On a cold fall evening, Leila is left alone to tend the family convenience store. A series of strange clients keep her in a constant state of apprehension. Language and cultural barriers also contribute to the making of a nerve-racking evening..
Maya, a woman in her early 40's has to host a dinner for her husband's friends, and in this process convince her teenage daughter to behave accordingly. When realizing that the dinner is turning into a disaster, and pushed to an edge by her daughter's behavior, she has a nervous breakdown, questioning the necessity and validity of the ideals she lives by..
A new piece in which Linklater and actor-cowriters Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke discuss the trilogy, moderated by critic Kent Jones..
After his years of study in Germany, Reza thinks that he is more than a lecturer in film at the University of Teheran. He has - although he knows that there is not much hope for the relationship - invited the young student Maryam for the first time.
Between tense visits to his long divorced, politically opposed parents, a 21-year-old struggles to prepare for his role as Prince Escalus in a production of Romeo and Juliet..
A documentary on drag queens, kings, & transgender performers in Columbus, OH who tackle the complexities of gender expression, identity, sexuality, discrimination, family, & politics--all with humor, pathos, & duct tape..
UNEARTH presents research into processes connected to resource extraction and zooms in on material transformations and mining machines. It weaves together fragments from conversations that were recorded in the Russian Ural Mountain region, dealing with the emergence of new minerals, an obsession with stones and the life cycle of machines..
". . . Nevertheless, Fogel pushes these pictures of escalators and suitcase-toting travelers deeply into lyrical, Rorschach-symmetrical abstraction. In the course of moving from video to film, the images become flattened into painterly icons and patterns; their contrast has been increased, and the colors shifted into gemlike purples, greens and blues. Edited with a primal shape-based rhythm, Airport Architecture was created for a live musical accompaniment by Greta Cohn and James Hoff." —Ed Halter.
Despite a successful career, Bukky struggles with finding love, as her suitors are intimidated by her achievements. When Obinna comes along, a major compromise would be made to keep the love of her life..
A short essay film attempting to formally combine day-to-day props and itineraries in Beirut. These elements, whether formally gendered or transformed into something that is, all become part of a personal narrative where I am made aware of my gender. This experiment challenges the notion of the binary as I navigate through the city as both male, female, and neither..
Anne couldn't accept her child Felix, who was born with Down syndrome. Anne tries to process her struggle through making theater with Sara, a woman with Down syndrome. Will Anne connect with her motherhood through her encounters with Sara?.
A portrait of the sculptor, Dony Mac Manus, who has rejected much of contemporary art in favor of a return to the ideals of the renaissance..
Runners in a forest of tall trees provide the imagery for a study of spatial and temporal relationships..
Recurring abstract and microscopic structures appear in this film that Padgett compiled from found footage for the exhibition Innocents Abroad—Made for Arolsen in Schloss Bad Arolsen. She used material culled from educational films produced during the ’60s and ’70s from the educational film archive at the University of Paderborn. Padgett worked with such source material as How Does the Wind Come to Be?, How to Lay a Table and Skin: Our Vulnerable Protective Barrier. Scenes of work on an assembly line or experiments in scientific labs reference a technical/scientific modernity. The film images reveal a historical dimension, while introducing layers of referential meaning and placing the film in relationship to our understanding of what we consider to be state of the art..
Theo and Louis, two gay gentlemen, embark on a train journey to Paxmal. They are carrying an urn - it is the last journey for a friend. On their way deep into the Swiss Alps the two men, struggling with their fate, meet various people. While some of these people remind Theo and Louis again of the beautiful things in life, others confront them with ghosts from the past..
Lorsque Ruby découvre involontairement un secret explosif au sein du lycée privé Maxton Hall, l'héritier arrogant et millionnaire James Beaufort doit faire face à la boursière vive d'esprit, à son grand regret. Il est déterminé à réduire Ruby au silence. Contre toute attente, leur échange volcanique allume une étincelle....
Against the backdrop of Ireland’s stunning west coast, this film digs deep into the day to day lives of the surf community, taking the audience beyond the bluster of the typical adrenaline fueled film to create a very real portrait of those who choose the surf lifestyle..
Cursed by love and long distance, a young man takes us through the empty hours he spends between calls, and reveals the insanity these hours bring..
Calarts Animated Musical Short..
After 10 years, high school sweethearts Adelle and Noel meet again. Their passionate romance is reignited. Love and Pain In Between Refrains is a love story bound by music, but marred by violence. Where will this addictive love end?.