On the Mountains

A story about what ordinary internet browsing can do for kids. And parents change their lives.

The Reason Why

A meditation on My Lai.

Break Me

A young cage fighter must choose between his head and his heart after his father discovers the truth.

My Baby Bright

Pla Thong's friend, Tod dies but his unfinished business means he can't move on. Pla Thong helps Tod figure out what that unfinished business is, and they realise how each other feels in the process.

Sweet Street

Sweet Street follows the life of Isabella, A sex worker in the north of England. We explore the mind and day to day of a women working in the “managed zone” and how working on the Sweet Street there is no real happy ending.

Raids

Based on the treatment of Pacific Island families during the New Zealand Dawn Raids of the 1970’s, this short is an intimate look into a police raid, as told through the eyes of a young girl Losa and her father Lupematasila.

Mohammad Saadh

An Art and a Short Film in which the director records his childhood experiences and memories through the mischievous activities of a boy named Mohammad Saadh.

Homecoming

Drama that follows a couple who have returned home, to get the man's father's blessing for their marriage.

I'm in Away from Here

Archie and Bruno are two boys with mental problems. One day, instead of going to their theatre class, they wander around the city and spend the afternoon in a rather seedy pub.

Nightschool

A young couple break into an abandoned school. Strangers to one another they struggle to achieve the intimacy they desire.

Saltmark

In a small Scottish town, a teenage girl is forced to visit her grandfather. When his infirmity turns their outing from a chore into outright humiliation, she must make a stark choice: his dignity or her own?

The Flyer

Anna struggles to establish a new life in Scotland, while trying to save her long-distance relationship with childhood sweetheart Pawel, who remains waiting in Poland.

Imaginal

Abel doesn't accept his step-father's presence and tries to persuade his mother to leave him, only she doesn't hear what he is trying to say. Abel gets caught up by his imagination to avoid having to deal a reality he will have to face.

The Teddy Bear

In a small town, a police officer goes to the house of a teacher friend to question him about the sudden disappearance of one of his students, who had been responsible for a car accident that claimed the lives of a family of four.

Sunny Sides and Dirty Tables

Bob is a busboy, complacent with working his dead-end job. When his boss tells Bob that he is moving up in the company, the older, quiet cook, Lewy, opens up to Bob and shows him that there is more to life than cleaning tables.

The Violin Maker of Nuremberg

Two apprentice violin makers are in love with the same girl, who happens to be the daughter of their mentor. A violin competition is scheduled, with the winner being the one who will marry the girl.

Hiwa

Jay wakes up in Manila, yet he dreamed of Athens. He has a nightmare, during which he has a special quest: to save his two daughters from a dangerous surgery. In his attempt to rescue them, he roams around Athens’ cityscape, seeing things under a very different light.

El Día Del Lirón

Esto no es Rusia

Mañana Sí

After his wife’s death, a man is interrogated by the State. Returning to a dystopic, totalitarian life, he weighs stifling his grief against leaving it all behind. A call leads an official to help him find his beloved.

The Joy Luck Club

Through a series of flashbacks, four Chinese women born in America and their respective mothers born in feudal China explore their pasts.

What Maisie Knew

In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.

Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl

Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.

Starving in Suburbia

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?

Bastard Out of Carolina

A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.

The Corruptor

Danny is a young cop partnered with Nick, a seasoned but ethically tainted veteran. As the two try to stop a gang war in Chinatown, Danny relies on Nick but grows increasingly uncomfortable with the way Nick gets things done.

The Trials of Cate McCall

In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.

Goodbye June

Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season.

Gigi & Nate

A young man with a bright future suffers a near-fatal accident and recreates his new life with the help of an unlikely animal friend.

Hungry Hearts

The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.

Pimp

An urban love story set on the hard streets of the Bronx. A struggling female pimp, named Wednesday, grows up learning the game from her dad. Once he's gone she's left to look out for her prostitute mother and girlfriend Nikki.

Tuesday

A mother and her teenage daughter must confront Death when it arrives in the form of an astonishing talking bird.

The Short History of the Long Road

Nola grew up living in a van with her father, Clint—two nomads against the world. When tragedy strikes, Nola must confront the reality of life on the road alone, learning to own her grief, her past, and her new destination.

The Unforgivable

A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.

Eleanor the Great

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.

The Nest

Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of their safe American suburban surroundings, the family is plunged into the despair of an archaic '80s Britain and their unaffordable new life in an English manor house threatens to destroy the family.

The Good Neighbor

A nightmarish evening unfolds for neighbors David and Robert when they accidentally hit a woman on her bike and flee the scene. While David is increasingly plagued by feelings of guilt, Robert shows no remorse and becomes overbearing and possessive.

TalhotBlond

Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.

The Poker House

Agnes and her two sisters struggle through a day in a home overrun by gamblers, thieves, and johns.

Butterfly on a Wheel

A sociopathic kidnapper methodically pushes a desperate pair of parents to their absolute breaking point.