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African Violet
When Fereydoun's children put him in a nursing home, his ex-wife Shokoo takes him to her house although her new husband does not quite approve.
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After All
When Ellen returns home to care for her ailing mother and estranged teenage daughter, three generations of women struggle to connect and find the courage to forgive.
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Asog
Asog follows Rey, a non-binary Filipino school teacher, on a road trip to compete in a drag pageant. Along the way they encounter Filipinos enduring the impacts of climate change, including residents of Sicogon Island whose land was stolen in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan.
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Birds Who Fear Death
After their father leaves his estate to the Indigenous community of Bird, Adam and Ryan head north to reclaim it only to face challenges that lead them toward unexpected truths.
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Enduring Democracy
Monterey's unique decision to publicly welcome Japanese Americans home after WWII reflects powerful themes of diversity, equity, and inclusion. A rediscovered 1938 film and the original petition reveal a joyful community before incarceration and highlight a local stand for democratic ideals, offering an important lesson in preserving those values.
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Guanuna
After police wrongfully arrested Paul Guanuna, his body was found the next day at the bottom of a ravine. Guaųna follows a father's relentless fight for justice, uniting youth and a wounded community to confront racism, police brutality, and impunity in Ecuador.
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Katrina Babies
16 years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, an entire generation still grapples with the lifelong impact of having their childhood redefined by tragedy. Edward Buckles Jr. spent 7 years documenting the stories of his peers who survived the storm as children, using his community's tradition of oral storytelling to open a door for healing and capture the strength and spirit of his city.
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Lilies Not For Me
Haunted by a forbidden affair, a young apiring novelist in a 1920s "conversion" clinic finds hope in a compassionate nurse who challenges the era's cruel norms.
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Militantropos
Militantropos captures the human condition through the fractured realities of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The film pieces together everyday lives transformed by war those who flee, those who lose everything, and those who stay to resist and fight tracing both the instinct to survive and the need for closeness. Amid devastation and atrocity, the human is absorbed into war and war, in turn, becomes part of the human.
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Poppy
Nineteen-year-old Poppy Simpson refuses to be defined by Down syndrome and is determined to take charge of her own life.
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Rimini
Richie Bravo, once upon a time a successful Austrian pop star, chases after his faded fame in wintry Rimini, Italy. He funds his dissolute lifestyle and addiction to gambling with concerts for busloads of German-speaking tourists and sexual favors for his female fans. His world starts to collapse when his adult daughter suddenly breaks into his life and demands money from him that she feels he owes her. Meanwhile, his elderly father, who suffers from dementia, goes round and round in circles in an Austrian nursing home as his condition steadily declines.
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River of Grass
River of Grass is an ode to the Florida Everglades, past and present, told through the prescient writings of Marjory Stoneman Douglas and those who call the region home. After a hurricane, Douglas appears in a dream, guiding filmmaker Sasha Wortzel into a layered exploration of the Everglades as ecosystem, history, and site of resistance amid climate collapse through encounters with Indigenous educators, activists, and multigenerational residents.
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