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How do children father their parents? Beautifully rendered and poetically observed, Star Boys captures the symbiotic relationship between parents and their children. Shortly after finding their parents engaged in a sexually charged party, Vesa and his childhood friend Karrlo begin to comprehend what once felt like merely background noise between adults. Arguments, glances, and quiet actions now all have meaning. They suddenly have awakened perspective on their parents and hear the rhythms of their relationships to one another.
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Mothers test their sons in many ways. Jan is a 55-year-old successful novelist at the peak of his career. When his 85-year-old vivacious and witty mother, Josée, suffers a massive stroke, she suddenly turns into a woeful child with a gibberish speech. It is a great shock for Jan to see his flamboyant mother rendered so helpless and deteriorated. Tasked with taking care of her and confronted with a fast-approaching deadline for his novel, Jan has to question his priorities. As Jan reflects on their lives together, the harsh and tender memories bring the family closer.
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Let me teach you to be bold. When a grandmothers secret past collides with her granddaughters secret future and her daughters angry present, can the love of three generations be enough to accept decades of deceit? Sometimes an event as simple as fishing lessons is all it takes to splash away the façade society has painted upon our hearts. Only once we learn to break down the preconceived notion of love, are we truly vulnerable and able to love. This was no exception when Rose, a married young woman, met Louise, a bold woman of 1960s.
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Our idea of evolution hits a riptide. A devastating earthquake rips through Indonesia and reveals a shocking discovery: a nearly one-mile-long, 170,000-year-old skull. This massive skull sparks controversy among scientists and religious leaders alike, who question if its safe to even reveal the existence of the head in order to preserve peace and sanity. Ani, a humble college student working at the skull research center, finds herself embroiled in a much more violent and sinister plot to keep the skull under wraps.
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STARRING LILLIAN GISH With Dennis James At The Mighty Wurlitzer Organ The Wind is a masterpiece of American silent cinema. Lillian Gish plays a sensitive young woman who moves out west to live with her cousin and his family. When she is forced from their household, she accepts the marriage proposal of a nearby rancher. Life at the barren ranch is lonely; her new husband is crude (although kind) and he is often absent, leaving her alone with nothing but the incessant wind.
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A tireless crusaders fight to save the country he loves. Silas tells the inspirational story of Silas Siakor, a Liberian activist, who created a widespread movement to protect his country from environmental destruction: multinational companies engaged in illegal logging wreaking havoc on the environment while impoverishing the native communities. Silas established the Sustainable Development Institute to advocate for protecting the countrys resources. He and fellow activists ventured to remote areas to document with their cellphone cameras these abuses.
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A story of temptation and monsters. After a night of debauchery spirals out of control, Marcus (Trevor Long, Ozark) retreats to his family home along the New England coast. Solitude is disturbed when his brother asks Marcus to look after his estranged nephew and niece. As days pass, solace escapes him; he feels baited by a dark force. Is he losing his mind or has something terrible burrowed deep within him? Incubating. Waiting until the climate is right.
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How far will an infiltrator go to expose a group of racists? The disturbing racial content of this film is front and center. Blaze, a young woman embeds herself in a white power group in order to find her adoptive African-American mother, but one night after the group returns from a rally, they test her allegiance. After Blaze proves her DNA is pure European, the group leader wants to celebrate their 6-month relationship by committing violent acts of racial hatred that, if recorded, could give the group access to a more exclusive racist organization.
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For what I was put through, I should have been a killer. To some, life is a brutal struggle to come to grips with the things that are unfairly taken from them. Risking Light examines four stories of painful experiences and how they overcame them to move forward and create a better world out of their pain.
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The aftermath of a fatal school explosion uncovers more than blame. In this tense drama, a chemistry class explosion at a Manhattan high school throws troublemaker Matty Fairchild into a coma. During an out-of-body experience, he witnesses an investigation that unravels a deeper side to the explosion. Tensions explode between parents and teachers as they navigate through shock and guilt.