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Narrative Features

20 Weeks

Leena Pendharkar
Magnolia :: Narrative Features
During a routine scan, a young couple navigating their first pregnancy discovers a health condition that could gravely impact their baby, forcing them to re-examine their relationship and their future....

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A Bad Idea Gone Wrong

Jason Headley
Magnolia :: Narrative Features
A comedy about two would-be thieves who accidentally arm the alarm system and have to break out of the house they just broke into. When they discover an unexpected housesitter,...

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Anti-Porno

Sion Sono
Convulsions :: Narrative Features
Japanese punk auteur Sion Sono returns to Convulsions (TAG, Cuc '15) with a subversively feminist ode to Nikkatsu's "Roman Porno" movies, the major studio's softcore sensations of the 1970s. A...

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Assholes

Peter Vack
Narrative Features :: Vanguard
Adah and Aaron are recovering addicts who share a foul fetish and are struggling to stay sober. After meeting in their psychoanalyst’s waiting room, they fall in love, relapse on...

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Automatic at Sea

Matthew Lessner
Narrative Features :: Vanguard
On a whim, Eve (young Swedish traveler) accepts an invitation from Peter (wealthy heir) to vacation on his family’s private island off the coast of New England. As a series...

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Bernard and Huey

Dan Mirvish
Magnolia :: Narrative Features
Unlikely old friends, Huey arrives on Bernard’s doorstep after 25 years apart. Bernard falls for Huey’s estranged daughter Zelda. Meanwhile, Huey tries to seduce various women in Bernard’s life. At...

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Blame

Quinn Shephard
Magnolia :: Narrative Features
Chris Messina stars as a substitute drama teacher whose taboo relationship with an unstable student strikes a nerve in her jealous classmate, sparking a vengeful chain of events within their...

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Dayveon

Amman Abbasi
Narrative Features :: Vanguard
Mourning the death of his older brother, 13-year-old Dayveon becomes drawn to the camaraderie and violence of a local gang, while he spends his days roaming around his rural Arkansas...

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Dr. Brinks & Dr. Brinks

Josh Crockett
Magnolia :: Narrative Features
After husband and wife aid workers, Dr. Brinks and Dr. Brinks, die in a plane crash, their grown children are reunited for the first time in years. It takes days...

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Everything Beautiful is Far Away

Pete Ohs, Andrea Sission
Narrative Features :: Vanguard
A sci-fi fable about a lonely man, his robot companion, and a determined young woman hiking across a desert planet looking for a mythical lake. A story about the longing...

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