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The dead end lives of post high schoolers is captured with humor, poignancy and compassion in Tom Zuber?s unique tale of young adults trying to deal with a world that is not exactly welcoming them with open arms.
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Sören Senn?s KussKuss is a tragicomical story about love and guilt and other mistakes
The tender relationship between Katja and Hendrik could be so wonderful. At least they both attempt to perpetuate this blissful image of themselves, until a young Algerian woman enters the picture and holds up a mirror to the blunt truth.
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With ?a poetic, intense opening that recalls ... Tarkovsky,? it is the story of Kukumi, Mara and Hasan, three patients ?liberated? from a mental institution when the UN arrives, who wander the chaos of postwar Kosovo like lost children looking for a home. Arriving at the village of Hasan?s brother, they find a less than enthusiastic welcome but move into an abandoned building and set up housekeeping.
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Victoria, a small-town doctor, is called to the scene when a young refugee boy is found dead in a snow bank. Victoria is a successful doctor who has abandoned her hectic life in Stockholm for the solitude of the Norwegian countryside. But even as she treks through snow banks to make house calls, Victoria is haunted by images of her ailing son back home and phone calls to Stockholm that are never returned. Still, it is not until Victoria sets out to prove the innocence of her new lover, Kai, a snow plow driver accused of murder, that her own secrets begin to unravel.
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Young Aman has everything he could possibly want: good looks, a supportive family, a solid job. Yet his outlook on life is suddenly shaken when he stumbles upon beautiful Neha, who captures his heart at first sight. The two fall in love, and nothing seems able to come between them.
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A drama. A comedy. A romance with an edge.
The setting is modern day London.
In this impulsive, dialogue driven character piece, young struggling female musician Ashley Branstead, has an unpleasant encounter with a stranger one particular morning. This disturbing incident jump starts what turns out to be a very curious, humorous and random day with another stranger, twentysomething?seemingly genuine?but odd Michael.
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Spain in the 1980s. Galicia is one of the primary points for illegal drugs to enter the country. Pilar, fortyish, middle-class wife and mother of three, is faced with a great challenge: her 17-year-old son, Fito, has become addicted to heroin. She feels personally guilty and ashamed, at first. Then Fito slides into crime and her entire family is affected.
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Alice?s Diner is a haven for the hopeless. Sketchy past down on your luck or just getting through life, Alice has a place for you. Benno (played by the incomparable Kurtwood Smith, Dead Poet?s Society, That 70?s Show) is the cook. Years of being the muscle and cracking kneecaps has grizzled him beyond his years. Scotty, the utility guy, is fresh from juvi and can?t seem to shake his petty thief habits. And Joe is the well-intentioned but ultimately dim-witted deliveryman.
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Filmmaker Joe Cultrera and his brother, Paul, were raised as good Catholics in the early Sixties. But thirty years later Paul revealed to Joe a secret that had been tormenting him all those years - he had been sexually abused by the Clergy.
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The conflict between homosexuality and Christianity remains a hot-button topic. Having undergone sexual and spiritual discoveries of her own, director Luane Beck has turned her camera onto the subject for God & Gays ? Bridging the Gap, her heartfelt, emotional documentary about personal struggles and, above all, a striking testament for tolerance.