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Outerborough explores the narrative power of reframing images from vintage films. Redeploying footage from Across Brooklyn Bridge (1899), Morrison commemorates the iconic 19th-century structure through 21st-century artistic reconsideration.

A pelican tries out being human, he buys a suit, gets a job as a stagehand, and even rents an apartment from a woman who's allergic to birds. He then turns into a handsome, charming man who speaks by imitation and learns to read when he makes his ...

Inspired by the passing of his 7-year-old brother when he was 9, filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt explores the multiple-stages of the grieving process. This poetic documentary delves into the human coping mechanisms of denial, anger, bargaining, depressi...

Piccadilly Jim (Sam Rockwell) is a denizen of the P.G. Wodehouse universe and an inveterate playboy who ends up pretending to be someone else pretending to be him, while his butler pretends to be his father and his father pretends to be a butler. ...

After Saddam's fall, hundreds of thousands of Iranians rushed to cross the suddenly unguarded border with Iraq to visit the holiest shrines of Shi'ism in Karbala and Najaf. Many traveled without valid papers and others did not hesitate to beg or e...

This Japanese horror film was created by a director of one of the influential original Ring films. This time the malevolent maguffin is not vicious videotape, but a mysterious newspaper that predicts deaths, beginning with the daughter of the sto...

This documentary follows two young women raising children and supporting drug habits through prostitution in a country ruled by fundamentalists. One recounts how the chief of religious police read the Koran before engaging in rough sex with her.

The late Ossie Davis stars in this true wartime story of the only African-American crew to take a Navy warship into combat in World War II. The ship's first port of call was in Northern Ireland, where, for the first time, the sailors were treated ...

Time: the mid 1970s. Place: the transatlantic twin cities of New York and London. A revolution in pop music, film, and fashion shatters the establishment's status quo and impacts all future youth generations. Punk: Attitude chronicles how teenage ...

A scientist, secretly pining for the affections of a deli owner, creates a robot in his own likeness. Soon the high stakes of man vs. technology reach their peak when a love triangle ensues between man, woman, and robot. This eerie thriller is a ...

This feature follows a golden retriever's service-filled odyssey from birth to working guide dog. Quill is assigned to Mr. Watanabe, who initially rebuffs being led by a canine. But the puppy shines in repeated tests of diligence and concentration...

A girl ostensibly trying to save her mother might be saving much more in this film set in a time during which all borders of ethnic, religious, and cultural differences are being questioned. Rain Is Falling takes a look into a foreign world and e...

The Wongs are a Chinese-American family living in the suburbs of New York. After the father of the family retires, dysfunctions abound between him, his wife, and their three daughters. Touching and funny, Red Doors is a family dramedy to which eve...

When a group of students heading for a rave end up at a lonely desert rest stop on a closed highway, their trip goes dangerously wrong. This sure-to-be-a-classic horror film blends slasher film elements with a smart script with many twists and...

A young boy lives with his alcoholic mother in suburban isolation. When he finds her dead on the living room couch, he makes a reckless decision and a break for freedom. But the dawn brings regret and an unexpected outcome.

A harrowing portrait exploring the lives of three teens educated at the Island Academy, a high school program for incarcerated youth at Rikers Island prison. A riveting journey, these former drug runners and armed robbers attend poetry classes and...

This compelling bio-pic reveals the true story of Rikidozan, the "Father of Japanese Wrestling." Rikidozan introduced American style wrestling to Japan and became a symbol of iconic heroism after World War II by continuously defeating the Americ...

Award-winning photographer and music video director LaChapelle captures the heart-pounding world of krumping, a team dance sport that originated in South Central Los Angeles and offers kids not only a way to physically express themselves, but an a...

Three teenage girls on the verge of adulthood take a spirited approach to celebrating their last night in high school. Inventively directed with flashbacks, improvised vignettes and characters breaking the fourth wall, Rockaway deftly portrays wom...

Teenager Josh Sendler is a basketball player from the lush cornfields of Indiana whose knowledge of race, prejudice, and friendship are tested when he is relocated to the tough, urban streets of Newark. He befriends basketball phenom Antwon Jackso...