"The grass is always greener"
Struggling to make ends meet, Reuben's desperation for money lands him in a cyber theft scheme that seems seemingly straightforward. Things take a turn when the victim turns out to be an old friend.
Social & External
The people behind it
Ken Stancil Jr.
Reuben Cameroon
Johnny Sparks
Charlie Kanter
Evan Leone
Jacob Estrada
Sunil Acharya
Raj
Inspired by Picasso's Guernica (1937), this film is fundamentally about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Blink is a sci-fi short film about a man living in two different realities. Every day is a new day in the life of Neeraj. But what will happen when Neeraj realizes that his current reality is about to collide with his other one?
A child and a teenager, Souhil, wait for their mother in the car while she prostitutes herself. Souhil gets out of the car and goes to see the bar owner, his mother's pimp, to offer him a deal... Short film made for the 2018 Nikon film festival on the theme "I am a gift".
Trans man Leo's idyllic summer housesitting gig veers off course when his straight, cisgender friend Eleanor shows up for a weekend. These two friends come to realize that their once natural and easy sense of connection is now more tenuous than they'd like to believe.
A heavily pregnant criminal and her partner-in-crime head to a remote service station off the A90 for one last job.
After a romantic night, even the simple things like cooking breakfast can highlight impending difficulties.
As she struggles with her dementia, a mother and her daughter have to deal with their troubled relationship as well as the death of her husband.
An honest and heartfelt confession of a guy. A sharp return to reality.
A portrayal of girlhood through the eyes of an average teenage girl.
In 1971 Salford fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways. But his children, with an English mother and having been born and brought up in Britain, increasingly see themselves as British and start to reject their father's rules on dress, food, religion, and living in general.
On the front lines of the Great War, nurse Simon repairs the broken faces of the soldiers every day with love letters, words from women that have the power to heal the wounds of these paper soldiers. Simon himself seems impervious to holes, uncreasable, untearable in his white coat. His secret is his war godmother, who occupies all his thoughts whenever he has a moment to breathe. But when death strikes where it is least expected, can words written on paper still erase the pain?
A young Roma girl named Fati finds out about her grandmother’s illness—anemia due to iron-deficiency. Disappointed because of her lack of money to buy the necessary medicine, she sees a notice in a discarded newspaper: ‘Ecological Action: wagons for old iron arrive in train station for recycling’. She comes up with a creative plan and goes to see Andrej, the local mafia boss who often visits Grandmother Fatima for fortunetelling. The superstitious boss orders his bodyguards to rob the train and deliver the iron to the old lady. Amazed by the ironic story, the police officers release Perhan and help to obtain the necessary medication for Fatima.
Detective Veli investigates the murder of a little girl with one hair as key evidence and a crime scene that makes her re-examine her own sanity and lifestyle.
When Jeff discovers that the bowling alley he manages is being sold, he must do everything he can to save the place he's come to call home. This is the original / short.
A new kid in town tests the limits at the high school basketball tryouts.
When her own past starts haunting, Alma runs back into where it all began.
A woman performs a simple, everyday task of emptying a dehumidifier only to discover something lurking in the depths of a drain in her basement.
'Guacho' narrates a summer day in the life of two teenage friends, Maikol and Darío, who want to escape their everyday crushing reality, at least for a day. They spend up to the last penny to get to the mountains where, taking refuge in tranquility and mutual love, they manage to get a grasp of happiness. But freedom does not seem to be so available to them.
Manuel is a gay Latino teen who lacks guidance and support. Even though his mother, Anna deeply cares for him, she is only able to prove and instill her love through video tapes made from afar. Keeping his sexuality and boyfriend a secret from his homophobic father, Manuel must decide the life he wants to live or end.
Three sideshow performers form a conspiracy known as "The Unholy Three" - a ventriloquist, midget, and strongman working together to commit a series of robberies.
An examination of the machinations behind the scenes at a real estate office. Unscrupulous salesmen try to hawk dubious real estate to suckers.
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.
A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
An ex-fireman with PTSD goes on the run when accused of a crime he doesn't even remember committing, leading him down a rabbit hole of conspiracy to the highest degree.
A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.
A college student tries to get rich quick by wooing two wealthy sisters.
In New York City, an insolent pickpocket, Skip McCoy, inadvertently sets off a chain of events when he targets ex-prostitute Candy and steals her wallet. Unaware that she has been making deliveries of highly classified information to the communists, Candy, who has been trailed by FBI agents for months in hopes of nabbing the spy ringleader, is sent by her ex-boyfriend, Joey, to find Skip and retrieve the valuable microfilm he now holds.
A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.
At a desert diner, the lives of five strangers become linked through a single twenty-dollar bill. Shot for $20,000 and starring Philip Baker Hall, the short premiered at Sundance and later inspired Anderson’s debut feature Hard Eight (1996).
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec’s father, David Graham, a not-so-successful writer and alcoholic who has neglected his son in the past, flies in from Canada to visit his son on death row. David then goes on a quest to try and clear his son’s name while battling “the bottle.”
A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.
A struggling young father-to-be gives in to temptation and impulsively steals an envelope of money from the office of a corrupt attorney. Instead of a few hundred dollars, it contains $30,000. When he decides to return the money, things go wrong - and that is only the beginning of his troubles.
A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.
An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money.
Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blooded killers. But with street notoriety and newfound wealth, the duo feels the heat from the cops and rival gangsters both. Despite his ruthless criminal reputation, Tom tries to remain connected to his family, however, gang warfare and the need for revenge eventually pull him away.
After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.
Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.