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A Coming Out Story

A Coming Out Story

When gay student Parker enters his school’s GSA (Gay/Straight Alliance) for the first time, he is forced to recall the variety of humorous and painful…
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Alive, Feeling Like A Buck Seventy-Five

Alive, Feeling Like A Buck Seventy-Five

1999. I was somebody. Then she broke my heart. Can't forget. Don’t want to remember. Amanda came into my life like a goddamn freight train.…
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All That I Am

All That I Am

When Dr. Lynn abandoned his terminally ill wife on her deathbed, he left his three children—Susan, Christian and Win—essentially orphaned. Almost a decade later, on…
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Allein

Allein

A long-forgotten debt of the childhood comes to life again and destroys the existance of two men, who once were friends, but now become enemies.
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America’s Longest War

America’s Longest War

America’s Longest War is a documentary about the extraordinary costs of the U.S. government's 40-year war on drugs. Drug prohibition has failed. Drug usage rates…
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Amok

Amok

After the shooting rampage of one of his students, school teacher Thomas Seifert has withdrawn from active life. He is traumatized by the massacre and…
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Anal Break Up

Anal Break Up

See what happens when two Silver Lake hipsters try to have anal sex for the first time.
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Another Grace And Johnny Adventure: Zombie Island!

Another Grace And Johnny Adventure: Zombie Island!

An homage to the screwball comedies of the 1940’s. Newlyweds Grace and Johnny survive a plane crash on an unknown island only to discover the…
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Ástarsaga

Ástarsaga

A story of love, madness, and 24-hour daylight. Solange’s boyfriend, Baldur mysteriously takes off for Iceland. She follows, but an even deeper mystery awaits her.
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Austenland

Austenland

Austenland is a romantic comedy about 30-something, single Jane Hayes, a seemingly normal young woman with a secret: her obsession with Mr. Darcy—as played by…
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Awful Nice

Awful Nice

When Jim—a disenchanted yet highly popular college professor—learns of his father’s death, he must track down his deadbeat brother and deliver him to the funeral.…
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Benjamin’s Flowers

Benjamin’s Flowers

Benjamin’s lack of love and company has placed him on the blurry borderline between fantasy and reality where it can be hard to understand what’s…
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Bicycle Hooker

Bicycle Hooker

See what happens when a guy on his bike tries to pick up a French fry eating hooker.
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Blackfish

Blackfish

Notorious killer whale Tilikum is responsible for the deaths of three individuals, including a top killer whale trainer. Blackfish shows the sometimes devastating consequences of…
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Blood Brother

Blood Brother

The unmistakable power of love is celebrated in this story of one man’s decision to move to India and restart his life among the dispossessed.…
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The Broken Circle Breakdown

The Broken Circle Breakdown

Elise and Didier fall in love at first sight, in spite of their differences. He talks, she listens. He’s a romantic atheist, she’s a religious…
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Candace

Candace

This is a film about me. I am 14 years old and I just graduated from middle school. Most of the other kids at school…
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Click—With Deb Cram

Click—With Deb Cram

Photojournalist Deb Cram tells her story of abuse at the hands of her parents and foster parents after keeping these secrets for more than 30…
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The Cold Heart

The Cold Heart

A cautionary tale about greed-adapted from a classic German fairy tale: The Black Forest in the 19th century: the films tells the story of a…
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Cold Turkey

Cold Turkey

Thanksgiving get-together for the eccentric Turner clan, presided over by eminent scholar and patriarch, Poppy (Peter Bogdanovich), turns into a train wreck when “insane” daughter…
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The Crash Reel

The Crash Reel

Fifteen years of vérité footage show the epic rivalry between snowboarding half-pipe legends Shaun White and Kevin Pearce. These childhood friends became number one and…
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De Rochemont The Language Of News

De Rochemont The Language Of News

Before there was television, Louis de Rochemont’s film series March of Time brought news of the world to American movie houses. He was the most-watched…
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Death Of A Shadow

Death Of A Shadow

Stuck in a dark limbo between life and death, deceased World War One soldier Nathan Rijckx collects shadows of dying men and women to buy…
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Doomsdays

Doomsdays

A pre-apocalyptic comedy, DOOMSDAYS follows the misadventures of Dirty Fred (Justin Rice) and Bruho (Leo Fitzpatrick), a pair of free-wheeling squatters with a taste for…
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Drinking Buddies

Drinking Buddies

Luke and Kate are co-workers at a Chicago brewery, where they spend their days drinking and flirting. They’re perfect for each other, except that they’re…
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Elena

Elena

Elena, a young Brazilian woman, travels to New York with the same dream as her mother, to become a movie actress. She leaves behind her…
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Ellen Is Leaving

Ellen Is Leaving

On the eve of departing overseas Ellen makes the fateful decision to give her boyfriend to another girl, but can she really give him up?
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Empyrean

Empyrean

When her father is suddenly diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer, Sadie returns home to help her family care for him while struggling to accept the…
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The English Teacher

The English Teacher

Linda Sinclair (Julianne Moore) is a 40-year-old unmarried high school english teacher in the small town of Kingston, Pennsylvania. She maintains no close personal relationships…
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Epilogue

Epilogue

At the end of his greatest adventure, Skillman has vanquished his nemesis, recovered the priceless artifact and saved his latest love from certain doom. As…
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Figments Of A Father

Figments Of A Father

As the fabric of his reality unravels, Christopher Robinson—aspiring entrepreneur and unsettled father—attempts to hold it together long enough to deliver his revolutionary business idea…
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Forbidden Voices

Forbidden Voices

Their voices are suppressed, prohibited and censored. But Yoani Sánchez, Zeng Jinyan and Farnaz Seifi are not frightened of their dictatorial regimes. These fearless women…
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Frames

Frames

After not getting a foreman job, a small-town carpenter faces the new boss in a bowling match that teaches him the importance of family.
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Goodbye World

Goodbye World

James and Lily live off the grid, raising their young daughter in a cocoon of comfort and sustainability. When a mysterious mass text ripples its…
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Great

Great

Did the Nazis ever see Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator? Based on a true story: Yugoslavia, 1942—The young Serbian projectionist Nikola Radosevic decides to teach…
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Great Expectations

Great Expectations

A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.
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Here And Now

Here And Now

Over the course of a summer weekend, a young married couple contemplate the future of their strained relationship, reflecting back on the times when they…
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High And Hallowed: Everest 1963

High And Hallowed: Everest 1963

High and Hallowed: Everest 1963 is the deeper story of the greatest Himalayan climb in American mountaineering history. Profiling the bold and visionary efforts of…
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Iceberg

Iceberg

Nova, a 22-year-old drummer in one of Beijing’s most beloved indie bands, lives in two very different worlds. One is the passionate, surreal universe of…
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If We Were Adults

If We Were Adults

When Mitch and Izzy learn of their best friend’s engagement, they become the last unmarried couple. Out of spite and a little booze, they decide…
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If You Build It

If You Build It

From the director of WORDPLAY and I.O.U.S.A. comes a captivating look at a radically innovative approach to education. IF YOU BUILD IT follows designer- activists…
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Irish Folk Furniture

Irish Folk Furniture

An animated documentary about repair and recycling in rural Ireland. In Ireland old-hand painted furniture is often associated with hard times, poverty and a time…
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It All Started With Mom

It All Started With Mom

It All Started With Mom documents a family’s perspective of meeting and courting suitable partners. The filmmaker, Catherine O’Brien, is the main subject of the…
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The Janitor

The Janitor

A lonely immigrant who cleans up in the wake of assassinations is confronted with a moral dilemma when he is ordered to finish a botched…
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Jim And The Genie

Jim And The Genie

Jim discovers an eternally youthful genie and has the opportunity to change his life, if only he could get his genie to stop jumping on…
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The Kill Team

The Kill Team

The story of an American soldier who attempted to thwart U.S. war crimes even more heinous than Abu Ghraib and who himself was then charged…
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Labor Day

Labor Day

Depressed single mom Adele and her son Henry offer a wounded, fearsome man a ride. As police search for the escaped convict, the mother and…
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Last Night

Last Night

A young man reluctantly visits his ex's party the night before her wedding. What will it take to win her back?
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Life According To Sam

Life According To Sam

One family’s courageous fight to save their only son from a rare and fatal disease, progeria. The average age of death from progeria is 13,…
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Linsanity

Linsanity

The life story of basketball sensation Jeremy Lin.
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Little Hope Was Arson

Little Hope Was Arson

In the buckle of the Bible Belt, 10 churches were burned to the ground in five weeks, igniting the largest criminal investigation in East Texas…
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Losing Lebron

Losing Lebron

Losing LeBron ​is a feature-length documentary that chronicles the impact of NBA superstar LeBron James’s decision to leave the city of Cleveland and join the…
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Maestra 2013

Maestra 2013

Cuba, 1961: Thousands of teenage girls join the National Campaign for Literacy to help teach their country to read and write. Traveling to remote mountain…
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Many Voices One Song

Many Voices One Song

One hundred thirty women in the Portsmouth, NH-based women's chorus “Voices from the Heart” make a life-changing connection with Croatian villagers who live surrounded by…
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The Missing Scarf

The Missing Scarf

Albert the Squirrel makes a startling discovery ... an empty space where once his favorite scarf lay. He heads off into the forest only to…
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Moonlight Bait And Ammo

Moonlight Bait And Ammo

An animated graphic novel in which an arrogant insurance exec travels to rural Maine to investigate a hunter’s outrageous claim that aliens destroyed his barn.
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Mozayik

Mozayik

Mozayik is the story of Augustin Mona in his fight against the forced eviction of his tent camp in Port au Prince, Haiti, years after…
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Mud Lotus

Mud Lotus

Nawang, a Tibetan monk, arrives in rural Putnam County, Indiana seeking the reincarnation of his late teacher. In an old farmhouse, he finds a warring…
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The Naked Brand

The Naked Brand

The Naked Brand is a story about how corporations can help save the planet one small step at a time. It’s an introduction to a…
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Native Boy

Native Boy

A retired firefighter turned children’s book author brings a magical heart-wrenching story to life. A story about a boy on a quest to capture the sun.…
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New England Blood

New England Blood

Experience fall in New England from the perspective of New Hampshire surfers.
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Ocean Boulevard

Ocean Boulevard

A photographer enters a dangerous world when he receives an anonymous call after his girlfriend goes to meet her sinister boss.
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Oh Willy

Oh Willy

Forced to return to his naturist roots, Willy bungles his way into noble savagery.
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Only Daughter (NH)

Only Daughter (NH)

Raised in poverty by a single mother in rural New Hampshire, 18-year-old Dawn Cowley has never known her father, a source of animosity between her…
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Palimpsest

Palimpsest

A successful house tuner provides clients a unique form of therapy that examines subtle details in their living spaces.
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Patti And Me Minus Patti

Patti And Me Minus Patti

Edmond, a 30-something recluse, comes home to find his only friend dead on his mattress; his beloved cat Patti. Edmond must not only figure out…
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The People’s Forest: The Story of the White Mountain National Forest

The People’s Forest: The Story of the White Mountain National Forest

The People’s Forest is about one of the greatest environmental comeback stories in American history. In the late 1800s, the White Mountains were ground zero…
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The Pin

The Pin

Two young people find love while in hiding during WWII. The boy Jacob, now an old man, works as a Shomer, a religious watchman responsible…
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Pray Me Down

Pray Me Down

Daniel meets Mary at Bible Camp. Daniel develops a crush on her, and after the camp’s dance he is coerced by Mary into having sex.…
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Prince Avalanche

Prince Avalanche

Two highway road workers spend the summer of 1988 away from their city lives. The isolated landscape becomes a place of misadventure as the men…
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Q Cross: The Painter Behind The Portraits

Q Cross: The Painter Behind The Portraits

Follow artist Mary Jane Q. Cross through her process of creating a painting, a unique process because she has a tremor down the whole right…
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The Retrieval

The Retrieval

On the outskirts of the U.S. Civil War, a boy is sent north by a bounty hunter gang to retrieve a wanted man.
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Sal

Sal

A film director obsessed with making a western decides to go to Northern Chile in search of a story for his screenplay. Being confused with…
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Salvatore

Salvatore

After being clinically dead for seven minutes following a stroke, Pope Lucius IV awakens to tell his young travel aide that he saw nothing on…
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Sanatorium

Sanatorium

On a bitterly cold December night, a paranormal investigations team has set their sights on the bloody Hillcrest Sanatorium to answer the age old question:…
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Setup, Punch

Setup, Punch

Showing that there is always a reason to laugh, stand-up comic Reuben Stein does the most daring set of his life. The consequences will change…
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The Shoemaker

The Shoemaker

Before Nike and Adidas, there was the Hi-Jo! Here is a Brooklyn tale set back in the day about a young Italian-American shoemaker on the…
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Shuffle

Shuffle

A onetime underground poker game stirs up greed from different leaders of powerful and dangerous gangs, which all come from completely different lifestyles and crime…
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Slam Man

Slam Man

A spoof infomercial for a boxing robot with a decidedly dark side.
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Slomo

Slomo

Depressed and frustrated with his life, Dr. John Kitchin abandons his career as a neurologist and moves to Pacific Beach. There, he undergoes a radical…
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Social Butterfly

Social Butterfly

A 30-year-old American woman enters into a teenage party in the South of France. Some of the guests wonder who she is and what she…
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Something In The Way

Something In The Way

A short film depicting the nightmares and reality of the Vietnam War and how it affected soldiers tragically when they returned back to their homes.…
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Tech Roulette

Tech Roulette

A bad day can get worse when you make assumptions.
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The Throwaways

The Throwaways

The Throwaways is the story of homeless filmmaker and ex-felon, Ira McKinley, documenting his struggle to bring positive changes to his community in inner-city Albany,…
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To Them That’s Gone

To Them That’s Gone

In the summer of 2008, a small group of friends ran 4,000 miles across America. They called themselves Run for the Fallen, and their mission…
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Today’s The Day

Today’s The Day

Standing up against the inner voice that spreads doubt into what we believe in most - our dreams.
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Tom Rush: No Regrets

Tom Rush: No Regrets

The film tells the story of Tom Rush, a gifted musician and performer. Rush's impact on the American music scene has been profound. He helped…
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Touchy Feely

Touchy Feely

A massage therapist is unable to do her job when stricken with a mysterious and sudden aversion to bodily contact. Meanwhile, her uptight brother’s floundering…
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Trold

Trold

Trold is a story about a pregnant and religious girl, Mille, 13 years old, who endures a life filled with sexual abuse.
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The Truth About Emanuel

The Truth About Emanuel

A troubled young woman becomes preoccupied with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to her dead mother. In offering to babysit Linda’s…
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Twenty Million People

Twenty Million People

When Brian’s new girlfriend, a stand-up comedian, suddenly disappears, he enlists the help of his brokenhearted best friend and imaginary characters from a cliché romantic…
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Tyrolean Riviera

Tyrolean Riviera

Shot in the tradition of a holiday postcard, Tyrolean Riviera tells the story of an overly confident jet-setter who delights in his own charm. The…
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When I Walk

When I Walk

In 2006, 25-year-old Jason DaSilva was on vacation at the beach with family when, suddenly, he fell down. He couldn’t get back up. His legs…
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Who Shot Rock And Roll: The Film

Who Shot Rock And Roll: The Film

Who Shot Rock & Roll: The Film celebrates the groundbreaking collaborations between the photographers and musicians who created some of the most enduring images in…
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William And The Windmill

William And The Windmill

Young Malawian William Kamkwamba teaches himself to build a power-generating windmill from junk parts, successfully rescuing his family from poverty to become an energy icon…
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