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A Matter of Time
"A Matter of Time" is a gripping drama about Milena, a DACA recipient mother, who faces a life-altering crisis one evening when her routine with her daughter, Sofia, is disrupted by an impending ICE raid. In the midst of a tense escape, Milena encounters an ICE officer who, touched by a shared moment, offers her a brief chance to evade capture. The film underscores the personal and systemic struggles faced by immigrants.
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A Mystical Ornithology
In this lyrical portrait, ornithologist, poet, and professor Drew Lanham invites us into his South Carolina farm, where birdwatching becomes both refuge and revelation. As he listens for absent songs in the spring air, Drew not only reckons with loss and memory but also takes action — cultivating his land as a sanctuary, an underground railroad for winged migrants. His reflections move beyond science into wonder, blurring the line between human and bird.
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A Sacred Pause
"A Sacred Pause" was filmed entirely at Selah Carefarm, the world’s first carefarm for traumatic grief. This documentary follows the stories of those who come to this sacred place seeking solace, connection, and the strength to keep going. Among them is Erik, a father and farmhand at Selah who is rebuilding his life after the recent murder of his three young children: Joanna, Terry, and Sierra. Now, with his newborn daughter Josie in his arms and his partner Shiloe by his side, Erik walks the fragile path between joy and sorrow, between honoring the dead and loving the living. At the heart of Selah’s vision is Dr. Joanne Cacciatore, who founded the carefarm after the death of her own daughter, Cheyenne, at birth. Guided by her compassionate philosophy, Selah offers no platitudes or quick fixes; simply a space where grief is witnessed, honored, and carried forward with care.
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Aldo's Bug Extravaganza
In "Aldo's Bug Extravaganza," join 5-year-old Aldo and his dad on a backyard safari filled with tiny wonders and big laughs. Armed with a camera and boundless curiosity, Aldo embarks on a bug-hunting escapade, narrating his discoveries with adorable wit and charm. As the week unfolds, Aldo's wide-eyed explorations not only capture the audience's imagination, but also subtly echo the timeless wisdom of Aldo Leopold, making for a delightful and endearing ode to the joy of nature's smallest marvels.
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Arctic Alchemy
“Arctic Alchemy” follows renowned Alaskan adventurer and climate scientist Roman Dial and his team on a 112-mile research expedition above the Arctic Circle. Traveling by packraft and foot through Alaska’s mighty Brooks Range, their goal is to find the source of a mysterious phenomenon poisoning watersheds in the Arctic. Along the journey, Roman reckons with fatherhood, personal tragedy, and the power of wilderness to both break us and bring us fully alive.
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Babka
In the heart of Hasidic Williamsburg, Brooklyn — a newly blind Jewish Orthodox baker — forms an unlikely friendship with a Queer Catholic Latino guide dog trainer, embarking on an eye-opening journey to overcome personal and cultural barriers in his quest to reopen his beloved bakery.
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Beast of the Seine
When the children of a quaint Parisian village are terrorized by a sinister threat, a remarkable dog emerges as the unlikely hero, until a shocking revelation changes the town forever. Inspired by real events.
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Being Dead Should Be Easy
A Jewish Millennial woman has a breakdown at her great-aunt's shiva when she learns that there's no room left for her in the family mausoleum and everyone else has their afterlives planned, making her feel behind in life and in death.
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Benchless
At a park bench in a park, three homeless men bicker. The streets have erased their age and past. Who can still tell who they once were? During a political demonstration, a lost smartphone is found and they want to call someone, but who? Everyone has either abandoned or forgotten them. They browse through the contact list and each decide to call someone.
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Daniel Van den Berg is Dead
Daniel Van den Berg is wrongfully declared dead in the pension system and no longer receives a pension. To prove that he is still alive he has to go through all kinds of absurd steps. But what seems like a simple matter of collecting the required documents and making a case becomes increasingly irritating. Daniel just wants to be heard, but it seems no one really wants to help him in the offices of the government building. Despite all the exhausting paperwork, Daniel does not give up. Will he manage to prove that he is not dead?
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Death of a Fantastic Machine
From the camera's invention as a tool of truth to today's AI-generated images, "Death of a Fantastic Machine" traces how economic incentives shaped what gets filmed and why. Using archival footage, the film explores the choices that transformed cameras from instruments of evidence into engines of engagement.
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Di Sarno - The story of Emilio's Ballato
If you walk down Manhattan’s Houston street, you probably won’t notice this restaurant — unless you wonder what all these people are standing in line for. It’s a place that’s unpretentious, yet a celebrity hangout. It’s famous, yet most people have never heard about it. It’s an Instagram spot, yet the owner doesn’t have a mobile phone.
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Disco Beats
Set at a dance studio in Detroit circa 1979, "Disco Beats" pays homage to the late 70s when disco music was gospel. The story revolves around an elderly man who tries to convince a jaded disco dance instructor to teach him how to dance so he can surprise his wife on their 60th wedding anniversary — in one week. A heartfelt story about living life to its fullest.
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Divers
Guided by the daily rhythms of an elite high-diving training camp, "Divers" documents the restless anticipation of walking to the platform's edge and the fleeting serenity found in jumping. Unfolding through quiet, deliberate observation, the film invites us into a space of stillness and presence.
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Don't be late, Myra
Myra must find her way home after missing her school van but she runs into trouble as some men start harassing her on the streets and is late getting home to care for her sister.
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Egg Timer
As Megan faces her 30th birthday, the pressure to take the “next step” in life is overwhelming. But when her own opinionated ovarian eggs start chiming in on her every move, she finds herself navigating not just the expectations of family and friends, but also the brutally honest commentary from within.
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Emergency
In a nearly deserted emergency room, two children form an unexpected connection. As their innocent conversation unfolds, shadows of a troubling secret emerge beneath the boy's guarded silence. In the fragile space between childhood curiosity and hidden suffering, a tender act of compassion emerges — one that could change everything.
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Exodus
"Exodus" is an intimate portrait of two women who face unique challenges following decades of incarceration. The film bears witness to their impassioned attempts to rebuild their lives and ultimately restore their humanity.
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Extinguished Lives
When a young bride and her husband escape the Nazi onslaught for the safety of her childhood home in a remote Jewish village in Lithuania, they discover that the most chilling threat may come not from the invaders, but from those they once called neighbors. "Extinguished Lives" examines a lesser-known aspect of the Holocaust; the systematic extermination of Lithuanian Jews, not by Nazi forces, but by local collaborators.
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First Time
A teenage boy’s first condom purchase becomes a comedy of errors when a chatty pharmacist steps in to offer him some advice.
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Fitted Sheet
When the dryer cycle ends, a man is confronted with one of life's greatest challenges.
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Flesh & Blood
After a little girl loses the ability to speak, a determined Psychologist enters a secluded church to treat the mute child against her fathers wishes. But as she begins to unearth the source of her trauma, something much more terrifying rises to the surface — and into the room.
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Forevergreen
Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film! An orphaned bear cub finds a home with a fatherly evergreen tree, until his hunger for trash leads him to danger.
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Fundbox - A Love Story
As his 50th wedding anniversary approaches, an elderly man returns to Vienna to honor a promise he and his wife made when they were first married. Sadly, while in Vienna, he experiences a distressing loss. Far from home, his frustration grows until he encounters a sympathetic city employee.
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