Inside Llewyn Davis speelt zich af in de folkscene van de New Yorkse hippiewijk Greenwich Village in de jaren zestig. Llewyn Davis is een ongelukkige singer-songwriter. De film volgt een week in het leven van Llewyn, waarbij hij een kans krijgt om zowel zijn acteer- als zijn gitaartalent te laten zien, in de hoop het te maken in de muziekwereld.
Wanneer de populaire Zach Stiller gedumpt wordt door zijn vriendin voor een slijmerige tv-ster, gaat hij een weddenschap aan met een vriend: hij zegt het voor elkaar te zullen krijgen om de bebrilde nerd Laney Boggs mee te nemen naar het eindbal, en haar tot "prom queen" om te kunnen toveren. Zach wordt echter verliefd op Laney.
A look at the world of webcam workers who find economic freedom, empowerment, intimacy and creative self expression from the comfort of their own homes.
A story about the music in us.
A docu-drama portrait of the early-20th-century French author Marcel Proust, based on Alain de Botton's updated analysis of his work as a modern-day self-help guide. Ralph Fiennes plays Proust, with Phyllida Law and Donald Sinden as his contemporaries, while commentators including de Botton, Louis de Bernières and Doris Lessing explain their enthusiasm for his work.
Bustoni, a performing arts worker who lives with his mother who are dying, has a question that distract his life. What will happen to a woman after death?
This expressive and experimental short film by Iain Delavan features two distinct emotionally significant videos, broken up by an ethereal synthetic universe. Quoted by Delavan as "the best thing [they] have ever made", this film has many layers hidden underneath the seemingly simplistic surface.
Bill Moyers and filmmaker David Grubin give viewers a rare glimpse into dancer/choreographer Bill T. Jones’s highly acclaimed dance Still/Here. At workshops around the country, people facing life-threatening illnesses are asked to remember the highs and lows of their lives, and even imagine their own deaths. They then transform their feelings into expressive movement, which Jones incorporates into the dance performed later in the program. For this documentary, Jones demonstrates the movements of his own life story: his first encounter with white people, confusion over his sexuality, his partner Arnie Zane’s untimely death from AIDS, and Jones’s own HIV-positive status.
A short film about identity and gender.
This film explores freedom of speech in the United States of America
A portrait of man dealing with himself on a rainy day. Part realistic, part expressionist.
An adaptation of the play "4.48 Psychosis" written by Sarah Kane. The movie consists of scenes that work as a fragmenteded voyage through the mind of a person on a deeply depressive state. Everything is shown in a raw and experimental manner to bring the feelings and emotions in the most pure form to screen.
Emilio, a six year old, feels deeply troubled by his parents' recent separation. Aware of his anguish, his grandmother decides to undertake a special mission to alleviate his emotions: to make him believe that he has the power to become invisible. Through this shared fantasy, they embark on an emotional journey where they learn to look beyond the superficial and recognize the true value of family bonds.
Three college students enter a mysterious building and encounter forces beyond their comprehension.