2015
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The difficulty of keeping the past in the past. Robert, a troubled former driver in illegal street racing, returns to his hometown harboring a dark and painful past. Determined to turn his life around, he takes a job at a car repair shop but becomes distracted by Alice, a local English teacher who catches his eye on the bus. An intense intrigue takes over, and Robert finds himself going to great lengths to spend time with her under a false identity. However, as the two forge a bond, their closeness reveals its danger, and the past threatens to unravel.
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It takes two to make a relationship crazy. A lonely, obsessive and unsuccessful filmmaker meets an aimless drifter and before he knows it, she's living in his tiny LA apartment. He's an eco-freak with a love of post-it notes, keeping his recyclables separate from his trash, and unconventional romances on Netflix. She's an unscrupulous young woman who would rather have an IV of tequila straight into her liver than deal with adult responsibilities. Unable to stand each other and yet not able to leave, both of them vow to make the other's life a living hell.
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Pleasure is her greatest obsession. Sex and alienation play out marvelously in this intense, hypnotizing, and offbeat drama set in New York. Karen, a strong-willed businesswoman, lives alone and rarely gets in touch with her college-age son. She harbors very peculiar tastes in sex, which involve strangers only: Karen picks up men in the street, pretends to be a prostitute, and seeks out masochistic experiences through online dating sites. At one point, she pushes her obsession too far...
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Join us for the stunning North American Premiere and Q&A for Ross Clarke's brilliant adaptation of Craig Clevenger's bestselling novel, starring Joseph Morgan (The Originals), Walton Goggins (Justified), Kate Walsh (Greys Anatomy) and Ron Perlman (Hellboy). Suffering from amnesia, chemist Eric Ashworth (Morgan) finds himself being pulled in different directions. There is the drug dealer who wants the formula to a drug that only Eric knows, a cop who wants to know how he got involved, and a lawyer with ulterior motives.
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The trials and tribulations of a sex life after children. With humor and wit, Crushed Lives - Sex or Kids? takes on the probing but taboo question: what happens to our sex lives after children? New father Saverio films a documentary to get to the bottom of this matter after an uninspired sex session with his wife. Interviewing couples at various stages of parenthood, Saverio unearths the fear and anxieties that seem to universally plague his peers as they collectively experience the quiet devastation of a dying bedroom.
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Winner of the 2015 Kaiser Thrive Award at Cinequest, Crescendo! The Power of Music inspires and transforms the heart. Since its inception in Venezuela in 1976, the El Sistema youth orchestra program has transformed the lives of disadvantaged children worldwide by putting musical instruments in their hands and encouraging them through the mysterious power of music.
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A tiny seasonal river island, an old man and his granddaughter, the cycle of life - a miracle of cinema. In the Inguri river on the Georgia-Abkhazia border, tiny islands form in the spring, only to vanish later with the onset of winter storms. On one of these spots of arable land an old man and his granddaughter struggle to raise a crop to see them through another winter. Though there is almost no dialog, this timeless Everyman's rough hands, his calm weathered face, and piercing gaze speak with an elegance of dignity that transcends language and culture.
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Juliette Binoche (The English Patient, Chocolat), Chloë Grace Moretz (Kickass), and Kristen Stewart (Twilight) mesmerize in this complex drama about the private lives of starlets. Prolific director Olivier Assayas' (Irma Vep, Paris, je t'aime) latest richly explores the female psyche through an impressively multi-layered tale of the interwoven lives of three women at various stages of life. Veteran actress Maria (Binoche) is offered a role in the revival of the play that launched her career twenty years ago.
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He thought she was created for his pleasure... He was wrong. In the late 21st century, Jack is a painter recovering from the mysterious loss of his fiancee - he is depressed, creatively blocked, and reclusive. In hopes to reignite his life, Jack arranges to purchase a Muse: a genetically engineered human form designed to be his perfect partner and fulfill his every whim. But soon after the beautiful and alluring Evelyn arrives, things become more and more unhinged and Jack realizes nothing is as he had hoped it would be...
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Growing up in Alaska beauty, yet restlessness in isolation. Enter the secluded and hidden wonder of Barrow, Alaska, the northernmost city in the USA. Largely inhabited by descendants of its original Native Alaskan tribe, the Barrow community holds tight to the traditions and pastimes of their ancestors. However, ever-increasing globalization threatens the livelihood of its endangered native culture - most pressingly, among the younger generation.