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86’d

86’d

Five seedy stories transpire over the course of one late-night order at a 24-hour deli.
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A Cure for Fear (Series)

A Cure for Fear (Series)

Neuroscientist Dr. Merel Kindt has discovered a cure for phobias using common medication. It's a brief but intense exposure to the patient's fear, followed by…
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A Hand

A Hand

Lines get blurred after Lisa's coworker offers to drive her home.
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After Her

After Her

A wayward teenager goes missing and her friend is haunted by her disappearance. An atmospheric sci-fi short about the archetypal lost girl.
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Agua Viva

Agua Viva

A Chinese manicurist in Miami attempts to describe feelings she doesn't have the words for.
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All Creatures Here Below

All Creatures Here Below

Paying homage to Terrence Malick’s “Badlands” and the works of John Steinbeck, “All Creatures Here Below” follows a young couple living on the fringes of…
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All Happened Before

All Happened Before

Amanda, a young girl, spends one last day with her babysitter before she moves away.
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Allen Anders – Live at the Comedy Castle (circa 1987)

Allen Anders – Live at the Comedy Castle (circa 1987)

The fever dream of a 1980s stand-up comic who is either having a nervous breakdown or the best set of his life.
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Aloha For This Place

Aloha For This Place

Follow the lives of three young fish farmers living on the Big Island of Hawaii. Their lives are full of outdoor adventure, science, and exploration,…
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América

América

Diego, a young circus artist, must return home and reunite with his brothers after their ninety-three year old grandmother, América, falls from her bed, causing…
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Astray

Astray

"Astray" is a minimalist, thriller-mystery that follows a young man as he searches for help for an injured dog that he hit on an isolated,…
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At Eternity’s Gate

At Eternity’s Gate

Julian Schnabel’s At Eternity’s Gate is a journey inside the world and mind of a person who, despite skepticism, ridicule and illness, created some of…
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Babs

Babs

An estranged son discovers an alarming purchase made by his late father.
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Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story

Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story

Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story is the official documentary about maverick Manchester comedian Frank Sidebottom, and the life and art of his hidden creator…
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Big Nansen

Big Nansen

Amateur ski jumper Cooper Dodds takes a rogue flight on the historic hill, Big Nansen.
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Birth of Afrobeat

Birth of Afrobeat

Late music legend, Fela Kuti once said, "Without Tony Allen, there would be no Afrobeat”. In this whimsical live-action/animated short, drum icon, Tony Allen, reveals…
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Blowin’ Up

Blowin’ Up

“It’s called blowin’ up when you leave your pimp...so i blew up.” - Kandie Working within a broken criminal justice system, a team of rebel…
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Boy Boy Girl Girl

Boy Boy Girl Girl

A gay couple attempts to adopt from a pregnant meth addict and her criminal girlfriend.
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Brainworm Billy

Brainworm Billy

A young man at home is haunted by Billy Crystal.
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Call Her Ganda

Call Her Ganda

When Jennifer Laude, a Filipina transwoman, is brutally murdered by a U.S. Marine, three women intimately invested in the case--an activist attorney, a transgender journalist…
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Candace

Candace

The day before Charlie leaves for college, her relationship with her best friend Nina explodes as they figure out how to say goodbye.
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Capturing The Flag

Capturing The Flag

A tight-knit group of friends travel to Cumberland County, North Carolina - the 2016 “poster child” for voter suppression - intent on proving that the…
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Caroline

Caroline

When plans fall through, a six-year-old is faced with a big responsibility on a hot Texas day.
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Chained for Life

Chained for Life

A beautiful actress struggles to connect with her disfigured co-star on the set of a European auteur’s English-language debut. Through pitch-black satire, Chained for Life…
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Cherish

Cherish

In the rural south, a black boy tries to fly.
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The Children Act

The Children Act

In the midst of a marital crisis, British High Court judge Fiona Maye must rule on a life-changing legal case concerning the survival of a…
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The Chrysalis

The Chrysalis

Two sisters trying to reconnect find themselves stranded in an abandoned warehouse during a vicious snowstorm where they form a relationship with a mysterious runaway.
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The Cloud of Unknowing

The Cloud of Unknowing

An experimental, mixed-format documentary, The Cloud of Unknowing looks at a Trappist abbey in Spencer, MA and spiritual seekers in the city of Boston: exploring…
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Cole

Cole

Cole tells the story of a US combat veteran recovering from a traumatic brain injury (TBI) as he attempts to find a job in the…
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Counterfeit Kunkoo

Counterfeit Kunkoo

In a city that houses millions, Smita finds herself fighting beasts of a different kind as she discovers a strange pre-requisite to renting a house…
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Crossroads

Crossroads

Coach Bobby Selkin leads a lacrosse team of at-risk teenagers on a most improbable and inspiring journey.
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Damsel

Damsel

It’s the age of The Wild West, circa 1870. An affluent pioneer, Samuel Alabaster ventures deep into the American wilderness to reunite with and marry…
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David’s Voice

David’s Voice

An intimate portrait of a 26 year old classically trained vocalist pursuing his passion for musical theater on a miniature stage using action figures as…
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Dear Eloise

Dear Eloise

Set in the domestic tranquility of the late 60s, a dutiful housewife, despite sage advice, comes to realize that sometimes perfection just isn't enough.
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Diane

Diane

Diane fills her days helping others and desperately attempting to bond with her drug-addicted son. As these pieces of her existence begin to fade, she…
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Dios Nunca Muere

Dios Nunca Muere

Living in hidden America, Paula, a Mexican farmworker, struggles to raise two children on her own. When a new caravan arrives on the lot they…
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Edgecombe

Edgecombe

Revealing the deeply personal truths of three local residents, Edgecombe is an examination of the ways trauma repeats and reinvents itself in rural Black communities.
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Eighth Grade

Eighth Grade

Thirteen-year-old Kayla endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school—the end of her…
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Expedition Norway: Gateway to the Arctic

Expedition Norway: Gateway to the Arctic

Without darkness, there can be no light. Without journey, no experience gained. Without hardship, no bonds formed. A journey to capture the northern lights, and…
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Fall River

Fall River

Through the intimate reflections of one extraordinary woman, Fall River tells the story of a family’s tragedy, their once-thriving hometown, and how hope can blossom…
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Father of the Year (special screening with David Spade)

Father of the Year (special screening with David Spade)

When a drunken debate between two college graduates about whose father would win in a fight is taken seriously by their dads, jobs are lost,…
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Fight Science

Fight Science

Chirs Algieri, a former world champion, challenges boxings stereotypes by advocating for transparency in the sport in an exclusive behind the scenes look at a…
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Final Thesis

Final Thesis

A college student's Final Thesis brings horrific consequences!
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Fran This Summer

Fran This Summer

Teenage lovebirds Francis and Angie spend the summer shacked up at home while Fran begins their transition.
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Friends Later

Friends Later

As two coworkers head out to the lake for a few days to say goodbye to a friend, they quickly realize that there are more…
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Great Light

Great Light

When the matriarch of a rural Kentucky family takes issue with her daughter's boyfriend at a gathering to view the total solar eclipse, she's forced…
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The Great Pretender

The Great Pretender

The lives of a French theater director, her ex-boyfriend, and the two actors playing them intersect dramatically in this tangled and darkly funny roundelay set…
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The Guard

The Guard

An expectant father is tormented by intrusive visions of harming his wife and unborn child.
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Hair Wolf

Hair Wolf

In a black hair salon in gentrifying Brooklyn, the local residents fend off a strange new monster: white women intent on sucking the lifeblood from…
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Have It All

Have It All

The true story of one meeting, one baby, and one big myth
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The Healer’s Wave

The Healer’s Wave

A woman energy healer born in Colombia seeks to create an etherial healing portal in one of New England’s quaint towns. Using a Hawaiian chant,…
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The Hike

The Hike

A couple's backpacking trip is interrupted by an unexpected visitor who causes turmoil in their remote campsite.
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Holiday Hostage

Holiday Hostage

You think your family is messed up? A comedic short film about a dysfunctional Jewish family held hostage on Thanksgiving. Oy Vey!
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Housekeeping

Housekeeping

A hotel housekeeper discovers the dirty secret of a charming guest, causing the lines between personal and professional to become blurred.
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I Was In Your Blood

I Was In Your Blood

A young boy falls in love with his babysitter.
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In Pursuit of Justice

In Pursuit of Justice

Walking past Jacquetta Thomas' lifeless, beaten body in Sept. of 1991 changed Greg Taylor's life, and North Carolina's criminal justice system, forever. For seventeen years,…
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Incandescent

Incandescent

When a nomadic alien race blots out the sun, an anguished young teacher tries to hold on to her humanity in a withering world.
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Instructions on Parting

Instructions on Parting

Over the course of one tumultuous year, Director Amy Jenkins confronts the cancer diagnoses of her mother, sister, and brother, and also welcomes her first…
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Intelligent Lives

Intelligent Lives

Intelligent Lives stars three pioneering young American adults with intellectual disabilities – Micah, Naieer, and Naomie – who challenge perceptions of intelligence as they navigate…
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Into The Okavango

Into The Okavango

A passionate conservation biologist brings together a river bushman fearful of losing his past and a young scientist uncertain of her future on an epic,…
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The Kids We Lose

The Kids We Lose

The Kids We Lose is a documentary about the human side of having a child or student with behavioral challenges, and the struggles faced by…
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Last One Screaming

Last One Screaming

Last One Screaming is a short horror film that asks the question "What would happen to the Final Girl after she survives a typical horror…
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Leave No Trace

Leave No Trace

Will and his teenage daughter, Tom, have lived off the grid for years in the forests of Portland, Oregon. When their idyllic life is shattered,…
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The Letter

The Letter

A teenager struggles with accepting the death of his best friend.
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The Likes and Dislikes of Marj Bagley

The Likes and Dislikes of Marj Bagley

The stop-motion documentary tells the lifelong struggle of Marj, the matriarch of the Bagley clan, to find happiness.
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Lobster War: The Fight Over The World’s Richest Fishing Grounds

Lobster War: The Fight Over The World’s Richest Fishing Grounds

LOBSTER WAR is about a climate-fueled conflict between the United States and Canada over waters that both countries have claimed since the end of the…
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Locked In: The Victoria Arlen Story

Locked In: The Victoria Arlen Story

As a young girl Victoria Arlen truly had the world ahead of her. But at the age of 11, she began to suffer from an…
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Love, Gilda

Love, Gilda

In her own words, comedienne Gilda Radner reflects on her life and career. Weaving together her recently discovered audiotapes, interviews with friends (Chevy Chase, Lorne…
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Madeline’s Madeline

Madeline’s Madeline

Madeline has become an integral part of a prestigious physical theater troupe. When the workshop's ambitious director pushes the teenager to weave her rich interior…
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Magic Bullet

Magic Bullet

Parallel losses push strangers Rachel and Lia into self-soothing rituals and self-destructive hazes, only to collide unwittingly on a regional Florida shopping network.
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Maine

Maine

While solo thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail, a married Spanish woman's journey to reclaim her identity becomes sidetracked when a lone American hiker pursues her.
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Man Gets Revenge On Khloe Kardashian in 7 Minutes

Man Gets Revenge On Khloe Kardashian in 7 Minutes

Inspired by "Revenge Body" and "Fat Sick and Nearly Dead". Denied "Revenge Body" applicant, Scott Millette, get his own revenge body by losing nearly 80lbs,…
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Maude

Maude

Teeny arrives at a gorgeous home to babysit and is shocked when a woman from her past answers the door. Over the course of the…
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Monkey

Monkey

A high school backup quarterback plots to take out the golden boy starter during practice.
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The Mud

The Mud

Both bound and uplifted by identity, a man of clay strives to understand himself through the chaos of outside voices.
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Omphaloskepsis

Omphaloskepsis

A young woman confronts her umbilical obsession with uncanny results.
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Phantom Cowboys

Phantom Cowboys

Part time capsule, part folk song, Phantom Cowboys follows three teenage boys as they approach adulthood in vastly different parts of the United States. Moving…
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Quiet Hours

Quiet Hours

Donald Hall, America's Poet Laureate and winner of the National Medal of Arts, lives in the fragile space between loneliness and solitude.
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Rabbit Tracks

Rabbit Tracks

A journey through a mortality-infused landscape populated by mysterious chickens, inconvenient frogs, and other cartoonish creatures.
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Roadside Attraction

Roadside Attraction

Palm Beach International Airport's newest snowbird has become one of the fastest growing roadside attractions in the United States.
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Science Fair

Science Fair

Science Fair follows nine high school students from around the globe as they navigate rivalries, setbacks and, of course, hormones, on their journey to compete…
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Séamus

Séamus

When a man discovers a boy following him on his daily trek, he wrestles with his sanity as he shakes away his haunting companion.
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Seen From Above

Seen From Above

While vacationing with her family at a mountain lake, teenager Vivian becomes entangled with a boy at the neighboring house…and his remote control drone.
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Shoplifters

Shoplifters

After one of their shoplifting sessions, Osamu and his son come across a little girl in the freezing cold. At first reluctant to shelter this…
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Softness of Bodies

Softness of Bodies

An American poet living in Berlin hopes to win a prestigious grant while dealing with her former relationships, a rival poet and her own penchant…
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Sole Doctor

Sole Doctor

"Sole Doctor" is a short documentary set at George's Shoe Repair, a family-owned business in Portland, Oregon that has served the community for over 50…
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Somewhere In July

Somewhere In July

Somewhere In July follows a 10-year-old girl, caught in chasm of a family divided over her father’s recent gender transition.
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Sorry Angel

Sorry Angel

Paris, 1993. Jacques is a semi-renowned writer and single father in his thirties trying to maintain his sense of romance and humor in spite of…
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Spacesavers

Spacesavers

Each snowfall, Boston residents respond to threatened parking spaces with items of subconscious self-expression.
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Squirrel

Squirrel

A couple lost in the woods stumbles across a mysterious cult who once harvested a strange, crimson, maple syrup with healing properties. The cult is…
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Support the Girls

Support the Girls

Lisa Conroy is the last person you'd expect to find in a highway-side 'sports bar with curves',— but as general manager at Double Whammies, she's…
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Tadpole

Tadpole

The boundaries of friendship are tested when shy, fourteen-year-old Chris invites his best friends over to spend the night.
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Teddy

Teddy

Teddy is an '80s Slasher throwback, Director Scott Millette Shot it right here in America's backlot, Portsmouth, N.H. Shot in under 6 hours with $0.…
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Things We Say

Things We Say

One day, three women. The things we say make all the difference. Using only superficial dialogue, this modern analysis of a silent film explores isolation…
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Things Would Be Different

Things Would Be Different

A happily married woman wonders if she could be happier.
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Thunder Road

Thunder Road

Based on the Sundance-Winning short film, Thunder Road follows a Texan police officer who loses his Mother, custody of his daughter, and eventually his job.…
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To Be Free

To Be Free

In a tiny after-hours club, Nina Simone finds a way, for one moment, to be free.
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Tomnoddy

Tomnoddy

An inside look at pioneer soap-bubble entertainer Tom Noddy.
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Too Long at the Fair

Too Long at the Fair

Professional Princesses, Charlie and Val, are desperate for funds. They meet a charming divorcee and what begins as a provocative yet seemingly harmless adventure takes…
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Tyrel

Tyrel

Tyler joins his friend on a trip to the Catskills for a weekend birthday party with several people he doesn’t know. As soon as they…
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Uber Ex

Uber Ex

A couple's night out is turned upside down when they discover that their Uber driver is her old flame.
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Voxgirl

Voxgirl

A former kids’ TV actor who has garnered an unwanted cult following looks to reinvent herself and legitimize her music career.
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The Waiter

The Waiter

A Waiter has a hard time keeping up on his first day as he tries to adjust to his new environment.
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The Water Slide

The Water Slide

Tragedy strikes the world's tallest water slide.
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What Here Needs Love?

What Here Needs Love?

After tragedy, surviving father and daughter untangle their past, wrestling to resurrect the love left between.
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What They Had

What They Had

What They Had centers on a family in crisis. Bridget returns home to Chicago at her brother’s urging to deal with her ailing mother and…
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What We Have In Its Place

What We Have In Its Place

In 2016, the Great Dam in downtown Exeter was to be removed, starting a new chapter for the town and for the river. This film…
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When She Runs

When She Runs

A young mother of limited means puts everything on the line to pursue her dream of becoming a competitive runner.
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White Tide: The Legend of Culebra

White Tide: The Legend of Culebra

Rodney Hyden is an American dreamer: a small business owner and familyman from Central Florida. But after he’s wiped out by the Great Recession, Rodney…
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The Worst Thing

The Worst Thing

Music video for the song "The Worst Thing" by The Skanx
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Yours in Sisterhood

Yours in Sisterhood

Yours in Sisterhood is a performative, participatory documentary inspired by the breadth and complexity of letters that were sent in the 1970s to the editor…
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