Oru Kuttanadan Blog

Nino is back in Canada after years of struggle in Hollywood. He's got his big break: leading man in a new film by a very important American director, starring opposite the international star Vanessa Luna - and it shoots back in his hometown Toronto. Mario, owner of "Il Gatto Nero" - the heart of Little Italy - is throwing a small private after-hours party to celebrate the success of the homecoming immigrant kid making good. Lots of wine and Italian food is on the menu. The guest list is a cross-section of Italian Immigrant life: Leo, the contractor who just found out his wife's cheating on him; Frankie, who published a tell-all novel about the community; Alberto, whose family runs the multicultural radio & television network; Eddie who just had his restaurant foreclosed; Bruno who left a life in the mob to become a chef; Michael, a desperate salesman who just might be the guy screwing Leo's wife. And Vince, an aging film director recovering from heart surgery who is - through the manipulations of Vanessa Luna - offered the chance to finally make his dream movie. Everybody at the party knows they've blown their first crack at life's game. Over the course of the night buried emotions erupt and old wounds bleed again, and everybody gets a second chance. But the big question is, "Are they willing to pay the price?" A comedy-drama about life, love, community and being Italian in a place where the earth is never warm enough for transplanted roots.

After years of financial misfortune and inconsistent work, Ferris Johnson struggles to figure out his next life step amid the pandemic.

Under-achievers Shiro and Keita manage to survive delivering newspapers. They are otherwise on their own since their peers had all left for university three years earlier. Passing the entrance exam is the main problem. Shiro, however, is more interested in finishing a super-8 movie they had begun in secondary school than studying. But Keita feels more pressure on him to pass, and can't share Shiro's enthusiasm. To further complicate Keita's life, he hears that Kyoko, his ex-girlfriend, is coming back for a visit from her studies in Tokyo.

Since its inception, performance art provided a forum for those artists whose work challenges the dominant aesthetic and cultural status quo. In "Sphinxes Without Secrets", performers, curators and critics unravel the mysteries of performance art and ponder the world women confront today.

When two young men get into trouble because of their Berlin lifestyle, conflict, love and sex put their friendship to the test.