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Against all odds, the students at Dominguez High School set out to put on the school's first theatrical production in more than 20 years. But what does Thornton Wilder's famous play about life in rural Grover's Corners have to do with Compton, California? [This film] follows the students on their discovery of the power of art and the human spirit.

Hawaii, Oslo: Four stories about love are interwoven in Oslo on the hottest day of the year: a new baby, a search for a lost mother, a long-delayed date, a prisoner's weekend visit home. All are searching for that indefinable something called love. Harold the amazing contortionist pig: Harold just wasn't like the other pigs, so he ran away, joined the circus and became an instant star. But will the big lights destroy our contortionist hero? Find...

Academy Award nominee & festival-winning original short films. Mt. Head: An animated fantasy about a man who eats some cherry seeds and ends up with a cherry tree growing out of his head. Das Rad: An animated tale of two rocks who have stood atop the same hilltop for centuries. They discuss the activities of the human beings below them. Inja: A South African landowner goes to great extremes to separate a black boy and his puppy. Sangam: A conversation...

A father sets off from Moscow with his 11-year-old son for his sister's house in Koktebel by the Black Sea. With no money, nor means of transportation, they drift through the expansive and mesmeric landscapes at the mercy of chance. For the father, the journey is an attempt to restore self-respect and win back the trust of his son. For the boy, the mythic coastal town holds the key to a new life. The box man (5 min.): In a cold empty city, a man...

Adam's apples: A modern religious fable about belief, and the fight between good and evil. Adam is a neo-Nazi, who is sent on community service with the priest Ivan. Ivan gives Adam the task of baking an apple pie with apples from the tree in front of the church. Meanwhile, birds, worms and lightning are attacking the apples. Ivan believes it is the Devil, who is testing them but Adam believes it is God, because it might be that evil does not even...

Three soccer fans, living in the farthest-flung corners of the planets: Mongolia, Niger and Brazil, determined to watch the TV broadcast of the 2002 World Cup final.

Nine-year-old Amudha's search for her biological mother takes the family to strife-torn Sri Lanka, where Amudha comes face-to-face with reality, and reconciles herself to it.

Monster Thursday: Three friends and one love triangle. All want to quest for the perfect wave and love. Youngster: When a 12-year-old drug dealer hands over a crack rock to a pushy addict without first getting paid, he must decide whether to trust a man with every reason to lie, or do his best to recover the money by his own means.

Arranged: Ditmas Park, Brooklyn. A young Orthodox woman, Rochel Meshenberg, is about to begin her first year as a special education teacher at the local public school. She is also about to begin the process of finding a husband via the time-tested method of using a "shadchen," or matchmaker. As the school year gets underway, Rochel meets Nasira Khaldi, a Muslim woman of Syrian descent. Nasira is also a first-year teacher. The two young women - Rochel...

After stealing a machete from a market in Kigali, Munyurangabo and his friend, Sangwa, leave the city on a journey tied to their pasts. Munyurangabo wants justice for his parents who were killed in the genocide, and Sangwa wants to visit the home he deserted years ago. Though they plan to visit Sangwa's home for just a few hours, the boys stay for several days. From two separate tribes, their friendship is tested when Sangwa's wary parents disapprove...