Writers: Tara Perry, Sean Anthony Davis, Jordan Wayne Long Directors: Jordan Wayne Long, Matt Glass Cast: Tim Blake Nelson, Angela Bettis, Thomas Hobson, Phil Morris, Tara Perry, David Arquette, Graham Gordy, David Aaron Baker
In 1866, a young doctor is summoned by his uncle to a remote town in the Ozarks only to discover upon his arrival that the utopian paradise is not all that it seems to be.
Thursday October 21, 2021 7:15pm - 9:15pm CDT
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Writer/Director: Elvar Gunnarsson Story by: Magnús Ómarsson, Elvar Gunnarsson Cast: Gunnar Kristinsson, Vivian Ólafsdóttir, Þór Túliníus, Björn Jörundur, Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir, Halldór Gylfason, Darren Foreman, Magnús Ómarsson
It Hatched follows the couple Mira & Pétur who journey from Nashville, TN to Iceland, where they’re planning to open a guesthouse in a remote fjord. Their plans are soon altered when an ancient Icelandic demon starts harassing them with vivid night terrors. What follows is a chain of events that include Pétur facing dementia, Mira laying an infant-sized egg and the both of them squaring up against the tall task of...parenting.
Thursday October 21, 2021 10:30pm - Friday October 22, 2021 12:27am CDT
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At the height of the international occupation of Afghanistan, two women – Gulnaz, raped and impregnated by her uncle, and Farida, on the run from an abusive husband – are imprisoned on charges of “moral crimes” by an Afghan justice system that is supported by billions of dollars of aid money from the European Union. Shot over ten years, "With This Breath I Fly" follows these two courageous women as they fight for their freedom against a patriarchal Afghan society determined to keep them bound to tribal culture, while exposing the complicity of the European Union in censoring their voices.
Friday October 22, 2021 1:00pm - 2:38pm CDT
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Writer: Myrthin Stagg & Liam Gareau Director: Dan Abramovici
“It’s still the same old story/A fight for love and glory…” On their final movie night, Kitty is determined to tell her best friend that she’s in love with her – But life hardly ever plays out like in the movies
Friday October 22, 2021 1:00pm - 2:50pm CDT
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Peter is a simple and endearing bachelor working at the office during the day and taking care of his father at night. For the past few weeks, he has been chatting online with a young woman. One day, she asks for his help.
Friday October 22, 2021 1:00pm - 2:50pm CDT
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Imad is a five-year-old Yazidi child who is released from ISIS captivity after two and a half years. During this time, ISIS has brainwashed Imad and he considers himself one of the ISIS fighters. His eyes still emanate innocence, but he shows no other feelings than hatred for his mother and resentment towards those around him. Will Imad's family be able to help him overcome his trauma and become again the child he once was?
Friday October 22, 2021 5:00pm - 6:37pm CDT
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It has been seven years since Frederic has taken his family away from Paris for a summer vacation. But this year, he is determined to offer them an unforgettable vacation at all costs.
Friday October 22, 2021 7:15pm - 9:17pm CDT
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Writer: Ernst van Wyk Director: Marinus Gubitz Cast: Arno Greeff, Jane de Wet, Ernst van Wyk
Things take a turn for the unexpected when up-and-coming actor, Simon Berg, receives an invitation to be part of the cast of world renowned theatre director Andreas Vog’s latest Red Riding Hood reinvention.
Friday October 22, 2021 10:15pm - Saturday October 23, 2021 12:12am CDT
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Lucas just lost his father and everything around him is starting to crumble. One day he meets Alvaro, who offers him money in exchange for some innocent pictures. Álvaro will use them to create fake accounts in social media to "just talk", he assures, with underage girls. Desperate for money, Lucas takes the deal.
Friday October 22, 2021 10:30pm - Saturday October 23, 2021 12:22am CDT
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Writer/Director: Abie Sidell Cast: John DiMino, Carolina Đỗ, Conrado Falco III, Jane Bradley, Tobías Arizio, Marc Winski, Joel Brody, Sasha, Matthew Elijah Webb, Patrick Ball, Madeline Seidman, Rolando Chusan, Himself, Brandon E. Burton
We all do what we gotta do to pass – except Marc. Desperate to somehow finish his final final paper, he struggles to cram all night in the library. But the library has other plans for him....
Friday October 22, 2021 10:45pm - 11:49pm CDT
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Writers/Directors: Dave Kajganich, Alistair Petrie
Six new teachers at a venerated English boarding school in the 1960s are drawn into a moral crisis regarding upsetting charges against their Headmaster’s son.
Saturday October 23, 2021 12:30pm - 2:25pm CDT
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In a foster home run by kids with no adult supervision, Lucia, a seven-year-old misfit, awaits a pick-up that never comes, discovering the true meaning of home.
Saturday October 23, 2021 12:30pm - 2:25pm CDT
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Tamara dreams of becoming a singer, but in the meantime she's babysitting. When Tamara picks up a kid from kindergarten, she finds out that one of his friends' dad is a famous singer. She invites them on a playdate at the shopping center's elephant slide, planning on having the famous dad listen to some of her song sketches.
Saturday October 23, 2021 12:30pm - 2:25pm CDT
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A comedy web series about and experienced film extra who, after being discovered by a manager, gets the opportunity to take her career to the next level by becoming a featured extra.
Saturday October 23, 2021 1:00pm - 2:50pm CDT
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Writer: Joey Belfiore Director: Will Bowes, Karen Knox
Blackout City is a pilot following Matt and Lynn, strangers who meet each other as new roommates, not realizing they were each other’s blackout drunken one night stand just a few nights previous.
Saturday October 23, 2021 1:00pm - 2:50pm CDT
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Early to Rise opens with three low-ranking astronauts aboard the DreamBlaster space ship, accidentally woken up from hibernation - with 90 years left on their journey.
Saturday October 23, 2021 1:00pm - 2:50pm CDT
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Writer: Mosiah Moonsammy Directors: Mosiah Moonsammy, Jared Glenn
An Afro-latino family in Brooklyn runs a local bodega in their neighborhood. A new organic store owner moves across the street with plans of expanding his empire and taking over the bodega. This Brooklynite Tribe must band together to save their business and community from being gentrified.
Saturday October 23, 2021 1:00pm - 2:50pm CDT
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Writer/director: Anna Baumgarten Cast: Libe Barer, Ariela Barer, Chelsea Alden, Dylan Arnold, Travis Tope, Ricky Wayne
After failing her final college class, Jane returns home to her family's lake house, and comes to terms with the confusing trauma that derailed her senior year.
Saturday October 23, 2021 3:30pm - 5:30pm CDT
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A young, black nurse living in 1985 apartheid South Africa must face her worst fears when she learns that her activist, younger brother may be in danger when he doesn't return after school.
Saturday October 23, 2021 4:00pm - 5:56pm CDT
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A half-hour workplace comedy about a group of unlikely advocates who spend their days fielding the complaints of senior citizens in long-term care facilities.
Saturday October 23, 2021 4:15pm - 6:13pm CDT
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A tale about ALMOST never giving up, "Cary in Retrograde" follows a failed musician as he traverses a surrealist Los Angeles in hopes of a second chance.
Saturday October 23, 2021 4:15pm - 6:13pm CDT
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Writer: Alex DiBucci Directors: Jacob Stern, Alex DiBucci
When a global pandemic causes Sara and Sam to move in together after only a few dates, they’re forced to get to know each other better and more intimately than they ever wanted to.
Saturday October 23, 2021 4:15pm - 6:13pm CDT
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Thirsty for vengeance, Thomas sets a trap in the guise of an escape room for three former friends. Thinking they won a contest, the three friends enter the game and are forced to relive a traumatizing childhood experience.
Saturday October 23, 2021 4:15pm - 6:13pm CDT
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Writer: Lorien Haynes Directors: Lorien Haynes, Barbara van Schaik, Maryam d'Abo, Susannah Harker, Jodhi May, Erin Richards, Robin Gurney, Katie Flynn, Laura Merians, Amy Gardner, Gia Carides, Talia Balsam, Tara Fitzgerald, Kate Danson, Sienna Guillory, Saffron Burrows, Lucy Brown Cast: Jason Isaacs, James Purefoy, Nathan Fillion, Richard Wilson, Issy Knopfler, Charlie Field, Sullivan Stapleton, Lesley Manville, Alan Cumming, Lorien Haynes, Belinda Stewart Wilson, Clara McGregor, Ben Lawson, Alex Desert, Joe Sims, Jonathan Cake, Jonathan Firth, John Power
A woman tells her daughter about every man she’s ever been with – in the hope her daughter won’t make the same mistakes.
Saturday October 23, 2021 5:15pm - 7:03pm CDT
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(USA, Oman, 100 MIN) Writer/Director: Seanne Winslow, Adam Sjoberg Cast: Rami Zahar, Rupert Fennessy, Noor Al Huda
The carefree friendship between Tariq, the Lebanese-born son of a poor beekeeper, and Cai, a privileged Westerner, is challenged when Tariq promises to help his sister escape from an abusive marriage.
Saturday October 23, 2021 6:45pm - 8:45pm CDT
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A teenager from an impoverished fishing community is pressured by his brother to steal two bags of abalone from a dead man. Tracked by a corrupt government official, the boys' mission to sell the goods turns into a fight for their own survival.
Saturday October 23, 2021 7:15pm - 8:57pm CDT
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After her husband falls into a vegetative state, a woman does everything in her power to make ends meet - even if that means cutting chickens' heads or becoming a hit woman.
Saturday October 23, 2021 8:30pm - 10:25pm CDT
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A disabled teenager in America’s deep south encounters a traveler claiming to have supernatural origins, together they embark on a journey of healing, romance, and conflict with a strange cult who attempt to consume them.
Saturday October 23, 2021 10:00pm - 11:57pm CDT
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Jacinto is a nine-year-old child trapped in the body of a man near his fifties. He lives with his old parents in Mallou, a small village that lies in ruins in the middle of the Galician mountains. Far away from the modern world, Jacinto has built a fantasy world in which he is the absolute king. This world breaks in pieces when a couple of new neighbors arrives to the village.
Saturday October 23, 2021 10:30pm - Sunday October 24, 2021 12:25am CDT
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A talented, yet unknown LA artist wins the commission to create the largest stained-glass window of its kind, but he doesn’t know how to make it. After a desperate search, he finds someone who might have the answer…a famous glass maestro named, Narcissus Quagliata. From the moment Narcissus arrives, Tim quickly learns that his talent and humor can only take him so far. If he has any chance to make it to the end of the project and potentially achieve greatness, he has to put down his ego and submit to the life and artistic lessons of a complicated master, who has already preceded him in greatness.
Sunday October 24, 2021 2:30pm - 4:49pm CDT
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When a young Cameroonian man attempts to pursue the dream of a better life in post-apartheid South Africa, he instead finds himself trapped as a slave in Angola.
Sunday October 24, 2021 3:30pm - 5:22pm CDT
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A 16-year-old boy is in critical condition after being shot in the head with less-lethal ammunition during the BLM protests in Austin. When the city doesn't react, a tech worker turned internet sleuth decides to find out what cop shot the boy.
Sunday October 24, 2021 3:30pm - 5:22pm CDT
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In a small retirement home from the north of France, fourteen Alzheimer patients keep wandering painfully, hours after hours, in search of a forgotten destination. But here, their wish for departure is within reach
Sunday October 24, 2021 3:30pm - 5:22pm CDT
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During the Covid-19 lockdown in Italy, a gruff mid aged pipe organ restorer struggles to control her obsessive attraction to her new 20 years old mute assistant.
Sunday October 24, 2021 4:00pm - 5:50pm CDT
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Set in a failing 1944 Harlem jazz club, the fates of a jaded house band, a tyrannical owner, and a brazen female trumpet player are forever altered when a renowned music producer sits in for a live recording.
Sunday October 24, 2021 4:15pm - 6:08pm CDT
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After her mother's death, Su hopes to reconnect with her father during their traditional camping trip on his birthday, but when he cancels it, she is forced to deal with her unresolved grief.
Sunday October 24, 2021 4:30pm - 6:16pm CDT
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Directors: Huda Razzak, My Anh Ngo Writers: Huda Razzak, Toby Osborne
A woman visits her ailing grandmother in a hospital during a flood, bringing back fond memories of the past – spilling over into fantastical visions in the present – as an ancient tale comes to life.
Sunday October 24, 2021 4:30pm - 6:28pm CDT
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While conducting research for a college project, Kayako befriends a lonely retired detective who can’t stop pondering his unsolved case out loud, Torao. Taking an interest in the case, the two embark on a journey to solve the mystery of a small town.
Sunday October 24, 2021 6:00pm - 8:02pm CDT
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Writers: Danny Abel, Brett Blake Director: Danny Abel
Jeremiah Heaton: Farmer. Father. Monarch? "The King of North Sudan" chronicles one Virginia man’s brash quest to turn a desolate patch of African desert into his very own country - and get unspeakably rich in the process. Jeremiah must navigate the murky waters of global diplomacy, U.S. military dark sites, and the Chinese criminal underbelly to turn his dream into reality. Can he do it before he bankrupts his family? What moral compromises will he have to make in order to succeed? And what can this teach us about white male privilege and what’s left of the American Dream?
Sunday October 24, 2021 8:00pm - 9:55pm CDT
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Writers: Jay Buim, Susan Juvet, Rachel Webster Director: Jay Buim Cast: Lexie Mountain, Nina Tarr, Asia Mulwray-Fraser, Yaz Perea, Khan Baykal, Alec Jones Trujillo, Drew Freed, Geoff Poppler, Robby Rackleff
A wellness startup settles in the Catskills to spread their knowledge through the power of Jilling Off, a mission to priotize female pleasure, which they believe will heal Mother Earth.
Sunday October 24, 2021 9:15pm - 11:10pm CDT
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In this Neo-American western, Joel returns home to avenge the death of his first love. Searching for retribution in the decaying landscape of his childhood, he soon learns that closure cannot be found through acts of violence.
Monday October 25, 2021 5:00pm - 6:59pm CDT
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Writers: Anna Paděrová, Matěj Podskalský Director: Anna Paděrová
The village dance has begun, the skirts are spinning and feet are stamping to the rhythm of the dance. However, Róza hasn’t been invited to dance with anyone just yet. All of a sudden an unknown stranger appears, inviting Róza to dance, giving her a pair of red shoes.
Monday October 25, 2021 8:15pm - 9:46pm CDT
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A woman attempts to immortalize her dying grandfather using virtual reality technology, but her obsession with documenting drives a wedge between them.
Thursday October 28, 2021 12:00pm - 1:59pm CDT
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