MOVIE LIST - 2019

[ UNUM ] (lat."one") is presented in 9:16 format - flipped vertically - as a metaphor for the singularity of life. Beginning with a carnal prologue between man and woman, the figurative journey continues with a lone huntsman at a cave. A company by his loyal dog the huntsman discovers and delivers delicate honey to a shady merchant and his nefarious cat - as a single drop of the sweet nectar releasing the furies of fate.

One digs beneath the surface of the other to reach the deepest place of his heart during struggles. It lightens up the darkness. They fulfill one another within the sense of oneness.

Through the eyes of a macaque mother, a group of snow monkeys has to face the strict rules which govern their community.

From a seed to war, from meat to love, from indifference to apocalypse. An attempt to capture the world in a nutshell.

An elderly woman drifts back through her memories. She exists between two states, the past and the present.

After an uncomfortable break up, a couple tries to share their apartment with each other as well as an annoying ghost that appears. Bleeding ceilings, smashed dishes, and non-stop shrieking becomes another thing for the two of them to not talk about.

S., 8 years old, is a little Turkish girl with an overflowing imagination. She is keen on nature and animals. While she is looking back on the good old days in her grandparents' village from hospital room, dark and terrifying memories emerge and, little by little, begin to make sense.

Three brothers attempt to reenact a childhood photo as a gift for their mother's birthday.

'Weekends' is the story of a young boy shuffling between the homes of his recently divorced parents. Surreal dream-like moments mix with the domestic realities of a broken up family in this hand-animated film set in 1980s Toronto.

A man witnesses a shocking crime. In exchange for his life, he promises to never tell anyone what he saw.

An anti-ageist comedy about a man's dream to win the Rucker Classic street ball tournament in Harlem.

A young girl spends the evening alone at home. She decides to have some sweet solo pleasure session, but not everything goes according to plan.

In this dark comedy of manners, soccer moms Jill and Lisa seek the approval of their "friends" - at all costs. This surreal world is just on the edge of consciousness; suburbia through the looking glass. Every adult wears painful braces on their straight teeth, couples coordinate meticulously pressed outfits, and coveted family members become pawns in this competition for acceptance. Greener Grass explores one's willingness to endure present pain in exchange for future validation - or at least a perfect smile.

Willie Bingham is the first man to undergo a radical new justice program under the State's revised stance on capital crime.

In the depths of a snowy forest in an unknown wartime, two soldiers from opposing armies try to outwit each other in a perilous game of Tic-Tac-Toe, until they find themselves outplayed by karma.

A woman misses her train and buys lunch in a café. When she returns to her table, a man is eating her salad.

During an opulent banquet, eleven pampered guests participate in what appears to be a ritualistic gastronomic carnage. In this grotesque universe, an unexpected sequence of events destabilizes the endless symphony of abundance.

Captures the experience of being the new kid in school through the eyes of Joseph, a nine year-old African boy.

A modern couple can't connect over Lindsey's new short hair.

Two determined mothers­, one a teacher, look to transform their children's failing inner city school. Facing a powerful and entrenched bureaucracy, they risk everything to make a difference in the education and future of their children.

Blane is a bodybuilder who happens to get turned on when his dominatrix empties his wallet and loves to be called a little bitch; he's a pay pig.

Life of a singer, her daughter and her friends change when they meet with a divorced man.

A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver for an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South.

On the margins of Tokyo, a dysfunctional band of outsiders are united by loyalty, a penchant for petty theft and playful grifting. When the young son is arrested, secrets are exposed that upend their tenuous, below-the-radar existence.

A middle-aged barber has to calm the situation when a desperate teenage drug dealer holds up the barbershop at gunpoint.