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Mary & Myself
This short animated documentary tells the story of 2 Chinese Canadian women making their theatrical debut playing “comfort women” in Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues. Jia Tsu Thompson and Mary Mohammed spend long hours rehearsing at Mu Lan Teahouse in Halifax, where they read their lines over and over, sip tea, and recount buried stories of war. As they diligently practise together and at home, they come to have their own personal catharses. Fusing activism and performance, the film honours the thousands of girls and women from Korea, China, Japan and the Philippines who were forced into sexual slavery—into providing “comfort” to soldiers in the Imperial Japanese military during the 1930s and ’40s.
Escapes
Escapes blazes a path through mid-20th-century Hollywood via the experiences of Hampton Fancher – flamenco dancer, actor, and the unlikely producer and screenwriter of the landmark sci-fi classic Blade Runner. Fancher recounts episodes from his life — romantic misadventures with silver-screen stars, wayward acts of chivalry, jealousy, and friendship — matched with a parallel world of film and TV footage wherein Fancher plays cowboys, killers, fops, cads, and the occasional hero. Escapes shows how one man’s personal journey can unexpectedly shape a medium’s future.
Yasmine
Yasmine, a high school student from Brunei, fed up with studying and her strict father, decides to learn silat, a martial art practiced in Southeast Asia, after a boy displays his own knowledge of silat in order to impress her.
La torre de marfil
Philandering husband drives wife to the brink of suicide.
Heart of the Casbah
Maria-Pilar is the new wife of an Algerian gangster whom the police have just arrested. The son of a first marriage arrives in Algiers from which he has remained far away for a long time. His stepmother, charmed by the teenager, gradually experiences a devouring passion, against which Michel tries in vain to fight: he loves a young girl, Sylvie. Mad with jealousy, his stepmother singles him out for his father's vengeance by distorting the truth. Michel does not escape his father's fury, but when the woman's deception becomes known, Maria-Pilar is strangled to death.
Betsy Ross Dance
Presumably the woman is Betsy Ross, and she's quite a pretty woman with tumbling dark hair and coltish legs. She dances energetically, but it all looks spontaneous and un-choreographed meaning that there's not a lot of rhythm to her movements.
You and Your Ears
Jiminy Cricket explains how the ear works, both for hearing and balance.
Fate of Succession: A Star Wars Story
When Ex-Jedi Erik Candor is found by his old turned-evil-master, Bruce Singru, he must fight for his life or succumb to the dark side of the force.
Festival
While awaiting the publication of his fairytale about his dementia-stricken octogenarian mother, an acclaimed South Korean novelist receives news that she has passed away, so he leaves the city and returns to her village to take part in the funeral.
The Gunslinger Grifter Logan
A world once kept peaceful and beautiful by the benevolent forces of Magic, now lies in ruins with but one exception: The Federation. This totalitarian State run by a ruthless Overlord, is ever looking to expand its rule and stake its voracious appetite for the world's most precious resources wherever or whatever they may be. From the wastelands comes Grifter Logan - a lone wanderer who some believe is the key to the Federation's ultimate destruction, foretold in bygone prophesies. The Overlord is well aware that as one-by-one the omens are coming to pass, not just the survival of the Federation is at stake, so is his very own. Equally determined to protect the Chosen One and guide him to his ultimate fate is an ambitious Wizard, for whom the destruction of the Federation is not just a moral cause; it's a personal one.
Feel 100%... Once More
Five popular screenidols star in this sequel to the original "Feel 100%." Finding their relationship on the rocks, Marco (Noodle) and Yen(Sammi) take a trip to Japan, hoping to rekindle their love. But things get worse, and they break up. Any chance at reconciliation is shattered when Marco starts hanging out with sexy model Gobby (Chingmy Yau). Meanwhile, Gigi is being chased by a Cheung Tat Ming, who has an inferiority complex. Siu Man(Cheung Tat-Ming), due to his own inferiority complex, leaves his lover (Gigi Leung Wing-Kay), who he has been in love with for a long time. Each couple must now work even harder to regain what they have lost, or move forward and live with their new choices.
Karate Warrior 6
Larry Jones is challenged by competitor Mustafa to a karate fight in Greece.
Six Days to Die
Parched, ragged, and dragging a heavy iron chain, a lone Gambler hobbles eastward through the endless desert. Barely a day behind him, a blood-thirsty Marshal in a priest's collar is exterminating everything in her path, hellbent on catching her prey. When the Gambler inadvertently rescues a young boy from a town gone mad, the boy sticks to him like glue as they escape together before the Marshal arrives to burn the town to the ground. But when the Marshal finally confronts the Gambler, he must make a terrible choice if he hopes to escape with his life.
Maniac Driver
A Japanese giallo about a murderous driver roaming the street in search of prey.
Rate Me
A portrait of teen escort, 'Coco'.
Tlatelolco: Mexico 68
Using Mexico's version of the USA's Kent State, as a back drop, we examine the USA's deeply rooted involvement in Mexico's politics, by the CIA. We learn of the great uncontested influence that CIA's #1 Man in Mexico, Winston Scott had, and how he backed the PRI Monopoly over Mexico's politics,misleading Mexico's President (Gustavo Diaz Ordaz) About the NEVER proven Communist involvement with the Student Movement in 1968, and such uncertainty leading to the massacre of Hundreds of students on October 2nd, 1968, a week prior to the inauguration of the Mexico 1968. Olympics.
Between Two Calls
A dedicated honorary teacher receives a distressing phone call from her neighbor: her sick child’s condition has suddenly taken a turn for the worse. Panicked, she rushes to seek permission from the school principal to leave early. But her request is denied. She must teach a critical class that no one else can cover. Faced with an impossible choice between her role as an educator and her responsibilities as a mother, she must risk everything to make a decision that could cost her the job she desperately needs… or the child she loves most.
Plympmania
The best wacky, surreal pieces made for the Fox TV show "The Edge."
Destination: Moon
Very slowly shot on super-8 over the course of 2020 and 2021, inspired by David Boone's Invasion of the Aluminum People from 1980, Destination: Moon chaotically captures the pursuit of two people auditioning to board the first rocket outta here.