Fighting Lawman

BlackJack: Ghosts Nearly 20 years ago a young mother was shot during an apparent kidnapping and subsequent police chase. Now after all that time, the man in jail for the murder is about to be paroled. Jack has two missions - to bring the father and his daughter back together and to find out if any justice has been done by the conviction.

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I Was Lorena Bobbitt Meet the once-battered woman who overcame years of abuse and a sensational televised trial to become an advocate for victims of domestic violence everywhere.

Training Teachers to Kil... In a remote training camp in Butler County, Ohio, we meet school teachers who are learning how to shoot, and if necessary, kill. This feature documentary explores the heated and divisive debate around how best to protect pupils, as schools prepare for gun attacks and school boards in America seriously consider arming their teachers. The film follows a group of teachers who attend FASTER, one of America’s most controversial summer schools where teachers are trained to use guns, deal with potential school shooting scenarios and if the situation demands it, kill.

Bagatela A trifle crime, from a legal point of view, is one that involves insignificant values. Paradoxically, in Brazil, these seem to be very serious crimes and their authors are highly dangerous individuals. The documentary follows the story of Maria Aparecida and Sueli, women arrested for petty theft, and Sônia Drigo, a lawyer who voluntarily set out to defend them. Maria was arrested for attempting to steal a shampoo and conditioner for R$ 24.00 and lost sight of an eye in jail. Sueli tried to steal a cheese and two packages of crackers, worth R$ 30.00, and spent almost two years in prison.

Eyes EYES is a fictional short film (13' - genre: soft drama). It deals with a issue deeply connected with everyday life in present times: it denounces the daily frenzy of our lives and a spreading indifference. EYES strongly criticises our society, which is more and more prone to violence, inaction and consumerism. Is it still possible that people could hope in something better? In EYES, 30 actors played with eyes wide shout. This short film is dedicated to the memory of Niccolò Ciatti, and to all the other victims of Indifference.

I Ah-young, a grown orphan with government aid cut off, starts working as a nanny for Young-chae, a single mother who works at a bar to make ends meet.

BlackJack: At the Gates Ten years ago, a baby was killed in a house arson fire after a violent home invasion. The parents used the tragedy as a motivation to help build an evangelical community church but now the mother has comes to Jack for help. Jack agrees to look into the still unsolved crime but in looking for the truth Jack will have to fight the system and his own conscience to uncover a tangled web of lies and deception. In the end, Jack must decide if the truth should prevail over the interests of the innocent.

No More Wings At a divergent point in their lives, two lifelong friends (Ivanno Jeremiah, Parys Jordon) meet at their favorite South London fried chicken shop.

Intolerance Now On the first night of the 21st century, when hundreds of fireworks fill up the dark sky, Kanan, a teenage girl who shoots personal movies, accidentally captures a ghost on her digital video camera. She decides to visit her remaining family members to show them the footage, but eventually realizes that the ghost is actually only visible to her. Thinking that the ghost is either of her father who committed suicide when she was a child, or one of her older brothers who drowned to death, she feels that her entire family has been cursed. What starts out as a casual visit to her family gradually turns into a horrifying experience as one person is killed after another. What did she capture on camera? Or did she really capture anything at all?