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Pete Townshend: Behind Blue Eyes
Follows musician Pete Townshend's colorful life and career, and specifically about a time that almost destroyed him and his band: when, shortly after the release of the album Tommy, Townshend and The Who tried to make a science fiction rock opera called Lifehouse.
The Incomer
On an Orkney isle, siblings Isla and Sandy survive by hunting seabirds, retelling the stories of their ancestors, and defending the isle from dreaded "Incomers". Their world is upended with the arrival of an awkward council worker who has come to uproot them from their homeland.
Jeevan Bheema Yojana
Jeevan and Yojna are a couple drowning in debt who hatch an insurance scheme after crossing paths with Bheema, a stranger who bears a striking resemblance to Jeevan - but things spiral out of control when he turns out to be tangled up in a diamond smuggling racket.
4 Idiots
King, Queen, Jack, and Ace-four misfits surviving through petty crimes in Chennai-found their world turned upside down when COVID-19 lockdowns shut down public transport, their main source of income. Desperate for a way out, King discovered an audio recording about a bungalow filled with black money, supposedly guarded by a lone watchman. Seeing it as their golden opportunity, the gang set out to execute the perfect heist. However, upon entering the bungalow, the door slammed shut behind them, and a chilling voice welcomed them. The so-called security guard was none other than Pulibaba, a notorious gangster. With a gun in hand, he forced them to surrender their belongings and made a sinister phone call: "Doctor, the delivery is ready... Eight kidneys.
Too Much Sugar
Ryan "Holli-wood" Holliger is a charismatic, pit bull of a man with six kids by five different women. His best friend AccRite is a rapper and laborer, dealing with an unimaginable loss. They have big dreams of making their own movie about fatherhood in their working class Missouri town. Over the course of one pivotal, madcap year, the film becomes something else entirely: a vehicle for accountability, healing and self discovery for their families.
I Plant My Hand in the Garden
Hoda, an Iranian refugee living in Berlin, is pregnant and in love with Boris, a queer gay man from Serbia. Together, they decide to marry and raise the child, imagining a future built on their own terms. As they prepare for the wedding and enter more deeply into each other’s worlds, their relationship is seriously tested by all the red tape and their families’ expectations and histories that neither of them can leave behind. Surrounded by relatives, memories and inherited ideas of love and parenthood, Hoda and Boris begin to question the roles they are about to take on. What starts as a plan to become a family gradually turns into a more intimate and uncertain question: can they reinvent what it means to be a couple without losing what brought them together?
Bucking Fastard
Two sisters, Jean and Joan Holbrooke, are so close to each other that they speak in unison, love the same man, and have the same dreams. They even make the same slip of tongue in unison. We cannot see the world as they see it, but we do see how the world reacts to them – through the courts and the press, through those that want to help and those who want to use them, through the eyes of beasts both tame and wild, and even through their own echoes in the core of the earth.
My Notes on Mars
Margot, a brilliant young scientist with a troubled marriage, disappears inexplicably while hiking with her husband Sam and a group of friends. A few weeks later, she miraculously reappears the day of her own memorial service. Margot is clearly not the same as before the accident. Nevertheless, Sam sees his wife’s miraculous reappearance as a second chance.
Nevatars
Aya, an aspiring artist obsessed with perfection, hides the quirky, deeply personal creations that reflect her true artistic voice inside a forgotten folder called “Nevatars.” But when her newest “perfect” character is accidentally dropped into that hidden world of discarded digital no-hopers, an unlikely escape mission forces Aya to confront the parts of herself she almost abandoned forever.
Desert Palms
Set inside a hospital waiting room across the street from a hectic outdoor music festival, Desert Palms is a single-take live action immersive film that follows a throng of injured characters as they wait to be seen by an extremely slow and overwhelmed ER facility.
Jared Freid: The Family Plan
The special finds Freid keeping his issues “in the family,” joking about everything from vacationing with his parents to a Karen video that hits close to home.
Dog Man
When a cop and his dog companion both get injured and eventually combined together to create a supa cop. He has to save OhKay City from the villainous Petey the Cat while grieving from losing his owner.
Soulmates - Oru Saathukkudi Pranayam
An aspiring filmmaker struggling to bring his debut film to life unexpectedly crosses paths with his former lover, reigniting old memories and unresolved emotions. As their lives collide once again, a chance encounter over two glasses of saathukkudi takes them on a bittersweet journey through love, ambition, ego, and second chances.
