The Bit Player tells the story of an overlooked genius, Claude Shannon (the "Father of Information Theory"), who revolutionized the world, but never lost his childlike curiosity.
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The Bit Player tells the story of an overlooked genius, Claude Shannon (the "Father of Information Theory"), who revolutionized the world, but never lost his childlike curiosity.
The lead singer of a Seattle punk band struggles to keep it together when her performance anxiety takes an unexpected form.
Set in a future where Britain has a system in place to regulate the birthrate, Joanna and Greg are police officers assigned to collect women who breach this law and take them into custody for emergency procedures.
Spotlighting the art of drag, and centered on the New York staple Wigstock, this documentary showcases the personalities and performances that inform the ways we understand queerness, art and identity today.
A slice of life 2D animated film about the evolving relationship between a grandfather and his grandson.
2019 remake of the 1965 episode of Doctor Who of the same name. Directed by Andrew Ireland and produced through the University of Central Lancashire.
Living in "perfect" high-class suburbia, Allie and her cheating boyfriend Darren's relationship is already on thin ice, when Allie begins to have headachess while starting to notice strange "people" watching her...but what do they want?
It's Christmas at the Treeline Ski Resort, where Holly is the event coordinator at her family lodge. She plans every event and keeps all the guests happy. But when her college sweetheart, now widowed with two children, checks in, Holly discovers she has her own reservations about life and love.
In a modern-day adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic A Christmas Carol, spoiled pop star, Chance Love, is forced to confront who she is, who she once was and the dismal fate that awaits her after trading love for fame and fortune long ago. These fateful glimpses into her life are guided by modern twists on the spirits of Christmas past, present, and future. Brian, Chance Love's faithful assistant, may just be his bosses saving grace.
A man has to face a harsh reality after his girlfriend breaks up with him
“Farah,” a bread seller, walks the streets of a Middle Eastern town, while an American military vehicle, surrounded by soldiers, slowly passes by. A moment’s silence. Then, a devastating explosion. Civilians are bloodied, wounded. The horrors of war. “Farah” looks around aghast and wailing. But nothing here is quite what it seems. In fact, “Farah” is a character played by an aspiring actress called Laila. And this isn’t Iraq, but a replica village erected on the Fort Irwin army base in California, used to train American troops before being sent abroad. Laila believes her acting talents are being wasted away in this arid simulation, where female role-players are limited to mute, background roles. She takes things much more seriously. Laila plots her way out.
While gliding through still photographs and live action, sounds and silence, black and white and color, spoken word and voiceover, the present, the past and the future, a young Greek woman recalls significant events that take place in three different stages of her life in Turkey; stemming from feelings of separation and loss on account of leaving her homeland.
About five never completed films made between 1978 and 1992 before the backdrop of the various communist regimes that came to power in Afghanistan. Scenes from these films, some of which later reused in other works, are edited together with current footage of their locations and commentaries by the filmmakers and actors involved in the productions, allowing us to dive into action films and romantic dramas that revolve around local histories and conflicts.
This definitive music documentary, featuring a greatest hits soundtrack and bounty of classic performance clips, provides an inside look into how Swedish pop group ABBA's music was made, as the former members and various colleagues tell their story from pre-ABBA days onward.
Alan, a 70-something widower, struggles to accept the fact that he's not the young and healthy man that he used to be. This is sparked after his daughter suggests that he should move into an assisted living home.
Leslie inherits a horse and, in an attempt to elevate her failing status within her high society circle, trains it to race while secretly executing a long-con with an ex celebrity jockey.
Molly tackles the world of dating.
Besides his day-to-day job as a car mechanic, the young Rachid works as a mob enforcer for a gang of credit sharks: he pressures people to pay off their loans to their creditors. But he has a hard time with the brutal violence and abuse that this job entails. Is he up to his job as a fighter boss?
Growing resentment between brothers Anthony and Alex Turner, one successful and the other struggling, leads to tragic consequences.
A young couple thinks they’ve found paradise in the luxury home they’ve just purchased in the Arizona desert but danger lurks below the surface.
A talented theatre director has been expelled from the capital for two years. And he has been sent to a small provincial theatre where he wants to put a play that his thoughts are obsessed with. This play talks about people who are being constantly watched and are living in constant fear of punishment. Gradually, the nightmares of the play begin to move into the life of the troupe...
A black-and-white experimental animation short about the tribulating reality of work.
A movie on Lord Ayyappa swami and his miracles
What if pain was merely a set up for the ultimate surprise party? Genie Burns, owner of Surprise Enterprise, masterminds off the wall surprise parties in nobody would-suspect-it locations. Here she takes crazy risks but in her love life, she plays it safe. Her partner Steven, who hilariously calls her out on every issue she owns, is gay which makes him safe. Danny, her friend from college would be perfect for her but she keeps him in the friend zone. Along comes Jeff, everything she avoids, but his charm and depth draw her in. Is he the right one because he challenges her fears, or the wrong one because he implodes them?
A film student at Ryerson University struggles to complete her thesis project.
Mild mannered Evie Sanders works as a waitress at “The Black Diamond Bar" in Alpine, Colorado and is hopelessly in love with the bar’s owner/manager, Jace Winters. Though she’s been there for four years, she’s been too shy to make a move, but that all might change after she’s asked to fill out an anonymous “Naughty List” for her friend’s human sexuality class.
The Italian mafia takes on the Mexican cartel on the Mexican border. The cartel has captured the son of an ex-mobster in witness protection. He calls on his mob buddies to come to Arizona to help him.
Amma, a young, black lesbian, spends the day in an Afro-Caribbean hair salon full of fun, sheen spray, gossip and laughter - but how will she deal with the casual homophobia?
A look at a group of Union and Confederate cavalry from late 1862 until the end of the Civil War in 1865.
A look at one of Chicago’s more troubled South Side neighborhoods from the point of view of two young boxers and their families.
A profile of two men who go to exceptional lengths to improve – and in some cases, save – the lives of those with nowhere else to turn. They risk their freedom by supplying black market medicinal cannabis to thousands suffering from chronic and terminal illnesses.
Kath, a shy young woman, befriends Bob, the reclusive gardener at a seaside hotel where she's getting married. Kath has never come to terms with her mother leaving home when she was eight and that her overbearing father, Ken, never talks about her. Now she is getting married to escape, only to discover that her fiancée, Steve, is completely dominated by Ken as well. Bob is a gentle, eccentric man with a dry sense of humour and a troubled past. He spent a long time in prison and in the years he's worked at the hotel he has never ventured beyond the gardens, which he tends with obsessive care. Kath sparks a connection to an unresolved relationship from Bob's past with a girl called Louise which resonates so strongly that he feels compelled to leave the safety of the hotel and confront his past.
A disabled comedian performs a make-or-break gig on the night his first child is born.
A mysterious shopkeeper narrates four horror tales, each set during a different holiday.
A single father has a fractious relationship with his rebellious teenage daughter. When a lost letter written to the daughter from her dying mother is miraculously found, everything starts to turn around.
When Ted gets engaged to the high school mean girl and asks Jess, his childhood best friend, to plan their wedding, things get complicated. Her true feelings for Ted keep getting in the way.
Toronto, Canada, 1899. William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874-1950) fervently believes that he is destined to become Prime Minister, but to do so he will first have to fight his personal obsessions and overcome the many obstacles he will encounter on his tortuous path to power.
When progressive minister Leslie Reynolds welcomes a seemingly sweet couple into her church, she suddenly finds her finds herself entangled in the deadly obsession of a handsome new parishioner.
An aspiring young criminal is sent to do his first hit, but when things don’t go to plan he quickly finds himself trapped in a perilous situation with no way out.
After losing his daughter, a troubled clockmaker teams up with a young woman to investigate the murder of her sister, soon he notices the parallels between two murders and a mystery begins to unfold around.
When money, power and success are at an all- time high Shawn has to dig deep within himself to stop his life from spinning wildly out of control. In the aftermath he'll count up the cost of, "The Green Grass."
After her untimely death, Melanie is led through limbo by her guide, Z.
Igor is a vampire with a conscience that finds himself unable to eat humans anymore. He tries to go vegan, but just can't go from human blood to Soy milk! What can save our poor Igor but a bloody love story?
Dealing with a girlfriend suddenly leaving is tough enough. But for Hank, heartbreak couldn’t have come at a worse time. There’s also a monster trying to break through his front door every night.
The lives of three upper class teenagers are turned upside down by an unexpected murder.
When Áila encounters a young Indigenous woman, barefoot and crying in the rain on the side of a busy street, she soon discovers that this young woman, Rosie, has just escaped a violent assault at the hands of her boyfriend. Áila decides to bring Rosie home with her and over the course of the evening, the two navigate the aftermath of this traumatic event.
A rag-tag group of undocumented youth – Dreamers – deliberately get detained by Border Patrol in order to infiltrate a shadowy, for-profit detention center.
Land's End follows the magnetic relationship between a naive young man and a former convict as they take a road trip across the south east coast.
Up in the sky with breathtaking views of the city, a ride on the Singapore Flyer takes a dramatic turn when two couples are forced to confront how they feel about each other.
New insomnia for Lucas. Impossible to sleep. He decides to go out into the deserted streets of New York and finds himself on the edge of a subway platform. He approaches slowly and sees a woman looking at him. Who is she? And most importantly, why does Lucas seem to want to end it all?
Three characters make the realization that none of them have ever felt true-fear, so over the course of one night, they set out to trick each other into feeling it.
A coffee shop manager closes up for the night and heads to her car in a nearby parking garage. Will she make it? Or will her worst fears become reality?
Five women in their thirties examine their own power in life.
By Sébastien Laudenbach
Baby, a distracted, seven-year-old girl in a cheaply stitched princess dress, spends her days in and around the food court where her mother works. Baby and Ma, now quite used to this routine, are visited by an unwanted guest who changes the course of their tranquility.
A documentary that follows the making of Frightened Rabbit's covers album, in tribute to their seminal album The Midnight Organ Fight.
Two couples and a surrogate lay bare the complications, contradictions, heartbreak, and absurdities implicit in how we think about motherhood.
Kevin Jerome Everson and his collaborator Kahlil I. Pedizisai filmed the comings and goings in front of a trap house on Empire Street in Cleveland, Ohio. Loosely inspired by Andy Warhol's 1964 film "Empire," which also runs for eight hours.
A group of college students make a deal to have wishes granted with dire consequences.