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Separated from her mother by smugglers at the border, a determined 12-year-old sets out across a desert with only a plastic sack for protection from the cold, survives starvation on the streets of Ciudad Juarez, and escapes kidnappers to find her mother and a place where they can be safe again.
A grieving teen has a mysterious correspondence with an unseen stranger by leaving messages on a picnic table at the park near her house.
A disturbing cloud takes shape somewhere in the west. It slowly goes toward the center of the country, throwing the population on the roads. In view of the inexorable arrival of the cloud, it is the global panic. This cumulus is acid.
A woman and her daughter go through different processes where they face loss.
On July 4th, 2017, North Korea tested a long range missile that, for the first time, would be powerful enough to reach the United States — specifically, the great state of Alaska. And instead of the doomsday preparations you might expect from a place threatened by nuclear annihilation, Alaskans collectively…shrugged.
Amalia Velázquez has recently lost her mother and is trying to manage her colossal grief when she learns that her husband has been having an affair. His mysterious death only days later sends her into a spiraling obsession with his mistress, Tania. Fueled by a perpetually alienating family dynamic and cocaína pura, Amalia begins to communicate with a fleshless being from another dimension who advises her in all things obsession.
Left for dead after the A307 plane crash on their nuclear plant, the workers of a small coastal city have undergone a series of mutations. They formed a small amphibious community among the radioactive ruins. But they failed to reproduce their species. The last survivor, Cotis, is crushed by loneliness…Until a group of dumb surfers lands on the beach.
It is August of 2004. Phil is 15 years old and has a crush on his best friend's older sister.
Bruise, a mysterious hitman, is contracted by corrupt mayor Henry Derringer, to kill Redd, a former employee that he thinks stole some incriminating data. When the mayor's colleagues hear about it, they hire their own hitmen which ends up killing Bruise's fiancée Cindy, who happens to be Redd's sister. The two come together to avenge her death.
Experience the memories of Mark McMoney a self-proclaimed billionaire with the aspirations to dominate the movie industry, which, saturated by filth and un-originality, a resistance arises to protect the art of filmmaking.
What’s wrong with birth in the USA? Birth in Pieces explores mothers’ individual birth stories within a larger framework of a fragmented maternal healthcare system that doesn’t always place value on a mother’s autonomy, well-being or empowerment: in order to fix these systemic problems, we have to start by listening to women.
A young American-Mexican skater, Nat and an older Mexican skater, Emilio, are looking for a positive response to the negative rhetoric between Mexico and the United States of America after the U.S. 2016 Presidential Elections. With the help of their diverse skate crew, they decided to come together and build a new ramp with the same construction materials that would be used to build the alleged wall between Mexico and the U.S.
Grieving their son, a Mexican family campaigns for a life-and-death safety ordinance. A Salvadorian electrician couple owed thousands in back pay fights for their children’s future. A bereaved son battles to protect others from his family's preventable tragedy. A story of courage, resilience and community, the film reveals shocking truths about the hardworking immigrants who build the American Dream, of which they are excluded.
When plans fall through, a six-year-old is faced with a big responsibility on a hot Texas day.
Grandma is too focused on making her favorite apple pie to notice the death and destruction going on around her being caused by a rampaging dragon.
A woman spiraling into darkness after her recent divorce begins to seedemons in her dreams. She attempts to cleanse herself of evil by visiting anacupuncturist that specializes in demonic therapy
Jennyselt is a dancer of Afro Cuban Folklore, with great prestige within Cuba and internationally and currently dances with the group Yoruba Andabo. She seeks her successor to keep the legacy of Afro-Cuban culture, dance and religion alive. Jennyselt takes us to the side of Havana that is rarely seen by tourists.
Emerging from the woods filthy and ferocious, a feral teenager is indoctrinated into strict religious care, unleashing the mother of all hell from the wild woman who raised her.
America, an ambitious photographer, sets up a photo shoot with her newclient. America’s mind starts slipping and it’s up to her girlfriend, Love tokeep her grounded.
Saba is one of the more than 800,000 “Dreamers” who took advantage of the DACA program in 2012. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, an Obama era program, provided some temporary protections to undocumented immigrants who entered the country as children. In 2017, the Trump administration made the decision to rescind DACA. With her immigration status once again in limbo, Saba must now face a new set of challenges.
"El Chácharero" is a man who survives by picking up trash in downtown Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
Originally proposed as an international peace park with Mexico, Big Bend, Texas has a unique relationship with its southern neighbor. For the past 40 years, Mike Davidson has been ferrying tourists across the Rio Grande for a little taste of Mexican life - but now a great big border wall might divide the park.
Darkness follows an aspiring television faith healer who will do anything to be the best in Texas.
Grandma is too focused on making her favorite apple pie to notice the death and destruction going on around her being caused by a rampaging dragon.
When there’s a gun crime in America, there’s only one place to go to trace the gun back to its owner: Martinsburg, West Virginia. That’s where the ATF’s National Tracing Center handles roughly 8,000 active traces per day — all while inside a government-mandated technology time-capsule that makes searching a database of gun owners impossible. And it's truly a sight to behold.
Our nameless protagonist finds himself sitting on a bench in the middle of the night being annoyed by a random mime on the street. However, this changes when a mysterious box falls from the sky, a box that reads... "A Gift From God". Curious, he opens the box to uncover a humble looking jelly jar.
Having found a lost pair of keys, a man with a hook for a hand tries to find the owner of the keys.
Chloe (Thora Birch), a single mother, has her life turned upside down when her younger sister, Sadie (Caitlin Stasey), comes home after a long unexplained absence. Though Sadie seems to want to settle in with her sister and 17-year-old niece Nicole (Sasha Frolova), she’s actually a deeply disturbed young woman who has a sinister agenda regarding anyone who gets between her and her big sister.
A brief portrait of María de Jesús Patricio Martínez in Mexico City as she campaigned for the presidency of Mexico. The first indigenous women in Mexico's history to run for the position and, although she did not win, the campaign has been marked as a success with helping bring light to issues surrounding women and the indigenous communities of Mexico.
Desperate to make money, Léo accepts a job smuggling a refugee couple through France. However, Léo and the couple have separate expectations concerning their destination. He’s forced to confront the couple, his boss, and himself in order to understand how far he is really willing to go for these people he never intended to help.
Huffing gasoline affords a lovesick trucker a delirious high, but consequently inspires both inner homilies and attempted homicides in this raw but arresting surrealist southern gothic.
Struggling with feelings for her best friend, 14 year-old Marie stages an almost perfect plan.
A guy makes a bad first impression when he meets his girlfriend’s family as they gather at her grandfather’s death bed.
When Wilmer Alcaron fired that bullet into the back of young graffiti artist Diego Felipe Berrera, he did not know the corruption this would uncover within the judiciary system of Colombia.
This is the true story of Tony Romo, a kid from Burlington, WI who became one of the most prolific quarterbacks to play for the Dallas Cowboys. Though he never won a Superbowl, his community describes a man whose passion for the game continues to inspire his fans, community, family and friends.
Akiko Takakura is one of the last survivors of the atomic bomb explosion in Hiroshima. During Obon she receives the spirits of her parents and is haunted by memories. Akiko’s childhood consists of constant rejections and beatings. Finally Akiko experiences fatherly love in the midst of Hiroshima’s ruins.
After meeting someone who inspires her, Tanya begins to learn the costof chasing perfection in her music.
Pilar and her brothers are ecstatic to take their first flight, but they must hide their excitement or risk revealing their undocumented status and being deported.
When five teen employees at the local movie theater in a small Christian town discover a mysterious old film hidden in it’s basement, they unleash an alluring succubus who gives them a sex education...written in blood.
Tyler Armstrong, a fourteen year-old mountaineer, goes to Peru intent on climbing Artesonraju, an almost 20,000 foot peak prominently featured in the Paramount Pictures logo.
Adapted from a script written 25 years ago that was based on Robert Rodriguez's experiences in a Medical Research Facility, RED 11 is a Horror/Thriller set in a dark, twisted version of the Legal Drug Research world. At these Facilities, young guys become Lab Rats to make quick money, but our hero RED 11 is here to buy his way out of a huge debt to the tune of $7,000. This story shows the quirks, characters, and comedy of Robert's…
When a serial killer is disposing of his latest victim on Christmas Eve, anunexpected visitor rears its ugly head throwing a wrench in his Christmasplans
A young boy, Anselmo, faces his fears of bullies and his drunk abusive father. He escapes reality by reading his comic book "The Mighty Blitz" and learns to stand up for himself with the help of his mother.
A year after a traumatic event, Harold must make a choice that will forever change his life.
Stuck indoors, instead of battling imaginary villains, adventurous Aurora must help her grandmother, the local curandera, ease the pains and ailments of neighbors and family. Only when she herself needs some healing does she recognize the real superhero.
Follow Beto O'Rourke behind the scenes of his breakaway campaign to unseat Ted Cruz in the US Senate. The documentary captures Beto's rise from a virtual unknown to a national political sensation and reveals the challenges and triumphs of an unconventional campaign as Beto navigates an onslaught of negative advertising, inevitable strain on his family, and the pressure of delivering for legions of supporters.
After finding an ancient artifact, a high school senior tries to juggle his find and his life not knowing it will change forever.
Simon Says tells the story of emerging producer, Mark (Jay Stratton), his sexual need for young actresses and his desire to mimic film mogul and mentor, Simon (Todd Carroll). Simon Says exposes the reality behind abuse of power within the film industry.
Based on El Paso author, Benjamin Alire Saenz' series “Meditations on Living in the Desert,” the film turns to memory and heritage as it directly confronts matters of faith, civil rights, and contemporary politics—always with the unrelenting moral urge to speak truth and do something.
Two weeks after the mass shooting that shocked and brutalized this small West Texas town, Olive returns to her high school for the first time along with parents and other survivors, who each must find some way to move forward.
Two weeks after the mass shooting that shocked and brutalized this small West Texas town, Olive returns to her high school for the first time along with parents and other survivors, who each must find some way to move forward.
For months Kira has been living out of her car in Venice, California. Facing a constant struggle to keep her head above water, Kira’s world collapses when she returns home from work one evening to find her car stolen. Vulnerable and alone, Kira must navigate the harrowing uncertainty of a night on the streets.
Tank Man is the story of the iconic gentleman who stood in front of and stopped a line of tanks after the Tiananmen Square massacre of June 4, 1989. All that is know of this man are the images that were recorded of his acts. This film is a speculation of what he went through the day he took his courageous steps 30 years ago.
Henry’s dad is a famous personal injury lawyer. Earl played two years of special teams at Stanford. Richard Dunbar the IV spent time in Leavenworth for murder. Stuck in a holding cell inside Tarrant County jail, in Fort Worth, TX, three men discuss the importance of names, high school football, and the crimes with which they’ve been charged. Unlikely bedfellows, they must learn to get along to survive.
Each year, tens of thousands of people leave their countries and make the journey to the United States. “Prevention through Deterrence”, a US border enforcement policy from the 1990s, forces people to cross the most remote and dangerous areas of the US- Mexico border.
High school student Gerardo Hernandez - raised in the United States since six months of age - was one of over 100 undocumented workers arrested by ICE in Ohio on June 5th, 2018. Gerardo spent almost 2 months in prison before being released… and is now scheduled to be deported in early 2020. THE OTHER BORDER is his American story, told through intimate interviews with Gerardo and his sister, Karime.
Ulises Manu and Rami whom we’ve seen on the prequel “La vida que no ves” are three friends sharing similar stories right on the US-MX border this time we see the silence of life through Ulises eyes, Samantha its expecting his unplanned child. The atrocities and desires will lead him to reconsider his surroundings and his way of living.
Meet the lawyers tasked with defending a 9/11 suspect at Guantanamo Bay.Follow Alka Pradhan, James Connell, and Lt. Col. Sterling Thomas as theyprepare for what is being called “the biggest criminal trial in U.S. history.”Their client is Ammar al-Baluchi, one of the fi ve men facing the deathpenalty for plotting the attacks.
Three best friends, Jimmy, Samy and Sofi, have the trailblazing idea: to turn a chocolate dispenser into a pot-vending machine. Also, there’s a dog in the film.
When All That’s Left is Love is the emotionally gripping story of a wife’s determination to care for her Alzheimer’s-stricken husband in their home. With unprecedented, behind-the-scenes access, the film reveals the toll that the disease takes on families coping with Alzheimer's, while also showcasing the power of love that sustains both patients and caregivers.
Where Am I tells the story of a Honduran man whose family was forced to leave home because of extortion and murder threats by gangs. It focuses on forced migrants from Central America, and what happens to them if and when they manage to cross the border into the United States.