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Story of A Red Sea Crossing. Shot in the bars and seedy hotels of East LA, this film is about the inner life of a prostitute imprisoned for killing her pimp.
Find out more, including where to buy or rent Magdalena ViragaSet amid the glittering casino lights and deteriorating desert landscapes of the oasis city Las Vegas, QUEEN OF DIAMONDS revolves around the disaffected existence of of Firdaus (Tinka Menkes), a black...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent Queen of DiamondsHitparkut (Dissolution) combines an almost surreal fairy-tale energy with brutal black and white realism to explore the condition of violence which permeates contemporary Israeli society. Shot is Yafo...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent DissolutionA surreal drama about an alienated family set in Koreatown, Los Angeles and Rishikesh, India.
Find out more, including where to buy or rent Phantom LoveInvestigates the politics of cinematic shot design, and how this meta-level of filmmaking intersects with the twin epidemics of sexual abuse/assault and employment discrimination against women, with o...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-PowerA young, orthodox Jewish woman is alienated from her Jerusalem community and drawn into the world of spirit.
Find out more, including where to buy or rent The Great Sadness of ZoharaThis film was inspired by a real event—a young US Marine, recently back from the Gulf War, was found digging a grave for his murdered wife in the middle of the California Mojave.
Find out more, including where to buy or rent The Bloody Child