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Aftershock Aftershock
Aftershock and Cha Cha Real Smooth
2nd Chance (Year: 2022; Director: Ramin Bahrani; Writer: Ramin Bahrani)
Bankrupt pizzeria owner Richard Davis invented the modern-day bulletproof vest. To prove that it worked, he shot himself 192 times. He launched a multi-million-dollar company and became a cult figure among police. Davis’ rise and fall reveals a man of contradictions and the nature of power and impunity in America.
32 Sounds (Country: Cuba, Germany, Italy, UK, US; Year: 2022; Director: Sam Green)
A meditation on the power of sound to bend time, cross borders, and profoundly shape our perception of the world around us.
Full Review See: Interview with Sam Green about 32 Sounds
Aftershock (Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Paula Eiselt, Tonya Lewis Lee)
Following the preventable deaths of their partners due to childbirth complications, two bereaved fathers galvanise activists, birth-workers and physicians to reckon with one of the most pressing American crises of our time – the US maternal health crisis.
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The Art Of Making It (Country: US; Year: 2021; Director: Kelcey Edwards)
Considers young artists at defining moments of their early careers and considers whether the art world is failing them.
Boycott (Country: US; Year: 2021; Director: Julia Bacha)
Consideration of anti-boycott law in the US.
Fire Of Love Fire Of Love
Fire Of Love and Marcel The Shell With Shoes On
Cha Cha Real Smooth (Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Cooper Raiff; Writer: Cooper Raiff; Stars: Dakota Johnson, Leslie Mann, Odeya Rush, Brad Garrett, Raúl Castillo, Cooper Raiff, Kelly O'Sullivan, Phil Nardozzi, Brenna Sherman, Evan Assante, Tiffany Sander McKenzie, Felicia Reuter, Colton Osorio, Vanessa Burghardt, Drake Tobias)
A directionless college graduate embarks on a relationship with a young mum and her teenage daughter while learning the boundaries of his new bar mitzvah party-starting gig.
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Descendant (Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Margaret Brown)
Clotilda, the last ship carrying enslaved Africans to the United States, arrived in Alabama 40 years after African slave trading became a capital offense. It was promptly burned, and its existence denied. After a century shrouded in secrecy and speculation, descendants of the Clotilda’s survivors are reclaiming their story.
See: Interview with Margaret Brown about her documentary Descendant
Emergency (Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Carey Williams; Writer: KD Davila; Stars: RJ Cyler, Sabrina Carpenter, Madison Thompson, Nadine Lewington, Maddie Nichols, John Cenatiempo, Sebastian Chacon, Charity Cervantes, James Healy Jr., John Paul Kakos, Callan Wilson, Melanie Jeffcoat, Donald Elise Watkins, Casey Hendershot, Patrick Lamont Jr.)
Ready for a night of partying, a group of Black and Latino college students must weigh the pros and cons of calling the police when faced with an unusual emergency.
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Fire Of Love (Country: Canada, US; Year: 2022; Director: Sara Dosa; Writer: Shane Boris, Erin Casper, Jocelyne Chaput; Stars: Miranda July, Katia Krafft, Maurice Krafft)
Intrepid scientists and lovers Katia and Maurice Krafft died in a volcanic explosion doing the very thing that brought them together: unraveling the mysteries of volcanoes by capturing the most explosive imagery ever recorded. A doomed love triangle between Katia, Maurice and volcanoes, told through their archival footage.
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Marcel The Shell With Shoes On (Country: US; Year: 2021; Director: Dean Fleischer-Camp; Writer: Dean Fleischer-Camp, Jenny Slate, Nick Paley; Stars: Jenny Slate, Isabella Rossellini, Dean Fleischer-Camp)
Marcel, a one-inch-tall shell, lives a miniature life with his grandma Connie and their pet lint, Alan. When the trio goes viral, they get millions of fans and new hope for finding their long-lost family.
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32 Sounds 32 Sounds
32 Sounds and Emergency
Master (Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Mariama Diallo; Writer: Mariama Diallo; Stars: Regina Hall, Ella Hunt, Leslie Fray, Talia Ryder, Will Hochman, Joel de la Fuente, Molly Bernard, Olivia Boreham-Wing, Noa Fisher, Armand Schultz, Zoe Renee, Keelia Clarkson, Robert Emmet Lunney, Amber Gray, Kerry Flanagan)
Three women strive to find their place at an elite New England university. As the insidious spectre of racism haunts the campus in increasingly supernatural fashion, each fights to survive in this space of privilege.
TikTok, Boom. (Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Shalini Kantayya)
With TikTok now crowned the world’s most downloaded app, these are the personal stories of a cultural phenomenon, told through an ensemble cast of Gen-Z natives, journalists and experts alike. This film seeks to answer why is an app, best known for people dancing, the target of so much controversy?
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