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The Girls of Summer

2020

The Girls of Summer

2020
3
After her two younger sisters leave home, Maren, a Midwest sod farmer by day, and a drummer by night, is left alone to take care of her depressed, narcotic-abusing father. Eventually recognizing her unhappiness, Maren's father insists she pursue her dreams of becoming an Americana musician.
Terminally Ill

2024

Terminally Ill

2024
When a rapper is summoned to his grandmother’s deathbed, he engages in a madcap freestyle in an attempt to prevent her from dying.
At the Other End

2009

At the Other End

2009
Marianne works for a crisis line night after night; no one is able to help all the lonesome people at the other end of the line no matter how hard she tries. But tonight she will have to face her own problems ...
Sold

2019

Sold

2019
A film about friendship and the occasional loneliness.
Threatened

2014

Threatened

2014
Deep in Brazil, where law and justice require first and last name, the struggle for a piece of land becomes a matter of life or death. "Threatened" shows peasants in the South and Southeast of Pará, who have to fight for a piece of land for farming and living.
American Street Kid

2018

American Street Kid

2018
Filmmaker, Michael Leoni heads to the streets of LA to shine a light on the epidemic of homeless youth in America. Once inside their world he realizes he can no longer be an observer; every day is a matter of life or death and he'll do anything to get them off the streets.
Shootout at Wadala

2013

Shootout at Wadala

2013
5.4
The first-ever registered encounter by the Mumbai Police, which took place on November 1, 1982.
Trumpets in the Sky

2021

Trumpets in the Sky

2021
6
Boushra, one of the potato-picking girls, returns from a long day of work in the field only to learn that today her childhood will come to an end.
Camille Claudel 1915

2013

Camille Claudel 1915

2013
6
Winter, 1915. Confined by her family to an asylum in the South of France - where she will never sculpt again - the chronicle of Camille Claudel's reclusive life, as she waits for a visit from her brother, Paul Claudel.
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

2024

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

2024
Jurassic Punk

2021

Jurassic Punk

2021
In 1976, punk rocker Danny Brooklyn was kicked out of his own band. 45 years later, he's crashing the reunion.
Merry Monday

2022

Merry Monday

2022
2
Masha and Ilya live in a remote area of the Moscow region and want to spend their long-awaited weekend in peace. But one impulsive act changes their plans.
This Time Tomorrow

2016

This Time Tomorrow

2016
6.1
Bright and beautiful, 17-year-old Adelaida enjoys a comfortable family life with her parents in an apartment in Bogotá. But soon the cracks begin to show through the veneer of this picture perfect family.
The Return

2011

The Return

2011
5.9
After a decade abroad, Antonio returns to Costa Rica for a short visit. Unable to run away as usual, he is confronted with everything he has desperately struggled to put in the past: a broken family, an ailing father, a violent country and long lost friends.
Masai and the Rain Warriors

2004

Masai and the Rain Warriors

2004
7.3
After a lion kills the village leader, the expected rains fail to arrive, so a group of warriors are sent to hunt the lion down and kill it in hopes that the rains will come at last.
Pygmalion

2024

Pygmalion

2024
7.2
A friendship between two high-school girls gets progressively more emotionally abusive and co-dependent, until one of them is forced to face the way we let other people cast us in unwanted roles.
Be Still And Know

2019

Be Still And Know

2019
7.1
19-year old CJ, has lost touch with her childhood friend, Sophia, ever since she left small-town Willow Springs for college the year prior. Realizing how much they've grown apart, Sophia insists that CJ spends fall break at her grandfather's cabin, where they used to spend summers together. Reluctant, CJ gathers her new group of friends to join her for a fall escape they won't soon forget. Jocelyn and Amber, city girls at heart, embrace the wooded retreat but their excitement quickly turns to dread when they discover a vagabond living in a run-down trailer on the property.
The Other World

2001

The Other World

2001
3.4
Yasmine and Rachid, two young Parisians children of Algerian immigrants, are in love and live a quiet life in France. One day, Rachid disappears and Yasmine learns that he is in Algeria. She decides to follow him, in that country that she does not know, that is filled with violence. As she travels looking for Rachid, she falls deeper into the horror of a country where nothing seems normal, another world, where death is ever present.
Santa & Andres

2016

Santa & Andres

2016
6
Santa, a peasant woman loyal to the Revolution, is sent to guard Andrés, a gay writer who is under house arrest, considered “ untrustworthy” for his ideas and sexuality by the Cuban authorities. Set in a small village in eastern Cuba during the early 1980s, this poignant political drama depicts an encounter between two deeply thoughtful souls on opposite sides of a profound cultural divide. Both have experienced deep loss, and both know the damaging effects of isolation and oppression. Even so, the cavernous ideological divide separating them — the same one that has separated Cuban friends and kin for over 50 years — has until now seemed insurmountable.
The Bloody Child

1996

The Bloody Child

1996
5
This film was inspired by a real event—a young US Marine, recently back from the Gulf War, was found digging a grave for his murdered wife in the middle of the California Mojave.