many didn’t see, or maybe the media didn’t want to report, was that the Occupy Movement was a critical moment in U.S. history in which real citizens demanded justice from a broken system. Begun by filmmaking team Audrey Ewell and Aaron Aites in NY, and made in an... {more}
USA
Directed By Jennifer Phang
Running Time: 23 Minutes
Gwen is the spokesperson for a radical technology allowing people to overcome their natural disadvantages and begin life anew. But when her job and family are in crisis, will she undergo the procedure herself? {more}
MEXICO
Directed By Michel Franco
Running Time: 102 Minutes
After his wife dies in a car accident in Puerto Vallarta, Robert decides to move to Mexico City with his teenage daughter Alejandra. His depression over the loss leaves him emotionally crippled, sleeping all day, and struggling to adapt to his new job. Alejandra initially finds success in her new surroundings, friending a group of kids at her school. After attending one of their drunken parties, she hooks up with one of the boys, who... {more}
AUSTRALIA
Directed By Hannah Moore
Running Time: 13 Minutes
'Where there's a will, there's a way... out.' Ali is an Afghan man seeking refuge in Australia but has ended up in the Woomera Detention Centre - the infamous subject of asylum seeker debate from 1999-2003. Ali runs. He runs compulsively, back and forth between the compound fences in the stark South Australian summer. Red dirt beneath his feet. Trapped. He runs like a mad man, day in day out, until... he collapses and is... {more}
FRANCE
Directed By Elie Wajeman
Running Time: 90 Minutes
This absorbing drama traces one young man’s emotional and physical exodus to the Promised Land, the Jewish tradition of immigration to Israel known as ALIYAH, Alex is a secular Jew who dreams of getting out of the projects outside Paris. Though he seems to have potential, he’s marking time as a small-time dope dealer. One day Alex hears that his cousin Nathan plans to open a restaurant in Tel Aviv. Alex speaks no Hebrew and... {more}
FRANCE
Directed By Fabrice Herbaut
Running Time: 17 Minutes
Clemence waits for Vincent in a Parisian cafe where they used to meet. But instead of showing up, Vincent sends her an enigmatic recording of his voice where he invites the young woman to walk out of the cafe and wander in the streets of Paris. Guiding Clemence across Paris from a memory to another, Vincent revives the moments and locations that founded their love and prepares to reveal her something that will change their... {more}
NORWAY
Directed By Martin Lund
Running Time: 75 Minutes
An affable 35-year-old with a serious case of arrested development, Henrik is a constant source of laughs. Trouble is, he’s got a new job in marketing and a great girlfriend named Tone, both of which require him to be a grownup. Henrik is constitutionally unable to take anything seriously, and as a result his colleagues think he’s weird since he doesn’t get adult social cues. He plays squash with a bunch of bros who tell... {more}
USA
Directed By Freida Mock
Running Time: 86 Minutes
The story unfolded in October 1991, riveting Americans to their televisions. Anita Hill, a beautiful, dignified African-American law professor, was testifying before a Senate committee of 14 white men about the sexual harassment she endured while working with U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas. Reluctantly thrust onto the world stage when she answered a subpoena to testify, Anita became a celebrated -- and hated -- figure whose graphic testimony was a turning point for gender... {more}
USA
Directed By Joel Potrykus
Running Time: 86 Minutes
Trevor Newandyke isn't very funny. This is rather unfortunate since he longs to be a stand-up comedian. He spends most of his days frustratingly reciting his routines in the mirror. The crowds at the local comedy club rarely laugh during his rambled sets and, to avoid embarrassment, the owner constantly bumps him when scouts or known comics stop by. Trevor wastes most of his time amusing himself by setting things on fire. He also finds... {more}
SWITZERLAND, UKRAINE
Directed By Christian Labhart
Running Time: 83 Minutes
The Ukrainian-Swiss pianist Alena Cherny is a woman impassioned. As she describes her life growing up under Communism and her subsequent work on international concert stages, her emotions color her entire being. Originally from Romny, Ukraine, Alena was sent to a music boarding school in Kiev. Though religion was forbidden, she was drawn to the church as a refuge from her close living quarters and the competition at school. Now Alena travels back in time... {more}
USA, SPAIN, MEXICO
Directed By Antonio Méndez Esparza
Running Time: 110 Minutes
After years of working in New York to support his wife and daughters back home, Pedro returns to Mexico to find that his absence has put a serious strain on his relationship with his family. His wife Teresa is guarded and worried he was unfaithful while in America. While his youngest daughter Heidi still seeks his attention, his eldest Lorena resists his attempts to reconnect, still resentful over lost time. Despite the friction, Pedro is... {more}
SOUTH AFRICA, USA
Directed By Bryan Buckley
Running Time: 18 Minutes
Set in a war-torn fishing village in Somalia, an all Somali, refugee cast brings to life this coming of age fable of a Somali boy who is faced with falling into the pirate life, or rising above to choose the path of an honest fishing man. {more}
FRANCE
Directed By Safy Nebbou
Running Time: 95 Minutes
Greg is a troubled kid with some pretty bad anger issues. When he's punished for threatening his English teacher Camille with a pair of scissors, he decides he wants revenge. He calls on help from his friend Louis, a quiet but nice kid still mixed up over the death of his mother. Together they kidnap Camille and take her to an abandoned cabin in the woods where Greg rapes her and leaves her alone overnight... {more}
CANADA
Directed By Hart Snider
Running Time: 6 Minutes
The last thing nine-year-old Hart expects to do at Jewish summer camp is play a basketball game against the former students of a convicted Holocaust denier. {more}
Béatrice Coron's Daily Battles
CANADA
Directed By James Stewart
Running Time: 7 Minutes
Béatrice Coron's Daily Battles is an art film about a work of art.Created in 3D, this short film brings a new dimension to the medieval papercut masterwork by New York Artist Béatrice Coron. Daily Battles tells the story of Béatrice Coron's paper cut masterwork in an abstract montage created in Stereoscopic 3D. With each medieval scene, we enter a tale of struggle, battle and trickery representing the challenges of life. The canvas that Coron and... {more}
ARGENTINA
Directed By Daniela Seggiaro
Running Time: 83 Minutes
Look for the beauty in the sparse landscape, with its twisting tangled trees that take on human forms. The once-fertile grassland of the stoic Wichi people of northern Argentina has been gradually appropriated by outsiders, forcing them to adapt to the dry, sandy desert. Now teenage Yolanda has come from her people to work as a maid for a typically self-absorbed Argentine family who are distracted by the bustle of modern life. The stressed matriarch... {more}
BELGIUM, FRANCE
Directed By Yann Le Quellec
Running Time: 33 Minutes
Rosalba, a young tourist guide, suffers from a rare disorder: overcome by an uncontrollable urge, her body shudders, twitches and dances whenever she hears a tune. {more}
BELGIUM, NETHERLANDS
Directed By Nic Balthazar
Running Time: 93 Minutes
Ben is a hero in his own mind. There he is not the student who is bullied mercilessly at his vocational school. Nor is he the person who can't feel emotions like other people or talk about the things they talk about. Ben is autistic. He moves awkwardly and barely speaks, but his senses of sight and hearing are painfully acute. Relief from the misery of school comes when he escapes into his virtual world... {more}
USA
Directed By Aemilia Scott
Running Time: 23 Minutes
A grocery store clerk's boyfriend suddenly dies, and she keeps their love alive by taking his body to the store's cooler. {more}
USA
Directed By Joshua Zeman
Running Time: 16 Minutes
When a hostage negotiation turns personal, a cop with a secret is forced to make a choice between his partner and the woman he loves. {more}
USA
Directed By Daniel Grove
Running Time: 24 Minutes
A lonely Singaporean death-row guard tries to help a young woman convicted of drug trafficking come to accept her fate, despite a bizarre contradiction—he is her executioner. {more}
BELGIUM, CANADA, FRANCE
Directed By David Lambert
Running Time: 98 Minutes
One night Paulo is carried home drunk by Ilir, the handsome bartender Paulo flirted with. An affair begins, exposing Paulo to his girlfriend who abruptly evicts him. With nowhere to go, Paulo shows up on Ilir's doorstep. Ilir is hesitant, but Paulo works his way into his home and life. They expand each other's worlds in passionate and unexpected ways. One weekend, Ilir does not return from a trip. Paulo discovers nothing about Ilir's whereabouts... {more}
SWEDEN
Directed By Jesper Ganslandt
Running Time: 88 Minutes
Brilliant Swedish director Jesper Ganslandt has an unfailing eye for character and an uncanny ability to work in wildly varying styles. After making one raw film about rural slackers and one disturbing suspense thriller, he now presents BLONDIE, an acerbically funny take on the melodramatic Scandinavian family drama. Sigrid’s three daughters are convening in her elegant country home for her 70th birthday. Following a brief cheerful reunion, their happy-family veneer quickly starts to peel away.... {more}
USA, ISRAEL
Directed By Cecilia Peck
Running Time: 99 Minutes
Linor Abargil, an Israeli beauty queen, was raped two months before being crowned Miss World in 1998. Ten years later, she’s ready to talk about it – and to encourage others to speak out. Now a globe-trotting victims’ advocate, Linor encourages people to stand against sexual violence by putting an end to their silence. She travels to speak with teens in South Africa, where girls are statistically more likely to be raped than educated. She... {more}
CANADA
Directed By Marielle Nitoslawska
Running Time: 100 Minutes
A densely-textured experimental film, BREAKING THE FRAME weaves the art of ground-breaking feminist Carolee Schneemann into footage of her journals and paintings in order to capture the multi-dimensionality of her work. Schneemann, a central figure in 20th century avant-garde movements, is not only a painter, poet, installation artist, and filmmaker, but also a pioneer of performance art who expanded the very definition of art to include discourses on the body and gender. Filmmaker Nitoslawska and... {more}
UNITED KINGDOM
Directed By Rufus Norris
Running Time: 90 Minutes
A girl witnesses the beating of a timid boy named Rick by their neighbor Mr. Oswald, whose troubled daughter has falsely accused the boy of sexual assault. The beating begins a tragic series of events. The girl, Skunk to her friends, is witness to it all. Severely diabetic, she faces the terrors of a first year at secondary school and the joys of a first love. Rick has suffered a breakdown from his beating and... {more}
AFGHANISTAN, USA
Directed By Sam French
Running Time: 28 Minutes
Set against the dramatic landscape of contemporary Afghanistan and the National sport of Buzkashi - a brutal game of horse polo played with a dead goat - Buzkashi Boys tells the compelling coming of age story of two best friends, a charismatic street urchin and a defiant blacksmith's son, who struggle to realize their dreams as they make their way to manhood in one of the most war-torn countries on Earth. Shot on location in... {more}
CANADA
Directed By Patrick Bouchard
Running Time: 9 Minutes
In Bydlo, which means cattle in Polish, Patrick Bouchard reinterprets the symphonic movement of the same name from Modest Petrovich Mussorgskys opus Pictures at an Exhibition. The filmmaker pushes the theme to its limit-Bydlo is inspired by the slow, cumbersome movement of an ox pulling a heavily-laden cart-and in so doing, he has succeeded in creating a powerful musical animation. In recreating the structure of the symphonic poem -crescendo, climax, decrescendo-Bouchards film evokes humanitys... {more}
ITALY
Directed By Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Running Time: 76 Minutes
To continue making Shakespeare’s plays into contemporary cinema, it seems almost obligatory to think of the most outlandish scenario in which to place the story. CAESAR MUST DIE is a brilliant and humanist take on the Bard’s Julius Caesar in which the play is being rehearsed by inmates of a maximum security prison in Rome. Casting real inmates (many facing long sentences for violent crimes) for the roles is just one of the conventions used... {more}
AFGHANISTAN, USA
Directed By Micah Garen
Running Time: 9 Minutes
'Call Me Ehsaan' is a haunting look at the US war in Afghanistan through the eyes of Lt. Col. JD Loftis, one of only three US Airforce officers who spoke Pashto, who was killed in February while working at the Ministry of Interior in Kabul. {more}
USA, UGANDA
Directed By
Running Time: 87 Minutes
CALL ME KUCHU is a powerful film about the resilience of the Ugandan LGBT community in the face of official discrimination. Homosexual acts are illegal in Uganda, though Parliament has recently retreated on an anti-homosexuality bill that called for the death penalty. The film introduces us to gay rights advocates including David Kato, who sued a newspaper that called for the execution of gays, publishing individuals' names and photographs. We see religious fundamentalists like Lou... {more}
USA, GUATEMALA
Directed By Mark Kendall
Running Time: 72 Minutes
Like humans, yellow school buses are part of a universe that keeps living after they’re gone. LA CAMIONETA traces the unexpectedly fascinating transformation of one decommissioned American school bus into a glorious work of art. We ride along as the bus is auctioned off and driven 16 hours through Mexico toward its new destiny as part of the Guatemalan public transport system. When we arrive, our bus is lovingly washed, then pimped out with chrome... {more}
GERMANY
Directed By Marc Wiese
Running Time: 104 Minutes
Until the age of 23, Shin Dong-Huyk had no idea that a world existed outside of the North Korean re-education camp he was born in. His parents were both prisoners who were married by guards. At the age of six, he was forced to do hard labor, constantly threatened by starvation, beatings, and death. This was all he knew until an older man began telling him stories about life on the outside. After his mother... {more}
FINLAND
Directed By Katja Gauriloff
Running Time: 78 Minutes
Beginning with a lonely woman who has given birth to a dozen children and is working in one of the largest open-pit mines in Brazil, CANNED DREAMS takes an eight-country journey across 30,000 km dissecting the processes of ingredients needed for a can of ravioli that ultimately ends up on the shelf of a Finnish grocery store. The real story isn’t how the pork, or beef, or tomatoes make it into the tin can being... {more}
USA
Directed By Tom Donahue
Running Time: 89 Minutes
Who's your favorite movie maker? Lynn Stalmaster? Marion Dougherty? Or Juliet Taylor? If you've never heard these names, it's because they belong to casting directors, the unsung heroes of Hollywood. CASTING BY is a fascinating look behind the scenes at the accomplishments of the (mostly) women who work closely with directors to find the perfect actors for the parts. Personalities such as Martin Scorsese, Robert DeNiro, and Woody Allen talk about the vital role "master... {more}
USA
Directed By Timothy M. Flaherty
Running Time: 6 Minutes
Changing Reels is the story of a projectionist on his last day of employment, as his theater is closing down to change to new digital technology.The film is a reflection of an aging man feeling a disconnect from the world around him. {more}
FRANCE
Directed By Etienne Faure
Running Time: 101 Minutes
When famous pianist Marie retires young, her nature-loving husband Vincent decides the family should move from Paris to a quiet farm town in the South of France. She reluctantly agrees, uncomfortable with the idea of rural life. He ends up getting a job at the local high school where he meets Thibault, a strange student who offers to help around the farm. Feeling sorry for him, Vincent tries to bond with the troubled youth, inviting... {more}
ROMANIA
Directed By Dan Chisu
Running Time: 103 Minutes
In Romania, like everywhere else, people are looking to get rich quick. CHASING RAINBOWS, a darkly funny commentary on the lengths people go to in their pursuit of the Romanian dream, intertwines the stories of two very different characters. Tocitu is a bureaucrat who hand-sharpens pencils and occasionally answers his rotary-dial phone. Someone delivers boxes marked “Hewlett-Packard,” but with no comprehension of English and no clue what’s in them, he’s fired. Tocitu signs up for... {more}
SPAIN
Directed By Antonio Chavarrías
Running Time: 95 Minutes
As the saying goes, the past will come back to haunt you. This couldn't be truer for Daniel and Mario, two men living with guilt over an incident that happened when they were kids. Daniel's father was set to marry Mario's mother, who had a daughter named Clara. One day the boys, who were often unkind to the little girl, bullied her into doing something that caused her death. Years later, Mario commits suicide, convinced... {more}
COLOMBIA
Directed By Jhonny Hendrix Hinestroza
Running Time: 80 Minutes
Choco’s daughter wants a fancy cake for her birthday. But Choco and her family live in poverty and this basic wish seems nearly impossible to fulfill. A bigger obstacle is Choco’s husband. He is a drunkard and a gambler, stealing what little money she earns (by panning gold from mercury-laden mines) and abusing her sexually when inebriated. Nevertheless, she is determined to give her daughter this simple gift, regardless of what it takes. To provide... {more}
Choreography for Plastic Army Men
USA
Directed By David Fain
Running Time: 5 Minutes
An animated music video created to the instrumental track 'Ohayoo Ohio' by the band 'Pink Martini'. {more}
USA
Directed By Carl Deal, Tia Lessin
Running Time: 87 Minutes
Recent politics have been triumphant for some and terrifying for others, but everybody seems willing to agree on one thing: something is fundamentally wrong. Many believe the template for that something is the effort to purchase the democratic process that began with Americans for Prosperity and the controversial Citizens United decision of the Supreme Court. This clear and remarkably assembled documentary takes the circus-like whirlwind of events and characters and puts it into a comprehensive... {more}
ARGENTINA, SPAIN, BRAZIL
Directed By Benjamín Ávila
Running Time: 110 Minutes
Juan just wants to be himself. But his parents are Argentine guerillas, so it's not that easy. Loosely inspired by events in director Benjamin Ávila's life, CLANDESTINE CHILDHOOD follows Juan's family as they return to Argentina after years of exile. Constantly under the threat of being found, they assume fake identities. As “Ernesto,” Juan begins to make friends and eventually falls in love with Maria. After his uncle Beto kills himself during a standoff with... {more}
CANADA
Directed By Ryan Bruce Levey
Running Time: 9 Minutes
3 Decades, 2 Men, A Love of a Lifetime. {more}
USA
Directed By Janek Ambros
Running Time: 5 Minutes
It is September 2008 and as Congress contemplates a 700 billion dollar bailout for the banks, a broker must decide where to allocate his money. With just a few minutes left before the closing bell, his mind drifts to the deep rooted problems of the country's economic structure and what may happen if the country fails to maintain a genuine free-market structure. {more}
PHILIPPINES
Directed By Paul Sta. Ana
Running Time: 81 Minutes
In the Philippines, where gambling is illegal, families of the deceased are allowed to hold "sakla" games in order to make money during weeks-long wakes. And, in a place where poverty is prevalent, many take advantage of the license for personal gain. Makoy and his reluctant brother Abet organize these casino-style events using unclaimed cadavers, thus helping out many of the impoverished families in the slums where they live. Concocting stories of relationships for the... {more}
UNITED KINGDOM
Directed By Emily Greenwood
Running Time: 20 Minutes
A young gymnast questions her dreams of championship glory when she discovers she's part of a shady government plot to win at any cost. {more}
USA
Directed By Ryan Kravetz
Running Time: 9 Minutes
'The Collectors' Gift' is a modern day fairytale about a young girl who discovers the key to creating a new world. {more}
UNITED KINGDOM
Directed By Tom Shkolnik
Running Time: 80 Minutes
“You know you’re gonna be all right?” is the last line in Tom Shkolnik’s debut film about a thirty-something Londoner attempting to get a grip on his life. While trying his hand at stand-up comedy, Ed (played subtly by Edward Hogg) meets Nathan on his way home. What begins as an honest assessment of Ed’s awful comedy, turns into a romantic tryst and burgeoning relationship. Ed is depressed about his job at a call center... {more}
FRANCE
Directed By Fabrice Maruca
Running Time: 11 Minutes
When Fred meets Anna, his life seems to be a romantic comedy. But when they move into an haunted mansion, it becomes a scary movie. What if Fred's life was a succession of trailers? {more}
USA
Directed By Juan Cardarelli, Eric M. Levy
Running Time: 90 Minutes
On a road trip to visit his mother, Jim Riley proposes to his girlfriend Bridget. Not believing in the concept of marriage, she says no. Fogged by the pain of her denial, he forgets to call his mother, who's eagerly waiting to celebrate when they arrive. In fact, they're welcomed by a giant banner hanging from the house, congratulating them on their now non-existent nuptials. But just when he's about to tell the truth, Jim... {more}
USA
Directed By Lucy Walker
Running Time: 107 Minutes
U.S. champion snowboarder Kevin Pearce was at the top of his sport in 2009 when he suffered massive head trauma while training for the 2010 Winter Olympics. What begins as a documentary of a daring and tireless athlete working to become the new face of a growing sport, quickly becomes a chronicle of a young man’s brave journey towards rehabilitation and the understanding of his own limits. Two-time Academy Award® nominee Lucy Walker directs a... {more}
USA
Directed By Dennis Scholl
Running Time: 39 Minutes
Follow the Biloxi, MS based Ohr-O'keefe Museum of Art through its development by architect Frank Gehry, its destruction by Hurricane Katrina and its triumphant rebuilding. Learn the story of George Ohr, the mad potter of Biloxi. {more}
ITALY, UNITED KINGDOM
Directed By Nicola Sersale
Running Time: 12 Minutes
David, a city tour guide, leads his faithful tourists into a bizarre and surreal excursion through Rome and its famous landmarks that have witnessed the reasons for his broken heart. {more}
USA
Directed By Joel Allen Schroeder
Running Time: 89 Minutes
Bill Watterson, the Chagrin Falls resident and creator behind the beloved comic strip Calvin & Hobbes, isn't an easy man to reach. Therefore, the filmmakers brilliantly explore his superb legacy through the people who were most affected by his work: his adoring fans. Calvin & Hobbes was syndicated from 1985 to 1995 in over 24,000 newspapers. Every week, die-hards flipped straight to the funnies to see what hijinks the whimsical Calvin and his stuffed tiger... {more}
USA
Directed By Peter Navarro
Running Time: 68 Minutes
DEATH BY CHINA 2.0 opens with Black Friday shoppers storming the malls in search for crazy bargains. When the filmmakers ask customers if they know or care where the products were made, one man exclaims: “If the American people can't provide me with what I need, I gotta get it from China.” While his statement seems callous, lots of Americans are willing to buy Chinese products if it brings savings. In today's unstable economy, every... {more}
SERBIA
Directed By Miroslav Momcilovic
Running Time: 80 Minutes
In the opening sequence of DEATH OF A MAN IN THE BALKANS, a man turns on the webcam of his computer, sits down in front of it, and shoots himself. From there this brilliantly original and (trust us) funny film simply lets the camera roll. In one continuous sequence, we watch as neighbors enter drawn by the gunshot and as the ensuing chaos and reactions to sudden death are mercilessly captured. We quickly discover those... {more}
BELGIUM, FRANCE
Directed By Tom Van Avermaet
Running Time: 20 Minutes
Soldier Nathan died during World War I. A strange collector imprisoned his shadow and gave him a new chance: a second life against 10000 captured shadows. It is love that guides him, as his purpose is to meet Sarah again, the woman he fell in love with before he died. But then he discovers that she's already in love with someone else, jealousy clouds his mind and pushes him towards a bitter decision, not without... {more}
BULGARIA
Directed By Boiko Boyanov
Running Time: 18 Minutes
BOXER is a bankrupt business-man with a criminal past who has gathered the courage to return to a deserted bulgarian town and pay off a 17-years-old debt. 17 years ago, he ran away, just before getting married to NEVENA, after having lost all her father's savings, gambling.Apart from that money, he must return over a half million Euro to a big boss of the underground world. BOXER is planning to pay him, then fly off... {more}
ICELAND
Directed By Baltasar Kormákur
Running Time: 93 Minutes
Off the southern coast of Iceland lies the Westman Islands, an active volcanic chain. From here the fishing trawler Breki and its small crew leave for a routine commercial trip. Storms are roaming the bitter cold seas and the Breki finds the catches are poor. In these unforgiving waters, catastrophe is always just a heartbeat away. The Breki’s nets snag and the ship is capsized. With terrifying swiftness, the crew begins to drown or succumb... {more}
The Deflowering of Eva van End
NETHERLANDS
Directed By Michiel ten Horn
Running Time: 98 Minutes
Eva barely exists to her odd and dysfunctional family. So nobody notices when she volunteers to host a German exchange student for two weeks. But when Veit appears–blond, handsome, and oddly perfect–he shakes the van End household to its core. Veit acts polite, is unflappably cheerful, glows with health, and centers himself with meditation. However, no one is more uncentered than the van Ends. Veit's glowing sun of perfection will yank each family member from... {more}
URUGUAY, MEXICO, FRANCE
Directed By Rodrigo Plá
Running Time: 84 Minutes
LA DEMORA introduces us to Maria, who is raising three children in a very cramped apartment and living on the little she earns as a garment worker. Maria’s elderly and ailing father Agustin also lives with them, pushing her to the limits of endurance. He often wanders away and becomes lost, leading to frantic searches. She needs him gone, but the state will only take him if he is homeless and a private home is... {more}
USA
Directed By Rola Nashef
Running Time: 92 Minutes
Expanding on the award-winning 2007 short, DETROIT UNLEADED tells the story of Sami, a Lebanese-American who reluctantly takes over his father's gas station after he's murdered in an armed robbery. It's a life that Sami never wanted; nor did his late father, who always encouraged his son to go to college. Sam spends his days dealing with rude, but hilariously absurd, Detroit customers who spout their complaints through bulletproof glass. He runs the business with... {more}
USA
Directed By Zach Guerra
Running Time: 29 Minutes
From the ruins of 1949 East London rises Marcus, an unassuming young man working as a custodian in a notorious brothel. Gertie, Marcus' pregnant mother and the brothel's ruthless madam, regularly beats Marcus to 'make a man' out of him. Gertie gives birth to Marcus' half-sister, tasking Marcus with disposing of the baby. Marcus is forced to decide - ultimately fleeing with the baby to a Catholic mission where he finds an equally corrupt foe... {more}
Digital Dharma: One Man's Mission to Save a Culture
USA, CHINA, INDIA, TIBET
Directed By Dafna Yachin
Running Time: 82 Minutes
In the 1950s many were forced to flee Tibet, carrying with them bits of the culture’s precious literary heritage. Much was lost or destroyed. Gene Smith, a student of Tibetan Buddhism, offered to help refugees assimilate into America. These encounters profoundly changed him, sparking a life-long commitment to retrieving and preserving every remaining piece of Tibetan writing and culture. Spanning decades and crossing the world, this mesmerizing film charts the astounding journey of a man... {more}
USA
Directed By Justin Schwarz
Running Time: 104 Minutes
You know you’re in unfamiliar territory -- intelligent comedy territory – the moment Griffin Dunne (“After Hours”) and Madeleine Martin (“Californication”) start their father-daughter verbal jousting. Dunne plays down-and-out history professor Lewis Birch, who is trying desperately to publish his life’s work (a 6,000-page tome on the slave who accompanied Lewis and Clark on their Pacific expedition) with any old academic press. In a last-ditch bid to salvage his career, Lewis drags his cynical teenage... {more}
ITALY
Directed By Luca Elmi
Running Time: 20 Minutes
Cops are like surgeons... they must cut in order to heal, andthey must cause pain to defeat pain. A body in a jewelry store. Two cops confronted with an impossible choice. This is their story. This is a night filled with doubts, fear and lies. Cops are like healers... and the first duty of a healer is a sacred principle: do no harm. {more}
USA
Directed By Alex Grybauskas
Running Time: 19 Minutes
On the floor of a bar restroom, a man on his deathbed is met by Danny Pickler: an elementary school classmate of his ... who died twenty-six years ago. On the brink of damnation, he is offered a deal that could save his life but in the process may destroy his humanity. What transpires shed's new light on the question: do you believe in the devil? {more}
JAPAN, USA
Directed By Naomi Kazama, Shigeru Ota
Running Time: 83 Minutes
Dementia, nursing home staff John Rodeman reminds us, is an awful disease. The afflicted can forget things that happened moments ago, just as they can forget the names of their children. But since 2011, there’s been hope: Cleveland’s Eliza Jennings Senior Care Network is the first site in the United States to conduct research on a program of learning therapy that can reverse symptoms of dementia. Devised by neuroscientist Ryuta Kawashima, it has already helped... {more}
BELGIUM
Directed By Ann Sirot, Raphael Balboni
Running Time: 24 Minutes
While visiting an apartment, Adrien feels a twinge of jealousy as he watches Tess, his partner, enjoy herself with another visitor. That very evening, he receives a surprise summons to return for another visit. He must go alone, Tess being otherwise detained at work. He finds himself before a house which already has his name on the doorbell. As soon as Adrien crosses the threshold, the house closes in on him and he is embarked... {more}
RUSSIA
Directed By Oleg Pogodin
Running Time: 109 Minutes
When Russian mobster Viktor is released from prison, he makes an unexpected visit home to see his family. Unbeknownst to him, a group of hired assassins are hot on his trail and looking to knock off this mob lieutenant. DOM–A RUSSIAN FAMILY is a classic story of vintage lineage blending all the great gangster, mobster, and western film elements. Viktor's family is dysfunctional, myopic, and living in near squalor on their massive property, so his... {more}
SOUTH KOREA
Directed By Kim Jee-woon, Yim Pil-sung
Running Time: 120 Minutes
Split into three fantastic stories, DOOMSDAY BOOK is an absolutely thrilling science-fiction anthology. “Brave New World” tells the story of nerdy scientist Yoon Seok-woo, who finally meets the girl of his dreams. Unfortunately, they both become zombies after eating toxic beef on their first date. It's a quirky and endearing apocalyptic love story. The second chapter, “Heavenly Creature,” centers around Park Do-won, a corporate technician, who is called to a monastery to determine if a... {more}
GERMANY
Directed By Fabian Giessler
Running Time: 10 Minutes
Two old men share a hospital room, in which the window is the only connection to the outside world and thus becomes a highly demanded resource. "Double Occupancy" is a parable about the greed of man - an animated, psychological intimate play about the power of imagination and illusion. {more}
USA
Directed By Nathaniel Krause
Running Time: 11 Minutes
Clark and Becca leave a bar after a night out with friends. When a homeless man approaches them on the street, Clark gets an idea. Adam Brody, Louisa Krause and Keith David star in this dark comedy by master playwright Neil LaBute. {more}
USA
Directed By David Redmon, Ashley Sabin
Running Time: 77 Minutes
When the Stinson Seafood plant closed its doors in 2010, nearly 130 people in Gouldsboro, Maine lost their jobs. The cannery was the last of its kind, a relic from a time when the sardine industry ruled the Maine coast. The unfortunate situation gives Boston businessman Antonio Bussone an idea: his company will reopen the plant as a lobster-packing facility, and rescue the community from the unemployment line. It seems like the perfect solution. To... {more}
USA
Directed By Alex Winter
Running Time: 106 Minutes
In the age of iTunes and Spotify, the heated controversy over Napster seems like ancient history. These days the internet is where many people discover and buy music. But, before Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning developed the program in 1999, that concept was unimaginable. Their peer-to-peer file sharing service allowed fans to share their music with the world, giving listeners access to an enormous library of songs with just a few clicks. However, there was... {more}
USA
Directed By Gayatri Roshan, Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
Running Time: 93 Minutes
While our planet is slowly dying, we need heroes to guide us toward saving Mother Earth. ELEMENTAL tells the story of three such individuals as they work to save not only their homelands, but also the entire planet. Rajendra Singh is an Indian official who sets out on a trek to save the Ganges River. Once the lifeblood of India, "Mother Ganga" is now polluted by factories, dams, and public misuse, and Singh faces opposition... {more}
Elliott Erwitt: "I Bark At Dogs"
USA
Directed By Douglas J. Sloan
Running Time: 12 Minutes
Erwitt has made some of the most memorable photographs of the 20th century. {more}
USA
Directed By Caitlin Hodson
Running Time: 8 Minutes
Inspired by the faded elegance of the Newark, Ohio Arcade of shops, 'Empty Spaces' recalls the things we left behind. Jean Wheatley, played by Alexa Dorris, returns to the Arcade, but not everything is familiar. {more}
HUNGARY
Directed By Péter Bergendy
Running Time: 89 Minutes
THE EXAM follows Jung, a dedicated mid-level agent in Budapest in 1957. After the failure of the Hungarian uprising, secret police become fixated with surveillance, constantly monitoring the actions of the people. They also conduct secret tests on their own members to assure that they are true believers in the Communist Party. Though his mentor and superior, Pal Marko, vouches for his trustworthiness, Jung's loyalty is still put to the test. They bug his entire... {more}
USA
Directed By Ben Popik
Running Time: 84 Minutes
This is not a zombie film, so get that thought out of your head. THE EXQUISITE CORPSE PROJECT is a brilliantly comedic and original film about five comedy writers brought together to write a script. However, each writer can only write 15 pages of said script and each writer can only read the previous five pages before they start their own 15. The six gentlemen (including director Ben Popik) were internet phenoms with a large... {more}
USA
Directed By Mike Rauch, Tim Rauch
Running Time: 4 Minutes
Carl McNair tells the story of his brother Ronald, an African American kid in the 1950s who set his sights on the stars. {more}
USA
Directed By Mike Rauch, Tim Rauch
Running Time: 2 Minutes
Ramon 'Chunky' Sanchez recounts how the new kid at school became a hero when his name stumped their teachers. {more}
CHINA
Directed By Zhao Qi
Running Time: 90 Minutes
In May 2008 a devastating earthquake hit China, killing over 20,000 people. This powerful documentary spans the three years between the total destruction of the city of Beichuan and the building of a new one. It focuses on three families, all of whom lost relatives. As we follow their struggles to move onwards, the film artfully juggles many elements. We see beautifully elegiac footage of the devastated city, to which survivors are sometimes permitted to... {more}
USA
Directed By RJ Collins
Running Time: 16 Minutes
One ordinary day, 10-year-old Charles Henry is delighted to discover that he has the ability to float. But when society pressures him to conform and fix his 'problem', he must find the courage to overcome what others think and embrace who he is. {more}
USA
Directed By Mike Rauch, Tim Rauch
Running Time: 4 Minutes
Sam Black tells his wife about his father, an enduring lesson, and the power of a look. {more}
Far Out Isn't Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story
USA
Directed By Brad Bernstein
Running Time: 99 Minutes
FAR OUT ISN'T FAR ENOUGH is not your typical documentary about an illustrator and author of children's books. In fact, the word "typical" could never be used to describe anything about Tom Ungerer. Born in France, he lived through the German occupation of Alsace, an experience that had a profound impact on his career as an artist. Moving to New York in the 1950s, he ruffled feathers in the industry by creating books that some... {more}
AUSTRALIA
Directed By Steve Anthopoulos
Running Time: 10 Minutes
When a middle-eastern couple face the pressures of a new culture, they each turn to the burqua in very different ways. {more}
FRANCE
Directed By Delphine Lanson
Running Time: 84 Minutes
In France surrogacy is strictly forbidde. So when partners Jerome and Francois are looking to become fathers, they must search for the most liberal of places; a place where two gay lovers from France may make a baby with a woman they have never met; a place of such liberalism, they will be accepted and given the opportunity to prosper as a loving family: Wisconsin. FATHER'S BIRTH is a journey of love and discovery as... {more}
IRELAND
Directed By Des Kilbane
Running Time: 57 Minutes
No one expected Johnny Kilbane to become a champion boxer. As a scrawny youngster, he sang and danced and dreamed of being an actor or gymnast. He worked hard from an early age as a switchboy on the railroad, supporting his family after his dad went blind. But when he witnessed his first boxing match as a teen, everything changed for Kilbane. He was mesmerized by it. And he realized the profits it could yield.... {more}
CANADA, ICELAND
Directed By Jonah Bekhor, Zach Math
Running Time: 72 Minutes
If seeing male genitalia makes you queasy, you haven't seen nothing yet. And if it doesn't, you haven't seen enough of nothing yet. You're about to see a whole lot of everything. THE FINAL MEMBER is a documentary following Siggi Hjartarson and his quest to complete his collection of mammalian penises at the Icelandic Phallogical Museum, which is exactly what it sounds like. Much to Siggi's chagrin, there is one species not represented – yet.... {more}
USA
Directed By Nina Davenport
Running Time: 105 Minutes
When director Nina Davenport found herself single and childless in her early 40s, she set sail on a journey of becoming a single mother in New York City. And FIRST COMES LOVE is an intimate and in-depth look at the struggles and joys of her passage to motherhood. Raised by a traditonal father who favored her two older brothers, Nina clung to the all-accepting love of her mother whose death left a void Nina seems... {more}
USA
Directed By Brandon Hess
Running Time: 29 Minutes
TWO BICYCLE MECHANICS from Dayton Ohio, Orville and Wilbur Wright, dared to believe they could fly. Their dream was so big it launched them into the skies. Now, these brothers are about to face their most difficult day: May 30th, 1912. Orville spends his final moments by his brother's deathbed, reflecting on their lives- the joys and pains, friendships and betrayals, successful flights and fateful crashes. Though they have taught the world to fly, they... {more}
CZECH REPUBLIC
Directed By Zdeněk Jiráský
Running Time: 91 Minutes
FLOWER BUDS, winner of four top Czech film prizes, is a grimly comedic family drama. It's Christmastime in a nameless small industrial town whose salient feature is its smoking chimneys. Jarda is an indifferent train signalman more intent on fashioning matchstick ships in bottles than attending to his duties. Once his shift ends, he takes his meager earnings and deposits them into slot machines at the neighborhood pub. Jarda's gambling addiction renders him oblivious to... {more}
CROATIA
Directed By Krsto Papić
Running Time: 103 Minutes
Where do you turn when the cops, the Mafia, and the Church are all breathing down your neck? Filip Kapic is a Zagreb children’s performer. A policeman calls to say Filip's son has been caught with marijuana. He cuts Filip a deal: he won’t press charges if Filip will pose as a priest, visit a dying Mafioso, and get him to confess to a murder. A sad-eyed agnostic, Filip takes on the persona of “Father... {more}
CANADA
Directed By Sean Michael Turrell
Running Time: 18 Minutes
The sight of a beautiful woman posting notices for a mysterious bookstore casts a spell over a young graphic designer named Greg. Compelled to seek her out, he makes a series of increasingly strange discoveries in the mazelike shop where she works - leading to a final, intense encounter that leaves him to realize following one's desires sometimes comes at an extreme price. {more}
SWITZERLAND, GERMANY
Directed By Markus Imboden
Running Time: 108 Minutes
For 150 years, Swiss authorities took disadvantaged children from their homes and forced them to labor on farms. THE FOSTER BOY is set in 1950 in an Alpine village of breathtaking beauty that belies the cruelty of its inhabitants. Max, an orphaned teenager, is brought by a pastor to work for the Bösinger family. A miserable lot, they take his shoes away while he does chores. Bösinger is a drunkard; his wife is a bitter... {more}
USA
Directed By Joshua Sanchez
Running Time: 74 Minutes
Based on the play by award-winning playwright Christopher Shinn, FOUR is an extraordinary portrait of four individuals on a balmy 4th of July evening. Joe, expertly acted by Wendell Pierce (The Wire, Treme), is a middle-aged gentleman on a date with a young man named June, who he met online. Abigayle (the captivating Aja Naomi King) is Joe's teenaged daughter, precocious and stuck in a life between her secretive father and bed-ridden mother. Looking for... {more}
GERMANY
Directed By Zoltan Paul
Running Time: 85 Minutes
Among the beautiful lakes in the lands north of Berlin, Rosa and her lover Kirsten live an idyllic life. Rosa is a professional fisherwoman and the guardian of these magical waters. Kirsten lives in a bungalow right on the water’s edge. One glorious weekend in late summer, the couple play host to two young lesbian students who are on a break from their studies in Berlin. As the visit progresses, these women reveal their views... {more}
UNITED KINGDOM
Directed By Chris Foggin
Running Time: 12 Minutes
Mary and Linda spend an afternoon discussing the pleasures, pitfalls and problems with using networking to try and woo the local choirmaster Trevor. {more}
SPAIN
Directed By Jaime Maestro
Running Time: 8 Minutes
A wolf starts working in an office full of delicious, sexy sheep. {more}
USA
Directed By Tim Cawley
Running Time: 79 Minutes
People of all professional disciplines encounter no greater threat than that of the proverbial blank page. Whether you're a fashion designer, architect, choreographer, super-chef, or cartoonist, your success and hard work all began with nothing. In his documentary, FROM NOTHING, SOMETHING, director Tim Cawley sits down with people from many fields of creation and chronicles their processes from idea to finished product. Maria Bamford (comedian), Tom Perrotta (novelist), Moungi Bawendi and David Lee (cancer researchers),... {more}
USA
Directed By Amy Finkel
Running Time: 80 Minutes
Sixty-two percent of Americans own pets, spending nearly 53 billion dollars on their furry family friends annually. When our pets pass on, it can be a heartbreaking and personal tragedy that can also be tough to share with others. There is now an industry wherein pet owners can have jewelry, urns, and portraits made, not to mention tattoos using the DNA of their pets. You can have your pet “remade” using your pet’s own skin.... {more}
Fusion: The Art of Collaboration
USA
Directed By Travis Pollert, Joseph Jurecki
Running Time: 20 Minutes
Fusion is a story that reveals the art of collaboration, the trials of the collaborative process, and the empowerment that comes from getting it right as it follows Inlet Dance Theatre through an international artist exchange with Sri Lankan choreographer Kapila Palihawadana. {more}
USA
Directed By Freida Mock
Running Time: 92 Minutes
"Nothing stops a bullet like a job" is the motto of unlikely gang expert Father Greg Boyle, a jovial Jesuit priest also known as G-Dog, who works with youth in East Los Angeles. Boyle has saved many lives with his Homeboy Industries, a working model for the transformation of young criminals into productive citizens. His forthright, take-no-B.S. manner allows him to forge peace agreements and employ former gang members and parolees who would never have... {more}
USA
Directed By Aron Gaudet
Running Time: 20 Minutes
Eighty-year-old retired radiologist, Alby Hurwit, battles against time and technology as he composes an award-winning symphony, all on his computer, with no musical training and no ability to read or write music. {more}
INDIA
Directed By Rajan Khosa
Running Time: 80 Minutes
Cheeky nine-year-old GATTU is clever in the ways of the street. Illiterate and unwashed, he works in his uncle’s junkyard. In Gattu’s town, everyone is obsessed with kite-flying. One black kite called Kali rules the skies in battle, but no one knows who flies him. Determined to cut Kali down, Gattu discovers that a school’s forbidden roof is the best kite-flying site, and he poses as an exchange student to get access. But when Gattu... {more}
USA
Directed By Richard E. Robbins
Running Time: 101 Minutes
Everyone knows Malala, the Pakistani schoolgirl who was shot by the Taliban. Malala was attacked for voicing a simple principle: all girls should go to school. There are thousands of girls like Malala around the world who are standing up for their voices to be heard and their right to be educated, and the extraordinary GIRL RISING tells some of their stories. Wadly, from Haiti, refuses to leave a post-earthquake tent school when she can... {more}
USA
Directed By Cory Krueckeberg
Running Time: 95 Minutes
A wild and exotic blend of narrative and documentary styles, THE GO DOC PROJECT is the video document of a relationship between two young gay men in New York City. Days before he graduates and leaves New York, “Doc” poses online as a documentary filmmaker in order to meet “Go,” a hunky male dancer he has become obsessed with on the internet. The ploy works and Doc suddenly finds himself face-to-face with the hot reality... {more}
USA, UGANDA
Directed By Roger Ross Williams
Running Time: 90 Minutes
Exploring the thin line separating faith and fanaticism, evangelicalism and extremism, this jolting documentary traces how American groups like The International House of Prayer have been sending missionaries into AIDS-ravaged Uganda, preaching a highly conservative and highly controversial religious doctrine. Uganda, this film proposes, has become ground zero to test ways in which church-backed legislation could be created to bring unquestioning compliance to Biblical law. The film tracks American influences that lead to the infamous... {more}
USA
Directed By Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, Dawn Valadez
Running Time: 86 Minutes
GOING ON 13 is a mesmerizing documentary by Kristy Guevara-Flanagan and community worker Dawn Valadez. Adolescent girls from multi-ethnic families in the San Francisco Bay area have a lot on their minds these days: peer pressure, boys, and their changing bodies. Also immigrant life and divorce. We first get to know four of these girls when they’re nine. We then follow them at school and home over several years as the filmmakers record their evolving... {more}
USA, UNITED KINGDOM
Directed By Ryan White
Running Time: 86 Minutes
When it comes to the women of the Beatles, everyone knows about Linda and Yoko. But the woman people may not know is the one who may have had the biggest impact on the Fab Four. In the dark damp underbelly of the Liverpool bar, The Cavern Club, Freda Kelly was one of many young girls who fawned over the new band and would later become the heart and soul of their rise to fame.... {more}
SPAIN, UNITED KINGDOM, USA
Directed By Ben Lewis
Running Time: 89 Minutes
British author H.G. Wells coined the phrase “World Brain,” referring to a future repository of all the writings and knowledge of mankind accessible to every person on earth. Libraries and universities have always attempted this, but at the end of the 20th century Google started a project to make the “World Brain” a reality. Their goal: to digitally scan and preserve every book ever written. With such great and lofty vision comes great controversy. Within... {more}
FRANCE, BELGIUM
Directed By Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern
Running Time: 92 Minutes
He ain’t heavy, he’s my middle-aged punk brother. France is in need of another revolution. A punk revolution. Thanks to the ever-punk, "Not", who proudly displays his pooch, a mohawk, and his name penned into his forehead, France may get their revolution yet. Or burn down trying. Not’s brother, Jean-Pierre, couldn’t be more of an opposite: suit and tie, child rearing, and working in the city’s shopping district at a mattress store. And not well.... {more}
USA
Directed By Bill Morrison
Running Time: 80 Minutes
In April 1927 the Mississippi River broke its banks in 145 locations, flooding 27,000 square miles of land. Thousands of sharecroppers were displaced and the devastation was unthinkable, even in light of current tragedies. It was the most destructive river flood in American history. Director Bill Morrison and composer-musician Bill Frisell have combined to create a dream-like and utterly haunting documentary, and THE GREAT FLOOD is unlike any other doc you have seen. Using no... {more}
FRANCE
Directed By Mathias Rifkiss, Colas Rifkiss
Running Time: 21 Minutes
Two men will play their future on the result of a football game. {more}
GEORGIA
Directed By Zaza Urushadze
Running Time: 88 Minutes
Tbilisi, 1994. After the fall of the Soviet system and the chaos of civil war, Georgia is controlled by criminal gangs. In the aftermath of a shootout that kills his best friend Gio, Gogliko is sent to prison. Fifteen years later, Gogliko is a free man in a changed country. His parents are dead and most of his friends were killed in the war. Unsure how to navigate this "new" Georgia, he concentrates on protecting... {more}
GERMANY
Directed By Boris Schaarschmidt
Running Time: 18 Minutes
Blistering heat in the desert of Sudan. A pregnant mother and her two young children are on the search for water and safety from the ruthless Janjaweed militia. When the brother is too weak to continue, Haleema is sent by her mother to find water. A dangerous journey full of hope and despair begins. {more}
CROATIA, SLOVENIA, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
Directed By Arsen Anton Ostojic
Running Time: 93 Minutes
Before the Bosnian war ravaged their lives, Halima’s niece Safija became pregnant by Slavo, a Christian man. Beaten and ostracized by her Muslim family, Safija gave the infant boy to the childless Halima to raise, telling Slavo it was stillborn. Twenty-five years later, the devastating war has ended. Bodies are being identified through DNA samples and returned to families for burial. Halima’s husband is found, but the boy cannot be returned to her without a... {more}
USA
Directed By Mark Nickelsburg
Running Time: 12 Minutes
New York is a tough place to find love. Especially for an eighteen-month-old who lives on his own. {more}
USA
Directed By Peter Getzels, Eduardo López
Running Time: 90 Minutes
The immigration debate in America is a heated one. It can easily turn a family dinner table into a shouting match. But what often gets lost in all the yelling is the simple fact that immigrants are human beings. Their reasons for coming to our country are often out of desperation and a need for survival. As our leaders argue over how to solve the issue, they often leave out the fact that our past... {more}
IRAN
Directed By Reza Dormishian
Running Time: 84 Minutes
Zhaleh is a tough young Iranian woman living in Istanbul. Dressed in biker black with kohl-rimmed eyes, she’s part of a marginal club crowd and determined to emigrate to the West. Hamed is a loose cannon, a crackhead graffiti artist also from Iran, who never bothered to learn Turkish. They meet outside a club, thrown together by their vague mutual need to escape. Soon, a half-baked exit plan is devised. While Zhaleh buys a passport... {more}
ITALY
Directed By Alessandro Bardani
Running Time: 9 Minutes
'Have you got a minute?', this Oreste asks to Mahdi ... before giving him road direction needed to go from the suburbs of Rome to Palestine. A long travel enriched with amusing anecdotes and sad memories, an escape from loneliness that becomes a surreal and ironic meeting. {more}
USA
Directed By Michael Urie
Running Time: 96 Minutes
If you’ve ever wanted to be a Hollywood starlet and are in Noah Baumbach’s cinematic masterpiece, “The Squid and the Whale,” and have become an indie-darling and besties with Ben Stiller’s personal assistant and have a gay brother whose boyfriend was the gay guy in Ugly Betty and just know deep down in your heart that Ralph Macchio is totes gonna be ur boyfriend, then you should know that you are going to have an... {more}
UNITED KINGDOM
Directed By Timothy Reckart
Running Time: 11 Minutes
A husband and wife have grown apart over the years. He lives on the floor, she lives on the ceiling, and their marriage hangs in the balance. {more}
GERMANY, USA
Directed By Frauke Sandig, Eric Black
Running Time: 98 Minutes
From the Mayan creation story the Popol Vuh, we know that “Heart of Sky” is the world’s maker, part of the Mayan cosmovision of oneness with nature. This exquisitely beautiful film introduces us to present-day Mayans, from the highlands of Chiapas to the Lacandon Jungle, who are convinced that humans have forgotten how to live in balance. Keen observers of the modern interplay of economics and nature, they are distraught by the change of weather... {more}
USA
Directed By Kathy Leichter
Running Time: 76 Minutes
There’s an empty chair in the sunlight, surrounded by shadows. Filmmaker Kathy Leichter will never stop missing the light and dark presence of her gifted mother Nina, who took her life by jumping out of a window in the family’s New York apartment. Nina, who suffered from bipolar disorder, accomplished beautiful things in her lifetime: she was an educational leader, an artist, a loving mother to two bright children, and the helpmate to her husband... {more}
USA
Directed By Jill Durso
Running Time: 13 Minutes
Set in New York City's bustling subway system, a quirky Clown's daily routine starts to unravel, leading him closer and closer to the woman of his dreams. {more}
VENEZUELA
Directed By Ivan Mazza
Running Time: 14 Minutes
In a school playground Figueroa, a small and lonely child, is accidentally pushed against the biggest boy of his class: Almendros. The boys around them decide they should fight, so it's decreed the two of them must face each other, outside the school, when the noon bell rings. The ticking clock will become Figueroa's worst enemy, while he has to face his fears and insecurities in order to confront his enemy just outside the school... {more}
NEPAL
Directed By Deepak Rauniyar
Running Time: 75 Minutes
Though still a Shangri-la for trekkers, Nepal recently emerged from a 12-year civil conflict. Strikes, power cuts, and political impasses, as well as extensive road blockades known as "bandhs," still disrupt the lives of all social classes. Against this background, and the breathtaking landscape of the Eastern hills, HIGHWAY takes us on one humorous but ill-fated bus journey from eastern Nepal to Kathmandu. As we churn along, we are introduced to the stories of... {more}
CANADA
Directed By Anthony McLean
Running Time: 8 Minutes
In this black-and-white silent film, an unlucky bachelor wins a chance at love when he finds a beautiful girl's lost cat. {more}
FRANCE
Directed By Myriam Donasis
Running Time: 25 Minutes
Muriel is nearly 40 and still childless.Despite the misgivings of her girlfriend, Emmanuelle,she decides to take an emergency trip to the Belgians (neighbors of french people in Europe) where in vitro fertilization is legal. Thus begins a tragicomic journey. {more}
USA
Directed By Dan Hayes
Running Time: 83 Minutes
To many, World War II is a distant memory. And to our youth, its importance can be lost in the modern world. Although there are still veterans of the war living among us, based on recent statistics we are losing them at the rate of approximately 900 per day. To this dwindling number of men and women the images of the war remain vivid. The impact of what they experienced continues to weigh heavy on... {more}
USA
Directed By James Westby
Running Time: 18 Minutes
A 1940's screwball comedy about 3 women living in Manhattan and their adventures. {more}
SPAIN
Directed By Jose Luis Aleman
Running Time: 12 Minutes
An exhausted man walks through the desert.The sun seems to melt the image.The man can barely walk, exhausted, hungry and thirsty. Defeated, he drops down.Between the heat and blazing sun on the horizon in the distance, he catch a glimpse of an hotel. {more}
USA
Directed By Shia LaBeouf
Running Time: 11 Minutes
This is the story of Howard Cantour. A warrior. His life as a film critic and how he comes to terms with reviewing his hero's film. {more}
CANADA, CHILE
Directed By Carlo Guillermo Proto
Running Time: 78 Minutes
This beautifully shot documentary chronicles the family members of director Carlo Guillermo Proto as they grapple with the decision of their father to end his own life. The director's father, Gustavo, is haunted by the memory of his own father's suicide as he battles a looming onslaught of Alzheimer's disease and the accompanying dementia. Including intense interviews with Carlo, his siblings, and their mother, EL HUASO takes you deep into the torment and tug-of-war emotions... {more}
SCOTLAND, DENMARK
Directed By Emma Davie, Morag McKinnon
Running Time: 73 Minutes
At 34, Neil Platt is facing the end of his life. He has Motor Neurone Disease, a condition that also took his father. MND causes his muscles to stop working, but Neil’s vibrant spirit and love of his wife and infant son are unaffected. Using wit, courage, and a computer with voice-activated technology, Neil is determined to do things before “last call.” He wants to spread awareness of his disease so that if his son... {more}
USA
Directed By Jeffrey Schwarz
Running Time: 85 Minutes
Described by John Waters as “the most beautiful woman in the world,” Divine is one of the most unique and iconic film personalities in the Universe, whether the establishment film community dares to admit it or not! Born Harris Glen Milstead, Divine started life as an overweight Baltimore youth who was harassed and alienated. Finding comfort in outrageous movies and dressing up, his meeting with John Waters changed not only both their lives, but also... {more}
CANADA
Directed By Jason Lapeyre, Robert Wilson
Running Time: 91 Minutes
Remember when you were young and you played War and Cops 'n Robbers? Pretty sweet, right? Well, in I DECLARE WAR, we get to actually see a game of War played through the eyes of the young participants … and they have pretty awesome rules. An exquisite film depicting the brutality of war being played out by young teens (think "Lord of the Flies" meets "Stand By Me"), I DECLARE WAR scoffs at the idea... {more}
USA
Directed By Glenn Gaylord
Running Time: 91 Minutes
Following the sudden and tragic death of his brother, British expat Jack stays stateside to help his sister-in-law (Alicia Witt) raise his unborn niece. Now it's five years later, Jack's visa is expired, and he's facing deportation back to England. I DO is a heartwarming and genuine film about love, family, and all the things that make us human. With the sad prospect of leaving his niece and his career as a fashion photographer behind,... {more}
SWEDEN
Directed By Martin Högdahl
Running Time: 77 Minutes
THE ICE DRAGON is a family film in the tradition of Nordic storytelling, where strange possibilities lie far in the north. Mik is a scrawny 11-year-old who lives in Stockholm public housing with his teenage brother Tony. Every once in a while their dad shows up, which is not a good thing since he's an alcoholic heavy-metal rocker still living the dream. Mik likes to box and watch zombie movies with Tony. But Social Services... {more}
Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp
USA
Directed By Jorge Hinojosa
Running Time: 88 Minutes
Produced by rap legend Ice-T, ICEBERG SLIM: PORTRAIT OF A PIMP documents the storied life of the late Robert Beck, a reformed pimp turned African American literature icon. Beck spent his early days split between prison and the ghettos of Chicago where he committed petty crimes, pimped prostitutes, and fed a severe drug addiction. After serving a stretch in solitary confinement, he decided he'd had enough and retired from the game at 42. In 1969... {more}
UNITED KINGDOM, USA, TANZANIA
Directed By Harry Freeland
Running Time: 85 Minutes
In April 2006, a 35-year-old albino woman was murdered in Tanzania after witch doctors spread the belief that an albino’s skin and body parts could bring fortune and good luck. After that, everything changed for the estimated 170,000 Tanzanians born with albinism. Already facing rejection from their own families and being killed at birth, albinos in Tanzania are now battling an ever-increasing murder rate due to superstitions among the uneducated populace. IN THE SHADOW OF... {more}
Independent Shorts Audience Award Program
International
Directed By
Running Time: 90 Minutes
CIFF patrons determine this program by casting ballots throughtout the 37th CIFF. The top vote-getter receives the Cleveland State University Audience Choice Award for Best Short Subject, which is accompanied by a $1,000 cash prize. {more}
Independent Shorts Jury Awards Program
International
Directed By
Running Time: 90 Minutes
Three jurors select winners of the awards listed below. The shorts are screened and the filmmakers are recognized during this special program. Each award is accompanied with a $1,000 cash prize. Best Animated Short Film Award* - sponsored by Reminger Co., L.P.A. Best Documentary Short Film Award - sponsored by Jules and Fran Belkin Best International Short Film Award - sponsored by MP Star Financial, Inc. Best LGBT Short Film Award: Given in Celebration of the Life of Nikki... {more}
USA
Directed By Jamie Meltzer
Running Time: 82 Minutes
Activist Brandon Darby started off as a hero in some people's minds. Affiliated with the revolutionary Black Panther party, he viewed the government as an obstacle to peace. He co-founded the Common Ground Collective after Hurricane Katrina, providing aid to struggling residents. But the charismatic Texan switched horses mid-stream. INFORMANT digs into the inner recesses of Darby's mind and interviews those who knew him best – or thought they did. Post-Katrina, Darby went looking for... {more}
USA
Directed By Travis Mathews, James Franco
Running Time: 60 Minutes
In 1980 the MPAA demanded that 40 minutes be removed from the controversial film "Cruising" – footage never since seen. In INTERIOR. LEATHER BAR. actor and filmmaker James Franco decided to re-imagine and film those missing 40 minutes. With a quickly assembled cast, gay and straight, he and filmmaker Travis Matthews do exactly that. This film-within-a-film charts the reinvention of the censored footage. As the very real sex unfolds before the camera, the equally real... {more}
AUSTRALIA
Directed By Genevieve Clay, Robin Bryan
Running Time: 12 Minutes
Thomas Howell gets more than he's bargained for in a job interview at a prestigious law firm; an insult about his tie, a rendition of Harry Potter and the chance to change the lives of a father and son. {more}
COLUMBIA
Directed By Giovanni Granada
Running Time: 20 Minutes
What if a 12 year old boy had to devise an Invention to get the attention of his love interest?Monica has made it clear, she wants to be just friends... Sad, Danny starts working with his friend Andres in their workshop on a new invention, a big challenge for 12 year old boys; to solve the magic of photography and the mysteries of women.On a golden afternoon in 1976 they discover the power... {more}
USA
Directed By Jonathan Langager
Running Time: 15 Minutes
'Josephine and the Roach' is a surreal, offbeat short film about a cockroach who falls in love with the woman whose apartment he infests. They play beautiful duets on their violin and accordion, only to be interrupted by Josephine's brutish exterminator husband, Moe. And so Roach devises a plan: he crawls into Moe's brain and gains control of his higher functions. Manipulating Moe like a three hundred pound sock puppet, Roach woos Josephine. {more}
MEXICO
Directed By J. Xavier Velasco
Running Time: 10 Minutes
Juan, who works in a uniform store, has taken refuge in a routine life without ambition. Until one day, La borrega came along. {more}
NETHERLANDS
Directed By Boudewijn Koole
Running Time: 81 Minutes
Jojo is a rambunctious ten-year-old who mostly raises himself. Every day he races across the fields to beat his dad as he drives to his job as a security officer. Jojo's mom is a folk singer on tour in America, and he doesn't know when she's coming back. Jojo talks to her on the phone a lot and listens to recordings of her sweet voice. Left alone, Jojo is in charge of washing the clothes... {more}
JAPAN
Directed By Kenji Uchida
Running Time: 128 Minutes
In this comical farce from Japan, the lives of three people intertwine thanks to a knock on the head. Takeshi is an out-of-work actor at the end of his rope – literally. Kondo is a contract killer with ice flowing through his veins. But when he slips and loses his memory, his identity is taken over by Takeshi who must now play the most important role of his life: Kondo the Killer. Kanae is a... {more}
UNITED KINGDOM
Directed By Cary Sawhney
Running Time: 8 Minutes
This short depicts a young orthodox Muslim woman and her husband who live in today's East London. The woman is clearly pregnant and through her preoccupation with food, we see her engagement with both her domestic culture and the outside. {more}
USA
Directed By Jordan Vogt-Roberts
Running Time: 93 Minutes
Premiering to rave reviews at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, THE KINGS OF SUMMER is a unique coming-of-age story about three teenagers who, in the ultimate act of independence, decide to spend their summer building a house in the woods. Free from their parents’ rules, their idyllic summer quickly becomes a test of friendship as each boy learns to appreciate the fact that family - whether it is the one you’re born into or the... {more}
USA
Directed By Alexander Klein
Running Time: 76 Minutes
As a documentary film crew sets out to profile the New York art scene, their project takes a drastically different turn when they meet Nicholas Forker. Known for his ink and pen renderings of astronauts, Forker is a buzzing artist whose work has been profiled by The Wall Street Journal. When he receives an e-mail from a gallery in Cleveland interested in setting up an exhibition of his work, the crew decides to follow him... {more}
SWEDEN
Directed By Goran Kapetanovich
Running Time: 15 Minutes
In the midst of frost and snow, a woman is driving her way to the hospital in Kiruna, the northernmost city of Sweden. Under the scorching sunlight of Kigali, Rwanda, another woman is being carried to the hospital on a stretcher. The two single mothers-to-be on the verge of giving birth to a baby are departed thousands of miles apart, but share the same fear of entering the unknown world of motherhood. {more}
USA
Directed By David Chai
Running Time: 10 Minutes
Escaping a life of sadness and adversity, a young Korean boy moves to America and learns that even though life is full of hard knocks, the time does come when it’s safe to answer the door. A true story chronicling the life of the Director’s father. {more}
AUSTRIA
Directed By Umut Dağ
Running Time: 93 Minutes
This quiet domestic drama by young Austrian-Kurdish filmmaker Umut Dağ packs a powerful emotional punch. Lovely, sad-eyed Ayse is being given in a traditional Turkish marriage to handsome Hasan, whose extended family has come from Vienna to their native village for the celebration. The marriage is a sham since Ayse will actually function as a KUMA, a second wife, to Hasan's 60-year-old father. Hasan and his assimilated Austrian sisters are horrified by the whole scheme;... {more}
GERMANY
Directed By Daniel Butterworth
Running Time: 21 Minutes
An aging border guard desperately tries to stop Europe from opening its borders, and at the same time jeopardises his secret love. {more}
New Zealand
Directed By Peter Young
Running Time: 88 Minutes
Have you ever heard of the Ross Sea? No? Well, not many people have and that's a good thing. The Ross Sea is located about 2,500 miles south of New Zealand on the shores of Antarctica and is considered to be the most pristine marine ecosystem on the planet, teeming with life and untouched by humankind. One of the coldest spots in the world, the mesmerizing Ross Sea provides a unique opportunity for marine biologists... {more}
USA, CANADA
Directed By Paul Saltzman
Running Time: 78 Minutes
The courtly older Southern gentleman expresses pleasure at seeing the off-screen interviewer again. But as he cheerfully describes his life philosophies, you might feel a jolt. This astonishingly forthright man is Delay de la Beckwith, Ku Klux Klan member "unto death" and son of Byron de la Beckwith, who murdered civil rights leader Medgar Evers in Greenwood, Mississippi in 1963. Filmmaker Paul Saltzman, Beckwith's conversation partner, is no stranger to this man; Beckwith punched him... {more}
CANADA
Directed By Xavier Dolan
Running Time: 168 Minutes
Laurence appears happy. He's a respected teacher and his lover Frederica (Fred for short) adores him. But Laurence isn't happy…as a man. Laurence tells Fred that he is a woman imprisoned in his body. Fred is devastated, but after the shock fades she makes a startling and unexpected decision: the two of them will make this journey together. That journey is the heart of this extraordinary film. LAURENCE ANYWAYS sets itself apart by devoting equal... {more}
CANADA
Directed By Stephen Dunn
Running Time: 14 Minutes
On the eve of her thirteenth birthday, Esther Weary must come to terms with the realities of becoming a woman through her clueless Grandfather and his pet pug. Life Doesn't Frighten Me is a coming-of-age comedy about a young woman's exploration of ugliness and beauty. {more}
GERMANY
Directed By Florian Knittel
Running Time: 25 Minutes
Finn, a family man, finally gets a chance to go on a space mission. During the pre start test period strange phenomenons occur in his state of mind until Finn is not able to differentiate what is reality and what is illusion. He finally must realize that there is a secret about his Deja-vus that will change everything. {more}
USA
Directed By Amanda Pennington
Running Time: 13 Minutes
Lillian, a period film inspired by Edna St Vincent Millay's poem, 'What Lips My Lips Have Kissed' begins in 1940 where Lillian (Tony Nominee, Kathleen Chalfant) receives news that causes her to remember the summer of 1918 where she (Amanda Pennington) meets and falls in love with Frances (Toni Robison-May) a French painter of mixed descent. Starring Tony Nominee, Kathleen Chalfant. {more}
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
USA
Directed By Sophie Schwartz
Running Time: 2 Minutes
The story of lost youth through a girl and her wardrobe. {more}
SPAIN
Directed By Roger Gómez, Dani Resines
Running Time: 9 Minutes
Fourteen little kids go over an unsolved football mystery, and they end up teaching an unexpected life lesson to grown-ups. {more}
SPAIN
Directed By Marcel Barrena
Running Time: 84 Minutes
Meet Albert Casals, 20, a Barcelona native who has been traveling the world since he was 15. By himself. With no money. And his wheelchair. (What did you do today?) Relentlessly upbeat, Albert’s insistence on living the life he dreams of has lead him on a globetrotting whirlwind adventure covering five years of his life. His newest journey will take him across the globe, literally, to the very spot that is farthest from his home... {more}
BELGIUM
Directed By Nicolas Guiot
Running Time: 30 Minutes
Recently arrived in France with her parents from their native Russia, Natalia, six years old, has been impatiently awaiting her brother's return from right in Chechnya. D-day has come and so has disillusion for the little girl. Is this man really the brother she used to know? {more}
SLOVENIA
Directed By Damjan Kozole
Running Time: 82 Minutes
THE LONG VACATION focuses on three heartbreaking stories of people who were erased from Slovenia's civil register in 1992, due to a controversial law put in place a year after the country declared its independence. At age 13, Aleksandar returned home from vacation in Serbia to find that he was no longer recognized as a citizen. It took 20 years before he could enter the country again. Katrina was a college student at the time,... {more}
USA, UNITED KINGDOM
Directed By Luke Korem
Running Time: 80 Minutes
The life of Lord Edward Montagu is like a great English novel. At age two he became Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, a 10,000-acre estate with a 13th century residence named Palace House. After World War II, when the stately homes of England were being torn down or lost by financial hardship, Lord Montagu was determined to keep possession of Beaulieu and opened his home to tourists. But in the 50s, scandal struck. Homosexuality was illegal... {more}
USA, UKRAINE, ISRAEL, POLAND, BRAZIL
Directed By Jeremy Goldscheider, Richard Goldgewicht
Running Time: 85 Minutes
Deep in Western Ukraine, in a clearing surrounded by forests and rich farmland, there once was a town called Trochenbrod. Founded in 1835 as a farming colony, by 1938 the town's exclusively Jewish population had grown to a bustling 3,000. Then, in 1942, Trochenbrod was decimated by the Nazis. Seventy years later we meet Avrom Bendavid-Val, whose father grew up there and who has dedicated his life to piecing together its history. Avrom visits the... {more}
USA
Directed By Michael Toscano
Running Time: 14 Minutes
Max Cotton is a right wing radio personality desperately fighting for ratings. When one of his listeners shoots an IRS agent on the air, he is thrown into a crisis of existential guilt, but the media powers that be have other ideas. {more}
USA
Directed By Matthew Hashiguchi
Running Time: 21 Minutes
Description: The Lower 9: A Story of Home is a documentary showcasing four determined Lower Ninth Ward residents who share their most intimate stories of home, as they resume their lives years after Hurricane Katrina ravaged their neighborhood. Each story finds a voice in a narrative that intersperses contemporary interviews, abstract cinematography of destruction, and powerful scenes of present, everyday lives. {more}
USA
Directed By Judd Ehrlich
Running Time: 85 Minutes
Since 1974, up-and-coming illusionists ages 12-20 have spurned tennis and badminton and wended their way to the Hogwartian halls of Bryn Mawr College and world-famous MAGIC CAMP. This enchanting documentary follows several campers with aspirations to become professional magicians as they unite in this house of hocus-pocus. The kids who are drawn to magic tend to be shy and unathletic, and working hard at their craft helps them to escape the pressures of growing up.... {more}
MEXICO, USA
Directed By Tom Gustafson
Running Time: 107 Minutes
Edward's life isn't going the way he planned. At 30 he still lives at home in the rural American town he grew up in. His parents spend their time glued to the television. His countless attempts to get them to expand their horizons go ignored. Frustrated and depressed, he ends up venturing to a new Mexican restaurant by himself where he's charmed by Alberto, a jovial old man performing beautiful mariachi music. Excited by Edward's... {more}
USA
Directed By Tim Rauch, Mike Rauch
Running Time: 3 Minutes
Gweneviere Mann talks with her boyfriend, Yasir Salem, about navigating through life after losing her short-term memory. {more}
SOUTH AFRICA
Directed By Craig Freimond
Running Time: 93 Minutes
Set in Johannesburg, South Africa, MATERIAL is a comedy about textiles. Also, it’s about stand-up comedy. But mostly it’s about textiles and Ebrahim’s fabric store. It’s kind of about comedy, but it is definitely about the fabric store. In fact, forget the stand-up comedy. You won’t go anywhere with that - it’s for the devil. Stick to the fabric store. Remember: Fabric. Store. Not comedy. Come to think of it, who said “comedy” to begin... {more}
FRANCE
Directed By Guillaume Pierret
Running Time: 9 Minutes
Visiting room of a prison.Confrontation between a mother and her son, after this one has took part in a bloody robbery. {more}
UNITED KINGDOM
Directed By Jacqui Morris, David Morris
Running Time: 92 Minutes
Don McCullin has seen things the rest of us could never imagine seeing up close. As a photojournalist, he's been within inches of some of the worst atrocities of our time. He stood helpless as children starved to death in Biafra, watched boys beaten and shot in the Congo, and saw mutilated bodies thrown from the rooftops in Beirut. These are only a few examples of the absolutely horrific situations McCullin was witness to. Violence... {more}
FRANCE
Directed By Cyril Rigon
Running Time: 21 Minutes
Gabin is a young clown who mesmerizes his audience with the poetry of his perfect imitations. One day, in his caravan, whilst he is removing his make-up, something strange terrifies his pet chimpanzee Camille. The following morning on the newspaper, Gabin reads about a serial-killer case. {more}
USA
Directed By Jeff Lipsky
Running Time: 102 Minutes
MOLLY’S THEORY OF RELATIVITY, the latest surreal comedy by New York indie filmmaker Jeff Lipsky, takes place one day in the life of a beautiful 28-year-old astronomer. Molly is the kind of person whose life is based on certainties—until now. It’s Halloween and weird things are happening in the crowded apartment she shares with her fanatically devoted husband, Zak. Molly has unexpectedly lost her job, and she and Zak are contemplating whether they can survive... {more}
SPAIN
Directed By Paul Urkijo
Running Time: 10 Minutes
Nai is having nightmares about the Yeak, a monster that eats naughty children. {more}
GERMANY, AUSTRIA, SWITZERLAND
Directed By Markus Imhoof
Running Time: 91 Minutes
This. Film. Is. Fascinating. The most successful film in Switzerland for the year 2012, MORE THAN HONEY takes you inside the search for the missing honeybees. For over a decade, the bee population has dwindled, baffling scientists worldwide. And for an insect that is responsible for two-thirds of the world’s food source, their disappearance could be devastating. Einstein supposedly suggested that if the bees died off, humans would only last four more years; so you... {more}
CANADA
Directed By Nick Fox Gieg
Running Time: 3 Minutes
“They gave me a gun, a pick, and a hand grenade, and said ‘Win at any cost,’ and I said ‘Right.’ There’s nothing I love more than winning...” {more}
USA
Directed By Nick Palmer
Running Time: 15 Minutes
Every Christmas, Bruce Mertz lights up the neighborhood with the 50,000 lights covering his house. For decades he's obsessively added to his display, creating beautiful, towering fixtures that people travel across the country to see. In this offbeat, touching portrait, we learn what drives him, and discover how a kid who grew up on a farm with no electricity became Mr. Christmas. {more}
USA
Directed By Chris Farrington
Running Time: 9 Minutes
While driving in the desert at night, a couple on the rocks wish the worst on each other, leading to a bizarre and bloody turn of events in which both their twisted desires come true. {more}
INDIA
Directed By Manjeet Singh
Running Time: 78 Minutes
MUMBAI’S KING is a kaleidoscopic blur of color and sound; a freewheeling, episodic film reminiscent of “Slumdog Millionaire.” Teenage Rahul avoids home in the slums of Mumbai since his dad is a violent drunkard. He prefers to do backflips into a fetid waterway or to roam the city as it prepares for the carnival-like Ganesh festival with his friend Arbaaz, a 12-year-old balloon seller. The boys play pranks: they steal potatoes and roast them in... {more}
ESTONIA
Directed By Toomas Hussar
Running Time: 93 Minutes
In case you didn't know it, mushroom-gathering is a big thing in Estonia. Aadu Kägu, a sad-sack lawmaker subject to the indignities of a political race, is not one to pursue such woodsy pastimes. His miseries are compounded when his handlers book him on a ridiculous TV show, where political opponents bat at each other while bouncing on exercise balls. Aadu's chipper wife Viivi persuades him to take a mushrooming break. En route, reluctant Aadu... {more}
USA
Directed By Maxine Trump
Running Time: 80 Minutes
The acoustic guitar has been involved in some of the most magnificent recordings ever made. Its gorgeous vibrations have been heard in a wide variety of genres, from classical, folk, and country, to rock, pop, and R&B. It's even been sampled in hip-hop and electronic music. But the quality of sound depends on one thing: the wood. Turns out, the trees that produce it are in serious danger, due to a logging practice known as... {more}
GERMANY
Directed By Michaela Kezele
Running Time: 88 Minutes
In Kosovo the war between the Serbs and the Albanians shatters the lives of Danica and her two sons. Her husband is dead, bombings are daily occurrences, and material in an abandoned tank is making local children sick. Danica returns home one day to find that Ramiz, an injured Albanian soldier, has taken refuge in her house. Despite the hatreds around her, she nurses him to health. Danica knows the risks she is taking, but... {more}
TURKEY, UNITED KINGDOM
Directed By Khurrum M. Sultan
Running Time: 12 Minutes
Nur a young girl from an orphanage is trying to find a runaway sacrificial goat out of guilt, but has to overcome her fears and take on responsibility for her actions before she can return home and find redemption. {more}
The New Woman: Annie 'Londonderry' Kopchovsky
USA
Directed By Gillian Willman
Running Time: 27 Minutes
Until 1894, there were no female sports stars, no product endorsement deals, and no young, Jewish mothers with the chutzpah to circle the globe on a bicycle. Annie Kopchovsky changed all of that. A spicy blend of adventure, social history, and portrait of an athletic pioneer, 'The New Woman: Annie 'Londonderry' Kopchovsky' is a documentary film about an improbable journey by bicycle and the eccentric, fiery woman who dared to undertake it. {more}
CZECH REPUBLIC
Directed By Jiří Strach
Running Time: 90 Minutes
Ota is getting cantankerous in his old age. His son offers to take him in so he can have much-needed eye surgery, but he's having none of it. Ota sneaks off without telling anybody to do something he's been meaning to do for a very long time: track down the beautiful actress Jana Furtakova (alias Jeanne DeFuro). He has carried a pin-up card with her picture since a chance encounter 40 years earlier. Miss DeFuro,... {more}
GERMANY
Directed By Tomy Wigand
Running Time: 104 Minutes
Who put the “Oma” in “Mama Mia?” That would be Marianne Sägebrecht, who plays a feisty German grandma in OMAMAMIA. Oma Margherita, who longs to visit the Bavarian Pope in the Vatican, lives with her neurotic daughter Marie in Canada. Marie threatens to install her in a joyless Sunshine Home, but Oma gives her the slip and hops on a plane to Rome. Oma’s granddaughter Martina lives in the Eternal City, ostensibly working as an... {more}
Once Upon a Time Was I, Veronica
BRAZIL, FRANCE
Directed By Marcelo Gomes
Running Time: 92 Minutes
Newly-minted psychiatrist Veronica is trying to get to know herself. She has a job at a hospital and girlfriends to party with; she's ready for life to begin. But Veronica is a thinker, and the impersonality of existence is taking its toll. Veronica has a recorder into which she describes her feelings of ennui. She is scared about the future like everyone else. Her beloved dad is ill. She vents her feelings of crisis through... {more}
AUSTRALIA
Directed By Lee Rogers
Running Time: 7 Minutes
A mysterious donation sends the sales clerks of a suburban op shop (thrift shop) on a journey of self-discovery. {more}
USA
Directed By Kief Davidson
Running Time: 40 Minutes
Eight Rwandan children leave their families behind to embark on a life-or-death journey seeking high-risk heart surgery in Sudan. Their hearts ravaged by a treatable disease from childhood strep throat, they have only months left to live. Open Heart reveals the intertwined endeavors of Dr. Emmanuel, Rwanda's lone government cardiologist fighting to save the lives of his young patients, and Italian Dr. Gino Strada, the Salam Center's head surgeon, who must convince Sudan's President Omar... {more}
NORWAY
Directed By Arild Andresen
Running Time: 104 Minutes
It’s 1985 in Stavanger, Norway and Jarle Orheim can’t wait for the Live Aid concert. An earnest preteen with a belief in the power of music, he’s standing by to record it off the TV. But, as always, his father Terje intervenes and drags him off to the coast for a history lesson. Terje is obsessed with the Norwegian resistance fighters of WWII. It’s their sense of unity that’s important, he lectures Jarle and his... {more}
ISRAEL
Directed By Khen Shalem
Running Time: 23 Minutes
A simple soccer ball sparks an unusual friendship between two young boys on opposite sides of the Israeli and Palestian separation wall. {more}
ISRAEL, USA
Directed By Michael Mayer
Running Time: 96 Minutes
Nimr and Roy are two handsome young men passionately in love within the hostilities of the Middle East. Nimr, a Palestinian, travels to Tel Aviv from Ramallah on a special student pass. Roy is an Israeli lawyer with a well-connected family and a bright future. They know that, to stay together, they must plan carefully and discreetly. Nimr’s brother, however, is providing weapons to militants. One day Israeli Security hands Nimr a dreadful ultimatum: turn... {more}
USA
Directed By Richard Goldgewicht
Running Time: 103 Minutes
Behind many of the great films of the past 60 years has been one man whose imagination and creativity helped revolutionize his genre. Narrated by Jeff Bridges, PABLO is a look at Pablo Ferro, the Title Designer for over 90 films including “Dr. Strangelove,” “A Clockwork Orange,” “Beetlejuice,” “L.A. Confidential,” and all three “Men in Black” films. After emigrating to NYC from Cuba as a teen, Pablo did all he could to stay in the... {more}
USA
Directed By Adolfo Martinez Perez
Running Time: 11 Minutes
It was a wonderful day, the sun shone, the birds chirped... until the best-friend-asking-for-a-favor from hell showed up. What starts as social drama about cancer quickly slips towards over the top, surreal dramedy. If you feel uncomfortable laughing at no laughing matter, we did our job: your discomfort is our pleasure. {more}
FRANCE, JAPAN
Directed By Jean-François Laguionie
Running Time: 78 Minutes
A multi-hued, wildly imaginative film with a sweeping musical score, THE PAINTING will restore your faith in the power of children’s animation. Within the frame of one unfinished painting, there exist three castes of figures: the rich, fully-painted Alldunns; the poor Halfies, left unfinished by The Painter; and the stuttering Sketchies, mere suggestions of what might have been. The Alldunns shun the Halfies and persecute the Sketchies, forbidding them to take part in fancy celebrations... {more}
AUSTRIA, GERMANY, FRANCE
Directed By Ulrich Seidl
Running Time: 113 Minutes
After her husband’s accident cripples him, Anna retreats completely into her religion. She travels with a statue of the Virgin Mary, forcing herself into strangers’ homes to convert whomever she can. In her own room, she scourges herself to atone for the world’s sins. Her husband, a Muslim, is returning home to resume as normal a life as possible. But for Anna that requires a complete surrender to Jesus and a Spartan life of prayer... {more}
AUSTRIA, GERMANY, FRANCE
Directed By Ulrich Seidl
Running Time: 91 Minutes
While her mother goes to Kenya to frolic in the male sex trade (told of in paradise: love) and her fanatical aunt evangelizes and wars with personal demons (told of in paradise: faith), young Melanie is sent to a diet camp. A sterile environment in the Austrian mountains, Melanie’s days are a dull routine of exercise, nutritional counseling, and sneaking off to the local disco to drink. But Melanie has a young woman’s blossoming hopes... {more}
AUSTRIA, GERMANY, FRANCE
Directed By Ulrich Seidl
Running Time: 120 Minutes
Teresa has left Austria to celebrate a fifty-something birthday at a resort in Kenya. It is, a friend assures her, a paradise for older women seeking love from the local and always available men. Hesitant at first, Teresa dips her toe into the erotic waters of the male sex trade where beautiful Kenyan boys sell “genuine” love as easily as they sell beads and carvings on the beach. As her pursuits become more enthusiastic, the... {more}
USA
Directed By Beneyam Wolde-Yohannes
Running Time: 17 Minutes
It doesn't take to long to figure out that you've been given the short end of the stick in life if you grew up in poverty. It's an everyday struggle, a rat race if you will, all for one thing- the American Dream. Jon and Chris have grown up poor their whole lives. There is no light at the end of their tunnel until one day they discover a mysterious bag of money. After true... {more}
USA
Directed By Becca Friedman
Running Time: 23 Minutes
A look at the world of geriatric zoo animal care, through Colo--the oldest living gorilla in captivity--on her 55th birthday. {more}
USA
Directed By Shane Atkinson
Running Time: 18 Minutes
The story of a kidnapping gone horribly wrong. {more}
USA
Directed By Russ Lamoureux
Running Time: 23 Minutes
Facing an uncertain future, Peter travels home for a final visit with family and friends. {more}
IRELAND
Directed By Conor Ferguson
Running Time: 7 Minutes
Proud Madame Rousseau embarks on an epic journey to eat cakes with sweet abandon. But life has some bittersweet lessons to teach her. {more}
Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy
ITALY
Directed By Marco Tullio Giordana
Running Time: 129 Minutes
In 1969 the Piazza Fontana building in Milan was bombed. The tragedy killed 17 people and wounded 88. To date, no one has ever been convicted of the crime. Italian State Police placed blame on left-wing organizations from the start, but were unable to ever prove their suspicions. PIAZZA FONTANA reconstructs the events that took place and focuses on the investigation, which led to the strange death of Giuseppe Pinelli, an anarchist who died during... {more}
USA
Directed By Winston Titus Tao
Running Time: 25 Minutes
17 yr. old Russell Clayton has always loved photography. When he's given the chance to enter in to a school competition to win some prize money for Maggie, his 11yr. old sister, he takes the opportunity. Faced with a lack of food, and a grim living situation, the two siblings come up with a shot list that ensures their victory. When their unsupportive, and drug-abusive father, Ron, comes in to the picture,... {more}
SOUTH KOREA
Directed By Kim Ki-duk
Running Time: 104 Minutes
Visionary director Kim Ki-duk takes us on a savage and disturbing journey into the heart of darkness. A ruthless loan shark calmly extracts brutal penalties from clients unable to pay. He cripples his pleading victims in front of their families as casually as he kills a chicken for dinner. After one of these encounters, a strange woman follows him home. She claims to be his mother who abandoned him over 30 years ago and is... {more}
USA
Directed By Yen Tan
Running Time: 80 Minutes
Big dreams sometimes struggle to survive in small towns. Ernesto still longs for romance even as he breaks up with a young, irresponsible lover. He hides in his menial job and still mourns a former lover, now comatose in a nursing home. Gabe, a successful contractor, is recovering from a break-up with another married man, but still lives with his wife in an open arrangement so they can raise their young daughter. The daily routines... {more}
Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself
USA
Directed By Tom Bean, Luke Poling
Running Time: 89 Minutes
George Plimpton was an outcast among the elites of his childhood and was even kicked out of his boarding school mere months before graduation. But his life took a fortuitous turn when his dream of writing came true with an invite to start a magazine in France. Spending his career at The Paris Review and re-inventing the celebrity interview, Plimpton became the go-to guy for the insights of the world’s great artists and the man... {more}
USA
Directed By Ryan Denmark
Running Time: 11 Minutes
Kathy is a mature, professional woman who still sleeps with her cuddly teddy bear Vincent. One night, when a burglar invades, Kathy's home comes alive with magical surprises. To his horror, the intruder learns that not everything is as it seems and Vincent may not be so cuddly after all. {more}
TURKEY
Directed By Fatih Akin
Running Time: 98 Minutes
Many of us worry about pollution. But probably not as much as the people of Camburnu do. Ten years ago the government allowed a garbage dump to be built in the hills above the small Turkish Black Sea town. As time passed, the citizens saw their beautiful land destroyed by a faulty facility that leaks toxic waste into their drinking water and causes a ghastly odor that often makes it hard to breathe. Their complaints... {more}
USA
Directed By Rob Festinger
Running Time: 13 Minutes
Julie tearfully asks her brother, Jason, and their Mom to attend the funeral of afriend. Mom and Jason would rather not – they’d never even met the deceased woman. But they can’t say no. They do manage to negotiate with Julie, agreeing to go to the service, but not the burial. After the service, Mom and Jason,both famished, try to drive past the cars exiting the church and get stuck in the funeral procession. Mom... {more}
USA
Directed By Santina Protopapa
Running Time: 18 Minutes
Project 5: When I Hear Music tells the powerful story of a 1980s Cleveland break dancing group and how hip-hop and break dancing united the youth from different backgrounds. Featured in the film is the group's founder Matt Zone, now a councilman in Cleveland. The documentary includes archival footage from the 1980s as well as footage from a 2012 reunion performance. {more}
FINLAND
Directed By Jukka Kärkkäinen, J-P Passi
Running Time: 85 Minutes
Pertii Kurikka's Nimipäivät is a four-piece Finnish band whose members all suffer from mental disabilities. In many ways they embrace the spirit of punk rock more than most groups today could ever dream. The loud, angsty genre provides the perfect vehicle for them to express their frustrations. On a daily basis they experience a variety of obstacles, from condescending handlers, to issues over their own independence, to their confusion and frustration with the “normal” world... {more}
USA
Directed By Jason Chaet
Running Time: 88 Minutes
All is not well at Himmelstein’s House of Lox in New York. Walter “Putzel” Himmelstein, heir apparent to the Himmelstein smoked fish empire, is having yet another crisis. He is pathologically unable to go beyond the boundaries of the Upper West Side. His Uncle Sid refuses to retire and give him the keys to the store. His ex-wife is flaunting her relationship with a local goon. The neighborhood ladies still regard him as the endearing... {more}
USA, DENMARK, UNITED KINGDOM, JORDAN, INDIA
Directed By Mona Eldaief, Jehane Noujaim
Running Time: 75 Minutes
Thirty-two-year-old Rafea raises her daughters in an extremely poor Bedouin community in Jordan. Her unemployed husband isn't much help as he spends most of his time with his first wife. Needless to say, things could be better. As luck would have it, Rafea is given a chance to travel to Barefoot College in India to participate in a program that trains illiterate women to become solar engineers. If successful, she'll be able to provide electricity... {more}
USA
Directed By Nancy Kelly
Running Time: 73 Minutes
Beginning in the 1950s, a national movement was born of principles that may seem obvious today. Unconvinced by land developers who promoted residential construction as unmitigated progress, citizens began banding together to preserve open spaces near where they lived. REBELS WITH A CAUSE is filmmaker Nancy Kelly's retelling of the story of the schemers and dreamers who fought to keep developers from taking over the breathtaking landscape of Point Reyes National Seashore, north of San... {more}
DENMARK
Directed By Brian McGinn
Running Time: 25 Minutes
Ashrita Furman holds the official record for the most Guinness World Records by one individual. A health food store owner and devotee of meditation, Furman travels the world creating new categories for record achievement. In this fascinating and quirky doc we meet Furman, a singularly driven character, as he's about to attempt to climb Machu Picchu on stilts. We also learn why Furman has chosen this unusual path to living a happy life. {more}
Red, White and Blueprints: A Rust Belt Documentary
USA
Directed By Jack Storey
Running Time: 65 Minutes
People in the Rust Belt are thick-skinned. After years of being mocked as a dried-up region with nothing left to offer America, its cities are now rising from the ashes of the past, looking ahead to their role in the future of the country. RED, WHITE AND BLUEPRINTS examines how cities like Buffalo, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, and Detroit have reinvented themselves and how they've partnered together to do it. Instead of competing, they're sharing... {more}
USA
Directed By Brandon Harris
Running Time: 67 Minutes
REDLEGS follows three childhood friends as they traverse through their hometown of Cincinnati on the weekend of another friend’s funeral. A candid and emotional look into grief and mourning, REDLEGS’ Ulysses-like odyssey has these young men looking for any sort of distraction they can get their hands on. But the undercurrent of their bereavement follows them on their journey waiting for the opportunity to finally boil over. Marco’s return to Cinci is only met with... {more}
USA
Directed By Ruth Thomas-Suh
Running Time: 90 Minutes
Eric Mohat, a fun-loving high-school student from Mentor, Ohio took his own life at the age of 17. His family and friends were shocked and horrified. They had no idea that Eric was the subject of intense bullying, a grim reality that he faced alone. His case is unfortunately not uncommon. In fact, four other students from Mentor High School committed suicide in a period of just three years. The pain caused from rejection and... {more}
FRANCE
Directed By Gilles Bourdos
Running Time: 111 Minutes
As lovely and haunting as a painting by the Master himself, this exquisite film tells of the final years of Master painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir. It is 1915. Crippled by arthritis and mourning the loss of his wife, Renoir’s life is suddenly given a renewed purpose by the arrival of Andree, a beautiful young girl looking to model for him. She reinvigorates his artistic spirit and unsettles his female household staff. Andree is also a fiery,... {more}
ALGERIA, FRANCE
Directed By Merzak Allouache
Running Time: 87 Minutes
A lone jihadist runs through the high flatlands of Algeria, looking over his shoulder as he heads back to his native village. The Civil War has raged for more than ten years, and though Islamic terrorists continue to sow fear, the new government has decreed amnesty for those who lay down their arms. Young Rashid, THE REPENTANT, is one of those who have returned from the mountains. He surrenders his weapon to the local policeman,... {more}
USA
Directed By Tom Gustafson
Running Time: 8 Minutes
From the closet of a hate group: a scandalous confession.A short film from the creators of WERE the WORLD MINE. {more}
GERMANY
Directed By Milen Vitanov
Running Time: 10 Minutes
All know the way, but few actually walk it - Rising Hope, once the fastest horse in the world, dares to be one of the few. {more}
USA
Directed By Alfred Thomas Catalfo
Running Time: 15 Minutes
An unlikely bond is forged between a lonely boy and an elderly man claiming to be a former astronaut. Together, they transform a vintage vacuum cleaner into a rocketship for a surprising journey. {more}
UNITED KINGDOM
Directed By Max Lang, Jan Lachauer
Running Time: 26 Minutes
A half hour animated film based on the wonderful children's picture book written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler. Room on the Broom is a magical tale about friendship and family from Magic Light Pictures, the producers of the hugely successful The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo's Child. {more}
CANADA
Directed By Glen Matthews
Running Time: 5 Minutes
A woman confronts her husband's mistress in a motel room with unexpected results. {more}
PANAMA, ECUADOR
Directed By Juan Sebastián Jácome
Running Time: 75 Minutes
Tito is a deliberate fellow. He won't rush to answer a phone, and he likes the methodic rhythms of bowling. Imagine his shock when he must suddenly travel from Panama to Costa Rica to retrieve his father Cesar, whom he barely knows, from the hospital. Despite his heart condition, Cesar is a disarmingly robust whirlwind of activity. He jogs from his sickbed to the car and insists that they immediately drive the 13 hours back... {more}
USA
Directed By Barbara Kopple
Running Time: 100 Minutes
Mariel is likely the bravest Hemingway of all. Her life growing up in the fishbowl of celebrity has had its share of tragedies and triumphs. Granddaughter of novelist Ernest Hemingway and sister of “wild child” model Margaux, she first became famous at 17 when she appeared as Woody Allen’s love interest in “Manhattan.” Part of a dysfunctional extended family that counted among them seven suicides, Mariel knew she had to work to stay sane after... {more}
UNITED KINGDOM, INDIA
Directed By Kim Longinotto
Running Time: 90 Minutes
This groundbreaking film is a story of triumph over such unimaginable adversity that it will take your breath away. SALMA is a Tamil Muslim woman who was forced to leave school, then locked up by her family for 25 years. Through dogged persistence, she defied her village to become the most famous female poet in South India. Salma and her female relatives speak candidly with the filmmakers about their fates. When girls in this culture... {more}
FRANCE
Directed By Emilie Cherpitel
Running Time: 15 Minutes
Eva wakes up alone in an unknown flat. Her boyfriend from the night before has disappeared, but Leon - his little brother - is there and she is left with no other option than spending than staying with him and spending the day with him. {more}
USA
Directed By Katie Damien
Running Time: 3 Minutes
Only eleven states allow second parent adoption for same-sex couples. Single parent adoption is sometimes the only option for same-sex couples, but in that case only one parent has legal rights to the child they adopt. This film explores one horrible scenario made possible by the laws we currently have in place. {more}
MEXICO, SWITZERLAND
Directed By Gabriel Mariño
Running Time: 87 Minutes
Eighteen-year-old Maria (Lucía Uribe) is fed up with school in Mexico City. She has a strained relationship with her mother and harbors no plans for her future. The joyless sex she has with guys is just something to do before they go to the movies. Yet Maria has an introspective side. She even writes encouraging diary entries to herself from an imaginary friend. One day she leaves life behind and takes off hitchhiking across the... {more}
POLAND
Directed By Filip Marczewski
Running Time: 80 Minutes
Nothing is more important to young Tadzik than healing his relationship with his estranged sister Anka. She is the only family he has left. But when he arrives unannounced to spend his summer break with her, she is unenthusiastic about the visit. She also reveals that she is engaged. Tadzik soon learns her fiancé is a man of dubious character, connected to racists who attack and harass local minorities. He immediately imposes himself as head... {more}
SLOVENIA
Directed By Marko Nabersnik
Running Time: 124 Minutes
SHANGHAI GYPSY is the saga of the Mirgas, a fun-loving and charismatic Slovenian Romani clan whose upward mobility over the course of four generations leads them far from their traditional way of life. Smolderingly handsome "Belmondo" Mirga (Visar Vishka), a savvy businessman representing the third generation, narrates the story of how he climbed to the top of the world. Belmondo is a gypsy king with his own village; he's the pillar of his community, a... {more}
SPAIN
Directed By Juan Montes De Oca
Running Time: 19 Minutes
In Palma de Mallorca, through 5 year old kid innocence, and common life coincidences, an Afro-American homeless remember his non-senselife going back 45 years in New York. All together makes his life change to find at last the way to happiness. {more}
USA
Directed By Mako Kamitsuna
Running Time: 20 Minutes
In 1960 during the Space Race a woman vying to become the first US female astronaut meets a nurse ready to give up on a dream of her own. Inspired by a true story. {more}
USA
Directed By Treva Wurmfeld
Running Time: 88 Minutes
Sam Shepard is an icon of letters, stage, and screen who, for decades, has represented a lost highway to America’s Western subculture. Johnny Dark has been his friend for nearly five decades, exchanging letters and dialogue about philosophy, music, theory, art, and other various topics in which these two men, seemingly different, can find common ground. SHEPARD & DARK is an endearing portrait of their decades-long relationship, which has spanned loves, losses, successes, and failures... {more}
USA
Directed By Rick Williamson
Running Time: 3 Minutes
The epitome of a short western film with short actors, short horses and long credits. {more}
USA
Directed By José Asunción
Running Time: 80 Minutes
Mike Charlton of Eastlake is a man with a past. Dozens of arrests for anything from drunk and disorderly to DUI to assault are enough to make any man live with a stigma difficult to leave behind. But Mike Charlton is a man with a vision. After spending his youth watching his dedicated father attempt to break the land speed record, Mike has now taken over the dream and SICK MICK AND THE BOYS follows... {more}
COLOMBIA
Directed By William Vega
Running Time: 88 Minutes
The camera sweeps the reeds, following a lonely young figure as she trudges through the swamp. Suddenly she collapses. A young man paddling a boat ferries her to a rickety wooden inn, which a painted shingle identifies as LA SIRGA. We're on a spirit lake in the sparsely populated highlands of the Andes, a damp outpost whose inhabitants never take off their rain boots. The girl's name is Alicia; her parents have been murdered by... {more}
USA
Directed By Jason Kohl
Running Time: 15 Minutes
A pig farmer tests his son's resolve to join the family business by taking him through the process of slaughtering a pig. {more}
NETHERLANDS
Directed By Sanne Vogel
Running Time: 7 Minutes
In Small, twelve-year-old Noortje experiences her first massage, given by a large and muscular man. Noortje feels insecure because of her awakening sexuality; she is not quite ready to have her skin touched by strange hands, and certainly not by large masculine hands. The situation is also a little uncomfortable for the masseur, as he can tell that it is almost too much for her, but eventually the girl relaxes and they experience a moment... {more}
SOUTH AFRICA
Directed By Brent Dawes
Running Time: 5 Minutes
Chameleon is very proud of his pristine white complexion. When he steps into a puddle of mud he does all he can to get clean again only to end up further and further from white. Finally he manages to clean up only to realize he enjoyed having a bit of color, so how's he going to get it back? {more}
USA
Directed By Julia Reichert, Steven Bognar
Running Time: 18 Minutes
Sheri Sparkle Williams has been a star dancer with the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company (DCDC) for nearly 40 years, a track record virtually unheard of in the professional dance community. The powerhouse dancer suffers her first serious injury, on stage during a bold performance. She must decide whether to face the tough work needed to recover in time for a return to the stage... at age 49. Winner of the 2012 Audience Award... {more}
USA
Directed By Karyn Kusama
Running Time: 23 Minutes
Desmond has a secret he cannot share with anyone. The family, the school, the white picket fence community surrounding him do not provide solace. Support of a new friend and the need for the cycle to end pushes Desmond to share his story of being sexually assaulted. Having said everything, he now sees his way to recovery. {more}
USA
Directed By Blake Heiss
Running Time: 16 Minutes
Sam's a regular guy, or at least he would be if not for his split personality problem. After making some bad bets with the wrong people, Sam attempts a small time bank robbery only to find that nobody makes a better, or worse, partner in crime than yourself. When things go south, it'll be up to Sam to foil his own heist and finally stand up to his volatile other personalities. {more}
CANADA
Directed By Michael McGowan
Running Time: 102 Minutes
STILL MINE features a world that has changed a lot during Craig’s (James Cromwell) 80-plus years. Energetic and stubborn, change is something he either ignores or only happens on his terms. But even Craig realizes the crumbling farmhouse he and his wife Irene (Geneviève Bujold) inhabit is no longer safe. Rather than move, he decides to build a newer and smaller house nearby on his property. In spite of his children’s protests, he determines to... {more}
RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Directed By Anna Arlanova
Running Time: 23 Minutes
Smile of Marilyn, gait of Marilyn, manners of Marilyn... Even the dress looks like Marilyn's. An accidental encounter in a second-hand shop - and the sharp reality is ready to crash the world of dreams. {more}
The Suffering Grasses: When Elephants Fight, It Is the Grass That Suffers
SYRIA, TURKEY
Directed By Iara Lee
Running Time: 52 Minutes
When elephants go to war, it is the grass that suffers. Syria is a nation of 20 million people being trampled underfoot as resistance fighters battle government troops for supremacy. In THE SUFFERING GRASSES, filmmaker-activist Iara Lee interviews dozens of Syrians whose lives have been upended by the conflict. More than 355,000 Syrian refugees have fled their country to live in border camps. Distressed by the lack of assistance from the outside world despite repeated... {more}
USA
Directed By Ryan Arthur
Running Time: 5 Minutes
A young girl encounters a suspected kidnapper at her lemonade stand. {more}
The Sugar Wars: The Life Story of Angelo Lonardo
USA
Directed By
Running Time: 52 Minutes
THE SUGAR WARS: THE LIFE STORY OF ANGELO LONARDO chronicles the life of the legendary mobster. His father, "Big Joe" Lonardo, was Cleveland, Ohio's first mafia godfather. During prohibition, he operated refineries that turned sugar into alcohol. In 1929, Joe was murdered by one of his own, Salvatore Todaro, who was secretly working for his rival, Joe Porello. Outraged, young Angelo and his cousin set out for revenge, murdering Todaro and reclaiming control of the... {more}
USA
Directed By Mike Rauch, Tim Rauch
Running Time: 4 Minutes
Nicholas Petron remembers how everything changed when the city made new plans for his family home. {more}
USA, CANADA
Directed By Benjamin Greené
Running Time: 70 Minutes
Formerly called the Queen Charlotte Islands, Haida Gwaii is an archipelago off the North Coast of British Columbia, consisting of approximately 150 islands. Its inhabitants, the Haida, are noted seafarers and a linguistically-distinct group. They're so distinct, in fact, that Naanii Mary Swanson -- whose story frames the ruminative SURVIVAL PRAYER -- is one of the language's few remaining speakers. At the time of European contact, the Haida had a stable existence and a vibrant... {more}
USA
Directed By Chin Tangsakulsathaporn
Running Time: 12 Minutes
Children are trapped in the sweatshop. {more}
USA
Directed By Nancy Savoca
Running Time: 23 Minutes
Timmy wanted nothing more than to be the focus of desire of his high school crush. Known around town as Timmy Two Chins, his large size made him feel unmanly, uninteresting and just plain invisible. Recognizing the family and social dynamics at play, Timmy takes a hard look at himself. Being manly and powerful is not about muscles, Timmy realizes, it begins with liking who he is. {more}
Talking Dog for Sale, 10 Euros
FRANCE, SPAIN
Directed By Lewis-Martin Soucy
Running Time: 8 Minutes
When a man sees a curious advertisement for a talking dog for sale cheap, he pursues the offer with natural skepticism. {more}
SINGAPORE, USA
Directed By Philip DeRise
Running Time: 13 Minutes
The only thing separating Peter Jenkins from his dream of World Peace was the paperwork. {more}
SPAIN
Directed By Esteban Crespo
Running Time: 24 Minutes
'Being a soldier is not difficult: either you get used to it or they kill you. The hardest thing is getting used to living with your memories and being yourself again after doing what you have done' {more}
FRANCE
Directed By Claude Miller
Running Time: 110 Minutes
François Mauriac’s legendary 1927 novel of French provincial life has been gloriously brought to the screen by the inestimable Claude Miller in his final film. Sumptuously photographed to capture the full beauty of the pine-forested Landes area in southwest France, THÉRÈSE is a beautifully conceived drama of exquisite taste. Marvelously played by the luminous Audrey Tautou, Therese is a heroine hewn from the same stock as Madame Bovary or Anna Karenina, suffocated by her provincial... {more}
USA
Directed By Michael Sarrow
Running Time: 7 Minutes
Secret cross-dresser Ronnie is able to quickly change clothes when his wife comes home from work early. But he doesn't get off that easy when she finds his lipstick stains and accuses him of cheating! {more}
AUSTRALIA
Directed By Daniel Mitchell
Running Time: 24 Minutes
Two youths, eager to make a quick buck, accept a job from a nightclub owner to kidnap the girlfriend of a famous football player.In a turn of mistaken identity, the kidnapped girl convinces our bemused boys that she is really the daughter of a New York Mafia family and, should they not release her pronto, her ‘hit man’ brother will track them down. {more}
FRANCE
Directed By Catherine Corsini
Running Time: 101 Minutes
THREE WORLDS collide as an accident on a Paris street changes lives forever. Juliette is a medical student, pregnant by a university lecturer to whom she can't commit. Handsome Al is at the top of his game, about to inherit part of a luxury automobile dealership through his marriage to the boss's daughter. Vera is a young undocumented Moldovan worker, madly in love with her husband Adrian. Late one night, following his alcohol-soaked bachelor party,... {more}
BELGIUM
Directed By Nic Balthazar
Running Time: 118 Minutes
In one of the best performances of this year's CIFF, Koen De Graeve plays real life Belgian politician Mario Verstraete, the first man to take advantage of a new euthanasia law in Belgium – a law that Verstraete fought long and hard for. Told through the eyes of Verstraete's physician best friend Thomas, TIME OF MY LIFE takes the audience through Mario and Thomas' early years as young, fun-loving protesters along with their friend, the... {more}
USA
Directed By Fro Rojas
Running Time: 83 Minutes
RayRay Dominguez is the happily single resident of a Puerto Rican barrio in New York. His aversion to relationships gets him in hot water with long-time girlfriend Cheeky. RayRay can’t imagine living a complicated, expensive life like his sister, who has six kids. But one day the unthinkable happens and his sister is killed. A frosty social worker (Kelly McGillis) arrives on RayRay’s doorstep with the wailing children in tow, informing him he’s their next... {more}
USA
Directed By Ron Fleischer
Running Time: 7 Minutes
This traditionally animated short tells the story of Tommy Malloy, a 6-year old boy who loses his first tooth. When he learns that the Tooth Fairy will give him money for it he hatches a plot to trap and shake her down for all her loot. The rhyming dialog and art direction pay homage to the cartoons of the 1950's and 1960's. {more}
FRANCE
Directed By Pascal Roy
Running Time: 28 Minutes
Lucie, home-hairdresser, is moved by Martial's, a young handicapped person, lonelyness. In spite of her own hesitations and of her husband's Vittorio, will Lucie accept to exceed the limits of her mission to help Martial discover his body? {more}
USA
Directed By Wenhwa Ts'ao
Running Time: 14 Minutes
Towing is a film about a female veteran's struggle to make the adjustment to civilian life, one fateful night her experiences in the war come back to challenge her as she's yet again forced to face meaningless death. Towing explores themes of gender, race and class with a feminine perspective on the emotional effects of war. {more}
FRANCE
Directed By Michaela Pavlátová
Running Time: 8 Minutes
It's the humdrum daily routine for Tram's conductress. As every morning, men get on the tram to go to work, one after another, all similar, quiet, gray, apathetic. And yet, on that day, following the jolts and the road's vibrations, to the rhythm of the tickets inserted in the ticket-stamping machine, the conductress gets turned on and the vehicle gets erotic. The tram conductress' desire turns the reality into a surrealistic and phallic fantasy. She... {more}
USA
Directed By Josh Marvin Solomon
Running Time: 16 Minutes
In a time of bromance, they forged a manlationship… After winning a high stakes game of beer pong at a party, two best friends are challenged by their rivals to prove who is the better pair of friends. With $300 and the glory of their love on the line, they are determined to do anything to win. ANY. THING. {more}
NORWAY
Directed By Martin Lund
Running Time: 78 Minutes
Junior is a little boy with a big imagination who lives in an idyllic, sun-lit Norwegian village. His best friend is a lively piece of wood named Twigson who’s always making silly jokes. Junior’s mom works in a store where she loves to listen to royal gossip on the radio. It’s 1968 and everyone’s talking about the upcoming wedding of Crown Prince Harald to his bride. But there’s lots going on this summer: first, the... {more}
USA
Directed By Andrew Young
Running Time: 21 Minutes
A bedtime story about a robin chick who falls from its nest turns into a dramatic confession, as Joy relives a tragic accident she caused when her daughter Callie was a baby. The trauma sends shock waves between Joy and her husband Frank. In the end, it is Callie whose surprising response reveals the power of forgiveness to heal the deepest wounds. {more}
PUERTO RICO, USA
Directed By Arí Maniel Cruz
Running Time: 102 Minutes
Solimar is an attractive Puerto Rican in her 30s who came to New York after losing her parents as a child. Now she leads a lonely life devoid of emotion. A nail tech in a Hispanic salon by day, by night Solimar seeks companionship with good-natured Amalia, who is caring for his dying partner. Solimar's world is colorless and muted; the Bronx snowdrifts pose a stark contrast to the tropics of her childhood. She is... {more}
USA
Directed By Doug Dearth
Running Time: 102 Minutes
In small town America, high-school football is everything. For the players, it provides notoriety and a possible ticket to a bigger world. For the community, it's a source of pride. Filmed in Canton, Ohio, UNDERDOGS focuses on the Knights, a lousy team who've become an easy target for jokes. Just when they begin to give up hope, a new coach arrives, helping the lovable losers see their true potential. At the same time, quarterback Bobby... {more}
UNITED KINGDOM
Directed By Paul Andrew Williams
Running Time: 93 Minutes
UNFINISHED SONG is a funny and inspiring story about Arthur (Terence Stamp), a curmudgeonly old soul, who is perfectly content sticking with his dull daily routine until his beloved wife (Vanessa Redgrave) introduces him to a local seniors singing group. The group is led by the youthful and charming Elizabeth (Gemma Arterton) and her unexpected friendship with Arthur reignites his passion for new adventures and shows us all life should be celebrated at any age. {more}
United in Anger: A History of ACT UP
USA
Directed By Jim Hubbard
Running Time: 93 Minutes
Since activist Larry Kramer called for its organization in 1987, ACT UP has been on the frontline in the war against the AIDS epidemic. Even from the beginning ACT UP was not a monolithic group; it acted as a magnet for the pain and rage of countless groups devastated by a new and terrifying killer. Through raw courage and brilliant planning, it channeled that rage into a force that brought awareness to the nation and... {more}
USA
Directed By Patrick Waismann
Running Time: 23 Minutes
When Yankel's older brother runs away from home after a bitter fight with their father, Yankel decides to seek revenge. He learns in school that fathers are punished for their children's sins before their Bar Mitzvahs, so Yankel decides to test his faith for the first time in order to teach his father a lesson. {more}
UNITED KINGDOM
Directed By Zam Salim
Running Time: 80 Minutes
Martin (the perfectly cast Burn Gorman) has been deceased for a few years now and spends his days working as a Carer, welcoming new arrivals to the after-life. Not all angels, harps, and clouds, the after-life instead includes group therapy, micromanaging supervisors, and Starers. All Martin wants is to be Up There, the next and final step in the after-life. But in order to move on, Martin must satisfy his supervisor’s definition of progress and... {more}
EGYPT, USA
Directed By Fredrik Stanton
Running Time: 85 Minutes
In 2011 Egypt made history when President Hosni Mubarak stepped down, following weeks of citizen protests. The people's loud but mostly peaceful actions directly led to the results they wanted. By standing together, despite fierce opposition, they successfully ended a corrupt regime and set the path for their own democracy. Their powerful message inspired others in the region as part of a revolution known as the Arab Spring. While many saw these events as outside... {more}
CANADA
Directed By Maryanne Zéhil
Running Time: 95 Minutes
In THE VALLEY OF TEARS, there is sometimes solace to be found. Marie is a chic but emotionally cold Quebecoise editor who specializes in the testimonies of genocide survivors. A self-described “functional alcoholic,” she’s alienated from her family, with little time to visit her comatose mother in the hospital. One day anonymous envelopes start arriving at her office, containing the story of a young Palestinian who grew up in a Lebanese refugee camp following a... {more}
CZECH REPUBLICA
Directed By Olga Sommerová
Running Time: 90 Minutes
Věra Čáslavská is a Czech Olympic champion who, in 1968, was voted the world's second most popular woman after Jackie Kennedy. A cheerful blonde who excelled in every area of gymnastics, Věra shot to fame in 1964 after winning three gold medals at the Tokyo Olympics. Four years later, in Mexico City, she won four more. But Věra's life has not been all sunshine and adulation, and VERA 68 tells her story. One courageous act... {more}
SPAIN
Directed By Martin Rosete
Running Time: 10 Minutes
A voice over guides us through three extreme situations which are actually the same. Will you survive? {more}
USA, AFGHANISTAN
Directed By Ariana Delawari
Running Time: 83 Minutes
The Delawaris have always had a love affair with Afghanistan. It runs in the blood. Noor was born in Kabul and met his wife Satari there. They fell in love and Noor moved to America with her in the late 60s. In 1979, the year the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, they had Ariana, the director of WE CAME HOME. She grew up surrounded by a love for her roots. Noor worked as an international banker in... {more}
UNITED KINGDOM, IRELAND, USA
Directed By Michael Grigsby
Running Time: 78 Minutes
In 1970 British director Michael Grigsby made a stunning documentary called “I Was A Soldier.” The award-winning film followed three young soldiers from Mernard, Texas after they returned home from Vietnam. In the film, the men struggled to transition back to normal life, haunted by their experiences in the war. Now, over 30 years later, Grigsby picks up where he left off with WE WENT TO WAR, a sobering sequel that continues the cinematic excellence... {more}
SPAIN
Directed By Marina Seresesky
Running Time: 12 Minutes
Mirta is from Cuba and she lives in Madrid. Like many other inmigrants she works cleaning. Today at 6 pm, her daughter gets married. But nothing goes as she planned. To arrive at that wedding will be more difficult than expected. {more}
GERMANY
Directed By Nina Grosse
Running Time: 97 Minutes
After 18 years in prison for his activities with a left-wing militant group, Jens is a free man. His sister Tina invites friends to her country estate, ostensibly to welcome him home. Summoned are a former comrade who has written a tell-all book: Jens’ former lover Inga and her husband, a successful Berlin chef. Inga’s teenage daughter Doro shows up uninvited, thinking her mom’s ex sounds like a dangerously cool gangster. But Jens is a... {more}
USA
Directed By Tom Gustafson
Running Time: 96 Minutes
Timothy is an openly gay senior, still bullied by the rugby team at his close-minded, all-boys high school. To make matters worse, he's crushing hard for the seemingly straight team captain, Jonathon. When Timothy is cast as Puck in their school production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, he discovers that Shakespeare's magical “love-in-idleness” flower isn't just a myth. Tired of the homophobia in his community, he uses the potion to turn the town gay, making... {more}
SERBIA, CROATIA, FRANCE
Directed By Goran Paskaljevic
Running Time: 90 Minutes
One day retired music professor Misha Brankov receives a letter requesting him to contact the Jewish Museum in Belgrade. There he learns that during an excavation at the city's Old Fairgrounds (previously the site of an infamous concentration camp where some 7,000 Serbian Jews and Gypsies perished during the Second World War) an iron box was found. The box contains personal documents and an unfinished musical score. It belonged to the composer Isaac Weiss, a... {more}
SOUTH KOREA, CHINA
Directed By Ying Liang
Running Time: 70 Minutes
WHEN NIGHT FALLS is not a movie the Chinese government wants you to see. Based on the true story of a young man executed for murders he was never proven to have committed, the film is a scathing look into China's corrupt legal system. It follows the mother of the accused, as she suffers through the experience, and deals with her own issues with the law. After her son is taken into custody, she's shipped... {more}
Which Way is the Front Line From Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington
AFGHANISTAN, LIBYA, LIBERIA, UNITED KINGDOM, USA
Directed By Sebastian Junger
Running Time: 77 Minutes
On April 20, 2011, shortly after the release of his documentary “Restrepo” — and only six weeks after attending the Oscar® ceremony as a nominee — photographer and filmmaker Tim Hetherington was killed by mortar fire in the city of Misrata, Libya, where he’d been covering the civil war. He bled out in the back of a pick-up truck while being raced to the hospital, comforted by a Spanish photojournalist who was holding his hand... {more}
SPAIN, ARGENTINA, FRANCE
Directed By Pablo Trapero
Running Time: 110 Minutes
The slums of an abandoned Argentinean TB hospital built in the 30s sets the stage for this gritty drama from one of South America's most acclaimed directors, Pablo Trapero. Father Nicolas (played daringly by Belgian actor Jeremie Renier) and Father Julian work side-by-side in these slums to help build the hospital for the community. Facing gang wars between drug cartels and a bureaucratic church trying to politicize the martyrdom of famed comrade Father Carlos Mujica,... {more}
RUSSIA
Directed By Karen Shakhnazarov
Running Time: 104 Minutes
Out of the primordial mists lumbers a beast that lives in legend among soldiers on both sides of the Russian front. WHITE TIGER is the ultimate Nazi killing machine—a giant tank that materializes out of nowhere and obliterates Soviet troops, leaving in its wake the charred corpses of men and machines. A tank operator is pried out of the wreckage of one such battle, 90% of his body burned. Left by medics to die, he... {more}
Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines
USA
Directed By Kristy Guevara-Flanagan
Running Time: 62 Minutes
Like most of her generation, director Kristy Guevara-Flanagan grew up with Lynda Carter in reruns on the "Wonder Woman" TV show. Her friends were Wonder Woman for Halloween for years, since there were no other girl fantasy heroes. But BAM! POW! Kristy made a movie to help right this grievous wrong. WONDER WOMEN! THE UNTOLD STORY OF AMERICAN SUPERHEROINES traces the evolution of superheroines, from their birth in 1940s comic books to their current manifestation... {more}
AUSTRALIA
Directed By Stuart Bowen
Running Time: 10 Minutes
Ever since he was a child, Woody has dreamt of playing piano. The problem is that he only has wooden paddles for hands. Stuck in a job he doesn’t want, he spends his days dreaming of being a concert pianist. His dreams are big…but they're about to get out of hand. {more}
Would you be kind to leave, Sir
FRANCE
Directed By Valérie Théodore
Running Time: 19 Minutes
A homeless man manages to go into a fancy restaurant. {more}
Yellow Sticky Notes / Candian Anijam
CANADA
Directed By Jeff Chiba Stearns
Running Time: 8 Minutes
For the first time in Canadian history, 15 of Canada's most award-winning and celebrated independent animators have come together to create one collaborative animated film. {more}
GERMANY
Directed By Franziska Buch
Running Time: 102 Minutes
Pia is a spunky girl who recently lost her father and has started taking refuge in her tree house. Meanwhile, somewhere in Tibet, trapper Van Sneider careens through the snow collecting wild creatures for an evil Zoo Director who likes to stuff them. YOKO, an adorable Yeti child with long eyelashes and an impish grin, accidentally ends up in Van Sneider’s truck heading back to Germany. Yoko escapes the Zoo Director and finds his way... {more}
ISRAEL
Directed By Eytan Fox
Running Time: 84 Minutes
When he was in the Israeli Army, Yossi loved a fellow soldier who died in his arms in Lebanon. Now a dedicated cardiologist, he barricades himself behind his job and empty encounters through the internet. Even his co-workers can’t break down his defenses so his supervisor orders him to take a vacation. On his trip, Yossi gives a ride to four soldiers stranded while on leave. One of them is openly gay and begins trying... {more}
GERMANY
Directed By Félix Koch
Running Time: 20 Minutes
Germany's First Stephen King Dollar Baby. Rick Hardin, a voyeuristic author of thriller-novels witnesses a crime at night at a lonely gas station. He decides to help, but after this night, he would wish never to have stopped there. {more}
FRANCE
Directed By Justine Malle
Running Time: 75 Minutes
Just when Justine Malle was transitioning from a young girl to a woman, she found out her famous filmmaker father Louis was terminally ill. At 20 she was terribly awkward and unsure of herself, madly in love with a boy who didn't quite feel the same, and to top it off, still a virgin. The state of constant confusion her mind and body were experiencing made it hard to comprehend her dad's unfortunate fate. As... {more}
POLAND, CZECH REPUBLIC
Directed By Piotr Mularuk
Running Time: 113 Minutes
Zyga (rising star Jakub Gierszał) and his pals have nowhere to go in their lousy Polish border town. Communism has just collapsed and people are getting into Yuma, stealing from German stores and redistributing the wealth on the Polish market. Zyga is obsessed with the 1957 movie “3:10 to Yuma” -- a cowboy tale of lawless anarchy on the frontier. Movie star handsome with an easy grin, Zyga starts smuggling cigarettes at the behest of... {more}
FRANCE, BELGIUM
Directed By Rémi Bezançon, Jean-Christophe Lie
Running Time: 78 Minutes
Come sit with me by the campfire, little ones, and I will tell you the tale of ZARAFA, the most wonderful giraffe in all the world. The year was 1817 and a French slave driver named Moreno was capturing people from an African village. Brave little Maki escaped to a river, where he found a herd of giraffes. Cruel Moreno, vowing to recapture Maki, killed a mother giraffe. But a kind Bedouin named Hassan was... {more}
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