Narrative Features

A Great Lamp

Director: Saad Qureshi
Narrative Features :: Vanguard
Max wheat pastes pictures of their dead grandma, Howie listens to fountain pennies and grants wishes, and Gene lives out of his car in exile from his family, when they...

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Bacarau

Directors: Juliano Dornelles, Kleber Mendonça Filho
Convulsions :: Narrative Features
In the near future, a small village in the Brazilian sertão mourns the loss of its 94-year-old matriarch. Days later, the inhabitants (including legendary actress Sônia Braga) notice that their town has...

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Black Magic for White Boys

Director: Onur Tukel
Narrative Features :: Vanguard
An aging magician is about to lose his small New York theater, but has a devilish plan to save it. A middle-aged man finds his sovereignty in jeopardy when he...

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De Lo Mio

Director: Diana Peralta
Narrative Features :: Vanguard
Sibling bonds are rekindled and tested in the achingly vibrant debut from Diana Peralta. Rita and Carolina, two high-spirited sisters raised in New York, travel to the Dominican Republic to...

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Frances Ferguson

Director: Bob Byington
Magnolia :: Narrative Features
Frances Ferguson, the eponymously named character at the center of Bob Byington’s new film, is discontent. Like a lot of us, she does a bit of “acting out” and pays...

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I’ve Got Issues

Director: Steve Collins
Narrative Features :: Vanguard
Human lives grappling with all the flavors of existential despair intersect in a deadpan collage of comic suffering. Director Steve Collins weaves together a series of bizarrely and sometimes touching...

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International Falls

Director: Amber McGinnis
Magnolia :: Narrative Features
Dee is a middle-aged wife and mother stuck in a boring job and a broken marriage in what feels like the frozen edge of the world: International Falls, Minnesota. A...

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Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway

Director: Miguel Llansó
Convulsions :: Narrative Features
Diminutive special agent DT Gagano dreams of leaving the CIA to open a pizza parlor and kickboxing studio with his wife Malin. Before he has a chance to present his...

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Knives and Skin

Director: Jennifer Reeder
Magnolia :: Narrative Features
Have you seen Carolyn Harper? No one has, not since her jock boyfriend abandoned her at the lake. Something isn't quite right, but it's hard to say which wave of...

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Koko-Di Koko-Da

Director: Johannes Nyholm
Convulsions :: Narrative Features
Still grieving from the inexplicable death of their daughter on her 8th birthday, Elin and Tobias take a camping trip to find their way back to each other. However, their...

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