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Director: Betsey Brown
Narrative Features :: Vanguard
WARNING: Appropriation of trans identity, which may offend some viewers.  In this satirical docu-fiction hybrid, actor-filmmaker Peter Vack (Assholes) decides to re-identify as female to maintain relevance in the art...

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Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn

Director: Radu Jude
Convulsions :: Narrative Features
In Bucharest, a schoolteacher finds her career and reputation under threat after a personal sex tape is leaked online. Forced to meet the parents demanding her dismissal, she refuses to...

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Convulsions Secret Screening

Director: ?
Convulsions :: Narrative Features
Adults Only. This unique, sexy, wild new film is from another planet. What could it be? We ain't sayin!

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Giving Birth to a Butterfly

Director: Theodore Schaefer
Narrative Features
After having her identity stolen online, Diana leaves her family and goes on a road trip with her son's pregnant girlfriend to track down the perpetrators. The mismatched travel companions...

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Have a Nice Life

Director: Prashanth Kamalakanthan
Narrative Features
Both hitting dead ends in life, Indian American housewife Jyothi (Jagathi Kamalakanthan) and young stoner musician Sophie (Lucy Kaminsky) meet at a Durham, North Carolina pawn shop and soon after...

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Hellbender

Directors: Toby Poser, Zelda Adams & John Adams
Convulsions :: Narrative Features
16-year-old Izzy has a rare illness that has kept her confined her whole life on a remote mountaintop with her mother. Questioning her own malaise, Izzy secretly befriends another teen...

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Hotele Lerallaneng (Hotel on the Koppies)

Director: Charlie Vundla
Narrative Features
Jabu is a young novelist tormented by his personal demons of alcohol and drug addiction. After a stint in rehab, and maintaining three months sobriety, he returns to Johannesburg, South...

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HYSTERIA

Director: Carla Forte
Narrative Features
This one-take and real-time feature film tells the story of Marina, a woman who is not able to recognize her emotions. Her partner Martin will try to help by submitting...

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Karmalink

Director: Jake Wachtel
Narrative Features
Mixing nanotech with spiritual concepts like karma and rebirth, Cambodia's first sci-fi film is also a visually stunning and freshly entertaining mystery-adventure set in near-future Phnom Penh, where a teenage...

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Le Bruit Des Moteurs (The Noise of Engines)

Director: Philippe Grégoire
Narrative Features :: Vanguard
Alexandre, a firearms instructor at the Canadian customs-officer college, returns to his small-town home after his employer places him on compulsory leave due to a sexual misunderstanding. As he forms...

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