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- Can you trust love if your lover doesn't have refuge? This is the question that underlies the film Nailed! Branca, a Brazilian immigrant, must decide how and if she will remain in the United States legally or otherwise. Her travails involve the exploits of two con-artists, Patrick and Danny, who try to swindle her for money in exchange for a green-card wedding they have no intention of fulfilling. The only problem is that one of them starts to fall in love with her, which begins to unravel their elaborate scheme. The film also explores Branca's pursuit of an American husband as she struggles with her desires for security and her desire to become an American. Both Branca and Patrick discover just how hard it is to find love and security in the same person, especially when one is an alien in a foreign land.
- Curtis, an American man looking for an escape to nature, joins his estranged Brazilian biologist brother Francis on a spontaneous journey to find a rare beetle in the Amazon. While hiking, Curtis is bitten by a snake. As he enters a hallucinogenic state from the venom, the two brothers are captured as slaves by a tribe of Amazonian women. Under the control of a princess slave-master Osimao, Curtis enters a matriarchal society where women prepare to cannibalize Francis and turn Curtis into a sex-slave-warrior. In confinement, Curtis befriends Cobrao, another male slave. Together they plot the rescue of Francis, and their own escape.
- Three 30-something men evolve from the punk culture of their youth, into adulthood, through the creation of a lounge-punk band.
- Stranded in the rural southern U.S., a black-woman poet finds herself caught in a struggle for personal justice between an Orthodox Jew and a native-born southern white Southerner. Her journey to find her way out inspires a poem, Comeuppance, that soothes her nightmarish memory and offers another way of resolving conflicting ideas of divinely inspired justice.
- Chloe, a French traveler, has taken ill, and about to undergo a medical procedure that requires an intravenous transfusion. Her own rare blood cannot arrive in time, and she is afraid she will be forever changed by the blood of an anonymous donor.
- Portraits on the Malecon explores the social uses of Havana, Cuba's 'urban sofa,' a 7-kilometer long wall called the 'malecon' (seawall), where everything one does on a sofa at night or day, is done in public, beside the sea, beneath the sky, in the open air, where the natural and urban environment meet.