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After Saddam's fall, hundreds of thousands of Iranians rushed to cross the suddenly unguarded border with Iraq to visit the holiest shrines of Shi'ism in Karbala and Najaf. Many traveled without valid papers and others did not hesitate to beg or e...

The local coal mine in the town of Black Rock becomes a crime scene when a miner’s daughter is assaulted in its tunnels. She utters only one word, which leaves the town baffled: “pineapple.” Tensions rise as the mine’s opportunistic owner uses the...

Fifteen-year-old Tsi-An has fallen in love with her ping pong coach, who happens to be her best friend's father. She asks for private lessons with the hope of getting close to him.

An adult daughter kidnaps her father, whisking him away to a cabin in the snow, hoping to alter his unexpected announcement that he has had enough of life and will end it by his next birthday.

Sometimes girls just wanna have fun… and ball. Brent Hodge (A Brony Tale, TFF 2014) and Morgan Spurlock (Mansome, TFF 2012) introduce us to an eclectic group of women who play in an LA recreational basketball league, focusing on the Pistol Shrimps...

Liam and Michael are professional safecrackers who meet on a simple job to relieve an office safe of its contents, but there's a catch—a light-activated alarm system impels the men to embark on a Pitch Black Heist. Screening as part of the Short...

Jeff Goldblum put his Hollywood actor life on hold to star alongside his new girlfriend in a Pittsburgh regional theater production of The Music Man. Codirectors Bradley and LaBrache tread a surprisingly elegant line between genuine documentary an...

A powerful documentary about the vibrant global resurgence of break-dancing, Planet B-Boy goes inside the underground hip- hop dance scenes around the world, as the best crews prepare for the "The Battle of the Year" -- an annual "World Cup" of b-...

Planet City VR is set in an fictional city of 10 billion people⁠—the entire population of earth⁠. The world has succumbed to global scale wilderness and surrendered its stolen lands. The city’s creation story, narrated by a young climate activist ...

Deaf and blind, Young-Chan lives in a quiet, isolated world in his small apartment. But when Soon-Ho, an empathetic woman compromised by a spinal disability, comes into his life, a unique love story begins. Poetic and gently paced, Planet of Snail...

Platisapiens is a surrealist work of eco-fiction, an invitation to explore human influence on the environment, and, inversely, an exploration of how the environment affects human evolution. This speculative, playful, and ironic piece imagines a fu...

This first film from 2005 Best New Narrative Filmmaker perfectly embodies its epigraph: The times were hard, but they were modern. In a modern city, which could be anywhere, a couple searches for love but never seem to meet. The film's pop visual ...

This first film from Santiago native Scherson perfectly embodies its epigraph: "The times were hard, but they were moderen." In a modern city, which could be anywhere, a couple search for love but never quite seem to meet. The film's pop visual s...

Playground politics soon boil over when Paul and Kate excitedly arrive for dinner at the home of a cool couple from their kids’ school, only to discover an interloping third couple already in attendance.

Executive produced by George Clooney, Grant Heslov, and Steven Soderbergh, this astonishing doc travels to the dark heart of one of the world's most sinister industries—the child sex trade. Beginning her journey infiltrating brothels in South Kore...

One of Brazil's most respected documentary filmmakers invited two dozen women to be filmed as they told their life stories. Months later, he filmed a group of actresses as they reenacted the same stories. The result couldn't be simpler-or more ine...

True devotees of music's uniting power, Johnson and Walls hauled recording equipment around the world in search of great music and inspiration. The result is a rousing tribute to both music and the adventurous spirit.

Can video games do journalism? This is the question posed by Playing the News, which examines the role played by video game company Kuma War in connecting young people to current events, particularly the war in Iraq. After designing a video game b...

In this black-humored Russian Hamlet by one of Moscow's top theater directors, a young slacker receives nocturnal visits from his father's ghost and literally "plays the victim" in crime reconstruction videos. Observing a farcical justice system w...