BUCKLE BROTHERS

DescriptionDescription Just outside of Compton, men and women are riding horses and winning rodeos! Director Marquette Williams cleverly illuminates this clash of cultures, highlighting the Old West spirit of South Central Los Angeles. BUCKLE BROTHERS is exuberant cinema. It's an extraordinary portrait of urban cowboys and a fascinating LA story. The film follows four young...

BAM BAM AND CELESTE

DescriptionDescription Margaret Cho wrote and stars in this candy colored comedic tale of two social misfits on a classic road trip. Together since high school, Barn Barn and his best friend Celeste have always been outcasts. Years later, they are still trying to find where exactly they fit in the world and are horrified at...

THE BIG WHITE

DescriptionDescription THE BIG WHITE is a pitch black Comedy directed by Mark Mylod - shot in the Yukon and steeped in the miasma of this arrestingly cold place. This is a world with just the right kind of cliffs off which one could drop a frozen dead body. THE BIG WHITE is the story of...

ARIE

DescriptionDescription With gorgeous photography and choreography, ARIE tells the story of Vittorio, a professional dancer who falls in love with Marco, the choreographer with whom he is working. Vittorio's feelings are not reciprocated by Marco. Vittorio is alone but stronger for having discovered a new self-image.

ART OF FLIGHT

DescriptionDescription This intimate and raw guerilla documentary, shot secretly in Egypt, tells the tale of refugees fleeing Sudan's bloody 20-year civil war. They hope that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) will help them relocate to another country. Unfortunately, only 20 percent make it beyond Cairo. The rest languish in Egypt, where their...

BACK TO BOSNIA (NA PUT KUCHI, U TUDJINU)

DescriptionDescription Twenty-eight year old Sabina Vajraca's first film will be her most important - an emotional exploration of the past, an undeniable connection to the land of her birth and the atrocities that go unmentioned. This is her family's personal journey. As the Bosnian war escalates in the town of Banjo Luka, the Vajraca family...

AMU

DescriptionDescription Following the assassination of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1984, angry mobs spent a week attacking and killing Sikhs. When their anger subsided, over 4,000 Sikhs were dead and over 50,000 were left homeless. AMU is a powerful examination of a time and on event the Indian government continues to downplay. When a...

ANTIBODIES (ANTIKORPER)

DescriptionDescription With a nod to THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, writer/director Christian Alvart pits a brutal serial killer against a small town cop in this psychological thriller that tests the limits of even the most agile imagination. Serial killer Gabriel Engel is captured after a spectacular failure to elude police. He immediately discloses the grisly...

AN AMERICAN HAUNTING

DescriptionDescription Based on true events, this is the only time in US history where the government has acknowledged that supernatural forces were responsible for a man's death. Donald Sutherland stars as John Bell, a God-fearing head of the household in rural Tennessee during the 1800s. One fall, his family becomes the target of malevolent spirits....

AFTER INNOCENCE

DescriptionDescription Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, AFTER INNOCENCE skillfully tells the dramatic story of the exonerated-innocent men wrongfully imprisoned for decades and then released after DNA evidence proved their innocence. Director Jessica Sanders draws in the audience, documenting not just the flood of reversed convictions that DNA evidence...

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