Omaha Film Festival 2009

A class of teenage schoolboys are oblivious to their teacher’s attempts to question them about the wider world. But they are about to have a lesson they will never forget and one that will change their lives forever.

Clear Lake, WI In 1993, some residents of the small town of Clear Lake fell victim to a strange and horrible disease. As fear spread through the town, a local preacher called the outbreak a supernatural punishment for the sins of the people and promised a way to stop the spread of disease. As loved ones, especially children, continued to get sick and die, the preacher's fiery sermons found an unlikely audience: a group of 7 high school students, who helped the preacher kidnap and kill some of the town's people...people who the preacher called sinners. By the time the government health officials arrived to investigate the outbreak, 13 people had gone missing and most of the townspeople had fled or locked themselves in their homes. Unable to find the cause of the disease, the government evacuated and quarantined the town. Not soon after, as bodies were found, the preacher was arrested for the murders. The students, all juveniles at the time, testified against the preacher in exchange for immunity from prosecution, then went their separate ways.The film 'Clear Lake, WI' takes place 15 years later, when documentary filmmaker tracked down the 4 surviving students. She convinces them to return to Clear Lake to help her tell the sensational story of the cursed town and of young people led to do evil in the name of what they thought was a greater good. But when they return to the empty town, strange things begin to happen. The documentary filmmaker disappears, and the rest of them realize they must deal with the ghosts of the past, and that maybe one of them may still be under the preacher's spell.

Al's favorite Hawaiian food restaurant has stopped delivery in his area. With only one street separating him from his Chicken Katsu passion, Al has to think outside the box. He has the food delivered to his car in a trendy supermarket parking lot. But this will be no ordinarily meal, as Al experiences a world that makes the drama of an African watering hole look tame.

Kansas 1962. America's heartland. Rich, a small town teen, finds himself in a nightmare of his own creation when Bill, his older brother, picks him up on the way home from school one afternoon. What would appear to be an innocent joyride turns sinister when Mark, Bill's best friend, reveals Ira, a black teen new to the area, gagged and bound in the bed of the truck. Trapped in the situation with Jessica, his brother's girlfriend, it becomes clear that the humiliation and cruelty are but a prelude to the true purpose of the drive: a lynching. Called to repeat a rumor he told Mark, Rich is faced with a choice between family and the life of an innocent teen.

Paul (Mackenzie Crook) is fed up with driving trains and longs to write novels. He suffers two people falling under his train and hears that three accidents qualifies him for early retirement with 10 yearsauFFFDuFFFD salaryauFFFDuFFFD lump sum! All he has to do is find a willing victim.He meets Tommy (Colm Meaney) furious at being saved by Paul from jumping off a bridge. Paul offers him A?1500 cash to wait till Monday. Having abandoned his family, Tommy decides to salve his conscience by paying his wife Rosemary (Imelda Staunton) and his daughter Frankie (Gemma Arterton) a last visit. Relationships are changed forever but Paul and Tommy are confronted with the reality of the deal they struck. After A Deal is a Deal.

Marissa, an excited bride-to-be, turns into a raging 'bridezilla', when she learns her maid of honor has lost her bouquet. Furious about her missing flowers, she throws a hysterical fit, until a tragic event unravels her momentous day...

A motorist stuggles to lay the past to rest after picking up a hitchhiker who claims to know the future

DOPPELGANGER is a coming-of-age drama about Julian (10), who craves the affection and respect given to his identical twin brother by their domineering father. When Julian realizes that he can't measure up to the favored twin, he must decide what his father's approval is really worth.