Olivia, a Franco-American writer, returns to her ancestral village in the south of France to write the story of her grandmother, who fled Paris during the Nazi invasion during World War II. There, she meets Madeline, a talented local artist, who quickly replaces her grandmother as the face of the novel. As a number of strange coincidences ensue, fiction and reality intermingle uncannily, and Olivia starts to ask whether she's part of history's unfolding story, or vice-versa.
Scarpedicemente is a claustrophobic, dark comedy based on the play written by the two leads, husband and wife team John Vamvas and Olga Montes. Luigi (John Vamvas) is a delusional gangster madly in love with his ditzy gangster moll wife Holly (Olga Montes). The larger-than-life couple are celebrating their one-year wedding anniversary at a low rent Las Vegas motel. While deeply in love, Luigi and Holly share an inability to live in the present. Luigi a walking film projector, playing out the favorite gangster movies of his mind. While Holly's exuberant exterior hides a troubled past bubbling to the surface of their relationship. Sparks fly in this tale of two troubled souls mired in their hefty emotional baggage. —Donato Totaro
Filmmakers Robert Kenner and Melissa Robledo reunite with investigative authors Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser to take a fresh look at our efficient yet vulnerable food system.
As her childhood best friend prepares to depart for the US, a college student navigates her academic pursuits, strained family relationships, and a growing dread of the inevitable goodbye. ‘Sandy’ is a film about grief, memory, and how sometimes life forces you to bend into uncomfortable shapes as you go through it. Entirely self-funded and shot over two years in Davao City and Panabo City, it’s a love letter to the places and people we lose...or that lose us.
Three high school friends reunite after 10 years and confront a case of sexual misconduct that none of them were ready for. As layers of denial resurface, the film traces the thin lines that lie between sex, persuasion, and consent.
Following the tragic death of her father, broken teenager April and her mother, Tracey, struggle to keep their relationship intact as they adjust to their new lives as a lone mother and daughter. But, when April hears a series of eerie noises one night, ultimately leading her to discover a sinister presence lurking beneath her bed, the pair's broken relationship takes full effect as April's mother refuses to believe her claims of an otherworldly entity…
An elderly couple is trapped in their village near Kyiv as it falls under Russian occupation. When a fire destroys their home, they are forced to seek refuge with neighbors and find a way out.
A Canadian teacher in China, juggling two relationships, becomes entangled with a pair of small-time crooks as the consequences of his choices begin to close in on him.
After mistreatment at her law firm, a black female lawyer disguises herself as a white man.
Thirty-seven diverse men and women confront the problem of saving their democracy from fascism.
The successes and failures of a couple determined to live in harmony with nature on a farm outside of Los Angeles are lovingly chronicled by filmmaking farmer John Chester, in this inspiring documentary.
Benny is haunted by guilt after his fiance dies in a car accident. In his spiral, he reconnects with Kam, a troubled childhood friend who pulls him into robbery and fraud, a desperate plan to flee to Mexico and leave their lives behind.
Spring, 2019. Cody disappeared one night. He left his father $167 and Isaac a note... Now both men are picking up the pieces, never anticipating their paths will cross.
Openly gay and privately on the autism spectrum, 19-year-old Aidan tries to win over the heart of his bisexual best friend, Blake, despite his constant struggles with social interactions.
A short documentary on Lolita fashion and subculture in Brisbane. 2010. Third Year BFA Film/TV Documentary Assessment.
A Burmese teacher’s desperate attempt to secure a Thai work visa by letting his supervisor use his apartment for secret affairs take a disastrous turn.
A reimagining of a traditional Spanish Christmas carol as a Revisionist Western
L'Éveil de la Permaculture
The film explores the unique NYC-store Tiny Doll House, and follows its owner Leslie Edelman on a summer day at the shop.
The production sound mixer and boom operator on Tommy Wiseau's "The Room" trade war stories from their time in the trenches alongside the man, the myth, the legend.