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Banned Together
Follows three teenagers from Beaufort, South Carolina, who fight to reinstate 97 books suddenly pulled from their school libraries. Alongside the teens' local protests, the film also highlights censorship battles happening in libraries, classrooms, and school districts across the United States, with several teachers speaking about the harassment and threats they have received from those driving the bans, some of whom have been forced out of teaching altogether.
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Diane Warren: Relentless
Diane Warren: Relentless is a groundbreaking documentary that reveals the unique genius of a woman who has shaped an entire generation of music. Having written over 400 songs for iconic artists such as Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Celine Dione, Lady Gaga, Whitney Houston, Britney Spears, and Aerosmith, Diane Warren resides in the pantheon of music greats. This is her untold story.
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Disfluency
After unexpectedly failing her final college class, Jane retreats to her hometown. With the support of her friends, family, and a nostalgic summer on the lake, Jane comes to terms with the trauma that derailed her senior year.
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East of Wall
East of Wall is an authentic portrait of female resilience in the 'New West,' inspired and played by the women and girls who live it. Set in the Badlands of South Dakota, Tabatha, a young, rebellious rancher, who rescues and resells horses, must make hard decisions to deal with her fractured family, financial uncertainty, and unresolved grief, all while providing refuge for a group of wayward neighborhood teens.
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Flesh and Blood
Mixing fiction and reality, filmmaker Mark Webber captures the story of a man who returns home from prison and attempts to rebuild his life in his impoverished Philadelphia neighborhood.
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Flipside
A comical attempt to save a New Jersey record store and confront a mid-life crisis. When filmmaker Chris Wilcha revisits the record store he worked at as a teenager in New Jersey, he finds the once-thriving bastion of music and weirdness from his youth slowly falling apart and out of touch with the times. FLIPSIDE documents his tragicomic attempt to revive the store while revisiting other documentary projects he has abandoned over the years. In the process, Wilcha captures This American Life icon Ira Glass in the midst of a creative rebirth, discovers the origin story of David Bowie's ode to a local New Jersey cable television hero, and uncovers the unlikely connection between jazz photographer Herman Leonard and TV writer David Milch. This disparate collection of stories coheres into something strange and expansive-a moving meditation on music, work, and the sacrifices and satisfaction of trying to live a creative life.
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Sebastian
Follows Max, a 25-year-old freelance writer and aspiring novelist who seems well on his way to success in London's cultural spheres. Yet by night, he finds a different kind of exhilaration as a sex worker with the pseudonym Sebastian, meeting men via an escorting platform. Max uses his experiences as Sebastian to fuel his stories, and the worthy debut novel that he has been longing to write finally seems within reach. As Max increasingly struggles to remain in control of a delicately balanced double-life, he must reckon with whether Sebastian is merely a writer's tool in their quest for the ultimate sense of first-hand authenticity--or whether something more is at stake
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This is Our Everything
The Guajajara people in Northern Brazil decide not to stand idly by while their land and that of the uncontacted Aw p̀eople is being destroyed. They create a group of forest guardians who are determined to defend the Amazon rainforest if necessary with their own lives.
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Tish
Tish delves into the life and work of British photographer Tish Murtha, renowned for her poignant black-and-white images capturing the struggles of working-class communities in Northeast England during the 1970s and 1980s. Through the lens of her daughter, Ella Murtha, the film explores Tish's unwavering commitment to social justice and her efforts to shed light on the impacts of deindustrialization and austerity policies on her community. Despite facing personal hardships and professional marginalization, Tish's legacy endures, highlighting the power of photography as a tool for advocacy and change.
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Trust
A matriarch's death reunites her three neurotic children for a chaotic funeral and a shocker reading of the will.
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Unicorns
Unicorns tells the story of a cross-cultural romance about a single father from Essex, England, who works as an auto mechanic and a British Indian drag queen living a double life. The film stars Ben Hardy as Luke, who is forced to rethink his sexual identity when he unexpectedly falls in love with Aysha.
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Without Arrows
The poignant feature documentary 'Without Arrows' chronicles three generations of a Lakota family as Delwin Fiddler Jr., an acclaimed grass dancer, returns to his ancestral home on the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Reservation in South Dakota. After 11 years of living in Philadelphia, he leaves his big city life behind, aiming to reconnect with his mother and father and learn more about their family history. A portrait of the Fiddlers, 'Without Arrows' begins as Delwin works to rebuild his life and sense of identity while navigating within his family and within the larger culture of the reservation. Delwin experiences struggles and frustrations as he attempts to rekindle an interest in traditional Lakota lifeways while healing from the trauma that caused him to leave home in the first place. Through tenderness and tragedy Without Arrows celebrates the emotional arcs and hidden longings of the Fiddler family as they strive to carry on the legacy of their ancestors to the next generation.
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