While a woman makes an omelette, we learn how difficult it is to make ends meet. 7-minute short film which won honorable mention at Sundance 2009. Created at the invitation of Capital Weekly as part of the first BC omnibus film '15' - 15 authors, 15 years, 15 short films.
Svetla Tsotsorkova
While a woman makes an omelette, we learn how difficult it is to make ends meet. 7-minute short film which won honorable mention at Sundance 2009. Created at the invitation of Capital Weekly as part of the first BC omnibus film '15' - 15 authors, 15 years, 15 short films.
Zoë is a single mother who lives with her four children in Dartford. She is poor and can't afford to buy food. One day her old flame drives by and asks her to go on a date with him. Scared that he doesn't want to go out with her, she lies and tells him that she is just babysitting the kids. This will be her first date in years.
In a forgotten pocket of Southern Ohio where American manufacturing and opportunity are drying up, a determined young woman finds a ticket out when she is accepted to college. Alongside her older brother, Ruth Avery joins a dangerous scrap metal crew in order to pay her way. Together, they spend one brutal winter working the scrap yards during the day and stealing valuable metal from the once thriving factories by night. With her goal in sight, Ruth finds that the ultimate cost of an education for a girl like her may be more than she bargained for, and she soon finds herself torn between a promising future and the family she would leave behind.
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 a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.
ฮิลารี่ สแวงค์และแอนเจลิกา ฮัสตันนำแสดงในภาพยนตร์ของเอชบีโอเกี่ยวกับการเคลื่อนไหวเพื่อสิทธิการเลือกตั้งสตรีในอเมริกายุค 1920
แม่ (รับบทโดยจูเลีย หลุยส์-เดรย์ฟัส) และลูกสาววัยรุ่น (รับบทโดยโลล่า เพ็ตติครูว์) ต้องเผชิญหน้ากับความตายเมื่อมาปรากฏตัวในรูปของนกที่พูดได้และน่าทึ่ง จากผู้กำกับหน้าใหม่ ไดนา โอ. พูซิค Tuesday เป็นเทพนิยายสุดสะเทือนใจเกี่ยวกับเสียงสะท้อนของการสูญเสียและการค้นพบความเข้มแข็งท่ามกลางเหตุการณ์ไม่คาดฝัน
พ่อแม่ผู้โศกเศร้าเผชิญเส้นทางชีวิตที่เปล่าเปลี่ยวระทมทุกข์ เพราะอาลัยลูกรักที่จากไปในเหตุกราดยิงโรงเรียนสุดสะเทือนขวัญ
Fourteen-year-old Mo is a lonely, sensitive boy whose hunger for the rant and banter of buddies makes him prone to tread dangerous territories. He idolizes his handsome older brother, Rashid, a charismatic, well-respected member of a local gang, whose drug dealing enables “Rash” to provide for his family. Aching to be seen as a tough guy himself, Mo takes a job that unlocks a fateful turn of events and forces the brothers to confront their inner demons. It turns out that hate is easy. It is love and understanding that take real courage.
Inspired by a true story, this film tells the shocking tale of a mother and daughter who are nothing like they seem, their tumultuous relationship ending in a brutal murder.
During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.