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Nino is a retiring mafia boss isolated from the world in a small attic. A family stumbles upon the mafia boss’s hiding place trying to find a new house to squat without knowing that they have a cohabitant.

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For the past four months John has been living in total blindness - restricted to the confines of his body. The rain brings depth, detail and contour to his environment - for the first time since losing his sight, he is addressed by the world.

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Three young women face seven years in a Russian prison for a satirical performance in a Moscow cathedral. But who is really on trial in a case that has gripped the nation and the world beyond, three young artists or the society they live in?

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The feature debut of award-winning filmmaker Oliver Harrison, The Fallen Word is a dark 'fairy-tale' - a poetic, surrealistic fantasy. Under the brutal rule of a new religious sect, art, music and free speech have been outlawed; the poets are the last line of resistance. These wordsmiths have formed themselves into gangs and - in verbal duels - battle for supremacy. This is a tale of love lost and found, of friendship and betrayal and of the magical power of language and words.

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A person’s culture is something that is often described as fixed or defined and rooted in a particular region, nation, or state. Stuart Hall, one of the most preeminent intellectuals on the Left in Britain, updates this definition as he eloquently theorizes that cultural identity is fluid—always morphing and stretching toward possibility but also constantly experiencing nostalgia for a past that can never be revisited.

Filmmaker John Akomfrah uses the rich and complex mood created by Miles Davis’s trumpet to root a masterful tapestry of newly filmed material, archival imagery, excerpts from television programs, home movies, and family photographs to create this lyrical and emotionally powerful portrait of the life and philosophy of this influential theorist. Like a fine scotch, The Stuart Hall Project is smooth, complicated, and euphorically pleasing. It taps into a singular intelligence to extract the tools we need to make sense of our lives in the modern world (Sundance).

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Another day unfolds in an anonymous woman’s life, as she cooks and cleans for her uncommunicative husband and sullen grown-up children. Then, late in the afternoon, she has an unusual visitor.

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From the team that bought you the much-loved Oscar nominated family favourite The Snowman, comes a new half hour special featuring the world's favourite Christmas character. The film will reunite viewers with their beloved Snowman, this time in a brand new adventure with a new set of friends.

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A rugged but magnetic outsider, Henry, arrives in town, he soon has a series of seemingly chance encounters with a younger local girl, Jenna, who appears isolated and vulnerable. Love Story explores the themes of detachment and dependence, and asks what risks we will take to escape feeling alone.

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A rugged but magnetic outsider, HENRY, arrives in town at night - his clothes filthy, a duffel bag slung over his shoulder. He soon has a series of seemingly chance encounters with a younger local girl, Jenna, who appears isolated and vulnerable.

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The film centres on John Dillinger, Homer Van Meter and Jack Hamilton after their narrow escape from Little Bohemia. As they are fleeing, Hamilton is shot in the lung. They attempt to seek treatment for Hamilton as his condition rapidly worsens and he begins to succumb to gangrene and dementia.

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The Runner is a film about endurance. It is the story of Salah Ameidan, a champion runner from Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara, whose journey transformed him from an athlete into the symbol of a national liberation movement. 

Forced to join Morocco's Junior Athletics team at 14, he was soon an international champion. But while he won gold medals for Morocco, he and his family were being arrested, detained and tortured in prison by Morocco for their independence activism.

In 2003, as he won a crucial race in France, he pulled out the Sahrawi flag - illegal in Morocco. He immediately became both a refugee and a hero to his people. Even in France, he suffers attacks, and his family are harassed, detained, tortured and even killed by the Moroccan regime.

The Runner follows Salah over three critical years in his life. As he turns 30, the Arab Spring is born in a protest camp in Western Sahara. The film looks at the burden of being a hero and asks "How long, before you stop running"?

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After a year of exchanging romantic letters, besotted bachelor Randy Stubleski and convict Crystal Phillips finally meet when she is released from a Michigan prison.