Independent

The battle between loggers and environmentalists is defining, dividing and destroying communities in Canada and around the world. The Green Chain is a powerful, funny and thought-provoking film about the conflicts between people on both sides of the battle who love trees -- and are willing to risk anything to protect their personal visions of the forest.

A Jewish-American woman (Natalie Portman) still reeling from her breakup with her Spanish-Israeli fiancée hits the road with a middle-aged Israeli woman, who is looking to collect the 30,000-dollar debt owed to her by her husband's former business partner, and a Palestinian woman, who claims to know the elusive moneyman's whereabouts, in this road-trip drama from Kippur director Amos Gitai.

This groundbreaking and influential indie classic is a day in the life of Austin, among its social outcasts and misfits.

For 25 years, Academy Award-nominated director Jerry Aronson accumulated more than 120 hours of film on Allen Ginsberg, resulting in this comprehensive and invaluable portrait of one of America's greatest poets, author of HOWL and other ground-breaking poems.

Set at the Newport jazz festival in 1958, this documentary features performances from Jimmy Giuffre, Sal Salvador, Anita O'Day, Dinah Washington, Chuck Berry, Louis Armstrong, and more.

A college freshman investigates his girlfriend's death in a so-called group suicide and gets trapped in a fake psych ward by a very real psychopath.

The five stories in THE OPTIMISTS are inspired by Voltaire’s famous satirical novel Candide and its motto: “Optimism is insisting everything is good, when everything is bad.” The setting is present day, post-Milosevic Serbia. Painted with black humour, these stories reflect a time filled with hope and despair, real optimism and false; a time when fiction and reality co-exist side by side, and when many people fish in the troubled waters of lost illusions. The acclaimed actor Lazar Ristovski (“Underground”, “The Powder Keg” aka “Cabaret Balkan” in the USA, “Midwinter Night’s Dream”) takes a role in each of the five stories.

A Comedy: Don Quixote on a motorcycle. A teenager tells us the story of his favorite relative: his weird, 70 year-old slightly crazed Uncle Emmett, who, on being forced to retire his job as a parking enforcement officer of 40 years, buys a motorcycle with a sidecar and "...jumps into the wind", traveling the by-ways and open roads of the Great American West as an Outlaw Biker Wannabe who's sworn to: "...save road pilgrims from injustices, fight The Man, and make some news". After picking up a stranded woman who's car has run out of gas, Emmett's hassled by The Highway Patrol and some real Outlaw Bikers. To impress his female passenger, "The Outlaw Emmett Deemus" bravely takes them on.

Blind Spot is a documentary film that illustrates the current oil and energy crisis that our world is facing. Whatever measures of ignorance, greed, wishful thinking, we have put ourselves at a crossroad, which offers two paths with dire consequences. If we continue to burn fossil fuels we will choke the life out of the planet and if we don't our way of life will collapse.

Faced with extraordinary trauma of losing both parents to alcoholism and divorce, seven siblings form a unique family structure. The Watershed is a moving documentary of survival and forgiveness that shows how tragedy can have transforming effects on individual identity.

A hand-drawn animated film exploring the co-dependent nature of relationships.

The miracle of birth (not actual size).

Knocking at the door of a stranger, a young man lets his anxiety get the better of him.

Manga Manga Manga free form filmmaking!

The Adam's and Eve's meet up for the first time over Saturday tea until Danny displays his adeptness at magic by producing a bombshell that could change their lives forever.

Eyes meet at a restaurant. Could it be love at first sight?

A documentary that explores the Tibet-issue from both sides. Includes interviews with officials of both the Peoples Republic of China and the Tibetan government-in-exile.

As the sun rises over the Iranian desert on a morning like any other, a boy leaves his home to collect shrubs to sell at the market. At the same time, a desperate woman sets out in her battered jalopy to dump the body of her lover into the well. He is the only witness to her crime and he must die. She guns the engine and sets off after him; he runs for his life, using the textures and secrets of the desert to evade her. This Hitchcockian pursuit leads us through ancient ruins, goatherds' cottages, underground aqueducts and finally to the boy's house and a gory, sudden end. The boy's rising desire for revenge and the woman's deteriorating health and increasing disorientation mean that the original reason for the chase is quickly forgotten, as is the distinction between pursuer and pursued.

David and Sarah Jones meet a man in the pub offering them £1,000 cash to look after his briefcase overnight - the only caveat is they must not look inside. Just a quick look wouldn't hurt though, would it?

When Ally bumps into her ex, Ben, she’s surprised to find him a changed man.