New York

Alvin has just come out of prison, he is on parole and is starting to work at a tool and die workshop in Staten Island. He lives in a project with his grandmother, who has feeble health. He keeps a low profile, avoiding reconnecting with the crowd who ended up with him in prison. His mother, who he has not seen for many years, unexpectedly calls asking for help: she needs money to bail her out of prison. To appease his grandmother’s anxiety and worried for her deteriorating health, Alvin...

The story of young rappers from Bedstuy, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, known to have been both the epicenter of the crack epidemic in the United States and the birthplace of the greatest African-American hip-hop figures and rappers (Jay-Z, Lil Kim, Notorious BIG, Kanye West, etc.). These young rappers want to follow the footsteps of their elders and role models, trying to escape the violence of the streets, the guns, the arbitrary arrests, and the death of African Americans who now...

On his last night in New York, a young film director asks a mysterious taxi driver to get lost in a ride with no direction. Based on one of the directors’ own experiences, this film is a somewhat ironic tribute to the famous hidden camera TV programme Taxicab Confessions and to New York...

Judgment comes to a man who must reckon with the state of his unfulfilled life. He must physically confront the commonplace clichés that most of us tell ourselves instead of following our dreams. He will either waste his life in his humdrum existence or he will break through the walls of conformity and climb his personal...

It's a quiet Sunday morning in an up-and-coming Brooklyn neighborhood. Naive manchild Johnny stumbles upon an anonymous box in the middle of his dead-end block. The other residents of Schenectady Street gather to nervously investigate. What's in it, and who left it? Johnny struggles to convince his ridiculous neighbors that a mysterious box left in the middle of their street doesn't prove one of them is a...

Everything was pretty in the life of Pilar: Pretty face, nice house, good status. But she was bored. An alternative emerged. And now she has to decide. In 15 minutes. Pretty Pilar?, Alive...