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Directed by Alonzo Mayo, USA / 2012 / 95 min/English Luke, 25, is autistic and has lived a sheltered life with his grandparents. When grandma dies, he is forced to live with his dysfunctional relatives who have no patience for him or his senile grandpa-who they quickly force into a nursing home. His grandfather’s final words: “Get a job. Find a girl. Live your own life. Be a man!” For the first time in his life, Luke has a mission. He is about to embark on a quest. Funny, sweet and unforgettable
Directed by Cate Shortland, Germany / 2012 / 109 min / German w/English sub-titles 1945. After their SS Nazi parents are taken into Allied custody, 5 German children undertake a harrowing journey that exposes them to the reality and consequences of their parents’ actions. Led by the eldest sibling, Lore, they set out across a devastated country to reach their grandmother in the north. TRAILER:
Directed by Alex de la Inglesia, Spain / 2012 / 95 min / Spanish w/English sub-titles A bitingly funny and often perverse satire on reality television and the effect of today’s economy. Salma Hayek stars in this riveting satire about an advertising executive who inadvertently becomes an overnight news phenomenon when an accident puts him in mortal danger. TRAILER:
Directed by Ruggero Dipaola, Greece-Italy / 2011 / 95 min / Greek & Italian w/English sub-titles Athens, 1943. An apartment is requisitioned to provide accommodation for a German officer. In the apartment live the Helianos, a middle-aged couple who used to be well-off. He is an intellectual, she is an anxious housewife. They have a ten-year-old son who is filled with melodramatic revenge fantasies and a twelve-year old daughter. With the arrival of Captain Kalter everything changes. TRAILER:
Gary King, USA / 2012 / 104 min / English Joe dreams of hitting it big on Broadway. After landing an opportunity to write for an Off-Broadway musical, he is forced to cast either the love of his life Evey or his newly discovered muse Summer. The realities of show business prove to Joe that writing is easy, living is hard. TRAILER
Directed by Lisa Mills, USA / 2011 / 82 min / English A retired rocket scientist who worked on the Apollo engineering team now believes that sending humans to Mars is not a very good idea. Follow Wally Nelson to Kennedy Space Center and Washington, DC as he tries to convince astronauts, space administrators and politicians that spending money on solutions to world peace is a much better idea. TRAILER
Michel Ocelot, France / 2011 / 84 min / French w/English sub-titles. The film weaves together six exotic fables each unfolding in a unique locale, from Tibet, to medieval Europe, an Aztec kingdom, the African plains, and even the Land of the Dead. In Ocelot's storytelling, history blends with fairytale as viewers are whisked off to enchanted lands full of dragons, werewolves and captive princesses- each fable ends with its own ironic twist. TRAILER:
Directed by Phil Volken, USA / 2012 / 83 min / English Lenny and Abbott are two garbage men with the enviable route of Beverly Hills. Abbott drives the truck. Lenny, who idolizes Hollywood, is the outside guy. They are both lovable guys who seem to enjoy their work and the few perks that come with it. On one fine day as they are empting their load at the county dump, something catches Lenny's eye and almost immediately their lives begin to change. TRAILER
USA / 2012 / 90 min / Following an 18-year, award-winning career at CBS News, Kearns was named a Benedum Professor of Journalism at West Virginia University where he taught from 1971 to 1983. In 1976, CBS told a Congressional hearing that Kearns also worked for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency while in Egypt in the 1950s. He denied it until his death in 1986. TRAILER
directed by Victor Viyuoh, Cameroon / 2012 / 95 min / English + Pidgin & Babanki w/English sub-titles At 20, Ninah is a veteran wife of 7 years and a mother of 3. She is stuck in an abusive relationship. Her family lives off her meager earnings from farm work while her husband, Memfi, drinks away his equally meager earnings as a shepherd. When news of her gravely ill father reaches Ninah, she decides to go speak her peace to her father even as her husband commands her to stay. TRAILER
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