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Munna, an ordinary boy in an ordinary world, sees a beauty that feels beyond his reach. While he struggles to become worthy of her, she is quietly learning to leave.
Abducted from her idyllic paradise and drugged, Ranger Jane Winter must escape her bonds or risk being caught in a predator's unforgiving web forever.
A lonely ventriloquist is served divorce papers at the showroom bar where he works. Things take a strange turn when he tries to remedy the situation with his puppet, Luis.
In rural Russia, an Orthodox community hosts a summer camp where teenagers and children with disabilities share everyday life, discovering acceptance, friendship, and love beyond all boundaries.
"The Dress" is an ode to ships passing in the night; the joy of the unfulfilled. It's also a love letter to dresses.
The film traces the rise and fall of GDR deep-sea fishing fleet - and the afterlives of its last surviving ships. Once more than a hundred strong, only a few vessels remain, now under new names, with new missions and new dreams: repurposed as rescue boats, cultural platforms, or sound spaces.
A timid man does something by himself for once.
The power went out twice that night. Other things happened as well. Created for the purpose of Šuma — a sound design workshop conceived as a collaboration between generations of filmmakers who are a part of Kino klub Osijek.
The Obama Presidential Center's star-studded grand opening ceremony brings a slew of celebrities and dignitaries to Chicago for the big event. The festivities feature what organizers said would be "legendary performances by global icons and powerful remarks from today's most prominent voices." Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Christina Aguilera, John Legend and Bono are just some of the many big names slated to perform.
After surviving a horrific car crash and losing his arm, an unstable family man develops a bizarre fascination for augmenting his body with bionic prosthetics.
Kingsley, Kevin, and Hailey are three ambitious eighth graders preparing for a single exam that could determine their futures. They’re competing for admission to New York City’s Specialized High Schools, elite public institutions that have produced Nobel Prize laureates, astronauts, judges, artists, and national leaders. But as the kids await their test results, a citywide battle is raging over who should attend these schools—the kids who score highest on the entrance exam or the kids who improve diversity. Featuring interviews with kids, parents, and education leaders, If You Can Make It Here places young students at the center of a high-stakes cultural conflict over the future of equity and excellence in public education.
A disoriented young woman finds herself in over her head when the package she orders comes with a surprise creature.
Something strange is happening. A man by the side of the road encounters a woman and decides to ask her for a ride.
Rose and Jean have nothing in common. Rose is a force of nature who faces all her problems with a disarming joie de vivre. She lives with her 3 children upstairs in the family hotel that no longer belongs to her. They're not poor, they're broke... but only temporarily. Jean is a solitary, taciturn man who has buried his big heart under layers of modesty and resignation. When he arrives in this unusual family, however, he quickly becomes indispensable. What did they expect before they met? Probably nothing. He soon becomes indispensable.
An electronic composer sets out to sea, where his music evokes a deep, poetic resonance in a humpback whale. Can we communicate with animals through music?
