A polite graduation ceremony in the San Francisco Art Institute courtyard warps into a tongue-in-cheek horror film and then a parody of television action shows. Employing irony with genuine affection, Rock Ross brings a welcome irreverence to experimental film and capital-A "Art." With characteristic drollness and a fondness for wordplay, Ross described TILL MY HEAD CAVES IN as "my first anti-intellectual film." - Michael Fox
A polite graduation ceremony in the San Francisco Art Institute courtyard warps into a tongue-in-cheek horror film and then a parody of television action shows. Employing irony with genuine affection, Rock Ross brings a welcome irreverence to experimental film and capital-A "Art." With characteristic drollness and a fondness for wordplay, Ross described TILL MY HEAD CAVES IN as "my first anti-intellectual film." - Michael Fox
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.
Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles with family problems and has his friendships tested by racism.
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.
The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.
Michael is a 24-year-old who has cerebral palsy and long-term resident of the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, run by the formidable Eileen. His life is transformed when the maverick Rory O'Shea moves in.
In revolutionary Iran, as fundamentalists tighten their grip on society, a professor secretly gathers seven of her most dedicated female students to read and discuss forbidden classics of Western literature, including Lolita and Pride and Prejudice. Based on the bestselling memoir by Azar Nafisi. A film by Eran Riklis starring Golshifteh Farahani (Paterson), Zar Amir (Holy Spider), and Mina Kavani (No Bears).
A sweeping drama set in the chaotic aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq, where the life of top UN diplomat Brazilian Sérgio Vieira de Mello hangs in the balance during the most treacherous mission of his career.
A boozy lowlife tries to bury the truth about his crazy stepson's suspicious death, but a nosy newspaper columnist and the young man's mother complicate matters.
Tom and Mae Garvey are a Tennessee farming couple battling violent floods to save their land. In addition to natural disasters, the Garveys fight to stop a selfish land developer and a local corporation from foreclosing on their farm. While Mae stays at home to care for their children and tend to the crops, Tom finds work as a scab at a steel mill to preserve his family's property.
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.