RAFAËL USA Premiere The Arab Spring forces Tunisian Nazir, married to the pregnant Dutch hairdresser Kimmy, to escape to Europe, but he ends up in Lampedusa, imprisoned as an illegal refugee. RAFAËL is a romantic drama about two lovers giving everything they have,...
WEST COAST PREMIERE Inspired by True Events The Hague, The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia: Two ambitious lawyers face each other in the trial of Milorad Krstic, who’s accused of committing war crimes as a commander in the Bosnian war....
COACHELLA VALLEY PREMIERE Simone, her husband Eric and their two children move to the dilapidated farmhouse in France that she has inherited. Her dream is to turn the house into a bed and breakfast. As the hectic pace of the rebuilding gets underway, she gets caught...
Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time Screening Set in Amsterdam, the film centers around James, a successful architect and troubled man who finds the answers to his questions about women in an over-the-phone relationship with Nina. When the pair finally meet,...
Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time Screening Devout Calvinist widower Fred leads a respectable, utterly boring life. Suddenly Theo arrives, a mentally impaired adult, mental age about five. Fred starts enjoying ‘fathering’ again, becomes...
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