2013
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Ordinary boys, extraordinary triumph. Set in British-occupied India of the 1930s, Chittagong is a true story about an unassuming fourteen-year-old boy, Jhunku, finding his place amongst the rampage. On the path to attend Oxford, he is betrayed by the man who is helping him and is left with the tormenting ridicule of his peers. Without thought, he joins the rebellion to prove his loyalty to the others, as well as himself. With a disorganized and untrained army of schoolboys and their leader, Masterda, they lead India to its first defeat against the British army.
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Sometimes to move on, you have to relive your past.
When a disturbing letter arrives at his nowhere job, Alex leaves his nowhere life and returns to the mountains of Colorado where he comes face to face with the demons that have haunted him for over a decade. Alex's journey takes him back in time to a summer twelve years earlier when the tragic consequences of a love triangle shattered the relationship with his best friend and changed the course of his life forever.
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Be careful whom you let into your home. Escaping the madness of city life in Paris, a teacher, Vincent, and his wife, Marie, move to a farm in the south of France with their son in hopes of a quieter life. But the craziness they have left behind may be more welcome once one of Vincent's students, Thibault, intrudes upon the family's life, begins an affair with Vincent's wife, and becomes the catalyst in a failing marriage.
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Delusional people build, row, and race boats made solely of cardboard and duck tape in an insane effort to recapture the American dream. Part of Shorts Program 6: Docu-Nation
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Calcutta Taxi is set in the grimy backdrop of a city going through a political crisis, unraveling the story of three lives that coincide and affect each other. Each one having lost and found some things in this chance encounter of life.
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In Bydlo, which means cattle in Polish, Patrick Bouchard reinterprets the symphonic movement of the same name from Modest Petrovich Mussorgskys opus Pictures at an Exhibition. Part of Shorts Program 4: Animated Worlds
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Set against the dramatic landscape of contemporary Afghanistan and the national sport of Buzkashi - a brutal game of horse polo played with a dead goat - Buzkashi Boys tells the compelling coming of age story of two best friends. Part of Shorts Program 1: The Battles We Fought
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A young artist sits on the sidewalk, struggling to make a living. She sells drawings to passersby. A businessman who recognises her talents offers her a paying job. The prospect seems inviting but the reality threatens to kill her imagination.
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Brother is a humanoid robot who has one job to build, but fails in creating successful pieces. Once his emotions get in the way of creating something, he realizes that maybe it was just the thing he needed. Though it was in front of him all along, Brother learns to put heart into anything he creates. Part of Shorts Program 8: Student Shorts
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Boop Beep is a handcrafted love story about a lonely little cardboard box that tries to win the hear of the girlbot next door. It's a homemade film, which attempts to eschew perfection in favor of the beauty of happy mistakes. It features original music by indie pop icon Julia Nunes. At its very full cardboard heart, this film is about childhood wonder and how simple things can be magical. Part of Shorts Program 7: Time, Space, And In Between