VISION TEST

DescriptionDescription What begins as a routine eye exam turns into a troubling dramatization of attitudes towards minorities in the United States in VISION TEST.

TWO FRIENDS (DUE AMICI)

DescriptionDescription Winner of the Golden Lion of the Future at the Venice International Film Festival, TWO FRIENDS follows the lives of Nunzio, a gentle, naive factory worker stricken with a chronic cough and subsequently laid off, and his friend Pino, a cold, shady character. When Nunzio begins to court and fall in love with a...

UNDERDOG

DescriptionDescription Wrestling is a tough sport for anyone. In UNDERDOG, being the worst wrestler on your high school team is even tougher.

UPSWING (NOUSUKAUSI)

DescriptionDescription An upwardly mobile couple eager to impress their super-competitive friends embarks on a new kind of adventure travel-living as unemployed people for one month. They learn that self-discovery carries a hefty price tag. About to begin a lucrative new job, Jenne decides that he and wife Katri deserve a vacation. A smooth travel agent...

TWINNI

DescriptionDescription Director Ulrike Schweiger beautifully captures the aching awkwardness of adolescence with humor, honesty and the accomplished-beyond-her-years performance of young Diana Latzka as a 13-year-old whose world is turned upside down by her parents' divorce. When the divorce forces her to move from Vienna to her grandmother's house in the country, Jana is as torn...

TWO DAYS

DescriptionDescription Sean McGinly's TWO DAYS dares to tread on the last uncharted land of mockumentaries-death-as it chronicles the last days of a 30-y ear-old actor's life and, delightfully, all the guilt everyone feels for not being nicer to him. Paul Miller, brilliantly played by Paul Rudd, is an unemployed actor who, unable to cope with...

TOM HITS HIS HEAD

DescriptionDescription Followed by TOM HITS HIS HEAD, in which Tom has panic attacks , making him afraid to leave the house.

THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE (BELLEVILLE RENDEZ-VOUS)

DescriptionDescription Breaking down the rules of studio animation with a sledgehammer, this French gem has rediscovered animation's potential to offer a pure sense of wonderment and delight. In the Paris countryside, a young boy named Champion gets a tricycle from his loving aunt, Madame Souza. The Parisian suburbs envelop their home as Madame Souza works...

SUNSET JUNCTION

DescriptionDescription Every August, over 100,000 Angelenos pile in to a dosed-off section of Silver Lake for the rockin' bands and stellar people-watching found at the Sunset Junction Street Fair. SUNSET JUNCTION chronicles the story of one of the organizers, a Beverly Hills hairdresser who becomes a father figure to both gang members and illegal immigrants....

THE THREE OF US

DescriptionDescription If two heads could have the same dream, it might look something like THE THREE OF US: a surreal love triangle inspired by an accoustic Ben Harper song.

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