J. Anthony Roman

Based her grandfather’s boyhood in St. Louis, Yasmin Gorenberg tells a story of the pain passed from refugee parents to their children and the hope that can overcome it. “40 Nickels” captures the image of a generation of immigrants to the United States in the 1920’s and 1930’s and through that spotlights the effects of the 1919 pogroms in Eastern Europe. This is a film about parents and children: how trauma never leaves a family, and how hope and resilience is also passed down. It asks the question: Can a new generation look at the world with wonder rather than fear?

Over the course of one night a group of college friends try to navigate their complicated love lives before they leave for winter break.

An unhappily married man takes his friend's recommendation for an escort service, leading him into a night filled with bizarre and surreal turns.

For centuries, woman have hid their fierceness, suppressing their "Dark Feminine", for fear of judgment from the patriarchy.

When young Malcom (D. Malik Beckford), a charismatic prison inmate saves the life of a Corrections Officer (Christopher LaPanta) during a prison fight, he is paroled early, and gets to start his life for real. Malcom turns his life around, becomes a Champion professional wrestler, and inspires his old friend to change his life for the better.