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- Zeinah and her 11-year-old daughter Norah have fled the devastating war in Syria and find themselves on the Turkish coast, desperately trying to board a dinghy to Europe when things take a turn for the worse.
- On the morning she is supposed to retire in a nursing home by-the-sea, Alda (88) runs away. Will she find the courage to arrive alive to death?
- The murder of a tax collector prompts his daughter to search for answers with an unlikely friend.
- Life is a constant struggle for a husband and wife. She is suffering from stomach pain, and the doctor has no clue about a cure. Meanwhile, her husband is on his own journey of hunting a snake.
- An LA couple joins their friend to steal an engagement ring from his ex-fiancée's house.
- During WWII, eight Korean girls survived kidnapping, torture and sexual slavery by the Japanese Imperial Army. They returned home, only to spend the next sixty years outcast by society. These eight women are among an estimated 200,000 victims. Now in their eighties, the women continue to fight for justice, even as their time is running out. First-time director Hein Seok captured the candid lives of these eight survivors for over a year, as they shared their life stories through heartfelt words, paintings and songs.
- A family man learns that nothing about his life is what it seems. Extreme tensions ensue as a powerful voice pushes him to the edge.
- A documentary exploring Taylor Greeson's (appearing as himself) personal journey as a gay Mormon who struggles with his faith, his sexuality, and the murder of his brother.
- An imaginative little girl's dream world comes alive when she pretends to be the world's greatest heroine.
- A young mother attempts to repair the estrangement in her family with an outing to the beach.
- Each day, men from various parts of Asia make a stop in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) where they embark on their search for a perfect match. Using verité footage and interviews, Match Made offers a glimpse into the intricate network of the buying and selling of women as brides from villages around Saigon.
- A glimpse of a family in a moment of tension and crisis, struggling under the weight of a secret.
- Right outside Atlanta, Georgia is a small charter school that brings together refugee children from war-torn countries all over the world and teaches them alongside local American children. 'A Place In The World' follows three families with ties to the school, a first year teacher, and the principal of the school over the course of two school years, as they adapt to, and learn from, this diverse and complex social environment. The film asks the question of whether we can all live together in this rapidly changing world.
- Engrossed in an online love affair, a traveling businessman and a hand model abandon their virtual personas in search of a reality neither one is prepared to meet.
- When Kassie's parents confiscate the lock to her bedroom door, they leave her exposed to an unexpected danger.
- Based on a real life event, a young Chinese woman boards a bus with her boyfriend to head home to meet his parents. What was supposed to be a joyful holiday turns unpredictable when a pair of countryside crooks hijack their bus. Traveling through China's dangerous mountain passes, the passengers must decide how much they are willing to sacrifice for their own safety.
- After being diagnosed with a terminal illness, a woman meditates on life and mortality as she struggles to process the pivotal information.
- Me Broni Ba is a lyrical portrait of hair salons in Kumasi, Ghana. The tangled legacy of European colonialism in Africa is evoked through images of women practicing hair braiding on discarded white baby dolls from the West. The film unfolds through a series of vignettes, set against a child's story of migrating from Ghana to the United States. The film uncovers the meaning behind the Akan term of endearment, me broni ba, which means "my white baby."
- A sick woman visits a young man in a small town who is rumored to have the power to heal. She must learn how this healing process works... if it will work at all.
- A teenage girl thinking she's almost grown makes moves that she isn't quite prepared for with an older man.
- 'A mother struggles to hold on to reality as visions of her deceased son interfere with her daily life.'
- Three girls play a game of charades in an attempt to solve the mystery of their friend's broken jaw and missing pants.
- Mo and Dustin Shaffer share blood, a home in the Ozarks, a nu-metal band, a mudjacking business, and very different visions for their futures.
- After days locked in a hotel room in an attempt to transcend through electronic music, a young girl breaks down amidst a filmed spiritual practice.
- The last two members of an organized crime dynasty meet up the night after their entire crew was killed on a job that went wrong.
- Noise Unto the World is an experimental documentary about the progression of three musical groups into an ecstatic state of mind. Shot in urban and suburban environments of California, filmmaker Aleigh Lewis follows performances of a marching band, an evangelical church, and a noise artist. With masterful camera work, the contrasting subcultures interweave from preparation to performance blurring the lines between noise and music, ceremony and entertainment, and spectator and performer.
- Through intimate observation and recollection, the documentary Painter articulates the work and spirit of the abstract artist Caio Fonseca, whose candid self-examination offers a compelling meditation on painting, language, and meaning in art.
- Shot in Nairobi, Kenya and inspired by true events, ASHA is the story of how a housemaid offers a pathway to break through a cycle of rote oppression and violence.
- Three teenage girls cope with the recent death of a mutual friend during a childhood game that goes awry.
- 'For Paradise' is a hybrid documentary that traces the construction of racial identities within a family (my own) where members operate on both sides of the "color line." Allowing the story of my great-grandmother Paradise to guide me through complicated family histories of migration and racial passing, I navigate the spaces where power can be found in absence and loss.
- Nicole has been forced to leave her house leaving her brother, and mother behind while she faces a terminal illness that will lead to saving her brother's life.
- A struggling young father must face his dark past and decide his future after his mother is involved in a fatal car accident.
- A gripping call to clear eyed vigilance about the America we call home.
- In pursuit of his late wife, a botanical professor encounters a divine presence that will transform him forever.
- In a country ravaged by civil war, a storm forces a young father to seek shelter in an enemy's cabin.
- A new actor experiences the whirlwind of pilot season.
- This story is set in 1955 and circles around Kenneth and his wife, Marjorie, who are struggling with their respective roles within the marriage...
- The ability to connect on this earth is the closest conclusion to why we are here on earth, it is why we go insane in solitude. In this short film a timeless glue between individuals is the connection made by way of a cigarette between two people.
- Lavender to Red is a poetic, fictional look at the adulterous lives of four women. The film's fragmented vignettes leave much to the imagination while transmitting a distinct feeling of voyeurism. Both form and content work together to lyricise female desire. The landscape, architecture, and other artists' interpretations of Los Angeles County served as visual inspiration for this film. The film was inspired by confessions of adultery I collected from a 1-800 # I started.
- LORDVILLE extends Tajiri's on-going examination of ideas of history, place and race, and continues and propels larger conversations within the documentary field. - A work spanning categorizations; it is a landscape film, an experimental documentary, an ethnography of place, a personal meditation. - As is in HISTORY AND MEMORY, it is an inquiry into questions of law, land and citizenship and how these, in the context of American history, are complicated by notions of nation and race.
- A counter worker covers graveyard shift at a 24-hour donut shop. At daybreak, he boards a bus to go home; a vision overtakes him. The film is a fictional and choreographic interpretation of Pharoah Sanders' 1971 jazz instrumental, 'Let Us Go Into the House of the Lord.'
- A cowboy poet reinvents himself through music.
- Marc Chung buys a pellet gun to protect his address.
- Stanley's Valentines day plans don't pan out as expected. Breaking into adult hood has him confused between his relationship priorities and his financial priorities.
- A butcher makes an unusual submarine sandwich using some sports equipment.
- They just met yesterday, and now today they're figuring out what all these new feelings mean. Also, they don't realize it, but the world is ending.
- A story of obsession, power, and discovery centering around a maverick neuroscientist, her doting pupil, and an alluring machine that could revolutionize brain science.
- A woman works in an alternate realm where computer deletions are dumped and dealt with accordingly.