Movies: Emotional vulnerability

An ex-philosophy professor-turned-hermit hires a sex-worker to play chess and answer a series of personal questions, but with one caveat: she cannot ask any questions about him....

Eight American men of different ethnic backgrounds discuss homophobic prejudice against gay men in the United States, sharing their fears and personal experiences of bigotry, demonization, and ridicule....

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Three Kurdish immigrants arrive in the UK, as illegal aliens to seek asylum. Finding they now belong to London's underground....

While staying with her aunt at a fashionable spa, Else receives an unexpected telegram from her mother, begging her to save her father from debtor’s jail. The only way out, it seems, is to approach an elderly acquaintance in order to borrow money fro...

An old Vietnam war veteran struggles with his past when his granddaughter leaves for the military....

The story of a family that suffers a tragedy, but perseveres and finds redemption through each other and their work - making art....

Stuck in Saturday detention, two teen girls with a strong distaste for each other quickly find themselves on the run when they stumble across a dead teacher and a masked killer. Can they put aside their differences, and overcome their own personal st...

Michael, a young man working in an off-licence store is looking for interaction with his customers. Upon seemingly finding a genuine connection with customer Rachel, his bottled-up emotions come to the surface....

In the vein of Raymond Carver, this abstract monologue captures the hidden truth behind our personas. What happens when you “see” a person for the first time? No walls up, a real face emerges....

A young man is convinced to go to a church in an attempt to come to terms with his father's recent death. Upon arriving, he is surprised by a familiar face and they converse about life, death, and lousy parenting....

In US society, people of East Asian heritage are often perceived through an obscuring lens of ethnic and cultural stereotypes. In STOLEN GROUND, six Asian-American men talk about their experience of the highly racialized United States, and consider h...

After her world is shattered before her eyes, sixteen year old Maeve finds herself unable to escape the violence of her life in this gritty urban drama...

Percieve the images how you will; Wander is designed at having a different influence over each audience member and provoking self-reflection and deep thought. There was no singular intended storyline, instead prompting a unique perception from each v...

Riley (16), often elated by the subtlest moments and feelings in life, begins dating his presumed first love, Orbit (16) in the sapid summer of 2017, but soon enters emotional turmoil in the wake of receiving skewed signals from Orbit - presumably pr...

Ten years ago Vivian struck a pact with a mysterious stranger who promised her something no one else could. Tonight, she abandons the love of her life to make a remote rendezvous and settle her debt....

Romain, a tormented young man, deals with his alcohol addiction as he tries his best to hide it from the people closest to him....

Joe wants to be a rapper. Max wants to be a filmmaker. They go to a secluded house in rural Virginia to document the production of Joe's demo CD. But what begins as a funny music documentary turns into a film about Joe's harrowing battle with a self-...

Attempting to piece together the memories of his recent breakup with Sasha —a quietly perceptive, under-confident fellow writer—Nikhil revisits their most tumultuous, mundane, and tender moments to understand what went wrong... and to soothe his unse...

Once a dream wove a shade, and pitying I dropped a tear. But I saw lights near, that light the ground while the soul wanders....