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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.

- Metascore54
- 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.

- Metascore64
- 2016
Second Chance Christmas
On her way to drop off divorce papers, overworked event planner Caroline gets hit by a car and wakes up without any memory. She can't recall who she is and doesn't recognize the handsome face belonging to her nearly-ex-husband, Jack. Motivated by the opportunity to start fresh, Jack along with Caroline's overbearing mother, Peggy, take advantage of Caroline's memory loss to correct her flaws and erase their past mistakes. Jack is determined to make his wife fall in love with him again and save his marriage before it's too late. But will Caroline's memory come back and ruin his plan?

- 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.

- Metascore74
- 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
"The Odyssey" reaches for inspiration from great literary journeys such as Dante's "Inferno" and the eponymous work by Homer to portray the many phases of love, break-up, and suffering. Featuring songs from Florence + the Machine's latest album "How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful," "The Odyssey" is a collection of the band's previously released music videos and introduces the one for "Third Eye."

- 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.

- Metascore38
- 2016
Almost Adults
A film about growing apart when growing up. Two best friends relationship strains when one deals with her newfound sexuality and the other with breaking up with her long term boyfriend.

- 2016
Tunnel
A MAN'S DESPERATE STRUGGLE TO SURVIVE Jung-su, an ordinary car dealer, is on his way home with a birthday cake for his daughter. As he drives into a tunnel an unbelievable thing happens; the tunnel collapses on him. Minutes later, he realizes that he is completely caught in between the debris. Outside, this breaking news creates media frenzy. An emergency response team is immediately organized to rescue him and tries to keep the media under control. As it becomes a national concern, the government promises full support for the rescue. Days pass without any success and people start to lose hope or interest in rescuing him. Hard decisions are forced on his family while no one knows whether Jung-su is dead or alive.

- Metascore68
- 2016
Second Chance
Beautiful math teacher Yasemin crosses paths with charismatic gourmet meat restaurant owner Cemal. Yasemin is a mother working to heal the wounds from a bad marriage. Cemal is a social, carefree guy who wants to escape from the past. They take a second chance at life.

- 2016
Black Ruby
Hustling jazz musicians, Jules and Louis, struggle to create a hit song to put them on the path to stardom, but when a young seductive escort named Ruby enters their lives, their friendship is turned upside down.

- 2017
Sami Blood
Elle Marja, 14, is a reindeer-herding Sámi girl. Exposed to the racism of the 1930's and race biology examinations at her boarding school she starts dreaming of another life. To achieve this other life she has to become someone else and break all ties with her family and culture.

- Metascore79
- 2016
Past Life
The year is 1977, and no female has ever been a renowned classical music composer. Sephi Milch, a very determined and talented young woman, aspires to a career as a classical composer, but she knows the odds are against her. In spite of this, she is dead set on changing the course of history and succeeding in the male-dominated classical music world. Her struggle with the burden of history is not only limited to her artistic life - as the daughter of troubled Holocaust survivors, she also has to deal with a sudden revelation from the past that threatens to tear her family apart. Nana Milch - Sephi's older sister and bitter rival, a scandal sheet journalist and an aspiring playwright - considers this startling revelation an opportunity to free herself from the stranglehold of her parents' past. Sephi is weary of her sister's tendency to look for trouble, but in this case she has no choice but to join Nana's quest for the truth. 1977 is the year Egyptian president Sadat decided to break the shackles of history and bravely embark on a peace process. In many ways this is exactly what the two sisters need to do, as they travel throughout Europe, bent on uncovering the past and getting to the truth behind their parents' darkest secret. As the two are inevitably drawn into an emotional roller coaster ride, they discover that freedom bears an exacting price, as does the struggle to liberate one's unique artistic voice.

- Metascore60
- 2016