Andrew Caple-Shaw

American Gun -- Seemingly disparate portraits of people -- among them a single mother, a high school principal, and an ace student -- distinctly American -- all affected by the proliferation of guns in American society.

First Daughter -- Samantha Mackenzie wants what every college freshman desires: to experience life away from home and parents. It's not going to be easy, however, because home for Sam is the White House, and her dad is the President of the United States.

In this intensely terrifying horror film, eight explorers who discover a new cave system in Central Asia find themselves trapped and hunted by an unknown presence. When the group's two guides are mysteriously killed off, the members of the team find themselves caught in a fight for their lives as they desperately seek to escape the labyrinths of the cave. With two key members of the team dead, the explorers desperately try to escape and find that their way out has been inexplicably sealed shut. They're trapped inside and the only way to continue is to go deeper into the cave. Miles beneath the surface and surrounded by labyrinths of rock, sand, mud and water, they embark on a fight for their lives hunted by an unknown presence and threatened by divisions from within their own ranks. They charge at a breakneck pace to a frightening and thoroughly startling conclusion.

A Virgina gun store owner Carl (Donald Sutherland) sidesteps controversy while running the shop he loves. His new employee, granddaughter Mary Ann (Linda Cardellini) has been pressured to join the family business. Curiosity overcomes her as she becomes seduced by the weapons. In Oregon, Janet (Marcia Gay Harden) suffers through a TV interview marking the anniversary of her older son's high school shooting rampage. She worries for a younger son, now the same age as his brother when he attacked. On Chicago's gritty west side, principal Carl (Forest Whitaker) struggles to keep his high school from exploding as his wife fears for their son. When ace student Jay is caught with a gun, both he and Carl must face choices they never wanted to make. Nominated for 3 Independent Spirit awards, AMERICAN GUN director Aric Avelino "shows an almost tender restraint in his story-telling, not pounding us with a message but simply looking steadily at how guns have made these lives difficult." - Roger Ebert