Reiko teaches at an acting school while working as an actress. Her career has stalled, but she gets a chance to appear in a feature film from a theater group friend who is now a famous actor. Reiko is elated, but then she gets a call from her mother Yukie.
In this story about impoverished urban life, a woman named Kelly has to decide how much risk and sacrifice is worth the chance to get out of the ghetto. Stealing the 250,000 dollars that her fresh-out-of-prison boyfriend is hording from a bank heist, she makes a run for it, fully aware that if he finds her, she will be dead. Both of these people want a chance at a clean life, but after everything they must go through to get it, that life may turn out to be nothing but a dream.
Carmen Aguirre and Tony Nardi star in a remarkable story of friends, lovers, seekers and thieves. Set at the intersection of the Latin American, First Nations and Italian communities, "Bella Ciao!" captures a struggle towards solidarity in East Vancouver's urban mix.
Sholeh is grieving the death of her husband Khosro in an airplane crash. When she finds picture of a woman in Khosro’s belongings, she travels to the south of Iran, where Khosro was a university teacher, in search of the unknown woman.
For his final project for film class in college, Kevin Morris, with the help of his girlfriend Julie and his roommate Jay, is making a documentary in which ex-couple share their breakup stories individually. When he comes across a disturbing secret involving one of his subjects (Ashley), he goes against his better judgment and shares it with Ashley's ex-boyfriend, James. But when the results are anything but satisfying, things start to get dangerous as James acts more ominous and it seems the lives of Kevin, Julie, Jay, and Ashley are soon in question.
Laura Brummels is determined to avenge the death of a young boy - a death she could have prevented, but didn't. It's placed her in a prison of guilt driven by her cooperation as a reporter with a political regime that's successfully corrupted her. Fallen from grace with the regime, Laura is sentenced to Aquila, where no one escapes and an annual monsoon floods the prison, eliminating everyone. And she discovers her chance to clear her conscience: One of the notorious guards is the young boy's killer. This is her chance to avenge the boy's death and relieve her guilt. But there's a surprise for her in the large cell where she's placed: another prisoner, Joseph, has survived the last flood and has been working to escape from Aquila before the next flood comes. He's devised a clever means of removing stones from the prison ceiling, but he can't do it alone. To succeed he must convince his new cell mate to abandon murder and choose to survive with him and escape.
A drug and sex addicted criminal attorney tries to regain control of his life after a case defending his childhood friend begins to unravel him. While attempting to buy a quick fix from a psychiatrist, he reveals the truth behind his addiction fueled inner demons.
In the Spring of 1975, at the height of disco, a peculiar young woman with a passion for nightlife and a hunger for stardom is swept up in a psychological nightmare of cocaine, delusion, and disco.
When Arlis breaks up with college student Lee, he convinces his friends to turn to an online murder-for-hire business to kill her, kickstarting a wave of violence.
An apocalyptic survivor searches for his daughter in the Terlingua desert while two caseworkers, holed up in a bunker, watch and record his every move.
Marc was just a young guy in love, but when the love of his life humiliated him he turned to a life of crime to earn respect. That was until the day she came back into his life. Now will she love the man that he became, or does he have to change who he is. Marc has the ultimate choice: Love or Drugs.
When Xiangyang was ten years old, his grandmother passed away, and he went to live with his father. Father and son used to be strangers but now they gradually get along very well. In order ..