Family Dysfunction

For the patriarch of the Kurra family, Mikko, the bitter Finnish frost renders him housebound, and he decides it is time to come clean and reveal to his children his rare genetic disease they may have inherited. His son, recently returned from a self-imposed exile abroad, and his independence-seeking teenage daughter Pihla, are forced to reevaluate their aspirations as the two come to a new understanding of their father’s plight. Only eight year-old adopted daughter, Lumi, an orphan from China,  is immune to the threat, but even she starts to sense the tension in the family and decides to take action.  Sometimes there is nothing left to do but dig a rabbit hole to China to your roots

This ghastly scenario of poor preying on poor is, like the film’s gray-green palette, profoundly depressing and entirely pitiless. At the same time, the family — frequently viewed through filmy glass or blood-spattered plastic — is sui generis, its dietary preferences repeatedly referred to as a ritual whose origins remain unexplained. - NyTimes

Writer-Director Jeff Lipsky and Producer Dan Satorius Present

Writer-director Jeff Lipsky (Once More With Feeling, Flannel Pajamas) brings his tangled tale of seduction to the screen in this ambitious ensemble piece that echoes The Graduate and features a distinctive style reminiscent of John Cassavetes.

Georgia’s official submission to the 2010 Academy Awards. 

This unique take on the late ‘80’s British playwright Andrea Dunbar is a haunting, experimental debut combining documentary archival footage and fictional re-enactments. On-location shooting in a rundown Yorkshire housing unit and lip-synching actors create an eerie and compelling work of cutting-edge "verbatim theater" on screen. Heralded by her contemporaries as “a genius straight from the slums,” Dunbar authored three plays before dying tragically of a brain hemorrhage at age 29 brought on by excessive drinking. The film is a compassionate tribute to a brilliant life cut short. Directed by Cleo Barnard, winner of Best New Documentary Filmmaker Award at the Tribeca Film Festival and Best British Newcomer at the London Film Festival. 

Wildly fluctuating from charismatic charmer to manipulative egoist to self-loather, Danish film star Paprika Steen dominates this film in a role that won her awards at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Mumbai International Film Festival, and the Nashville Film Festival.