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Director:

Christopher Munch

Writer:

Christopher Munch

Stars:

Campbell Scott, Agnes Bruckner, George Gerdes

A respected journalist uncovers the truth behind the mythology of President Eisenhower’s long-alleged involvement in extraterrestrial events.

Director:

Ramsey Denison

Stars:

Eric Paddock, Doug Poppa, Cathy Scott 

Every year, millions lose billions in Vegas, but after Stephen Paddock opens fire on a crowd of 22,000 and kills 58 people, Sin City’s image as a safe adult playground is put in jeopardy.

Director:

Peter Sellers

Writers:

Marcel Pagnol, Pierre Rouve 

Stars:

Peter Sellers, Nadia Gray, Herbert Lom

Mr. Topaze (‘Peter Sellers’) is an unassuming school teacher in an unassuming small French town who is honest to a fault. He is fired when he refuses to give a passing grade to a bad student, the grandson of a wealthy baroness. Castel Benac , a government official who runs a crooked financial business on the side, is persuaded by his mistress, Suzy, a musical comedy actress, to hire Mr. Topaze as the front man for his business. Gradually, Topaze becomes a rapacious financier who sacrifices his honesty for success and, in a final stroke of business bravado, fires Benac and acquires Suzy in the deal. An old friend and colleague, Tamise questions him and tells Topaze that if what he now says and practices indicates there are no more honest men.

Director:

Jan Komasa

Writer:

Mateusz Pacewicz

Stars:

Bartosz Bielenia, Aleksandra Konieczna, Eliza Rycembel

Daniel experiences a spiritual transformation in a detention center. Although his criminal record prevents him from applying to the seminary, he has no intention of giving up his dream and decides to minister a small-town parish.

Director:

Matt Wolf

Stars:

John Allen, Abigail Alling, Margret Augustine

Spaceship Earth is the true, stranger-than-fiction, adventure of eight visionaries who in 1991 spent two years quarantined inside of a self-engineered replica of Earth’s ecosystem called BIOSPHERE 2. The experiment was a worldwide phenomenon, chronicling daily existence in the face of life threatening ecological disaster and a growing criticism that it was nothing more than a cult. The bizarre story is both a cautionary tale and a hopeful lesson of how a small group of dreamers can potentially re imagine anew world.

Director:

Benjamin Ree

Stars:

Karl Bertil-Nordland, Barbora Kysilkova

Some stories are so incredible that a documentary is required to do them full justice. One such story is the one about the the painter and the thief. When two of artist Barbora Kysilkova’s most valuable paintings are stolen from a gallery at Frogner in Oslo, the police are able to find the thief after a few days, but the paintings are nowhere to be found. Barbora goes to the trial in hopes of finding clues, but instead she ends up asking the thief if she can paint a portrait of him. This will be the start of a very unusual friendship. Over three years, the cinematic documentary follows the incredible story of the artist looking for her stolen paintings, while at the same time turning the thief into art.

Director:

Michael Winterbottom

Stars:

Rob Brydon, Steve Coogan, Michael Towns

Nearly ten years after their first journey together round the gastronomic hot spots of northern England, Steve and Rob set off on a fourth and final expedition, this time setting out from the ruins of Troy in modern-day Turkey as they head to Greece to retrace the steps of legendary king Odysseus, the hero of Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey, on his journey home to Ithaca at the end of the Trojan War. Steve and Rob’s semi-fictional alter-egos hit the road in search of culture, history, breath-taking vistas and, of course, some of the finest food in Europe.

Director:

Sasie Sealy

Writers:

Angela Cheng, Sasie Sealy

Stars:

Tsai Chin, Hsiao-Yuan Ha, Michael Tow

The movie, starring Tsai Chin,  is the feature directorial debut of Sasie Sealy. “Lucky Grandma” held its world premiere at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival as the second recipient of the AT&T Presents: Untold Stories $1 million grant initiative and went on to an international premiere at the BFI London Film Festival. Set in New York’s Chinatown, Chin portrays an ornery, newly-widowed 80-year-old eager to live life as an independent woman, despite her family’s concerns. When a local fortune teller (Wai Ching Ho) predicts a most auspicious day in her future, she decides to head to the casino, only to land herself on the wrong side of luck by suddenly attracting the attention of local gangsters. She then employs the services of a bodyguard from a rival gang, played by Corey Ha. “’Lucky Grandma’ is a dynamic comedy with a stand-out performance by Tsai Chin. A new song by Akwafina is also featured.

Director:

Rubaiyat Hossain

Writers:

Rubaiyat Hossain, Philippe Barrière (co-writer)

Stars:

Rikita Nandini Shimu, Novera Rahman, Parvin Paru

Shimu, 23, works in a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Faced with difficult conditions at work, she decides to start a union with her co-workers. Despite threats from the management and disapproval of her husband, Shimu is determined to go on. Together the women must fight and find a way.

Director:

Jeff Barnaby

Writer:

Jeff Barnaby

Stars:

Michael Greyeyes, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Forrest Goodluck

The dead are coming back to life outside the isolated Mi’gmaq reserve of Red Crow, except for its Indigenous inhabitants who are immune to the zombie plague. Traylor, the tribal sheriff, must protect his son’s pregnant girlfriend, apocalyptic refugees, and reserve riff raff from the hordes of walking white corpses.

Director:

Mikelle Virey

Writer:

Tomas Street

Stars:

David Knoll, Noah Ryan Scott, Richard Davis, Jacob Ewaniuk,

12 year old Brian Russell is the new kid in town, again. As he navigates another set of unwritten rules of the school yard Brian finds himself tangled in the strings of small town politics when he clashes heads with the Mayor’s son, the local press owners youngest, and the Librarian’s pretty daughter. A family series as much for adults as their children, KID’S TOWN is about young love, friendship, small town civics, power struggles and the universal need to figure out one’s place in the world.