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In this animated film written by Ilan Stavans (My Mexican Shiva), a dying mathematician decides to convey his ultimate knowledge to one of his favourite pupils. Animation and music by Jay Bolotin.

Two Afghan illegal aliens take a walk at night. To the rhythm of their nocturnal stroll, we see how the Dutch reality, from bare mattresses in a condemned building, breakdancing in the street to running from the police, is at odds with their phone calls to relatives who stayed behind and have both concerns and high expectations. To reassure the home front, one Afghan takes a picture of himself in front of a nice house and expensive car.

As One traces the journey of ten children with Autism and their special families as they struggle and triumph with Autism in the United Arab Emirates.

Project Re: Brief is an inspiring story about the need for creative thinking in the face of enormous technological shifts in the way we communicate. In a beautiful collision of minds and media, Project Re: Brief is a grand experiment whereby Google partnered with five of the brightest “old-school” legends from advertising to re-imagine their most iconic creative work from a half-century ago for the modern web. Directed by Doug Pray, and the same team who joined him to make the Emmy-Award-winning film and PBS hit “Art & Copy,” Project Re: Brief is a film that aims to shake up the ad industry and inspire new ways of thinking. While shifting formats and media platforms is one thing, as we learn from our heroes of the past, the basic tenets of human storytelling haven’t changed.

Touching documentary which interviews over 30 HIV-positive New Yorkers. Director Kermit Cole turns the statistics into real-life faces and stories as a range of people--black and white, male and female, gay and straight, young and old--share their experiences of living with an illness that is still stigmatized by public ignorance and fear.

Empire of Brazil, 1870. A queer indigenous body slowly dies on the cross while a transgender gypsy woman is banned by her people. A half-breed soldier stands in the middle of the way. A child and an old woman cross their stories like destined lines on the palm of a hand.

A biographical documentary of musician/author Kinky Friedman.

A decade ago rapper Khari 'Conspiracy' Stewart was diagnosed with a psychological disorder, but he has rejected the label and is pursuing a spiritual path. Through artful documentation of Khari's history, daily life and with insight from psychiatric experts, "Mars Project" reveals the deep complexities of mental health and the inadequacies of the current Canadian healthcare system. Khari's diagnosis or spiritual encounters (as he refers to them) have entrenched themselves so deeply, that it will take much more than a state-imposed drug regimen or spiritual healing to vanquish his demons.

A comedy about a social studies professor opposing a dockworkers strike ending up working at the docks by mistake and having his worldview turn upside down.

Forbidden Town originating from the Netflix series - Merlina

Caught between the street life of Decatur, GA and attempting to create a better life for his wheelchair bound little brother Keith Thompson -aka- Kilo crosses the line where his only options seem to be prison or death. After a series of life threatening events, It takes his mom and praying grandmother to try and guide him in the right direction. Kilo finds himself at the crossroads between love, family and the streets and he has to determine which direction to take or which direction will take him.

The Process is a tricky business. It reveals how psychodrama, long recognized as a valuable tool in therapy, can help people deal with addictions and the effects of dysfunctional family life. The tricky part is that the slick way in which it has been assembled and compressed to fit a 70-minute running time makes the treatment seem easier than surely it must be. We are told upfront that the film, unscripted and unrehearsed, will gather nine people, led by psychodrama expert Dr. Tian Dayton, who will be trying to put their lives together over a series of group therapy sessions.

In the garden of a villa overlooking the Mediterranean, a man working on the Arabic translation of Oscar Wilde's trial. Under the light of a summer night and throughout the following nights, the various protagonists of the trial come to him. It embodies the turns and revives the aesthetic and political stakes of this fight. This verbal battle then appears as the last work - precious and ferocious - of the English dandy.

A b-movie horror-comedy/found footage film about a young student who records his last days of high school before he disappears.

The film follows the journey of the body and belongings of a recently deceased lonely person.