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Butterfly Caught
Three aspiring actresses set out to break into the cut-throat world of acting in Los Angeles. Naomi is on the verge of stardom, Joe struggles to keep her head above water and Elsa is a fresh face on the scene. As each young woman is forced to face her deepest fears and insecurities, they all discover the lengths to which they will go to fight against failure. The promise of Hollywood is tempting, but what will they do when that promise is broken? How will they cope when pushed to their breaking points? Butterfly Caught offers a glimpse into the darker side of Hollywood's bright facade, exposes the seduction of fame and captures the thirst for relevance in a city that cycles through talent and destroys ambitions.

- 2017
Like Cotton Twines
An American volunteer takes a teaching job in a remote African village where he meets a Tuigi, 13-year-old girl who is to become Trokosi. A practice of religious sexual slavery. Accepting of her fate, Tuigi's only desire it to be able to write her GED.

- 2016
Juggernaut
After a lengthy absence, a small town outlaw returns to his hometown, violently obsessed with the notion that his Mother's death was not a suicide.

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- 2017
Sightings
A character-driven sci-fi mystery about a dysfunctional family living on a ranch in TX threatened by a cryptid in their woods. Ultimately, they must overcome their interpersonal conflict in order to unite and survive.

- 2017
Mean Dreams
Mean Dreams is a thriller about a fifteen-year-old boy who steals a bag of drug money and runs away with the girl he loves while her corrupt cop father hunts them down. This coming-of-age fable brings together the desperation of life on the run and the beauty and wonder of first love.

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- 2016
Second Chance Christmas
When an accident causes a successful woman, Caroline, to lose her memory; her husband Jack does everything in his power to keep her from remembering that they are total opposites and that their marriage is doomed. Now Jack is hoping for a second-chance, and a little Christmas magic, to help rekindle their relationship and fall in love all over again

- 2017
Happy
Florent, a 23 year-old Parisian, meets Alessia, a lost American girl from Texas in the streets of Paris, by random chance. At an important crossroad of their lives - both characters have just graduated from college - Alessia and Florent are torn between the possibilities that lie before them in today's globalised world and the limitations and responsibilities which come with adulthood in the face of global economic turmoil. Florent dreams of America; Alessia dreams of France, her mother's unfulfilled wish. Through their interaction with Marion and Louis, Florent's best friends, Coralie, his ex-girlfriend, and Thomas, a waiter they meet in Normandy, our characters learn about the world they live in. A world that brings them much questioning. A world of their generation.

- 2015
I Kill Giants
Barbara Thorson (Madison Wolfe) is a teenage girl who escapes the realities of school and a troubled family life by retreating into her magical world of fighting evil giants. With the help of her new friend Sophia (Sydney Wade) and her school counselor (Zoe Saldana), Barbara learns to face her fears and battle the giants that threaten her world.

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- 2017
Joseph and Mary
JOSEPH AND MARY is a story of inspiration and hope, of mercy versus revenge, in the years before Jesus became the Man that ultimately changed the course of humanity forever.

- 2016
Maybe Someday
'MAYBE SOMEDAY' is the story of a hopeless slacker, Hal Donnelly, whose future seems a little bleak. His love life is non-existent, he's an unemployed alcoholic, and everyone around him is happy and knows where their life is headed. Hal finds some hope and direction after meeting Abigail, a teenage girl claiming she's his daughter from the future who's come back to prevent him from 'becoming the horrible person he's destined to be.' 'MAYBE SOMEDAY' is a comedy about the importance of living in the present and how sometimes it's ok not to have all the answers in life.

- 2015
Permitidos
A man and woman who have been together for 8 years choose their "allowed" celebrity hook-ups, not realizing how soon they would actually be meeting them in real life, and their couplehood is shaken up.

- 2016
Zoology
Middle-aged zoo worker Natasha still lives with her mother in a small coastal town. As she struggles for independence, she has to endure the absurd reality of her life filled with gossip spread by the women around her. She is stuck and it seems that life has no surprises for her until one day... she grows a tail. Embarrassed at first, Natasha decides to go further with the transformation and use it as an opportunity to redefine herself as a person and as a woman. With the new "accessory" she gets access to the life that she has never experienced before - she starts a relationship with a man, who finds her attractive, she goes out and allows herself to be foolish for the first time in her life. But her second puberty eventually comes to an end and Natasha has to make a choice between reality and illusion.

- 2016
Tower. A Bright Day.
Mula lives with her family in the country. Just before her daughter's First Holy Communion, Mula's long lost sister pays them a visit. The family believes in reconciliation, but Mula has her reasons to feel afraid of Kaja.

- 2017
Adam Joan
The story revolves around the life of a planter, Adam Joan Pothan from the village Mundakkayam. One day, he unexpectedly meets a girl named Emy and they go to Scotland together. The new people he meets on his journey changes his life.

- 2017
Florence + the Machine: The Odyssey
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- 2016
The Journey Is the Destination
Dan Eldon, who was only 22 when he was chased down and killed by an angry mob in Somalia, was one of the youngest photographic stringers in Africa. But his journalistic work, which had appeared in Time and Newsweek, showed only a small part of his talent. Eldon excelled as an artist in his collages, which combined his photographs of Africa with paint, pastiche, pop culture images, advertising, and official documents. The Journey Is the Destination collects pages from the 17 scrapbooks that held his art. Chronicling his work from age 14 through his death at 22, this volume is startling not only in the intensity and thoughtfulness of the pages, but also in the fact that someone so young could have this kind of artistic depth and insight.

- 2016
Paterno
Paterno centers on Penn State’s Joe Paterno (played by Al Pacino) in the aftermath of the Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse scandal. After becoming the winningest coach in college football history, Paterno’s legacy is challenged and he is forced to face questions of institutional failure in regard to the victims

- 2018
Jack Goes Home
Jack Thurlowe's world is turned upside down when his beloved father is killed in a brutal car accident. When he returns to his childhood home Jack discovers nothing is what it seems. With devastating and terrifying results.

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- 2016
Museo
Gabriel Garcia Bernal and Leonardo Ortizgris play a pair of under-achievers who pull off a Christmas Eve museum heist that removes ancient Mexican artifacts that are so unmistakable, they prove impossible to fence. The film is based on a true story, that happened in 1985. Directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios (Güeros).

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- 2018
Lacuna
Shen Wei and Tong Xin wake up one morning in a bed, with no idea what happened or even who the person in bed with them is. The two split with few words, but each is missing something. What is actually happening last night?

- 2012
Oxenfree
Three foster brothers reunite at their old lake cabin following the death of their father, where the now-estranged adults relive a shared childhood by uncovering the ruins of their make-believe kingdom, "Oxenfree"...and face down the monster living within.

- 2016
6 Cup Chai
Some children in India are forced to work rather than study to help support their families. This story is about a boy who lives and works as a tea boy in Mumbai's poorest of slums, Dharavi. He has a simple wish, to go to school like the other children.
- 2014
A Heavenly Christmas
Upon her untimely death, a workaholic finds herself in training to be a Christmas Angel in Heaven. Despite being the worst recruit in the history of Christmas, she's assigned a hard luck case. As she's forced to help solve his problems, she'll start to discover the meaning of Christmas and maybe even fall in love along the way.

- 2016
Every Christmas Has a Story
When a TV personality has an on-air snafu and admits she hates Christmas, she is invited to the Most Christmas-y town in the US to try and repair her image. Stars Lori Loughlin, Colin Ferguson and Willie Aames.

- 2016