Fire in the Mountains
Virtual Showing
2022 | India | 84 min | Narrative
Director: Ajitpal Singh
Producer: Alan McAlex, Ajay Rai
In northern India, a breathtakingly beautiful Himalayan community attracts tourists by commingling South Asian and Swiss Alps aesthetics. Debut filmmaker Ajitpal Singh tells an unconventional story of feminist strength while “accentuating the [region’s] spectacular exteriors and wide-canvas nature shots” (Variety). One local woman competes with her neighbors for business while battling the strictures of patriarchy, a local infrastructure from hell, and religious superstitions. She saves money, uses feminine wiles to subvert the corrupt powers-that-be, and piggy-backs her son up and down the mountainside to medical appointments with condescending doctors. In the end, our heroine’s tightly wound grit must find release… in triumph, or madness, or both.
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For the Love of Friends
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2022 | United States, Canada | 98 min | Documentary
Director: Cara Consilvio
Producer: Alex Charner
In 1986, to awaken America to the AIDS crisis and to honor the friends he lost, Brent Nicholson Earle runs the perimeter of the United States. In The American Run for the End of AIDS, Brent runs almost a marathon a day for 20 months straight. After enduring blisters, exhaustion, ignorance, and fear, he returns home to his own HIV diagnosis. Though the run finishes, Brent’s activism never stops.
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The Game
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2021 | United States, Serbia | 93 min | Narrative
Director: Ana Lazarevic
Producer: Ana Lazarevic
STRAHINJA, a smuggler in the Balkan’s modern “migration industry,” longs for a flashy lifestyle. These aspirations and his emotional unavailability have estranged him from his wife, TIJANA, and their son, LUKA (7), the very people he hopes to impress. When a routine trip is interrupted by police, Strahinja becomes stranded with refugee teens, Yousef (17), his younger brothers, and a traveling companion. The boys are refugees, but above all else, they are teenagers who long to have experiences that are something close to normal. The more time Strahinja spends with them, the more he struggles with seeing this as just a job. Their open-hearted approach to life makes him aware of the walls he has built around his own.
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Hello, Bookstore
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2022 | United States | 86 min | Documentary
Director: A.B. Zax
Producer: A.B. Zax, Mark Franks, Melissa Nathan, Sydney Flint
In the shadow of the pandemic, a small town rallies to protect a beloved local bookstore. A landmark in Lenox, Massachusetts, The Bookstore is a magical, beatnik gem thanks to its owner Matt Tannenbaum, whose passion for stories runs deep. This portrait of The Bookstore and the family at its heart offers a journey through good times, hard times, and the stories hidden on the shelves.
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Hideout
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2021 | Taiwan | 118 min | Narrative
Director: Yen Kuang Chen
Producers: Yen Kuang Chen, Jerry Hsin, Vincent Lee
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Drug dealer Guo-hao hopes to make enough money so that he and his girlfriend can leave their life of crime behind. One day, he is contacted by Michael, a drug broker, with an offer to buy a batch of rare cocaine. Guo-hao teams up with long-time buddy Da-wei to borrow money from local crime boss Uncle Ma to complete this deal. However, Michael is found dead on the day of the exchange, and the drugs are already gone. The owner of the cocaine threatens to kill Guo-hao if he fails to come up with the drugs or money. At the same time, Uncle Ma dispatches his henchmen to recover the loan. In the middle of the night, Guo-hao receives a phone call from a mysterious man claiming to be in possession of the lost cocaine, telling Guo-hao he has a new deal for him…
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Hiding in Plain Sight: Youth Mental Illness
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2022 | United States | 60 min | Documentary
Director: Erik Ewers, Christopher Loren Ewers
Producer: Julie Coffman
Follow the journeys of more than 20 young Americans from all over the country and all walks of life who have struggled with thoughts and feelings that have troubled—and, at times—overwhelmed them. The film presents an unstinting look at both the seemingly insurmountable obstacles faced by those who live with mental disorders and the hope that many have found after that storm.
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Hit the Road
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2022 | Iran | 93 min | Narrative
Director: Panah Panahi
Producers: Mastane Mohajer, Jafar Panahi, Panah Panahi
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Panah Panahi, son and collaborator of embattled filmmaker Jafar Panahi and apprentice to Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami, makes a striking feature debut with this charming, sharp-witted, and deeply moving comic drama. It follows a family of four – two middle-aged parents and their sons, one a taciturn adult, the other an ebullient six-year-old – on a road trip to the Iranian border with a furtive purpose. This humanist drama offers an authentic, often comedic, and deeply sincere observation of an Iranian family preparing to part with one of their own.
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The Human Trial
92 min
Director: Guy Mossman, Lisa Hepner
Producer: Kristin Lesko, Simon Kilmurry, Lisa Hepner, Jonathan Formica
In 2011, Lisa Hepner and her husband Guy Mossman heard about a radical stem cell treatment for diabetes, a disease that shockingly kills over five million people each year. Driven by a desire to cure Lisa of her own type 1 diabetes (T1D), the filmmakers got unprecedented access to a clinical trial – only the sixth ever stem cell trial in the world. What follows is an intimate decade-long journey with the patients and scientists who risk everything for everybody else. The Human Trial peels back the headlines to show the sweat, passion, and sacrifice behind every breakthrough cure. For the millions of patients suffering around the world, these breakthroughs can’t come fast enough.
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The Hunt For Planet B
Virtual Showing
2021 | United States | 93 min | Documentary
Director: Nathaniel Kahn
Producer: Nathaniel Kahn, Bonnie Hlinomaz
The Hunt for Planet B captures the human drama behind NASA’s high-stakes Webb Telescope, due to launch in October 2021—the most ambitious space observatory ever built. The film interweaves the creation of this massive machine with the story of a pioneering group of female scientists on a quest to find life beyond our solar system. What begins as a real-time scientific adventure turns into a deep meditation on our place in the universe. On the brink of seeing farther out than ever before, we find ourselves looking back at our own imperiled planet with new eyes.
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I am Like You
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2022 | United States | 128 min | Narrative
Director: Haik Kocharian
Producer: Jeff Kozlowski, Amy A. Napierala, Steve Ruchefsky, Rondi Charleston, Tigran Sahakyan, Armen Baloyan, Shawna Lea, Karine Kocharyan
A story of the friendship between a teenage boy and a wolfdog. When the two are forcefully separated, we follow the journey of the animal in search of his best friend. Addresses animal abuse, teens with undiagnosed conditions, and assisted suicide.
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