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- "Pennies" is the story of Charlotte Brown (Amy Adams), a waitress and young single mother who will do anything for her daughter Jenny, and when push comes to shove,she does. With a menacing figure on the other end of the phone and a time limit of two hours, she must raise enough money to ensure that she sees the smiling face of her child again. Charlotte's customers are her only hope. The clock is ticking as we see the desperate young mother dealing with one eccentric customer after the next, displaying her charming vulnerability and inspiring strength through all the chaos. With her feet firmly planted on the ground, Charlotte maintains her focus and attempts to beat the clock and save the day.
- The perfect 'formula' film. Catchy title, hot chick, fast car, huge dilemma, with a 'twist' at the end. The perfect example of how to 'get the butts in the seats." And what else really matters anyway?
- In an attempt to reawakening her forgotten sexuality, a woman embarks on an hilarious journey into the world of sexual taboos.
- After Gene runs a stop sign in his golf cart, he is sent to Golf Cart Driving School. Gene is welcomed to the class by instructor Bruce Altshuler, who exudes supreme authority over his students. Gene's attention is quickly turned to Carol, a foxy fellow student. He learns that if Carol fails the course one more time, Bruce will revoke her Golf Cart License and mount her picture on "The Wall of Failure." Gene offers to help Carol, but discovers she has a plan to pass that won't require any studying. He must choose whether to go through with Carol's scheme or risk losing her forever.
- A young man discovers a DVD on a New York street corner and takes it home to watch it. His curiosity has dark consequences.
- When a Young boy loses his mother to cancer, his friend helps him to understand what has really happened
- An elderly couple has fished the Lowcountry waters for decades. When they are separated by death, the story turns on the strange and lingering effect of the old woman's passion for fishing, a love so powerful that it ultimately leads a group of thrill-seeking losers to a peculiar redemption.
- A seemingly pathalogical liar cruises an L.A. bar looking for his soul mate.
- A boy lies in a bathtub, holding his breath. He is trying to break his personal record - 2 minutes.
- On a hot August day, three truck stop prostitutes debate their futures. Based on Kathryn O'Sullivan's award winning play.
- Italian Lessons is the touching, humorous story of Caterina, a beautiful young widow who teaches Italian to Peter, a high school student who uses the "language of love" simply to score with girls. Peter's passion for life re-ignites feelings Caterina has not experienced since her husband's death and soon she and the boy are drawn into a strange and special relationship. When a suitor from Italy arrives to propose marriage to Caterina, it becomes apparent that only Peter can release his teacher's heart and make her free to love again.
- When a woman's hair begins to mysteriously turn from brown to blonde, she experiences changes in her self image and how people treat her.
- A ludicrous bank heist that turns the cops and robbers genre upside down. This comedic short explores the extent to which we've become desensitized to guns & violence in media.
- A century ago, a foreigner travels to a Nebraska hotel, his mind filled with the romantic violence of Western dime novels. He soon finds his expectations fulfilled, confronting a disturbing fate whose mysterious cause ultimately seems to elude us. Adapted from the Stephen Crane story.
- It is the white nights of the northern Russian summer, a time of neither night nor day. A woman searches the streets of St. Petersburg for her missing daughter while coping with the indifference and ineptitude of a destitute bureaucracy. Another child appears, providing her with a fleeting moment of emotional respite. A second tragedy emboldens the woman to make a critical choice.
- Fresh, unique and entertaining short films by Shavkat Karimov.
- Four slightly over-the-hill men finish a game on their neighborhood court and a debate develops about who loves the game the most. It becomes a meditation on love, dedication and basketball.
- A haunting tale of loss and forgiveness as a son tries to reconnect with his father who gives up drinking after a mysterious accident.
- In the future, a shared addiction to televisual technology haunts the lives of new mother Miranda, and twenty-five years later, her grown daughter, Jane. A government agent, The Collector, tries to end it, one way or the other.
- Will is shocked when he's told that his colleague Emma has died while on holiday. He's even more surprised when he sees her walking past the window of the café in which he's sitting the next day.
- When a patriarch suffers a stroke, the family comes together and discovers their love for each other is greater than the differences that time, distance and religion have imposed.
- The Winnipeg general strike as seen through the window of a bath house.
- A bike courier dreams of being an action hero. Destiny arrives - he delivers a script to his favourite producer.
- The back office bathroom can be a dangerous place, especially if you're unfortunate enough to share the lavatory with the infamous Bill (a.k.a. the Manhattan Project). When Jim becomes trapped in a stall privy to co-worker Bill's explosive gastrointestinal disturbances (on a par with earthquakes, volcanoes, and nuclear winters), he loses a bit of his innocence. Bill's aromatic flatulence is only the beginning, a precursor to the monumental bowel movements to come. To make the already disgusting situation even worse, Bill provides a narrative to accompany the rumbling roars of his innards. Bill's commentary covers what he's eaten as well as sporadic exclamations of relief. Deciding to go on the offensive, Jim and his friend Ed discuss methods of deterring Bill's future eruptions. They draw up a list of rules for bathroom etiquette and hang several copies in the lavatory. Will Bill heed their advice, or use it when he runs out of toilet paper?
- A blend of 60's Technicolor European romp and post-modern cynicism.
- Nino Telesta, son of an infamous New York mob boss, has a dirty little secret he has been hiding from his family, friends and fiance for his entire life - he is a professional mime.
- A middle class businessman orders a Kazakh bride who is living a double life. While he's at work, she is an elite assassin. When her worlds collide, which one will she choose?
- At night Johanna spray-paints her sad figures onto the buildings of new Berlin's center.
- When Billy's new girlfriend invites him to the gym for a workout, he doesn't expect it to be a boxing gym. Okay, a little light sparring between lovers seems harmless enough. But Lena has other ideas, and soon Billy realizes he's just walked into the fight of the century - man vs. woman - with no saving by the bell.
- A taxi appears and Alistair assumes that his disaster of an evening is over; only to discover it is just beginning.
- A racist father confronts his son on the eve of his engagement to an African American woman. Features David A. Shaw in a Tour De Force performance before his turns in the feature films Green Card Fever & The Calling.
- A young boy on the verge of leaving his childhood fantasies behind forever, has a final conversation with his teddy bear Charlie.
- What if you had to give an account of your life when you die? John Hansen is about to find out. On his way to the store to pick up milk for the baby, he encounters a homeless man and chooses to ignore him. He looks up just in time to see a car barreling down on him. A fatal collision occurs.
- Sadie, an ambitious clerk is held up late one night at the bookstore where she works. The problem is that no one sees the crime and the thief steals the only video surveillance tape. Each person recounts a different version of what happens adding layers of confusion until nothing is clear. It is only when the surveillance video is screened that the truth is revealed.
- Paul Wooley lives in a pastel-coloured world of seashells and whale songs with his cake-baking wife and their 9 year old daughter, Mary, who delights them with the fruits of her violin lessons. On her birthday Mary gets her own violin and the family get a new neighbour, a middle-aged rocker with a head full of the virtues of valve amps and German mikes. When the Woolys see Bill's flying V and he sees Amy's instrument presumptions are drawn, strings are tightened and a major dischord begins.
- A couple and their dog visit Coyote Beach. They bicker, make up, and look for the dog.
- A Canadian journalist held prisoner in modern day Iraq witnesses a miracle as he prepares to be executed.
- At Halloween Night, four young people drive with their car through a car wash that turns into a ghost train and the contours between reality and fantasy start to blur.
- The childlike Newman sets an ingenious trap for his domineering brother Ringo, in an attempt to get "quits" following 15 years of fraternal oppression.
- 1939 Paris. On his 50th wedding anniversary, a mysterious stranger shows Pierre that the greatest gift is the ability to appreciate what he already has. What will Pierre do when his wife says, "Dance with me?"
- Marco, a shy teenager, rebels against following in his father's footsteps. In doing so, he unleashes a chain of repressed secrets in his family.