When young 8-year-old Judy loses her 1-year-old sister, Maria, to alien abduction, little does she know that many, many years later, she would meet Maria again in rather changed circumstances and that she would be responsible for saving the world from the villainous plans of aliens from across the galaxy, to rule over all of humanity. When Adam, Judy’s son…
When during an academic conference where she is presenting a paper, Tanya comes face to face with someone from her past, a neighbour whom the whole street has had a history with. Twenty years after their last meeting, the stage is now set for a family reunion of sorts, and an unequivocal discussion about past deeds. The neighbour, Tanya’s father-in-law,…
Migraine is the simple story of a headache. This short experimental, from Belgium, tells of a splitting headache from a time past, that still lingers on in memory; not to be so easily forgotten. Filmmaker Frederick Roussel takes a sore little memory and builds an artful story around it. When the pain in the head was like a nail being…
After the long freezing winter, when the days become longer and the animals come out of hibernation comes the ‘breakup’, a period between the winter and the spring, unique to Alaska. Katya Shugak, A full-blooded Alaskan Aleut, or Kate as her friends call her, is spending some peaceful time at home, on the lands of her ancestors, with mutt, her…
When teenager Alan discovers that he is a woman in a man’s body, he is faced with the homophobia and ensuing disgust, hate and violence of his father and the other boys in his small Northwestern logging town, Big Eddy. As his mother and sister try to stay with him and help him come to terms with this reality, he…
Here is a documentary that looks at some yellowed pages from the history of film. They are not mainstream, nor talked about openly in the academic circles. When a deluge of films is made on the current trend of the time, they are called exploitation films. Looked down upon by the big studios, these films play an important role in…