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1) Firstness
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
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An anxious dad (TIM KINSELLA) is trying to heal in an experimental therapy group called Infinite Beginnings. Meanwhile, his nonbinary kid (SPENCER JORDING) is getting close with an older man (CALEB CABRERA). Their relationship feels both dreamy and concerning-depending on whose watching.
2) The Subject
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
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A successful documentarian (Jason Biggs) deals with the fallout from his previous film, which caught the murder of a Black teen on tape. As he shoots his latest doc, someone tapes his every move, upending his idyllic life.
3) Hit the Road
Publisher
Kino Lorber
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Description
Panah Panahi, son and collaborator of embattled filmmaker Jafar Panahi and apprentice to Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami, makes a striking feature debut with this charming, sharp-witted, and deeply moving comic drama. HIT THE ROAD takes the tradition of the Iranian road-trip movie and adds unexpected twists and turns. It follows a family of four – two middle-aged parents and their sons, one a taciturn adult, the other a ebullient six-year-old –...
4) Les Nôtres
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
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To the tight-knit community of Sainte-Adeline, Quebec, Magalie appears as a normal suburban high school sophomore surrounded by friends. But this popular teenage girl is harboring a shocking secret: she’s pregnant. When Magalie refuses to identify the father, suspicions among the townsfolk come to a boiling point and the layers of a carefully maintained social varnish eventually crack.
5) Drunk Bus
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Michael is a recent graduate whose post-college plan is derailed when his girlfriend leaves him for a job in New York City. When the bus service hires a security guard to watch over the night shift, Michael comes face to tattooed face with Pineapple, a 300-pound punk rock Samoan.
6) Tokyo Pop
Publisher
Kino Lorber
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Bleach-blonde wannabe rocker Wendy (Carrie Hamilton) is disillusioned with her life in New York City. After receiving a postcard from Japan saying “wish you were here,” she spontaneously hops on a plane to Tokyo with dreams of making it big as a singer. Quickly finding herself broke and a fish out of water, she moves into a youth hostel for gaijin (foreigners) and takes up work as a hostess at a karaoke bar. Just when she’s at her breaking point,...
7) Wolf
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
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Description
A small group of Roman soldiers leave the safety of Hadrian’s Wall in Scotland to search for some missing warriors. All too quickly they realise their friends have been slaughtered by werewolves and a desperate game of survival begins. Who can they trust? How far must they journey to escape this new terror? Who else is hunting them?
8) Walk With Me
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
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Description
As Amber braves life after divorce, the young mother must challenge herself to take some personal risks after finding love in an unexpected place. “Walk with Me” addresses the many aspects of what it means to be a woman — motherhood, marriage, family, career, sexuality — and deftly explores how to balance them.
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
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Description
A contemporary LGBTQ comedy loosely based on the epic romance of Roman Emperor Hadrian and his teenage lover Antinous. Set over Labor Day Weekend in coastal New England, a middle-aged playwright invites longtime friend, legendary TV diva, Charlotte Christian, and occasionally-working actor friend, Jay Mulch, to read his latest dramatic effort, a mythological comedy based on the epic romance of Roman Emperor Hadrian and his teenage lover Antinous....
Publisher
Good Deed Entertainment
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Description
MA BELLE, MY BEAUTY explores the intimate re-encounter between two former lovers of a polyamorous triad. Bertie, a musician, has recently married and moved to southern France where she’s since been uninspired. Lane shows up hoping to get Bertie back in the swing of things -- but old passions and pains simmer to the surface when Lane takes interest in another woman.
11) Triple Threat
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
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Description
A relationship between three best friends, on the verge of their Broadway debut, is put to the test when diverging dreams meet the realities of adulthood. One of the friends decides he wants to become a father, now among the three friends there are two babies on the way.
12) Fugue
Publisher
Dekanalog
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Description
After a two-year disappearance, free-spirited Alicja is reunited with her parents, husband and young son despite having no memory of them. Thrust back into a domestic life she has no recollection of choosing, she struggles to reconcile her new and unfamiliar roles of dependability with the unshackled independence sprung by her recent mental break. A dizzying psychological puzzle.
13) The Red Star
Publisher
Kino Lorber
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Description
A mockumentary about the fictional Leila Salama, a mysterious woman who may have contributed to the capture of Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires in 1960, but was neglected by official history. Director Gabriel Lichtmann (Hector Da̕z) restores her life's story through a series of interviews with a colorful cast of characters. Putting together the pieces of the puzzle, the film discovers a secret that was hidden for years.
14) Inshallah a boy
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
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Description
A widow pretends to be pregnant with a son in order to save her daughter and home from a relative exploiting Jordan’s patriarchal inheritance laws. This thriller from the Cannes Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival was Jordan’s Official Entry for Best International Film at the 96th Academy Awards.
15) Stunt Rock
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Part documentary, part rock film, and all kinds of crazy. STUNT ROCK is a feature length ode to fearless Australian stuntman Grant Page (the Mad Max films, Road Games, The Gods Of Egypt). Real-life stuntman Grant Page travels to Los Angeles to work on a television series, and in his spare time lends his expertise to his cousin's rock band Sorcery – helping them develop pyrotechnic magic tricks for their stage shows. All while finding himself in...
16) Parallel mothers
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
The lives of two single women -- one middle aged, one adolescent -- become intertwined when they share a hospital room giving birth to their daughters on the same day.
17) Alone With You
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Description
As a young woman painstakingly prepares a romantic homecoming for her girlfriend, their apartment begins to feel more like a tomb when voices, shadows, and hallucinations reveal a truth she has been unwilling to face.
19) Cheap Thrills
Series
Drafthouse Films volume 18
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Description
Craig is a struggling family man who loses his low-wage job and is threatened with eviction. In an effort to delay facing the music at home, he heads to a local bar and encounters an old friend. The couple engages the two friends in a series of innocent dares in exchange for money over the course of the evening, with each challenge upping the ante in both reward and boundaries.
20) Pendular
Publisher
Big World Pictures
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Description
A young couple settles down in a large abandoned industrial warehouse. An orange strip, glued to the floor, partitions the area into two equal portions: to the right, his sculpture atelier; to the left, her dance studio. The film takes place in this setting, where art, performances, and intimacy mingle together, and where the characters slowly lose their capacity to distinguish between their artistic projects, their past, and their romantic relationship....
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