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FUKUSHIMA 50
Capelight Films LAST CALL
VOD/Digital March 5 Mutiny Pictures
A magnitude 9.0 earthquake strikes at 2:46 PM on The critically acclaimed film tells the story
March 11, 2011. The earthquake triggers a giant of two strangers destined to intervene in
tsunami that hits the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power each other's lives after a misdial fates them
Plant. Toshio Izaki works at the nuclear power plant and together forever. Beth is a late-night janitor
he must make a difficult decision. Masao Yoshida is a who accidentally answers a call from Scott
manager at the nuclear power plant. He manages the who believes he has dialed a suicide
situation as best as he can and communicates with the prevention hotline. LAST CALL presents
company headquarters. The Japanese Self-Defence both ends of a harrowing phone call that
Forces moves in, as as does the U.S. armed forces. has Beth navigating a life-changing conver-
Meanwhile, 50 workers stay at the site and fight to sation as she attempts to aide Scott within
contain the horrific disaster. her limited means.
GOD OF THE PIANO
Film Movement BUTCHERS
DVD/DIGITAL now Red Hound Films
For concert pianist, Anat (Naama Preis), music is all VOD now
she has. Having never been able to reach her father's A family of sadistic butchers has dug into
lofty musical standards, she rests her hopes on her the back country and, from the deep freeze
unborn child. After her water breaks during a concert, of winter to the dog days of summer,
she delivers a boy, who, devastatingly, is born deaf. anyone who crosses their path is dead
Anat's will to raise a musical genius who would befit her meat.
respected, musically accomplished family only
becomes stronger, and she takes drastic measures to
make sure her son becomes the composer her father MAYOR
always wanted. Film Movement
DVD/Digital now
ALONE WITH HER DREAMS MAYOR follows Musa Hadid, the Christian
Corinth Films mayor of Ramallah, during his second term
DVD/Digital in office. His immediate goals: repave the
Set in the late 1960’s, Lucia is left behind with her sidewalks, attract more tourism, and plan
grandmother while her parents emigrate to France to the city’s Christmas celebrations. His
find work. Lucia is greatly distressed that she must stay ultimate mission: to end the occupation of
in Italy and struggles to learn her role in the tiny, tradi- Palestine.
tional village under the watchful guidance of her stern
grandmother, who Lucia struggles to understand. NITRO RUSH
Unbeknownst to the young girl, her grandmother hides Breaking Glass Pictures
a hideous family secret which endangers Lucia’s well- VOD & DVD March 2
being. Max learns that a criminal organization has
just recruited his 17-year-old son Theo to
SIN (Il Peccato) use him for the production and distribution
Corinth Films now of a new drug. Desperate to get him out of
The film tells about the life path of the famous sculptor the situation, Max escapes from prison. He
and painter of the Renaissance Michelangelo discovers that Theo and his best friend
Buonarroti Florence, early XVI century. Michelangelo is Charly have fallen under Daphne's control,
a pious and argumentative artist. Although widely an alluring femme fatale, who is taking
considered a genius by his contemporaries, advantage of the teens' expert computer
Michelangelo Buonarroti is reduced to poverty and skills to plan a bold and risky burglary.
depleted by his struggle to finish the ceiling of the Quickly understanding he'll be unable to
Sistine Chapel. While painting the Chapel he is also persuade his son to walk away from it all,
pressured to simultaneously complete the statues Max joins the criminal team to protect them.
which are part of the tomb designed and intended for
Pope Julius II. QUEEN OF HEARTS
Audrey Flack
MAMBO MAN Film Movement
Corinth Films A new documentary about the life and art of
DVD/Digital now Audrey Flack. Octogenarian artist Audrey
Born into communism, JC thinks himself a big fish in a Flack has always been a trailblazer. In this
small pond – a local music producer and promoter, intimate portrait of her life and work, she
farmer and small-time hustler who lives by his wits and returns to her canvas for the first time in
imagination. To support his family and small circle of decades, revealing her longtime struggles
‘business associates’ and maintain his local “Godfather” as an artist and mother to find her rightful
status, JC lives beyond his means – something that place in the art world.
creates undeniable strain in his marriage.
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