Julian is a short film about a girl named Anna who is struggling with moving on from an abusive relationship. She enters in a therapy program where she does therapeutic exercises to confront the past and move forward.
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The people behind it
Noah Friedman
Monica Giordano
Alan Pelz-Sharpe
Crawlies is a soliloquy based on voice recordings of my schizophrenic uncle. An audiovisual exercise of mise en abyme that weaves a patchwork of memories from my childhood, of madness and desire.
After the death of his best friend, we follow Dustin on a grief-induced bender for one. Going to great fucked-up lengths to keep the memory of his best friend Ashleigh alive. How? By accidentally mixing her ashes into his buzz of course.
In 2012, 82-year-old Data woke up one morning, expecting a visit from his granddaughter, daughter, and son-in-law. However, he noticed something unusual outside his house, marking the beginning of a tragic ordeal that separated him from his loved ones and home country. This is the true story of Data's initial moments in a cruel new reality.
To take control of his life, Travis Wilker must conquer the hallucinations that plagued his childhood.
A football hooligan feels unconditional love for his club. However, being gay, he has to hide his identity in order to survive in this world that is so precious to him.
Three "meetings." Two men. A rumbling volcano.
Emma is a young woman who's yet to find herself. In the meantime, she has to deal with the high expectations that society has set for women.
Dusan and Laza are traveling through Eastern Serbia to Belgrade. Terminally ill, Dusan has to find a new home for his son Laza, to whom Dusan is all he has.
Alan, a 70-something widower, struggles to accept the fact that he's not the young and healthy man that he used to be. This is sparked after his daughter suggests that he should move into an assisted living home.
Claudia Recher is a young woman who has lived a horrible situation. Her sense of reality becomes an illusion as she struggles to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked life. The last witness of innocence and her internal conflicts.
Suryo (25), a thug asking for security money from shops, wants to be closer to Ajeng (24), who is an employee of a used clothing store. Previously, Suryo only know Ajeng by name, nothing more. When on the last day asking for security money, Suryo ventured to get to know Ajeng further. However, Ajeng's indifferent attitude makes Suryo clumsy and almost runs out of topics to talk about. Gradually through the chat, Ajeng slowly opened up. Suryo who is at his wits end starts a chat with his move after this. But unexpectedly, Ajeng also hopes to have the same fate as Suryo. The farewell of the two of them is just ended with Suryo getting the name of Ajeng's facebook account.
Shahrokh, a nine-year-old effeminate boy who is humiliated and pushed away by his family and friends, makes up his mind to adjust himself to his new identity and comes out to the people of the village.
A kid runs off to the desert to clear his head after the death of his older brother. In an attempt to find clarity, he begins to feel the weight of his grief, the suffocation of sitting with himself, and the boiling heat of the sun. All while having only a stuffed bunny to keep him company.
When a journalist is tasked with doing a story on a young pastry entrepreneur, a romance blossoms that questions everything about herself.
Eight-year-old Jesse lives in a twilight world of sadness and silence, squeezed into a tiny caravan with his grief stricken father. They're in limbo, existing more than living. The child intuitively understands that looking forward is harder than looking back, and that's where life happens. But they are stuck, until an accidental friendship with a V8 driving transsexual unlocks the means for Jesse to liberate his father and himself.
Since the post-election period in 2010, the poor farm-less people from Malatto village group, Maubin district in Ayeyarwaddy region have been struggling hard for their living almost every year. This happens since there has been less and less land in the region where they can earn their living. Their rights to use natural resources in their local area has been limited. So, they face lots of difficulties in meeting their basic needs. When the stakeholders of the water and land areas in that region have got the right to open their hearts, we can hear the “Whisper from Malatto”.
In the dog days of summer, two sisters and their mother move into a concrete tower surrounded by farmland as far as the eye can see. Twelve-year-old Violette innocently concentrates her budding desires on Franklin, while Isa, her older sister, staves off her sadness with short-lived romances.
Forced to confront adulthood, a teenage girl detached from reality prepares to leave her childhood home.
The year is 1977. Mary is a young a young girl stuck in a toxic relationship with her father, a revered scientist who is working on NASA’s most human mission to date.
A bad expression, an insult, a cry, a shove, a beating - and nothing matters, it's just the day-to-day. A telephone rings and a voice is heard: he, a young and nice man; she, a woman who only get him into troubles. Eva and Nacho, or any other names, are the main characters of a ridiculous, terrible and sexist "normality".
A woman watches time pass beside the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick them up but never arrives) and a restless dog who doesn't understand that his master has abandoned him.
When a change of circumstances leaves Miriam unable to pay her college tuition, she makes a surprising decision: to start performing in adult films, using the pseudonym Belle Knox. Miriam lies to her family and her friends at school, keeping her double life a secret. But soon rumours spread and Miriam becomes the subject of vicious online attacks and unwanted attention. Miriam fights back: she talks to the media, saying her new line of work empowers her as a feminist. But her confident stand has unintended consequences. Miriam is shunned by her conservative family and her colleagues in the adult film world. One impulsive decision has quickly spiralled out of control - and Miriam's problems are just beginning.
Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season.
When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder, ButterflyAna. By the time Hannah's family realizes what is happening and get Hannah the help she needs, the disease has fully taken hold and Hannah is refusing to eat. Will this family be able to exorcise the demon of anorexia from their lives?
20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.
A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as a slave to her captors.
Short film made with the help of the Sundance Film Institute and serving as a proof-of-concept for the subsequent feature film.
In the wake of a school tragedy, Vada, Mia and Quinton form a unique and dynamic bond as they navigate the never linear, often confusing journey to heal in a world that feels forever changed.
Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.
The eldest son of a ruthlessly tough MMA champion must fight his way out of the abusive cycle his father has continued.
Grieving parents journey through an emotional void as they mourn the loss of a child after a tragic school shooting.
A group of bored, disaffected New York City teenagers spend a day skating, smoking, drinking, partying, deflowering virgins, and getting into fights.
When 13-year-old Tracy befriends Evie, the most popular girl in school, her life is turned upside down as Evie introduces her to a world of sex, drugs, and money. But it isn’t long before Tracy’s new lifestyle begins to take a heavy toll on her and her family.
While out to avoid spending time with her narcissistic and promiscuous mother, sixteen-year-old Jo has a brief affair that leaves her pregnant and abandoned. When her mother remarries, Jo's only support becomes her friend Geoffrey, a homosexual.
Based on a true story. Liz Murray is a young girl who is taken care of by her loving, but drug-addicted parents. Liz becomes homeless at 15 and after a tragedy comes upon her, she begins her work to finish high school.
When Ruby and Rhett's parents are killed in a car accident, their carefree teenage lives are suddenly shattered. Moving to an incredible house in Malibu with the Glasses', old friends of the family, seems to be the beginning of a new life for them.
94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.
In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.