Breaking a mirror initiates five different acts in five different places; exposing shades of magic, politics, and systemic violence. The harm social systems are designed to inflict, the enforced disappearances in Turkey during the 1990s, the border politics of the EU, manipulative storytelling, and power struggles are evoked as the round Pendant attempts to become whole again with its gemstones scattered throughout the acts.

A popular but naive country singer is elected governor of a southern state and, once in office, deci...
Federal officer with the Department of Homeland Security discovers a national security breach relate...

Louisiana's governor asks war hero Francis C. Grevemberg to lead the state police against corruption...

Roberto, a leader and follower of the ideals of his radical leftist opposition party, can’t resist t...

Rafael, a young man from the provinces, works as a waiter in a resort and helps himself economically...

Scatterbrained Polly gets a job as a secretary in Gabrielle's art gallery. Polly aspires to be a pro...

The border between Brazil and Paraguay: living on opposite sides of a big river, Brazilian boy Joca ...

A cri de coeur against Iraq War I from writer-director John Gianvito (Profit Motive and the Whisperi...

Stockholm, late 1970s. Within a stone’s throw of government buildings and juvenile homes lies the se...

Rita is fifteen and spends the summer between warm afternoons of teenage love and party nights with ...

A Japanese family weathers much hardship after their military uncle comes to live with them during W...

The political evolution in Chile seeing from three different times: 1937, 1947 and 1970. A film that...

Ellis, a fourteen-minute film directed by JR and written by Academy Award winner Eric Roth, tells th...

Rome, 70s. Rocco and Antonia, high school students, meet during a political rally. The two young peo...

In the 1950s, Ludvik Jahn was expelled from the Communist Party and the University by his fellow stu...

East-Berlin, 1961, shortly after the erection of the Wall. Konrad, Sophie and three of their friends...

While staying at a picturesque village, a teen encounters the underground world of art forgery.

Caius Martius, aka Coriolanus, is an arrogant and fearsome general who has built a career on protect...

Two teenage brothers are attempting to escape an unnamed city controlled by an iron-fisted mayor. Th...

A charismatic peddler from the Bayous finds his true calling in politics. Is he a demagogue in the m...