Whiplash (2013)

The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama’s life and film clips, interspersed with a dialogue to camera by Nobuko Otowa, addressing the camera as if she is…

An abused wife leaves her alcoholic husband and moves with her children to another town. There their lives become entwined with another family in trouble.

As their senior year comes to an end, the pressure to “make it out alive” seems daunting for high school seniors Bobby, Caroline and Adam. As they each discover what…

When Billie learns that her estranged parents’ lives are at risk, she tries to help them by robbing a bank. In her botched robbery attempt, she takes a hostage named…

On her 18th birthday, headstrong and artistic Charlie makes a startling discovery—the man married to her mother, isn’t her father. Recruiting Oz, a rough sleeper whose only possession is his…

FIX takes you from Beverly Hills to Watts, and places in between, in one day, as documentary filmmakers Bella and Milo race to get Milo’s brother Leo from jail to…

Eager to find a better life abroad, a Senegalese woman becomes a mere governess to a family in southern France, suffering from discrimination and marginalization.

An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer’s. From a faded notebook, the old man’s words bring to life the story…

A fatally ill mother with only two months to live creates a list of things she wants to do before she dies without telling her family of her illness.

Quickie-mart employee Melissa and paraplegic Richie are very much in love. Supported only by Melissa’s small hourly wage, they are nevertheless thrilled to learn that Melissa is pregnant. Then their…

When home entertainment enters the market in 90s Beijing, a former projectionist ropes his young son into starting their own pirate movie company, but easy money comes with its own…

Leo and Angela Russo live a simple life in Queens, surrounded by their overbearing Italian-American family. When their son finds success on his high school basketball team, Leo tears the…