Andy the night watch was the cemetery gate keeper in Spoon river. He was overseeing the burial of all Spoon river residents. He was the silent observer of life in the small town, knowing everyone and their lives. He could see the good and bad, usually as they were intermixed after death. Having been given a final say following their passing, the bodies have a different story of their lies, cheating, corruption and neglect and Andy is shedding light to the underlying truth of the events.
Dippold the optician (voice)
Narrator (voice)
Henry Layton
Robert Davidson
Robert Davidson (voice)
Richard Bone
Harold Arnett
Mrs. Sibley (voice)
A.D. Blood (voice)
Cemetery man
Writer-director Ava DuVernay's short drama concerns a poor, struggling single mother whose trip with her three children to a 99-cent store in Los Angeles becomes an unexpectedly uplifting family experience. Melissa DeSousa ("The Best Man") stars.
In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of England. As each murder is accomplished he takes particular delight in removing small figurines, each resembling one of the successors, from a throne-room dollhouse, until he alone remains. After the death of Edward he becomes Richard III, King of England, and need only defeat the exiled Henry Tudor to retain power.
A spirited young woman finds herself destitute and on the streets before joining a traveling carnival, where she meets a vagabond painter.
Yamin and his struggles with loneliness and isolation. His little brother, Dhamin, helps him to find some solace through their shared love of drawing. However, Yamin still feels the need to leave and find his own way in the end. It's a touching story about the power of connection and creativity.
Two astronauts fight for survival and the chance to return home, after their ship suffers a water leak.
It has been a year since Tod's death, yet Pla Thong still cannot move on.
A scientist has been attacked and a secret recipe stolen, so a private detective duo is hired to unravel the mystery.
In Ultimate Fails Compilation a group of 12-year-old boys challenge each other to daring stunts, which they film and post online. The film is inspired by the Internet phenomenon with the same name.
An alien intelligence hitches a ride onboard the TARDIS to 15th century Italy, where a deranged astrologer attempts to harness its power.
The story of a middle-aged woman with small children whose life is shaken up when two free-spirited twenty-somethings move in across the street.
A struggling actor visits Compton to research a role as a rapper, and gets an education…
11 year old Nissan has a complex relationship with her attractive but detached Mother. All the tension between them unravels on Nissan's father Memorial day. The daughter, who persistently holds on her father's image, trying to make a room for him at home and in their lives, confronts her mother, who tries to escape reality seeking comfort in her lover's arms.
Khadiga lives in a poor neighborhood with her parents. She tries to save up money so she could marry her sweetheart Taha. Taha buys a lottery ticket in hope of winning a lot of money, but it ends up in Khadiga's religious father's hands who throws it away. The ticket gets picked up by the town's fool, who gets lucky and wins, driving the town into chaos.
When the temperamental Sylvie (17) is told that she has to give up her child when it’s born, she decides to escape the youth institution where she’s placed. In her eyes it’s the only solution to prevent that her child will have the same institutionalized youth as she endured.
When father and son chefs are tasked to write a cookbook together, their egos and tastebuds clash as they try to recreate a family recipe.
Karen is resigned to a life of suburban ennui, the dreams of her youth a distant memory. On an autumn afternoon as she struggles to get her baby to sleep she is disturbed by a door-to-door Salesman. Desperate for adult companionship she engages with the enigmatic Salesman. He claims that he can sell her something that will radically change her life; he offers Karen, an opportunity to fulfill her long forgotten dreams and ambitions.
Daniel Crane is an American civilian engineer working to rebuild war torn Iraq who is kidnapped on his last day in Fallujah. Beaten and alone he is hostage caught up in the drama of war.