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Showing 153 Films sorted by Genre: 'First Time Filmmaker'
![Love After Love](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3177/medium_TFF17_Love_After_Love_1.jpg)
Love After Love
The world of a mother and her two adult sons feels emotionally untethered following the death of their family’s patriarch. Andi...
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![Love, Gilda](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3557/medium_PREFERRED-LOVEGILDA_Courtesy-of-the-Estate-of-Gilda-Radner_2-1920x1080.png)
Love, Gilda
In Love, Gilda, director Lisa D’Apolito uses rare personal recordings and journal entries to tell Radner’s story in her own wo...
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![Love the Sinner](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3247/medium_Love-the-Sinner-Still-1-_-Courtesy-of-Multitude-Films-copy-web1.jpg)
Love the Sinner
Love the Sinner explores the Evangelical roots of homophobia in the wake of the Pulse shooting.
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![M](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3454/medium_M---1---Copyright-Chifoumi-Productions.jpg)
M
This steamy drama explores the passionate relationship between a girl with a crippling speech impediment and an undereducated d...
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![Mala Mala](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/2430/medium_Mala-Mala_web_1.jpg)
Mala Mala
This visually striking immersion in the transgender community of Puerto Rico celebrates the breadth of experiences among trans-...
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![Manos Sucias](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/2437/medium_Manos-Sucias_web_1.jpg)
Manos Sucias
Towing a submerged torpedo in the wake of their battered fishing boat, a desperate fisherman and naive kid embark on a journey ...
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![Maravilla](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/2355/medium_Maravilla_web_1.jpg)
Maravilla
A true underdog story, Maravilla follows Argentinian boxer Sergio "Maravilla" Martinez as he sets out to reclaim the title of m...
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![McQueen](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3588/medium_McQueen__no_credit__1.jpg)
McQueen
Legendary couturier Alexander McQueen’s rags to riches story is vividly brought to life by his closest friends and family and t...
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![Miss Meadows](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/2439/medium_meadows_web_1.jpg)
Miss Meadows
Prim schoolteacher Miss Meadows (Katie Holmes) is not entirely what she appears. Underneath the candy-sweet exterior hides the ...
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![Mr. SOUL!](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3692/medium_MRSOUL_CHESTER_HIGGINS_1.jpg)
Mr. SOUL!
An entertaining, essential look at the groundbreaking television show SOUL!, which, under producer-host Ellis Haizlip’s passion...
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![My Art](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3226/medium_TFF17_MY_ART_1.jpg)
My Art
For artist Ellie Shine (Laurie Simmons), age really isn’t anything but a number. Unhappy with where her career has gone, the si...
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![Netizens](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3499/medium_NETIZENS__TrainofThoughtProductions__2.jpg)
Netizens
In the midst of a watershed moment for gender equality, three very different women whose lives were torn apart by online harass...
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![New York is Dead](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3400/medium_NEWYORKISDEAD__DANIEL_RAMPULLA__1.jpg)
New York is Dead
A darkly hilarious webseries about two broke NYC artists who become hitmen to make ends meet.
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![Next Goal Wins](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/2518/medium_Next-Goal-Wins_web_2.jpg)
Next Goal Wins
When the American Samoan national soccer team suffered the world’s worst defeat, losing to Australia 31-0, these tiny islands c...
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![Nigerian Prince](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3434/medium_NIGERIANPRINCE__SHELDON_CHAU__1.jpg)
Nigerian Prince
A troubled American teenager, sent away to his mother's native Nigeria, finds himself entangled in a dangerous web of scams and...
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![No Greater Law](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3496/medium_No_greater_Law___XX___Sheriff_Donahue.jpg)
No Greater Law
In Idaho’s rugged Treasure Valley, the Followers of Christ believe in God, family, and faith healing. As an investigation into ...
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![No Man's Land](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3163/medium_TFF17_No_Mans_Land_1.jpg)
No Man's Land
“We are patriots,” utters one of the characters in David Byars' detailed, on-the-ground account of the standoff between protes...
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![NOW: In the Wings on a World Stage](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/2504/medium_Now_web_2.jpg)
NOW: In the Wings on a World Stage
In 2012, chameleon American actor Kevin Spacey reunited with his American Beauty director Sam Mendes for an Old Vic production ...
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![Obey](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3567/medium_Obey__Albert_Sala__1.jpg)
Obey
In the midst of the London riots, Leon grapples with the stark reality of his life and his relationship with his alcoholic moth...
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![Palo Alto](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/2368/medium_Palo-Alto_web_1.jpg)
Palo Alto
Shy soccer player April (Emma Roberts) babysits for her single-dad coach, Mr. B. (James Franco). Introspective Teddy (Jack Kilm...
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![Phone Duty](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3528/medium_PHONE_DUTY_Lenar_Kamalov_01.jpg)
Phone Duty
A Donbass rebel fighter, whose nom de guerre is Cat, receives orders to sit on phone duty—which, he quickly learns, is not as e...
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![Queerskins: a love story](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3636/medium_Queerskins_1.jpg)
Queerskins: a love story
In Missouri in the early ’90s, a diary and a box of belongings offers a devoutly Catholic mother—and participants of this hapti...
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![Radium Girls](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3734/medium_Radium-Girls__Cine-Mosaic__1-001-color-1920x1080.jpg)
Radium Girls
Based on true events of the late ’20s, teenage sisters Bessie and Jo dream of faraway places while they paint glow-in-the-dark ...
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![Rise of a Star](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3476/medium_RISE-OF-A-STAR__JULIAN_TORRES__1.jpg)
Rise of a Star
Emma is about to be the new Ballerina at the Paris Opera. But something upsets her. A secret. A secret liable to undermine what...
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![Roll Red Roll](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3498/medium_Roll-Red-Roll__Sunset-Park-Pictures__1.jpg)
Roll Red Roll
At a 2012 pre-season high-school football party in Steubenville, Ohio, a young woman was sexually assaulted. The aftermath expo...
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