When an ex-cop's deathbed confession reveals something terrible, a dutiful daughter is forced to weigh the differences between the stories we tell ourselves and the truth.
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Hardly Working sheds a limelight on the characters that normally remain in the background of video games: NPCs. A laundress, a stable boy, a street sweeper and a carpenter are observed with ethnographic precision. Their labor routines, activity patterns, as well as bugs and malfunctions, paint a vivid analogy for work under capitalism.
David and Kate’s sex life is on the wane. In an effort to save their relationship, they decide to raise the stakes: have sex that night or break up.
The act of transporting an old mattress into a new walk-up apartment becomes absurdist, cinematic one-woman choreography in this nearly wordless vignette from Adinah Dancyger, full of humor and pathos, and painfully familiar to city-dwellers.
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Three friends embark on a new adventure in a strange town, but when a manipulative new member joins their gang, their loyalty is torn apart with terrifying consequences.
Two strangers participate in an experiment designed to make them fall in love by asking each another 36 increasingly personal questions.
Two space engineer's journey through deep space takes a dramatic turn when they discover an emergency message from the past.
