Based on the Depression-era bildungsroman memoir of writer A. E. Hotchner, the film follows the story of a boy struggling to survive on his own in a hotel in St. Louis after his mother is committed to a sanatorium with tuberculosis. His father, a German immigrant and traveling salesman working for the Hamilton Watch Company, is off on long trips from which the boy cannot be certain he will return.

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.

Composed of a series of short vignettes that share a telecommunications application as a common thread, Distancing Socially focuses on loosely connected human interactions taking place virtually across a world in lock down.

Lee is a world-weary American woman who arrives in an Italian city. Her tangles with hotel staff, incessant smoking and her disregard of the persistently ringing telephone hint at her volatility brewing beneath the surface. Between fitful naps, she wanders the streets, snapping pictures of refugees as if her camera were both weapon and olive branch. Struggling to confront her demons, Lee resolves to help a beautiful young woman in need.

Massive earthquakes open the Arabian tectonic plate, resulting in unstable weather and freezing temperatures that will be unsurvivable by nightfall. Attempting to reach safety, a vacationing family in Egypt must battle the rapidly cooling temperatures that usher in a new Ice Age, covering the Sphinx, Pyramids, and Sahara Desert with mountains of snow.

A woman working in a laundry shop uses her clients’ clothes to satisfy her sexual fantasies. When she meets a hot police officer, she wants to have him no matter what it takes.

Former special ops soldier, Laura Bishop, shows up for work at the largest church in America and is forced to take down a team of hijackers when she learns her daughter is trapped inside.

Haunted by his dark past, a man takes a job as a fire warden in a remote tower in the wilderness, and is inexorably drawn towards a young woman with a terrible secret of her own. (TIFF)

Four truck stop prostitutes overthrow their pimp, and decide to take what they want by any means necessary.

In a tourist town, you never know who might visit but tourists are the life blood of the economy. Learning to live life again, a local woman left widowed by the mysterious murder of her husband, tries modeling for photographers with the encouragement of friends. Common suspicions arise about their motives. Its flattering and sometimes paid work, but who can she trust? Is it safe to be alone? She lives remotely with constant concern she is being watched. Local law enforcement is challenged to be supportive but not spend their time chasing sounds. The strong willed Mary is slow to warm up to dating, causing an impatient admirer to lash out but Mary isn’t one to surrender to a challenge.

Successful businesswoman Maria has achieved everything except what she wants the most – a baby of her own. She decides to deal with the matter by herself and embarks on a desperate and dangerous journey in order to make her dream come true.

A wedding at her parents’ Annapolis estate hurls high-strung Lynn into the center of touchy family dynamics.