The Poet

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Newly divorced Desa Rae finds herself alone now that her son has gone away to college. Roc, a 29-year-old comes along. Desa Rae can't keep her eyes open or legs closed to a man who excites her like no other has.

When a new landlord inherits a run-down apartment complex, he expects late rent and repairs — not silence, and not the disappearances. As tenants vanish one by one, he descends into the basement and discovers something still alive below the building.

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Johnny Minotaur is a lyrical explosion of taboos: incest, intergenerational desire, pansexuality and autoeroticism are a few of the issues Charles Henri Ford grapples with through mythopoeic, sensual imagery, recitations of his diaries and a philosophical debate featuring an impressive narration by such artists as Salvador Dali, Allen Ginsberg, Warren Sonbert and Lynne Tillman.

A piano player has to face her Master in order to find her voice.

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A teenage boy gets stuck inside his own house.

The story of sex, violence, race and rock and roll in 1950s Chicago, and the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America's musical legends, including Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess, Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf, Etta James and Chuck Berry.

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In January 1810 in Edo, Kikunosuke, the 17-year-old-son of a murdered samurai, takes revenge on his father's murderer, Sakubai, who was his father's former retainer. Kikunosuke gloriously defeats the swaggering Sakubai in single combat in front of a theater, witnessed by a huge audience that had just finished watching a production of 47 Ronin. With Sakubai's severed head, Kikunosuke has achieved his revenge and ensured that his family won't be exiled. 18 months later, a ronin named Soichiro Kase from Kikunosuke's domain arrives at the theater. While he seems silly and smooth-talking, he's very keen on finding out more about the incident and Kikunosuke's time working at the theater. The theater's staff – the barker Ippachi, the swordsmanship teacher Sagara, the costumer Hotaru, the craftsman Kyuzo, and the playwright Kinji – are apprehensive and suspicious at his digging. However, not everything is as it seems.

Nick Lassera and Darcy Warner had a love that was lost. They meet again but this time at the right place but the wrong time. After a terrible shootout inside a mini mart, Nick saves Darcy's life but falls into her arms fatally wounded. When he is able to open his eyes again he finds himself in a dark place with no memory of Darcy or how he got there. They meet again for the third time. Although Nick is drawn to her he has no recollection of her. Pursued by soulless black eyed ghouls, they fight to survive in a strange and dangerous world. As his memory slowly begins to come back the danger intensifies into a violent conflict. Nick and Darcy make a final stand in a chance before hell.

When Rock, a young Chicago punk, shares a romantic spark with the free-spirited Ty at a local show, she contemplates a desperate, dangerous measure to prove herself worthy of Ty’s traditionalist punk sensibility.

To some, Doña Cecilia is an invisible, elderly woman. For others, her presence validates their existence. This movie on children's civil rights shows how borders are transformed into bridges by the power of unconditional love and music.

When an elderly man and his caretaker plant a sapling, a ghost of long-forgotten grief stirs. As the silence deepens between them, what’s left unspoken threatens to shatter the peace.

A reframing of the classic tale of Narcissus, the director draws on snippets of conversation with a trusted friend to muse on gender and identity. Just as shimmers are difficult to grasp as knowable entities, so does the concept of a gendered self feel unknowable except through reflection. Is it Narcissus that Echo truly longs for, or simply the Knowing he possesses when gazing upon himself?

Fueled by love, rebellion, and rock 'n' roll, Radit and Jani live fast and free—until reality hits, and they’re forced to trade chaos for survival.

A short film exploring queerness, blackness and religion.