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  L.I.R.R.

  1. A film by Nina Chernik
  4. run time 20 minutes

  A tale of two polar opposites who mystically provide the balm for each other's souls.  (more)

  
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  Clean

  1. A film by Nina Chernik
  4. run time 13 minutes 33 seconds

  An urban love story about finding oneself by losing one's heart.  (more)

  
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  Maine Story

  1. A film by Nina Chernik
  4. run time 24 minutes

  When her high school sweetheart unexpectedly returns to town, Shelly is forced to confront the things in her life that she's been avoiding, including Kyle, her 12-year-old son.  (more)

  
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  The Adventure

  1. A film by Mike Brune
  4. run time 22 minutes

  A vacationing couple has an eerie encounter on a secluded forest road.  (more)

  
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  The Skyjacker

  1. A film by Jeff Pickett
  2. Warsaw International Film Festival
  3. October 10 - 19, 2008
  4. run time 71 minutes

  In the Northwest of the 1970's, a down and almost out loner comes up with an escape plan from his life — to hijack an airplane and demand a ransom. Cigarettes and bourbon fuel his resolve to pull off the dangerous gambit, which he undertakes with steely-eyed determination. If he can resist the charms of the flight's lovely young stewardess, he just might get away with it.  (more)

  
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  Next to Babilonia

  1. A film by Sebastian Mantilla
  4. run time 75 minutes

  Iraq, 2004. Following the last day of the Spanish military retreat, more mercenaries hired by private corporations arrive, taking the place of the soldiers. Ishtar, a Spanish soldier, gets trapped in an ambush. Far from home, she will have to fight a new war where she will meet Abdel, a taxi driver who will take her to her destination.  (more)

  
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  Vanaja

  1. A film by Rajnesh Domalpalli
  4. run time 112 minutes

  Set in rural South India, a place where social barriers are built stronger than fort walls, VANAJA explores the chasm that divides classes as a young girl struggles to come of age. Vanaja (Mamatha Bhukya) is the 14 year-old daughter of a poor, low caste fisherman, struggling with dwindling catches and mounting debt. When a sooth-sayer predicts that she will be a great dancer one day, she goes to...  (more)

  
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  Passage

  1. A film by Angela How
  4. run time 20 minutes 56 seconds

  A chance encounter between two strangers pushes both to come to terms with past decisions made.  (more)

  
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  Road To Victory

  1. A film by Jonathon Kitchen
  4. run time 99 minutes 39 seconds

  An injured college athlete, Elliot (Mike Reilly), falls for a stripper, Anna (Julia Ander- son), but is unable to perform sexually. The relationship oscillates between tender and cruel; issues of infidelity, along with doubts about his ability to father children arise, as his on-field performance begins to decline, putting his draft status at stake.With tension mounting between the couple, Elliot...  (more)

  
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  Ebb

  1. A film by Marco Schurmann
  2. Hamburg International Short Film Festival
  3. June 01 - 08, 2008
  4. run time 9 minutes 34 seconds

  A poetical narrative in past and present. A man embark on a journey to retrieve the love of his life.A dishevelled fisherman plods through the dunes, lugging a heavy cart with a wooden boat on it. Finally at the beach, the lure of the sea is strong but first the boat needs repairs.Quickly and decidedly, the fisherman starts to work. He tinkers all night, lit by a little fire. In the morning fog,...  (more)

  
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  In the Name of the Son (U Ime Sina)

  1. A film by Harun Mehmedinovic
  4. run time 25 minutes

  After escaping execution, Tarik, a Bosnian prisoner of war, immigrates to the United States looking to leave his past behind. Years later, the man who spared his life shows up on Tarik’s doorstep asking for a favor.  (more)

  
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  Bacchus

  1. A film by Laurent Fabre
  4. run time 50 minutes

  At the occasion of his tenth birthday, Laurent receives a painting set. But he is overall absorbed into a mysterious painting. So begins an incredible trip during which he must overcome his fear.  (more)

  
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  Father Figure

  1. A film by Adam Schlachter
  4. run time 6 minutes

  2006 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury and Audience Award Winner Quinceanera's lead actor Jesse Garcia stars in the story of a young man forced to deal with the long forgotten past. Jesse (Jesse Garcia), a hardened young man serving as a surrogate parent to his younger brother, Andy (Andrew Aguilar), encounters a stranger, Alex (Alex Castillo), on a desolate beach. When Alex, a clean-cut older...  (more)

  
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  Bahar

  1. A film by Farzaneh Farshad
  4. run time 16 minutes

  Bahar owns a cafe and lives with her father who suffers from memories of war and his past as a war photographer. After his wife left him some time ago, she's back asking Bahar to leave there with her.  (more)

  
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  Puppets (木頭人)

  1. A film by Chunyang Lin
  4. run time 28 minutes

  Wei-Lun Yang was a senior in high school in Taipei city. He spent most of his time at school, the cram school, his home or on the way between two of any abovementioned destinations. The only time for him to catch his breath was the break in an internet café when he had free time between school and the cram school. He was not serious about his tests, and not thinking much about his future.Yang...  (more)

  
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  Nobody's Shalom

  1. A film by Jullian Dulce Vida
  4. run time 19 minutes 16 seconds

  An Arabic Muslim motel owner gets into a game of cat and rat with his wife and two nephews when he saves the life of an Orthodox Jewish man who's been violently beaten in a hate crime robbery by hiding him in one of the rooms the motel he owns.  (more)

  
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  In The Name of God (Khuda Kay Liye)

  1. A film by Shoaib Mansoor
  4. run time 150 minutes

  Khuda Kay Liye (Urdu: خدا کے لیے, English translation: In the name of God The film is about the difficult situation in which Pakistanis in particular and the Muslims in general are caught up since 9/11. There is a war going on between the fundamentalists and the liberal Muslims. The situation is creating a drift not only between the Western world and the Muslims but also within the Muslim...  (more)

  
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  Friend wanted (Procura-se amigo)

  1. A film by Vitor Moreira
  4. run time 20 minutes

  Do we still make friends after thirty?  (more)

  
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  Absolution (Absolution)

  1. A film by Moritz Grenzebach
  4. run time 15 minutes

  Thomas calls a Christian helpline and confesses to the counsellor Susanne that he has killed his wife, who was suffering from cancer. Yet she does not suspect the true intensions behind Thomas' call.  (more)

  
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  Overnight, a Rose

  1. A film by Viv Koh
  4. run time 17 minutes

  Overnight, a Rose is a touching drama that shows how love overcomes lies. This is a story about Xiao Mei (14) and her grandmother (48) whose relationship is based on lies. The story takes place in a small town in Taiwan, in the present. Mei is a rebellious and sullen teenager. Her name means Rose in Chinese. Her mother was a single parent who loved roses and named her daughter after her favorite...  (more)

  
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  the fish (le poisson)

  1. A film by Lionel Rupp
  4. run time 6 minutes

  A man is reading the newspaper while he's eating a piece of meat. Then the tragedy happens- he can’t breathe anymore. That’s the story of the battle for his survey between imagination and suffocant reality.  (more)

  
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  The Grain (O Grão)

  1. A film by Petrus Cariry
  4. run time 88 minutes

  The old lady, Perpétua, feeling the presence of death, decides to prepare Zeca, her dear grandson, for their impending separation, telling him the story of a king and queen, very rich and powerful, who lost their only son and who sought to bring him back to life. While Perpétua tells the story, Damião and Josefa work to keep the family and prepare for the wedding of their daughter Fátima. In...  (more)

  
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  Tomorrow Morning

  1. A film by Oleg Novkovic
  4. run time 85 minutes

  The film TOMOROW MORNING is a story about love and friendship After twelve years spent abroad, the main character returns to his native city, where he meets his old love, friends and parents again They spend four days together and after that nothing will be the same in their lives. TOMORROW MORNING is a love drama. It speaks of a deep passion, sensuality, tenderness, jealousy, possessiveness ,...  (more)

  
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  Nina's Journey (Ninas resa)

  1. A film by Lena Einhorn
  4. run time 125 minutes

  The story of Nina could have ended in Warsaw’s crowded ghetto or in Auschwitz, but it didn’t. Instead, the journey took her to Sweden. Nina’s own daughter tells this naked and spell-binding story with its unlikely happy end.  (more)

  
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  Almost Adult (Almost Adult)

  1. A film by Yousaf Ali Khan
  4. run time 84 minutes

  ALMOST ADULT is the story of two teenage girls who come from different countries and speak different languages but still become each other’s family. The two girls meet up at a bus station in Birmingham, England, where Mamie, the elder of the two, takes Shiku under her wing. In doing so, she resolves to be the younger girl’s ‘big sister.’ The girls spend their first few days together...  (more)

  
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  Sunny

  1. A film by Thorsten Wettcke
  4. run time 94 minutes

  Rastatt. A cosy small town in Germany. Back in the 90s Sunny, Ulf and Boris grew up here. Once the three of them were inseparable – until love and jealousy came across and a decision had to be made. Sunny chose Ulf. And Boris was never seen again... Ten years later. The couple still lives in their nice little hometown. But two weeks before their wedding, Boris suddenly returns. The old friend...  (more)

  
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  Things We Do When We Fall In Love (Dang Wo Men Tong Zai Yi Qi)

  1. A film by James Lee
  4. run time 89 minutes

  The movie follows two unfortunate secret lovers who are constantly looking for a solution to their situation. Both of them are always arguing over their relationship. One day they went to a trip out of the city, into the outskirt. They hope they can solve their problems or at least escape them temporarily. They don’t have a solution, and they don’t understand why they are together. One thing...  (more)

  
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  Love Conquers All (Mo Shi Mo Wang)

  1. A film by Tan Chui Mui
  4. run time 90 minutes

  "You don't have a choice. Unless you jumped." John said. She opened the car door, looked out, hesitated. Jumping is too painful. And it is dark ahead and it is dark behind. So she closed the door. And then it is too late to jump anyway.  (more)

  
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  Before We Fall In Love Again (Nian Ni Ru Xi)

  1. A film by James Lee
  4. run time 99 minutes

  It has been a month Chang's wife Ling Yue has been missing. With no reasons one fine day she went to work as usual and then never returns. No one knows where she went or what had happened to her. Chang could not figure out why she disappears out of the sudden. She left no message of whatever kind or clues. One day a man named Tong shows up and claims to be Ling Yue’s lover. Apparently Tong is...  (more)

  
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  The Death of Michael Smith

  1. A film by Daniel Casey
  4. run time 88 minutes 23 seconds

  Set in the shadows of a harsh Detroit winter, “THE DEATH OF MICHAEL SMITH” follows the intertwining lives and fates of three men with the same name; inextricably linked by an unexplained murder.  (more)

  
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  Sistagod

  1. A film by Robert Yao Ramesar
  4. run time 72 minutes

  The first feature of a trilogy that tells the story of the coming of a black female messiah in the future, during a period known as the Apocalypso – a global holocaust that she alone survives. The main character, Mari, emerges on a Caribbean island, the child of a black West Indian woman and an American Marine sniper, wounded in the first Gulf War. When she is born a “throwblack” (i.e....  (more)

  
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  The 23rd Psalm

  1. A film by Christopher C. Odom
  4. run time 89 minutes

  Set amongst the urban decay and unfettered angst of Los Angeles, Police Detective John Smith battles alcoholism and cynicism. Going about his daily routine, initially John remains complacent over a seemingly ordinary prostitute murder. But when John’s intuition awakens, he experiences revealing visions about the victim and her murder. John must conquer his vices and overcome his skepticism...  (more)

  
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  The Pill

  1. A film by Michelle Goetsch
  4. run time 17 minutes

  Rachel Larson (Michelle Goetsch, Angel in Red) and her husband (Paul Hewitt, The Player) are surprised by a positive pregnancy test, while using the birth control pill. Although the baby cannot be found on the sonogram, there is an intimate bond between mother and child that is desperately maintained. When the discovery of Inderal (a pill used to erase traumatic memories) complicates matters,...  (more)

  
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  The Pink Diary of Lori Lamby

  1. A film by Sung Sfai
  4. run time 19 minutes

  Lori Lamby, a little girl of 8, annotates in her pink diary, her sexual fantasies with men who go to her house, apparently on invitation of her own mother. There are other conflicts at home with the crisis in professional identity that affects Lori’s father. Script based from the book of the same name by Hilda Hilst.  (more)

  
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  Transaction

  1. A film by Jacques Thelemaque
  4. run time 14 minutes

  'Transaction' is a frank and affecting cinema verite-style depiction of the interaction between a seasoned call girl and her first-time client that leaves the audience to determine their own feelings about that dynamic. The film also provides a subtle examination of point of view, shifting energies/control and the commodification of sex. ll girl and her first-time client that authentically...  (more)

  
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  The Cleansing Rites (Suddha)

  1. A film by Ramchandra PN
  4. run time 105 minutes

  A family in a remote village in South India realizes that it is in its last leg of feudal existence when it cannot perform a last rites in a scale in which it was once used to.  (more)

  
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  The Lives of Living Saints

  1. A film by Chris Cottam, Rankin Cottam
  4. run time 96 minutes

  The Lives of the Saints is a dark and bizarre morality tale whereby fantastical events take place in the ordinary surroundings of modern-day London. The story unfolds in Green lanes where life revolves around socialising, gambling and trying to scrape a modest living. The community is thrown into disarray by an otherworldly, sickly-looking ten year old child. Found in the local park, it seems...  (more)

  
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  Son Up

  1. A film by Andrew Shearer
  4. run time 23 minutes

  After months spent locked up at a juvenile hall, Shadd Johnson returns to his dead end, rural hometown where he struggles to find a new path and his own voice.  (more)

  
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  That Fall

  1. A film by Joe McClean
  4. run time 86 minutes

  When LAPD Officer Adam Wilson (Joseph Campo) returns home early and finds a stranger (Joe McClean) hovering over his dead daughter with blood on his hands, he goes ballistic and arrests the man on the spot. However after insufficient evidence gets this guy released, Wilson turns to alcohol for salvation, causing his wife to divorce him. Three years after her daughter's death Janet Wilson (Liza de...  (more)

  
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  Self- Medicated (Self- Medicated)

  1. A film by Monty Lapica
  4. run time 107 minutes

  A desperate mother hires a private company to kidnap her troubled son and take him to a locked-down and corrupt adolescent hospital.  (more)

  
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  Mother

  1. A film by Sian Heder
  4. run time 17 minutes

  Desperate to be rid of her toddler in order to have an affair, a dissatisfied Beverly Hills housewife hires a stranger to baby-sit and ends up getting much more than she bargained for.  (more)

  
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  Now You See Me, Now You Don't (Most latszom, most nem latszom)

  1. A film by Attila Szasz
  4. run time 30 minutes

  It seemed like an ordinary day. Dad is experimenting in the lab, Mom is at home boiling water, while their six-year-old son, Alex, is playing around her. But this day is different. This day Dad brings something home from the lab. And the next morning Alex becomes invisible. Is it possible that a father makes his own son disappear? Or is there any other explanation? An unthinkable one... An...  (more)

  
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  Keep Your Distance

  1. A film by Stu Pollard
  4. run time 95 minutes

  EVERYONE YOU TRUST HAS THE POWER TO BETRAY YOU In the perfectly normal town of Louisville, KY, there is a perfectly normal man living the perfect life. GIL BELLOWS stars as David Dailey – a man who has it all: A great career, a community that adores him, and an enduring marriage. But beneath the surface, David’s idyllic world is crumbling. He’s haunted by a series of mysterious notes that...  (more)

  
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  Following Bliss

  1. A film by Cleve Lamison
  4. run time 93 minutes

  Jack and Jenny Newman have conquered the American dream; a beautiful beach house, a sailboat, a baby on the way and he's getting a promotion at work. Their future couldn't be brighter. So when Jack opts to throw it all away to chase his rock and roll dreams, all hell break loose in the Newman home. As Jenny senses her secure domestic dream is threatened, this battle of the sexes quickly...  (more)

  
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  Fourth Grade- B (Quarta B)

  1. A film by Marcelo Galvão
  4. run time 90 minutes

  A primary school teacher, a principal, a janitor and 15 parents, all gathered in the same room to discuss a very taboo subject: What to do when drugs are found in your 10 year olds’ class. Accusations, intrigue and many revelations appear as each one of the parents tries to protect the integrity of their own family. One of the parents then proposes to transport themselves to the universe of...  (more)

  
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  Gie

  1. A film by Riri Riza
  4. run time 147 minutes

  Based on a true character. GIE is a central yet unknown political activist/writer in the 60˙s, the darkest era of Indonesian history. His life is a clash between a high drama of political events, and small world of friendship and romance. He is falling apart when he sees that his constant battle for justice and truth gives labor to another dictatorial regime. His uncompromised idealism drives...  (more)

  
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  Gimme Kudos

  1. A film by Huang Jianxin
  4. run time 100 minutes

  A superstar reporter at a Nanjing newspaper, Gu is a man who seems to have it all: a respectable job, a sizeable modern apartment, and a pretty police officer girlfriend. Little does he realize his whole universe is about to fall apart after his meeting with Yang, a country bumpkin who demands public kudos in his newspaper for saving a university coed from rape. Brushing him off at first, Gu...  (more)

  
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  Dalva

  1. A film by Caroline Leone
  4. run time 10 minutes

  Poetic view of a single mother’s daily life in the city of São Paulo, Brazil.  (more)

  
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  Do Not Erase

  1. A film by Asitha Ameresekere
  4. run time 29 minutes

  Annie sends video diaries to her 19 year-old son who is stationed in Iraq under the British Forces. The video soon becomes more than just a diary. Set against the backdrop of the current Iraqi conflict, the film explores its impact on an ordinary family in the north of England.  (more)

  
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  E.S.L English As A Second Language

  1. A film by Youssef Delara
  4. run time 107 minutes

  Bolivar de la Cruz, (Kuno Becker), has made the treacherous journey over the border from Mexico to Los Angeles, California, home of Lola Sara, (Danielle Camatra) a beautiful and restless club hopping 22 year old who is caught between appeasing her old world mother, Consuelo (Maria Conchita Alonso), or following her own dreams and passions. Bolivar, living the illegal immigrant's daily struggle,...  (more)

  
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  Eve of Understanding

  1. A film by Jen Prince, Alyson Shelton
  4. run time 93 minutes

  Donna can't seem to get her life together. Chain-smoking with a bad haircut, she feels it has all gone wrong. When Donna's mother, Eve, dies, all Donna inherits is a list of addresses and mementos to be delivered to the significant people of her mother's past. Each delivery closes a chapter in Eve's life, but they are ripping Donna's old wounds wide open: her absentee father, her Evangelical...  (more)

  
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  Bosta

  1. A film by Philippe Aractingi
  4. run time 112 minutes

  After 15 years of exile in France, Kamal returns to Beirut with his mind set on one goal: recreate the dance group he had formed with his school friends and whom he hasn’t seen since – but today, not only does he want to bring back this disparate group together, but also take the bold move of introducing a Western flavor to the traditional Dabkeh music. When the dancers audition before...  (more)

  
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  Bride of Silence (Hat Mua Roi Bao Lau)

  1. A film by Doan Minh Phuong, Doan Thanh Nghia
  4. run time 114 minutes

  In rural Vietnam 200 years ago, a young woman is tried for getting pregnant out of wedlock. When she refuses to speak, the village elders order that her baby set adrift on the river. Just as the baby is about to be sent to its fate, a fierce thunder storm breaks out and kills many people. The child survives, but the mother is jailed out of fear. Years later, the boy wanders through the...  (more)

  
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  A Cigar at the Beach

  1. A film by Stephen Keep Mills
  4. run time 15 minutes

  A man withdraws to an empty beach to smoke a cigar and fantasize. An approaching storm out across the water mirrors the storm inside him as his fantasies propel him to the very edge of himself and to a surprise yearning greater than flesh or adventure.  (more)

  
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  Amar

  1. A film by Esteban Crespo Garcia
  4. run time 12 minutes

  A young couple, passionately in love, in a mutual giving action, exchange their sexual identity.  (more)

  
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  Angel's Fall (Melegin Dususu)

  1. A film by Semih Kaplanoglu
  4. run time 98 minutes

  Every day, young Zeynep performs her duties as a chambermaid in an expensive city hotel. But she feels oddly disconnected - from her violent, unpredictable father, from the shy workmate who tries (awkwardly, ineptly) to date her, even from her former friends... until a chance encounter with a recently abandoned husband leads her to a sudden, shocking act of rebellion.  (more)

  
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  August Days (Dies D'Agost)

  1. A film by Marc Recha
  4. run time 92 minutes 56 seconds

  Confused after months of work searching for material to write about a time in history that a journalist had often spoken about, Marc calls his brother David and they set off on a short vacation. But Marc cannot switch off and David takes him further south, to a place where they have heard people come to from far a field in pursuit of a fish with cat-like whiskers. Without realizing, the two...  (more)

  

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