Kristine Samuelson

Tokyo Waka

Kristine Samuelson, John Haptas

The portrait of a city: ancient yet constantly remaking itself. A poem in images: stillness, patterns, urban motion. And in words: a tofu seller, a homeless woman, a Buddhist priest, contemplating nature, the metabolism of their city, mortality. And 20,000 crows, unruly avatars of the natural world, sardonically observing it all.

Life Overtakes Me

Kristine Samuelson, John Haptas

Henry Ascher, Nadja Hatem

Hundreds of refugee children in Sweden, who have fled with their families from extreme trauma, have become afflicted with 'uppgivenhetssyndrom,' or Resignation Syndrome. Facing deportation, they withdraw from the world into a coma-like state, as if frozen, for months, or even years.

Underground Zero

Eva Ilona Brzeski, Paul Harrill

A collection of shorts made by various directors in response to 9/11.

Don't Kill It

Mike Mendez

Дольф Лундгрен, James Chalke

Demon hunter, Jebediah Huntley teams up with an FBI agent to battle a supernatural force in the southern state of Mississippi.

The Historian

Miles Doleac

William Sadler, Colin Cunningham

A troubled, young history professor tries to escape his past by taking a job at a new university, where he struggles with an entrenched and equally-troubled department chair, rampant student apathy, and new relationships that complicate and challenge his world-view.

2 A.M. Feeding

Kristine Samuelson

This film is a realistic look at parenting during the first few months after birth. It touches on a wide range of parental concerns, such as nursing, crying and colic, fatigue, mother’s recovery, sexuality, fathering, single parenthood, and returning to work. The film is straight forward, presenting a diverse group of new parents who relate their experiences with warmth and humour. Narrated by Robbie Engelmann.

Filmmakers Unite (FU)

Alan Berliner, Eva Ilona Brzeski

Empire of the Moon

Kristine Samuelson, John Haptas

EMPIRE OF THE MOON wryly deconstructs the experience of being a tourist. Paris, gorgeously photographed in black-and-white, is the setting for cultural explorations ranging from the mundane to the sublime, as visitors trek from icon to icon, snapping the same photos, climbing the same steps and at times experiencing the transformative wonder they came to find.