Cinema 16: European Short Films (U.S. Edition)

Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.

Ex-fighter Raymundo forms an unlikely bond with a disgruntled man whose life and relationship with his daughter are unraveling. The men join forces to win a fight that could very well save Raymundo, his wife and their child.

The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.

When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder, ButterflyAna. By the time Hannah's family realizes what is happening and get Hannah the help she needs, the disease has fully taken hold and Hannah is refusing to eat. Will this family be able to exorcise the demon of anorexia from their lives?

Nola grew up living in a van with her father, Clint—two nomads against the world. When tragedy strikes, Nola must confront the reality of life on the road alone, learning to own her grief, her past, and her new destination.

In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.

Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.

A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law.

A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.

During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.

A noir thriller set in Miami, the film follows an enforcer who discovers his femme fatale boss has branched out into cyber sex trafficking, putting a young runaway he’s befriended at risk. He sacrifices everything to save the young girl from the deadly organization he’s spent his life building.

A woman embarks on a journey alone across the United States after fleeing from her violent husband.

The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.

A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.

A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation.

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.

Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.

Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.

A disturbed and institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.

In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.