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In the year 2159, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. Secretary Rhodes, a hard line government official, will stop at nothing to enforce anti-immigration laws and preserve the luxurious lifestyle of the citizens of Elysium. That doesn’t stop the people of Earth from trying to get in, by any means they can. When unlucky Max is backed into a corner, he agrees to take on a daunting mission that, if successful, will not only save his life, but could bring equality to these polarized worlds.

A woman in her sixties embarks on a journey through the western United States after losing everything in the Great Recession, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.

A court-appointed legal guardian defrauds her older clients and traps them under her care. But her latest mark comes with some unexpected baggage.

This documentary-drama hybrid explores the dangerous human impact of social networking, with tech experts sounding the alarm on their own creations.

A working student bustles through scorching Manila, pushed to a cycle of exhaustion as the disparities of a distant world of capitalist excess kindle a common tenderness.

An Art Curator’s Assistant becomes obsessed with a piece that might just change her life. But how far is she willing to go, and who will she become?

Over the past 25 years, Lauren Greenfield's documentary photography and film projects have explored youth culture, gender, body image, and affluence. Underscoring the ever-increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots, portraits reveal a focus on cultivating image over substance, where subjects unable to attain actual wealth instead settle for its trappings, no matter their ability to pay for it.

On behalf of a multinational company, a production assistant drives around the Romanian city of Bucharest, interviewing various citizens who have been injured due to work accidents to cast one of them in a “safety at work” video.

As technology accelerates, our species' collective imagination of the future grows ever more kaleidoscopic. We are all haunted by temporal distortion, perhaps no more than when we attempt to remember what the future looked like to our younger selves. As the mist of time devours our memories, the future recedes; each of us burdened by the gaping mouth of entropy. Yet, emerging technology provides a glimmer of hope; transhumanism promises a future free from mortality, disease and pain. Does our salvation lie in digital simulacra? We're here to sell you the answer to that question, for the low, low price of four hundred and seventy seconds.

Alexis Conran explores the claims that smartphones and tech companies might be listening in on users and collecting a vast amount of personal data. How do our phones seem to know everything?

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Seven privileged friends spend their days in the middle of a global pandemic.

An introverted office drone tries to navigate through corporate America, and one tragic day he meets his match. He then realizes he needs to play the capitalistic game in order to survive.

Milo, an unemployed and whiny anarchist, finds out he is adopted. After learning his real name is "Milo Wormwood" and being forced to get a job by his older brother, Milo decides to use his opportunity to find his new identity. However, he finds himself employed by a failed entrepreneur who has terrible inventions and even more terrible past.

An American immigrant recalls how, in 1999, the European Union turned the bodies of his family — and millions of others — into Decathlon products, in the name of European welfare and prosperity.

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In the found-footage film JUGGERNAUT, men from YouTube archives take center stage. They participate in an endless competition for the title of "THE BEST." To achieve this, the film uses documentary footage from the 1950s that extol the virtues of capitalism, as well as a flood of YouTube videos uploaded by men revealing their secrets to getting rich quickly.

Amy, a promising young employee in a top accounting firm, questions her life choices (and sanity), when she starts having recurring visions of the Grim Reaper.

An unnerving glimpse into the near future is experienced through Callum, a young drifter.

It’s 3 AM, the neon is buzzing, and nobody's where they thought they’d be. In the restless late hours of Miami, nine characters stumble through weird nights and even weirder dreams as they grapple with their dead-end jobs and absurdities of modern life: A diner breakdown to a reggaeton-fueled murder fantasy, a clown-vampire existential crisis, and a ten-year-old philosopher driving the last nail into the coffin of the American Dream - ultimately revealing a society teetering between exhaustion and hope.