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A fringe existence disrupted by a chance invitation. Aloys is a quiet man, who has spent his life on the outside, observing others through an extensive hobby of filming and audio recording his neighbors and their intimate interactions. After his tapes are stolen, he accepts a mysterious phone call and an invitation to engage in the fantastical practice of "telephone walking" in exchange for the return of his tapes. In doing so, he escapes his physical world, exploring the depths of his imagination.

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What lasts longer - art, or the relationship that inspired it? David invites Sarah to his summer lake house to help finish his play. But Sarah has her own ideas about its subject: their decades-long, tumultuous love affair, and despite the peaceful solitude, both are thrown into re-examining the multitude of eras they've survived together. All the Beauty is an intimate and acute anatomy of a complicated relationship.

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One young girl’s journey to adolescence and to self-acceptance. Eleven-year-old Alba is painfully shy, and spends much of her time withdrawn and in silence, observing the beauty of tiny insects in the world around her. When her mother becomes ill, she moves in with the father she doesn’t know and quickly learns that he suffers from her same inability to connect. As they navigate their tense relationship, Alba deflects bullying at school, while simultaneously being surprised by bouts of kindness.

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In a film adaptation of a novel by James Franco, inner demons get in the way of two wannabe actors in Hollywood. Aspiring actor Sean is now sober after damaging multiple relationships with his family. At an acting class, he befriends Ben, a South Dakota transplant. As Ben’s devotion to his craft grows, Sean’s bad habits resurface. As each young man’s obsessions mount, their identities intertwine with the characters and actors they constantly emulate, ultimately resurrecting the dark corridors of their pasts.

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Michelle Rodriguez (Avatar, The Fast and the Furious) and Sigourney Weaver (Aliens, Ghostbusters) headline in this mayhem-filled, hard boiled road to redemption. As retribution for her brother's murder, Dr. Kay (Sigourney Weaver), a plastic surgeon with ice water running through her veins, against his will, puts a hit man through gender reassignment surgery. Seething with a thirst for revenge against who did this to her, Tomboy (Michelle Rodriguez) begins to climb up the thug ladder the only way she knows how—guns blazing and with a trail of corpses in her wake.

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How does one overcome the shadows of one's past? Patagonia, South America: In a town plagued with femicide, director Francisco Joaquin Paparella's cinematic mystery unfolds into a tale of a man struggling with his own guilt. Zamora, a ditch-digger and rural worker, is troubled by his own questionable past. Pursuing catharsis, he leaves civilization and heads deep into the snowy mountains to live in an isolated cabin. Nearby, a missing girl's body is found abandoned in a ditch, yet there is no outcry. Something is out of place in this town—something...eerie.

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A woman and her physician husband rent an old mansion for the summer They move into the upstairs nursery where the wife is confined as a type of therapy for her condition, a perceived nervous breakdown. A contemporary adaptation of a seminal work of feminist literature (written in 1892 by Charlotte Perkins Gilman), The Yellow Wallpaper is the latest feature film from Spartan Film Studios, San Jose State University's premier film program. Through Spartan Film Studios, students work with faculty, staff, and industry professionals to create awardwinning feature and short-subject films.

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A love poem (with attitude) to shedding your skin and growing into your true beauty Four very different people are all facing crossroads: Sigrid, a young woman aching to find her voice; Kare, who's trapped himself inside his egotistical persona; Trine, a very pregnant performance artist with a bad attitude who's running out of options; and Agnes, an aging author with a 40-year case of writer's block who wonders about the son she gave up for adoption. Their paths weave together, intersect, and fall away from one another like the flight of birds.

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Secrets are like quicksand. They look harmless, yet one false step could be your last. Romania in the year 2000. A young prosecutor. A case of corruption. The guilty party handed to him on a platter. A shoo-in. But the closer he looks, the less certain things appear. Just who is and is not guilty? And of what? And who is pulling whose strings? Based on a true story, director Tudor Giurgiu (Love Sick, Cinequest 2007; Another Christmas, Cinequest 2013) has fashioned a taut political thriller reminiscent of such classics as Italy's Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion.

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Witty banter abounds between two sisters who tease each other almost as much as they need each other. Director Stephen Ringer creates a hilarious adventure of partners in crime—and in life. Two sisters, Elle (Aly Michalka, Easy A) and Joy (AJ Michalka, Super 8), throw a going-away party for themselves. A few uninvited guests—including their divorced parents—hail the drama that turns what was supposed to be a unifying celebration into a chaotic frenzy of emotions and the memories of past heartaches.