Amtrak to Baka

The Chicken

2020

On an unseasonably hot day in November, Hiro, a Japanese immigrant in New York City, decides to butcher a live chicken for dinner. While showing his visiting cousin Kei around, the pair encounter a medical emergency on the street. After they mishandle the situation and end up causing more harm than good, Hiro cannot bring himself to kill the chicken. Throughout, Kei observes his cousin’s new lifestyle as Hiro and his pregnant wife prepare for their move to Chinatown. As the day wears on, Hiro and Kei’s actions highlight how their lives are complicit in the structural violence that surrounds them.

Tribe: The Untold Story of the Making of Vice Cops

2020

Two brave young men set out to create the greatest film drama of all time. What comes next turns out to be much bigger than they ever expected.

Sekunder

2009

The Night Train

2020

Oskar is on the night train heading home after an interview in Stockholm. With a long night ahead of him, he makes eye contact with Ahmad. For the first time, he meets the gaze of someone who feels the same desire as he does.

Between You and Milagros

2020

At fifteen, Milagros' world still revolves around her mother's affection. This summer an unexpected encounter with death will make her question their relationship, her privilege and her own existence.

The Obolus

2009

A fairy tale for adults about a little boy who has to gain strength and courage to find his way out of a mysterious place by making the ultimate sacrifice.

Mamá

2008

Lili wakes her sister Victoria and insists that they both leave the house.

New Boy

2007

A young African boy with a haunting back story starts school in Ireland, and finds out quickly exactly what it means to be the new kid. Winner of Best Narrative Short at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival and nominated for an Oscar.

Touch of Evil

2011

Some of 2011's stand-out film actors appear in "a video gallery of cinematic villainy" for New York Times Magazine.

Love Hate

2009

A sweet-natured charity worker finds his life turned upside down, when he falls in love with a mysterious woman.

History's Future

2016

Losing his memory after a mugging, a man known only as 'MP' (Missing Person) leaves his home and sets out on a journey - in search not only for his memory but perhaps also for a new identity. MP finds himself confronted by a world in which there are no longer any certainties; an era of crisis on many levels. On his travels from country to country, portrayed via an associative image montage and through a series of strange, illuminating, sometimes comic encounters, MP attempts to gain insight into the complexity of life in the 21st-century West - into what commentators have called an age of 'rolling catastrophe'.

Frost

2012

A young arctic hunter's search for food takes her beyond a sacred boundary and leads to a strange and terrifying discovery.

Presentation

2018

Holly, an anxiety-ridden high school sophomore, is faced with the challenge of giving a class presentation.

Toto

2018

The career of an embittered former horror star who longs for his glory days comes gruesomely full circle.

Good Advice

2008

It is the early 1980's. Ten-year-old Rasmus is tired of his parents never listening to him and decides to run away from home. But before leaving he records a cassette tape with different advice on how to handle life. His mother is pregnant and he plans to leave the tape for his unborn brother.