When religious tradition becomes a threat to Bhutan's Nature, one man braves society and sets out on a mission to change the minds and hearts of the locals.
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A group of students finds themselves in an academic environment, which hides a terrifiying danger. Should they stay? Where to expect a menace from? What would happen if they try to leave? Students are forced to find it all out by themselves, without getting any hints.
A teenage girl struggles to fit into a crew of Soca backup dancers. Her first chance on stage becomes a night of difficult choices, but also possibilities for an exciting new future.
When Ella was twelve, she had her first fight. And when she was twelve, she discovered sex. Now eighteen, Ella reflects on how her obsession with her older brother Michael's best friend Moses left her with a secret she still carries.
Shy teenage monster making new friends in a new place. In a world where humans live alongside monsters, Martha finds herself stuck with a major identity crisis.
While unpacking boxes in her childhood home, Sofia comes across an old camcorder. As she watches the tapes, the shaky footage awakens fragments of a past she thought was buried. The voices, laughter, and captured silences become the thread of a memory she tries to piece back together — or perhaps to rewrite.
Yong-Jae, 33 year-old amateur wrestler, will have a match for the national team today, which could be his last chance in his life.
Once a woman can't stop crying, she gets hired as a weeping woman in the funeral.
On the evening of her 14th birthday, Beatrice tumbles in her older sister's world. For the first time, she is confronted with Fanny's reality. Having often been excluded, Beatrice's social life is non-existent. Therefor, she follows her older sister's way of life, which is to use her body as a way of being in control in this harsh world. Having grew up in a hyper-sexualities world with no good role models, the girls try the best they can to carry on from childhood to adulthood. Together, on this one night, they will understand that they can only rely on themselves and hope for a better tomorrow.
Maysa unfolds over a single afternoon as a young woman and her stoic middle eastern mother navigate the quiet tension of a long-held silence. As memories of migration and girlhood surface in fractured flashbacks, their unspoken history begins to unravel. A tender, restrained portrait of love, resilience, and the things women carry - even when they no longer have to.
A modern adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story about a man and a woman sharing an unexpected encounter on a train as it travels through a beautiful and surreal landscape.
Jim is tasked with taking the daily deposit to the bank. On his way, he happens to overhear an intense argument between a man and his wife, drawing him into their backyard. Once there he is “Tempted by Necessity” to help them.
Best friends Beto and Daniel spend most of their time together. Daniel struggles with his gender identity just to hide his feelings for Beto. To be himself, he has to overcome his fear by showing Beto what he truly feels.
A short film about the changing face of London Soho and the implications of gentrification on Mimi, an aging transvestite.
The film is about a destroyed family. Amy, the youngest member of the family, finds in a park a mysterious wooden box that takes possession of her. Her brother Nick plans with his best friend Kevin a house party and invites Nina, in which he has fallen in love. But the house party becomes a bloody massacre through Amy.
A sexual reverie unfolds over the course of one ethereal night. Characters wander through an erotic maze of love and lust, blurring the lines between wet dream and lucid nightmare as a macabre, erotic stage performance sends a ripple of lustful desires through its audience and performers.
Wayward boy punishes his mother’s lover. Beauty and horror fondle each other. Young gods callously abjure conventional morality. Death goes whoring in child’s guise.
When a young Bengali bride collapses in the desert, a cowboy appears out of the sunset and rescues her.
When the recently divorced Tarik spends time alone in a holiday cottage on the Veluwe, he meets the owner of the house, Jonas. But when they seem to grow towards one-another, it proves difficult for Tarik to not let his true feelings emerge.
Childhood memories of fishing with grandpa grow so vivid they visit the protagonist's present experience.
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.
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?
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
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.
Short film made with the help of the Sundance Film Institute and serving as a proof-of-concept for the subsequent feature film.
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.
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
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.
Inspired by true and harrowing events, an ordinary man finds his world suddenly torn apart as devastating wildfires rip through the surrounding countryside. With precious moments ticking by, he must flee with his son and pregnant wife if they have any hope of surviving the rapid forces of mother nature.
Katy McLaughlin desires to work on her family's mountainside horse ranch, although her father insists she finish boarding school. Katy finds a mustang in the hills near her ranch. The headstrong 16 year old then sets her mind to tame a mustang and prove to her father she can run the ranch. But when tragedy happens, it will take all the love and strength the family can muster to restore hope.
Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl.
Suffering from a severe case of depression, toy company CEO Walter Black begins using a beaver hand puppet to help him open up to his family. With his father seemingly going insane, adolescent son Porter pushes for his parents to get a divorce.
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.
Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Instead, he becomes the feared leader of a white skinhead gang.
A college student must take care of her 7-year-old half sister after the death of their parents.
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.
Richard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a concert, only to be falsely suspected of the crime by sloppy FBI work and sensational media coverage.
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.
Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.
A former special forces contractor is forced out of retirement as an avocado farmer in Mexico when local gangsters try to force him and his family off their farm.