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Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney formed The Black Keys in Akron, Ohio. After a decade of relentless touring and navigating highs and lows, they found mainstream success with Brothers and El Camino.

An amnesiac old man Zarlyk who after twenty-three years of ordeal in a foreign land, returns to his homeland. Events take place in a village in Kyrgyzstan, where he is brought by his matured son Kubat. Much has changed during his absence: the morals of the villagers, mired in the realities of a changing world, radicalization of Islam, growing crime, and moral corrosive corruption began to consume... Zarlyk’s wife Umsunai, having lost hope of his return, went into religion, married the local authority Jaichy. The bright past invades the already accustomed Umsunai’s life. But nothing touches Zarlyk. An inexplicable passion for collecting garbage replaced him everything. Will the memory return to him and will Umsunai gain lost happiness when they are pressed by tight attitudes and immorality of the clergy, when love has eclipsed recklessness?

Xun, a platoon leader in the Army. On the eve of his discharge, one of his soldiers, Xiao-C, chooses the most brutal way to accuse his abuser. In these barbaric barracks, to endure violence is the law of survival for every recruit. Somehow violence, unconsciously has become unspoken legacy between seniors.

A business documentary featuring the kodan storyteller Kanda Hakuzan, as he narrates the 'Dark History of Companies (=History of Struggles)' in his unique style. Transforming the history of challenges and failures of various companies into moments of laughter, while uncovering valuable life lessons for the present.

At a family party, Matthias and Cosmo try in vain to say something. While waiting for family friends, they playfully seek closeness. but unspoken fears of family and the future collide.

Stonewall veterans (including prominent trans activist Sylvia Rivera) and HIV-positive New Yorkers take up residency on the Hudson River piers as cranes raze vacant buildings for a new skyline.

So This is Love? was another early Frank Capra production for fledgling Columbia Pictures. The hero, dress designer Jerry McGuire (William Collier Jr.), is tired of being considered a wimp. After business hours, Jerry secretly takes boxing lessons, enabling him to knock the stuffings out of his burly rival Spike Mullins (Johnnie Walker). Jerry's newfound pugilistic skills wins him the affections of store clerk Hilda Jensen (Shirley Mason), who's just car-razy about "cave men." Filmed in a fast three weeks, So This is Love? was completed before Frank Capra's Matinee Idol but released afterward. Leading lady Shirley Mason was the sister of Viola Dana, who starred in Capra's initial Columbia effort, That Certain Thing.

While the 2016 election catalyzed the Women’s March and a new era of feminist activism, Tamika Mallory and Erika Andiola have been fighting for their communities for decades. Their stories expose the fundamental connection between personal and political and raise the question: what's intersectionality and can it save the world?

High school students Ksenya and Boris are in love but all the world is against them.

A documentary that looks into the LBGTQ+ community and specifically, transgender men and women. It examines how they survive and even flourish in today's extremely divided America.

An animation inspired by train delay messages and their poetic potential. An examination of all the things that can go wrong: on the train, in the urban environment, and in our lives. All drawings done while riding the Chicago metro system.

Adaptation of the Broadway musical. The story is set in the French Antilles in the Caribbean Sea and tells of a peasant girl who falls in love with an aristocrat. Against this backdrop, social class differences play out while the island gods wager a bet of what is stronger, love or death.

Road trips through Los Angeles, famous verses in the Poetry Lounge and love in times of the pandemic: Rendezvous with an old flame, fourty years later. After Jaurès (2012), Vincent Dieutre presents another tender autofictional piece in the Forum.

Dan Klein's debut standup special.

A lighthearted look at the saga of Wild Bill Hickok and his relationship with Calamity Jane as he is targeted for revenge by some tough gunfighters.

Dan is back (naked) from a Boschian vision of Hell. Why? God knows, but He’s not telling. Now, with the Devil hot on his tail, this sinner must seek rapid redemption, or face the consequences…

Ben Anderson looks at the in-country experiences of the International Security Assistance Force after the American invasion of Afghanistan, especially in Helmand Province.

Filmed in 2018, this infectiously energised performance of 22 tracks spans 5 decades of Sparks' musical genius, leaving little wonder as to why Ron & Russell Mael are still luring in new generations of fans and making Top 10 albums, 50 years into their career.

David Tennant talks to Craig and Charlie Reid of The Proclaimers about a 30-year career that has seen them become one of Scotland's most iconic bands.

A newspaper reporter keeps beating the police to clues in a current murder case. This makes the police think he may be involved in the crime.