Ezra Perlman

FIG TREES is a documentary opera about AIDS activists Tim McCaskell of Toronto and Zackie Achmat of Capetown as they fight for access to treatment drugs. Documentary interviews, speeches, press conferences and demonstrations are sampled, taken apart, and set to music, replayed this time as operatic scenes. A surreal fictional narrative is intercut with the stories of their struggles against government and the pharmaceutical industry. In this fictional world, Gertrude Stein decides to write a tragic opera about Tim and Zackie and their saint-like heroism. She kidnaps them, transports them to Niagara Falls, and forces them to sing a series of complicated avant-garde vocal compositions. However, when Zackie ends his treatment strike and starts taking his pills, Gertrude realizes that there will be no more tragedy, and thus, no more opera.

Après l'assassinat d'Angelo, un gros bonnet de la mafia, dont il était le garde du corps, Frankie Delano doit tenir la promesse qu'il a faite à son défunt employeur : protéger Jennifer, sa fille unique, de la vengeance de ses ennemis qui ont juré la mort de ses proches. Mais, élevée dans une famille adoptive, celle-ci ignore tout de l'identité de son père.D'abord déstabilisée par la nouvelle que lui annonce Frankie, puis encouragée par la découverte de son histoire personnelle, Jennifer va chercher à venger la mort de son père avec l'aide de son fidèle protecteur.

Début des années 1960, les frères Jim et Artie Mitchell montent une société de productions de films pornographiques. Ils rencontrent rapidement fortune et gloire, mais sont également confrontés aux dangers de l'argent facile et de la drogue...

It's a cold and stormy night, and in a house in rural Vermont, midwife Sibyl Danforth is, together with the father and an assistant, in the middle of a homebirth. As time passes, the woman in labor meets with difficulties and Sibyl concludes that it would be preferable for the woman to deliver her baby in the hospital. Though a dead telephone line and bad weather prevents Sibyl from going anywhere. Black ice and a persisten snowstorm makes transportation an impossibility. Early in the morning, the woman dies from what they believe to be a stroke and in all the chaos, Sibyl promptly decides to do a C-section to save the baby. The baby survives, but the mother is dead and tragedy is obvious. Yet, it's only going to get worse for Sibyl as her assistant is certain that the woman was still alive when Sibyl performed the C-section. Sibyl is charged with manslaughter, brought before the court and her life is and will forever be changed.