Fateless 2005
Sorstalanság (original title)
2h 20m | Drama, Romance, War | 10 February 2005 (Hungary)
Storyline:
An Hungarian youth comes of age at Buchenwald during World War II. György Köves is 14, the son of a merchant who’s sent to a forced labor camp. After his father’s departure, György gets a job at a brickyard; his bus is stopped and its Jewish occupants sent to camps. There, György find camaraderie, suffering, cruelty, illness, and death. He hears advice on preserving one’s dignity and self-esteem. He discovers hatred. If he does survive and returns to Budapest, what will he find? What is natural; what is it to be a Jew? Sepia, black and white, and color alternate to shade the mood.
Six midwestern men all survivors of childhood sexual assault at the hands of Catholic priests and clergy come together to direct a drama therapy-inspired experiment designed to collectively work through their trauma. As part of a radically collaborative filmmaking process, they create fictional scenes based on memories, dreams and experiences, meant to explore the church rituals, culture and hierarchies that enabled silence around their abuse. In the face of a failed legal system, we watch these men reclaim the spaces that allowed their assault, revealing the possibility for catharsis and redemption through a new-found fraternity.
A House on the Bayou 2021
1h 28m | Horror, Thriller | 19 November 2021 (USA)
Storyline:
Follows a troubled couple and their daughter who go on vacation to an isolated house in the Louisiana bayou to reconnect as a family. But when unexpected visitors arrive, the unity starts to unravel.
Being Brave 2021
19min | Short, Drama | 1 January 2021 (Canada)
Storyline:
Beckett, a precocious and resilient twelve-year-old, travels the bumpy road of a young boy living in complicated times. Beckett craves the love and acceptance of his divorced parents, but sees it jeopardized by the constant bullying he receives at school because of his father’s sexuality. Incensed by the latest homophobic taunts by his mother’s new boyfriend’s son – Spencer – Beckett reacts, standing up for himself and unleashing a chain of events that in his eyes will resolve the situation he finds himself in and keep him safe.
Packages from Daddy 2016
1h 37m | Family | 18 November 2016 (Taiwan)
Storyline:
9-year-old Lan and his dad always enjoyed time together in Dad’s boat art shop. One day Lan came home and suddenly found Dad dies. Lan is shocked. Dad disappears forever. Sister never cries and refuses to speak to Mom. And Mom insists to prepare a seat for Dad every dinner as if Dad were alive. What is worse, Lan’s classmates often laugh at him. Lan starts fighting and running away from school. As life gets harsher, he receives a package. It is a strange-shaped clock which has stopped. Dad sent it before he dies. Lan visits many stores trying to fix the clock but in vain. He hope he will have answer for everything when he eventually solved the mystery of the clock…
As the body count in Hackensack continues to rise, Lexy and Junior’s relationship becomes strained, while Jake and his friends set a risky trap for Chucky that could have dire consequences if it backfires.
Éclair 2016
30m | Short, Drama | 4 May 2016 (Republic of North Macedonia)
Storyline:
Ohrid, 4th of may 1980. Marko, son of the cook in the Marshal’s villa, get’s a chance to try the food that has been cooked in front of his eyes all his life.