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  • Parent Trap III

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    When Jeff plans to marry again, his triplet daughters Megan, Lisa and Jessie try to bring him together with Susan.

  • The Lemon Sisters

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    Three life-long friends work the bars in 1980s Atlantic City performing the songs of the 1960s girl groups.

  • Going Overboard

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    A struggling young comedian takes a menial job on a cruise ship where he hopes for his big chance to make it in the world of cruise ship comedy.

  • Eight Taels of Gold

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    An ex-pat travels from New York to his home village in rural China after a long absence. On his way, he meets a familiar girl.

  • Heaven on Earth

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    When Chand arrives in Brampton, Ontario to meet her new husband, she leaves behind a loving family and supportive community. Now, in a new country, she finds herself living in a modest suburban home with seven other people and two part-time tenants. Inside the home, she is at the mercy of her husband’s temper, and…

  • The Vanishing Lion

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    An adventure of three characters: Clarisse, a psychic’s apprentice, Lazare, who works at the Parisian catacombs, and the bronze statue of a lion at the Denfert-Rochereau (in the 14th arrondissement). Clarisse and Laraze meet daily, but one day Lazare disappears and the lion disappears as well!

  • Cold Water of the Sea

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    On New Year’s holidays, Mariana (21) and Rodrigo (30) drive to the coast where he has to sell a property. There, they find Karina (7), late at night and in the middle of nowhere. She tells then she ran away from home.

  • To Die for Tano

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    Shot in his butcher shop by a rival clan during the Mafia wars of 1988, the Palermo Mobster Tano Guarrasi is mourned by his wife, four unmarried sisters and his daughter. But in truth, his death represents a kind of liberation for the women.

  • The Secret Friend

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    A woman humiliates and shouts at her husband, before she ties him up and disappears. He frees himself and calls a friend who comes over. He tries to tell the friend how his wife treats him but the friend does not seem to understand or accept what he is saying. The man then puts on…

  • The African Woman

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    A dying woman, who stole her best friend’s lover, is convinced that a spell has been cast on her, so she orchestrates her former friend’s return from a self-imposed exile in Africa in the hopes of breaking the spell.

  • Towards Evening

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    Italy, 1977. Professor Bruschi is a retired widower who lives according to a strict routine he set for himself. An ardent old-style communist, he has always been at odds with the unconventional lifestyle led by his son and his hippieish girlfriend Stella. When their four-year-old daughter is left in his care out of the blue…

  • American Dream

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    When workers at the Hormel meatpacking plant in Austin, Minnesota are asked to take a substantial pay cut in a highly profitable year, the local labor union decides to go on strike and fight for a wage they believe is fair. But as the work stoppage drags on and the strikers face losing everything, friends…

  • Slumber Party Massacre III

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    After a hard day of volleyball at the beach, a teen whose parents are away decides to have a slumber party with her girlfriends. Their boyfriends predictably show up to scare them, but a stranger from the beach is also seen lurking around the house. Soon the group begins experiencing an attrition problem.

  • The End of Innocence

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    Seemingly autobiographical story of a woman overwhelmed with trying to please everyone except herself, and not finding any answers until she’s admitted to a rehab center by her parents. Eventually here is where she finds her answers.

  • Farewell China

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    Li Hung is a desperate mother who tried for years to obtain an American visa to study to create a better life for her husband Nansan and her son. But after a short time, she loses contact with her family, and her husband, Nansan smuggles himself to New York to find her.

  • Imaginative King

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  • Crocodiles in Amsterdam

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    An unlikely friendship blossoms between Elsa, a preppy, idle, spoiled blond who calls herself Gino, and Nina, a wannabe anarchist who plots with three others to blow up an arms factory. Nina is often sour and tempestuous, but with Gino she’s spontaneous and funny. Yet the friendship often founders, as the feckless Gino spoils Nina’s…

  • Squandered Sunday

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    A day in the life of Arnošt, a soldier staying in Josefov. A sense of desperation permeates the environment as well as the mind of the protagonist. It is sunday, and saturday left just a hangover. Days go by, nothing changes. A metaphor for the political situation in the Czech lands at a time where…

  • The Generous Lover

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    A comedy based on two novels by Marjan Berk about a smooth-talking artist with love problems. He is in love but is pursued by former lovers.

  • Broken Light

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    An art film about the life of Soviet creatives in the late 1980s.

  • Crystal Moon

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    The fairy tale story of Maria da Graça, a small town girl with big time dreams of becoming a singer, who moves to Rio de Janeiro to pursue her ambitions.