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Is There Anybody Out There? and Kokomo City
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.
Food And Country
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Laura Gabbert)
America’s policy of producing cheap food at all costs has long hobbled small independent farmers, ranchers, and chefs. Worried for their survival, trailblazing food writer Ruth Reichl reaches out across political and social divides to uncover the country's broken food system and the innovators risking it all to transform it.
Fremont
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Babak Jalali; Writer: Babak Jalali; Stars: Anaita Wali Zada, Jeremy Allen White, Gregg Turkington)
Donya works for a Chinese fortune cookie factory in San Francisco. Formerly a translator for the U.S. military in Afghanistan, she struggles to put her life back in order. In a moment of sudden revelation, she decides to send out a special message in a cookie.
Going Varsity In Mariachi
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Alejandra Vasquez, Sam Osborn)
In the competitive world of high school mariachi, the musicians from the South Texas borderlands reign supreme. Under the guidance of coach Abel Acuña, the teenage captains of Edinburg North High School’s acclaimed team must turn a shoestring budget and diverse crew of inexperienced musicians into state champions.
Is There Anybody Out There?
(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Ella Glendining)
While navigating daily discrimination, a filmmaker who inhabits and loves her unusual body searches the world for another person like her, and explores what it takes to love oneself fiercely despite the pervasiveness of ableism.
Plan C and Polite Society
It's Only Life After All
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Alexandria Bombach; Stars: Amy Ray, Emily Saliers)
With forty years of making music as the iconic folk rock band Indigo Girls, Amy Ray and Emily Saliers have made their mark as musicians, songwriters, and dedicated activists. This film catches up with them today.
Kokomo City
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: D Smith)
Four Black transgender sex workers explore the dichotomy between the Black community and themselves, while confronting issues long avoided.
Little Richard: I Am Everything
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Lisa Cortés)
This celebration of Little Richard reveals the Black queer origins of rock ’n’ roll, finally exploding the whitewashed canon of American pop music.
No Ordinary Campaign
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Christopher Burke; Stars: Brian Wallach, Sandra Abrevaya, Barack Obama)
At 37, Brian Wallach was diagnosed with motor neurone disease - on the same day he and his wife Sandra brought their second daughter home from the hospital. They went from being recently removed from working at the White House to not knowing if Brian would live to see his 40th birthday.
Plan C
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Tracy Droz Tragos)
A hidden grassroots organisation doggedly fights to expand access to abortion pills across the United States keeping hope alive during a global pandemic and the fall of Roe v Wade.
Fancy Dance and Fremont
Polite Society
(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Nida Manzoor; Writer: Nida Manzoor; Stars: Priya Kansara, Ritu Arya, Shobu Kapoor, Seraphina Beh, Ella Bruccoleri, Jeff Mirza, Nimra Bucha, Akshay Khanna)
Aspiring martial artist Ria Khan believes she must save her older sister, Lena, from her impending marriage. With the help of her friends, Ria attempts to pull off the most ambitious of all wedding heists in the name of independence and sisterhood.
Robert Irwin: A Desert Of Pure Feeling
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Jennifer Lane; Writer: Jennifer Lane)
Renowned experimental artist, Robert Irwin, explores human perception in a world that has expanded the presence of technology.
The Starling Girl
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Laurel Akira Parmet; Writer: Laurel Akira Parmet; Stars: Eliza Scanlen, Lewis Pullman, Jimmi Simpson, Wrenn Schmidt, Austin Abrams, Jessamine Burgum)
Seventeen-year-old Jem Starling struggles with her place within her Christian fundamentalist community, but everything changes when her magnetic youth pastor Owen returns to their church.
Still: A Michael J Fox Movie
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Davis Guggenheim)
The improbable tale of a short kid from a Canadian army base who became the darling of 1980s Hollywood — only to find the course of his life altered by a stunning diagnosis. What happens when an incurable optimist confronts an incurable disease?
Theater Camp
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Molly Gordon, Nick Lieberman; Writer: Molly Gordon, Nick Lieberman; Stars: Molly Gordon, Ben Platt, Noah Galvin, Jimmy Tatro, Patti Harrison, Ayo Edebiri)
When the beloved founder of a run-down theatre camp in upstate New York falls into a coma, the eccentric staff must band together with the founder's crypto-bro son to keep the camp afloa
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