2022 Films

100% USDA Certified Organic Homemade Tofu

Nikki spices things up at her mom's struggling tofu restaurant while working to afford her breast augmentation surgery.

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The 5th Man

For 50 years, Paul Limmer was a world-class track coach at Long Island’s Mepham High School. THE 5TH MAN is the story of his impact,…

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7LBS 8OZ

When a young mother moves into a Jersey City neighborhood full of long-time residents, her preconceptions are challenged by a new neighbor who shows her…

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A Change of Song

A resourceful raccoon helps a fellow creature out of a bad groove.

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A Life on the Farm

When filmmaker Oscar Harding's grandfather passed away in the rural English county of Somerset, his family inherited an extraordinary video tape—a feature-length home movie from…

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A Stage of Twilight

A STAGE OF TWILIGHT is a love story set in the final chapter of Cora and Barry's life. When Barry is confronted with a terminal…

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Actual People

A bare-boned independent drama with brief but meaningful touches of gentle comedy, ACTUAL PEOPLE is a poignant triumph, a simple but effective voyage into the…

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The Adventures of Sleepyhead

THE ADVENTURES OF SLEEPYHEAD follows Sleepyhead through a day in her dreamworld life.

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Aftersun

Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill…

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Allswell

ALLSWELL is a Nuyorican Odyssey of family trauma and reconciliation. The script was developed collaboratively between the director and the three lead actors. Together they…

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An Act of Worship

AN ACT OF WORSHIP is Pakistani-American filmmaker Nausheen Dadabhoy’s exploration of the last 20 years of Muslim life in America. The feature-length documentary weaves together…

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Are We Lost

Raine is a single mother putting together gig jobs to keep her family afloat wher 2 kids are left to live the semi magical world…

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Art of Healing

Engaging with art and artmaking can profoundly impact our mental, emotional and physical health. In this short-form doc, we hear stories about how one museum’s…

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b l u s h

A fit model develops a distorted sense of self and the world around her when her measurements are questioned.

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Be Our Guest

A New Hampshire family and their four school-aged children open their home to strangers in recovery—a commitment that pushes both the family and their guests…

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Bernard Checks In

While away on a business trip, married ad salesman Bernard Wayland stumbles into the wrong motel room and finds himself confronted with a mischievous proposition.

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Birdsong

Amidst moving homes, a superstitious Indian American girl struggles to bury her pet bird in fear of it haunting her.

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The Body is a House of Familiar Rooms

An intimate magical-realist documentary combining paintings with live action footage to open a window on a man's experience living with a painful chronic illness called…

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Brothers

BROTHERS follows a mother and her two sons as they come to terms with the death of their father. It examines what we remember about…

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The Businessman

On the way home from school, a young girl runs into a mysterious salesman who looks to instill the fear of financial insecurity and coerce…

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Butterfly in the Sky

BUTTERFLY IN THE SKY tells the story of the beloved PBS children's series Reading Rainbow, its iconic host LeVar Burton, and the challenges its creators…

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By Water

BY WATER was initiated through an unexpected voicemail message my brother left me 3 years after his disappearance. I saved this voicemail for more than…

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Carol & Johnny

Johnny and Carol robbed 56 banks together. After decades apart, they navigate their new lives outside prison walls. This story is about how some people…

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Catalina

A queer man reunites with two of his childhood best friends for a weekend camping trip on Catalina Island.

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CATCHING SPIRITS

Destiny's been told she has seizures when she dances. What she doesn’t know is she has an ancient ability, a birthright of her Haitian lineage.…

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Change of Plans

A young married woman under NYC quarantine lockdown gives a virtual tour of her spacious apartment in hopes of selling and getting away as another…

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Chicks

A girly, cotton-candy colored slumber party unravels when a shy teen becomes the center of a bizarre nighttime ritual.

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The Cinema

A group of adolescent boys as they try to uncover the mystery surrounding their local haunted movie theater.

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Clam Shack Blues

Two aging New England clammers bicker about how to live out their twilight years, with only one of the brothers willing to risk life and…

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Close

The intense friendship between two thirteen-year old boys Leo and Remi suddenly gets disrupted. Struggling to understand what has happened, Léo approaches Sophie, Rémi's mother.…

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Communities & Consequences II

The population bulge known as the baby boom is reaching social security age and beyond. The impacts of the aging of such a large demographic…

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The Computer Accent

Most bands and musicians have a distinct sound. Can an Artificial Intelligence understand—and imitate—that sound? That’s what American post-pop group YACHT sets out to discover…

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Corsage

As her 40th birthday approaches, beautiful Empress Elisabeth of Austria is thrown into turmoil as she anticipates being considered an old woman.

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Cosmohedron

A surreal journey through the interconnections between all things.

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Crows Are White

For over a thousand years, a secretive Buddhist sect has lived in an isolated monastery in Japan performing acts of extreme physical endurance in their…

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Cube Meets Sphere

In a world of straight lines and right angles, a cube discovers a perfect sphere, but the closer he gets to this unusual object, the…

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D as in Do Not

D AS IN DO NOT is about a stand up comedian, Jenny, dealing with her mom's continual hints that she’s planning to end it all.

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Daddy’s Girl

A young woman's charming but overbearing father helps her move out of her wealthy, older boyfriend's apartment.

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Dam Road to Griffintown

The story of a narrow, dangerous road that starts in one New Hampshire town, and dead-ends in another. 300 years of politics created it, and…

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Dear Ani

More than 20 years ago, an aspiring songwriter began a creatively obsessive correspondence with music icon Ani DiFranco, believing the replies were encoded in her…

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Dear Mama…

The death of Tupac draws different reactions from a father and his young daughter, forcing them to confront the emotional aftermath of their own tragedy.

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Delmarva and the Ground for Change

Environmental stewardship of farmers around the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays has made them leaders in practices that protect and promote healthy soils. These practices also…

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Disfluency

After failing her final college class, Jane returns home to her family's lake house and comes to terms with the confusing trauma that derailed her…

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The Dog Heist

Adam's shady cousin, Brent, offers him the opportunity to have a car of his own just in time to take his crush to a concert.…

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Dragon Poets of Boston

Two underemployed dragons have a revelation when they audition for a podcast.

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Drone

A malfunction at a CIA press event causes a Predator drone installed with an ethical AI personality to go rogue as it attempts to understand…

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The Drop

THE DROP is set amongst a destination wedding on a tropical island, where the future of a happy couple is thrown into a tailspin when…

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The Electricity in Me

Years after giving up her newborn son for adoption, a woman confronts her trauma and memories of the man she calls "my monster."

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The Elephants and the Grass

With only each other to depend on, 14-year-old Shamira and her mother flee tribal genocide. While they fight to escape South Sudan’s violent civil war,…

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Ella’s Suite

ELLA'S SUITE is a romantic short film set entirely in an elevator in 1940s New York City. The story follows Otis and Mary as they…

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Errand

After her partner is injured, a young woman goes searching for supplies in an apocalyptic wasteland. The only person who has what she needs is…

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Everything Wrong and Nowhere to Go

A filmmaker starts seeing a climate psychologist to find peace of mind at what she’s pretty sure is the end of the world. The result…

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Foreign Uncle

Sining brings his American boyfriend, Patrick, back to China to visit his family. After Sining inadvertently comes out to them, everyone's attitude towards Patrick goes…

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Georgia’s Line

Georgia spends each winter as part of a mysterious all-female commune, whose members commit to a subsistence lifestyle and take a vow of silence. When…

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The Getaway

A criminal couple on the run from the FBI meet up after several years and reminisce about their most epic heist.

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God’s Country

When a college professor in the remote mountains of the American West confronts two hunters she catches trespassing on her property, she’s drawn into an…

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God’s Time

Best friends and recovering addicts Dev and Luca go on an electric odyssey through NYC to stop Regina, the woman they’re both in love with,…

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Good Girl Jane

GOOD GIRL JANE is a drug-fueled love story inspired by true events. Jane, a lonely teen, struggles to find intimacy in her broken home. She…

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Gussy

As children, Miles and Rocky hunted a monster they thought they saw in the woods. Twenty years later, they're still searching.

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Half

Half-Jewish, bisexual Jonah Dorman comes out to his girlfriend, shaking the foundation of their relationship and launching a tragicomic exploration of love and religion in…

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Headspace

As the tensions and frustrations of life in a community house start to close in on him, a young man with Down Syndrome realises he…

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Homebody

A little boy sends his spirit into his babysitter's body.

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The House of Loss

The elderly at the nursing home have their heads shaved. The protagonist who works there sees them but can't read their expressions. However, from one…

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The House We Lived In

A decade in the making, a young filmmaker confronts addiction, family, and memory as he chronicles his father‘s journey to recover lost memories following a…

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How to Bury Your Mother During a Pandemic

A director documents his best friend’s grieving process shortly after the death of his mother. The film explores the limitations of traditional masculine friendship while…

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How to Rob

Sean and Jimmy are life long friends. They're also stick up guys, robbing drug dealers and bookies on the south side of Boston. When one…

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If Found

A lonely girl with a big heart and bad boundaries steals a dog.

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In A Glass Darkly

A lonely woman desperate to meet her husband during covid isolation mysteriously tests positive even after following all safety measures & not leaving the house…

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In the Big Yard Inside the Teeny-Weeny Pocket

When it shrinks, it expands. It floats and it sinks. It separates but connects. When I think I’m watching them, they're actually watching me. A…

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J&S Auto

J&S AUTO follows a day in the life of Joe Iwama—a 99-year-old Japanese American auto mechanic in Los Angeles who has been opening his auto…

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Kevin and His Sword, the untold story of the last hero

An unassuming LARPing-obsessed man discovers by accident that he is the LAST HERO in the Universe. He must overcome his own insecurities in order to…

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Keystone: Voices for the Little Fish

The people of Gardiner, ME work to provide fish passage around three historic dams on Cobbossee Stream for the first time in 270 years. The…

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Kissy and the Shark

Kissy is an 11 year old girl living on Terminal Island, Los Angeles, navigating a tempestuous relationship with her mother who is terminally ill. Whilst…

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La grogne

A child by all means tries to gain her father's affection, but the family dog proves to be a fierce rival.

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Last Days of August

Does a town still exist if nearly everyone has died or left? Using the photobook aesthetic, filmmakers Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck and Robert Machoian explore some nearly…

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Last Summer with Uncle Ira

Summer, 1991. Before he leaves for his last year at summer camp, closeted teenager Daniel shares a moment and a glass of lemonade with his…

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Leaving Home

This film follows Mark Nash on his final five days as an employee on Star Island, capturing his rich history with the space, the uniqueness…

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Light Attaching to a Girl

Suffocated by an overbearing father and two older sisters who soak up any attention that comes their way, Clare is desperate to escape. She plans…

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Lily Topples the World

LILY TOPPLES THE WORLD follows 20-year old sensation Lily Hevesh—the world’s most acclaimed domino toppler and the only girl in her field—as she rises as…

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The Lost King

An amateur historian defies the stodgy academic establishment in her efforts to find King Richard III's remains, which were lost for over 500 years.

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Love in the Night

On a Friday night, a loner goes out for a smoke, meeting a stranger with dark intentions.

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The Magic Act

The New England ski industry relies heavily upon snowmaking to complete its season. Five children go behind the scenes to discover the magic of snowmaking…

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Mairzy Doats

Following a friend's wedding, a couple return to their woodland cabin for a relaxing weekend, but a strange noise and a fixation on mortality threaten…

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The Making of a Deathbed

THE MAKING OF A DEATHBED follows a playwright, Sylvia, who is unable to finish the last scene of their play. As opening night approaches, Sylvia…

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Mammalian Diving Reflex

A young woman attends a party and receives a disturbing update on her ex-boyfriend.

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The Man Who Plays With Fire

A cinematic portrait of James Beard-nominated chef Bryce Shuman.

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The Merrimack: River at Risk

The Merrimack River is the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution in America. Mills in cities such as Lowell, MA harnessed the power of the river—and…

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Mi

Father and son roam a forest where life is untamed and immense in the eyes of the young boy. Journeying to the bottom of a…

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Mister Backlash

Eleven-year-old Maan has just lost a friend and role model to an altercation with police. New to the block, Steve attempts to pressure Maan into…

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More Than I Want to Remember

Fourteen-year-old Mugeni awakes to the sounds of bombs. As her family scatters to the surrounding forests to save themselves, Mugeni finds herself completely alone.

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More Than Real

A philosophical and theological exploration behind the world's first robot deity unveiled at a Buddhist monastery in Japan.

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The Mountain Meisters

Cranmore's weekly Mountain Meisters Race League is the longest and largest running community ski race league in the United States, recently wrapping up the 51st…

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Mrs. Osbourne

The story of a young widow in England in the early 1800s who faces a trying encounter when she visits her best friend’s country home,…

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Mules

A high school hockey team of perennial losers, new coaches, and the lessons and moments that inspire a season to remember.

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Must Love Pie

A lonely man makes a love connection and someone dies.

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Naked Gardens

A visually stunning narrative documentary, NAKED GARDENS immerses audiences in the complex, unseen world of a family nudist resort in the Florida Everglades. The film…

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Never Again Para Nadie

In the poorest city in Rhode Island, peaceful demonstrators tried to shut down a for-profit prison housing ICE detainees, only to be met with violence.

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No Time to Fail

Once invisible to the general public, election administrators are at the center of an ongoing public debate about the integrity of our democracy. NO TIME…

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Not On This Night

A chance meeting between enemy soldiers in the small farmhouse of Jacqueline Broulet. It is Christmas Eve 1944. As the Battle of the Bulge rages…

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NQR

On a late night subway ride, a struggling comedian faces her doubts.

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Of Medicine and Miracles

OF MEDICINE AND MIRACLES follows Dr. Carl June as he attempts to find a cure for cancer utilizing the HIV virus. All of June’s research…

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Only in Theaters

Laemmle Theatres, the beloved 84-year-old arthouse cinema chain in Los Angeles with ties to the origins of Hollywood, is facing seismic change and downward pressure.…

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Out With It

The Stanley family is gathering together at the request of the middle child, and only son, Teddy. Teddy, the confident and reliable law student has…

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Outta the Muck

Family, football and history come to life in an intimate portrait of the Dean family, longtime residents of the historic town of Pahokee, Florida. We…

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Pam’s Kitchen

A celebrated Trinidadian restaurant owner in Seattle battles mounting anxiety, racial tension, and financial insolvency to try and keep her community-oriented restaurant alive during Covid’s…

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PASSAGE

In 1900 West Africa, Gamba, a village leader, confronts a new challenge that endangers his family and village.

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Passage

Karl Krüger confronts generational trauma and a 1900 mile expedition through the Northwest Passage on a Stand Up Paddle Board.

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Penny

A female chef attempting to make a romantic connection fights dark impulses as memories of her mentally ill mother bleed into current day life.

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Petunia

An innocent couple takes a tour of their first house.

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The Pez Outlaw

In the 1990s Pez dispensers were worth more, gram for gram, than cocaine or even gold. Steve Glew, from rural Michigan, spent 10 years smuggling…

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Private

A down and out Detroit private eye confronts his past and the class system in this up close and personal drama. A stark look at…

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Proof Of Loss

After a wildfire takes their home, a father and daughter must find their way back to what remains: each other.

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Queens of the Qing Dynasty

In a remote small town, Star, a neurodiverse teen, forms an unlikely rapport with An, an international student from Shanghai volunteering at the hospital. Between…

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The Quiet Epidemic

After years of living with mysterious symptoms, a young girl from Brooklyn and a Duke University scientist are diagnosed with a disease said to not…

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Quiet Minds Silent Streets

A community plagued by gun violence turns to an unlikely solution: mindfulness and meditation.

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R.M.N.

When Matthias returns to his native multi-ethnic mountain village in Transylvania, he finds his son and the village under the shadow of a strange irrational…

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RANSACK

After a half baked home invasion goes awry, three teenagers struggle to reconcile their need for love and for painkillers.

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Rear View

A driver for a mysterious ride-share app forms a tender connection with a new passenger, which could break the balance between life and death if…

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Rearranging Skin: A Love Letter to the World

Divya Anantharaman, a visionary, Brooklyn-based taxidermist and queer woman of color, is transforming a once bloody and violent practice into a beautiful, ecological, and humane…

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Recorded Live! The Great American Family Jukebox Cabaret

Written by and starring Elle Shaheen, this production is a tribute and testimonial to the legacy of family. This televised special features Elle’s grandfather, Billy…

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Rips

A 9-year-old girl tags along with her mother to clean a big house, where she discovers that her favorite sweatshirt is a hand-me-down.

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Routine Interrupted

ROUTINE INTERRUPTED tells the story of Stephanie Lay, a single mother who died suddenly, February 14, 2020. Stephanie left behind her beloved son, Bryce, who…

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Scabs

A skin picker and his girlfriend dance around his compulsive behavior, which threatens to tear their relationship apart.

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Shut Up And Paint

Painter Titus Kaphar looks to film as a medium in the face of an insatiable art market seeking to silence his activism.

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The Silent Whistle

19-year-old girl Ming is a loner who works the night shift at a convenience store. One day near the spring festival, her neighbor Rui invites…

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Silver Lake Cleaners

A young Korean-American woman has an encounter that forces her to wrestle with the decision to leave her family and hometown behind.

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Sirens

True to their name, Slave to Sirens—the first and only all-woman thrash metal band in the Middle East—are utterly magnetic. Amid a backdrop of political…

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Smoke Eater

In 1981, a young girl spends a day at the fire station with her mother, the only female firefighter on the force, and witnesses what…

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Sold!

When Tiffany, a young, enterprising real estate broker attempts to sell an old New England house with a dark past, her attempts are thwarted by…

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Stitch Breathe Speak: The George Floyd Quilts

After witnessing George Floyd's murder on a cellphone video, individuals from a small New Hampshire church want to take action. With the help of their…

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Strange Beasts

STRANGE BEASTS is a look at the meteoric rise and fall of the Bacchus Marsh Lion Safari, as told through the eyes of Ron Prendergast.…

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Strawberry Shake

A troubled young mother tries to win back her two kids with a pet rabbit and pink dessert.

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Tea Time

While having a tea party, a little girl loses her temper and things get bloody.

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Tell Me Something I Don’t Know

On his 25th birthday, Cary brings his friends to the desert and requests one gift: for them to list everything they hate about him. A…

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Ten & Two

TEN & TWO is a short film about a Black mother and son on a driving lesson that quickly turns into a survival lesson on…

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This Fog

THIS FOG is a lyrical short film shot on the harbor islands of New Hampshire’s seacoast that attempts to capture our strange and lonely, sometimes…

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This Happy Moment

A man finds peace and says goodbye.

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Threads of Desire

A farmer's monotonous life in the Italian countryside is unsettled after she steals an elegant dress.

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Time & Temperature

With 700 years of tradition to his family's name, Venetian glass Maestro Gianni Toso offers wisdom on life, learning, and passing the torch to the…

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Troy

Troy has loud sex 24-7. Troy shares a wall with Thea and Charlie. Troy is ruining their lives... or is he saving them? A darkly…

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Tuesday Afternoon

After 33 years in federal prison, 22 of which spent in extreme solitary confinement, Jack Powers embarks into a modern world, journeying across the Northeast…

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Unidentified Objects

Peter is a misanthropic dwarf hiding from the world. But an unexpected visit from his possibly unhinged neighbor Winona forces him out of his shell…

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Vertical Freedom

Documentary that follows the lives of 6 tower climbers. They live their lives to the fullest every day. They climb every day not only for…

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The Voice Actress

Kingyo, a veteran voice actress working in Tokyo, possesses a unique ability to see the soul in all things. The voice acting world is changing…

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Waiting Period

24 hours. 3 women seeking abortions. 1 manipulative counselor. WAITING PERIOD is a foreboding psychological drama about the mind games, coercion and cruel imagery anti-choice…

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Walker

The documentary starts off by introducing Derrick Walker, a basketball player for the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Derrick is a competitive athlete who wants…

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Way Out Ahead of Us

A man keeps his terminal illness a secret from his daughter so he doesn’t spoil her plans to move to the city. The actor who…

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We Are Here

What is it like to walk this land in the shoes of an immigrant under 30? Reflections of young adults who immigrated to the United…

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Wet House

WET HOUSE explores the lives of men with chronic alcoholism who live at the Glenwood Residence—the largest wet house in the United States. This film…

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When the LAPD Blows Up Your Neighborhood

Tensions rise on a busy street as news organizations and local residents witness an extremely volatile situation turn into a literal powder keg.

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Where Land Ends

On a mile-by-two-mile island off the coast of Massachusetts, the last student at the last one room school house in Massachusetts is graduating and, with…

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Whitman Brook

Whitman Brook Orchard is an oasis which stands ready to receive, unfolding its lessons season by season. This film is about the pacing of life…

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Wild Magnolias

Mentor and barber Bo Dollis Jr. teaches his proteges, Corey, JaCorey, and Alvon, the virtues of a subculture in New Orleans that instills pride and…

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Wuss

Nine-year-old tomboy Xiaoyu always wants to hang out with a group of boys in her neighborhood, but when her chance would be at the cost…

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You Go Girl!

Audrey, a New York City comedian who can make a joke of any situation, faces a staggering challenge in the beautiful mountains of Oregon. Can…

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