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An in-depth investigation featuring world renowned philosophers and scientists into the most profound philosophical debate of all time: Do we have free will?

A trip to Freewill Forest amongst friends goes awry as the past begins to repeat itself and the women realize what "Free Will" really is.

A daughter embarks on a fantasy journey to "rescue" her mother from the suffocating shackles of marriage and motherhood.

The short film begins with a definition of the concept of "freedom." Set in Greece in 2020, it shows what our lives will be like with the citizen card. This card will contain all our identity details, even the most seemingly insignificant ones, such as our location at any given moment, and of course everything will be recorded by the state.

Preoccupation with the body is briefly suspended in this queer meditation on the afterlife.

Afghanistan, Spring 2002 — Following the fall of the taliban regime, the country faces extreme poverty. To feed his family, a father is forced to sell his 15-year-old daughter to a 65-year-old man. Refusing to accept this fate for her child, the mother, determined to give her a brighter future, arranges a marriage with a man living in Montreal. In return, she makes a solemn promise: the children born of this union will one day marry their cousins remaining in Afghanistan. Montreal, Spring 2020 — The pact resurfaces. Now well integrated into Quebec society, Zarmina refuses to let her 15-year-old daughter marry her cousin in Afghanistan. Her firm opposition triggers a tragic chain of events.

A time traveling assassin from 2073 hunts down individuals who travelled to 2022 in search of sanctuary.

After nine years in psychiatric detention Theo, who has brutally assaulted and raped three women, is released. Living in a supervised community, he connects well with his social worker Sascha, finds a job at a print shop and even a girlfriend, Nettie, his principal's brittle and estranged daughter. But even though superficially everything seems to work out Theo's seething rage remains ready to erupt.

The second, connecting part of the cycle "Hospital Tales. Sung by Maxim Praslov.

To save her father from bankruptcy, Nan Everard marries wealthy Peter Craddock and under protest goes with him to South America. En route she is injured in an automobile wreck, but Peter continues the trip. He returns to find her renewing an old friendship, and though she hopes to obtain a divorce she finally surrenders to his stronger will.

The film explores the potential for automation in every sector of employment and questions the integrity of our methods of resource distribution going into the future.

Two gay Guardian Angels meddle with their assigned humans while bringing their past to the present.

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Desire Will Set You Free is a feature film that explores life in contemporary Berlin with an often critical and sometimes humorous eye. Based on a true story, the plot follows the relationship of an American writer of Israeli/Palestinian descent and a Russian aspiring artist working as a hustler, offering access to the city's vibrant queer and underground scenes while examining the differences between expatriate and refugee life. Our characters travel through Berlin's layered history and unique subcultural landscape; on their adventures they discover influences and remnants of the Weimar Republic, WWII, the Bowie years, and punk.

A documentary of sorts about car culture and its discontents.

Set in the early 1940s, a young Ukrainian woman is taken into custody because her statements about freedom are considered dangerous by a repressive system. Inspired by true events.

Gay Guardian Angels, Joey McGee and his ex-boyfriend TJ Wright III, are sent to a church, by God, to complete their next mission. There, they meet Ben and his apathetic Guardian Angel Virginia.

In the early 2010s, teenager Pete finds himself bound in the back of a windowless white van, a bomb strapped to his chest. As he recalls internet chats with an enigmatic girl known as MOAB_Didion, it's clear the lines between online love and ideological fantasy have collapsed into real-world danger.

Robert Wyatt is one of the best-kept secrets of contemporary British music. Drummer and vocalist in Soft Machine which played with Hendrix and Pink Floyd in their heyday, he split from the group in the late 1960s and started recording solo albums. A fall from a window left Wyatt confined to a wheelchair, but he continued recording, even in hospital. His most well-known song is probably Shipbuilding, a protest against the Falklands war written for him by Elvis Costello, while his 1997 album Schleep won acclaim as one of the best albums of the past 10 years. In addition to performance footage of the famously retiring musician, the documentary contains interviews with John Peel, Brian Eno, Annie Whitehead, Alfie and Robert Wyatt himself.

This is the story of one homeless man’s transformation after undergoing a nine-month rehabilitation program in a Christian rehab center, after which he tried to start his life over. Misha is 42 years old. He has no passport, a leg injury and sits on a step, begging for handouts with a paper cup. Now he is at rehab center. The rehab center is very much part of the monastery. Following of a strict routine, which revolves around discipline, community, communication and discussion, labour, animals and farming, construction, prayers and hymns, Bible study, as well questions and thoughts about death and happiness. This is what rehabilitation looks like. But will Misha become a new person after rehab?

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?

Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence with his wife and 3 children; one day, he wakes up as a mortal centenarian in the year 2092.

When aimless Manon begins work at À mon seul désir, a strip club that offers high concept performances, she instantly bonds with her fellow strippers, particularly Mia, an aspiring actress with a boyfriend and child. Manon learns that it is “not easy money, but fast money” and when she finds herself falling for Mia, she is forced to question her priorities as she explores her newfound erotic life.

In C.E.75, the fighting still continues. There are independence movements, and aggression by Blue Cosmos... In order to calm the situation, a global peace monitoring agency called COMPASS is established, with Lacus as its first president. As members of COMPASS, Kira and his comrades intervene into various regional battles. Then a newly established nation called Foundation proposes a joint operation against a Blue Cosmos stronghold.

In 1984, a young programmer begins to question reality as he adapts a dark fantasy novel into a video game. A mind-bending tale with multiple endings.

An emotionally adaptive superintelligence marketed to elevate its owners' lives forges a powerful bond with an overwhelmed couple, transforming their world until her judgment forces them to confront how much control they are willing to surrender.

Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.

Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II.

A team of special agents discovers a revolutionary new computer program to bait and trap online predators. After teaming up with the program's troubled developer, they soon find that the AI is rapidly advancing beyond its original purpose.

In a world where the future is for sale, a grieving man visits a mysterious Time Spa, seeking a glimpse of his future. However, he discovers that some truths are more challenging than the past he's desperate to escape.

Katelyn discovers she is a character in a film after fighting back against 'The Narrator' that controls her life.

What starts as harmless fun with a voice assistant becomes a countdown to destruction when the AI begins predicting a couple's relationship's demise with terrifying precision.

A mysterious organic box appears floating above the ground just outside of town. Samara convinces her best friend Ava to check out the box and its sinister revelations quickly unfold.

An animator finds himself trying to explain his (lack of) artistic vision to his creations, who just aren't impressed.

Ramfangzauva attempts to commit suicide after his wife dies due to complications that arise after she gives birth to their daughter Nuni. But before he can go through with it, he is visited by the ghost of his wife who shows him the future.

A young man living far from his beloved one wastes his existence absorbed in modern distractions until he loses contact with her.

Remarkable poet Elizabeth Barrett is slowly recovering from a crippling illness with the help of her siblings, especially her youngest sister, Henrietta, but feels stifled by the domestic tyranny of her wealthy widowed father. When she meets fellow poet Robert Browning in a romantic first encounter, her heart belongs to him. However, her controlling father has no intention of allowing her out of his sight.

In a society where the greatest concern is the size and power of one’s wings, nihilist Ciobeck tries to protect Moann. But how can one survive in a barren land populated by imprisoned-mind people?

Tara, a spirited 22-year-old, defies her protective parents to embark on a solo trip to Switzerland, inspired by an old romance novel that comforted her after her grandmother's death.

Over the last three decades, science has been advancing our understanding of stress: how it impacts our bodies and how our social standing can make us more or less susceptible. From baboon troops on the plains of Africa, to neuroscience labs at Stanford University, scientists are revealing just how lethal stress can be. Research tells us that the impact of stress can be found deep within us, shrinking our brains, adding fat to our bellies, even unraveling our chromosomes. Understanding how stress works can help us figure out ways to combat it and how to live a life free of the tyranny of this contemporary plague. In Stress: Portrait of a Killer, scientific discoveries in the field and in the lab prove that stress is not just a state of mind, but something measurable and dangerous.