The vaquita, the world’s smallest whale, is near extinction as its habitat is destroyed by Mexican cartels and Chinese mafia, who harvest the swim bladder of the totoaba fish, the “cocaine of the sea.” Environmental activists, Mexican navy and undercover investigators are fighting back against this illegal multi-million-dollar business.
Filmed over six years, RISK is a character study that collides with a high stakes election year and its controversial aftermath. Cornered in a tiny building for half a decade, Julian Assange is undeterred even as the legal jeopardy he faces threatens to undermine the organization he leads and fracture the movement he inspired. Capturing this story, director Laura Poitras finds herself caught between the motives and contradictions of Assange and his inner circle.
Pretty Boys is a romantic comedy following Grey, a flamboyant and charming twink, and his longtime best friend, Jonas, a heartthrob with a masculine appeal. While Jonas effortlessly navigates the gay dating scene, Grey struggles to find love, convinced his effeminate style is a hindrance. But despite countless rejections, Grey remains hopeful. Their world is turned upside down when Yates, Grey’s first love, returns from Boston. Grey’s heart races at the chance to reignite their old flame, but his plans are derailed when Yates unexpectedly confesses his feelings for Jonas. Enlisting Grey’s help to win Jonas’s heart, Yates puts Grey in a love triangle he never saw coming. As the plot unfolds, Grey faces a crucial decision: support Yates in his pursuit of Jonas, or seize the opportunity to rekindle his own love story and prove that love knows no stereotypes
Documentarist Janus Metz and cameraman Lars Skee spent six months with a group of Danish soldiers at the Armadillo army base in Afghanistan. The outcome of their work is a gripping and highly authentic war drama that was justly awarded the Grand Prix de la Semaine de la Critique at this year’s Cannes film festival.
A lavish train ride unfolds into a stylish & suspenseful mystery. From the novel by Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express tells of thirteen stranded strangers & one man’s race to solve the puzzle before the murderer strikes again.
Ramirez Hishkenstien, a disturbed and eccentric film director of exploitation cinema, hits the back roads of America with his DP, Flanksteak. Together they experience a barrage of psychedelic, satanic, and surreal nightmares.
Fashion designer Marian falls in love and marries attorney Edward. Her idyllic romance and marriage are shattered when she learns that Edward is the son of a powerful and feared mafia family. Edward’s family begins to impose its illegal and dangerous activities upon Marian and her friends. When her best friend is murdered after confronting Edward’s family, she wants out and begins to fight against the family’s ominous power and reach.
A hotel room shootout between two assassins kicks off a long night of bodies falling like dominoes, as we follow a chain of crooked cops, gangsters, hitmen, a femme Fatale and an ex-mercenary through a confluence of murder, betrayal, revenge and redemption.
Young mother Lori must say goodbye to her husband, who decides to join the war against ISIS. She finds herself in a fight in midst her own society. Thus, Lori searches to express her feelings in dance.
After a night out of partying and left behind by her friends, Ava wakes up and sneaks back home only to find that she’s already safe in bed. But that’s not Ava – it’s someone who looks just like her. A time-traveling fugitive has stolen Ava’s body, her identity, and her life. What’s more — she’s not alone. There are others, hiding in the past, secretly living among us, plotting to alter the future. Without her body, Ava is a virtual ghost, silent and invisible to the world. And, so far as she knows, she’s the only one who can stop them and put the timeline back on course.
Lulu Danger’s unsatisfying marriage takes a turn for the worse when a mysterious man from her past comes to town to perform an event called “An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn; For One Magical Night Only.”
Follows a widowed mom who takes a job as an overnight security guard to keep an eye on her teenage daughter during the day. During her shift, she witnesses a murder, only to later discover the victim is alive and well.
