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Nate Shepherd, late 40's, and Jenny Sparks, early 30's, meet in a fancy New York eatery. Complete strangers who have had a rotten day, waiting for their better halves, they reveal to one another that they are going to meet new people tonight. They quickly realize they are waiting for each other. When Nate loses his girlfriend (after getting fired from his cushy job at an ad agency) and Jenny loses her boyfriend to a drug overdose, Nate's girlfriend suggests that they should move in together as friends to split the rent and ease each others pain. As their friendship grows into something more, their relationship becomes a loving but complicated experience.

Jamila is the daughter of a wealthy businessman. She is married to Khanlar, the son of her father's business partner. But soon he shows his real face after the death of Jamila's father and makes her life hell. Unable to bear this pain, Jamila decides to run away from home.

In Harlem in 1987, Claireece "Precious" Jones is a 16-year-old African American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father, and at home she must wait hand and foot on her mother, an angry woman who abuses her emotionally and physically. School is chaotic and Precious has reached the ninth grade with good marks and a secret – she can't read.

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Far East. 70th years. A small garrison on the border with China. Here, as everywhere, there are men and women. Everyone has his own story, his own destiny, his own love. The common thing is that they all came here once on duty and stayed for a long time. Marina Goloshchekina is nice, kind, right. Galya The tourniquet is intelligent, passionate, determined. Albina Raven - extravagant, unpredictable, thin. Three friends, three sisters in happiness and misfortune, officers' wives. They help each other stand in this completely feminine world, where every man has a gun! And this means that love and danger go hand in hand. Marina quite unexpectedly meets her true love of the young officer Ivan Stolbov. Learn about this new secret love girlfriend. On the one hand, you can rejoice over Marina. But how can she rejoice herself, if behind five years of marriage with a strong, strong-willed and very unpredictable Nikita Goloshchekin?

Romance novelist Liam Bradley (Dylan Bruce) has already found massive success with three books written under the pen name Gabriel August, but he's mysteriously unknown to his legions of readers. With his first book written as a way to heal after a broken relationship, Liam has slowly become disheartened with writing strictly for romantic fantasy, something evident to a sweet, but honest, journalist who reviews books, Sophie Atkinson (Amy Acker), whom he meets by chance on a plane. The two begin a tentative relationship in Sophie’s home town of Portland, Oregon, where Liam has come to find inspiration for his newest entry. Liam’s agent puts him on the spot with a long-planned reveal of Gabriel August’s true identity, but Sophie doesn’t know of his public persona. The longer Liam avoids telling her the truth, the deeper a hole he digs for himself. Will their romance survive once his true identity comes to light?

Max Normane is a successful editor with an eye for undiscovered talent. Unfortunately, her personal life isn't nearly as good as the stories in her magazine. With her biological clock ticking and a history of failed romances, Max pursues an unorthodox path to motherhood. Jake Buckley is a struggling but talented writer whose previous attempts at getting published have failed miserably. Max offers the perfect solution; she'll publish his story, giving life to his "baby", if he'll give life to hers. Afterwards, Max throws herself headfirst into the world of single motherhood, while Jake travels the world as a celebrated literary figure. Now having achieved their dreams, Max and Jake realize they must deal with the one thing they didn't bargain for - each other.

It’s a 20min face filter film where the characters question their own self-image out loud as they talk to and even gossip with selfies and inanimate objects. Reflecting on technology, loneliness, and the role of digital environments in everyday life.

Short film by David Wain, with Amanda Peet

A stilted male writer, Brian, is paired with a more carefree female associate to try to improve their stories. Meanwhile, he allows a sexy girl-friend to go away frustrated, and he shyly slides through other opportunities for relationships. Two major subplots arise: Brian's career path and his social life.

Sethunath is a successful writer who reveals to journalist Aneesa his love for a girl called Priya and his inability to marry her.

A successful New York book editor is chosen to run a bookstore in the small town of Saint Ives for the month of December.

In Novel City, Thornton revisits her 1983 film Adynata, which explored questions of the Other through what Thornton has termed an "Orientalist spectacle" that was "intended to bring about a critical self-response, a simultaneous attraction and repulsion that provoke an instance of cultural self-awareness." In her new work, Thornton confronts the economic and cultural transformation of contemporary China, evoking a new spectacle of capitalism run amok. Thornton shoots from her window of the Jin Jiang Hotel in Shanghai, the site of Mao's 1972 meeting with Nixon, and projects images from the earlier movie, creating a layered landscape of alienation and dislocation. - Description from EAI

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Chloe Anderson, a beloved children’s book author, has always drawn inspiration from her cherished childhood memories. During her final book signing at the Noelleville bookstore, Chloe encounters Ethan, a devoted single father, and his book-loving, aspiring writer daughter, Alex. Their shared passion for literature sparks an immediate connection. Just when Chloe believes she’s on the brink of embracing her future, her publisher extends a dazzling opportunity for a high-profile New Year’s Eve appearance on a major network show. Now, she must decide whether to stand firm in her resolve to focus on her novel and personal life, or succumb to the allure of her demanding career.

The film consists of five short stories that reflect five stages (1947 — 1950 — 1957 — 1967 — 1982) the action programs of the heroine of the film, from the age of fifteen, rushed to a typical goal for that time — to smile from the front page of a central newspaper. Her fate is not simple: unhappy love, life with the unloved, a labor colony, love again, then love in return, earthquakes, fires, devastation. The heroine is getting closer to the goal and nothing can stop her..

8mm film that restricts itself to material shot in a San Antonio motel room and an apartment in El Paso.

Based on true story of four friends who decided to take over the city. Giedrius is released after serving a long 12 year sentence for unlawful conduct he did with his friends while being a child.

Stuck in the monotony of day to day life, Quinn goes on a journey through novels from her local bookstore to achieve and harbor self-acceptance.

When Kristi's mother commits suicide, Kristi and her husband Bryan head back to her childhood home out in the country to take care of her mother's affairs; selling the house and holding an auction. Soon Kristi starts to experience odd things, things that don't happen to ordinary people, and the presence of an old legend. Does it exist or is it all in Kristi's head?

For centuries, a small but powerful force of warriors called the Green Lantern Corps has sworn to keep intergalactic order. Each Green Lantern wears a ring that grants him superpowers. But when a new enemy called Parallax threatens to destroy the balance of power in the Universe, their fate and the fate of Earth lie in the hands of the first human ever recruited.

A story very loosely based the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, where the King of Sparta led his army against the advancing Persians.

Back from the brink of death, highly skilled commando Tyler Rake takes on another dangerous mission: saving the imprisoned family of a ruthless gangster.

Andrew and Daniela travel to Goa, India, to meet their newly adopted 4-year-old daughter, Sarvari, and bring her back to the US. However, their world begins to crumble when Sarvari refuses to leave the orphanage that she calls home behind. The couple’s attempts to welcome their child into her new family and travel back with her prove to be a chaotic challenge that not only tests their patience but also profoundly reshapes their ideas of family, parenthood, and their relationship as a couple.

Doormat Wesley Gibson is an office worker whose life is going nowhere. He meets an attractive woman named Fox and discovers that his recently murdered father - whom Wesley never knew - belonged to the Fraternity, a secret society of assassins which takes its orders from Fate itself. Fox and Sloan, the Fraternity's leader, teach Wesley, through intense training, to tap into dormant powers and hone his innate killing skills. Though he enjoys his newfound abilities, he begins to suspect that there is more to the Fraternity than meets the eye.

A group of families on a tropical holiday discover that the secluded beach where they are staying is somehow causing them to age rapidly – reducing their entire lives into a single day.

After a fateful miss, an assassin battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn't personal.

As bass guitarist for a garage-rock band, Scott Pilgrim has never had trouble getting a girlfriend; usually, the problem is getting rid of them. But when Ramona Flowers skates into his heart, he finds she has the most troublesome baggage of all: an army of ex-boyfriends who will stop at nothing to eliminate him from her list of suitors.

Some of Sin City's most hard-boiled citizens cross paths with a few of its more reviled inhabitants.

Greek general Themistocles attempts to unite all of Greece by leading the charge that will change the course of the war. Themistocles faces the massive invading Persian forces led by mortal-turned-god, Xerxes and Artemesia, the vengeful commander of the Persian navy.

Welcome to Sin City. This town beckons to the tough, the corrupt, the brokenhearted. Some call it dark… Hard-boiled. Then there are those who call it home — Crooked cops, sexy dames, desperate vigilantes. Some are seeking revenge, others lust after redemption, and then there are those hoping for a little of both. A universe of unlikely and reluctant heroes still trying to do the right thing in a city that refuses to care.

In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer; a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.

During the Vietnam War, a recon unit ventures to an isolated jungle valley to uncover the fate of a missing platoon. They soon find themselves in a fight for their lives against an unexpected enemy — prehistoric dinosaurs.

On the trail of a missing girl, an ex-cop comes across a secretive group attempting to summon a terrifying supernatural entity.

A hardened gun-for-hire's latest mission becomes a soul-searching race to survive when he's sent into Bangladesh to rescue a drug lord's kidnapped son.

In the future, America is a dystopian wasteland. The latest scourge is Ma-Ma, a prostitute-turned-drug pusher with a dangerous new drug and aims to take over the city. The only possibility of stopping her is an elite group of urban police called Judges, who combine the duties of judge, jury and executioner to deliver a brutal brand of swift justice. But even the top-ranking Judge, Dredd, discovers that taking down Ma-Ma isn’t as easy as it seems in this explosive adaptation of the hugely popular comic series.

This is the story of an isolated Alaskan town that is plunged into darkness for a month each year when the sun sinks below the horizon. As the last rays of light fade, the town is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires bent on an uninterrupted orgy of destruction. Only the small town's husband-and-wife Sheriff team stand between the survivors and certain destruction.

In a dystopian future where Judges maintain law and order by acting as judge, jury, and executioner, Dredd fights to prove his innocence after being falsely accused of murder.

As the world moves on from the war and technological advances bring changes to her life, Violet still hopes to see her lost commanding officer again.

An average family is thrust into the spotlight after the father commits a seemingly self-defense murder at his diner.

A group of young people discusses traumas, life experiences, past and present troubles inside the confines of a therapy session. Each account takes them back to the setting of their pain, their worries, their broken dreams. As the stories delve deeper and deeper into the darker recesses of their souls, a modicum of light begins to appear. A feeling of hope, that they might not be in this alone.

Riani, a teenager who is forced to reveal her hidden powers when several mysterious cases occur and turn the city into chaos.

Ebi has never dated even once in his whole life. Now on his 30th birthday, he is determined to find a girlfriend, but he doesn't know how to do it at all.

Bonnie, a high school teenager who has a dark past. However, with her martial arts knowledge, she was able to survive to protect herself and even her people. Without mercy, Bonnie will defend herself if a woman is bullied or oppressed. After the death of Bonnie's father, now her mother has once again fallen into the valley of disgrace.

Alexa, a young policewoman, is assigned to capture the drug kingpin, Ricardo Monte Carlo. The police try to find the key witness, but he is missing and only his daughter, Casandra, knows his hiding place. Then Alexa has to go undercover as a college student to get close to Casandra, but when the latter also goes missing, Alexa gets her fellow classmates mobilized to help.

Doctor Gia searches for the meaning in life through extraordinary events in the ER where he works.

Nakula experienced an event that changed and haunted his life. He then established a relationship with Aluna, a new student at his school. His relationship with Aluna also made him realize so he could make peace with his past.

The story of youngsers led by Ayus (Ayus Sabyan) to build and develop a gambus musical group called Sabyan. Many interesting stories behind their struggle to reach a dream. They start to get famous thanks to simple video uploads on Youtube. Sabyan starts to have fans. There are even fanatical fans like Ndut Kece (Meni Agus Nori) who are always present wherever Sabyan is. Also Bilal (Chandra Wahyu Aji) who has physical disability and is only able to see Sabyan in cyberspace.

Work obsessed entrepreneur Roy Walker must rebuild his fractured relationship when his estranged daughter arrives at his secluded beach condo one Father's Day, forcing them both to confront past mistakes and rediscover what truly matters.

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A young woman searches her missing brother in the mountain, with help from an old friend who survived after gone lost in the same mountain.

A successful woman searches for romance by speed dating in this drama. Eloise has a great job and a great education, but she's looking for love. Can a couple of minutes be the key to finding true love?

With the theme song, Indonesia Tanah Pusaka, the film’s melodrama takes on a nationalistic undertone. Hendrik Maulana, a staff officer in the Netherlands’ Indonesian Embassy, and his half-Dutch wife Nona, return to Indonesia. Hendrik is aware that he has to work hard in his country to support his family. So he trains as an air traffic controller before he returns home. However, there is still the cultural clash and his children have to adjust to school and their hometown. Then Eka, their second child, who is always the scapegoat of the family, runs away. Eka is attracted to an orphan ice seller who can support himself. He joins him selling the ice until he is stricken with typhus. His friend then breaks the news to Hendrik and Nona. Both parents rally with their three children, to complete the family again.

A soap opera drama involving a love triangle. Is it as impressive as Sally Marcelina's big hair on the cover? Doubtful.

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George and Tony are two good fellas from the mean streets of New York. All they want is to make it to their 21st birthdays, but in their world of prostitutes, junkies and gangs, one wrong move can be their last!

Raja Setya Bumi, a mysterious and greedy nature mafia, searches for a prosperous and happy place to live in the green land and seeks sources of food and clean water to save himself from the destruction of Mother Earth, after feeling the impacts of climate change such as floods and water crises. He becomes enraged and scolds the Queen of Nature because he is hungry, while the Queen of Nature hopes that the trees she cares for will provide him with food. Armed with courage, he depletes the Queen of Nature's food reserves and forces her to find him food and drink that are fit for consumption, so that he is believed to be able to save the Earth and the survival of humanity. The only thing he fears more than hunger and death is being expelled from the Queen of Nature's home.

The marchioness of Botarin secretly exchanges passionate letters with Jean, a young sailor. What Jean doesn't know is that the lady of his heart is twice as old as he thinks, for the photo she has sent her was one of her young niece Jacqueline, instead of her. Things get complicated when Jean turns up at the Botarin manor, escorted by two other sailors. The young man immediately falls under the spell of Jacqueline, which drives the marchioness crazy. The latter resorts to various subterfuges to separate the lovebirds, but to no avail. She will end up marrying a gendarme who has been her suitor for years while Jean weds his beloved Jacqueline.

short film by Campus Novel

A beautiful woman, Sandra, seduces a wealthy businessman, Miles Rennburg. Little does he realise that she has been sent to kill him at the behest of her boyfriend/crime partner, Lester. Controlling all this is Sue, Lester's wife.

Alain Moreau sings for one of the few remaining dance-bands in Clermont-Ferrand. Though something of an idol amongst his female audience he has a melancholic awareness of the slow disappearance of that audience and of his advancing years. He is completely knocked off balance when he meets strikingly attractive and much younger businesswoman Marion. She seems distant and apparently otherwise involved but soon shows quiet signs of reciprocating his interest.

In 1980s Paris - Patrick, Dov, Yvan and Serge are young men seeking success in love and business... with varying success.

Ilgin and Neva lived without love till 25 years. This is a history, based on true story, about a passionate adventure of two lovers...

Chai is a recent graduate. Although he felt controlled, he would follow his father's wishes for his life, which caused him to be unhappy. One night, while drinking at the bar, Chai met a friendly stranger who looked after him.

Her passion for ballet never comes in the way of abiding her religion. However, when Suraya lands a desired role for a special Adam & Eve performance, her priority becomes an obstacle as she slowly falls off- balance and breaks the rule of Islam, alongside her relationship with her mother. She finds herself in a situation where choice, is inevitable.

Zak and ‘The Clique’ arrive at an abandoned theme park and are met by the ‘Game Master’ who explains to them about 3 rounds of a deadly game. Zak and his friends realize that the game reminds them of a past incident involving their college friend Luqman. Things become tense between ‘The Clique’ as they blame each other.

Bruno pursues Fabrice, runs without calculation, to fly away with him, until the end.