AWOL

An electric collection of the latest, award-winning lesbian and feminist short films.

This film by Stan Brakhage investigates the process of memory and thought by melting a series of images and a field of color. The positive-negative flickering graphs a sort of shutter-window all over the matter of the vision. Jittery flocks of space are interweaving as pieces of language in a scant illumination, whereas the process of thought is sheared in fuzzy transience.

After the death of their abusive father, two estranged twin brothers must reunite and sell off his property.

The loser Yaroslav returns to his homeland from a long journey, where he tried to know himself and the universe. The return falls on the birthday of his son, for whom he has long ceased to be an authority. Based on new values, Yaroslav is trying to confront obstacles and improve relations with the child. But the acquired concepts do not work well in the megalopolis, and my son needs something more than words...

The world’s farmland is at risk. Demand for land has soared as investors look for places to grow food for export, grow crops for biofuel or simply buy up land for profit. The film gives an inside look into the world of investors in the international agricultural-business and shows the consequences for families kicked off their land. Land Grabbing shows how “colonialism 2.0” works.

A woman fights for a law to be passed to stop fraternity hazing which resulted in her son's death.

Mexican feature film

A U.S. soldier comes to Korea and tracks down his biological father in jail.

On the gritty streets of Baltimore, a young street dealer makes his successful rise in the drug game only to find the deadly consequences of getting to the top.

From 1952 until 1972 one hundred and twenty-eight boys were taken from their families at a young age and placed in an institution, run by the state, where they suffered physical, sexual and psychological abuse. A large number of those committed to this institution came into conflict with society and ended up in jails and psychiatric institutions. More than 30 of the 128 boys have ended their lives. In the film, six of the men who were sentenced to the institution as boys, tell their story and how the stay there has influenced all their life. It's an emotional story, told with dignity and reserve.