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Diamond Sutra
In 2012, Taiwanese architects Michael Lin and Liao Wei-li invited Tsai Ming-Liang to create moving visuals for their exhibit at the Venise Architecture Biennale. Using the space at their preview exhibition in Taiwan, Tsai Ming-Liang made two short films, "Sleepwalk" and "Diamond Sutra", using the "Walker" concept. "Diamond Sutra" was later selected to be the opening short film for the Venise Film Festival. Tsai-Ming Liang said that gazing at the steam rising from a rice cooker reminded him of his mother's face as she laid dying, exhaling her final breath.
Abortion
A 14 year old Iranian child bride is sold to a decrepit drug addict by her impoverished family. Now she is Pregnant.
Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish
The play Romeo and Juliet has been translated around the world. Now Eve Annenberg’s gritty, funny feature film sets William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in contemporary New York City with Brooklyn-inflected English and Yiddish spoken by a talented cast.
Lil Tokyo Reporter
1935 Los Angeles, community leader Sei Fujii uncovers the corrupt activities of his community's underground mafia. He must choose between saving the face of his deteriorating community and confronting the issues head on through his newspaper. Based on a true story.
Look at Me
Finding love in city can be hard, keeping it can be harder. Look at Me revolves around the lives of seven twenty-somethings and their complications with dating and surviving in New York City.
Colorful Cobblestones
The world was in a cold war in the late 1960s and early 1970s. After the Sino-Soviet Treasure Island conflict, Beijing teenager Qi Weizhi evacuated with his mother to Hanzhong City in the hinterland of the Qinling Mountains, and experienced a pure juvenile sexual maturity out of touch with the political atmosphere of that era. Hanzhong was China's third-tier town during the Cold War. Mother Qi Xiuxuan deliberately concealed her husband's death because of her husband's emotional betrayal, and was quite indifferent to her son. Qi Weizhi's missing mother's love was rewarded by class teacher Zhou Wenyao, so he had a subtle affection for Zhou Wenyao.
The Guidance Patrol
Three urban working poor young men who impersonate crew of a Guidance Patrol to earn money
When I Grow Up
Cecilia and Alicia play together and share their dolls and secrets. One day Cecilia gets to know that Alicia gets paid to play with her and that she is going to move to the city to work as a maid.
Dark Measures
A gritty independent film which follows the crime spree of a vicious pack of thugs. Molly's calm 9-5 life is turned upside down when the gang brutally attacks her. She survives a horrific ordeal only to find the thugs want her dead before she can bring the law down on them. Her only hope to protect herself is to trust the detectives working on the case, and stand her ground and the fight the murdering thieves.
Come On, Happiness
In 2004, singer-songwriter Matsumoto Tetsuya wrote an autobiography that included a section about his relationship with his troubled mother. Writer-director Nakamura Daisuke adapts that story to film with Shiwase Come On, his directorial debut. The film covers the marriage of Tetsuya's mother and yakuza father, his mother's drug habit, his stay at an orphanage and his reconciliation with his mother after becoming an adult. In addition to writing and performing the film's theme song, Matsumoto Tetsuya also composed the score to this touching film. In 2011, Shiawase Come On won Grand Prix at the 2011 Okuradashi Film Festival, a film festival dedicated to screening unreleased Japanese films.
The Tape
A man digs through his attic looking for something clearly of great significance. What it is, we're not quite sure. When he finds a VHS tape and realizes he nor anyone he knows owns a VCR anymore, he goes on a quest to find it.
Forget Paris
A romantic new year's getaway to Paris descends into a nightmare when the couple's relationship implodes prior to their departure.
Broken Hearts
Olivia's life feels empty after her boyfriend, Jamie disappears. She has a hard time trusting anyone, even when she meets Aryo, Jamie's friend. Problems arise when Jamie finds out Aryo is truly in love with her.
Burned Nests
Ali has been brought up in Iran and after his mother's death, He finds out that his true family lives in Kurdistan, Iraq. They have been parted because of the Halabja chemical attack in 1988. The movie portrays the torment and suffering families faced, due to the regime of Baaths in Iraq and particularly Kurdistan.
Once a Year
A man and a woman meet once a year in different hotel rooms. Their passionate love affair has been going on for 30 years. But this year things have happened in their lives, things that might change everything.
Chameleon
Desi travels to Jakarta to look for her husband. She meets Minah and asks for her help. As Minah talks to her own husband about Desi, what she doesn't know is that they are both sharing the same men.
Suda
To release sweat from the skin's pores as a result of existing. A production by Carmen Martínez where she explores love, youth, old age, and desire.
A Tale of Delight
A young illustrator fights the haunting memories of his wife's tragic death. One day, his hope for healing is at risk when his family's desire for a happy Christmas force him to hold his pain and guilt inside.
Oasis
Fish, an aspiring painter, leaves the safe haven of home and moves into a dwelling unit inside an industrial building. Carrying a mixed bag of ambivalence and possibilities, her new independence shares the upsides and downsides of a subsistence living in the enclave of artists and musicians, where the strains of life – dissatisfaction with the government and an ever-looming threat of eviction – are tempered by a healthy dose of optimism and humour. The habitat of Fish and company may not be the land of la dolce vita but it’s an oasis of dreams in a desert of reality, however transient and haphazard.
Spades
Spades is the story of what happens when very dangerous men are brought together for one last assignment. An assignment where the deck is perpetually stacked against them.
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The Forest
More than a 150 people are killed in leopard or tiger attacks in India every year due to rampant poaching and encroachment on the wilderness. Such animals have no choice but to invade human habitats and become man-eaters. This story is inspired by one such attack. A couple vacationing in the Indian jungle are disturbed by the arrival of the wife's ex-lover, opening wounds that are best left unhealed; but their troubles have only begun. They are being hunted by a leopard that's turned man-eater and it will stop at nothing to satisfy its hunger.
The Locked Door
China, 1930. Spurned by her fiance, a young woman is forced to raise her child with the help of a stranger - a stranger with a surprising secret, concealed behind a locked door.
The Piano Stairs
Ida's great passion in life is to play the piano, she dreams of becoming a great pianist. But right it feels like the way there very long as she do not have time to practice that much she really wants. All time have to go to school that does not seem to end and the pressure to perform makes itself constantly reminded. But one morning Ida oversleeps.. it will be a day she will never forget.
The Station Master
A lonely Station Master at a remote, rural outpost encounters a woman stranded overnight at his station, and after some hesitation, invites her to spend the night in the warmth of his humble home. This unexpected encounter reawakens the Station Master's enthusiasm for life as the two talk long into the night, but in the morning, when her train arrives, will she leave along with his heart?
The Great Cinema Party
A group of friends, sharing a passion for cinema, assemble in Corregidor, a small island in Manila Bay that has preserved relics from the Pacific War as its foremost attractions. There, they explore the island and retire in a rustic mansion used once to make silent films. Outside the city, the woods and sea become a meeting place for more movie personalities and it all becomes a celebration of what was left behind.
We Women Warriors
We Women Warriors follows three native women, caught in the crossfire of Colombia's warfare, who use nonviolent resistance to defend their people's survival.
Carmen G
Carmen lives in the world of dreams. Her biggest dream dreams is to find her lost son. An unavoidable fate and cruel people present themselves as Carmen is entering the world by herself.
The Liberator
Set in a Post-Apocalyptic world, The Liberator is the story of Kane, a young boy who is forced to live in the middle of an ongoing war between the New American Liberation Force (N.A.L.F.) and the Rebels. When Sarah, an N.A.L.F. soldier murders Kane's little brother, Kane seeks revenge, capturing and torturing Sarah, but unexpected circumstances arise and Kane's morality is tested. Will Kane be able to go through with exacting his revenge?
Boys Are Us
A playfully inventive jigsaw puzzle of a movie, Boys Are Us follows heartbroken teenager Mia, whose older sister Laura persuades her to take revenge on the male sex. Their plan involves Mia seducing a boy and making him fall in love with her before cruelly discarding him, although the predatory Laura can’t help but complicate matters by toying with the boys herself. Can Mia follow through on their plan? Does she want to?
Run
A backpacker on the run from home writes a letter home, but there may be more to him than appears.
My Rifle, My Baby, and Me
While on a mission to kill an invisible cowboy, best friends Paula and Baby learn just how fragile the fantastical world they have created together really is.
Cockatoo
On the sixth month anniversary of his break-up with his ex-girlfriend, Michael decides to celebrate by ordering a girl from an agency and tries to recreate his failed relationship. Sometimes it's best to let sleeping birds lie.
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Cheesecake Casserole
Four best friends get together for one last weekend before college graduation to finally confront the secrets that hold the key to the rest of their lives.
The Most Girl Part of You
Teens Kate and Big Guy are lifelong best friends. When tragedy causes charming oddball Big Guy to unravel, Kate finds herself both appalled by his behavior and driven by an attraction she never before realized.
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This Is Who I Am
Nick Romano is a young Italian American fighting his own personal demons. He's got a chip on his shoulder and a lot to prove. Teamed with his crazy but always loyal partner Carlo, the two small time hoods are on the streets trying to hustle and make a living. Nick fits in well with this fast underworld lifestyle that he's been caught up in, however this lifestyle has caused a riff between Nick and his girlfriend Vanessa. Nick fights to not lose his loved ones, while trying to stay in good grace with the very powerful local crime boss. All the while, still trying to figure out who he is in life. Written by Nino Cimino
Matriarche
A penitentiary parlor. A mother and her son meet for the first time since the young rebel took part in a bloody robbery.
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A Haunting on Potter Street: The Potter Street Station
For the first time in history a film crew has been granted permission to enter the massive and mysterious Potter Street Station of Saginaw, Michigan. Watch the evidence unfold as investigators document their journey through 30,000 square feet of suspense. Locked in over night, the investigators have 'til dawn to seek proof of the station's notorious hauntings, specifically the reported "woman in white." Hidden amongst the gritty industrial sites of Saginaw, Michigan exists a virtual porthole to the past. Potter Street is lined with boarded up saloons, abandoned centuries-old buildings, and Saginaw's best kept secret... the Potter Street Station.
July 1st, An Unhappy Birthday
Handover Law met his girlfriend, Rayna, at the last July 1st march in 2010. This year, they will march again to celebrate their meeting, his birthday and protest the government. This joyful day takes a turn when Rayna runs into her 'mainland Chinese' schoolmate.