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2) Blackfly
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This Oscar-nominated animated short is a breakneck romp based on the song of the same title, written and sung by Canadian folk singer Wade Hemsworth, with back-up vocals by Kate and Anna McGarrigle. This animated film recounts Hemsworth's battles with this quintessential "critter" during a summer of surveying in Northern Ontario.
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Kate is a struggling actress who has given up her happiness and her sense of self for her career. That is until she finds a stash of letters written when she was a thirteen year old girl full of confidence and creativity and ambition. Plunged into depression, her younger self infiltrates her dreams. Lynn Shelton's debut feature is beautifully shot on 35mm by Ben Kasulke.
4) Memoria
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Based on James Franco’s “Palo Alto Stories” and “A California Childhood”, Ivan Cohen is a young boy living in Palo Alto, California. Unsatisfied by his slacker group of friends, his love for a girl who doesn’t know he exists, and a dysfunctional family life, he is struggling to find his place in the world. Memoria raises questions about the memories we choose to keep, the ones we try desperately to forget, and the ones we use as fuel to...
5) Grafters
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This award-winning short film follows Kurt, an expert car-thief, whose life is suddenly complicated by offbeat romance and professional competition. Kurt works for Larry, a father figure who runs a chop shop disguised as a garage, but Kurt's career is threatened by Joe, a lowly mechanic and aspiring car thief. Meanwhile, romance buds for Kurt with Emilie, a young mother with complications of her own. Kurt's personal and professional life are speeding...
6) Nasty Baby
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An award-winning festival favorite, NASTY BABY centers on Freddy (Sebastián Silva), a Brooklyn-based artist who, with his boyfriend, Mo (Tunde Adebimpe), and their best friend, Polly (Kristen Wiig), is trying to have a baby. As this trio deals with the complications of conception and creating the "new normal" family, their bliss is clouded by a series of confrontations with an annoying neighbor who just might be a madman.. Winner of Best Feature...
7) Home
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Inga (Oscar Award-winner Marcia Gay Harden - Pollock, Mystic River) is a poet and mother to a young daughter (Eulala Scheel, Ms. Harden's real life daughter). Inga is drawn to a house that reminds her of her childhood home, and here she realizes that many things in her life are coming full circle.. She wants to buy and restore an old house but her distant husband Hermann (Michael Gaston) sees little value in old houses or many of the things Inga loves...
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Lucy, a small-town girl from Ohio, has been shielded from all the bad in the world - including her mother's terminal illness. Aware that something is up, she goes to Cleveland for an ill-fated job interview. She stumbles upon a festival of Oscar-winning Federico Fellini’s films and is instantly swept away. The cleverly enigmatic tragicomedy of his work leaves Lucy aching for answers.. In a burst of courage, she leaves home to find the filmmaker...
9) Wish 143
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When a fifteen-year-old boy discovers he has months to live he is granted one wish from the Dreamscape Charity. However, David doesn't want to go to Disneyland or meet a star footballer, what he really wants is an hour alone with a naked woman.. Based on true events, WISH 143 tells the story of a young man desperate to come of age before time runs out. This is a young man with nothing to lose apart from his virginity. A bittersweet story of friendship...
10) Hockey Night
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Lovingly restored and digitally remastered, HOCKEY NIGHT features Canadian icon Megan Follows (Anne of Green Gables) as Cathy Yarrow, a confident and talented young athlete. Having moved to a small town, the bored and under-challenged Cathy straps on goalie pads and joins the boys’ all-star hockey team—facing substantial criticism from the town, including local broadcaster Bum Johnson (Maury Chaykin) and the team’s sponsor, lumber magnate Bill...
11) August the First
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It is the morning of Tunde's graduation party and things have already begun to unravel. Tunde has managed to alienate his sister, Simisola. His older brother, Ade, persistently plagues him with criticism, and their mother has started drinking again. Unbeknownst to most, Tunde has orchestrated the return of his long estranged father, resurrecting unresolved family anguish against the backdrop of Tunde's celebration. As the day turns to night, old wounds...
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As a child soldier, Behrouz (Reza Sixo Safai) miraculously survived the Iran-Iraq War to be squirreled away to the streets of Los Angeles. After two decades under the ruthless Iranian mobster Cirrus Golshiri (Parviz Sayyad), Behrouz leaves the underworld to follow his American Dream of becoming a “Real Estate Man”. But after a chance encounter involving a high-stakes poker game, he is brought back into the life he left behind and accused of stealing...
13) Harvest
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Gathered one summer in a beautiful shoreline town, three generations are drawn together by their patriarch, played by Oscar Nominee Robert Loggia. With endearing moments of humor and uplifting spirit, HARVEST is a portrait of a family awkwardly yet delicately hanging on to what was, what now is, and to one another. A superb ensemble cast, including Tony Winner Victoria Clark, and Oscar Nominee Barbara Barrie tugs on heartstrings and reminds us of...
14) A Beautiful Now
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This thrilling journey into the mind of a woman teetering on the edge of letting go ultimately asks “if your life flashed before your eyes- would you like what you see?” and reveals a gripping story of how the past shapes who we will become.. A group of five friends reunite for one night to save the woman, Romy (Abigail Spencer), at the center of their former circle. As the night progresses they struggle with their past relationships and finally...
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In this Sundance Award-Winning film, two men each search in their quiet solitude to begin a new life amidst an unspoken need for encouragement and support. Martin Bonner has just moved to Reno from the East Coast, leaving behind his two adult children and a life he spent more than two decades building. Having recently declared bankruptcy, he begins a new job as a volunteer helping prisoners transition to freedom.
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Grieving her mother's death and her own failing marriage, Lexi boards a plane from London to Los Angeles to search for her estranged father, who abandoned her when she was 3 years old. Based out of a seedy Hollywood motel, she follows a tenuous trail of breadcrumbs. Along the way, she establishes other unexpected connections with her father's ailing, former second wife, her bitter half-sister Tanya and her caregiver girlfriend, and two local barflies.....
17) Eadweard
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Winner of over a dozen awards at festivals worldwide, EADWEARD is the true story of world-famous, turn-of-the-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge who discovered how to capture the theory of motion on film with his famous Stanford Horse Gaits photographs.. Using animals from a local zoo as subjects, Eadweard created the first motion pictures and in the process became recognized as 'The Godfather of Cinema'. As his passion fueled, he began photographing...
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What could have been? What might have been? Reunions can be exciting, frustrating, exhilarating, nostalgic, a life given over to practicality while another chases lost dreams. Set against the majestic landscape of the desert, three estranged friends and former bandmates “celebrate” turning 30, carrying their hopes and unresolved wounds, their intertwined romantic baggage, in this funny and poignant look at lost loves, forgotten dreams and missed...
19) The Citizen
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Inspired by true events, filmmaker Sam Kadi's feature debut is a gripping tale of courage, love, and perseverance, the qualities of a true CITIZEN.. Yearning to leave behind his life of misfortune in the Middle East, Ibrahim Jarrah wins the U.S Green Card Lottery for a chance to become an American citizen. He lands in New York City the day before 9/11 and the events of the September terrorist attacks forever shape the struggles he faces on his journey...
20) TRI
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Natalie, an ultrasound tech with a history of not finishing things, is inspired by a cancer patient to sign up for a Triathlon. Natalie is introduced to the strange (and aerodynamic) world of triathletes and meets a colorful cast of characters as she trains for the nation's triathlon. With the support of her new teammates, she digs deep to discover just how far she can push her mind and body.. . "Winner! Film of the Year" - Northern Virginia International...
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