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Small, travelling family circus Noel is performing poorly since Diony, one of the mounted brothers whose 'Horse Boys' act was their greatest asset, left. For lack of a proper staff, illegal Brazilian immigrant Victor, who can't fit in the European school system, and his mother can join, as well as Karo, who ran away from home, unable to stand her parents quarreling over divorce. The circus hopes to survive by staging a festival starring a new version of the Horse Boys, but the remaining artists can't get it right. So Victor and friends decide the last hope is finding and bringing back Diony.

Buckjumping is a cinematic journey through the soul of New Orleans. The film explores different communities as they express themselves through movement, painting a dynamic portrait of a city's spirituality, defiance and resourcefulness.

A feisty foursome of 13 year old ballerinas and best friends is ready to move up to the next level. Tragedy strikes and their lives take very different turns. They end up dancing together again years later, not as planned though. Call it a tragi-comedy.

The story revolves around an Online taxi driver Rameshan, a sincere person in every sense. The movie deals with the issues he has to face on his first day on the job. Ramesh is a gentle soul, who never backs out when a fellow human being is in need of help. Despite his health issues, some of which leaves him helpless at certain situations, he likes to intervene in issues and help out people in distress. He begins his new career as a taxi driver on 15th August 2017. On the day, a group of young college students board his taxi and that trip changed Rameshan's life. The movie explores the lacunae in the Indian legal system which relies solely on available evidence to arrive at judgments exploiting which which the guilty and the influential may go scot free and the innocent at times gets punished due to incriminating circumstantial evidence. How fair is the system? The movie tries to address this all important question.

Four obsolete dams choke off access to thousands of miles of rivers. Removing these dams will save money, salmon, and orcas.

Four young women, two from Norway, one each from Denmark and Sweden, on being overweight and beautiful. How to be comfortable and proud of your body, even though it doesn't fit into the norms dictated by the media.

Buddy Bear embarks on a magical-musical journey, making new friends, learning new songs and encouraging all children to join in on the fun, dancing along the way.

If you could combine the onstage magnetism of Mick Jagger, the lyrical brilliance of Bob Dylan and the personal fragility of Brian Wilson, you would only have begun to scratch of the surface of Larry Norman. FALLEN ANGEL: The OUTLAW LARRY NORMAN recounts the rise of the father of Christian rock music as the rock 'n' roll Billy Graham' of the 1970s through to the height of success as the visionary behind Solid Rock Records before a personal meltdown and subsequent fall from grace exiled him to the margins of the Christian subculture he helped create. A study in polar contrasts, Larry Norman's story presents the viewer with a complex character grappling with the price of genius, the struggle made all the more difficult because Norman chose to make his mark within a religious subculture struggling to define its place within the world. Too religious for the rock 'n' rollers but too rock 'n' roll for the religious crowd, Larry Norman is the perpetual outsider, ultimately imploding under the weight of trying to fuse his position as the musical voice of the Jesus movement with his desire for '70s rock superstar status. Is he the misunderstood musical prophet of the Christian world? Is he an outlaw conning the faithful? Larry Norman is a walking contradiction, partly truth and partly fiction. Told mainly from the perspective of those who worked with him and loved him during the height of his success, feel the power of the music he created as refracted through the inconsistencies of the life he led. Experience the forgiveness offered by those most hurt and witness a glimmer of grace against the backdrop of moral failure. Fallen Angel is a rock n' roll epic of biblical proportions.

Heterosexuals follows three couples as they navigate romance in the Big Apple while managing an ever-increasing series of personal hurdles. Rhonda and Nick are old friends who always share the details of their romantic disasters. A new one is born when they decide to cross that boundary with the promise of not falling in love with each other. Akey and Elia just can't seem to get dates with the opposite sex. But when Nick and Rhonda arrange a meeting, magical things unfold. Larry and Denny have been married ten years. Their love is deep. But when financial strains begin to crack their foundation they must fight to resist the temptations that offer each a relief from the pressure. Storylines intersect in a comedic climax that will make anyone in a relationship squirm in their seat.

Marla is an intimate, intense and unconventional portrait of nascent love. It's a story of boy meets girl, but with dark themes that take the film in an unexpected direction.

High Tide is the debut feature film from Long Arm Films. It tells the story of Bethan (Melanie Walters) who has one day to mend the broken relationship with her teenage son Josh (Samuel Davies). After taking him out of school Bethan drives him the short distance to the stunning Gower coastline in South Wales where the pair can talk openly to each other, free from distraction, for perhaps the first time ever. After some troubling revelations that will change both their lives forever, the pair find themselves at a party hosted by Tess (Claire Cage) at which they witness a reality very different from their own. High Tide is a is a moving, powerful and tender portrait of a vital twenty-four hours in two people's lives. It is a story of love, forgiveness and change.

On her way to the store with a group of friends, Chrishaun Reed "CeCe" McDonald was attacked. In fighting for her own life, a man was killed. After a coercive interrogation, CeCe was incarcerated in a men's prison in Minnesota. An international campaign to free CeCe garnered significant support from media and activists, including actress and executive producer Laverne Cox. Laverne uses her platform to explore the roles race, class, and gender played in CeCe's case. CeCe emerges not only as a survivor, but as a leader of a growing movement to critically interrogate and disassemble the prison industrial complex.

While in prison for drug trafficking in Barcelona, Hernando Toro began his career as a photographer. For more than a decade, from a cell he turned into a professional studio, he took thousands of portraits of those who, like him, lived behind bars. Despite the richness of his work, much of Toro's archive was forgotten once he was released. This documentary recovers his negatives and explores not only his journey, but also part of the unpublished archive. What began as a question about the past has become an observation of the last years of this magnificent artist's life.

The story about the life of a dollar bill, and the many lives it passes along the way.

Three college students start a social experiment to prove that reality changes according to the words we use to describe it. Through research, activist actions, and artistic interventions, they analyze the importance of language in the way we understand the world. The documentary includes analysis from more than 20 international experts and leaders in the fields of political communication and information.

Dalya, a Syrian refugee living in America, tries to be a normal teenager. Yet under the shadow of Donald Trump's rise to power, she must contend with daily reminders of her otherness, like being the only girl in school that wears a hijab. Keeping her Muslim father proud and integrating into American teen life with make-up, proms and boys is a hard line to walk. This touching film explores a young life caught between highly politicised identities.

From eight female Maori directors come eight connected stories (in Maori, waru means 8), each taking place at the same moment in time during the tangi (funeral) of a small boy, Waru, who has died at the hands of a caregiver. The eight stories are all subtly linked and follow different female characters as they come to terms with Waru's death and try to find a way forward in their community.

A poor aspiring rapper befriends an older poet after vandalizing his bookstore.

Contemporary Shanghai, the young gathering A mega-structure under rapid development Ubiquitous screens, fragmented materiality, masked crowd We keep performing ourselves hard Living in a space-time construction created by the times and us Seeking for blending in and communication In many moments We have no clue in which layer of space are we in: Virtual space, dream space, daily space, urban space, bodily space, cellphone space, social space... This moment, he is a flaneur of night LA; Next moment, he is laughing on Shanghai street Today, she is a killer in suits; Next day, she is a body on beach without reason Maybe each layer keeps a "you" always in Confusion, loneliness, fragility, indifference, When smiling, mostly it's because seeing the absurdity of life itself Living in a daily routine, a sense of detachment haunts Life Imitation (2016) is the first feature film made by Chinese video artist Chen Zhou. It is a non-fiction film, an expanded documentary. It is a work parallels game image and image from daily life, a work that blurs virtual world and real world. It is an exploration through reality, dream and virtuality, also a group portrait of contemporary Chinese urban young lives. It brings you into and out of the Chinese young's fragmented daily life with its own rhythm.You will see their confusion and pain, fantasy and struggle.You will feel both the texture of their city and daily life that encircles them. Ultimately, it encourages you enter your own inner world, finding some relief, gaining some comfort, or generating some doubt.You name it.

Africa, Europe - Europe and Africa: Surfers live differently on each continent and Africa marks a special place - as surfing is in many places at its very beginnings. 'Beyond - An African Surf Documentary' follows locals along the coast of Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Senegal and Gambia into their homes, visits their home surf spots and takes a look into their surfing lives. Three months of shooting culminated in a 111 minute long episodic journey on a continent, that has the potential to be the next big thing in surfing.

STRAWS is a documentary film that charts the history of straws and continues to present day issues that surround our current culture's obsession of single use conveniences. Used once and tossed, billions of non-recyclable plastic straws are used annually winding up in landfills, littering streets and finding their way to oceans. The Ocean Conservancy ranks straws as the number five most popular collected item at beach cleanups behind bottle caps, wrappers, and cigarette butts. A viral video of a sea turtle with a plastic straw in its nose has now sparked anti-plastic straw campaigns globally and inspiring sustainable alternatives. Actor/Director Tim Robbins narrates a humorous history of straws, and Director Linda Booker interviews marine researchers, artists, citizen activists, and business owners in California, Costa Rica and North Carolina about how it's possible to make a sea of change, one straw at a time.

The deceit of her father's personal manager had left a young Anna Wilfred orphaned and penniless years ago. Now, the time has come for her to avenge the untimely demise of her family, and win back all the fortune that is rightfully hers.

Symbiotic Earth explores the life and ideas of Lynn Margulis, a brilliant and radical scientist, whose unconventional theories challenged the male-dominated scientific community and are today fundamentally changing how we look at our selves, evolution, and the environment.