Nina Ljeti
Set in a near-future, post-war America, Divine Children tells the story of Buzz, a teenage boy with a passion for Britney Spears who dreams of becoming an international popstar. When a tough gang of older kids dare Buzz to walk across an active minefield, Buzz agrees. If he makes it, he believes it will ensure his survival in the new world.
In 19th century Baltimore, Isabel Porter, a girl stricken with grief from her parents' untimely death, voluntarily checks herself into the Rosewood Institute. Subjected to bizarre and increasingly violent pseudo-scientific experiments in personality modification, brainwashing and mind control, she must escape the clutches of the Rosewood and exact her revenge, or else be forever lost.
Tom (Tennessee) Williams, an aspiring writer in his 20s, lives with and negligent father. Tom attempts to maintain peace in the family while also dealing with his depressed and anti-social sister. Struggling against the societal pressures and expectations of him, Tennessee is determined to hone in on his artistic talent and achieve greatness. Directed by James Franco, Tenn focuses on a young Tennessee Williams struggling to find his voice and at the same time his true self as a gay man in 1930's St. Louis.
A dispossessed, violent man's life is a disastrous attempt to exist outside the social order. Successively deprived of parents and homes and with few other ties, he descends to the level of a cave dweller and falls deeper into crime and degradation.
A poetic road trip through Pulitzer prize-winning CK Williams' life over the course of 40 years.
A drama centered on a troubled young woman who moves to San Francisco, where she gets involved in pornography and aligns herself with a cocaine-addicted lawyer.
A playwright who begins to mentally unravel before premiere night. She is plagued by dreams and visions of being watched, but cannot decide if she is at the center of a manipulative plot or simply losing her grip on reality.
Jeffrey is a short film that is based on Jeffrey Dahmer, a serial killer who murdered more than twenty young boys in the late 80's and early 90's. But this film explores a different side of the murderer. We get a glimpse into Jeffrey's lonely, mundane life, and the desperation he felt that lead him to committing his atrocious acts.
A shy tattoo artist must infiltrate a notorious gang of surf witches to discover what happened to her missing brother.
