Tomorrow
A lonely farmer takes in a pregnant woman and looks after her. After she gives birth, tragedy strikes.
The Public Enemy
Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blooded killers. But with street notoriety and newfound…
Germany, Year Zero
In the ruins of post-WWII Berlin, a twelve-year-old boy is left to his own devices in order to help provide for his family.
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a…
Death Whistles the Blues
Vogel, an important trafficker, betrayed two of his accomplices, Castro and Smith. The first was shot by police, while the latter was imprisoned. Fifteen years later, Vogel adopted a new…
Local Color
Mark Rappaport’s off center soap opera parody concerning several characters including a barber, his wife, and a pair of incestuous twins.
Sudden Rain
A husband and wife’s pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.
Priest
Father Greg Pilkington is torn between his call as a conservative Catholic priest and his secret life as a homosexual with a gay lover, frowned upon by the Church. Upon…
Ed McBain’s 87th Precinct: Heatwave
It is a very hot summer in the city as the well known detectives of the 87th Precinct investigate serial rapes and a mysterious homicide (which do not appear to…
Turn the Key Softly
A bitter burglar, a prostitute and an elderly shoplifter spend their first day out of jail.
Ararat
Interrogated by a customs officer, a young man recounts how his life was changed during the making of a film about the Armenian genocide.
Fancy Dance
Yohei, a punk rocker, becomes a Buddhist monk in order to inherit a mountain temple. Though initially rebelling against the tough monastic discipline, he learns to adjust. Then his girlfriend…