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Art House Noir Selection
Adios Vaya Con Dios
Bel Air Best Audience Feature: Inspired by real events, a story of two friends within the world of Chicago's Latino elite gang culture. A day of reckoning approaches for Rory King, a rising Irish-Mexican street lieutenant for the Olmecs, when his trusted life-long friend Eloy, just released from prison, dives right back into the chaotic crucible of violence and retribution that engulfs their neighborhood. Their friendship and loyalty to each other is tested to the limit with Rory looking to make an exit from his criminal past.
When my Eyes go Dark
(US: Arise From Darkenss)
Tribeca Criteria Selection & ScreenRant ranked number one 10 Best Supernatural Horror Movies Of The Last Decade: Released as Arise from Darkness. A paranormal film based on the early events of psychic Lazaro Ruben Torres, clinically declared dead five times. Lazaro a medium inherits psychic abilities after a tragedy visits him and his daughter leaving her dead. Lazaro is determined to develop his gift trying to reconnect with his daughter and in the process discovers the man who killed her.
Love you to the Moon and Back (US: Black Ruby)
Rome and London Official Selections with six wins and nineteen nominations: The first arthouse film shot with the iPhone 7. Released as Black Ruby, two best friends, Jules and Louis, hustlers and jazz musicians struggle to create a hit song planned to put Jules on the path to stardom. When Ruby, a young seductive black-Hispanic escort finagles her way into their lives. Ruby turns their friendship upside down distracting Jules from his music and causing Louis to street fight his best friend's debts away.
Where Sweet Dreams Die (TBA)
In the heart of Brooklyn, a legacy is about to be shattered. As his beloved New York Italian restaurant teeters on the brink of collapse and his wife battles cancer, Luca Brunello finds his world unraveling. In a desperate bid to hold onto his version of the American Dream, he fixates on a Middle Eastern refugee cabdriver whose quiet resilience and ambition threaten to overshadow his own legacy. Spiraling into obsession, Luca blames the government and the president for everything he's lost, setting him on a dangerous collision course with reality.
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Ave Fenix Pictures the first Latina-owned film studio to rise from the heart of the Chicago Midwest. Founded by boundary-breaking filmmaker Mónica Esmeralda León, we’re more than a studio - we’re a creative lab where ideas ignite, rules bend, and stories are engineered to disrupt.
What began as a bold vision has grown into a house of cinematic inventors, fusing culture, tech, and raw emotion to pioneer a new era of independent film. With bold partners, we experiment, collide, and create with fearless intent.
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Ave Fenix Pictures Studios features are available via: 1091 Pictures, Redbox, Amazon Prime, Fandango, On Demand, Direct TV, Dish, MUBI, iTunes, Vudu and Tubi. For commercial release the films have been colorized re-producing the film(s) in natural color. For the original black & white Art House Trove: Life without Light please contact releasing.
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