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  • The Girls of Meru

    Movie

    Over five years, acclaimed filmmaker Andrea Dorfman follows the heartbreaking yet uplifting story of the girls of Meru and their brave steps toward meaningful equality for girls worldwide.

    In Kenya, one in three girls will experience sexual violence before age 18, yet police investigations are t...

  • The Gift of the Magi

    Movie

    Della is a young woman of limited income who is desperate to buy her partner a Christmas present on Christmas Eve. In order to gain money for the cause, she decides to sell her hair, however her sacrifice may prove to be a futile one.

  • The Forgotten Treasure

    Movie

    It is perhaps the most beautiful parallel world in recent art history: the non-conformist scene of the former GDR. United in silent but stubborn resistance to the dictatorship and yet linked to it in passionate disloyalty, populated by highly qualified, introverted individualists. It still exists...

  • The Fitzroy

    Movie

    Set in a post-apocalyptic 1950's, the Fitzroy hotel, a derelict submarine beached just off Margate, is the last place for a traditional British summer holiday. Bernard, the hotel's bellboy, cook, maintenance man and general dogsbody faces a constant battle to keep the decaying hotel airtight and ...

  • The Example

    Movie

    June 1943, Officer Harvey, a white police officer and black business owner Carver Jefferson meet while Beaumont is under martial law. Tensions explode, forcing them to make decisions that will question their morals.

  • The Empowerment Project

    Movie

    What would you do if you weren't afraid to fail? Driving over 7,000 miles from Los Angeles to New York over the course of 30 days, five female filmmakers spotlight 17 positive and powerful female leaders across a variety of lifestyles and industries to inspire the next generation of strong women.

  • The Dispossessed (Les Dépossédés)

    Movie

    The Dispossessed is an impressionist journey that sheds light on the daily strife of the world’s hungry farming class. In this era of industrialized agriculture, across the globe, people who produce food are paid less than almost any other profession. Part cinema-vérité, part essay, our film exam...

  • The Disenchantment of a Young Adult and a Wild Child

    Movie

    When Hazel runs away from a terminally-ill mother into Prague’s wintry fairytale-esque nightlife, Rachel Finds her. But the euphoria of their rekindled sisterhood shatters as the two talk…

  • The Day Is Listening

    Movie

    This animated film is above all a love story told with emotion and delicacy. A man loves a woman; both of them love literature. We discover the murmur of their lives, the harmony of their feelings—and we learn how their affection for novels and poetry marks their existence beyond death. The fruit...

  • The Dark Room (La Chambre Noire)

    Movie

    Fabien, a discreet young worker, works in the dark room of an endiverie. At the other end of the production line, Clementine, removes the excess leaves from the endives. One day, she falls on an endive with a sweet word slipped inside, but she gets rid of it. Fabien then launches into a last madn...

  • The Curse of the Unkissable Kid

    Movie

    A bullied kid drinks a magical potion before reading the fine print: experience true love’s kiss before time runs out, or disappear forever. But finding that kiss becomes more of a challenge than he anticipates.

  • The Country Side of Care

    Movie

    The independent documentary The Country Side of Care is about people with disabilities who struggle with a lack of work and purpose and who are trying out something new. Several farmers in Montana are pioneering a new business: care farms. They offer people with disabilities the opportunity to sp...

  • The Counterfeit Mind

    Movie

    "Away for 15 years, Cassandra pushes back into her daughter’s life. But it's too little, too late. Her daughter,
    Kestra, has stomach cancer. She doesn’t have much time left and Kestra has ulterior motives.
    She wants to re-create Kestra using an untested technology. Transference. The process of ...

  • The Corner (Hjørnet)

    Movie

    Tired of waiting, Veronika tries to give her girlfriend direction over the phone, but Susan gets more and more confused with every word.

    The Corner is a 5-minute-long, one-shot-film, and it’s a story about communication and the sense (or non-sense) of direction.

  • The Company of Thieves

    Movie

    A lone thief, Dex, seeks vengeance after he is left for dead in the woods by his partner; so he makes a deal with the Devil and goes on a mission to kill his partner and get his loot back.

  • The Colour of Beauty

    Movie

    Renee Thompson is trying to make it as a top fashion model in New York. She's got the looks, the walk and the drive. But she’s a black model in a world where white women represent the standard of beauty. Agencies rarely hire black models. And when they do, they want them to look “like white girls...

  • The Coca-Cola Case

    Movie

    Columbia is the trade union murder capital of the world. Since 2002, more than 470 workers’ leaders have been brutally killed, usually by paramilitaries hired by private companies intent on crushing the unions. Among these unscrupulous corporate brands is the poster boy for American business: Coc...

  • The Club

    Movie

    Married couple Monica and Jeremy attend their exclusive club’s annual party, where each year the guest count has decreased by one. But when one-too-many guests arrive, it quickly becomes clear that somebody is not going to make it through the night.

  • The Circus (Le Cirque)

    Movie

    In the vestibule of a hospital room, a young boy waits to see his dying mother. The clamor and spiraling movements of bodies around him intensify, forming a grotesque circus—a cacophonous circle that pushes the child back, depriving him of one final touch of his mother's hand. Using rotoscoped dr...

  • The Chocolate Farmer

    Movie

    “Without the land, we will cease to exist.”

    In an unspoiled corner of southern Belize, cacao farmer and father Eladio Pop manually works his plantation in the tradition of his Mayan ancestors: as a steward of the land. A tender and moving family tale, director Rohan Fernando’s lush cinematic jou...

  • The Chinese Violin

    Movie

    A young girl and her father leave everything familiar behind when they move to Canada from China. The only piece of home they bring with them is a Chinese violin. As they face the huge challenges of starting new lives in a new place, the music of the violin connects them to the life they left beh...

  • The Broken Vinyl Record (Ang Gasgas na Plaka ni Lolo Bert)

    Movie

    A closeted gay man in his 60s has been living with HIV for 10 years. His monotonous life takes a sudden turn when he receives an old vinyl record from his dead ex-lover.

  • The Boxing Girls of Kabul

    Movie

    A group of young Afghan women strive to become world-class boxers, training without the benefit of even the most basic facilities at the national stadium, where only recently women were executed by the Taliban. They are loyal to their country, yet dare to defy its traditions. Inspired by their te...

  • The Black Case

    Movie

    In this haunting and artistically-crafted short drama, an eight-year-old girl and her infant cousin endure a traumatic experience while quarantined in the infirmary of a residential school.