(Chile, France; 84 min.) Back in Chile after 10 years of rootless hackdom as a travel writer, Andres (Santiago Cabrera) is attending a party at a house where so much happened to him.
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(Canada; 92 min.) This disquieting film set in small-town Ontario is sadly plausible only because it is based on “actual events.”
(U.S.; 93 min.) The plot that drives Here’s the Kicker sounds reasonably enough: Couple Simon and Brittany quit their dead-end jobs in Los Angeles and decide to move to Texas to be near Brittany’s family and open a joint business, a combination sports bar and beauty salon—a salon/saloon.
(Netherlands; 100 min.) Having a baby can cause more psychiatric problems than having an abortion, says a study in last month’s New England Journal of Medicine .
(U.S.; 60 min.) Children can improvise fun anywhere—as this colorful Nicaraguan slum documentary shows—before poverty and young parenthood grinds them down.
(Australia; 90 min.) Writer-director Joseph Sims’ feature debut is an odd mix of Tarantino pulp and Wes Andersen quirk, telling the story of a brother and sister who shake up a small town for one weekend when they make it a stop-off on their psychopathic road trip.
(Romania; 60 min.) Made for HBO Romania, this documentary profiles an outsider artist in the literal sense: Ion Barladeanu actually lived outside.
(U.S.; 95 min.) America Gonzales (Lymari Nadal, wife of executive producer Edward James Olmos) flees her abusive military husband (a very frightening Yancey Arias) in Puerto Rico to a job as a live-in housekeeper in suburban New York City.
(United States; 92 min.) The title and tag line (“Getting left behind is the only way to catch up”) are deceptive. Get past them, and what emerges is an honest story of a young self-sabotaging woman with daddy issues.
(Kenya; 94 min.) All politics is local. This docudrama records the impact of the 2008 Kenyan presidential election without ever leaving the Nairobi shantytown of Kibera.
