"THE STRAP"
slice-of-life short film that unfolds within the everyday setting of a local train, exploring gender dynamics, unspoken cues, and the subtle tension of calling out or staying silent
Social & External
Rachel
Vasu
Ronnie
William Franklin is a teacher who was born in Ireland and moved to the United States only to repatriate in 1939 after his leftist political views cause him to lose his job. Franklin becomes the first non-cleric instructor at St. Jude's, a school for wayward boys run by Brother John, who is a firm believer in strong discipline.
A young woman falls in love with a man but refuses to marry him.
What happens to a typical America family when the government collapses? How does a family stay together through bad water, food shortages, power outages, and burgeoning civil war? Can they fight back? Or it is too late?
This is the story of Janardan who lives in Mumbai with his friend Rahul. Janardan is a simple boy who does pupa and his friend Rahul is exactly opposite to him. Rahul also has a girlfriend. Their romance plan fails because of Janardan. Because he is not ready to leave both of them alone in the room, hence Rahul and his girlfriend make a plan to make Janardan's friendship with Heena and convince Janardan to be in a live-in relationship with Heena. Next day after Heena comes with Janardan, Janardan's Daddu comes to his place to check his eyes. Now even Heena cannot be called, so that Daddu does not know that both of them live together, his struggle and excuses are shown.
In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger.
A group of bored teenagers rebel against authority in the community of New Granada.
Borderline, a film version of the novels Borderline and La Brèche, tells the story of Kiki at various stages of her life. With her mother institutionalized, she is raised by her grandmother, where left to her own devices, she takes refuge in school. Her life before 30 is a far cry from fairy-tale. Sex and alcohol are her only outlets and her daily reality. She goes through men one after another.
Truth is shadowed when a man is wrongfully accused of killing his lover.
The dancer, Azza, breaks down on the road, and Hazem, the commando officer, helps her, and they fall in love. But then he is called to participate in the front, and she receives the news that he has died, and she is sad about him.
Love hurts.
A group of five veteran hunters tries to mold two young boys into one of their own, but this takes a wrong turn.
Insight comes from an alien place.
Peeing shouldn't be so problematic.
Lesbians Until Graduation.
Catholic wedding with a twist.
Movie mash-up comments on prop 8.
Small town transvestite shops for love.
Sex worker and client find a surprise.
After the fatal accident of his parents and older brother, Jason leaves his life behind to write about art in the field of anthropology. However, the publisher who attracts him by recognizing his writing talent requires Jason to change some points to become more commercial. Jason at first refuses but after the advice of the psychologist he changes his mind and accepts. But in the presentation of his final idea he reviews and leaves the bookstore.
One day a young Brazilian man living in Japan crashes his car into the side of the house of a happy family. They take him in after realizing he had been beaten. As they get to know each other they find the bonds of family transcend blood and lineage.
A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.
An urban love story set on the hard streets of the Bronx. A struggling female pimp, named Wednesday, grows up learning the game from her dad. Once he's gone she's left to look out for her prostitute mother and girlfriend Nikki.
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl.
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.
Mouse desperately wants to join The Midnight Clique, the infamous Baltimore dirt bike riders who rule the summertime streets. When Midnight’s leader, Blax, takes 14-year-old Mouse under his wing, Mouse soon finds himself torn between the straight-and-narrow and a road filled with fast money and violence.
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season.
A noir thriller set in Miami, the film follows an enforcer who discovers his femme fatale boss has branched out into cyber sex trafficking, putting a young runaway he’s befriended at risk. He sacrifices everything to save the young girl from the deadly organization he’s spent his life building.
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.
A former youth boxing champion, Jimmy McCabe is a man in search of hope but looking in all the wrong places. When he hits rock bottom he turns to his childhood boxing club and the only family he has left: gym owner Bill corner man Eddie and promoter Joe. Back in training, years after anyone thought he was a contender, he risks his life, as he tries to stand tall and regain his place in the world.
After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his kingdom, wanton and proud young Salomé comes before her king with an unreasonable demand. Beguiled by John the Baptist, and then scorned for the sake of his god, lascivious Salomé—encouraged by her mother, the vindictive, Herodias—commands that John be executed and his head delivered on a silver platter.
Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.
When a law student accidentally kills the son of a mob boss in a fight, he finds himself relentlessly pursued by the mob and the police.
A former special forces contractor is forced out of retirement as an avocado farmer in Mexico when local gangsters try to force him and his family off their farm.
Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.
Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.
When a change of circumstances leaves Miriam unable to pay her college tuition, she makes a surprising decision: to start performing in adult films, using the pseudonym Belle Knox. Miriam lies to her family and her friends at school, keeping her double life a secret. But soon rumours spread and Miriam becomes the subject of vicious online attacks and unwanted attention. Miriam fights back: she talks to the media, saying her new line of work empowers her as a feminist. But her confident stand has unintended consequences. Miriam is shunned by her conservative family and her colleagues in the adult film world. One impulsive decision has quickly spiralled out of control - and Miriam's problems are just beginning.
MMA legend Patton James, now a commercial fisherman, is pulled back into the cage when his brother is in danger. Reuniting with his old coach Sammy, he commits to one final fight in one championship against the brutal champion Xavier Grau.
An aging, out-of-work actress accepts one last job, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn't consider.