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Claire is sure of herself, her work and family, until - like a bad dream - her husband disappears, leaving a trail of puzzling secrets that shatter her certainty. This intimate mystery stars Betsy Brandt (Breaking Bad).. Nominated for the Grand Jury Award at the SXSW Film Festival. "[A] somber and quietly affecting psychological mystery." - Justin Chang, The Los Angeles Times. "It'll come as no surprise then that the performances dazzle, and the script...
2) Blame
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It’s the start of a new year at a small suburban high school. Abigail (Quinn Shephard) is an outcast who seeks solace in the worlds of the characters she reads about, much to the amusement of her manipulative classmate, Melissa (Nadia Alexander). When an intriguing new drama teacher, Jeremy (Chris Messina) casts Abigail over Melissa in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, Abigail’s confidence blooms, and soon her relationship with Jeremy begins to...
3) TRI
Pub. Date
2016.
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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...
4) Low Down
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2014.
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Based on the memoir by Amy-Jo Albany, LOW DOWN is a compassionate, tender look at the complex relationship between Amy-Jo (Elle Fanning) and her father Joe (John Hawkes), a man torn between his musical ambition, his devotion to his teenage daughter, and his suffocating heroin addiction.. Set against a sensuously textured 1970s Hollywood, the film beautifully evokes a colorful, seedy world of struggling musicians, artists, and vagabonds, in which Joe...
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2016.
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English
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Ken Cooper was a successful comedian in the 1990’s, but his single-guy jokes are irrelevant twenty years later. Now he's an anxiety ridden, stay-at-home dad, clinging to a TV show dream that his breadwinner wife doesn't believe in.. Tonight could be a big break for Ken - a final shot at selling his pitch. But after an epic fight with his wife, Ken is no longer welcome home. Their clash alters everything, on stage and off. Ken is crushed, with nowhere...
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2009.
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An award-winning Australian drama based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin. At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he fell in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and as a principal artist with the Australian Ballet.....
7) The Pardon
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2015.
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English
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This film recounts the unlikely true story of Toni Jo Henry, a woman tried three times and executed in Louisiana in 1942. Surviving a legacy of childhood abuse, Toni Jo briefly discovers love and happiness when she marries the dashing boxer Cowboy. Cowboy is soon after sent to prison, leaving the bereft Toni Jo to embark on an ill-fated mission with Cowboy’s sometime partner Arkie. A grisly murder and a series of sensational trials where she pleads...
8) Big Muddy
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2015.
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An outlaw tale played out as a modern day murder ballad, Big Muddy follows grifter Martha Barlow who must come to terms with her dark past after her teenage son commits a horrible crime. On the run to survive, she must dodge her sociopathic revenge-seeking former flame, and attempt to reconcile with her son’s dangerous and long forgotten father in order to protect her estranged family.. "A touch of No Country for Old Men and a little bit of Fargo"...
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2006.
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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.
10) Grafters
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2014.
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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...
11) Eadweard
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2017.
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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...
12) The Citizen
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2013.
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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...
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2015.
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English
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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...
14) Wish 143
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2009.
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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...
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2013.
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English
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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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2016.
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English
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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) A Beautiful Now
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2016.
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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...
18) The Inland Road
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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After falling out with her Mom, sixteen-year old Tia hitchhikes down the country to find her father. But her plans are thwarted when she gets caught up in a nasty car accident. Her father refuses to take her in, instead telling her to go home and sort things out with her mother. But Tia has other plans.. She seeks out the strangers involved in the car accident and moves onto their farm, but relationships blur and boundaries are tested as the family...
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Red Crow Mi'gMaq reservation, 1976: By government decree, every Indian child under the age of 16 must attend residential school. In the kingdom of the Crow, that means imprisonment at St. Dymphna’s, where students are under the mercy of "Popper," the sadistic agent who runs the school.. At 15, Aila is the weed princess of Red Crow. Hustling with her uncle Burner, she sells enough dope to pay Popper her “truancy tax”, keeping her out of St.Ds....
20) Dark Night
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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A haunting, artfully understated critique of American gun culture, Tim Sutton’s third feature is loosely based around the 2012 massacre in Aurora, Colorado that took place during a multiplex screening of The Dark Knight Rises.. Employing a mesmerizing documentary-style technique and a cast of non-professional actors, DARK NIGHT follows the activities of six strangers over the course of one day, from sunrise to midnight, the shooter among them. Shot...
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