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Interactions 20: Views 1, St.Louis

The twentieth in Fred Camper’s Interactions series.

To Parsifal

The 16-minute film falls neatly into two nearly equal parts, separated by fades to and from black. Part one depicts a sunrise, a journey out to sea in a boat, then gulls flying around the boat while fish are cleaned, and finally the journey back and the reappearance of land.

Afghanistan's Opium Trail

Over 90% of the world's opium now comes from Afghanistan. In this shocking new film, we ride the drugs caravan, from cultivation, to process, to market. On route, we lift the curtain on the hidden world of the drug barons; learn how to process heroin in the crudest of laboratories and encounter deadly gunfights on the Iranian border.

Charm

Dong is an illegal immigrant in Australia, trying to make ends meet and pay for his mother’s chemotherapy in the Philippines as he waits for a Visa. He encounters a deportation officer, ejection from home and losing his job. Now he has to find a way to make it all work or give and and go back home.

A Bright World

A tale about fantasies and pain. A character lost in a wet cloud of grass, dirty socks and giant joints.

Saturday Afternoon

Harry and his friend have planned to go out for an afternoon of fun. But first, Harry must figure out how to slip away from his domineering wife with some money to spend...

Cold Hard Cash

Watch what happens when two beautiful bad girls with no option are put in a desperate situation.

Thomas Jefferson: A View from the Mountain

In this documentary, historians, politicians and actors (including Danny Glover and Sissy Spacek) try to illuminate the quixotic nature of founding father Thomas Jefferson, focusing on his views about slavery and rumored affair with his slave Sally Hemmings. Though many consider Jefferson America's most influential political logician, his life was a series of paradoxes. Edward Herrmann is featured as the voice of the conflicted aristocrat. [netflix]

Werewolf From Paraíba

Graciano tells an injured boy that he has a leg wound caused by the encounter with a werewolf when he was younger.

Ein Sommer mit Paul

The Little Death

An erotic thriller from the director of Psychopathia Sexualis, THE LITTLE DEATH offers a peek into the seedy boudoirs of a Victorian-era brothel, where a strong-willed reformer (Courtney Patterson) and a corrupter of innocence battle over the fate of a young woman (Christie Vozniak) who seems to be held there in sexual captivity. While the owner attempts to mesmerize and seduce the would-be rescuer, a meek student (Clifton Guterman) wanders into the house and becomes a tragic pawn in the psychological game of cat-and-mouse that is rapidly unfolding.

Pido - Bienvenue chez les Corses... Et bonne chance !

Il revient enfin sur scène avec un one man show intitulé : « Bienvenue chez les Corses et bonne chance ! »… Vous l’aurez compris, l’île de beauté est le thème principal de ce spectacle. Un voyage au cœur de la Corse que Pido nous propose avec son style inimitable. Que ce soit à travers des personnages que l’on connait déjà, ou à travers des « nouveaux venus », plus fous les uns que les autres, voici un spectacle qui raconte la Corse et les Corses et qui s’adresse à tout le monde.

Bed & Breakfast

Life changes for three women who run a failing hotel when a mysterious man washes up at the beach.

White Lie

A black New York man returns to his southern hometown to investigate his father's lynching at the hands of a white mob.

Amor de adolescente

Face Time

Benoit, an actor surviving on his barman wages, follows the advice of is his brother Frank - a former hockey player turned talent agent- and grows a beard to get a part in a dinner theatre play. Benoit's girlfriend Vicky, an ex dramaturge who now works as a librarian, finds it difficult to accept this latest development, as it will delay the couple's plan to purchase a condo from their friends Caro and Vincent, who manage a hair and beauty salon. But Benoit's beard seems to have magical powers: he suddenly has a great deal of success, while Vicky develops a mysterious allergy to her boyfriend's facial hair.