2018

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Five young adults. One syndrome. One last chance. My Tourette’s follows five individuals struggling with the outlandish symptoms of Tourette’s syndrome: ticks, jerks, and painful, uncontrollable bodily and verbal disruptions. For Isabella, Nick, Alex, Carysa, and Marc, Tourette’s has presented a life of isolation and prejudice, depriving them of their dreams and aspirations. Yet, hope is not lost. Researchers Nancy Salzman and Keith Raniere believe they might have a solution for Tourette’s. And though it requires a leap of faith, it might be their only chance.

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Introducing dangerous ideas to a saccharine world. In a world where Marvel comics are now a billion dollar plus industry, another form of cartoon is dying: the satirical editorial cartoon. Once a staple of influential print media, fewer and fewer opportunities for this spectacular medium exist. Within this landscape lives Mr. Fish, a radical genius cartoonist, who refuses to compromise his integrity. He is caught between the need to provide for his family and the desire to challenge and improve the world with his controversial art. With the ever-mounting pressure of financial debt, Mr.

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Is it worth living even if everyone believes you are dead? Imagine being forced to fight in a war you do not believe in nor want any part in. To what lengths would you go to escape? Based on true events, Joseph decides to hide in a hole for 21 years to avoid fighting in the Iraq and Iran wars. The everyday struggle his mother endures to keep this secret along with the mental torture Joseph suffers while being tucked away and forgotten makes for one intense roller coaster of a film. Is it worth being alive like this? – Racheal Geremew Preceded by the short film: Mama; dir.

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Uncovering answers to a question they wanted to forget. Alija is a hardworking miner sent to survey an old, defunct mine. With his job on the line, and the company facing financial difficulties in the crisis of 2009, he reluctantly agrees to dig the mine. He expects to find, at worst, poisonous gases, but what he actually finds there is unimaginably horrifying – piles upon piles of corpses, some of women and children. Risking both his livelihood and his life, he tries to dig up more answers to this massacre. Based on a true story, The Miner unravels a captivating mystery.

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Though the name Mankiewicz is deeply ingrained in movie biz celluloid, current Turner Classic Movies (TCM) host Ben Mankiewicz grew up about as far from Hollywood as one can get. Born in Washington, D.C., Benjamin Fredrick Mankiewicz was raised in that other world of the surreal – politics, in which Ben’s father Frank, was deeply involved. Frank spent his early years in Beverly Hills, in a neighborhood populated by film industry heavyweights, such as the Marx Brothers, his father Herman (Oscar-winning Citizen Kane screenwriter), and uncle, the director Joseph L.

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Meaning no disrespect to the late, great James Brown’s legacy, Nicolas Cage may very well also lay claim to that designation as “the hardest working man in show business.” In a career spanning four decades, Cage (at a young age) has seemingly done it all, working with the best actors, directors (Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Mike Figgis, Norman Jewison, the Coen brothers, Werner Herzog, Oliver Stone, Ridley Scott, Spike Jonze, to name a few), and writers, producing great film after film after film, in virtually every genre. The man certainly does not like to be idle.

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Event includes a moderated conversation with Tatiana Maslany, award presentation, and expanded conversation on her new film Souls of Totality. Tatiana Maslany Who’s that lady? Or rather, ladies? And why do they look so much alike? Mischievously twisting and turning like a real-life M.C. Escher print, Orphan Black and star Tatiana Maslany lead you up a staircase, down a hallway, along a highway, heading…where? Is it a dream, a nightmare, a conspiracy, a secret government project gone horribly wrong?

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This Maverick Spirit Award Event includes a screening of Love After Love, a conversation with Andie MacDowell, and the award presentation. The look has hardly changed a bit over the years. Those undeniably inviting eyes, framed by the fine, linear symmetry of the brows, the lustrous mane of hair, the beaming smile that flashes hints of wisdom and whimsy. There’s no mistaking Andie MacDowell. Born Rosalie Anderson MacDowell in Gaffney, South Carolina, she was barely twenty years old when modeling agencies noticed her striking looks and poise.

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She doesn’t even have the starring role in her own life. Marisa feels that she is the supporting actress in her own life, always there for other people. She’s the sole savior of her best friend, who is hysterical and bedridden after recently breaking up with the love of her life. As Marisa visits her other friends, they reveal to her their deepest personal problems. With the weight of others already on her shoulders, her dramatic writing troupe, her personal expression, drops her. Marisa can only find comfort in the city nightlife.

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You have one life, live it! Everyone can always count on kind-hearted Eva – her teenage niece, her tormented parents, her sister in the throes of a mid-life crisis, even her social service client Henri. But for her, to live her life and be happy, Eva will have to unlearn the childhood lessons of acceptance. While trying to single-handedly stabilize everyone’s out-of-control lives, Eva’s silent pain might unhinge her own. In Many Heavens, tender and heart-wrenching scenes slowly unfold many layers of love and complicated human relationships.