Karen Sillas

Kate é uma cuidadora e uma alcoólatra em recuperação que se esforça para reconstruir sua vida e poder ficar perto de seu neto. Tudo desmorona quando ela trai a confiança de Laura, sua paciente paraplégica, por quem se apaixona.

Trish and Deb Murdoch are in a rut. After 14 years together and raising two daughters, they find themselves in a mid life crisis where grief and attraction threaten their domestic nucleus.

Henry and Fay's son Ned sets out to find and kill his father for destroying his mother's life. But his aims are frustrated by the troublesome Susan, whose connection to Henry predates even his arrival in the lives of the Grim family.

A compendium of three short science-fiction films, each with a decidedly feminist slant.

Three friends, Victor, Amy and David, reunite after 10 years and uncover one of the key, hidden reasons for the war in Iraq.

Sibling rivalry and other conflicts are revealed as one daughter, now a successful modern artist living in New York, returns to visit her Texas family.

A wealthy man races against time to save his kidnapped son whose abductor left him with a bomb set to detonate.

A black comedy revolving around the humiliating lengths that people will resort to in order to get by in an unstable financial world from applying for welfare to the compromise of personal ideals to all out robbery. The film follows four characters - two leftover punks from the 80s, a typical gray-suited businessman and a vegetarian idealist - in their desperate struggle to hold onto their respective stations in life. These deftly interwoven stories form a cautionary tale of how people deal with the search for quick cash. In desperate times, even good people turn to bad money.

A small town troublemaker, directionless and alienated, ends up spending a night in a jail cell, where he and the police chief engage in a battle of wills and wit.

Richie, a sneaker sole designer, and his cousin Evan, a brain surgeon, are spending this weekend with their girlfriends in Atlantic City. When one of them ends up with a $436,000 jackpot, sour grapes is what results. Even though Richie uses two quarters from Evan to win the progressive jackpot, he sees no connection with that and sharing the jackpot. This ignites a hilarious, runaway chain of even

A female FBI investigator takes over jurisdiction in Dear Lake, a small northern town just as a young boy is abducted. Her investigation leads to a bigger series of abductions and murders dating back over 20 years. Her investigation also brings her into a mutual attraction with the small-town police chief who shares her investigation.

A charming military man arranges his own disappearance and death in order to begin a new life with a woman who is completely deceived by his lies. Bored by his military career and secure lifestyle with his wife, Cindy, and two children, Dave Bay falls in love with Alyson and plots a new existence. This new, deceptive life includes bank robberies committed as a desperate means to support his new family and hide his past. Inspired by actual events.

Vestidos, batons, sexo - as perversões (e neuroses) de Eva, uma jovem advogada muito bem sucedida. Seus dias são uma corda bamba entre eloqüência e extrema dureza de um lado e a vulnerabilidade do outro. O clímax de sua carreira será sua nomeação como juiza, mas este passo parece ser interrompido por sua irmã cleptomaniaca que é presa e mostra-se reprimida e cheia de conflitos. Eve viaja até a cidade para ver a irmã e fica no apartamento dela onde conhece uma garota que luta com a sua feminilidade desabrochando.

The same situation is played out in different cities (New York, Berlin and Tokyo). A lover has to choose whether to commit to a partner who is returning home. In each case there are other people involved, an ex-partner and someone else in a "permanent" relationship, what do they choose to do?

Jackie e Michael são colegas de trabalho em um grande escritório de advocacia, que decidem se encontrar no restaurante Jackie's para jantar uma noite. Um filme de humor sombrio que explora a paisagem psíquica pessoal de dois nova-iorquinos solitários. À medida que este "primeiro encontro" se desenrola, o público é conduzido por um campo minado mental de desapontamento, desolação e desespero. Sua conversa, um papo estranho, revela lentamente suas vidas infelizes.

In New York, Bill struggles to decide whether he has a future with Emily, while attempting to restrain Walter, the angry husband of a woman he thinks he might be in love with. Later incorporated into a feature film of the same name.

Maya, a New York artist and model, meets Joe, a drifter. They begin a passionate affair. On an impromptu trip to visit Joe's sister in the country, Joe's inner demons begin to surface.

Bitter about being double-crossed by the women he loved, (and with the police after him to boot), Bill vows to seduce the next woman he sees, then throw her away. His brother Dennis, meanwhile, is equally determined to track down their long lost father, a revolutionary who has been in hiding for 20 years. For different reasons, both leave New York and head for Long Island, out of money, and short on ideas.

A man returns to his hometown and a series of dark secrets are revealed.

Maria (Adrienne Shelly) é uma jovem rebelde e liberada que provoca um enfarte fulminante em seu pai ao lhe contar que está grávida do namorado. Matthew (Martin Donovan) é um engenheiro eletrônico, bastante instável que, literalmente, anda com uma granada de mão no bolso do casaco. Expulsa de casa pela mãe e abandonada pelo namorado, Maria esbarra em Matthew que acabara de perder o emprego. Desta forma, começa um relacionamento complicado, cheio de dúvidas e desconfiança. Ambientada nos subúrbios de uma cidade central americana, "Confiança?" é uma comédia sarcástica, sutil e provocante sobre o cotidiano de um casal em busca do auto-conhecimento e a descoberta de novos sentimentos.

Selffunded Hal Hartley project shot on 16mm with a focus on a somewhat bizarre romance.

Hal Hartley's senior thesis film from SUNY-Purchase. A young man named Ned (Ricky Ludwig) attempts to leave his Long Island suburb, but is thwarted by a series of absurd obstacles.