Beautifully Ugly follows a heartbroken man as he embarks on a surreal journey through the five stages of grief. Along the way, he encounters strange and fantastical moments that challenge his perception of love, loss, and identity. As he navigates this emotional odyssey, he slowly finds peace and acceptance, emerging with a renewed sense of self.
A highly imaginative 10-year-old boy befriends his superhero-themed piñata prior to his birthday party. But upon realizing the tragic fate that awaits for his cardboard companion, he must rebel against the celebratory ritual in order to save his only friend.
Pablo Prieto leads a gang of thieves whose time is running out. Hunted by a relentless judge, will Pablo be able to escape his fate or will he have to pay for his crimes?
While local people and rats learn to live together in culturally changing 1920s Buenos Aires, the governor prefers the French scene, so he brings pigeons to remove the rats. But it comes at a price.
Romelia and Antonio have been married for fifty-seven years “Too long,” according to Romelia. When Antonio, an eighty-something-year-old grouch suddenly dies, Romelia’s not so ready to mourn him; in fact, she feels like celebrating. She turns the living room into a tropical paradise and gets ready to live her remaining years with her one true love: Barbarito, her cockatiel. Her neighbor Ida, the crotchety church lady next door, judges her not so quietly. When Barbarito escapes, Romelia sets out in search of her avian friend.
Hebert and Lilith are madly in love but too shy to tell each other-until they walk into a magical, musical bookstore. But what genre is best for honesty?
Thirteen-year-old Olivia, a biracial girl from an inner-city neighborhood, commutes to an elite private school where she struggles to fit in. At home, her mother urges her to present a version of herself that will be accepted— safe. But when Olivia forms a friendship with a bold, free-spirited girl from her neighborhood, she begins to glimpse another way of being, questioning the image she's been taught to uphold. Torn between who she is and who she’s expected to become, Olivia takes a quiet, courageous step toward self-acceptance.
Dakota's attempt to escape trouble leads her and Liam on a runaway adventure, leaving behind the ordinary. What begins as a pursuit of freedom becomes a quest for love, identity, and the unknown.
"The Straight Curved Line" is a collaboration between performance artist Chere Krakovsky and filmmaker Mark Ezovski that explores the challenges of creating, aging, forgiveness and finding peace within oneself.
In 1980 Jay Helgerson shocked the world, becoming the first person to run a marathon a week for a year – each race completed in under three hours. For the last ten years, his daughter, filmmaker Alexandra Helgerson, followed him with a camera in order to understand the eccentric man who raised her. What she gets are his projected anxieties, his struggles with physical age and emotional distress, all while he endlessly trains for the Boston Marathon. But as Jay trains, the film is nearly derailed by Alexandra’s encounter with a life threatening illness. Ultimately, AGE GROUP WINNER is an affirmation of the will to live.