Movies: Adam Kaplan

Leo and Angela Russo live a simple life in Queens, surrounded by their overbearing Italian-American family. When their son finds success on his high school basketball team, Leo tears the family apart trying to make it happen....

The Disappeared follows the story of an action-feature film produced by the Israeli Army in 2000 and then censored just a few weeks before its release. Titled Hane’elam (The Disappeared) in Hebrew, the original film was intended to address a contenti...

How to cope with a horrific event? In Still Static, filmmaker and visual artist Adam Kaplan presents two people who have experienced something ghastly. One is a cameraman who says he was “at the wrong place at the wrong time.” He was filming at a gat...

On Dia-de-los-Muertos, a young Latino struggles with his guilty conscience as it takes the form of his ex’s ghost that haunts him on a date with a new girl....

An hour away from a war zone, a small Iraqi call center is providing live-saving information to people who have been displaced by violence....