Samuel J. and K.

Product Code: S1K000

Approx. Run Time: 90 min.

Samuel J. surprises his adopted brother, Samuel K., with a trip back to his birth country of Cameroon for college graduation, but Samuel K. has no desire to face a place and a past that abandoned him. Samuel J. and K. challenges the traditional definitions of family and asks if a place we've only imagined can become home overnight.

Helium

Product Code: HF9000

Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

Approx. Run Time: 90 min.

This uplifting story is about a chemistry teacher who braves the trials of aging, while keeping her imagination, charm and dignity intact. Her daughter struggles to keep her mother's mind solidly anchored in reality, but her grandsons watch in wonder and amazement as their mischievous grandmother slips away day by day into the mysterious and unfathomable clouds of dementia.

Treasure Island

Product Code: TT4000

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Approx. Run Time: 100 min.

Sixteen-year-old Jim, Captain Billy Bones, Doctor Livesay and Squire Trelawney outfit a ship—the Hispaniola— and travel the seas in hunt of hidden treasure. Aboard the ship, Jim meets Long John Silver and quickly learns who he really is and what his plans are. Aided by Ben Gunn, the wild and half-insane maroon, Jim takes on the responsibility to save the ship and his shipmates and to secure the treasure.

The Sound of Cracking Bones

Product Code: SJ1000

Approx. Run Time: 70 min.

Elikia is a child who is kidnapped from her family and is forced to become a child soldier. It is little Joseph, the youngest child to come to the rebels' camp, who reminds her of her humanity and gives her the courage to break the chain of violence into which she has been pulled. While Joseph and Elikia are on the run, experiencing doubts, fears and a wish to return to civilized life where children may grow up as children, Angelina, the nurse who greets them at the hospital where they take refuge, puts this painful reality into perspective and opens the window to a light that is uncertain—but a light, nonetheless.

fml: how Carson McCullers saved my life

Product Code: FE5000

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Approx. Run Time: 90 min.

Jo is busy fending off suburban boredom, when her teacher assigns Carson McCullers' novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter to her English class. She relates to the central character: forever the listener, definitively the outsider and perpetually misunderstood. When she is the victim of a gay bashing, those close to Jo question their own responsibility and find a voice for those persecuted simply for being different.