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Learn more about the Ukraine with a collection of over 25 informative films.
1) Pin Cushion
Publisher
1091 Media
Language
English
Description
Seeking a fresh start, socially awkward Iona and her cat-obsessed mother Lyn move to a new town. Together the pair put on a brave face, finding and creating comfort as one another's sole friend. However, life begins to get tricky after the town's small-minded denizens reveal themselves to be as petty and cruel as those from the town they just fled. At school, Iona finds herself targeted by a trio of mean girls who exploit her naïveté. Across town,...
3) Beauty Mark
Author
Language
English
Description
An empowering story inspired by true events, BEAUTY MARK follows a poverty-stricken young mother forced to move after her house is condemned. With no money and no options, she must confront her abusive past in order to save her family.
4) Club Life
Author
Language
English
Description
From the Executive Producers of "Spring Breakers," Forced by bills for his ailing father, Johnny makes a name for himself in the Nightclub scene. Jumping into the greed and ambition of the club world, he plans the party to end all parties.
5) Nasty Baby
Author
Language
English
Description
An award-winning favorite that centers on a Brooklyn artist who, with his boyfriend and their best friend, try to have a baby. Their bliss is clouded by a series of confrontations with an annoying neighbor who just might be a madman.
8) High Strung
Author
Language
English
Description
When a Midwest dancer and a street-wise British musician meet in New York, they immediately clash but there's an undeniable attraction as well. The two must navigate their differences for a competition that will change their lives forever.
10) Red Knot
Author
Language
English
Description
Peter (Vincent Kartheiser, “Mad Menâ€) and Chloe (Olivia Thirlby, Juno), are a young married couple who jump at the chance to satisfy their wanderlust by taking a belated honeymoon aboard a research vessel bound for Antarctica.
11) Rounds
Author
Language
English
Description
Music, beer and pick-up basketball games set the backdrop as three friends struggle with relationships, money and the pursuit of happiness.
12) Lane 1974
Author
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lane struggles with the repercussions of her iconoclast mother's erratic moves through the communes and dusty back woods of 1974 Northern California.
13) Morgan
Author
Language
English
Description
Newly paraplegic Morgan just wants his life to be like it was before the accident. A chance encounter with Dean on a basketball court makes him more determined that being in a wheelchair will not change him.
14) Junction 48
Author
Language
Arabic
Description
A Palestinian-Israeli rapper from an Arab ghetto goes from living aimlessly to being the first Arab rapper. However, he faces violent nationalist rappers, the government, drug-dealing friends and threats against him and his girlfriend.
15) Blood and Glory
Author
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of a Boer soldier whose family was murdered by the British during the Anglo-Boer War and sent to a harsh POW prison. To survive, he and his fellow inmates must defeat their British captors at their own game… Rugby.
17) Entre Nos
Author
Language
Español
Description
Newly arrived to New York City and deserted by her husband Gabriel, Mariana must find a way, in a strange city where she barely speaks the language, to provide for her family, financially and emotionally.
19) AWOL
Author
Language
English
Description
Joey joins the Army as a way out of Pennsylvania coal country just as she falls in love with magnetic housewife Rayna. A splendid meditation on the boundless possibilities of first love constricted by the trials of poverty.
20) Small Pond
Author
Language
English
Description
Kirsten means well. Isn't it the thought that counts? Hari Leigh stars in this uproarious and unpredictable ode to easy living in the unseen reaches of the American Midwest, which marks the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Josh Slates.
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