THE BALLOON

DescriptionDescription In THE BALLOON, a little girl is separated from her ever-protective mother when she undertakes an adventure ta find her lost balloon.

BEREFT

DescriptionDescription Actor Tim Daly goes behind the camera as producer and co-director with DP/ co-director Clark Mathis for this sobering study of the unfathomable nature of grief and its devastating effects on a too-young widow. Aspiring photographer Molly led an idyllically charmed life until the accidental death of her husband left her living an imperfect...

BACKSTREET BINGO

DescriptionDescription BACKSEAT BINGO is on animated documentary about the romantic lives of senior citizens: Sexy Senior Seeks Same.

BAD EDUCATION (LA MALA EDUCACION)

DescriptionDescription Celebrated Spanish auteur Pedro Almodovar returns with the searing BAD EDUCATION. At first, a revealing account of two friends and their childhood experiences in a boarding school during the 1960s, the film soon reveals complex narrative layers populated by characters straddling fact and fiction, fantasy and reality. Ignacio and Enrique are fast friends at...

ASTRONAUTS (ASTRONAUTAS)

DescriptionDescription In this delightful deadpan comedy, Santi Amodeo's solo feature debut makes a stylistic show of his skill, communicating with a breezy, generous wit. Forty-something junkie Daniel (Nancho Novo) goes cold turkey in a hut before heading to the city to start a new life. He meets 16-year-old Laura (Teresa Hurtado) and allows her to...

THE AUCTION

DescriptionDescription Grown-up Vito lives with his mother, plays with toys and wants to buy the special "gold" edition of Bot Roy in an online auction in THE AUCTION.

THE ART AND CRIMES OF RON ENGLISH

DescriptionDescription Bombarded by relentless advertising in a growing culture of junk, one man-activist/ artist Rem English-dares to hijack corporate advertising, challenging us to change "the sham of reality they've created and reminding us that free speech still lives. Bringing his messages to the masses through billboards and other forms of outdoor marketing, Ron takes traditional...

THE ASSASSINATION OF RICHARD NIXON

DescriptionDescription Sean Penn is mesmerizing as furniture salesman Sam Bicke, who, betrayed by the broken promise of the American Dream, slowly becomes unhinged in Richard Nixon's America. Set in 1974, with the constant chatter of Watergate permeating life, Everyman Sam Bicke loses his feeble grip on reality after losing his job and his wife. Reminiscent...

ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER (TODO SOBRE MI MADRE)

DescriptionDescription Manuela (Cecilia Roth), a nurse who works in a transplantation unit, witnesses the accidental death of her romantic son, Esteban, as he chases a car bearing the famous actress, Huma Roja (Marisa Paredes), from whom he wants an autograph. Esteban had longed to know about his absentee father, but his mother had always refused...

AMERICAN FAME PT 1: RIVER PHOENIX

DescriptionDescription AMERICAN FAME PT 1: RIVER PHOENIX is a look at the famous life and times of former child star, River Phoenix.

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