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A disillusioned psychologist tries to commit suicide until he strikes up a friendship with an unlikely saviour who teaches him a new way of living.

Based on a true story. Liz Murray is a young girl who is taken care of by her loving, but drug-addicted parents. Liz becomes homeless at 15 and after a tragedy comes upon her, she begins her work to finish high school.

A shy teenager living on the Isle of Wight dreams of pop stardom. With the help of an unlikely mentor, she enters a singing competition that will test her integrity, talent, and ambition.

Two popular teen boys, best friends since childhood, discover their lives, families, and girlfriends dramatically upended after an unexpected incident occurs on the night of a 17th birthday party.

Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.

In New York City, six-year-old Maisie is caught in the middle of a bitter custody battle between her self-absorbed parents—an aging rock singer mother and a distracted art dealer father. As both quickly marry new partners to strengthen their legal standing, Maisie is shuttled back and forth in an endless game of emotional point-scoring. Yet amid the chaos and upheaval, Maisie begins to find true comfort and affection in her new step-parents.

A young man with a bright future suffers a near-fatal accident and recreates his new life with the help of an unlikely animal friend.

While the young captains lead the revolution in the streets, the people of Fontainhas search for Ventura, lost in the woods.

A street smart runner develops an intense rivalry with an equally ambitious wealthy young athlete.

In search of a lifeline for his struggling off road racing team, a man takes on a young car thief looking for a second chance, but as their worlds collide, they must struggle to forge a successful alliance.

Under the watch of his unkind realtives, lonely Bosse's luck is changed when he is sent to the land where his real father is the King. In that country, he sets out on a quest, together with his new friend, to destroy the evil Knight Kato.

Samantha Kingston has everything. Then, everything changes. After one fateful night, she wakes up with no future at all. Trapped into reliving the same day over and over, she begins to question just how perfect her life really was.

An unlikely friendship evolves over one wild night in LA between a struggling journalist and actor Hervé Villechaize, the world's most famous gun-toting dwarf, resulting in life-changing consequences for both.

In a time when pro wrestling for women was illegal all over the country, a small town single mother embraces the danger to change culture as she dominates America's most masculine sport to become the first million dollar female athlete in history.

Sarah Rector, a Black girl born in early 20th-century Oklahoma Indian Territory, believes there is oil beneath the barren land she’s allotted, and her faith proves right. As greedy oil sharks close in, Sarah turns to family, friends, and some Texas wildcatters to maintain control of her oil-rich land, eventually becoming among the nation's first Black female millionaires—at eleven years old.

Inspired by a true story, this film tells the shocking tale of a mother and daughter who are nothing like they seem, their tumultuous relationship ending in a brutal murder.

When a youth football team of 12 boys, aged 11-16, and their 25-year-old coach is trapped deep inside a cave in Northern Thailand, thousands of volunteers and soldiers from around the world unite in a race against time to find them.

A Cape Verdean woman navigates her way through Lisbon, following the scanty physical traces her deceased husband left behind and discovering his secret, illicit life.

Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. As he climbs higher and higher his methods become more ruthless and finally senator Madison starts a campaign to find the truth about the alleged connections with the Mob.

Freshman high-school student Melinda has refused to speak ever since she called the cops on a popular summer party. With her old friends snubbing her for being a rat, and her parents too busy to notice her troubles, she folds into herself.

The year is 1941 in Sweden and Astrid seeks independence by trying to become a train conductor. On the train she meets an older passenger Dora, which she feels attracted to. Astrid also faces a more dark and hostile world on board as she discovers that the staff has put in system to reject unwanted passengers such as Romans and Jews.

Two young men part ways after a one night stand.

When an intelligence unit soldier starts to spy on a gay couple, he is lead to confront his own sexual identity.

The before and after of a break-up between a young couple, told from both perspectives.

First chapter of a trilogy of short films about the emotions arising from the five stages of grief. Here, "Denial" and "Anger."

A Hamlet-inspired tale of two sisters running their late mother's business. When one sister has a run-in with her (presumed to be dead) mother, chaos ensues.

Peter is an eight year old boy who lives in a cheap hotel room. When his mother oddly disappears, a transsexual woman comes to take care of him, against her own will. Sooner or later Peter will find out that this is the woman with the 'plumed snake', the woman that will pull him to outside world, where anything is likely to occur.

A short film from Polytechnic University of the Philippines - Sta. Mesa.

An artist strives to achieve a state of pure existence. Caught between inertia and movement, her body strains, adapts, and responds to what is happening around her.

A short film from Sagay National High School - Negros Occidental.

While his wife is pregnant, Marc enters into a strange relationship with a young Polish man who is willing to do anything.

When a little girl realizes her beloved hamster pet has been secretly replaced by her mother every time it dies, she must come to terms with the reality of life and loss.

A girl goes to visit her sister who has been impossible to reach since being released from a psychiatric ward. When she arrives, things are much worse than she could have imagined. But to her surprise, her sister claims that she has never been happier since she turned her back on the outside world.

The journey of two men wrestling with loss, suicide and their unexpected friendship that helps them rediscover life's greatest gift.

In this psychological thriller, we dive into the mind of a middle-aged man named Norman who suffers from schizophrenia. Reality and unreality are in a constant battle within his mind. As the events unfold there is a glimpse of hope underneath his suffering.

A young couple go to an isolated cabin to deal their marital problems.

A man attempts to convince his wife she is going mad so he can continue having an affair.

A director gathers all the pieces he needs to make his film: a set, an actor, a writer, a director of photography, a studio, a script, a director.

Told through two interwoven time-lines, this short film offers a no-holds barred glimpse into an intense gay relationship, where the love is expressed physically, tenderly and where the emotions run deep. A dark tale of love in which two gay men find their relationship thrown into turmoil by an unexpected discovery of truths leaving an insecure lover to try making sense of reality.