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Lauren is Missing
Mia returns home from an unnamed journey to find her belongings packed and her roommate missing. She strikes up a friendship with Millie, a quirky outgoing woman who claims to be a friend of the missing roommate. Their friendship blossoms, leading to many mischievous,...Watch Movie
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The Cold Lands
When his fiercely self-reliant mother dies unexpectedly, eleven-year-old Atticus is wary of the authorities and flees deep into the forests of his Catskills home. His sheltered, off-the-grid childhood is over, and a new life on the move has begun. As Atticus wanders the woods in a daze, relying...Watch Movie
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Manakamana
Produced by the directors of SWEETGRASS and LEVIATHAN, MANAKAMANA is an exhilarating, one-of-a-kind documentary experience. Filmed entirely inside the narrow confines of a cable car that transports villagers to an ancient mountaintop temple, high above a jungle in Nepal, the documentary is an...Watch Movie
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American Hunger
Oscillating between a street festival in Philadelphia, the slave forts and capitol city of Ghana and the New Jersey shore, AMERICAN HUNGER explores the relationship between personal experience and collective histories. American fantasies confront African realities. African realities confront...Watch Movie
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Coda I
Peter Gidal's structuralist short CODA I is composed of three lines of a thousand-word story he wrote (as read by William Bouroughs in a cutup tape collage) amidst an ultra-abstract play-of-light through a camera. Gidal describes his "socalled" imagery as "a complex of barely visible cuts in...Watch Movie
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Where We Started
When Will and Nora (both married to other people) meet at a motel one night, their initial attraction moves quickly into a flirtation. But over the course of the night, as their flirtation becomes something more, they are forced to confront their reasons for crossing a line...Watch Movie
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Alan Vega: Just a Million Dreams
This intimate portrait will reveal uncommon stories of groundbreaking visual artist and pioneer of minimalist electronic rock, Alan Vega, vocalist and composer for 1970s and 80s punk/post punk duo Suicide. Alan plays with the camera and enjoys the friendship of filmmaker...Watch Movie
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After the Circus
An exploration into 19th century death mystiques, which rely heavily on the supernatural, along with a belief in, or at least a fascination with, fairy magic, much of it implied through subtle imagery. In all, it is a fascinating and astonishingly replete compendium of...Watch Movie
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Solar Sight III
Describing some of the scenes for SOLAR SIGHT III, artist Lawrence Jordan writes, "I have continued the dream-like form of disparate animated scenes, each with its own "romantic-with-an-edge" slightly surreal flavour. Scenes are sometimes run-on, sometimes separated by brief periods of darkness...Watch Movie
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We are Mari Pepa
Alex is one of four Guadalajara best mates who comprise the titular garage-punk band. Never mind that they can barely play their instruments or that they only have one song (albeit a great one, a joyfully obscene ode to "Natasha" whose rare quotable line runs, "I'm never going...Watch Movie
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One Wall
Handball is the ultimate city game. Played at the highest level, it can be both beautiful and brutal. One player describes it as "like boxing, except with a ball." For more than 50 years, the National One Wall Handball Championship has been played at the Seaside Courts in Coney Island. ONE WALL...Watch Movie
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Who is Dayani Cristal?
The body of an unidentified immigrant is found in the Arizona Desert. In an attempt to retrace his path and discover his story, director Marc Silver and Gael Garcia Bernal embed themselves among migrant travelers on their own mission to cross the border, providing rare insight...Watch Movie
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The Gay Agenda
The Gay Agenda, a photography exhibition featuring the work of artists Kris Darmody and Brenton Geyer, took place in Melbourne, Australia during the annual Midsumma Festival in January 2013. The idea behind the exhibition was to defuse the loud and proliferating warnings coming from social...Watch Movie
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Your Day is My Night
At home in New York City, Lynne Sachs became intrigued with stories about the "shift bed" people of Manhattan’s Chinatown, a collective of Chinese performers and workers who live in an old apartment building on lower Manhattan’s Hester Street. With the camera magic of Sean...Watch Movie
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Soft in the Head
Thrown out of her New York City apartment, Natalia, a twenty-five year old hot mess, relies on the kindness of friends and strangers. Seemingly unaware of the havoc she wreaks, she skips from one place to another, including her best friend's, where she crashes a holiday meal...Watch Movie
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Hellaware
HELLAWARE gently satirizes the world of high-brow art through the eyes of a wannabe photographer who becomes consumed by the bright lights of mainstream success. Jaded by the "incestuous, New York, socialite shit" that sells at prominent art galleries, Nate embarks on a quest for a more authentic...Watch Movie
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Slow Interrogation
Seattle filmmaker Jimmy Bontatibus explores the efforts of teens to aspire to maturity and adulthood in his second short film. Colin (Bontatibus) has a job housesitting an apartment. He invites his friend, Christine, to come over and keep him company and she brings along...Watch Movie
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Go Down Death
GO DOWN DEATH is a wry, sinister realization of a strange new universe, a cross-episodic melange of macabre folktales supposedly penned by the fictitious writer Jonathan Mallory Sinus. An abandoned factory in Brooklyn stands in for a decrepit village haunted by ghosts, superstition and disease,...Watch Movie
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Marvin Seth and Stanley
The usually quarreling Greenstein brothers Seth and Stanley reluctantly agree to join their father, Marvin, for a weekend trip in rural Minnesota. Estranged from each other, the threesome of inept outdoorsmen rediscover repressed grudges as the weekend comically devolves into...Watch Movie
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A Leap to Take
A small-time club owner takes his wife out for a birthday "night on the town" accompanied by a retinue of friends: would- be escorts, potential johns, ersatz modern artists; a motley group watching their lives go up in smoke due to the economic downturn. A satirical rocket ride of political...Watch Movie
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L'assenza
By chance, a man sees his double in an Italian film of the early 1960s. Fascinated, he returns to see the film again and again, only to find the images changing with every viewing. Becoming addicted to his own image, he travels to Paris for another encounter with his doppelganger. In the...Watch Movie
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Butter on the Latch
Former performance artist Josephine Decker's stunning debut feature is a deeply subjective and mysterious portrait of a frantic young woman, Sarah, who leaves the city for the apparent safety of a Balkan music camp hidden deep in the California woods. Once there she reconnects...Watch Movie
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Little Feet
Determined to set their pet goldfish free, Lana and Nico embark on a magical urban odyssey from their Los Angeles home to the ocean. Their adventure, seen through the eyes of the brother/sister team, is filled with an array of wild and sometimes frightening encounters. LITTLE FEET is the return...Watch Movie
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I Used to Be Darker
When Taryn, a Northern Irish runaway, finds herself in trouble in Ocean City, Maryland, she seeks refuge in Baltimore with her aunt and uncle. Kim and Bill are having problems of their own: they're trying to dissolve their marriage gracefully for the sake of their daughter,...Watch Movie
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Hank and Asha
In this award-winning romance, an Indian woman studying in Prague and a lonely New Yorker begin an unconventional correspondence through video letters, two strangers searching for deeper connection in a hyper-connected world. Before long their online relationship grows intimate as they share...Watch Movie
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In Bloom
Early nineties, in Tbilisi, the capital of the newly independent Georgia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The country is immersed in violence, there's a war on the Black Sea coast in Abkhazia and vigilante justice plagues society. But for Eka and Natia, fourteen-year-old inseparable...Watch Movie
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Stop the Pounding Heart
Sara is a young girl raised in a family of goat farmers. Her parents homeschool their twelve children, rigorously following the precepts of the Bible. Like her sisters, Sara is taught to be a devout woman, subservient to men while keeping her emotional and physical purity...Watch Movie
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Epilogue
At the end of his greatest adventure, Skillman has vanquished his nemesis, recovered the priceless artifact and saved his latest lover from certain doom. But as he struggles to figure out what comes next, his lady begins to realize her confident, capable man hasn't the first clue what to do once...Watch Movie
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The Prodigy
Olga Smirnova's talent and drive are taking her to new heights in the ultra-competitive arena of world-class ballet at the Bolshoi in Moscow. This film shows what that extreme sacrifice looks like behind the curtain, through images and the words of Olga and her demanding, but sensitive coach, who...Watch Movie
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Days of Gray
It is a world without language. A world where one is raised to respect the rules. No things are owned except the essentials. All must wear masks when venturing from home. All adult males must protect society from outsiders who do not follow the rules. Faith is dead. Hope is dead. Joy is dead....Watch Movie
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Get the Picture
This award-winning documentary recounts the remarkable life of John G. Morris, the revered Life Magazine photo-journalist who was involved in the D-Day Normandy landings. Morris worked alongside many of the greatest names in photography, during some of the most pivotal moments in the 20th...Watch Movie
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Massacred for Gold
In 1887, more than thirty Chinese miners were murdered in Hells Canyon, the deepest gorge in North America, in the worst act of violence against Chinese immigrants in the West; no one was ever held accountable. With a haunting score by Canadian composer, Tim Hecker, and...Watch Movie
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The Teacher's Country
THE TEACHER’S COUNTRY is the story of a land fifty years after its independence. It is about Tanzania, a country, which was formed by the ideas of "Mwalimu" Julius Nyerere, who stuck to his ideals and never became a detached politician. The film follows the youngest son of the...Watch Movie
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Vacation
Shot in the skid row district of San Francisco's Tenderloin the short film VACATION unfolds in a quick and visual ten minutes with an integral soundtrack featuring garage blues by Hasil Adkins, classics by Billie Holiday and contemporary pop from Madonna. Quotes from Charles Bukowski’s "Ham and...Watch Movie
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Gangs of Wasseypur
Director/writer/producer Anurag Kashyap's ambitious and extraordinary blood-and-bullets fueled crime saga that charts seventy years in the lives, and spectacular deaths, of two mafia-like families fighting for control of the coal-mining town of Wasseypur, India. Inspired by...Watch Movie
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Half of a Yellow Sun
Olanna and Kainene are glamorous twins from a wealthy Nigerian family. Upon returning to a privileged city life in newly independent 1960s Nigeria after their expensive English education, the two women make very different choices. Olanna shocks her family by going to live with...Watch Movie
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52 Tuesdays
A sixteen year old's reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans for gender transition and their time together becomes limited to Tuesday afternoons. Filmed over the course of a year, once-a-week every week (only on Tuesdays), these unique filmmaking rules bring a...Watch Movie
