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20 Weeks

Leena Pendharkar
Magnolia :: Narrative Features
During a routine scan, a young couple navigating their first pregnancy discover 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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ACORN and the Firestorm

Reuben Atlas, Sam Pollard
Documentary Features :: Voices
A hidden-camera video involving a fake prostitute threatens to destroy ACORN, America's largest grassroots anti-poverty organization.

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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 are struggling to stay sober. After meeting in their psychoanalyst’s waiting room, they fall in love, relapse on poppers, and become the biggest...

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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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Baby Baby Shorts: Cinekink

Various
Magnolia :: Shorts Blocks
Cake // Anne Hu :: Eliza tries to explore her sexuality within her marriage with her husband Thomas by surprise ordering a female sex robot for them to share.  But the sexbot...

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Barn Door Shorts: Southern Stories

Various
Shorties :: Shorts Blocks
August // Caitlyn Greene :: Deep in Louisiana's swampland, a woman wakes from a fever dream where it has been August for 16 years. Crick in the Holler // Ursula Ellis :: During West...

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Beefy Baby Shorts: Canadian

Shorties :: Shorts Blocks
Lolz-ita // Katie Boland :: A naive but internet savvy 22 year old navigates the reality of her boring, small town Canadian life juxtaposed with the fantasy of her provocative and powerful...

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Bernard and Huey

Dan Mirvish
Magnolia
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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Bernard and Huey (repeat)

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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Black Beach/White Beach: A Tale of Two Beaches

Ricky Kelly
Documentary Features :: Voices
In Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, two national motorcycle festivals are held over the weeks around the Memorial Day holiday. One festival is primarily white, the other is predominantly black. While...

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Blackwrap Shorts: Multiple Surrealities

Various
Shorts Blocks
Emmy // Hannah Cheesman :: An iPhone-obsessed gym rat is momentarily released from her monotonous existence after a Robaxacet overdose calls into question her front of normalcy, inviting her to connect with...

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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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Cabbage Head Shorts: Animation

Various
Shorties :: Shorts Blocks
Meeting MacGuffin // Catya Plate ::  Meeting MacGuffin is the sequel to the multi-award-winning animated stop-motion film "Hanging By A Thread" (2013), the second in a trilogy of animated short...

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China Ball Shorts: Global Perspectives

Various
Shorties :: Shorts Blocks
Stopgap in Stop Motion // Stephen Featherstone :: Photographs of performers in an inclusive dance company come to life. The individual artists dance out of the photos and across table tops until the...

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Covered Wagon Shorts: Drama

Shorties :: Shorts Blocks
Mrs. Drake //  Caitlin FitzGerald :: It takes courage and strength to raise a child but it's constant doubt that consumes a parent. “Mrs. Drake” will touch a nerve with anyone...

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Dayveon

Amman Abbasi
Narrative Features :: Vanguard
In the wake of his older brother's death, 13-year-old Dayveon spends the sweltering summer days roaming his rural Arkansas town. When he falls in with a local gang, he becomes...

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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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Edison Shorts: Portraits

Various
Shorties :: Shorts Blocks
Still Sophie // Caroline Knight :: Four and a half years ago, young talent Sophia Salveson’s life changed forever. Doctors said she may never walk again, may never talk again...may never perform again....

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Everything Beautiful is Far Away

Pete Ohs, Andrea Sission
Narrative Features :: Vanguard
A guy, a girl, and a robothead hike across a desert planet in search of a mythical lake.   Short Before the Feature: Eve // Brittany "B.Monét" Fennell :: What happens when the...

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