2015 Year in Review
In 2015, our international slate celebrated a diversity of films from countries such as Turkey, Tanzania, South Korea and Spain. From the socialist critiques of a Romanian film collective to the quirky underdog tale of a loner in post-apocalyptic Ethiopia, this year brought us a dazzlingly multilingual and socially relevant set.
See beyond the status quo with SO BRIGHT IS THE VIEW, SHIPS and SOLDATE JEANNETTE. For a hopeful jolt towards persistence, take a 5 minute tour of FACTORY MAN and fashion a spin on the positive.
To deal with what's real, step into Malini Schueller's IN HIS OWN HOME and Noaz Deshe's hauntingly beautiful fever dream WHITE SHADOW; you'll find fuel for your fire and then some.
Should the surreal tend to steal you, see CRUMBS. Savor it with CHIGGER ALE and NIGHT IN THE WILD GARDEN - wild are the winds therein and the lights take flight.
As for FALLING STAR - it's one Stella you won't want to Cadente. Onwards, to 2016...
White Shadow - ON DEMAND
$5.99 | 115 minutes
The story of Alias, a young Albino on the run, hunted by local witch doctors who use Albinos body parts for their potions…
In His Own Home - ON DEMAND
$4.99 | 30 minutes
When heavily armed campus police broke into the University of Florida campus apartment of disabled and unarmed Ghanaian doctoral student Kofi Adu-Brempong, his life was forever changed…
Ships - ON DEMAND
$4.99 | 97 minutes
Ali, a restless romantic and Eda, a graffiti artist, embark on a quixotic adventure through Turkey's industrial port-cities, hoping to escape the suffocating routine of their daily lives by finding the ship that Ali has only seen in his dreams…
So Bright is the View - ON DEMAND
$3.99 | 100 minutes
An examination of class tensions and aspirations in Bucharest. The film follows the ambitious Estera as she considers a career opportunity in the States, while her mother, who has departed for a distant land to reconnect with her roots, implores Estera to join her instead…
Soldate Jeannette - ON DEMAND
$3.99 | 80 minutes
Fanni has had enough of money. Anna has had enough of pigs. Together they embark on a punk adventure towards Marxist liberty…
Crumbs - ON DEMAND
$5.99 | 68 minutes
The story is set against the background of spectacular post-apocalyptic Ethiopian landscapes, where our diminutive superhero Gagano - on the one hand gripped by daydreams and on the other by constant fears - has had enough of collecting the valuable crumbs of decayed civilisation, the valuable high points of which are merchandise from…
Chigger Ale (Here Come the Problems) - ON DEMAND
$3.99 | 11 minutes
One night, a strange clone of Hitler comes to Fendika - a grassroots tavern in Addis Ababa..…
Night in the Wild Garden - ON DEMAND
$3.99 | 7 minutes
- Listen far away, it's the hum! - Oh,no... It was a plane. …
Falling Star - ON DEMAND
$3.99 | 105 minutes
Amadeo of Savoy is an Italian royal who has just been elected King of Spain. But why would he want to do that? He would much rather drink exotic wines, feast on pastries and sweetmeats and bed the naughty poetry-loving cook. In the meantime, Spain is falling apart, the Queen is due for a visit, and the royal House wants him dead. What's…
Edith Warton - The Sense of Harmony - ON DEMAND
$3.99 | 57 minutes
From filmmaker Elizabeth Lennard comes a definitive look at one of the greatest visionaries of the Gilded Age -- a literary genius, cosmopolitan and activist, whose vivid portrayal of society still resonates today: Edith Wharton…
Moving Stories (Socially Relevant Film Festival Collection) - ON DEMAND
$2.99 | 18 minutes
The story of two women linked by an apartment from which one is moving out the other in. For the first one this is a definitive move and the closing of a chapter after 40 years in this apartment, while for the second it is just a stage, one more move along many, and the start of a new life…
Early Morning (Socially Relevant Film Festival Collection) - ON DEMAND
$2.99 | 20 minutes
'Early Morning' is the story of Frank, a military medic and father, who unexpectedly meets his son's attractive girlfriend Alea in his Boston home. While there seems to be a shared attraction between them, it turns out they have a connection on a far deeper level…
Later Than Usual (Socially Relevant Film Festival Collection) - ON DEMAND
$2.99 | 7 minutes
An elderly couple marks time toward a not-so-inevitable end. Darkly humorous, this is a cautionary tale…
528 New York - ON DEMAND
$1.99 | 16 minutes
Several interlocking stories involving three lives in New York City. Inspired by real events…
To Be Forever Wild - ON DEMAND
$4.99 | 66 minutes
In To Be Forever Wild, a crew of filmmakers, musicians and artists explore New York's Catskills Mountains, landscapes that have for centuries captured America's imagination and inspired a love of wilderness. Along the way they profile historian, hikers, scientists, cliff divers, organic farmers and others. In the film we see the power…
Dick: The Documentary - ON DEMAND
$5.99 | 48 minutes
In August 2008, filmmaker Brian Fender posted an add on Craigslist to solicit volunteers for a documentary project. He invited "subjects" into his living room to strip down and reveal themselves physically and emotionally through personal stories about their relationship to their penises. Fender interviewed a vast cross-section of anonymous…
Satellite - ON DEMAND
$4.99 | 100 minutes
SATELLITE, is a romantic fable about a young couple who give up everything they have in order to find something better…
Swim Little Fish Swim
$14.95 | 96 minutes
When a bubbly young artist moves into a couple's tiny Chinatown apartment, their already fragile balance is upset even further…