Movies

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A socially anxious teen faces his ultimate boss battle: buying a video game. His overactive imagination turns a simple transaction into an epic disaster, proving that the real enemy is just awkward small talk.

Silence

In Benidorm, a Harry Styles tribute struggles to separate who he is from who he performs as every night.

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In a polluted world, one kid will find a way to change things for the better.

A foreign writer is in Sicily and believes that careful observation is enough to understand Sicilian culture and Sicilians. However, through his stories, he learns that you cannot know or understand Sicily or Sicilians through mere observation. You have to stand beside its people, shoulder to shoulder (Spalla a Spadda), share their struggles and their victories. Only then can you begin to understand

A young man in debt, encounters a psychotic serial killer hell bent on eliminating the weak from today’s society.

A group of young people born in or after 1995 from Hangzhou set out on a quest for a cherished item they lost in their childhood, a journey that unexpectedly changed their lives in the process.

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MARKS/MARKS examines the relationship between the mark making of optical lens technologies (writing with light) and the mark making of painting within the context of digital technology and mass data. The film maps the movement of painter Dr Harrison Waed See in the studio painting to generate the tempo and trigger audio and visual effects. Similarly digital image sonification and digital data sonifcation of still and moving images of Dr See were used to generate further noise and visual effects. Alongside this, the soundtrack also includes amplifcations of the sound of his movements and paint brush.

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A young woman becomes obsessed with finding the culprit of the dog poop on her lawn as a way to avoid confronting the realities of her sick sister.

With her partner lost at sea, a young woman begins to question her perception of reality and identity.

Animated short film

TJFF presents a rare opportunity to see the late Rob Reiner’s delightful and rarely-shown 1978 sitcom Free Country, a passion project he made right after All In the Family. Reiner stars as an 89-year-old Lithuanian-Jewish immigrant, recalling his younger self--also played by Reiner--on the Lower East Side at the turn of the last century. Though short-lived, the sitcom “deserves a footnote in the Rob Reiner filmography as the start of the multi-hyphenate artistry.” (Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter)

When 1920s Film Star B.K. Silencio finds himself transported to the 21st century by a crazed fan with a time machine, he has no choice but to defend himself in a new world if he wants to return home.

Follows three scientists as their work moves between labs and field sites, from neurorobotics in Utah to immunology in New Jersey to ocean science in the South Pacific.

While camping with her family for the annual raft race, Frankie (11) is suddenly thrust into awareness of her developing body and how the world will perceive her.