What to Watch Right Now

A series of short films examining the world's overlooked problems and the people who suffer from them.

Anuradha lost her mother at a very young age, and her father re-married a much younger woman named Anita, who wanted Anuradha out of their lives, and forced her to drink alcohol at a very young age. By the time Anuradha was an adult she was addicted to alcohol. After the passing of her dad, she is left to run a huge estate and business single-handedly - with the assistance of her close friend, Ajit and uncle, Jamunaprasad. One day Jamunaprasad recommends Vikram for employment with her organization, she does hire him, but dislikes him a lot. When Vikram comes to her rescue, the dislike turns into love, both want to get married, and she even gives up drinking. On the day of the engagement, Ajit cautions her against Vikram and shows her some incriminating photographs of Vikram and a woman named Gita. Angered at this betrayal, she immediately cancels her engagement and decides not to have to do anything with Vikram anymore. She takes to drinking alcohol again, and decides to marry Ajit. When Jamunaprasad wants to find out the reason, she accuses him of using Vikram to conspire against her and her wealth - as she will not let anyone come between her and Ajit anymore. What she does not know is that Ajit is already married; and is also having an affair with her step-mother. Will she find out about this, before it gets too late?

Idealistic lawyers Mike Weiss and Paul Danziger are partners. Mike is a drug-addict and Paul is a family man with a pregnant wife. When nurse Vicky Rogers seeks them out, they learn that she contracted AIDS a couple of years ago when she was accidentally pinpricked with a contaminated needle by a violent patient. Vicky shows a retractable safety needle invented by engineer Jeffrey Matthew Dancort, who owns the Safety Point Company, but is unable to sell his product to any hospital from the United Medical group, apart from San Antonio Memorial. Danziger and Weiss accept the case and go to court against United Medical, defended by powerful lawyer Nathaniel Price. Soon, they see all the doors closed in their fight against the powerful mafia of the medical supply system.

An intimate, affecting portrait of the life and work of ground-breaking performance artist and music pioneer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV) and his wife and collaborator, Lady Jaye, centered around the daring sexual transformations the pair underwent for their 'Pandrogyne' project.

Paris, nowadays. Justine is 27, works at an x-ray lab and has a real problem with commitment. She leaves behind a trail of ex-boyfriends. In fact, she just dumped the latest one, Atom, and is now crashing on her sister's couch. She's just met Sami, who could be The One. But this delicate balance is thrown when her immature, 60-years-old father announces that he and wife number 3 are expecting a baby. Rather than give Sami a chance, Justine focuses on the x-ray creations she secretly produces at her lab.

Ben and Alan, two misfit best friends incapable of growing up, find direction for their lives by taking in an abandoned child and creating the family they've always needed.

A father takes care of his only teenage son with unusual intensity and passion, which results in the son feeling suffocated. Trying to free himself from home, Andrej finds escape among his teenage friends and, above all, with a new girl.

This comedy/horror movie centers about a group of teens who go to Grizzly Lake High School. When one of their classmates is killed by someone dressed up as 'Cinderhella' (a character from a popular horror movie), they all fall under suspicion, but when they all get detention, they try to work out who it is.

D'un film à l'autre (From One Film to Another) is an anthology documentary produced by Les Films 13 that celebrates the work of highly venerated french auteur Claude Lelouch over the course of his half century long career in cinema, from Le Propre de l'homme Man to Ces amours Là. The documentary is a sequence of film clips, interviews and making of, including behind-the-scenes of Lelouch's Academy Award-winning film, Un homme et une femme (A Man and a Woman). The film also serves as a confessional for the filmmaker to discuss his work and his life with complete objectivity. Lelouch speaks about his collaborators, his resounding successes and failures, and the close ties between his private and professional life. Lelouch looks back on his life and career with candor and reverence towards all of the actors, writers, composers, producers and crew who have accompanied him throughout this half century of filmmaking.

Vito has a fatal heart attack as he is exiting the front gate of his stately home. Upon death his mom confronts him, making it clear, via a lengthy diatribe, that his existence was one of the material realm of sensual gratification - money, power, status and pleasure seeking- rather than that which is transcendent, thus he has been condemned to eternal death. Eventually we discover that this death experience was a dream, which greatly unsettled Vito, precipitating him to seek the truth relative to life's purpose, and the afterlife. Vto has periods of contemplation and dialogue with the housekeeper, barber, gardener, and his wife in search of answers - Is there such a place as heaven? Does Hell exist? Am I a good person? etc. Vito's soul searching includes a flashback to his youth listening to his grandfather speaking to him about eternity. In the midst of this quest for truth, as Vito is driving down the driveway about to exit the front gate, it occurs to him that his day is repeating itself as in the dream. Certain events of the morning...such as him making a demeaning comment to Mike, who is washing Vito's Porsche, were precisely as they were in the dream - "his dream was becoming his realty." Frightened that if he continued to go through the gate he would, like the dream, have a fatal heart attack, and be condemned to eternal death. Frantically he returns to his house, prays and has an edifying flashback to his youth, in which death, which is currently crippling with fear, is being discussed. In a state of angst he calls for his friend, Father Dellos, asking him to come to his home. Upon arrival the the priest counsels him about the events of this "strange" morning, and hears his confession. Finally, Vito makes a third and final journey down the driveway.

When Joey's mom suddenly vanishes; he and his best friend Nick hit the road to find her. The teenage boys from poor; rural Florida embark on a life-changing quest.

On Oa, the headquarters planet of the intergalactic police force, the Green Lantern Corps, the Guardians of the Universe see alarming evidence that the feared villain, Krona, is coming to destroy the planet. While the Guardians move to evacuate, Green Lantern Hal Jordan helps the unsure new recruit, Arisia, by telling her several stories of fellow Lanterns and the challenges they faced. Through him, we see the adventures of Avra the first Lantern, Princess Laira, Kilowog, the unsociable Mogo and Jordan's immediate predecessor, Abin Sur. When Krona arrives, those stories prove more valuable than anyone expects as Arisia draws a special inspiration from them.

The main character Alexander, the large businessman and the influential person in the city, after the intense working day is lucky the friend and the assistant Dmitry in restaurant. But to Dmitry's surprise, there they are waited by neither business partners, nor friends - indoors at all there are no visitors. Men should spend time in the company of silent waiters and numerous bottles with content of various fortress. When the door is locked from within, two heroes on a showdown have whole night.

Piper, a penguin who has always dreamed of flight decides he'll make his own flying machine. He does so with the help of his friend, Winthrop the Walrus. A series of disastrous test flights almost convince him to give up. But then the whole town of Penguinville is in danger from a killer whale! Can Piper get his flying machine off the ground to save them all?

Two close friends, Neelu and Madhu, agree that men cannot be trusted, and as such decide to dump their current boyfriends, and marry someone else who meets with the approval of their parents. Shortly thereafter, Madhu is introduced to Chandrakant, whom she likes, and soon both are married. On their honeymoon, she meets with Neelu, who has married Deepak, also her parents' choice. Both are delighted to see other, and cannot wait to meet the others' spouse, little realizing the shock they will get when they do so.

Rajeshwar belongs to a wealthy family, and is the only son of Dharamraj, who is an industrialist, and partners with Naglingam Reddy, Nagendra, and Dhanraj. Rajeshwar meets Bharati, who comes from a very poor family, and falls in love with her. Bharati's father is a schoolteacher, Vishnupratap, and has also to beg for food house to house to make ends meet. Bharati initially does not reciprocrate Rajeshwar's affection, but when she realizes that he really does love her, she too falls in love with him. Bharati's has a neighbor, Tilak, who is unemployed, and lives with his mother, Sharda, who works as a maidservant in a rich family's house. Tilak falls in love with the daughter, Rani, of this rich family. Both Rajeshwar and Tilak dislike each other. Then Dharamraj gets killed, and the evidence points towards Tilak. Tilak is arrested and unless he can gather evidence that clears him, he may face the death sentence.

"FOUR ASSASSINS" aka "Far Away Eyes" is a tense drama about an ace assassin who reunites with three professional colleagues at a Hong Kong hotel room to resolve unfinished business. The film was heavily influenced by the modern "Wuxia" genre - following a tragic protagonist with exceptional fighting skills and a yearning for something more. Not your ordinary "shoot 'em" film, Four Assassins examines the internal pain and conflicts of four highly trained killers and ask the ultimate question "What is the price of love?

A book editor is in the posession of an artifact that gives him visions. He lets on that he has another book written ready for publishing and asks for a proof reader (by name) to come and collect it. When the proof reader arrives, he finds the book editor dead and upon touching the artifact, has visions himself about the ending of the world. The entire plot is based on the 2012 galactic allignment end of world scenario, and the lead character teams up with an attractive archeologist and together they run from rogue government agents who also want the artifact, whilst narrowly avoiding death both from being shot and by falling into the earth during massive earthquakes. Mean while the rest of the world is befalling massive destruction. with only hours to spare, the duo must somehow save the day.

Stanley and Oliver try unsuccessfully to keep their pet dog, "Laughing Gravy" hidden from their grumpy landlord, who throws the pooch out into the snow. The rescue and further attempts to hide the dog result in mayhem, which is interrupted by the arrival of a registered letter informing Stanley that he's inherited a fortune from his rich uncle. There's one catch, though: he has to renounce his friendship with Oliver, who the uncle characterizes as a "nitwit."

Weaves together history and agriculture, advocacy and bureaucracy, and frames the current debate over school lunch reform within a larger national and political context.