Kathleen Beeler

Night Passage is a digital film on friendship and death. Made in homage to Miyazawa Kenji's classic novel, Milky Way Railroad, the story evolves around the spiritual journey of a young woman, in the company of her best friend and a little boy, into a world of rich in-between realities. Their venture into and out of the land of "awakened dreams" occurs during a long ride on a night train. The filmmaker elegantly depicts each encounter in two-dimensional space with a unique artistic gesture and ingeniously frames the passage as a series of rhythmic image sequensces as seen through the window of a train.

1805. Napoleón domina Europa. Tan sólo Inglaterra se le resiste. Son tiempos de guerras napoleónicas, y ahora los mares y océanos se han convertido en un crucial y estratégico campo de batalla. En el océano Atlántico el navío de guerra inglés Surprise, capitaneado por "Lucky" Jack Aubrey (Crowe), es atacado de repente por un buque de guerra enemigo muy superior a él. Aubrey toma entonces una decisión memorable: a pesar de los graves daños sufridos por el Surprise y su fiel tripulación, entre los que se encuentra el cirujano Stephen Maturin (Bettany), decide navegar, asumiendo serios riesgos, a través de dos mares para interceptar y capturar a su enemigo. Es una misión que puede determinar el destino de una nación o destruir al capitán y a su tripulación, enfrentándose a un corsario mucho mejor armado e implacable, en una persecución por los mares que le lleva al otro lado del mundo.

Después del abandono del agente K (Tommy Lee Jones), el agente J (Will Smith) no considera su trabajo igual: Ambos formaban parte de un organismo secreto que lucha contra los extraterrestres que, sin que el resto de los mortales lo sepan, pueblan la Tierra. La misión de los hombres de negro, como se les conoce por sus atuendos, es, en ocasiones imponer el orden y en otras luchar directamente contra quienes tienen pretensiones de hacer daño al planeta Tierra. Pero el agente K prefirió perder la memoria para volver con su esposa y llevar una vida normal. Ahora no hay esposa pero es un amable agente de correos. El agente J, que considera a K como su maestro, le echa mucho de menos y no termina de adaptarse a sus nuevos compañeros. Pero algo va a cambiar los acontecimientos: una peligrosa extraterrestre llamada Serleena (Lara Flynn Boyle)

Portraying the Vietnamese immigrant experience through Kieu, A Tale of Love follows the quest of a woman in love with Love. Voyeurism runs through the history of narrative and is here one of the threads that structure the film. Playing with the fiction of love in love stories, the film invites a different experience of cinema with non-naturalistic acting and layered interaction of performed reality, memory and imagination.

A love story for the 90s: Valery falls in love with an identical twin, a virtual reality scientist, and finds she can have a more intimate relationship with him through the computer screen than in person. Or is it really him?

The film evolves around questions of identity, popular memory and culture. While focusing on aspects of Vietnamese reality as seen through the lives and history of women resistance in Vietnam and in the U.S, it raises questions on the politics of interviewing and documenting.

"MORGAN’S CAKE is the story of a young man (Morgan Schmidt-Feng) about to turn 18, and all the problems that are set to befall him. His girlfriend is pregnant, he’s just lost his job, his mother is deserting him for a career move to New York City, and his divorced dad (Willie Boy Walker) can barely afford the small office space in which they live. Morgan’s most pressing problem is whether or not to register for the draft, and Walker, in a bravura performance, shares a real-life story of how he avoided military service in the late 1960’s. After a series of fateful encounters, Morgan finally saves his sanity by baking a cake." (from Fandor.com)

A taxi driver and his expecting girlfriend find their lives disrupted by the arrival of an Irish literary maverick.

Michael Mikaele is a young man in a catatonic state living in a psychiatric ward where his doctor thinks her sympathies for him justify raping him. It's all part of his mad world, and we see what brought him there. He's an artist from a broken home, working for eight years at a job that he loathes, drawing pictures from sayings on sexually suggestive T-shirts. Mike's unsympathetic boss, Bill, plays bad motivational tapes over the P.A., makes Mike's girlfriend (another employee) handle him during office hours, which is espied by co-worker Joni, and refuses to let Mike have the rest of the day off even though he is clearly ill. He ties together T-shirts out the bathroom window to escape, and befriends a man, Rod, whom, unbeknownst to him, is his girlfriends father. He, however, hallucinates that the cinematographer is walking around the apartment in nothing but a towel...

Emerald Cities, completing the trilogy, is a story about a young woman who runs off from her Death Valley home to seek her fortune. Her drunken dad still stuck in his Santa suit from the local Christmas pagent, follows and soon comes in contact with the "new dark ages" of 1984. Juxtapositions of "on-the street" interviews (by Willie Boy Walker), punk performances by bands Flipper and The Mutants, TV shows of past-life hypnotism and nuclear destruction, and a crazed ex-con all finally intermix with the characters' own sagas.

Two cabbies search San Francisco's Chinatown for a mysterious character who has disappeared with their $4000. Their quest leads them on a humorous, if mundane, journey which illuminates the many problems experienced by Chinese-Americans trying to assimilate into contemporary American society.

A photographer and mother tries to balance career and motherhood.