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Against the Tide
Mumbai fishermen Rakesh and Ganesh are inheritors of the great Koli knowledge system a way to harvest the sea by following the moon and the tides. Rakesh has kept faith in traditional fishing methods while Ganesh has embraced technology. A prize-winner at Sundance, Against the Tide is a tale of two men's bond fractured by the weight of a changing world and a sea threatened by climate change.
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Break the Game
Alone in her studio apartment, Narcissa Wright livestreams every minute of her quest to be the world's fastest Legend of Zelda player. As a renowned world-record holding speedrunner (a term for someone who tries to complete a video game as fast as possible), she once amassed adoring crowds, viewers in the tens of thousands, and a fanbase of over 150,000 followers. Then at the height of her fame, she stops speedrunning and makes a huge announcement: She comes out as a transgender woman. Break the Game follows Narcissa as she attempts to break the speedrun world record on the new Zelda Game "Breath of the Wild" in order to win back her massive fanbase, which largely abandoned her after coming out. While some remain loyal, others begin to obsessively harass, threaten, and cyberbully her. Despite the onslaught of hateful messages and threats, Narcissa is determined to hold the virtual space she's created and prove that she's still one of the best gamers in the world. But when her comeback does not go as expected, she is then left to grapple with the mental toll of an online life. The combination of living in isolation and waves of online harassment drive her into spirals of depression where feeding into the negativity seems like the only way to maintain some agency for her online persona, as she leverages her notoriety to help grow her viewership.
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Cottontail
After the death of his wife, Kenzaburo receives an unexpected letter from beyond the grave. His late wife asks him to travel to Lake Windermere in England with their son to scatter her ashes. Plagued by sweet and painful memories of his wife, Kenzaburo travels to England from Tokyo to fulfill her final wish, but the father and son's fraught relationship threatens to upend their journey.
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Cuckoo
Gretchen leaves America to live with her father, who has moved to the German Alps with his new family. After arriving, Gretchen is plagued by strange noises and bloody visions until she discovers a shocking secret about her own family.
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I like movies
Lawrence, a socially inept seventeen-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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Marmalade
Recently incarcerated Baron strikes up a friendship with cellmate Otis, a man with a well-versed history of prison breaks. As the pair hatch an escape plan together, Baron recalls the story of how he met Marmalade, the love of his life, and their Bonnie and Clyde style scheme to rob a bank in order to care for his sick mother and give the couple the life they've always dreamed of.
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Minted
An insider's look at the rise and fall of the NFT (non-fungible token) phenomenon that transformed the future of digital art.
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Queen of glory
When her mother suddenly dies, a Ghanaian-American young woman, who had been preparing to follow her married boyfriend to Ohio, is tasked with arranging a funeral according to her family's traditional expectations and take care of a small Christian bookstore serving a small Ghanaian community in Bronx
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Re: uniting
When six best friends from college reunite after 25 years, the secrets they've all kept hidden come bubbling to the surface. One secret that will change them all forever forces them to look at their lives and the choices they've made.
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Scab Vendor
A look at the life of Jonathan Shaw, the son of bandleader Artie Shaw and Hollywood starlet Doris Dowling. After overdosing in his 20s, Jonathan learned from the best American tattoo artists and quickly became the go-to tattoo artist in NYC. His Fun City Tattoo Studio opened before tattooing was legal in Manhattan and was frequented by his friends, Johnny Depp and punk legend Iggy Pop. Scab Vendor explores how a man, at the height of his career, chose to give up on his celebrity lifestyle to escape from his own vicious cycle.
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Squeegee
An intimate portrait of four young people as they grow up in Baltimore trying to find their place in the world, Squeegee is a tale of survival and ingenuity, diving into the lives and families of teens who wash car windows for money at stoplights. Through verite footage, the film explores the lives of Desmond, Leroy, "Peanut", and Ericka as they confront traumas, celebrate triumphs, and conquer everyday challenges. From birthday parties to navigating their journey as young entrepreneurs, this coming-of-age narrative meditates on resilience in the face of many obstacles. Though "squeegeeing" has come to be a highly politicized form of panhandling, sparking fierce debate and even vitriol, those who undertake that work are extraordinary young adults navigating poverty and living in the consistent presence of gun violence. For many, washing windows offers an opportunity to support themselves and their families. With immediate returns for those in sometime transitionary or precarious situations, squeegeeing can seem like the more rational choice when weighed against the far-off potential rewards of education or career training. And family and community members view the occupation as a healthy alternative to more destructive illegal activities.
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Touristic Intents
Touristic Intents explores the complex interplay between mass tourism and political ideology through the story of Prora, a colossal Nazi resort on Germany's Baltic Sea. Construction began in 1936 to build this 3-mile-long structure, which would accommodate 20,000 vacationing Germans -- and serve as a powerful propaganda tool to enhance support of the Nazi regime. But it was never completed. After the war, the GDR (East Germany's Socialist government) used it for military purposes and to incarcerate (house?) conscientious objectors. Today, as Prora undergoes transformation into a modern vacation hub, the film raises provocative questions about the enduring influence of architecture on political memory and national identity, challenging viewers to consider the responsibilities in preserving a building's contentious history.
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