Rated:NONE Water - the most common substance on earth. It is with us every moment of everyday, but do we know the secrets of this amazing element. From agriculture, to factories and hydropower, we put water to work in a million different ways every day. And yet water acts outside all known physical laws of nature. At a time of global climate change, understanding the mysteries of water is critical. Every living thing needs it to survive Our ignorance of its function and capacities has lead us to abuse its quality and forget its potential. Witness WATER's capacity and challenge historical assumptions. Unveil enlightened information and new scientific discoveries that create new possibilities for water's use in every field of endeavor. These new discoveries go beyond human reckoning - beyond the solar systems and galaxies to the Source of life itself. Featuring breathtaking discoveries by researchers worldwide from Russia, Kazakhstan, Switzerland, Israel, the USA, Britain, Austria, Japan, Argentina, China and Tibet.
Rated:R Four high school friends plan to ride out their senior year taking easy classes, including a program for housing foreign exchange students and eventually all attending Ohio State. Hurdles befall each of the four: grades, higher aspirations, love. Is it the Foreign Exchange students that learn from their host or the hosts that do more of the learning?
Rated:NONE In the seedy underground of illegal prizefighting, a corrupt boxing promoter is embroiled in a dangerous fight-fixing scheme with his female prizefighter.
Rated:NONE "A Secret" follows the saga of a Jewish family in post-World War II Paris. François, a solitary, imaginative child, invents for himself a brother as well as the story of his parents' past. But on his fifteenth birthday, he discovers a dark family secret that ties his family's history to the Holocaust and shatters his illusions forever.
Adapted from Philippe Grimbert's celebrated truth-inspired novel.
Rated:PG-13 "The Women" is a remake of the 1939 George Cukor classic. The updated version follows a group of female friends when the one they envied most discovers her husband's cheating on her.
Rated:PG-13 Tyler Perry will direct "The Family That Preys" from his original screenplay and will play one of the film's major roles. The story focuses on two families from different sides of the tracks that become intimately involved in love and business.
Rated:R "Towelhead" follows the dark, bold and shockingly funny life of Jasira, a 13-year-old Arab-American girl, as she navigates the confusing and frightening path of adolescence and her own sexual awakening.
When Jasira's mother sends her to Houston to live with her strict Lebanese father, she quickly learns that her new neighbors find her and her father a curiosity. Worse, her budding womanhood makes her traditional and hot-tempered father uncomfortable. Lonely in this new environment, Jasira seeks friendship and acceptance from her neighbors Mr. Vuoso, an Army reservist, and Melina, a meddling but caring expectant mother.
Thrown into an unfamiliar suburban world, Jasira must confront racism and hypocrisy at home and at school - and at the same time struggle to make sense of her raging hormones and newfound sexuality. Her boyfriend, Thomas, though a few years older, provides some comfort - but even that relationship causes problems when her father discovers that Thomas is black. Surrounded by adults who are just as lost as she is, Jasira yearns for understanding, even amidst often brutal acts.
Based on the critically acclaimed novel by Alicia Erian and written for the screen and directed by Alan Ball (Oscar® winning writer of "American Beauty" and creator of "Six Feet Under"), "Towelhead" stars Aaron Eckhart, Toni Collette, Maria Bello, Peter Macdissi and newcomer Summer Bishil as Jasira.
Rated:PG "Proud American" is based on true stories and presented through a unique combination of five dramatic scenarios, expansive natural scenery, and a collection of vignettes celebrating America.
Rated:NONE Water is the very essence of life, sustaining every being on the planet. "Flow" confronts the disturbing reality that our crucial resource is dwindling and greed just may be the cause.
Rated:NONE A daring hybrid of realism and fantasy, "Forgiveness" is a psychological thriller that explores the tragedies of the Middle East. David, a young American-Israeli, returns to Israel to join the army, only to find himself in a catatonic state after accidentally shooting a Palestinian girl while on patrol. He is committed to a mental institution which sits on the ruins of a Palestinian village. The head psychiatrist tries to cure him with medication, while another patient in the hospital, a Holocaust survivor, tries to redeem him by opening his heart to the ghost that haunts him. He returns to New York under his father's care, believing that his horrific past is behind him...until his love for a Palestinian woman reopens the gates of his trauma zone.
Growing Op is a provocative dramatic comedy about a teenage boy coming of age in a suburban marijuana-growing operation. Sheltered all his life, and home-schooled by loving parents who are also committed neo-hippie criminals, Quinn Dawson yearns to experience the normalcy of the suburban world around him. When his new neighbour Crystal turns out to be the blonde girl of his dreams, Quinn is motivated to rebel against his parents and attend high-school for the first time.
But the more Quinn pulls away from his parents' modest utopia, the more he discovers that the real jungle is not in his living room, but in the distorted values of the suburban status quo. When truths are finally told and counter-cultures collide, everybody does get stoned.
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