9 Full Moons

Frankie is an emotional train wreck, careening around the East Los Angeles music scene, drinking and meeting strangers. Lev is a taciturn and tormented soul. He drives a limo and wants to work in the music business. They begin a relationship after they connect with each other one night at a party.

A House, A Home

An artistic young man ventures outside his subterranean home and finds a mysterious counterpart who helps him reconcile his past.

A Performance

A performer stands on stage, in a run-down theatre, that has forgotten better times, if it ever had them. There is a tense, electric atmosphere; despite their weary cynicism, the audience cannot help but wonder if what they have heard is true. 

A Place On Earth - Une Place Sur La Terre

Antoine, a 45 year old, talented but small-time photographer, lives in his loneliness in a joyful although quite disenchanted way. His only true friend, Mateo, living in his building, is 7. One morning, at home, Antoine overhears a music piece...

Bahamian Son

OPENING NIGHT FILM and WORLD PREMIER

Bahamian Son is an independent feature film, based on true events, from the life of the writer Reggie Henderson. The story follows Kevin as he sets out to find his father, whom he hasn't seen in more than thirty years. During his journey, Kevin examines his own life and the family he has built for himself, during his childhood, having growns up in the projects of North Minneapolis.

Bayou Maharajah: James Booker

Bayou Maharajah explores the life, times and music of piano legend James Brooker, who Dr. John described as “the best black, gay one-eyed junkie piano genius New Orleans has ever produced.”

Blue

A fearful balloon must learn to put his fragile life in the hands of an unlikely friend.

Brahmin Bulls

Brave Girl - Sahasi Chori

Bhumika, a 13-year-old Nepali girl, travels with her family friend Krishna from her Himalayan home to her first job in the city. 

Leaving the village begins a fateful journey of unexpected events, in an unfamiliar world.

Brothers Hypnotic

For the eight young men in the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, 'brotherhood' is literal: they are all sons of anti-establishment Chicago jazz musician, Phil Cohran. They grew up in the same house, in a family of 24 siblings, on a strict diet of jazz, funk, and Black Consciousness.

Bruise Hunters

Dating can be tricky, when you’re thirty stakes high and bruises have been made. Guy and Girl set off on a hilariously heartbreaking night of love, lust, and insecurity.

Calloused Hands

12-year-old Josh is a mixed race boy and a promising baseball player. He is abused by his mother's boyfriend Byrd, and neglected by his mother Debbie.

Cast The First Stone

In early 2012, 75 actors and one theater director, all inmates at Angola Prison and Louisiana Correctional Institution for Women, came together to put on the performance of their lives. The cast and crew, made up of murderers and robbers, thieves and prostitutes, and no doubt a few wrongly convicted, prepared two yeas to put on a public performance of the life of Jesus Christ in the largest prison production of a Passion Play ever.

Caught In The Web - 搜索

Set in modern-day China, a young woman becomes embroiled in controversy after a cell phone video of her being disrespectful on a public bus to an elderly person goes viral.

Chrysanthemum

WORLD PREMIER

Emily is a troubled child.
Like most teenagers, she has angst and rage against her parents. Her favorite pas-times are doing drugs and aggravating her mother.



Contrarian - Mr. Templeton

Legendary investor, John Templeton, ranks among the top investors of all time. Long before Warren Buffet and Peter Lynch were on the radar, thousands of people were trekking to Templeton’s annual meetings—making Templeton the first true rock star investor.



Diary Of A Mulatto Bride

Coquette Alsten is plagued by memories of a racially turbulent childhood as a result of growing up with a black father and white mother. 

Drone Strike

A day in the life of a devoted family man, and serving RAF drone pilot.

Elegy For A Revolutionary

Elegy for a Revolutionary: based on a personal true story.
Encouraged by his friend a young, idealistic journalist joins the African National Congress (ANC), to protest apartheid.

Everybody Sometimes Falls - Tutti Giù

Jullo, Edo and Chiara are three adolescents like thousands of others. Three teenagers whose lives are sport. Jullo “is” his skateboard; Chiara conquers the world on skis; Edo a sprayer. 

Fabula

One summer afternoon, on the bank of a river, a boy and a girl meet each other. Landscape and distance will become the stage for a possible beginning.

Feng Shui - 万箭穿心,

Wuhan, central China, the mid-'90s, summer. The ambitious Li Baoli, her husband Ma Xuewu and their eight-year-old son Wenzhao, aka Xiaobao, move from their cramped old house into a spacious, high-rise one provided by the car-parts factory at which Xuewu works as a team leader.

Finding Hillywood

Set amongst the hills of Rwanda, Finding Hillywood chronicles one man's road to forgiveness, his effort to heal his country, and the realization that we all must one day face our past. »Read More

Five Dollars

Five year old Anthony is consumed with toys and video games.

Five Years

On the first day of his probation sentence, Will gets a desperate call for help from a friend in crisis.

Fly By Light

A group of teenagers board a bus for West Virginia, leaving the streets of Washington, DC to participate in an ambitious peace education program. For the first time in their lives Mark, Asha, Martha, and Corey play in mountain streams, sing under the stars, and confront the entrenched abuse, violence and neglect cycles of their past.

Garifuna In Peril

A Garifuna language teacher, Ricardo, struggles to preserve his endangered Afro-Amerindian culture by building a language school back in his home village in Honduras, Central America.

Gator Farm

Gator Farm is a black comedy about a dysfunctional family who are at a tough point in their lives. 


Golden Mesh - Fios de Ovos

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Haiti, The Earth - Haiti, La Terre

Two years after the earthquake, May France is working in the Port au Prince camps, where she records, powerless, the testimony of lone women left to their own devices: hunger, thirst, rape.

Hank and Asha

In this charming romantic comedy, an Indian woman studying in Prague and a lonely New Yorker begin an unconventional correspondence through video letters - two strangers searching for human connection in a hyper-connected world. 

Happenstance

Story of two different couples in a disturbed relationship. There is an incident that happens that brings the good person in both relationships together as one.

Hermit

Former prodigy “Izzy Blue“ has been a hermit for the last 20 years.

Home

We first meet 33 year-old Jack Hall in the midst of an exciting transitional period. Diagnosed with mental illness at the age of 19, he has had some rough times over the many years.

Humanexus

Humanexus is a reflection on mankind's long search for ways to connect each other, from cave drawings to tweeting.

I'll Follow You Down

After the disappearance of a young scientist on a business trip, his son and wife struggle to cope, only to make a bizarre discovery years later - one that may bring him home.

Imagine A Future

Imagine a Future follows the story of Delaware teen Janet Goldsboro as she wrestles with her insecurities, and travels to South Africa to examine the historical and present beauty, and self-esteem issues that challenge black women and girls.

In The Woods - En El Bosque

Victoria is forced to live temporarily at her grandmother's house so that she can take care of her mother's pregnancy.

Isolated

A group of feral surfers and modern day explorers embark on a journey to search for one of the world’s last undiscovered waves in the journalist dead zone island of New Guinea.

It's Better In The Bahamas

The film begins with an encounter. The filmmaker has traveled to the Bahamas to meet, for the first time, old friends of his grandparents.

iVote

Based on real events, during George W. Bush’s re-election campaign, Steve is faced with a dilemma, when he discovers that the company he works for, helped to hide that the e-voting machines are fraudulent. “iVote” reveals the personal sacrifice and courage it takes to serve the greater good. 

Kakara

The film is about a man whose life changes in the waiting area of a hospital gynecology outpatient department.

Karaoke Girl

Karaoke Girl follows a young sex worker in Bangkok through portraits of her daily life, introducing us to the nuances of a vocation borne out of a simple necessity: supporting a family in rural Thailand.

Keys. Wallet. Phone

A woman seeks peace over breakfast in a cafe. But peace is not to be found this morning...

Kwaku Ananse

Kwaku Ananse is an intensely personal project, which draws upon the rich mythology of Ghana.

Last Look

Last Look is a domestic horror film that blurs the line between fantasy and reality, the theater and real life. Based on true events, the story probes beneath the shiny surface of suburbia to discover sadomasochistic violence, savage theatricality, role-playing and abuse.

Live - Vivre

A teacher asks his pupils what they want to do when they grow up. While his classmates answer lightly and with great fun, Tom a quiet 10-year-old boy slips away.


Lucy

Molly, a single mother, tries to convince her small child to pursue a hidden artistic talent, in an attempt to give both their lives more meaning.

Murder In The Dark

A group of internationally diverse young medical professionals, working with an overseas volunteer organization, take a trip after their tour of duty is over, in order to go camping in the ruins of a deserted medieval Turkish town. 

Mystic Blue

Mystic and Blue must try to hold together a relationship while remaining true to themselves.

Nai River - NaiHe

In ancient Chinese tales, the Nai River is where the living world is divided from that of the dead. All deceased persons must cross it to start another cycle of life. As long as one does not cross it, there is still hope of rebirth.

Nearlyweds

Nearlyweds stars Danielle Panabaker and Naomi Judd and is about three newly wed brides who find out their marriages aren't legal and have to decide if they are going to marry their not-so-Prince Charmings all over again.



Never Gonna Break

Attempting to avenge his dog's murder, an ailing Vietnam Veteran living in rural Oregon struggles to decipher between reality and debilitating hallucinations.

No Longer There

A young women suddenly falls victim to an accident and loses her front teeth. 

Noah's World

This is the cute dark tale of a mother and son living in the basement cellar in an old New York apartment building. 

One Small Hitch

On a flight home to Chicago for a family wedding, childhood friends Josh and Molly innocently agree to fake a wedding engagement to make Josh’s dying father happy.

Painted Skin - Hua Pi 2

An ancient fox spirit embarks on a diabolical quest to become human after escaping an icy prison, and becomes bound to a disfigured princess who seeks the love of a noble guard as her kingdom crumbles, in this lavish supernatural epic.

Rescue Fee - Tarif Na Spasenie

A young man with loose morals starts to work as a trainee, at the rescue station to write a revelatory paper article. He thinks that it's a perfect way to get some fun in life. Until he gets to the first emergency call.

Richard, Dinner's Ready

A psychological thriller about a day in the life of a deceitful real estate attorney, who desperately tries to maintain a facade of wealth, status and marital contentment.

Rose, Mary and Time

The film is a story of second chances. Barney is married - unhappily.

Roughcut

Bambie is an Overseas Filipino Worker. Now in her 40s, she has lived and worked as a hairdresser in Greece for the past four years. 'Roughcut' tells Bambie's story, while also zeroing in on immigration issues and the family she is forced to leave behind, playing mother, daughter and wife from afar.

Salt - Sal

Sergio is a Spanish film director whose only success was 15 years ago.
He lives with the money just for the day to day and his biggest obsession is making a Western in Northern Chile.


Sanctity of Sanctuary

Meigs County, Ohio, is the home of herbalist Paul Strauss. Paul has rehabilitated land, left bare by strip mines, and has helped to create the United Plant Savers Sanctuary to preserve endangered medicinal plants.

Scent Of A Woman

On the eve of a romantic weekend upstate, charmingly awkward Chloe decides, after three weeks of dating, that she's going to tell her boyfriend, Dan, that she loves him.

Sex On The Beach

A man wakes up on a beach, and has to prove to his girlfriend that he hasn't been unfaithful, but has no memory of the night before.

She And The Mirror - Ella Y El Espejo

She and He only have each other. They don’t talk because they have never heard anybody speaking. 

Siberia. Monamour

Siberia. Late autumn. In Taiga is a deserted village, where an old man Ivan & his seven-year-old grandson Leshia live.

Siddharth

After sending away his 12 year-old son Siddharth to work, Mahendra (a chain-wallah who fixes broken zippers on the streets) is relieved – his financial burdens will be alleviated. 

Side by Side

Side by Side explores with refreshing honesty the unique bond between a brother and a sister, Lauren and Harvey have been forced into an adult world due to tragic family circumstances.

Side Effects

A young woman, desperate for money, enters a risky month-long drug trial. In isolation from friends and family, she is taken on a strange journey that is both harrowing and life changing.

Silent Music

Every family has secrets, but very few ever get to the heart of what exactly they are. Silent Music is the story of one daughter’s attempt to do just that.

Six Letter Word

Down on her, luck Zoe turns tricks to support herself and her bright, odd son Jax, but wants a better life for him. 

Small World

Everett approaches a beautiful girl in a cafe and attempts to strike up a conversation.

Some Velvet Morning

Young and beautiful Velvet is enjoying a relaxing morning in her New York brownstone when Fred interrupts.

Spaghetti For Two - Spaghetti Für Zwei

Of the money-grubbing homeless, to wanton barmaids 
and armed grocery bandits.

Straight Down Low

Straight Down Low is a neo-noir, set in the inner city. A shrewd high school detective must solve a curious gangland crime to protect the girl he loves.

Tales From The Organ Trade

Tales from the Organ Trade is a gritty and unflinching descent into the shadowy world of black-market organ trafficking: the street-level brokers, the rogue surgeons, the impoverished men and women who are willing to sacrifice a slice of their own bodies for a quick payday, and the desperate patients who face the agonizing choice of obeying the law or saving their lives.

Thank You Very Much Bradley Cooper - Merci Beaucoup Bradley Cooper

Barbara, a struggling actress, runs into the look alike of the actor Bradley Cooper. She decides to use him to impress film industry insiders at the Cannes Film Festival in the hope of achieving her own fame.

The Black Moses

CLOSING NIGHT FILM and WORLD PREMIER

Was L.O Pindling, first black Prime Minister of The Bahamas, one of history's greatest national Liberators, or was he one of history's greatest national Drug Dealers?

The Black Scholes Conspiracy

In the lucrative, high pressure world of Global Finances, Sam Walziak is a visionary of unparalleled ability.



The Children Next Door

Told through the eyes of the children, this hard-hitting film takes us on a family's journey to overcome years of experiencing childhood domestic violence and one horrific incident that shattered their world. 

The Color of Christmas

Walter Whitfield must find the doll of his daughter's dreams on Christmas Eve.

The Cool Boys

The Cool Boys follows a posse of friends as they get sucked into an unfortunate sequence of events, stemming from what is essentially a love triangle involving a girl in a nightclub.

The Deadly Farewell

The night seems to be darker than usual, the hustle and bustle of the maximum city, is at its best, minimum. 

The Dream

Adam Samsun, an investor at Eden Investments, is possibly cheating on his wife. 

The Gold Sparrow

In a black-and-white futuristic metropolis the Gold Sparrow, and her nefarious side kick, steal the color from anyone daring enough to create art. Our three heroes perform in the streets as they are hunted, battling for their souls.

The K Effect - El Efecto K

The K Effect reveals the curious and amazing story of Maxim - actor, instigator of the revolution, forger, Hollywood producer and Stalin's film editor - through his amateur footage and personal home movies. 

The Last Safari

Renowned photo-journalist “Elizabeth L Gilbert“ sets out on an unforgettable journey through remote Africa, to reconnect with the tribes-people she documented a decade earlier.

The Long Drive Home

Ryan and Jessica head to Mississippi with their dementia-addled, but good natured Uncle John to attend the funeral of their recently deceased grandmother.

The Naked Leading The Blind

A dissection of the human condition, on a hot summer's day, blurred by alcohol, late night television and smoldering spirituality... and suddenly everything becomes clear.

The Poker Lesson

A beautiful and heartwarming tale about a single father raising his son on the tough streets of Miami, circa 1985.

The Red Carpet - La Alfombra Roja

158 million people live in Indian slums under very extreme insalubrity.

The Redwoods

While confined to an institution for troubled youth Evan and Christopher find themselves in the throes of young love.

The Ridicule

A chance encounter between a man and a woman in an unlikely setting, by the Los Angeles River.

The Seed

The film is about a young New Zealand boy, Toby, who arrives on Rarotonga with his mother and her fiancee.

The Swimmer

The Swimmer tells the story of Sam, a 10 year-old talented swimmer, who won various local championships competing with boys older than him.


The Visit

When a tragic event turns Diana’s life upside down, she receives a visit from the last person from whom she wants help – her estranged mother. Can they bridge the gap that divides them…

Tickle Me Rich

Four women prepare to go out on the town to celebrate the imminent marriage of one of the group.

Titanic Love: The Short Film

Lucy has found a Titanic Love cruise and wants to relive the Hollywood dream. 

Trust, Greed, Bullets & Bourbon

Five years after a simple heist goes awry, a group of thieves reconvene at a cabin in upstate New York, hoping to recover the diamonds they initially stole.

Two: The Story of Roman & Nyro

The Story Of Roman and Nyro documents the 12-year journey of legendary songwriter Desmond Child and his lifelong partner Curtis Shaw. 

Vino Veritas

Some people need the truth to live. Others not so much.

Viva Belarus - Zyvie Bielarus

Inspired by the story of young oppositionist Franak Viachorka.
Belarus.

When I Saw You - Lamma Shoftak

Jordan, 1967. An eccentric and unbounded boy, caught up by the times, runs away from home knowing his young mother will follow in this search for freedom.

William And The Windmill

William Kamkwamba, a young Malawian, builds a power-generating windmill from junk parts, to rescue his family from famine, transforming his life and catapulting him on-to the the world stage.

Your Place? - Zu dir?

Sunday morning in a club. Freya falls accidentally into the arms of Max.