Under the Stars and Stripes

An intimate coming of age drama documents four teenagers, outstanding athletes living in a prestigious sports academy, where the intense daily routine forces them to sacrifice youth in favor of success.

The mysterious life of Aris San a Greek singer, who became a star in Israel, fell in the grip of the New York mafia and disappeared in Budapest.

Kuku is the personal story of one of the most famous Estonian film actors during the Soviet era, Arvo Kukumagi. He wants to make a comeback to the big screen, but constantly suffers different setbacks: he has a major alcohol problem, a bunch of failed relationships and a near-dead professional career.

September 2013. The Court ruling is reached. Almost a quarter million Dominicans of Haitian descent have just become stateless because of the Dominican Constitutional Tribunal's decision. Identified as scapegoats for all problems affecting the country, they have lost everything: their rights, their liberty, their identity. Presented as a tale and narrated by Haitian poet and playwright Jean-Claude Martineau, this film takes us to the very heart of the human drama lived by these migrants who have sacrificed everything to follow their deem of freedom.

Mother is a hybrid of fiction and documentary. It is a portrait of the complicated, fragile, painful and realistic relationship between my mother and me. In the past, she once tried to commit suicide. Though the action was failed, she was disabled. Since the incident, my family has changed forever, and the film is my attempt to explore and understand her, myself and my family. To put it in a wider context, I analogically portrayed how Thai middle class family effect- ed by Asian financial crisis in 1997(Tom Yam Kung Crisis) and explored the representation of family in Thai culture through the process of making this film. Thai media always shows Thai family with one dimension : the good and the bad. To understand the society, we need to go to the smallest institution of it : family. What is Thai family? What is its complexities? What are the ways each member deal with the world outside and inside? How does the family go through the radical change both from Thai society and the destiny and they dances around the reality and the fantasy of the familial representation.

Christian Schoyen, a direct descendant of Viking King Ragnvaldsson, journeys to Vegas to kick off the Vegas Vikings Game. As project director, he assembles a Viking team, securing a 75% crime drop with his 10-challenge transformative game.