A writer tries unsuccessfully to sell his screenplays and plays. He marries a television editor, but she only wants to fuck him and thinks nothing of his work. He then remembers his old Parisian lover Rita, calls himself Rita from then on and becomes her wife. When a French director stages a play of his, he meets Rita again in Paris and the two women become a happy couple.
The Tender Skin, a struggling writer-turned-bartender grapples with longing and regret when a chance encounter reignites buried feelings at an art gallery.
Shadow is a screenwriter who can't sell. Yuri, who was a popular actress, retired after marrying her girlfriend, Kagechu. She lives a poor life, and although her film buddies, director Sumita and actress Mina, are worried about her, she believes that Kagechu will one day write her a screenplay that will wow the world...
Bandaged wrote a romance about his breakup and is about to launch it at the biggest literary event ever, BasicCon. There, the police are causing riots over censorship on LGBTIA+ books, but no commotion is bigger than his ex showing up.
Hayden, a once famous writer, lives a life of quiet solitude; despite being cut-off from the rest of the world, he continues to write new stories with the help of an A.I assistant named Kris
Fleeing from the image of his boyfriend who recently committed suicide, Leo arrives in England in order to descend into anonymity. Yet even here his mind continually turns to the reality of his lover’s death and their experiences together.
A year in the company of Scottish writer Irvine Welsh, as he publishes a new novel, launches a record label, works on two television series and adapts his most famous work Trainspotting into a West End musical.
The author Stefan König has writer's block. This changes when he witnesses the murder of a prostitute. He doesn't alert the police because he sets out to hunt down the murderer himself. The closer he gets to the killer, the more crimes he observes, which provides him with endless ideas for his texts. But the killer is very close...
Jerzy Kosiński, author of The Painted Bird and Being There, sees his life and literary career unravel after having the authenticity of his work called into question by two reporters from The Village Voice.
The film showcases an unusual night in Fabio's life, a writer married to the beautiful Paula. He leaves his home for a walk and ends up boarding on a 'trip' through the sullen streets of a big city. His encounters with the strange characters of the night mix with flashbacks of the couple's life.
The action takes place in the present and past, and in a surreal environment where the motifs of Kazakov’s stories intersect. The hero can easily meet with Stalin or drink vodka with a homeless person in the basement.
A once gifted writer buries her former life beneath superficiality and greed; however, she is forced to confront her true self when her life is thrown into chaos by the work of his deceased daughter.
This documentary focuses on the journey of Merton, a bohemian who went from communism to Catholicism before finding his calling as a monk cloistered in eastern Kentucky for 27 years. It also covers his writing career which examined spirituality, the Cold War, the civil rights movement and being an individual in a post-modern world
A struggling writer finds herself at the center of the story she is covering when brutally attacked by a notorious cult leader and mass murderer, a man who exerts an inexplicable control over his followers.
In an industry that is becoming increasingly competitive, what drives indie filmmakers to keep creating their art, even when there is no promise of money or fame? CREATE OR DIE explores the insatiable passion to create despite the overwhelming odds through the lens of South Carolina writer and filmmaker David Axe, as he and his band of cast and crew head out into the backwoods of Georgia to shoot his low budget passion project ACORN. But when tragedy strikes on set, doubt and tension threaten to bring an end to their production and their dreams.
Anti-communist writer Ringo Harrison finds himself in the middle of a communist plot to overthrow the island nation of Bermuda, while also being surrounded by look-alikes
A new musical chronicling the life of America's great literary icon, Edgar Allan Poe, as he rises from the grave to reconcile his life and fix his tarnished legacy.