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Fairyland (Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Andrew Durham; Writer: Andrew Durham, based on the novel by Alysia Abbott; Stars: Scoot McNairy, Emilia Jones, Geena Davis, Cody Fern, Adam Lambert, Maria Bakalova)
Set against the backdrop of San Francisco's vibrant cultural scene in the Seventies and Eighties, chronicling a father-daughter relationship as it evolves from an era of bohemian decadence to the heartbreaking AIDS crisis.
Fancy Dance (Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Erica Tremblay; Writer: Erica Tremblay; Stars: Lily Gladstone, Isabel Deroy-Olson, Ryan Begay, Shea Whigham, Audrey Wasilewski)
Following her sister's disappearance, a Native American hustler kidnaps her niece from the child's white grandparents and sets out for the state powwow in hopes of keeping what is left of their family intact.
Fresh Kills (Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Jennifer Esposito; Writer: Jennifer Esposito; Stars: Emily Baden, Odessa A’zion, Jennifer Esposito, Dominick Lombardozzi, Annabella Sciorra, Nicholas Cirillo)
After their patriarch goes to prison, the loyal women of the Larusso family must survive by following the unspoken code of the New York City mafia world in the late Eighties and early Nineties.
LaRoy (Country: US, France; Year: 2023; Director: Shane Atkinson; Writer: Shane Atkinson; Stars: John Magaro, Steve Zahn, Dylan Baker, Megan Stevenson, Matthew Del Negro, Brad Leland)
After discovering his wife’s affair, Ray Jepsen plans to kill himself, but fate intervenes. Through a bizarre turn of events, he is mistaken for a low-rent hired killer and decides to become one.
Late Bloomers (Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Lisa Steen; Writer: Anna Greenfield; Stars: Karen Gillan, Margaret Sophie Stein, Jermaine Fowler, Kevin Nealon, Talia Balsam)
An aimless, 28 year-old Brooklynite, recently single, sort of a musician, depressed without admitting to it, drunkenly falls while doing something stupid and breaks her hip. This lands her in a physical therapy ward full of people twice her age, where she gets a job as a carer.
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