Taking a drunken cab to his mother’s grave, robbing a porno from the local liquor store, John Little (Sonny Hall) meanders from the realities of his daily existence into a fantasy life where there is beauty in the bleakness.
Two sisters prepare in the hall of the castle as the prince awaits his suitresses. There’s a lot at stake for their small village and it’s not everyday that you find yourself so close to the power. However, the procedure for the visit has changed and the girls must now do everything they can in…
The famed Hollywood Boulevard Snake Man’s main motive in life is to make people laugh, and he feels he is blessed to do so with his companion Butterfly. “I met him walking the Hollywood Boulevard with my best friend and co-director Tucker Tripp,” says LA-based filmmaker Hunter Ray Barker. “The Snake Man of Hollywood Boulevard is…
Trying to preserve their dying culture, Mateo traverses the arid and desolate Paraguayan Chaco, recording stories, songs, and testimonies of other Ayoreo natives who — like him — were exiled from the forest, losing their ancestral territory, their means of subsistence, their beliefs, and their home.
SISTERS WITH TRANSISTORS is the remarkable untold story of electronic music’s female pioneers, composers who embraced machines and their liberating technologies to utterly transform how we produce and listen to music today.
When their mother finds women’s underwear and a flyer to a Gay Ball in their bedroom, she decides to track down her child and confront them. Arriving at the ball, the mother is shocked to find that her child has been taken under the wing of an adoptive Ball mother, Paris Continental, and assumed the…
This story of an albino boy struggling to survive in Tanzania is harrowing to watch but also marbled with moments of transcendent beauty. Artist-turned-director Noaz Deshe’s debut feature about Alias (Hamisi Bazili), an adolescent boy struggling to survive in his native Tanzania, is in some ways the definition of challenging cinema. An extraordinary work, half…
Kimmi, Sally and Nancy are best friends 4ever, secretly hanging out overnight at their high school. Only Kimmi’s a vampire who’s in love with Sally, and it’s going to be one hell of a queer neon night.
Winner of Locarno’s prize for best first feature, The Future Perfect follows eighteen-year-old Xiaobin (Zhang Xiaobin) , a recent émigré in Buenos Aires, where she’s rejoined her family after an unspecified time living apart. She’s got a job in a deli, but her Spanish is so poor she can’t understand the customers, and she’s fired….
King Lear is one inspiration for Ethiopian-Israeli director’s debut feature. With themes of immigration and the family, Ethopian-Israeli director Bazi Gete’s first feature Red Leaves — about an Ethiopian man living in Israel who sells his house after the death of his wife and moves between his children’s homes — is inspired partly by Gete’s…