NYC. A young Chinese girl owes a staggering smuggling debt to the Snakeheads. Her feelings of self-worth collide with her new life options: the sweatshop, fourteen hour days, sleeping eighteen to a room. Or Gang life. Bodywork. And Full Service, at two hundred and up.
2007-05-01
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Official Selection at Cannes' Cinéfondation (2007)
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
Losing you until I lose myself, memories that were all left behind was the beauty of your eyes, me without you.
Having just moved to Amsterdam, Lou prepares her new apartment that she will share with her partner, Joel. For now though, Joel is on a trip with an intimate other. Confronted with the complexities of her non-monogamous relationship, Lou shifts her gaze to the rhythms of her new city.
Arrogant superstar chef Alex Fine pursues the impossible dream of earning a fourth Michelin Star.
Told from the woman's perspective, the story of a couple trying to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far gone.
Overwhelmed by grief following the death of his wife, Donnelly shares a train carriage home with a troubled young man identified only as the 'Kid'. As the Kid becomes more agitated and foul-mouthed, the journey takes on a violent and dangerous hue – for the bereaved Donnelly and for other hapless passengers on the train. Academy Award Winner: Best Live Action Short Film – 2005
An unknown girl breaks out of her daily grind by undergoing an intense audio-visual trip.
Told from the man's perspective, the story of a couple trying to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far gone.
A lonely Brooklyn photographer (Randy Harrison, "Queer as Folk") gets the courage to come out from behind his camera to capture his crush, but it turns out there is more to the picture than meets the eye.
When a young boy encounters a troubled teen with a 3D-printed-gun the boy desires to possess one of his own. The film explores the impact of a pervasive gun culture on the developing psychology of an eleven-year-old boy.
In a vibrant city pulsating with rhythm and movement, an elderly man and his young-at-heart wife rekindle their youthful passion for life and each other on one magical night.
Tom Ripley, an American who deals in forged art, is slighted at an auction in Hamburg by picture framer Jonathan Zimmerman. When Ripley is asked by gangster Raoul Minot to kill a rival, he suggests Zimmerman, and the two, exploiting Zimmerman's terminal illness, coerce him into being a hitman.
Guy Luthan, a British doctor working at a hospital in New York, starts making unwelcome enquiries when the body of a man who died in his emergency room disappears. After the trail leads Luthan to the door of an eminent surgeon at the hospital, Luthan soon finds himself in extreme danger people who want the hospital's secret to remain undiscovered.
After winning a controversial case, a Black attorney at a white-shoe law firm questions the legitimacy of his recent promotion.
A news reporter looks into who has been anonymously leaving large cash gifts on random doorsteps in New York.
Luis Miguel, a 30-35 year old man, unemployed, lonely and with a boring life. He realizes that his Wednesdays are disappearing, or worse, someone is stealing them, and oddly enough there is an association behind all this trafficking in his days. After discovering it, Luis Miguel turns his sad life upside down and begins to fight against the association.