On the eve before she is to leave for boarding school, Wendy Darling (Ever Anderson) has one last sword fight with her imaginative younger brothers, John (Joshua Pickering) and Michael (Jacobi Jupe). Wishing to stay at home and enjoy her childhood a little while longer, she is relieved – and a bit scared – when…
Category: Contemporary
Sisu
As the Nazis make their scorched earth retreat out of Finland, Aatami (Jorma Tommila), with a satchel full of gold crosses their path. The Nazis view his treasure as a way to secure their escape from the law now that the war is ending, and their regime has fallen. Aatami, however, is a skilled mercenary…
Chupa
Alex (Evan Whitten) begrudgingly goes on a trip to Mexico to visit his grandfather, Chava (Demián Bichir), though he would rather stay in his room and play on his GameBoy. After his father died months earlier from cancer, Alex began to reject his Mexican heritage despite his mother’s (Adriana Paz) pressing. When he arrives at…
Polite Society
An aspiring stunt performer, Ria (Priya Kansara) has little support at home or at school as her parents and teachers all want to see her go on to become a doctor. The only exception is her older sister, Lena (Ritu Arya), who helps her film videos for her channel and encourages her in her training. …
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Xochitl (Ariela Barer), an environmental activist who grew up in the shadow of an oil refinery, is tired of the small-step demonstrations mounted by her college and wants to make a bold statement against the fossil fuel industry. Michael (Forrest Goodluck) is an amateur pyrotechnician who runs a DIY explosives community online. Shawn (Marcus Scribner)…
Beau is Afraid
Beau (Joaquin Phoenix) lives alone in his run-down, insect-infested apartment. Having overslept and almost missing his flight back to the family home, he gets further delayed when his keys are stolen from his door and his luggage is missing. Desperate not to disappoint his mother, Mona (Patti LuPone), Beau resolves to make the important journey…
Chevalier
Joseph Bologne (Kelvin Harrison Jr.), or Chevalier de Saint-Georges as he was often referred to as, was born in the mid 1700s as an illegitimate son of George Bologne (Jim High), a slave owner, and Nanon (Ronke Adekoluejo), the personal attendant to George’s wife. Joseph is sent away and enrolled into a prestigious school where…
Suzume
Deep beneath Japan, there lives a giant worm, and when it emerges through various doors and portals strewn throughout the island, disaster follows. To protect the land, an ancient order of “Closers” had been formed to create keystones to help seal the worm in its lair and close any of the doors which may have…
Tetris
At the 1988 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Henk Rogers (Taron Egerton) promotes Bullet Proof Software’s newest game, Go, to less-than-stellar reception. As he wanders the showroom floor, he notices a crowd forming around another game, Tetris, and he becomes enraptured by the simple yet addicting concept. Henk begins to ask around about the…
