Barb and Star go to Vista del Mar

After being laid off due to their store closing, Barb (Annie Mumolo) and Star (Kristen Wiig) decide to go on a vacation far from their midwestern town to beautiful Vista del Mar.  While vacationing at the beach resort, they meet the handsome Edgar (Jamie Dornan) who does little in the way of resisting their advances. …

Memoria

Jessica (Tilda Swinton), travels to Columbia to meet her sister Karen (Agnes Brekke) who has fallen ill.  One morning, Jessica is jolted awake by a loud, singular bang that rattles through her body, yet only she can hear.  She meets with Hernán (Juan Pablo Urrego), a sound technician, who helps recreate the sound. Her journey towards discovery…

Censor

Enid (Niamh Algar) works at a film censorship office, editing out the blood and gore from new wave horror films of the 1980’s to make them more acceptable for public audiences. One of the films that she is assigned to, however, feels different. The images, the plot, and the actress in the lead all bring…

Paper Tiger

Edward (Alan Trong) is a troubled and struggling teen. He has trouble fitting in at school, and at home, his father has recently passed away and his mother, Lily (Lydia Look), has only months left to live before cancer takes her, too. As Edward’s behavior grows more and more erratic, Lily begins to fear that…

Jockey

Jackson Silva (Clifton Collins Jr) is an accomplished horse jockey nearing retirement.  The track has not been kind on his body over the years resulting in a myriad of serious injuries, but there is still a flicker of passion left in his tired bones.  He and his trainer, Ruth (Molly Parker) have their eyes set…

Giants Being Lonely

In the American South, a high school baseball team, The Giants, continues their reign of an undefeated season.  For the players, though, their lives off the field are not as winning.  Bobby White (Jack Irv), the star pitcher often wanders the town at night before sleeping outside to avoid his alcoholic father (Larry Miller).  Adam…

The World to Come

As winter encroaches on a small New York farmstead, the family therein prepares for, what will be, the hardest winter of their lives.  Abigail (Katherine Waterson) and her husband Dyer (Casey Affleck), through the trials of death and illness, find their marriage is under more strain with each passing day.  Abigail’s only relief in life…

Drive My Car

Yūsuke (Hidetoshi Nishijima) is an acclaimed theatre actor who is married to Oto (Reika Kirishima), an accomplished screenwriter.  Their relationship is fraught with tragedy having lost a young daughter to pneumonia, and to escape the troubles of his home life, Yūsuke often goes for drives to clear his mind – a hobby that is jeopardized…

Identifying Features

Jesús (Juan Jesús Varela) and Rigo (Armando García), two adolescent boys from Guanajuato, Mexico, announce one morning to their families that they will make the trek north to the United States. Weeks later, when Rigo is found dead, Jesús’ mother Magdalena (Mercedes Hernandez), resolves to follow her son’s footsteps to see if he was able…