The Twilight Hour
Sohrab, a young Iranian soldier, finds himself face-to-face with his fellow citizens during a demonstration.
An animated satire on the question of self-image for African American women living in a society where beautiful hair is viewed as hair that blows in the wind and lets you be free. Lively tunes and witty narration accompany a quick-paced inventory of relaxers, gels, and curlers. This short film has become essential for discussions of racism, African American cinema, and empowerment.
Sohrab, a young Iranian soldier, finds himself face-to-face with his fellow citizens during a demonstration.
While striving for the top digital messenger spot Flash makes a fatal error putting young love in jeopardy. Now he must risk everything he has worked for in order to make it right or save his reputation.
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Ko-Ko and Fitz emerge from an inkwell into the sultan's harem.
Nebbishy filmmaker Joanna Arnow documents her yearlong relationship with an open-mic poet provocateur. What starts out as an uncomfortably intimate portrait of a dysfunctional relationship and protracted mid-twenties adolescence, quickly turns into a complex commentary on societal repression, sexuality and self-confrontation through art.
German writer Uwe Johnson lived for several years in the 1960s on Manhattan’s Upper Westside where he got to know his neighborhood very well, observing the goings-on in the streets, cafeterias, and parks. In 1968 German Television agreed to co-produce a film for broadcast featuring interviews with various neighborhood characters.
A descent into the maelstrom of anguish that tormented Arthur Lipsett, a famed Canadian experimental filmmaker who died at 49. A diary transmuted into a clash of images and sounds charting a prodigious frenzy of creation, a tableau depicting an artist’s dizzying descent into depression and madness: with LIPSETT DIARIES, Theodore Ushev renews his filmmaking aesthetic and explores what happens when genius is on a first-name basis with madness.
An old man ends up taming the mouse he wanted to get rid of.
Shortly after German reunification, three residents of a quiet area north of Berlin talk about their plans and attempts at new economic beginnings amid the changes brought by the fall of the Berlin Wall.
A musical odyssey about trauma and the retreat of humanity into itself.
Experimental animation film, with a visual focus on geometrical shapes and straight lines
The film's protagonists are the orphaned children taken into custody by the state and institutionalized at Children's House no. 6 from Bucharest. For Mészáros, the concern for the situation of children left orphaned during the Second World War is autobiographical: the director directly experienced the absence of parents in her own childhood.
A powerful, emotional and sometimes humorous look at the daily life of a prison inmate and a corrections officer.
Primo and Jeanne are playing tennis in the sun beside the sea, but Jeanne's mind is not on the game. In a small apartment under the rooftops of Paris, Jeanne and Jules make love. In Paris and on the Riviera, a seagull follows the love life of this young woman, her doubts and her solitude.
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A family lives in a house that teeters precariously on the very tip of a mountain. The balance of the house is affected not only by the family that lives inside, but also their cow, dog, cat, a passing bird, and a man with a couple of sheep who returns in a car. The slopes of the hill themselves also seem rather slippery at times.
When the galaxy comes under the threat of a nefarious space captain, a mechanic and his newfound robot ally join an elite squad of combatants to save the universe.
The ultimate Bobby Jones golf series reaches its climactic conclusion on board a speeding train to oblivion.
Short documentary on the Cambodian Handicraft Association which trains and supports women who have been affected by polio, landmine injuries, deafness or mental trauma.
A reading of the Grand Prize-winning essay in the Earth Day 50 Art & Essay Contest, April 22, 2020, held in Clark County, Nevada. Narration by winner Sydney Lin; illustrated by the top 20 artwork entries; music by permission, Zukir Hussain.