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1.
68 Kill
(2017)
A punk-rock after hours about femininity, masculinity and the theft of $68,000. (93 mins.)
Director: Trent Haaga
2.
The Archer
(2017)
Lauren Pierce has just become the high-school Tri-State Archery Champion. After the competition, Lauren... (86 mins.)
Director: Valerie Weiss
4.
A Bad Idea Gone Wrong
(2017)
Two would-be thieves forge a surprising relationship with with an unexpected housesitter when they accidentally trap themselves in a house they just broke into. (85 mins.)
Director: Jason Headley
5.
Bad Lucky Goat
(2017)
After accidentally killing a bearded goat with their father's truck, two incompatible siblings in their teenage years, embark on a journey of reconciliation. (76 mins.)
Director: Samir Oliveros
6.
The Ballad of Lefty Brown
(2017)
A coming-of-age Western for a 65 year old man. (105 mins.)
Director: Jared Moshe
7.
Barbecue
(2017 Documentary)
A symphony of meat and fire, Barbecue shows us how an everyday ritual is shared by cultures around the world... (102 mins.)
Director: Matthew Salleh
8.
Becoming Bond
(2017)
The stranger-than-fiction true story of George Lazenby, a poor Australian car mechanic who, through an unbelievable set of circumstances... (92 mins.)
Director: Josh Greenbaum
10.
Bill Nye: Science Guy
(2017 Documentary)
A famous television personality struggles to restore science to its rightful place in a world hostile to evidence and reason.
Director: David Alvarado, Jason Sussberg
Stars: Bill Nye, Heather Berlin
12.
California Dreams
(2017 Documentary)
A journey into the hallucination of cinema. (85 mins.)
Director: Mike Ott
14.
Dara Ju
(2017)
A young Nigerian-American financier struggles with love, family, and a prescription drug dependency as his ambitions steer him down a criminal path. (91 mins.)
Director: Anthony Onah
15.
Dealt
(2017 Documentary)
Sixty-two year old Richard Turner is renowned as one of the world's greatest card magicians, yet he is completely blind. This is an in-depth look at a complex character who is one of magic's greatest hidden treasures. (85 mins.)
Director: Luke Korem
17.
Easy Living
(2017)
Sherry, a self-destructive makeup saleswoman, hopes a new man and business venture will provide her a fresh start. After her plans are foiled, she takes control of her life in a dramatic turn of events. (80 mins.)
Director: Adam Keleman
18.
Fits and Starts
(2017)
A struggling writer can't seem to escape his wife's literary success. When a road trip to a publisher's salon takes an unexpected turn, he has to face his own creative shortcomings and find a way to regain control of his life and work. (80 mins.)
Director: Laura Terruso
19.
Flesh and Blood
(2017)
Based on real life events & captured in a hyperrealistic style, Flesh & Blood unapologetically straddles... (90 mins.)
Director: Mark Webber
20.
G-Funk
(???? Documentary)
The untold story of how hip-hop's most commercial and iconic sub-genre came to be.
Director: Karam Gill
22.
Goran
(2016)
Goran just wants to drive his taxi and take care of his blind wife Lina. But people close to him have... (90 mins.)
Director: Nevio Marasovic
23.
The Honor Farm
(2017)
On prom night, a group of kids wander deep into the woods and come back changed forever. (74 mins.)
Director: Karen Skloss
24.
I Am Another You
(2017 Documentary)
Eating garbage, dodging police, and hitching rides with strangers, award-winning Chinese filmmaker Nanfu... (80 mins.)
Director: Nanfu Wang
25.
Inheritance
(2017)
A woman learns her estranged father has died and returns with her brother and new lover to her childhood home of Belize, where she must face her past while fighting for intimacy in the present. (75 mins.)
Director: Laura E. Davis, Jessica Kaye
26.
Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web
(2017 Documentary)
The story of the most wanted man online (107 mins.)
Director: Annie Goldson
27.
La Barracuda
(2017)
A strange woman comes to Texas to meet her half-sister and stake a claim to the family music legacy-one way or another. (100 mins.)
Director: Jason Cortlund, Julia Halperin
28.
Lane 1974
(2017)
Based on a true story, Lane is a 13-year-old girl coming of age on a Northern California commune in the 1970s... (79 mins.)
Director: S.J. Chiro
29.
Le Ride
(2016 Documentary)
In 1928 an under-resourced and untested team from New Zealand and Australia competed in what is considered... (90 mins.)
Director: Phil Keoghan
Stars: Philip Keoghan
30.
Let There Be Light
(2017 Documentary)
Let There Be Light follows the story of dedicated scientists working to build a small sun on Earth, which would unleash perpetual... (90 mins.)
Director: Mila Aung-Thwin, Van Royko
31.
A Life in Waves
(2017 Documentary)
A Life in Waves explores the life and innovations of composer and electronic music pioneer, Suzanne Ciani. (74 mins.)
Director: Brett Whitcomb
32.
The Light of the Moon
(2017)
After her world is irrevocably changed, a successful New York City architect struggles to regain intimacy and control in her life. (90 mins.)
Director: Jessica M. Thompson
33.
Like Me
(2017)
A reckless loner, desperate for human connection, sets out on a crime spree that she broadcasts on social media. Her reality quickly splinters into a surreal nightmare that escalates out of control and all in time for Christmas.
Director: Robert Mockler
34.
Long Strange Trip
(2017 Documentary)
The tale of the Grateful Dead is inspiring, complicated, and downright messy. A tribe of contrarians... (238 mins.)
Director: Amir Bar-Lev
35.
Maineland
(2017 Documentary)
Stella and Harry are affluent, cosmopolitan teenagers who are part of the enormous wave of "parachute students" from Mainland China enrolling in U.S... (90 mins.)
Director: Miao Wang
36.
Mayhem
(2017)
Matias Caruso penned the script, which tells the story of a virus that infects a corporate law office...
Director: Joe Lynch
37.
May It Last: A Portrait of the Avett Brothers
(2017 Documentary)
(104 mins.)
Director: Judd Apatow, Michael Bonfiglio
38.
Meatball Machine Kodoku
(2017)
A long-awaited sequel to the internationally acclaimed full-throttle splatter sci-fi action horror "Meatball Machine". (108 mins.)
Director: Yoshihiro Nishimura
39.
M.F.A.
(2017)
An art student taps into a rich source of creative inspiration after the accidental slaughter of her rapist... (95 mins.)
Director: Natalia Leite
40.
Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo
(2016 Documentary)
At the heart of the Apollo program was the special team in Mission Control who put a man on the moon and helped create the future. (101 mins.)
Director: David Fairhead
42.
Most Beautiful Island
(2017)
Most Beautiful Island is a chilling portrait of an undocumented young woman's struggle for survival as she finds redemption from a tortured past in a dangerous game. (80 mins.)
Director: Ana Asensio
43.
Mr. Roosevelt
(2017)
After a loved one falls ill, struggling comedian Emily Martin returns to her college town of Austin, Texas and must come to terms with her past while staying with her ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend.
Director: Noël Wells
44.
Muppet Guys Talking: Secrets Behind the Show the Whole World Watched
(2017 Documentary)
Director: Frank Oz
45.
Paa Joe & The Lion
(2016 Documentary)
Paa Joe dreams of his bygone days - bringing money home in briefcases and work being shipped to galleries the world over... (74 mins.)
Director: Benjamin Wigley
Stars: Joseph Ashong, Jacob Tetteh-Ashong
47.
The Relationtrip
(2017)
At an age when everyone around them is settling down and finding love, Beck and Liam are self-proclaimed loners... (90 mins.)
Director: C.A. Gabriel, Renée Felice Smith
49.
The Secret Life of Lance Letscher
(2017 Documentary)
An intimate, psychological portrait of collage artist Lance Letscher (95 mins.)
Director: Sandra Adair
50.
Served Like a Girl
(2017 Documentary)
Five women veterans who have endured unimaginable trauma in service create a shared sisterhood to help... (103 mins.)
Director: Lysa Hayland
51.
Signature Move
(2017)
Zaynab, a thirty-something Pakistani, Muslim, lesbian in Chicago takes care of her sweet and TV-obsessed mother. As Zaynab falls for Alma, a bold and very bright Mexican woman, she searches for her identity in life, love and wrestling. (80 mins.)
Director: Jennifer Reeder
52.
Small Crimes
(2017)
A disgraced former cop, fresh off a six-year prison sentence for attempted murder - returns home looking for redemption but winds up trapped in the mess he left behind. (90 mins.)
Director: E.L. Katz
53.
Song of Granite
(2017)
Acclaimed filmmaker Pat Collins brings the dramatic life story of legendary seannós singer Joe Heaney to the screen in THE SONG IN GRANITE... (104 mins.)
Director: Pat Collins
54.
Spettacolo
(2017 Documentary)
Once upon a time there was a tiny hill town in Tuscany that found a remarkable way to confront their issues - they turned their lives into a play...
Director: Jeff Malmberg, Chris Shellen
56.
Todrick Hall: No Place Like Home
(2017 Documentary)
Todrick Hall launches his most ambitious project yet: the full-scale original musical Straight Outta Oz...
Director: Katherine Fairfax Wright
57.
Tormentero
(2017)
The last days in the life of an old forgotten local hero. (80 mins.)
Director: Rubén Imaz
58.
Tragedy Girls
(2017)
Tragedy Girls, a twist on the slasher genre following two death-obsessed teenage girls who use their online show about real-life tragedies to send their small mid-western town into a frenzy and cement their legacy as modern horror legends. (90 mins.)
Director: Tyler MacIntyre
59.
Trophy
(2017)
This in-depth look into the powerhouse industries of big-game hunting, breeding and wildlife conservation in the U.S. and Africa unravels the complex consequences of treating animals as commodities. (108 mins.)
Director: Christina Clusiau, Shaul Schwarz
60.
Two Pigeons
(2017)
An oily, amoral estate agent is preyed upon by one of his victims, who quietly moves into his flat and, unseen, begins a deliciously malicious campaign of revenge. Two Pigeons is a dark comedy with a sinister streak. (80 mins.)
Director: Dominic Bridges
61.
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin
(2017 Documentary)
THE UNTOLD TALES OF ARMISTEAD MAUPIN celebrates one of the world's most beloved storytellers, following his evolution from a conservative son of the Old South into a gay rights pioneer whose novels inspired millions to re-claim their lives. (90 mins.)
Director: Jennifer M. Kroot
62.
Us and Them
(2017)
Angry and frustrated, working class Danny aims to kick start a revolution by turning the tables on the establishment with a deadly game of chance. (83 mins.)
Director: Joe Martin
63.
Walking Out
(2017)
An urban teenager journeys to Montana to hunt big game with his estranged father. Father and son struggle to connect, until a brutal encounter in the heart of the wilderness changes everything. (95 mins.)
Director: Alex Smith, Andrew J. Smith
64.
Walk with Me
(2017 Documentary)
'Walk With Me' is meditative film about a community of Zen Buddhist monks and nuns who have dedicated their lives to mastering the art of mindfulness with their world-famous teacher Thich Nhat Hanh. (88 mins.)
Director: Marc Francis, Max Pugh
Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch
65.
Schultersieg
(2016 Documentary)
At the age of 12, Janny, Lisa, Debby and Michelle leave their home for a sports school in the East German province to become wrestlers. A documentary about coming-of-age between boarding school corridors, wrestling gyms and boyband posters. (82 mins.)
Director: Anna Koch
68.
Through the Repellent Fence
(2017 Documentary)
THROUGH THE REPELLENT FENCE: A Land Art Film follows art collective Postcommodity as they construct Repellent Fence...
Director: Sam Wainwright Douglas
Stars: Postcommodity