Peruvian filmmaker Claudia Llosa makes her English language debut with Aloft, a curious mixture of falconry and faith healing. Featuring an impressive cast including Jennifer Connelly, Cillian Murphy, and Melanie Laurent, Aloft features strong perfor …Read more
The Ford Mustang is the embodiment of traditional American values. As such, its place at the forefront of the American auto industry and popular culture has been well cemented over the last 50 years. So how do you approach the redesigning of such a b …Read more
First-time feature director Carleton Ranney challenges you to imagine a world in which modern technology failed and ceases to exist. A mysterious event cripples the world’s digital infrastructure, disconnecting everything and rendering all but the mo …Read more
“Sometimes we would go out 9 times in a year, sometimes once, and in one particular year, we didn’t leave the apartment at all,” explains Govinda Angulo, “our father was the only one with keys.” Director Crystal Moselle felt a documentarian’s itch ri …Read more
In the film A Courtship, director Amy Kohn tells of the phenomenon called “courtship” through Kelly’s story. Kelly (33) had her heart broken in college and vowed never to go through such pain again. This is when she found out about courtship, a pract …Read more
In Palio director Cosima Spender highlights the unbreakable bond between the Palio and her home—Siena, Italy. The Palio is a horse race that was first run in 1238, and so the race is so steeped in history that it has become the city’s crowning tradit …Read more
Toto (10), Andreea (14), and Ana (17) live in a filthy apartment with no appliances or running water. Their mother was arrested for drug offenses and the door is still damaged from when the police broke it down; the siblings talk endlessly about when …Read more
When Ryan and Amy Green found out their son Joel had a brain tumor they were devastated. But they decided to take an optimistic and proactive approach—to live everyday as if Joel was not sick. However it wasn’t quite as simple as simply “thinking pos …Read more
Shimmering with menace and mystery, Bridgend takes an ongoing tragedy and imbues it with the timeless quality of a pitch-dark fairy tale. Set in a small town in Wales where over 70 people have committed suicide since 2007, most coming from the same c …Read more
Come Down Molly defies any “drug film” expectations from the start. The film opens with a long and beautiful, nearly dialogue-free sequence where Molly (Eléonore Hendricks) plays with her year-old son. There is a twinge of melancholy even in what mig …Read more