”Lane Five” focuses on the deeply complicated changing of the guard between parent and child. The days when parents can no longer fully care for themselves and children step in to help. Madison is one of those children. After placing life on hold to care for her father Tommy, she struggles to deal with the
John Leguizamo visits Rikers Island Correctional Facility to perform his one-man Broadway show Ghetto Klown for an audience of over 400 inmates. Following his performance, Leguizamo holds group discussions with justice-involved young men awaiting trial or sentencing. By sharing his personal journey of adversity and self-awareness, he encourages them to reflect openly and honestly about
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When Perween Rahman is murdered, her sister Aquila returns to Karachi, Pakistan to investigate. Finding herself caught up in powerful forces stealing the city”s water, her sister exposed the impact of corruption. Based on a true story of one activist who worked tirelessly to protect the rights of Pakistan”s poor.
This is a short documentary set in the high turnover, high stakes, escalatingly costly world of sports card collecting, where hundreds of millions of dollars are spent every year in search of Holy Grail cards. But Joshua Morris moves to the beat of a different drum guided by one key metric; is the card funny?
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After a two year absence working in London, a jobbing actor and aspiring playwright returns home and is confronted by his young daughter.
Mike moved to London hoping to find love and the dream part that would launch his opera career. Four years later, he is stuck, his journal is now his best friend. One night, during yet another hook-up, he sees the apparition of his grandmother, a glamorous, eccentric woman who Mike used to travel the world
Guardian Angel is the director”s personal journey and portrays the relationship between Jacob and his mother Hannah, who suffers from severe dementia. The film deals with Jacob”s difficulties of a complicated relationship with his mother, whom he can no longer communicate with. The fact that he can neither comfort her nor consult her in relation
In order to understand the present, we need to shed light on the past. Freedom Swimmer documents one of the most extraordinary mass escapes of the 20th century and offers context for a city in uprise, today. Our hybrid, poetic documentary, interweaving extraordinary hand-drawn animation and film, tells the tale of a grandfather”s perilous swim
Over 30 years ago, Lisa Creason attempted to rob a Subway cash register. She had no plan, no weapon, and no get-away car. It was an act of desperation to feed her infant daughter, and resulted in a criminal record she couldn”t escape. Denied her dream of becoming a nurse, Lisa must fight an unjust
