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A Beautiful Day

A Beautiful Day

Gene gets up everyday and follows the same routine he has lived since the death of his wife ten years earlier. Today, however, he awakens…
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A Day in the Life

A Day in the Life

Pats Peak, a small ski area of NH, gives you a behind-the-scenes tour of what it takes to run a mountain.
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A Stray

A Stray

In Minneapolis’ large Somali refugee community, Adan has nowhere to go. His mom kicked him out, and his friends are tired of his headstrong ways.…
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A Woman, A Part

A Woman, A Part

An exhausted, workaholic actress, Anna Baskin, 44, abruptly extricates herself from a successful but mind-numbing TV role, returning to her past life in New York…
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After Spring

After Spring

With the Syrian conflict now in its sixth year, millions of people continue to be displaced. After Spring is the story of what happens next.…
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All The Presidents’ Heads

All The Presidents’ Heads

One man is on a quest to save the Presidents of the United States.
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Always Shine

Always Shine

Best friends Anna and Beth take a weekend trip to Big Sur, hopeful to re-establish a bond broken by years of competition and jealousy. Tensions…
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American Fable

American Fable

When 11-year-old Gitty discovers that her beloved father is hiding a wealthy man in her family's silo in order to save their struggling farm, she…
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Answer

Answer

A boy struggles to make real life interactions with people as everybody is glued to their cell phone screens.
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The Architect

The Architect

When a couple sets out to build their dream house, they enlist the services of an uncompromising modernist architect who proceeds to build HIS dream…
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Baby Teeth

Baby Teeth

A new mother, suffering from postpartum depression, makes a desperate call to her friend. She has lost her baby and needs her help. Together, they…
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Balcony

Balcony

Tina, a troubled teenage girl, is attracted to Dana, an Afghani girl, whom Tina tells us is oppressively victimized by her controlling substance abusing father,…
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Be Good

Be Good

The arrival of a stray dog in a couple's apartment stirs up dormant romance and exposes the breadth of their fractured relationship.
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Blast Beat

Blast Beat

An Über-Metalized American Latino Adventure That'll Kick Your Ass Back to the Y2K.
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Bombing

Bombing

Sophie is an unmotivated comedian. When her estranged young daughter is unexpectedly thrust back into her life, Sophie must come to terms with the fact…
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C.I.T.

C.I.T.

A coming-of-age story about best friends, the equestrian camp they love, and a secret that threatens to destroy them.
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Challenger Disaster: Lost Tapes

Challenger Disaster: Lost Tapes

Challenger Disaster: Lost Tapes takes a fresh look at the events leading up to the destruction of the space shuttle Challenger on January 28, 2016…
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Check It

Check It

A feature-length documentary about a gay and trans African-American gang struggling to survive in one of Washington D.C.’s most violent neighborhoods. The film is an…
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Chronic

Chronic

David is an in-home nurse who works with terminally ill patients. Efficient and dedicated to his profession, David develops strong, even intimate, relationships with each…
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The Cinema Travellers

The Cinema Travellers

Cannes prize-winning The Cinema Travellers is a journey with the traveling cinemas of India, which bring the wonder of the movies to faraway villages annually.…
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Command and Control

Command and Control

A chilling nightmare plays out at a Titan II missile complex in Arkansas in September, 1980. A worker accidentally drops a socket, puncturing the fuel…
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Confessions of a Cannabis Consultant

Confessions of a Cannabis Consultant

After a medical marijuana grower and healer is raided by the police, his family and patients rally around him as he fights against a prison…
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Crest of the Hill

Crest of the Hill

A writer with advancing Alzheimers struggles to come to terms with the loss of his family home.
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Dancer

Dancer

Ukrainian-born “bad boy of ballet” Sergei Polunin became the Royal Ballet’s youngest ever principal dancer at age 19. But two years later — at the…
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Earworm

Earworm

A lonely man does battle with a relentless piece of music.
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Equity

Equity

A female investment banker, fighting to rise to the top of the corporate ladder at a competitive Wall Street firm, navigates a controversial tech IPO…
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Extended Release

Extended Release

Tim struggles in a new place to escape his haunting past and find his bearings without losing himself. When he meets Peyton, he is forced…
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The Eyes of My Mother

The Eyes of My Mother

In their secluded farmhouse, a mother, formerly a surgeon in Portugal, teaches her daughter, Francisca, to understand anatomy and be unfazed by death. One afternoon,…
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Fire

Fire

A man and his dog on a frigid journey to a backcountry cabin. Despite warnings, Ed bullishly heads into the wilderness and into misadventure. Based…
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Food Fight – Inside the Battle for Market Basket

Food Fight – Inside the Battle for Market Basket

Throughout the summer of 2014, one of the most unique corporate dramas in American history played out in dozens of New England communities, impacting two…
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Forest Born

Forest Born

A lone hiker journeys into a dreamlike forest wilderness, where a mythic encounter drives him from communion to terror and intimations of death, to the…
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The Free World

The Free World

After spending two decades in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, Mo (Boyd Holbrook) struggles to put his past behind him as he readjusts…
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Generation Startup

Generation Startup

Generation Startup takes us to the front lines of entrepreneurship in America, capturing the struggles and triumphs of six recent college graduates who put everything…
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Ghost Trio

Ghost Trio

A young woman, just beginning to wake up, sees her life as merely a strange poetic dream.
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Girl in the Chair

Girl in the Chair

After years of confinement, a teenage girl escapes her kidnapper and returns to the house of her long-lost family, but her homecoming is far from…
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God Knows Where I Am

God Knows Where I Am

The body of a homeless woman is found in an abandoned New Hampshire farmhouse. Beside the body, lies a diary that documents a journey of…
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The Golden Age

The Golden Age

THE GOLDEN AGE is a tour de force musical film about subversive pop star, Maya O’Malley, who after a string of incendiary remarks in the…
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Guided

Guided

Guided profiles the gentle spirit of Maine wilderness guide Ray Reitze as he shares his philosophy of how to live in harmony with the outdoors…
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Hapless Halloween

Hapless Halloween

While reminiscing about the Halloween nights of their childhoods, two brothers open old wounds and discuss one particular night marred by a tale of awkward,…
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The Happy Film

The Happy Film

Designer Stefan Sagmeister lives in the the city of his dreams, creating work for the Rolling Stones and Jay-Z. Yet, he suspects there must be…
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HERE.

HERE.

HERE. attempts to broaden the notions of ability and inclusion by highlighting the physically and cognitively disabled students at Roosevelt High School, located in the…
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How You Look At It

How You Look At It

Love at first sight changes a man’s perspective of the world around him. With a little help from his inner theme songs, his environment comes…
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Hunter Gatherer

Hunter Gatherer

After a 3-year stint in prison, an unreasonably optimistic middle-aged man returns to his stagnant neighborhood to win back his girlfriend only to find that…
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I Want You Inside Me

I Want You Inside Me

An introverted teenager loses her virginity and her boyfriend in one fell orgasm; a sensitive portrait of adolescence that builds to one helluva FX gag…
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The Itching

The Itching

In this handmade collaboration, a shy wolf tries to befriend a group of hip, party-loving bunnies but finds her body is in revolt.
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Jack and Em

Jack and Em

Jack and Em is a love story about loss, and to when put yourself aside and keep pushing through for the people who need you.
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King Cobra

King Cobra

This ripped-from-the-headlines drama covers the early rise of gay porn headliner Sean Paul Lockhart a.k.a. Brent Corrigan, before his falling out with the producer who…
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The Legend of Swee’ Pea

The Legend of Swee’ Pea

Felled by drugs and bullets, NYC basketball savant Lloyd "Swee' Pea" Daniels embarks on an improbable NBA comeback that cements his reputation as a flawed…
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Life, Animated

Life, Animated

From Academy Award® winning director Roger Ross Williams, LIFE, ANIMATED is the inspirational story of Owen Suskind, a young man who was unable to speak…
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LIGHTNINGFACE

LIGHTNINGFACE

An origin story, of sorts—LIGHTNINGFACE stars Oscar Isaac as Basil Stitt, who in the aftermath of an inexplicable incident, decides to sequester himself inside his…
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Little Men

Little Men

A new pair of best friends have their bond tested by their parents' battle over a dress shop lease.
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London Town

London Town

Experience the music and energy of the 1970s punk underground. When fifteen-year-old Shay hears the music of The Clash for the first time, it’s a…
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Love Bites

Love Bites

A lonely girl looking to escape from a party finds herself sitting on a bench talking to a stranger who might just be hungry for…
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Ma

Ma

In this modern-day vision of Mother Mary’s pilgrimage, a woman crosses the scorched landscape of the American Southwest. Reinvented and told entirely through movement, the…
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Murals of Belfast

Murals of Belfast

When Tommy Makem was asked to perform at a peace rally for Northern Ireland years ago, he was astonished to realize that he didn't have…
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My Dark Side & My Light Side Meet In A Bar To Discuss The New Star Wars Movie

My Dark Side & My Light Side Meet In A Bar To Discuss The New Star Wars Movie

With the opening of the new Star Wars movie just days away, my Dark Side & Light Side meet for a drink to debate the…
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Namuli

Namuli

What happens when a team of rock climbers, biologists, and conservationists sets off on an unconventional expedition into one of the world’s least explored and…
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Obit

Obit

Every morning, a small staff of obituary writers at The New York Times deposits the details of three or four extraordinary lives into the cultural…
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Odd One Out

Odd One Out

Tawny Frogmouths Alan and Trevor are regulars at the local Owl Bar. Over a few beers, Trevor reveals an insecurity with his appearance. The desire…
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On By

On By

“On by!” is how mushers tell their dog teams to keep going past obstacles and distractions. Peggy Grass is a grower, a musher, and a…
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Out of the Village

Out of the Village

Shot in West Africa with a local cast and crew and starring Abraham Attah of Beasts of No Nation, this short film explores the cultural…
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Pamoja

Pamoja

This documentary explores the life of Joseph, an orphaned self proclaimed Street kid, who battles for his rights in a corrupt Kenyan Government.
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Peter and the Farm

Peter and the Farm

Peter Dunning is the proud proprietor of Mile Hill Farm, which sits on 187 acres in Vermont. The land's 38 harvests have seen the arrivals…
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Pickle

Pickle

A couple recounts the various animals they have adopted as pets over the course of their marriage, including a paraplegic possum and a fish that…
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The Poet

The Poet

A vampire moves to the city to follow his dreams of becoming a poet--with the help of a vampire hunter posing as a real estate…
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Poor Boy

Poor Boy

Two misfit brothers hustle cash and chase dreams in the desert. When a mysterious woman threatens to repo their beloved houseboat the brothers cook up…
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The Portsmouth Project

The Portsmouth Project

Jerome Meadows, a Savannah sculpture artist, was contacted by the city of Portsmouth, NH to design a permanent sculpture installation for African Burial Ground Memorial…
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Protect the Bobcat: A New Hampshire Wildlife Story

Protect the Bobcat: A New Hampshire Wildlife Story

Protect the Bobcat: A New Hampshire Wildlife Story explores different perspectives of the recent proposed Bobcat hunt in the state of New Hampshire.
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The Puppet Man

The Puppet Man

A supernatural killer stalks a young woman and her friends in this reference-laden homage to 80s horror films, featuring an original score and cameo appearance…
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Rare in Common

Rare in Common

RARE IN COMMON tells the story of five families, illustrating their struggles and their hope as they face rare and misunderstood conditions. This is a…
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The Real Work

The Real Work

The video essay documents a social experiment in which fifteen people were paid to dig holes in an empty field during a tempestuous day in…
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Serena

Serena

Serena Williams narrates this eponymous documentary that takes a closer look at all sides of her life as an athlete-designer-businesswoman, including close-up glimpses into her…
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Seven Miles Out

Seven Miles Out

Through interviews with visitors to the Isles of Shoals, the legends & lore from those islands - including murders, pirates, and people lost at sea…
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Shadows Fall North

Shadows Fall North

How does a state with the motto “Live Free or Die” and a celebrated legacy of abolitionism confront and understand its participation in slavery, segregation,…
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Signs of Love

Signs of Love

In the back of a dinner restaurant, two restroom signs magically come to life. A romantic adventure ensues as they long to be together without…
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Sketchy

Sketchy

Willow is giving up on her art 'hobby' until her characters inspire her to continue following her dreams.
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Snake Bite

Snake Bite

Out for backwoods adventure, four boys find their friendship tested when one is bitten by a snake. But which is more dangerous - the notoriously…
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Split Ticket

Split Ticket

In 1947, newly-minted congressmen and future presidents John F. Kennedy, age 29, and Richard Nixon, age 34, travel to Pennsylvania where they must make a…
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Sumner Winebaum – Working In Time

Sumner Winebaum – Working In Time

Sumner Winebaum was one of the orignal "Mad Men." An Advertisng Man, a Philanthropist, and an Artist. "...Working In Time" is a glimpse into this…
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Surfer Blood – “Point of No Return” (Official Music Video)

Surfer Blood – “Point of No Return” (Official Music Video)

The story dives into a boy's imagination, from the backseat on a car ride.
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Swim Team

Swim Team

What would you do if your community gave up on your child? In New Jersey, the parents of one autistic boy take matters into their…
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Telling the Story of Slavery

Telling the Story of Slavery

Released digitally by The New Yorker, Telling the Story of Slavery is a short documentary film about the first museum in America dedicated to exploring…
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There Are No Brothers Here

There Are No Brothers Here

During the first months of the Syrian revolution, in an old warehouse-turned-interrogation cell, an idealistic revolutionary and a desperate secret police agent struggle to wrest…
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Things to Come

Things to Come

Nathalie teaches philosophy at a high school in Paris. She is passionate about her job and particularly enjoys passing on the pleasure of thinking. Married…
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Threads That Bind Us

Threads That Bind Us

A wife and mother experiencing a delayed form of post-traumatic stress disorder engages in an affair with a mysterious woman due to a traumatic childhood…
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To Keep the Light

To Keep the Light

Inspired by true stories, a lighthouse keeper's wife struggles with her work & her sanity as she cares for her sick husband in the 1800's.…
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Trespass Against Us

Trespass Against Us

Trespass Against Us is set across three generations of the Cutler family who live as outlaws in their own anarchic corner of Britain’s richest countryside.…
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Twinsburg

Twinsburg

Jerry, sentimental about his fading twin identity, reunites with his reluctant brother Paul for a weekend of revelry at the world’s largest congregation of twins.
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Two Dollar Bill

Two Dollar Bill

Teenage roommates Greta and Harper are thrown into turmoil when Frankie visits on Halloween.
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Walk for Me

Walk for Me

Hassan Kendricks is set to make his Femme Queen debut in the shimmering lights of the Ballroom scene voguing as a girl named Hanna. His…
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We’re Still Together

We’re Still Together

Chris can’t get along with anyone. When he’s attacked in the street, Bobby, a manic single dad, jumps in. The two set out into the…
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Weiner

Weiner

Sexts, lies, and Carlos Danger: watch the wildest political meltdown in recent history as it unfolds. It’s 2013 and Anthony Weiner—still reeling from the sex…
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White Out

White Out

A lone pilot is faced with isolation on a cold dark world.
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Wiener-Dog

Wiener-Dog

A dachshund passes from oddball owner to oddball owner, whose radically dysfunctional lives are all impacted by the pooch.
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Year by the Sea

Year by the Sea

Hoping to reclaim who she was before being a wife and mother, an empty nester retreats to Cape Cod where she embarks upon a quest…
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Zero Days

Zero Days

A documentary focused on Stuxnet, a piece of self-replicating computer malware that the U.S. and Israel unleashed to destroy a key part of an Iranian…
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