Films Watched in 2018

A military family takes part in a ground-breaking experiment of genetic evolution and space exploration.

Tough, but diva fabulous, Leo, an aspiring drag superstar, is stuck working in a fish cannery in Alaska. He and his twin sister are trapped in the monotony of fist fights and fish guts. Out of necessity, Leo learned to fight back, which catches the attention of the local boxing coach. When a new boy moves to town and wants to be his sparring partner, Leo has to face the real reason he's stuck in Alaska.

Soledad, a traditional healer, lives with her grandson Jose in an Indigenous Village. Soledad's daughter, Adela, moved to Mexico City many years ago and now wants Jose to join her, but Soledad believes the boy is better off in the village.

Winner, Best Feature Film at the 2018 Sonoma Int FF, the 2018 Culver City FF and 2019 Beaufort Int FF. A grief-stricken woman befriends a Marine veteran with PTSD, and their relationship leads them towards potentially tragic consequences.

It's the summer of 1983, and 17-year-old Elio is spending the days with his family at their villa in Lombardy, Italy. He soon meets Oliver, who's working as an intern for Elio's father. They discover the heady beauty of awakening desire.

The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather Jean Paul Getty to pay the ransom.

A single mother and the manager of a roadside motel do their utmost to maintain the innocence of a six-year-old girl's life.

In 1892, a legendary Army Captain reluctantly agrees to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory.

Four college girls hold up a restaurant in order to fund their spring break vacation. While partying, drinking, and taking drugs, they are arrested, only to be bailed out by a drug and arms dealer.

A detached university student faces the consequences of astral projection when he uses it to reconnect with his dead mother.

A reclusive programmer, his sister and her new boyfriend are held hostage by a rapidly evolving computer virus.

Havin, the young wife of Kurdish shepherd Zagros, is being accused of adultery. She flees with their daughter Rayhan from Kurdistan to Brussels. Zagros is convinced of her innocence, leaves his family to start a new life.

A mother personally challenges the local authorities to solve her daughter's murder when they fail to catch the culprit.

There is nothing that keeps passionate social worker Wolski in Germany. On a remote island in the Kingdom of Tonga, he chooses to give criminal teenagers a second chance. His first candidate is Marcel, 16, no stranger to drugs, violence and crime. When a visit to the populated island of Vava'u ends in disaster, Wolski only narrowly manages to keep the boy from being sent to prison. The deal: from now on, Marcel is not allowed to leave the uninhabited island of Kenutu at all.

Croatia, 7th of January 1992: In the middle of the war a young journalists' body is being found dressed with an uniform of the international mercenary group. 19 years later, his cousin Anja Kofmel detects his story.

Dreaming of a better future, a young DJ confronts his family struggles in the streets of Brooklyn.

Chumbak is a coming-of-age story of a 15year old table-cleaning-waiter-boy Baalu and his chance encounter with a 45 year old mentally slow man Prasanna that forces him to make a choice between his dreams and morality.

A South American composer travels to India to search for the truth behind a poetic vision, written to him by a female painter and his mysterious journey to discover the source of his music inspiration.

Seeking an escape from his isolated life in New York City, Alex accepts a mysterious invitation to house-sit a picturesque 'Enchanted Cottage' on Long Island. There he ends up lost on a surreal musical all-night odyssey of misadventures.

A VHS collector and a woman obsessed with the 80s, both alcoholics, initiates a romance that helps them battle their personal failures.

A radical, western re-imagining of Henry David Thoreau's classic, interlacing three stories about the trappings of 21st century life and those who dream dangerously of escape.

In 1970, drug-fueled Los Angeles private investigator Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of a former girlfriend.

A widowed mortician receives a birthday gag gift from her mother and daughter. The gift, a life-size doll, soon comes to life as her dead husband complicating life with her family and her budding relationship with a documentary filmmaker.

A strange woman comes to Texas to meet her half-sister and stake a claim to the family music legacy-one way or another.

A woman meets her dead father's old friend, who was the operator of a Bioscope show that she loved in her childhood. Connecting India and Afghanistan, a story of love and cinema unfolds.