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- DirectorMarc MarriottStarsArata IuraLiliana AntunesMasashi ArifukuA Japanese businessman goes on an unwitting journey of self-discovery when he takes a company trip from Tokyo to a Montana cattle ranch.
- DirectorNicki MicheauxStarsKasey InezJahking GuilloryDamon GuptonIt tells the story of Naomi, who turns down law school to pursue poetry. She struggles to survive in 1993 Denver, after being cut off during a period of violent crime in the city known as the Summer of Violence.
- DirectorCamille HardmanGary LaneStarsAllison JanneyJane FondaRita MorenoWhen #1 comedy, 9 to 5, starring Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton, Dabney Coleman and Lily Tomlin, exploded on the screens in 1980, the laughs hid a serious message about women in the office. Still Working 9 to 5 explores 40 years of inequality.
- DirectorBradford ThomasonBrett WhitcombStarsLeVar BurtonAlisa ReyesDean ParisotChronicles the journeys of broadcasters, educators and filmmakers who believed television could inspire a lifelong love of reading.
- DirectorNikki MejiaStarsAshlee BrianKelvin BryanTroy Curvey IIIVeteran Gio Scuderi receives a package that sends him on a road trip to fulfill a promise and decide his fate.
- DirectorMachete Bang BangErin GranatStarsDebra WilsonRichard RiehleGayle RankinJimmy throws himself a fabulous FUNeral before his curated death, proving the art of living is the art of dying. A comedy with a star-studded cast and the debut feature from female filmmakers KnifeRock. Score by The Dream Team (Coldplay).
- DirectorNicholas BruckmanStarsAdy BarkanCory BookerTracey CorderAdy Barkan's life is upended when he is diagnosed with ALS, but a confrontation with a powerful senator catapults him to national fame and ignites a once-in-a-generation political movement.
- DirectorAlex ThompsonStarsKelly O'SullivanRamona Edith WilliamsCharin AlvarezAfter an accidental pregnancy turned abortion, a deadbeat nanny finds an unlikely friendship with the six-year old she's charged with protecting.
- DirectorRichard WongStarsGrant RosenmeyerHayden SzetoRavi PatelThree young men with disabilities hit the road with a jaded nurse driver to a brothel in Montreal catering to people with special needs. Remake of the acclaimed Belgian film 'Hasta La Vista'.
- DirectorMorgan CappsJilann SpitzmillerStarsGeorge R.R. MartinVince KadlubekEmily MontoyaA group of artists in Santa Fe, NM become a DIY collective called Meow Wolf. Their immersive, large-scale exhibitions crack open a profitable niche in the arts industry, even as their social mission is challenged by the demands of rapid success. The group's members navigate fracture and loss for years in pursuit of their idealistic vision. When they spark the interest of George R. R. Martin and receive his support to take over an old bowling alley, Meow Wolf builds a massive exhibition with over 140 artists working at a breakneck pace. With the wild success of the House of Eternal Return, Meow Wolf now faces its own internal turmoil as it begins to change the lives of creatives everywhere.
- DirectorRachel DretzinJamila EphronStarsAmy AllnuttJack AllnuttHarry BurdickBased on the NY Times bestselling book by Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree examines the experiences of families in which parents and children are profoundly different from one another in a variety of ways.
- DirectorKore-eda HirokazuStarsLily FrankySakura AndôKirin KikiOn the margins of Tokyo, a dysfunctional band of outsiders are united by loyalty, a penchant for petty theft and playful grifting. When the young son is arrested, secrets are exposed that upend their tenuous, below-the-radar existence.
- DirectorPablo SolarzStarsMiguel Ángel SoláÁngela MolinaOlga BoladzAbraham Bursztein, an 88 year-old Jewish tailor, runs away from Buenos Aires to Poland, where he proposes to find a friend who saved him from certain death at the end of World War II. After seven decades without any contact with him, Abraham will try to find his old friend and keep his promise to return one day.
- DirectorMani HaghighiStarsMohammad Hassan MadjooniLeila HatamiLeili RashidiIranian directors are getting slaughtered by an unknown serial killer and a blacklisted director, Hasan Kasmai, is curious about only one thing: Why isn't the killer after him?
- DirectorPeter BrattStarsDolores HuertaMartin Luther KingLuis ValdezIn the 1950's, a working-class wife and mother of eleven children helps to establish a farmer's union, which later develops into a platform for feminism and gender equality.
- DirectorMadeleine GavinStarsChristine Schuler-DeschryverDenis Mukwege MukengereEve EnslerThis film follows the first class of students at a remarkable leadership center in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a region often referred to as "the worst place in the world to be a woman." These women have been through unspeakable violence spurred on by a 20 year war driven by colonialism and greed. In the film, they band together with the three founders of this center: Dr. Denis Mukwege (2016 Nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize), radical playwright and activist Eve Ensler ("The Vagina Monolgoues") and human rights activist, Christine Schuler-Deschryver, to find a way to create meaning in their lives even when all that was meaningful to them has long been stripped away. In this ultimately uplifting film, we witness the tremendous resilience as these women transform their devastation into powerful forms of leadership for their beloved country.
- DirectorBill WattersonStarsMeera Rohit KumbhaniNick ThuneAdam BuschDave, an artist who has yet to complete anything significant in his career, builds a fort in his living room out of pure frustration, only to wind up trapped by the fantastical pitfalls, booby traps, and critters of his own creation.
- DirectorChristopher J. HansenStarsCora Vander BroekMatthew BrumlowRyan ArtzbergerA feature film about a woman grieving the loss of her son after he disappeared two years ago - until a mysterious man with a camera enters her life.
- DirectorQuentin KrogStarsSimoné PretoriusFrancois JacobsLara KinnearDuring the South African 70's, a young nurse ruffles feathers as she shows a small town, and its golden boy, what it means to be an independent woman.
- DirectorMax LewkowiczStarsLynsey AddarioJames EstrinMike ForsterAn HBO Documentary Film. Tony Vaccaro, a WWII infantryman, smuggled his $47.00 portable camera into battle to create one of the most comprehensive and intimate records of the war.
- DirectorHannes HolmStarsRolf LassgårdBahar ParsFilip BergOve, an ill-tempered, isolated retiree who spends his days enforcing block association rules and visiting his wife's grave, has finally given up on life just as an unlikely friendship develops with his boisterous new neighbors.
- DirectorTom E. BrownStarsJames Roday RodriguezRobin WeigertDanny GloverWhen a struggling writer, HIV positive for 20+ years, accidentally deposits a $100 birthday check, he is dropped from his health plan for earning too much. In this new era of sort-of universal care, can he take on a helpless bureaucracy or come up with $3000 a month to buy meds on his own?
- DirectorJaco Van DormaelStarsPili GroyneBenoît PoelvoordeCatherine DeneuveDid you know that God is alive and lives in Brussels with his daughter?
- DirectorDorie BartonStarsKatee SackhoffJade PettyjohnJeremy SistoBird, 12, has to become a woman whether she wants to or not when - in the worst week of her life - she gets her first period, is ditched by her impulsive, free spirited mom, and learns that you can never really go back to The Valley.
- DirectorJeff GraceStarsAlex KarpovskyWyatt RussellMeredith HagnerA successful singer-songwriter hatches a plan to help his friend's struggling comedy career and broken love life by hiring him as his opening act on his solo tour.
- DirectorPhillip BaribeauStarsBen MastersJonny FitzsimonsThomas GloverUnbranded follows four men and sixteen mustangs on an epic 3,000-mile journey from Mexico to Canada through the American West to inspire adoptions for the 50,000 wild horses and burros in government captivity.
- DirectorGeeta Vasant PatelRavi PatelStarsRavi PatelGeeta Vasant PatelChampa V. PatelAn Indian-American man who is about to turn 30 gets help from his parents and extended family to start looking for a wife in the traditional Indian way.
- DirectorFrank FerendoJordan Matthew HorowitzThe story of Chen Si, a man who patrols the Yangtze River Bridge in China saving people who try to commit suicide.
- DirectorAaron NeeAdam NeeStarsKyle GallnerAdam NeeMatthew Gray GublerTom Sawyer and Huck Finn are grown men, still searching for the hidden treasure that has eluded them since childhood.
- DirectorSteve JamesStarsRoger EbertChaz EbertGene SiskelThe life and career of the renowned film critic and social commentator, Roger Ebert.