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Showing 153 Films sorted by Genre: 'First Time Filmmaker'
![RX: Early Detection A Cancer Journey with Sandra Lee](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3546/medium_RX__XX__1.jpg)
RX: Early Detection A Cancer Journey with Sandra Lee
RX: EARLY DETECTION A Cancer Journey with Sandra Lee follows the intense and intimate journey of a woman whose life becomes dra...
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![Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3532/medium_Ryuichi-Sakamoto-Coda__Neo_Sora__1.jpg)
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda
Ryuichi Sakamoto has had a prolific career spanning over four decades, from techno-pop stardom to Oscar-winning film composer. ...
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![Satan & Adam](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3507/medium_Satan-_-Adam_Paul-LaRaia_1.jpg)
Satan & Adam
One was a demon on guitar; the other was fresh out of school and no slouch on harmonica. Satan & Adam is a rousing celebrat...
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![Saturday Church](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3258/medium_TFF17_Saturday_Church_1.jpg)
Saturday Church
14-year-old Ulysses is a shy and effeminate teen being raised in the Bronx by his strict Aunt Rose. He finds escape in a rich f...
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![Sister](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/2372/medium_Sister_web_1.jpg)
Sister
Unstable Susan (Barbara Hershey) is tragically widowed and finds it impossible to care for her delinquent adolescent daughter, ...
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![Smuggling Hendrix](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3570/medium_SmugglingHendrix__AMP-Filmworks__1-1920x1080.jpg)
Smuggling Hendrix
Though caught between the mob and border patrol, washed-up musician Yiannis must put his plans to leave Cyprus on hold when his...
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![Snugglr](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3715/medium_SNUGGLR__ZACHARY_LAURENCE__1.jpg)
Snugglr
An awkward comedy about a cuddling app and a girl who probably shouldn’t be working for one.
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![Song of Back and Neck](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3548/medium_SONGOFBACKANDNECK__BARTOSZ_NALAZEK__1.jpg)
Song of Back and Neck
A hapless man seeking treatment for his back pain discovers a very unusual talent and unexpected love in this inventive romanti...
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![Songwriter](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3545/medium_SONGWRITER__MURRAY_CUMMINGS__1.jpg)
Songwriter
Songwriter offers fans the ultimate behind-the-scenes look into this charming superstar’s process—and the wild, lavish settings...
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![State Like Sleep](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3559/medium_STATE_LIKE_SLEEP_Sabrina_Lantos__1.jpg)
State Like Sleep
Following the mysterious death of her husband, Katherine travels to Brussels, where a few loose ends become a whole web of secr...
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![Super Dark Times](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3165/medium_TFF17_Super_Dark_Times_Eli_Born_1.jpg)
Super Dark Times
Teenagers Zach and Josh have been best friends their whole lives, but when a gruesome accident leads to a cover-up, the secret ...
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![Surviving Theater 9](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3451/medium_SurvivingTheater9_Bryant_Jansen_1.jpg)
Surviving Theater 9
After the mass shooting at a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado, filmmaker Tim McGrath and his fe...
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![Take Me](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3203/medium_TFF17_Take_Me_Nathan_M_Miller_1.jpg)
Take Me
Ray is in the boutique simulated abduction business. It’s an understandably threadbare market, so he jumps at the chance when a...
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![Terminal 3](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3634/medium_TERMINAL3__ASAD_J_MALIK__1.jpg)
Terminal 3
Terminal 3 is an interactive, augmented-reality documentary that explores contemporary Muslim identities in the U.S. through th...
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![The Bachelor Weekend](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/2350/medium_bachelor-weekend_web_009asmlHR.jpg)
The Bachelor Weekend
Foppish groom-to-be Fionnan reluctantly agrees to spend a bachelor’s weekend camping. But when his fiancée’s alpha-male brother...
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![The Battered Bastards of Baseball](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/2500/medium_battered_basterds_web.jpg)
The Battered Bastards of Baseball
Bing Russell is best known for his role as Deputy Clem on Bonanza, but he left Hollywood in 1973 to pursue his first love: base...
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![The Boy Downstairs](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3143/medium_TFF17_Boy_Downstairs_1.jpg)
The Boy Downstairs
Zosia Mamet exhibits winsome charm as Diana, navigating the rite of passage of every single New Yorker: the search for an apart...
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![The Dark](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3444/medium_The_Dark__Christopher_Katsarov__1.jpg)
The Dark
Undead and hating it, Mina haunts the woods surrounding her childhood home. When she befriends an abused boy, she must figure o...
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![The Escape](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3282/medium_The-Escape_Liam-Daniel_web1.jpg)
The Escape
The Escape asks whether one day we'll all dream of ordinary lives via the story of Lambert, a normal man who, out of his elemen...
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![The Exception](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3166/medium_TFF17_THE_EXCEPTION_1.jpg)
The Exception
A riveting World War II thriller, The Exception follows German soldier Stefan Brandt, tasked with investigating exiled German M...
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![The Feeling of Being Watched](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3555/medium_1._The_Feeling_of_Being_Watched_Primary_Still.jpg)
The Feeling of Being Watched
Journalist Assia Boundaoui sets out to investigate long-brewing rumors that her quiet, predominantly Arab-American neighborhood...
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![The Last Animals](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3237/medium_TFF17_THE_LAST_ANIMALS_KATE_BROOKS_1.jpg)
The Last Animals
Photojournalist Kate Brooks turns her lens from war zones to a new kind of genocide in this sweeping and sobering film. As the ...
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![The Last Poker Game](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3378/medium_Last-Poker-Game_Still-web1.jpg)
The Last Poker Game
The Last Poker Game follows Dr. Abe Mandelbaum (Martin Landau), who has just moved into a nursing home with his ailing wife. Af...
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![The Life of Esteban](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3470/medium_THELIFEOFESTEBAN__Dries-De-Clercq__1.jpg)
The Life of Esteban
Esteban, a future Olympic swimmer, has grown up with a single mother and doesn't know who his father is. As he searches for his...
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![The Love Letter](https://d13jj08vfqimqg.cloudfront.net/uploads/film/photo_1/3537/medium_Love_Letter__Matan_Balalty__1.jpg)
The Love Letter
When Noa finds a special love letter in her locker, she struggles to reconcile her safe, restrained world and her urge to feel—...
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