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Follow a bookish little boy spooked by his older sister's scary story about their grandparent's old fireplace and the young chimney sweep who disappeared inside it.

The victim of a brutal sexual assault by a serial rapist believes that a hummingbird family nested in his backyard saved his life.

 It often feels as if existence requires justification, like the desire to reproduce or to create value for society. But in truth, “living” itself does not require a reason or meaning; it is simply an experience.

A puppy gets adopted by her human and returns to the animal shelter as a dog.

A Princess and her Wounded Knight take refuge in an abandoned castle and are attacked by a hooded assassin.

Witness the story of Ms. Delphine Cherry, a mother who lost two children to gun violence over the span of twenty years. Now, she channels her pain into advocacy, showing up in the Illinois State Capitol to push for real policy change.  Her daughterwas killed in 1992. Her son was killed in 2012. His case remains unsolved. And yet, she refuses to stop fighting.

When a broke filmmaker discovers online courses teaching how to build AI-generated OnlyFans models, she decides to try it herself. Creating a virtual persona and releasing her onto the internet, she tests whether subscribers will pay for an artificial fantasy. 

A young woman makes breakfast in the liminal space between routine and horror.

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A cheerful homage to the magical vegetable that never ceases to delight us. From harvesting to cultivation and consumption, this film captures the mythos of the white asparagus in a loving, unprecedented way.

When the children of a quaint Parisian village are terrorized by a sinister threat, a remarkable dog emerges as the unlikely hero, until a shocking revelation changes the town forever. Inspired by real events.

Growing up freely in harmony with nature, witnessing her beautiful environment being swallowed up by industrialisation, BLU decides to fight for the wildlife, meadows, rivers and trees before they disappear completely.

The narrator, counting as she builds, reminds us that despite the sometimes-agony of creating something new, it’s going to be worth it—and always absolutely magical. It asks the embedded question: What will you build?

A young miner stumbles upon a cave filled with treasured geodes and magical glowing plants. As he mines the crystals with machinery, the cave starts to collapse. He realizes their importance in maintaining this ecosystem and
decides to risk his life shutting down the machinery and preserving the underground world.

Sang is one of hundreds of thousands unwanted and discriminated children left behind by the American soldiers after the Vietnam War. When his lifelong dream of finding his father comes true, Sang's only mission is to race against time to meet his ailing dad and break the cycle of war trauma that has plagued generations.

Sichu’s relationship with her grandfather is shaken when her more affluent classmates ridicule her potter grandfather. Sichu reacts to being the butt of the joke amongst her peers by lashing out at her grandfather.

A designer is working on his idea, but he doesn’t succeed and becomes disappointed. He crumples the design and throws it into his desk drawer, then moves on to another idea. The design turns into a paper model of the same machine and, while the designer is working on another idea, the machine, starts speeding up and hitting the drawer door to open it. 

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In the midst of war, a man watches his beloved one by lighting the three matches he has left. Then, in the pitch darkness, a forest grows from their lovemaking and protects them from the war.

A deeply unqualified man is inexplicably hired as a Michael Bublé impersonator for a rich stranger’s party. Despite no resemblance, no singing ability, and just one week to prepare, he gives it everything he’s got. A hilarious, oddly inspiring doc about effort over ability and the joy of letting folks believe.

A beautiful love relationship goes awry when temptations enter the scenario!

While Rose and Jen of The Softies have been on some adventures touring along California's Highway 99 back in the 90's, they've also known sadness and change. 

When National Inventors Hall of Fame® Inductee Garrett Brown invented the Oscar-winning Steadicam® camera stabilizer, he enabled movie and television directors and cinematographers to capture previously impossible sequences. Brown has worked on nearly 100 films and holds more than 120 patents. 

A mysterious figure pulls time backward and a suicide is undone. What was broken is made whole, what was wounded is healed, and lives are restored. Having been pulled backward through time and made a witness to their own death along with all it caused, this person who gave up their life is forced to confront the hate they feel for themselves and the love they feel for their family.

Maria Agusta, a young Latina-American in Chicago, explores Islam while navigating the faith and identity of her Roman Catholic family.

A girl troubled by her body image grabs a measuring tape to measure her waist.  Left dissatisfied by the results, she pulls aggressively onto the ends. The girl and her tape get transported into an imaginary world in which the tape transforms into a colorful ribbon that comes to life in order to lure the girl into dancing with it.

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