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- Set in the multi-racial suburbs of Sydney, Lebanese-Australian John is released from goal to find his younger brother Charlie caught in the very same world of crime that put him behind bars.
- As a mysterious 'shadow' harasses a teenage girl in the middle of the night in a wealthy neighborhood in Goteborg, Sweden; the idyllic streets are beginning to look more like a prison than a place of self-fulfillment. Meanwhile, Paul - deep in a midlife crises - is trying to get closer to his estranged teenage daughter Selinda, who is struggling to form her own identity. 'Reliance' is the love story between a father and a daughter. A drama about the pain of letting go. But first and foremost an existential journey of how we all deal with dreams, fears and aspirations.
- Set in the 1970's, Hampton follows Black Voices, a gospel choir based at the University of Virginia, as it prepares for a performance in Hampton Roads, embarks on a two-hour bus ride to the concert venue, and then returns to campus after a triumphant performance. With a particular focus on the bus driver (Sandy Williams IV), the film captures the wide range of processes, relationships, emotions, and formal gestures operating in African-American gospel music.
- 'Oil & Water' is the story of two boys coming of age in the middle of one of the world's worst toxic disasters: the contamination of Ecuador's Amazon region by reckless oil drilling. Hugo comes to America to fight for the survival of his Amazonian tribe, while David goes to Ecuador to launch the world's first company to certify oil as 'fair trade.' Their journeys lead them to explore what could be a more just future for people around the world born with oil beneath their feet. Eight years in the making, 'Oil & Water' is a shocking and inspiring David and Goliath story.
- An aspiring writer finalizes stories for the latest issue of "Pride", a student run newspaper at the University of Virginia. Over a hectic two-day period in the early 1990's, she puts the finishing touches on the upcoming issue.
- Ceil and Enis are a happy if wacky female couple until giant baby son Junior (who sports a mustache but fits in his crib just dandy) develops a fondness for hot dogs and other symbols of manliness (along with many things edible, phallic or not) and decides to bust out of his confining crib to raid the fridge and avenge his overly protective mothers. A high camp low drag tongue in cheek lesbian chicken murder comedy which references everything from other campy classics (John Waters, Kenneth Anger) to the likes of Hitchcock and Sirk. Cheesy fun. (Note: this is put here so folks don't continue to review a DIFFERENT film called Junior by a fellow named Jim Henly--so hey! this is NOT the same Junior)
- Hazel (dual) is a split screen film, shot in 16mm b/w, inspired by the legendary recording of the underrated guitarist Eddie Hazel's (1950-1993) ten-minute guitar solo on "Maggot Brain", the title track to Funkadelic's 1971 album.
- VALENTINO'S GHOST: WHY WE HATE ARABS (2015) exposes how U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East is the driving force behind the mainstream media's portrayals of that region and its people, resulting in injustice, bigotry, hatred and wars.
- A documentary film about the infamous bay-area punk rock performer Marian Anderson. Marian died all too young, and this is her story.
- Inspired by a diary written by a migrant worker, this documentary weaves several stories together: the life of Ploy - the Thai migrant sex worker who works in a jungle brothel in Singapore, the lives of other migrant workers, the exploration of Singaporean forest and public parks, and the process of an artist who wants to make an artwork from Ploy's story.
- Alexandria is a city of ghosts. You can always feel these souls at unrest.
- An earnest videographer, assigned to shoot a "fluff" piece on a high profile advertising executive, takes things to extreme to discover the truth about this so named "Woman on Top" who has it all.
- Porters of the Inca Trail is an indigenous documentary about working conditions on the trek to the most visited tourist attraction in South America.
- A documentary about the grassroots horror phenomenon, the filmmakers, the fascination and the brilliant terror.
- Tony Cole knows that for the last ten years he's been caught in a downward spiral. Selling drugs was never a crime, but it was never meant to be his career. Now he's frustrated with his mundane daily routine and can no longer live with the constant threat of getting caught. But Tony doesn't realise that his middle class customers will never accept him as anything but a drug dealer and that the criminal underworld will brutally hold onto its own. His plans for a legitimate future go fatally wrong, framing him for both theft and murder. Manipulated by those he trusts and deserted by those he loves, Tony has only twelve hours to save his life. His only choice is to sink deeper into a sordid world in a desperate attempt to claw his way back out.
- A mosaic of 13 short films less than 3 minutes in length, reflecting in one shot, the mood of summer.
- Based on a true story from the director (Naomi Haklai Shachar), "Between the Pieces of Life" follows Emuna (Adi Ben Ezra) who lived on the street for several years after escaping her home, describing the dilemma, risk and painful internal war between self-love and self-hatred she has to deal with as a result of her actions.
- Seventeen years ago Sam's father hid a mysterious box in the walls of apartment 1412, and now Sam has come to Los Angeles to claim it. But the rooms have been renumbered, and the hunt soon leads Sam into the world of an eccentric young woman.
- A teacher has a dull life. But when love comes, you must decide whether to risk all.
- Forest, an ambitious, naïve young "auteur" sets out to make his very own Citizen Kane, slated to premiere at the next Cannes Film Festival. Although, in reality - revealed through the side-splitting behind the scenes footage - Forest's fantasy is laid bare as nothing more than a pretentious student film full of cliches and unnecessary lens flares. However, as the shoot goes on and the on-set complications delve deeper into its never-ending rabbit hole, the mockumentary itself seemingly begins to peel away the multiple layers of reality.
- A completely non-objective film utilizing a complicated and unique mixture of electronic and photographic mediums. It is a celebration of the dance of electrons and the magic inside the machine. It is an attempt to document the events within the circuitry of the video apparatus. Now the formless has been transformed into the material - the image of the particles has emerged from it latent form. The ghost is revealed.
- In the form of a short film tone poem, this unrequited love story follows a Boy (who may or may not be a literal or metaphorical ghost) as he longs for and dreams of another boy named Don, who for one reason or another (whether it's the fact that they live in separate dimensions, or the fact that there's simply just a lack of interest) doesn't love him back.
- Three abstract video works centering around rainstorms. These pieces represent an exciting divergence, and evoke a certain sense of mysticism in relation to nature and weather. The glassy surface of the digital image represents the struggle for perceptual clarity in the course of the progression of a singular human understanding. Each of the three pieces has a distinct character which represents a different approach for the first-person narration provided by the camera in this character's attempt to break the surface of our contemporary world- and thus experience the storm and the landscape as genuine and whole. This journey begins with the innocence of a childlike vision of light and color, progresses into a dance with the elements (fixated upon the luminescence of the streetlights), and finally ends with the somber realization that we are forced to make a very difficult choice: whether to remain safely behind the glass or to throw ourselves into an abysmal and infinite Universe (most likely to be consumed by it).
- Two University of Virginia workers share a drink and conversation at a local nightclub. One worker is a phlebotomist and the other is a former EKG technician who has relocated from New Mexico and works now in the university cafeteria. Inspired by the 1973 film "The Mack" starring Max Julian and Richard Pryor.
- The untold story of Iranians who struggle against Iran's oppressive regime, culminating in the global cry for human rights after the June 14th election.