The Encounter (2010)

After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life deeply…

A mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a key part of his…

Craig and his cousin Day Day have finally moved out of their parents’ houses and into their own crib, working nights at a local mall as security guards. When their…

Photographer Stephanie has just completed another round of treatment for chronic anorexia and is working hard to reconnect with her family. Her mother Susan is supportive but preoccupied by her…

After his father is killed in a car crash, Jack travels home to Colorado to help nurse his mother (who was injured in the crash) back to health. There, he…

Rivers dry up not only because of lack of rainfall but also because of suffocation of smaller streams, chaotic urbanization, deforestation, and unplanned public policy. A civilization too can suffer…

World War I has left golfer Rannulph Junuh a poker-playing alcoholic, his perfect swing gone. Now, however, he needs to get it back to play in a tournament to save…

Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Jesus Christ Superstar first exploded onto the West End stage in 1971 and it was clear that the musical world would never be the…

Upon graduation from high school eight teens take a seaplane trip, intending to celebrate on Keith’s parents’ private island. Stormy weather causes the plane to crash and they end up…

The story of Ernesto Pimentel’s life, raised humbly after losing his mother, inspires him to create the iconic character La Chola Chabuca, an Andean figure who captivates all of Peru…

Eight short stories of seduction and illicit encounters between lovers, filled with humor and eroticism, which use a circular structure located in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of a colonial city of…

A martial arts instructor comes to the defense of a schoolteacher who has taken a stand against a local white supremacist organization.