MAN ON THE CHAIR (L’HOMME SUR SA CHAISE)

DescriptionContactTrailerDescription Does the man on the chair exist? Contact Sacrebleu Productions Trailer

MANOS SUCIAS

DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription For young men in Buenaventura, Colombia – a dangerous area policed by paramilitaries and poisoned by the drug trade – the prospect of a better life requires getting out of Buenaventura. And getting out means getting your hands dirty. Such is the case for Jacobo and Delio, estranged brothers who agree to transport millions...

LOVE STREAMS

DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Love – flawed, messy and wounded – streams through this latter-era film by the great John Cassavetes. Centering on a boozy, hedonistic writer and his beleaguered sister (played, respectively, by Cassavetes and the equally great Gena Rowlands, his real-life wife and collaborator), the film is a portrait of two fragile souls who, for better...

MAGICIAN: THE ASTONISHING LIFE AND WORK OF ORSON WELLES

DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription From documentarian Chuck Workman comes an exhaustive look at one of cinema’s greatest masters: Orson Welles. Combining extensive filmmaker interviews with rare archival footage of Welles himself, Workman takes us through the life of the legendarily uncompromising actor and director behind such classics as CITIZEN KANE, THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS and TOUCH OF EVIL. Beginning...

LIGHT

DescriptionTrailerDescription After suffering a devastating loss, a Lebanese man is challenged by a mother's request. Trailer

LEVIATHAN

DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Premiering in competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, LEVIATHAN is the latest work and magnum opus from Russian filmmaker Andrey Zvyagintsev (ELENA, THE RETURN). Zvyagintsev tells the story of aging father Kolya, who runs an auto repair shop in a small coastal town. When Kolya becomes embroiled in a property feud with the...

IT FOLLOWS

DescriptionBiosContactDescription Jay, a college student living in the Detroit suburbs, spends her time hanging out with her sister and friends Paul and Yara. After having sex with her new beau, Jay is plagued by nightmarish visions and the sneaking suspicion that someone – or something – is following her.  As the threat closes in, Jay...

JAUJA

DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Renowned filmmaker Lisandro Alonso’s penetrating puzzle of a film marks a bold new chapter for the enigmatic auteur. Its prologue referencing a mythical land of happiness that has eluded all who search for it, the quixotic tale unfolds with a deceptive simplicity that hides its deeper meanings. A 19th-century Danish general (played with smoldering ferocity...

INHERENT VICE

DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription INHERENT VICE is the seventh feature from director Paul Thomas Anderson and the first film adaptation of a Thomas Pynchon novel. It’s the tail end of the ‘60s and drug-fueled paranoia is running the day. P.I. Doc Sportello (Joaquin Phoenix) knows that “love” is one of those overused words – like “trip” or “groovy”...

THE IRON MINISTRY

DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Three years spent on China’s vast train system are distilled into a one-of-a-kind sensory experience in this immersive, formally daring documentary. While traveling via both pristine first-class train cars and the crowded, lively economy class, director J.P. Sniadecki combines the hypnotic rhythms of the click-clacking tracks, the spirited debate and lively conversation of the...

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