A satirical take on the mundane absurdities of life in modern-day Iran, these nine vignettes illuminate the lighter side of enduring under authoritarian rule. Whether choosing a name for a newborn, graduating from grade school, getting a driver’s license, applying for a job, or seeking approval for a film script, if you live in Iran, you best come fluent in Orwellian discourse. Progressing along a rough timeline from birth to death, each story is shot in a static camera angle as a single petitioner negotiates with an authority figure hovering just outside of frame, who is practiced in the language of doublespeak.
An American journalist arrives in Berlin just after the end of World War Two. He becomes involved in...
After a young man is murdered, his spirit stays behind to warn his lover of impending danger, with t...
Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufr...
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with un...
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty yea...
Alex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep...
Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the...
Based on a real event, twelve dead bodies are found in the Tula River, we see the events that lead u...
Upset with the prevarications of the adult world, Willie launches a truth-telling campaign at school...
A secretary is found dead in a White House bathroom during an international crisis, and Detective Ha...
The mutilated body of a six year old girl is found in a water hole. The girl is identified as the mi...
'Sugar' Ray is the owner of an illegal casino and must contend with the pressure of vicious gangster...
A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of...
Tells the story of Rainbow Randolph, the corrupt, costumed star of a popular children's TV show, who...
A sheltered Amish child is the sole witness of a brutal murder in a restroom at a Philadelphia train...
After an Ithaca College student films his one-night stand with a beautiful sorority girl, he discove...
Disgraced pro football quarterback Paul Crewe lands in a Texas federal penitentiary, where manipulat...
The police try to arrest expert hostage negotiator Danny Roman, who insists he's being framed for hi...
Nico Toscani is an Italian immigrant, American patriot, ex-CIA agent, aikido specialist and unorthod...
Filli and the cavemen from "When Women Had Tails" are living a carefree life inside a dinosaur skele...