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I Like Movies (Country: Canada; Year: 2022; Director: Chandler Levack; Writer: Chandler Levack; Stars: Isaiah Lehtinen, Alex Ateah, Dan Beirne, Krista Bridges, Sarah Camacho)
A socially inept 17-year old cinephile gets a job at a video store where he forms a complicated friendship with his older female manager.
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The Narrow Bridge (Country: Australia; Year: 2022; Director: Esther Takac; Writer: Esther Takac; Stars: Bassam Aramin, Bushra Awad, Rami Elhanan, Meytal Ofer)
Two Israelis and two Palestinians, all of whom have suffered horrible losses, come together to work towards peace.
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Queen Of The Deuce (Country: Greece, Canada; Year: 2022; Director: Valerie Kontakos; Writer: Christos Asteriou, Valerie Kontakos, Despina Pavlaki; Stars: David Bourla, John Colasanti, Jeffrey Escoffier, Efrain Gonzalez, Arthur Morowitz, Barbara Nitke, Dina Pomeranz, Paulette Pomeranz, Kosmas Sklifas, Bondi Walters, Don Walters)
Profile of Chelly Wilson, a Christmas-celebrating Jewish grandma, a lesbian who married men, and a proud owner of porn cinemas in 1970s NYC.
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Revenge: Our Dad The Nazi Killer (Revenge: My Dad The Nazi Killer) (Country: Australia; Year: 2023; Director: Danny Ben-Moshe (Moss))
A filmmaker discovers that his father was part of a secret network of Jewish vigilante groups, who, in the glaring absence of justice after the Holocaust, took the law into their own hands.
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Vishniac (Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Laura Bialis; Writer: Sophie Sartain; Stars: Bradley Brennan, July Hodara, Declan Knappenberger, Vita Knappenberger)
Difficult and flamboyant, Roman Vishniac captured iconic images of Jewish life, from the cafes of pre-war Berlin to the shtetls of Eastern Europe. But it would be up to his daughter to preserve his legacy.
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