American Painkillers

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    Drama Gosha Shapiro

    Lena

    A 9-year-old girl plays translator during a parent-teacher conference between her Russian dad and her American teacher.

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    Drama Lulu Wang

    Touch

    When an elderly Chinese man's cultural naivety gets him in trouble, he struggles with his son and the legal system to make the context of his behaviour understood.

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    A Shorts-centric Preview of SXSW 2024

    Black holes, nuns and Nicholas Cage all feature in this round-up of work from our previously featured filmmakers at this year's SXSW

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    Drama Jonathan Yi

    Shift

    Working a graveyard mailroom shift, a young actor learns life-long lessons from the melting-pot of racial diversity in the office.

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    Drama Thembi L Banks

    Suitable

    Brandy, a high school senior, comes to terms with her sexuality when she decides what she’ll wear to the prom.

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    Thriller Peter Edlund

    The New West

    A classic revenge tale begins in a schoolyard and ends at the heart of the modern frontier.

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    Satire Eric Pumphrey

    Let's Be Civil, Kenneth!

    Set in 1955, Kenneth and his wife, Marjorie, are struggling with their respective roles within the marriage...

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    Drama Emmanuel Tenenbaum

    Free Fall

    (Film is Currently Offline) When the first plane hits the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11th 2001, Tom jumps into the biggest trade of his life.

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    Drama Philip Aceto

    Open House

    Fearing the loss of his authority and job, a lonely emasculated high school custodian targets the school's new part-time employee: a poor refugee student.

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    Drama Daniel Newell Kaufman

    Runon

    All Luke and his mom have are two garbage bags full of clothes, and two tickets out of town on the midnight Greyhound. Like he's assembling a puzzle, Luke has to figure out the why of it-all before the person they're running from puts together the pieces.

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