Set in 1986 Queens and Brooklyn, an engineer aspiring to middle-class comforts is pulled into a shady deal with Russian criminals by his brother, a former NYPD cop — endangering his family with life-altering consequences.
Set in a provincial Russian town in 2022, against the backdrop of the Russo-Ukrainian war, successful company director Gleb faces mounting corporate pressure — including a quota of workers to send to war — while discovering his wife's infidelity, sending his carefully ordered life spiraling toward violence. A remake of Claude Chabrol's The Unfaithful Wife.
A young illustrator on the cusp of success leaves her exciting life in 1990s San Francisco to return to her eccentric family, who must confront their vibrant mother's Alzheimer's disease. Adult animated biographical drama based on Sarah Leavitt's graphic memoir.
A young illustrator on the cusp of success leaves her exciting life in 1990s San Francisco to return to her eccentric family, who must confront their vibrant mother's Alzheimer's disease. Adult animated biographical drama based on Sarah Leavitt's graphic memoir.
In Metropia, a gigantic city in an alternate future as seen from 1939, private eye Raymond Gunn is drawn into a case involving aliens, murder, and a multimedia star named Venus Nova. A neo-noir animated blend of “Buck Rogers meets The Maltese Falcon.”
LINE COOKS is a coming of age mockumentary following Callie, a straight-A and sheltered college student who takes a job as line cook at a hole in the wall restaurant to secure a letter of recommendation… only to find out this Korean-taco joint is run by ex-cons and cartel members. Callie is spirited into the world of backroom restaurant cooks, startled by cigarette smoke and health hazards aplenty. Working alongside a take-no-shit mom-of-three manager, a trio of rebellious teens, an ex-cartel vet, and a dumpster rat named Carl, it’ll take all of Callie’s willpower to make it through her first shift, let alone an entire summer. Full of wit, fun, and OSHA violations, LINE COOKS follows an unlikely team of customer service heroes leading up to the dreaded health inspector’s visit at the end of the summer.
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LINE COOKS is a coming of age mockumentary following Callie, a straight-A and sheltered college student who takes a job as line cook at a hole in the wall restaurant to secure a letter of recommendation… only to find out this Korean-taco joint is run by ex-cons and cartel members. Callie is spirited into the world of backroom restaurant cooks, startled by cigarette smoke and health hazards aplenty. Working alongside a take-no-shit mom-of-three manager, a trio of rebellious teens, an ex-cartel vet, and a dumpster rat named Carl, it’ll take all of Callie’s willpower to make it through her first shift, let alone an entire summer. Full of wit, fun, and OSHA violations, LINE COOKS follows an unlikely team of customer service heroes leading up to the dreaded health inspector’s visit at the end of the summer.
Eight-year-old Josephine witnesses a brutal sexual assault while jogging with her father in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. As fear and paranoia take hold, she begins acting out, haunted by what she saw — while her devoted but deeply conflicted parents navigate how to support her, especially as police ask her to testify.
Eight-year-old Josephine witnesses a brutal sexual assault while jogging with her father in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. As fear and paranoia take hold, she begins acting out, haunted by what she saw — while her devoted but deeply conflicted parents navigate how to support her, especially as police ask her to testify.
An explosive cinematic rollercoaster about a group of visionaries and misfits with an idea for a new kind of news — one that would give people what they want and change the face of the world. Chronicles Rupert Murdoch's 1969 acquisition of British tabloid The Sun.
The Coronado Island Film Festival (CIFF) welcomes makers and lovers of film from all over the world to the storied seaside village of Coronado, California to celebrate the magical art of visual storytelling. Coronado’s enduring love affair with Hollywood began more than a century ago.