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The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.

At the lowest point of his life, Richie gets a call from his estranged sister asking him to look after his nine-year old niece, Sophia, for a few hours.

Tom and Mae Garvey are a Tennessee farming couple battling violent floods to save their land. In addition to natural disasters, the Garveys fight to stop a selfish land developer and a local corporation from foreclosing on their farm. While Mae stays at home to care for their children and tend to the crops, Tom finds work as a scab at a steel mill to preserve his family's property.

A lonely typographer with a cruel speech impediment but an eloquent inner voice must face his greatest fear.

An animated short based on Hans Christian Andersen's tale about a poor young girl with a burning desire to find comfort and happiness in her life. Desperate to keep warm, the girl lights the matches she sells, and envisions a very different life for herself in the fiery flames filled with images of loving relatives, bountiful food, and a place to call home.

The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.

A jaded mother makes a last-ditch effort to keep her family together by taking them on a trip to their teenage daughter’s pole dancing competition.

Vincent, an artist with unresolved inner demons, meets a mysterious girl who helps him come to terms with his creative legacy… and eventual death.

Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.

After a failed bank robbery, two heavily armed men hold the Los Angeles Police Department at bay for 44 minutes.

A noir thriller set in Miami, the film follows an enforcer who discovers his femme fatale boss has branched out into cyber sex trafficking, putting a young runaway he’s befriended at risk. He sacrifices everything to save the young girl from the deadly organization he’s spent his life building.

Two separate stories mesh - in the first, a young music teacher, Maggie Andrews, begins dying of a heart condition and her son Nathan tries to get a pair of Christmas shoes for her before she dies. In the second, lawyer Robert Layton and his wife Kate are slowly drifting apart and the matter comes to a head during Christmas when Kate takes over for Maggie for the school choir.

The story of a middle-aged woman with small children whose life is shaken up when two free-spirited twenty-somethings move in across the street.

94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.

A teenager faces an uphill battle when she fights to give women the opportunity to play competitive soccer.

In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.

A nightmarish evening unfolds for neighbors David and Robert when they accidentally hit a woman on her bike and flee the scene. While David is increasingly plagued by feelings of guilt, Robert shows no remorse and becomes overbearing and possessive.

The story of the legendary steel-driving folk hero born with a hammer in his hands, who pitted his strength against a mighty railroad-building machine.

Two kids, Dylan and Kylie, run away from home on Christmas Day and spend a night of magic and terror on the streets of inner-city Dublin.

A poetic and powerful story of a father forced to choose between love and duty.

In a fancy restaurant, Ben plans to propose to his long time girlfriend only to find out that his ring was mistakenly sent to the wrong table.

Thomas, 12 years-old, and his brother Arne, 8 years-old, come back from a walk in forest. They've got blood on their clothes.

Caught between the traditions of his upbringing in rural Indonesia and his idealization of Western freedom, a teenager struggles with the expectations of imminent manhood.

Pedro gets home at dawn. Before the young boy falls asleep, his lonely mother drags him to the beach.

This film unites the themes of war, religion and LGBTQ issues by wrapping them in the values and emotions of one complex family.

A surrealist perspective on self harm and the want for death.

During what seems like an ordinary day at work, a young woman’s life takes an unexpected turn when she receives a mysterious phone call from someone she once loved, reaching out from beyond the grave. What begins as a shocking intrusion soon becomes a deeply emotional encounter, forcing her to confront unfinished feelings, buried memories, and the fragile line between love and loss.

An agoraphobic man traps himself in an astronaut costume to avoid the disastrous consequences of his condition

Having slept together for the first time, two teenage boys must make sense of their evolving relationship.

James, a jaded cinephile, walks into a bar and finds himself in an unexpected conversation about life and cinema with a filmmaker, Riggan and Samuel, a bartender who makes him that one, fateful drink that reminds him of the sweet memories of cinema.

Expectations run high as Alicia and John get their first child-free weekend in ages.

Nicolas, a young man in his mid 20s, struggles to decide whether or not to go to the wedding of his best friend from high school, Aaron, who he's always been quietly in love with. The two had a falling out years earlier after Nicolas inexplicably kissed Aaron's girlfriend. Nicolas clings to an idealized image of his former friend, unconsciously sabotaging his own happiness in the process. The film is a realistic slice-of-life that poses the question "How do you get over something you never had?"

A young man struggles with the boundaries of friendship when he finds himself in an intimate situation

A coming-of-age story about Jack, a 16-year old Iranian boy growing up in 1989 Los Angeles. With the 1979 Iranian Revolution a distant memory, the AIDS movement as a backdrop, and a haunting score by Vampire Weekend's Rostam Batmanglij, Jack learns how to stage his own much smaller revolution within the confines of his traditional family.

The story or two men who fall in love and move in together.

Balthazar and siblings Christian and Lyla have been friends since childhood. As the trio struggles with coming of age in a rural, conservative Canadian town, they must confront escalating desires for one another that threaten to destroy their delicate bond.

Brian Leonard is a millionaire whose sole occupation is the amassing of wealth. He is cold, hard, and the element of love has been almost extinguished. In this environment, his motherless, loveless daughter, Bona, grew up to womanhood.

We are going to make them live our islands, here and now, without waiting, by fighting together, and it will be possible to live our utopias there, individual and collective.

A movie musical about eating disorder recovery and overcoming perceptions of perfection. It follows the first couple of weeks of college for Gracie, a young woman who has (mostly) recovered from an eating disorder. As she attempts to forge a new identity on campus, her new surroundings and the challenges associated with her transition to college life cause the recovery to teeter. With the help of Isa, a drop-dead gorgeous sophomore beauty queen, Gracie ultimately discovers that recovery is not linear, but rather, takes several twists and turns along the way.