Jennifer Ruff

In 1983, French actress Maria Schneider gives an interview for the TV show Cinéma Cinémas. The conversation takes an unexpected turn when she challenges film industry practices and is asked to talk about the controversial film Last Tango in Paris (1972).

Quando Marian começa a fugir, ela decide ir para o único lugar que lhe parece seguro: a casa onde passou a infância. Lá, reencontra a irmã, Vivian, com quem tem uma relação distante. Vivian é uma dona de casa que tenta engravidar enquanto vê seu casamento ruir. Embora sejam gêmeas idênticas, elas levam vidas opostas. O misterioso retorno de Marian transforma a rotina de Vivian, e as irmãs passam a tentar se reconectar e se reconciliar. Porém, o passado assombroso de Marian finalmente a encontra, e esses mundos tão distintos e separados começam a colidir, colocando as duas em perigo.

When 8 year old Kati from Afghanistan stows away in her fathers truck, Faruk must juggle his responsibilities as a single dad while holding down his first job in a new country.

"Sisters Rising" is the story of six Native American women fighting to restore personal and tribal sovereignty in the face of ongoing colonial violence against indigenous women in the United States. Dawn was in the Army, now she’s a tribal cop in the midst of the North Dakota oil boom that threatens to pull the last threads of her Native culture apart. Patty teaches indigenous women’s self-defense across the Great Plains of her people. Sarah is an attorney and scholar fighting to overturn restrictions on tribal sovereignty and increase legislative protections for Native women. Loreline and Lisa are grassroots advocates working outside of the system to support survivors of violence and influence legislative change. Chalsey is writing the first anti-sex trafficking code to be introduced to a reservation’s tribal court.

Over 30 filmmakers and friends of Strand Releasing have come together to honor the company’s indelible contribution to independent cinema over the past thirty years. The participating filmmakers have each created a short film for the project, all shot on iPhones.

Elisabeth’s short for 30/30 Vision is a tribute to the French actress Maria Schneider.

An exhausted, workaholic actress, Anna Baskin, 44, abruptly extricates herself from a successful but mind-numbing TV role, returning to her past life in New York to reinvent herself.

A mother's grief over the death of her toddler leads to horror.

After going down in the fifth round, boxer Bud Gordon bowed out of the limelight. Now residing in a fixer-upper apartment in New Jersey with his girlfriend, Bud longs for his former Manhattan glory. In an effort to get back in the game, he makes a deal with a crooked restaurateur. But quick schemes rarely bring easy pay-offs and as the consequences of his business negotiations unfold, Bud has to make a choice between his integrity and his aspirations.

An elderly woman enters a Manhattan subway station only to find herself sitting on a bench beside an elderly man of roughly the same age. As they sit and wait for their train in silence, two complete strangers on a bench, what the audience soon learns that they themselves don't know, is that they once shared the happiest day of their lives, playing together as children. Yet it's now too far back for them to remember anymore, too far back for them to recognize each other anymore. The story then shifts back and forth between the breathtaking landscape of their unconscious', as Isabel Lucas and Oliver Ackland play more youthful representations of how they see themselves inside, and search for the memory they once shared.

O filme é composto por curtas-metragens dirigidos por onze estudantes da Universidade de Nova York, e é baseado no livro de poemas de C.K. Williams, ganhador do prêmio Pulitzer. Na trama, o poeta tem sua trajetória contada ao longo de 40 anos, onde revive memórias que servem de inspiração para seus textos.

Tenoch e Julio são dois adolescentes de 17 anos que são controlados pelos seus hormônios e desejam se tornar adultos rapidamente. Em uma tarde festiva eles encontram Luisa, uma garota espanhola 11 anos mais velha que eles e que é casada com o primo de Tenoch. Eles a convidam para uma viagem à praia de Boca del Cielo, convite este inicialmente recusado e posteriormente aceito, após Luisa receber uma desagradável notícia. Porém, tanto Julio quanto Tenoch não conhecem o caminho até a praia e nem mesmo se ela realmente existe, fazendo com que os três se aventurem em uma viagem onde inocência, sexualidade e amizade irão colidir.

Making of/behind the scenes featurette from the Julien Donkey-Boy DVD.