In director Julia von Heinz’s “Hanna’s Journey” Karoline Schuch plays the title character, an arrogant young woman from Berlin who decides to do volunteer service in Israel in order to pump up her resume, because according to her nothing looks better …Read more

“Her work is timeless because it’s political but it’s about human beings, the relationships between us” explains director Sabine Lidl, about the subject of her new documentary, iconic photographer Nan Goldin. In “Nan Goldin – I Remember Your Face” Li …Read more

In “West”, director Christian Schwochow takes us to 1970’s Germany to tell the story of Nelly Senff (Jordis Triebel) a woman who decides to escape from behind the wall taking her young son Alexej (Tristan Gobel) with her. In the West she realizes tha …Read more

“Homemakers” is a film so filled with destruction and chaos, both physical and emotional, that it’s possible to miss its deeper themes, which are lurking like something hidden behind the walls that its protagonist so ardently destroys. But it’s not t …Read more

Known as one of the most famous representatives of the 1950’s San Francisco Renaissance and a precursor of the Beat generation, James Broughton has always been a “multi-medium” artist, expressing himself through both poems and experimental films. He …Read more

It seems as if director Martin Provost’s mission is to make films about female artists who struggled to earn recognition during their lifetimes. In 2008’s “Seraphine” he introduced moviegoers to self-taught painter Séraphine de Senlis who, inspired b …Read more

“Uncertain Terms,” the newest film from director Nathan Silver, centers on Robbie (David Dahlbom), a thirty-something Brooklynite who leaves the city for a refuge, except not one he belongs in. Rather, it’s a secluded home for pregnant teenagers run …Read more

“A Coffee in Berlin” chronicles a day in the life of young college dropout Niko (Tom Schilling); at its onset a day of no outsized significance but one that, through the accumulation of minor tragedies and major eccentricities, gradually takes on a s …Read more

In Susanna Fogel’s “Life Partners”, Greer Grammer plays Mia, an energetic girl who tries to win Sasha’s (Leighton Meester) heart. Even though she’s in just a few scenes, Grammer lights up the screen and makes you wish you could see more of Mia. Beaut …Read more

Reading the title, one would imagine “The Case Against 8” as an intense John Grisham thriller. In actuality, filmmakers Ben Cotner & Ryan White deliver a heartwarming, inside look at the case against California’s gay marriage ban, Prop 8. At hear …Read more