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A comedic, sometimes poignant look at the absurdity of today's college-applications process for parents and teens. Joan Cusack stars as a stressed-out mom who is trying to get her teen daughter into college.

An LGBTQ Short Film about a gay man who is struggling to deal with the loss of his boyfriend while stranded in isolation.

Sezer, who caused the death of his girlfriend in the car accident, will have to face his subconscious.

An underprivileged scholar from India obsessed about gaining admission into an Ivy League School lies about receiving an acceptance letter from Harvard University and ends up in the opulent world of his peers.

A dark short film that touches on the difficulty of telling the people you love your secret of what and who you truly are.

The film features a group of teenagers at a house party: Kenna is the nerdiest of them all, with her weirdly-shaped glasses. One of her friends tells her that Matt likes her, but her mind is only set on Claire, her best friend. Who has left her too soon.

An experimental documentary looking at the transgender experience around the world over two hemispheres, three continents and with four interviewees. The film employs limited B roll shots or edits during the interviews, instead opting to have the interviews mostly uncut, with the goal of creating both a level of sincerity and a conversational narrative between any one of the interviewees and the audience.

Raj becomes a virtual recluse after losing a five year old relationship with his partner. His tribulations and insecurities unfold along the story when he meets Sonali, a transgender on a fateful afternoon. For good or bad, this confrontation makes Raj accept the most pertinent truths in his life only to realize that it was too late.

The film follows Matt, who struggles to cope with the loss of his daughter, Sophie. He contemplates suicide but realizes the impact it would have on his wife, Sarah, and others. With the help of a therapist, Matt works towards finding acceptance. He and Sarah learn to honour Sophie's memory by scattering her ashes at her favourite spot, the duck pond. Through these tough times, they work together learning to love and cherish the old times they had with Sophie.

“Acceptance” is a story of resilience in the face of economic hardships. The tense relationship between an elderly woman and her daughter-in-law acts as a micro example of the financial difficulties of the working class in Myanmar and exposes a conflicted family where generations can no longer connect. Nyi Zaw Htwe masterfully links the micro with the macro in this social and familial drama.

More than 400 frames, all drawn and painted by hand. Animation project, Wizo Academy, Israel.

A young girl struggles to cope with the loss of a loved one. She finds hope in an unexpected gesture from a stranger.

After being accepted into MIT, Keegan hopes to tell his friend Darren. However, Darren's luck at finding a job has been slim and Keegan tries to encourage him while hiding his news.

When a young boy comes out as gay to his parents, he soon learns the true meaning of family.

Barry a social outcast who has been trying to find meaning in his life finally gets accepted by those he believes will help give his life meaning.

Ava, a professional dancer, finds herself in a toxic relationship with her partner, an accomplished choreographer, Nicholas. While he charmingly aims to convince her to go back to the stage, Ava slides towards a break-down.

During his acceptance speech for a lifetime achievement award, Nicolas Chauvin – a farmer-soldier, a veteran of the Revolutionary Army and the Napoleonic Wars, “father” of the chauvinism that bears his name – embarks on a monologue and recounts his life story. At the bend of a road, a spectral encounter shocks his (non-)existence.

A juggalo's point-of-view for portions of the 2007 gathering.

Short documentary featuring members of the LGBTI community in Timor-Leste and their allies sharing their personal stories.

Half a year after the fatal car accident in which she lost both her parents and brother, Fine goes to the birthday party of her best friend. It is there that she realizes that she hasn't fully accepted what has happened. The following day she goes once again through the five stages of grief.

The Chipmunks work in an amusement park attraction. After Alvin drives a crazy tour group, they miss their next performance and are locked in the park after closing time. Little do they know that the real Dr. Frankenstein has been hired in a new attraction called, "Frankenstein's Castle"; figuring that the castle isn't scary enough, the mad scientist recreates the real Monster.

Sex, politics and American culture are mixed into a combustible combination in Now & Later. Angela is an illegal Latina immigrant living in Los Angeles who stumbles across Bill, a disgraced banker on the run. She takes him in. Through passionate sex, soul-searching conversations ranging from politics to philosophy, and other worldly pleasures, Angela introduces Bill to another worldview. As their affair heats up, the course of Bill's life begins to take an abrupt and unexpected turn.

Lucas Simons, an 11-year-old filmmaker, is obsessed with death after the loss of his brother. When Lucas accidentally captures a mysterious presence in one of his films, he inadvertently becomes a YouTube phenomenon, and must learn to live life in the spotlight while also learning how to once again start living life to its fullest.

Six California kids test their brains and talents against students in Odyssey of the Mind, a problem-solving competition requiring mechanical, creative and intellectual skills. With little money and zero adult participation, the teens build a robot to tell a story about bullying, exclusion and mental health. But how does their solution measure up?

Four cops failed to catch a thief due to their obesity. Their boss then assigned a new mission for them; lose weight in two months or they all got fired.

The 30-year-old protagonist Slava wakes up in a strange place with missing memories from last night. He’s taken to a hospital where Slava learns that in this odd, even dystopian world he has awakened, all the men have gone extinct long ago, leaving him the only man left in the world. Experimental fever-dream-like voyage through the mind and emotional turmoil of a young man trying to make sense of life as well as accepting the end of his relationship.

The history of italo disco, a musical genre that conquered the world during the incredible eighties, the most cybernetic decade; a style that was not just another kind of dance-pop music, but also the origin of an aesthetic, a true social phenomenon and the creative center of a very profitable industry.

Over one thousand people have been charged with storming the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, as part of a widely televised insurrection attempt. Approximately 15% of them worked as police or military personnel. This staggering statistic begs an important question: how can a service member who took an oath to protect the country’s democracy do something that puts that very democracy in jeopardy?

On a quiet street in Helsinki, Sachie has opened a diner featuring rice balls. For a month she has no customers. Then, in short order, she has her first customer, meets Midori, a gangly Japanese tourist, and invites her to stay with her.

Young student Marc struggles with self-doubt...and a tough-talking bully. But things take a powerful turn when his uncle—an elite Navy SEAL—moves in for the summer and helps Marc find his inner fighter.

Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor's own first love.

An uptight professional meets his lower-class biological parents for the first time.

Hanging out with friends, smoking a lot, spinning bottles and kissing, making mistakes, playing, refusing to accept, dreaming with open eyes - life as a teenager can be overwhelmingly beautiful and difficult at the same time. In her debut, the Ukrainian director composes a deeply emotional and multi-layered portrait of a generation whilst seamlessly flowing between the fictional and the documental.

As Mio goes on a journey to Loveland to find closure, an incident occurs, giving him new hope for his heart to shine again. A story about the importance of loving and coping, of hearts connecting and separating.

Far beneath the beautiful sea, a unique whale sings a song that is all his own. Based on the award winning picture book, "52 - A Tale of Loneliness"

Amir Hossein, Manouchehr, and Shahkar are young and unmarried who decide to go to Emirates in order to find well-paid jobs. Unfortunately, Shahkar gets mugged by a motor rider and they lose all of their money. Shahkar's uncle suggests them working in a workshop owned by a young lady called Ms. Arabshahi. She has one condition though, that they should pass her tests.

To prove a point about measuring up and fitting in, Texas teen Willowdean “Dumplin’” Dickson enters a local pageant run by her ex-beauty queen mom.

Longing for acceptance, a neurodivergent boy taunts the boundaries of his best friend: his brother.

One morning, a girl tries on a pair of new pants, but they won’t zip up. In the mirror she sees herself as the fattest piglet the world has ever seen. To change this, she decides to go on a strict diet. Hunger quickly turns her into a kind of zombie, stumbling blindly to the fridge that seems to haunt her at night. In one of those moments, the Angel of the United Bitches of Slimbuttlandia appears, carrying a royal invitation to visit the kingdom and take part in a mysterious royal ceremony.

Through examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since her teens, and her work on behalf of other deaf-blind people, this film shows how the deaf-blind struggle to understand and accept a world from which they are almost wholly isolated.