2018

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A government policy separated their family. The natural beauty of the Banff wilderness provides a paradoxical backdrop for the exposure of an ugly chapter of history known as the “Sixties Scoop.” An emotional family “reunion” brings together Betty Ann, Rosalie, Ben, and Esther, now in their 50s, who were callously taken from their indigenous mother and deprived of the opportunity to grow up together. Reunited, these siblings who are essentially strangers to each other spend one precious week together.

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The realms of the mind are vast and awesome. Bikini Moon gives a provocative and convincing portrayal of an unstable woman trying to get her life together. Bikini (Condola Rashad, Smash) plays a former marine with mental issues. She becomes the focus of interest for a documentary film crew who want to use her story for their movie. Kate (Sarah Goldberg, The Dark Knight Rises) is believable and heart-wrenching as the producer trying to save her. The documentary within the film is spellbinding as a vehicle for revealing the ripple effect of Bikini’s turbulent pond.

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Can a maid of honor end an unwanted marriage? When Claire decides to get married, Anna, her sister, is thrown into an existential crisis. Afraid to lose the only person she ever depended upon, Anna teams up with Art, the best man and the groom’s roommate, to break up the marriage and preserve the status quo. Armed with a whiteboard, they plot and scheme, but their efforts blow up in their faces. However, circumstances soon present Anna a real opportunity to end Claire’s marriage. Will she yield the power to her advantage or face the truths she has been avoiding her whole life?

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Some friendships stand the test of time; others shouldn’t. Bernard and Huey tells the story of two friends unfortunately reunited after twenty-five years. Bernard (Academy Award-winner Jim Rash, The Descendants), now only a remnant of the bookish, insecure young man he was when he first befriended the womanizing Huey (David Koechner, Anchorman), agrees to let Huey live with him until he gets “back on his feet.” However, with Huey around, Bernard finds himself occupying the same, dull role he assumed during their friendship.

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How far would a person go? Frank’s day started out rough and is about to get much worse. He woke up to an angry call from his ex-wife, an empty gas tank, and a bottle of apple juice and vodka for breakfast. As he prepares to drive to the city to pick up his daughter at the train station, he meets a mysterious hitchhiker (Tom Wlaschiha, Game of Thrones) who seems to know his name… and far more personal details than he should.

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Can he save others from his wife’s fate? In a riveting political thriller, Golden Globe-winner Jon Hamm (Mad Men) plays Mason Skiles, a former US diplomat who served in Lebanon in the 1970s but left when his wife was mysteriously killed. Ten years later, the CIA calls him back to the war-torn city. An undercover operative played by Rosamund Pike (Academy Award nominee, Gone Girl) must keep Skiles safe while he negotiates to save the life of a former colleague from possibly the same group that killed his wife.

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Live to Forget. Despite Polidoro’s dwindling memory, he doesn’t stop enjoying the pleasurable things in life. Spending his days watching pornography and going to brothels, Polidoro is living his golden years to the fullest, or so he thinks. His children do not approve of this lifestyle and, due to his old age blunders, consider him incapable of taking care of himself. Before I Forget follows the hilarious, yet heart-wrenching court case of Polidoro versus his own family, showing that, in the face of adversity, family prevails, and life does triumph.

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A powerful inversion of the country boy in the big city. For a child, every day comes with adventure, yet adventure hits staggering stakes for Eda, a boy living through WWII in the cosmopolitan city of Prague. After revealing to his neighbors that his father was listening to foreign “traitor” radio, Eda and his family are evicted and left no choice but to move into his father’s childhood village home. It is here where Eda must navigate village life and connect with “foreign” children.

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What you choose to see just might set you free. Academy Award-winner Melissa Leo (The Fighter) and Sam Keeley star in the story of an American skeptic following the trail of his lost girlfriend to a mystical Himalayan community. What will Jamie choose to see among the magnificent sacred rivers and mystical caves sitting atop treacherous mountains – renewal or destruction? He will have to decide precisely that. His girlfriend Sophie has disappeared under mysterious circumstances, and the tumor in his head is about to burst.

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We can stay children for only so long. Living on the outskirts of Bangkok, three childhood friends haven’t the slightest clue what the real world will look like for them once they become adults. The first to reach adulthood is Isara, the only girl of the group. One night, Isara is suddenly plucked from her life of innocent bliss and relocated to Bangkok. Her friends Arun and Kasem remember Isara saying she was scared that she was going to be sent to “work” at a bar, but they didn’t know it was going to happen so suddenly. Overnight.