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In Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, a woman walks into a chadari store in Kabul to buy her first full-body veil and face an uncertain future.
Directed By
Elham Ehsas
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Nalini Nadkarni is a world-renowned ecologist who climbs trees in the rainforest canopy to study “what grows back” after an ecological disturbance. In 2015, her rope snapped on a research climb, and she fell fifty feet from a tree and nearly died. After making a miraculous recovery, Nalini begins to explore a new research subject – herself. Between Earth and Sky follows Nalini as she prepares for another research climb in Monteverde, Costa Rica, before considering retirement from the field. In the process, she unearths the roots of other disturbances she faced throughout her life, as the daughter of mixed Indian-Jewish immigrant parents who prized high achievement and contribution above all else. As a child, trees provided a place of solace and safety to Nalini, so much so that she swore an oath to protect them. Now, Nalini is doing the work of untangling the roots of her past and bringing family secrets to light, in order to understand how each impacted her life’s course. In an attempt to heal, she revisits the site of her fall on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington, where her past, present, and future converge.
Directed By
Andrew Nadkarni
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Set in an alternate WWI reality where a senseless war rages on, two soldiers on opposite sides of the conflict play a joyful game of chess. A heroic carrier pigeon delivers the soldiers’ chess moves over the battlefield as the fighting escalates. Neither soldier knows his opponent as the game and the war builds to its climatic final move. Whoever wins the game, one thing is for certain: there are no winners in war.
Directed By
Dave Mullins
Written By
Dave Mullins
Sean Lennon
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A young boy named Mahito yearning for his mother ventures into a world shared by the living and the dead. There, death comes to an end, and life finds a new beginning. A semi-autobiographical fantasy from the mind of Hayao Miyazaki.
Directed By
Hayao Miyazaki
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Hayao Miyazaki
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Soma Santoki, Masaki Suda, Kô Shibasaki
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The story of the infamously terrible American Samoa soccer team, known for a brutal 2001 FIFA match they lost 31-0.
Directed By
Taika Waititi
Written By
Taika Waititi, Iain Morris
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Michael Fassbender, Oscar Kightley, Kaimana
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Follows a trio of young, Bay Area urbanites–Ben Tanaka, Miko Hayashi and Alice Kim–as they navigate a range of interpersonal relationships while traversing the country in search of the ideal connection.
Directed By
Randall Park
Written By
Adrian Tomine
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Justin H. Min, Sherry Cola, Ally Maki
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Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrested apart after Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea. Twenty years later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and destiny.
Directed By
Celine Song
Written By
Celine Song
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Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, John Magaro
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In a city where fire, water, land, and air residents live together, a fiery young woman and a go-with-the-flow guy discover something elemental: how much they actually have in common.
Directed By
Peter Sohn
Written By
John Hoberg, Kat Likkel, Brenda Hsueh
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Leah Lewis, Mamoudou Athie, Ronnie Del Carmen
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When Audrey’s business trip to Asia goes sideways, she enlists the help of Lolo, her childhood best friend, Kat, a college friend, and Deadeye, Lolo’s eccentric cousin. Their epic, no-holds-barred experience becomes a journey of bonding, friendship, belonging and wild debauchery that reveals the universal truth of what it means to know and love who you are.
Directed By
Adele Lim
Written By
Cherry Chevapravatdumrong, Teresa Hsiao
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Adele Lim, Cherry Chevapravatdumrong, Teresa Hsiao
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Ashley Park, Sherry Cola, Stephanie Hsu, Sabrina Wu
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