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Now & Later
An illegal Latina immigrant living in Los Angeles who stumbles across a disgraced banker on the run. She takes him in and through soul-searching conversations and other worldly pleasures, Angela introduces Bill to another worldview.
February 18, 2011 Los Angeles Netflix DVD New York
MOOZ-lum
A young Muslim man enrolls in college against the politically charged 9/11 backdrop, with deep personal and familial traumas to overcome.
February 11, 2011 Limited Netflix DVD
Empire of Silver
China, 1899. In a land of exquisite beauty and timeless tradition a young man known as ‘Third Master’ is the heir to a banking fortune he cares little about. However, after his brother’s wife is kidnapped he reluctantly submits to the pressure of his title and his father, Lord Kang. Lord Kang is determined to prepare his son for financial leadership by molding Third Master into his own image. But the strong-willed businessman’s methods do not sit well with Third Master, who sees the salvation of his business in following the righteous path of his ancestors. Third Master and Lord Kang’s tense relationship is further complicated by the son’s feelings for his beautiful young stepmother -- his first and only love -- stolen from him by his own father.
The Conquest
The volatile right-leaning Sarkozy’s startling rise to become President of France and the emotional and psychological stakes involving the conquest of power.
November 11, 2011 Limited Netflix DVD
Hermano
Raised as brothers, intense teammates and competitors on the soccer field – the gregarious, swaggering Julio (Eliu Armas) and the more wiry and focused Daniel “Gato” (Fernando Moreno) have remained virtually inseparable ever since the newborn Daniel was found abandoned in a trash heap in their La Ceniza slum. The opportunity of their lives arrives when a football scout invites them to tryout for the city’s top professional team, just as a tragic act of violence threatens to tear them apart and prevent them from achieving their dreams.
September 16, 2011 Limited Netflix DVD
Sleeping Beauty
A haunting erotic fairy tale about a student who drifts into prostitution and finds her niche as a woman who sleeps, drugged, in a ‘Sleeping Beauty chamber’ while men do to her what she can‘t remember the next morning.
December 2, 2011 New York
Tyrannosaur
Joseph (Peter Mullan) is an unemployed widower with a drinking problem and a violent temper. When he meets Hannah (Olivia Colman), a devout Christian who works at a charity shop, the two form an unlikely bond where secrets are revealed and salvation is found in dark places.
November 18, 2011 Limited Netflix DVD
Cook County
An absentee father returns home to a small town in East Texas and discovers a household of crystal meth addicts.
December 16, 2011 Netflix DVD New York / Los Angeles
Five Star Day
The film is a journey of self-discovery about a guy (Cam Gigandet) who loses everything and must come to terms with what's most important in life.
November 2, 2011 Limited Netflix DVD
Octubre
Clemente, a moneylender of few words, is a new hope for Sofía, his single neighbor, devoted to the October worship of Our Lord of the Miracles. They're brought together over a new-born baby, fruit of Clemente's relationship with a prostitute who's nowhere to be found.
Oka!
25 years ago, ethnomusicologist Louis Sarno traveled from New Jersey to the forests of Central Africa to record the music of the Bayaka Pygmies. Falling in love with a Bayaka girl and her forest lifestyle, he decided to stay.
October 14, 2011 New York
Pariah
A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.
December 28, 2011 Limited Netflix Blu-ray Netflix DVD
Paul Goodman Changed My...
Paul Goodman was once so ubiquitous in the American zeitgeist that he merited a cameo in Woody Allen's Annie Hall. Author of legendary bestseller Growing Up Absurd, Goodman was also a poet, 1940s out queer and family man, pacifist, visionary, co-founder of Gestalt therapy—and a moral compass for many in the burgeoning counterculture of the '60s.
October 19, 2011 Netflix DVD New York
Septien
Eighteen years after disappearing without a trace, Cornelius Rawlings returns to his family's farm.
The Grace Card
When Mac McDonald loses his son in an accident, the ensuing 17 years of bitterness and pain erodes his love for his family and leaves him angry with God ... and just about everyone else. Mac's rage stonewalls his career in the police department and makes for a combustible situation when he's partnered with Sam Wright, a rising star on the force-who happens to be a part-time pastor and a loving family man. Can they somehow join forces to help one another when it's impossible for either of them to look past their differences-especially the most obvious one?
February 25, 2011 Limited Netflix DVD
The Imperialists Are St...
A variety of young emigres working in upper-class New York City while dealing with issues of assimilation and xenophobia.
The Space Between
A flight attendant grounded in Texas with an unaccompanied Arab-American boy on the morning of September 11, 2001. They desperately head east when she discovers his father works at the World Trade Center.
September 9, 2011 Limited
The Tree
After the sudden death of her father, 8-year-old Simone shares a secret with her mother Dawn. She’s convinced her father speaks to her through the leaves of her favourite tree and he’s come back to protect them. But the new bond between mother and daughter is threatened when Dawn starts a relationship with George, the plumber, called in to remove the tree’s troublesome roots.
A Love Affair of Sorts
David Guy (David Guy Levy) and Enci (Lili Bordán) play a couple who meet in a bookstore, where he catches her in the midst of shoplifting, and she sees him in the midst of furtively filming her with his flip camera. Through the course of that day and evening, they start a tentative relationship, with his omnipresent camera serving as both bridge and barrier to their connection. Things are further complicated with the inclusion of Enci's boyfriend Boris (Iván Kamarás), and David's brutally honest friend Jonathan (Jonathan Beckerman, playing himself, and unaware until the end of the film that it was fictional).
A Screaming Man
Adam, a former swimming champion in his sixties, is a pool attendant at a hotel in Chad. When the hotel gets taken over by new Chinese owners, he is forced to give up his job to his son, Abdel, leaving Adam humiliated and resentful. Meanwhile the country is in the throes of a civil war. Rebel forces are attacking the government and the authorities demand the people contribute to the "war effort" with money or volunteers old enough to fight. Adam is constantly harassed for his contribution, but he is penniless. In a moment of weakness, Adam makes a decision that he will forever regret.