Set in lower Himalayas, it is an ominous piece that uses violent history of its people as a background in order to explore (and explain, perhaps) the people's struggle today. And yet, this history is visually absent from the screen.
Anmol Rai
Pratibha Thapa
Puran Dewan
Pratap Thapa
Lakshmi Pradhan
Set in lower Himalayas, it is an ominous piece that uses violent history of its people as a background in order to explore (and explain, perhaps) the people's struggle today. And yet, this history is visually absent from the screen.
Early morning silence is broken by screeching tires as a helicopter bears down on a speeding vehicle. Taking a quick corner, the team tumbles out into the woods as their car pulls away. Now they must make their way through the thick of nature and thick gunfire to accomplish their mission. Not a single word of dialogue is spoken throughout the entire film. Instead, the music, sounds, images and deeply truthful acting turn a simple plot into an intense experience. Passion and intrigue keep building to the very end.
A man struggles with the tragic memories of his past to make sense of his present, but soon realizes that time isn't the enemy he thinks it is.
Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
A story of a young woman searching for her biological mother. Set against a backdrop of misogyny, revenge, and longing, Rose undertakes a journey that leads her to revelations that are both devastating and dangerous.
A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.
In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.
After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his kingdom, wanton and proud young Salomé comes before her king with an unreasonable demand. Beguiled by John the Baptist, and then scorned for the sake of his god, lascivious Salomé—encouraged by her mother, the vindictive, Herodias—commands that John be executed and his head delivered on a silver platter.
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.
An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.