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Celebration
Imagine waking up in the most perfect American suburban landscape. Carefully manicured lawns, pristine white picket fences and not a spec of litter in sight. Welcome to Celebration, Florida, the town that Disney built. It pushes the classic Americana tropes to the nth degree. CELEBRATION...Watch Movie
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Chasing Beauty
A rare glimpse into the dark side of modeling, CHASING BEAUTY speaks with supermodels, photographers, agents and the like in a quest to answer one of the industry's most complex questions: What is beauty and is it worth the cost? Each year, thousands of hopefuls begin the pursuit of their...Watch Movie
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Cut to Black
CUT TO BLACK is the story of disgraced former NYPD detective Bill Ivers. Ivers is on a self-destructive path, plagued by debt, struggling with alcoholism, and carrying on a risky affair with his landlord's wife. Presented with a lucrative offer, Ivers agrees to help his former friend and mentor,...Watch Movie
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What Other Couples Do
This frisky comedy finds several thirties-ish couples on variable rungs of the Los Angeles show-business ladder gathering for a dinner party that is by turns competitive, uncomfortable, fidelity-testing and marriage-repairing. A possibly ill-advised game of “Seven Minutes in...Watch Movie
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Sex, Love and Salsa
SEX, LOVE AND SALSA is the story of Julian Suarez, twenty-nine going on thirty, who loves women so much he can't have just one. The three in particular that have caught his eye at the moment are Genny (voluptuous, rambunctious, romantic), Ingrid, (posh, daring, sophisticated)...Watch Movie
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Go in the Wilderness
GO IN THE WILDERNESS tells the story of Lilith, Adam's rebellious first mate, and her guardian, as they forge an uneasy alliance on their journey back to Eden. Once in the Garden, they meet Adam and his new mate Eve and realise that all is not as it seems in Paradise. Shot...Watch Movie
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Burning Bush
Agnieszka Holland is an extraordinarily gifted and versatile filmmaker and although the events depicted in BURNING BUSH occurred forty-five years ago, the issues it explores are entirely relevant today. Acclaimed director Agnieszka Holland returns to a pivotal time in modern Czech history: the...Watch Movie
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Nile Perch
In flickering black and white, NILE PERCH tracks a fish from a fisherman’s line on Lake Victoria in Uganda to export commodity. This hand-made film is a modern-day parable of the effects of globalization on Africa as well as meditation on the economic and ecological impact of an invasive species.Watch Movie
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A Night at the Jai Alai
The little known sport of Jai Alai boasts to be the fastest sport on the planet. Its novelty spread its way throughout Florida in the 1960's but over time the lack of interest has slowly deteriorated the sport. Today its small but devout fan base is holding on by a thread. Go...Watch Movie
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Girl on a Bicycle
Paolo, an Italian who drives a Paris tour bus, has just proposed to his true love, the German stewardess, Greta, when the young French beauty, Cécile pulls up beside his bus on her bicycle. In short order, Paolo, following some very bad advice from his friend Derek, finds...Watch Movie
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The Wait
Who determines what is real? An enigmatic phone call from a psychic, catapults a family into a state of suspended belief while waiting for their recently deceased mother to be resurrected. One sister believes the claim, and the other staunchly opposes it until she encounters a chance at love,...Watch Movie
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Lauren is Missing
Mia returns home from an unnamed journey to find her belongings packed and her roommate missing. She strikes up a friendship with Millie, a quirky outgoing woman who claims to be a friend of the missing roommate. Their friendship blossoms, leading to many mischievous,...Watch Movie
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The Cold Lands
When his fiercely self-reliant mother dies unexpectedly, eleven-year-old Atticus is wary of the authorities and flees deep into the forests of his Catskills home. His sheltered, off-the-grid childhood is over, and a new life on the move has begun. As Atticus wanders the woods in a daze, relying...Watch Movie
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Manakamana
Produced by the directors of SWEETGRASS and LEVIATHAN, MANAKAMANA is an exhilarating, one-of-a-kind documentary experience. Filmed entirely inside the narrow confines of a cable car that transports villagers to an ancient mountaintop temple, high above a jungle in Nepal, the documentary is an...Watch Movie
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American Hunger
Oscillating between a street festival in Philadelphia, the slave forts and capitol city of Ghana and the New Jersey shore, AMERICAN HUNGER explores the relationship between personal experience and collective histories. American fantasies confront African realities. African realities confront...Watch Movie
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Coda I
Peter Gidal's structuralist short CODA I is composed of three lines of a thousand-word story he wrote (as read by William Bouroughs in a cutup tape collage) amidst an ultra-abstract play-of-light through a camera. Gidal describes his "socalled" imagery as "a complex of barely visible cuts in...Watch Movie
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Where We Started
When Will and Nora (both married to other people) meet at a motel one night, their initial attraction moves quickly into a flirtation. But over the course of the night, as their flirtation becomes something more, they are forced to confront their reasons for crossing a line...Watch Movie
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Alan Vega: Just a Million Dreams
This intimate portrait will reveal uncommon stories of groundbreaking visual artist and pioneer of minimalist electronic rock, Alan Vega, vocalist and composer for 1970s and 80s punk/post punk duo Suicide. Alan plays with the camera and enjoys the friendship of filmmaker...Watch Movie
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After the Circus
An exploration into 19th century death mystiques, which rely heavily on the supernatural, along with a belief in, or at least a fascination with, fairy magic, much of it implied through subtle imagery. In all, it is a fascinating and astonishingly replete compendium of...Watch Movie
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Solar Sight III
Describing some of the scenes for SOLAR SIGHT III, artist Lawrence Jordan writes, "I have continued the dream-like form of disparate animated scenes, each with its own "romantic-with-an-edge" slightly surreal flavour. Scenes are sometimes run-on, sometimes separated by brief periods of darkness...Watch Movie
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We are Mari Pepa
Alex is one of four Guadalajara best mates who comprise the titular garage-punk band. Never mind that they can barely play their instruments or that they only have one song (albeit a great one, a joyfully obscene ode to "Natasha" whose rare quotable line runs, "I'm never going...Watch Movie
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One Wall
Handball is the ultimate city game. Played at the highest level, it can be both beautiful and brutal. One player describes it as "like boxing, except with a ball." For more than 50 years, the National One Wall Handball Championship has been played at the Seaside Courts in Coney Island. ONE WALL...Watch Movie
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Who is Dayani Cristal?
The body of an unidentified immigrant is found in the Arizona Desert. In an attempt to retrace his path and discover his story, director Marc Silver and Gael Garcia Bernal embed themselves among migrant travelers on their own mission to cross the border, providing rare insight...Watch Movie
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The Gay Agenda
The Gay Agenda, a photography exhibition featuring the work of artists Kris Darmody and Brenton Geyer, took place in Melbourne, Australia during the annual Midsumma Festival in January 2013. The idea behind the exhibition was to defuse the loud and proliferating warnings coming from social...Watch Movie
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Your Day is My Night
At home in New York City, Lynne Sachs became intrigued with stories about the "shift bed" people of Manhattan’s Chinatown, a collective of Chinese performers and workers who live in an old apartment building on lower Manhattan’s Hester Street. With the camera magic of Sean...Watch Movie
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Soft in the Head
Thrown out of her New York City apartment, Natalia, a twenty-five year old hot mess, relies on the kindness of friends and strangers. Seemingly unaware of the havoc she wreaks, she skips from one place to another, including her best friend's, where she crashes a holiday meal...Watch Movie
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Hellaware
HELLAWARE gently satirizes the world of high-brow art through the eyes of a wannabe photographer who becomes consumed by the bright lights of mainstream success. Jaded by the "incestuous, New York, socialite shit" that sells at prominent art galleries, Nate embarks on a quest for a more authentic...Watch Movie
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Slow Interrogation
Seattle filmmaker Jimmy Bontatibus explores the efforts of teens to aspire to maturity and adulthood in his second short film. Colin (Bontatibus) has a job housesitting an apartment. He invites his friend, Christine, to come over and keep him company and she brings along...Watch Movie
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Go Down Death
GO DOWN DEATH is a wry, sinister realization of a strange new universe, a cross-episodic melange of macabre folktales supposedly penned by the fictitious writer Jonathan Mallory Sinus. An abandoned factory in Brooklyn stands in for a decrepit village haunted by ghosts, superstition and disease,...Watch Movie
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Marvin Seth and Stanley
The usually quarreling Greenstein brothers Seth and Stanley reluctantly agree to join their father, Marvin, for a weekend trip in rural Minnesota. Estranged from each other, the threesome of inept outdoorsmen rediscover repressed grudges as the weekend comically devolves into...Watch Movie
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A Leap to Take
A small-time club owner takes his wife out for a birthday "night on the town" accompanied by a retinue of friends: would- be escorts, potential johns, ersatz modern artists; a motley group watching their lives go up in smoke due to the economic downturn. A satirical rocket ride of political...Watch Movie
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L'assenza
By chance, a man sees his double in an Italian film of the early 1960s. Fascinated, he returns to see the film again and again, only to find the images changing with every viewing. Becoming addicted to his own image, he travels to Paris for another encounter with his doppelganger. In the...Watch Movie
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Butter on the Latch
Former performance artist Josephine Decker's stunning debut feature is a deeply subjective and mysterious portrait of a frantic young woman, Sarah, who leaves the city for the apparent safety of a Balkan music camp hidden deep in the California woods. Once there she reconnects...Watch Movie
