After a massive blackout hits Tokyo, a Japanese family must navigate the challenges of living without electricity as they leave the city and venture into the countryside. They face food and water shortages, encounters with police officers, and the death of a loved one. Along the way, they learn to adapt and find ways to survive.
Corpo Celeste follows the story of a 13-year-old girl named Marta who moves with her mother and sister from Switzerland to a small southern Italian town. Marta feels lost and disconnected in this new environment, especially as she prepares for her confirmation in the Catholic Church. She becomes involved in the church's activities and encounters a number of challenges as she navigates her faith, family relationships, and the expectations of her community.
A middle-aged man, suffering from mythomania and unemployment, attempts to overcome his midlife crisis and poverty in post-industrial France.
HWY: An American Pastoral is a film by Jim Morrison, Frank Lisciandro, Paul Ferrara, and Babe Hill and stars Morrison as a hitchhiker. It is a 50-minute experimental film in Direct Cinema style. It was shot during the spring and summer of 1969 in the Mojave Desert and in Los Angeles.
A lonely bathroom attendant starts a business renting passengers to freeway commuters who want to utilize the carpool lane.
Ashes and Embers is an original screenplay by Haile Gerima, about a Vietnam veteran, who, several years after the war, is struggling to come to terms with his role in the war, and his role as a Black person in America. He survives by working odd jobs in Washington, D.C. and living with his girlfriend and her son. When criticism of his alienated behavior come from her and a father figure too often, he runs to the streets or to his grandmother's rural house in Virginia. Her criticism and his memories of the past both send him fleeing again to Los Angeles, where he is surrounded by superficial people who have forgotten how to be compassionate human beings. It is here that the advice of his friends and grandmother combine to transform him from an embittered ex-soldier to a strong and confident man.
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