Jack is a 30-something-year-old ex-pat Brit living and working in New York when the INS refuses to renew his Residency Visa and he faces the real possibility of having to leave and go back to the UK which he left back when he was a teenager. Within the first few minutes of the movie, … Continue reading
Mexican filmmaker Ernesto Contreras’s fourth feature film with a script by his brother (Carlos Contreras) is a magical mythical tale about the search for a language that is on the brink of extinction, because the last two remaining elderly speakers are bitter enemies who haven’t exchanged a word for the past 50 years. Martin (Fernando Álvarez … Continue reading
The horrifying real-life story of the mass-murderer Olga Hepnarova, who was the last woman to be hung in Czechoslovakia in 1975 aged 22 after she deliberately drove a truck through a line of people waiting at a bus-stop, makes for very bleak viewing. Shot in black and white in the bleak depressed town where this … Continue reading
Teenage Miguel (Diego Calva) has two major passions in his life. His boyfriend Johnny (Eduardo Eliseo Martinez) who just happens to be the son of his wealthy family’s maid, and skateboarding. Whilst Johnny may share these passions ….. well, definitely the latter …. he also has a very jealous girlfriend too. They all live in Mexico … Continue reading
For some unexplained reason 30 year-old performance artist Jesse is forsaking his life in San Francisco to move back to his family home in Ohio, and he is very unsure if this is a good decision. His room-mate and best friend Wayne is throwing a going away party in the apartment they share, and … Continue reading