AMERICAN TEEN
Director: Nanette Burstein
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AMERICAN TEEN is the touching and hilarious Sundance hit that follows the lives of five teenagers - a jock, a popular girl, a heartthrob, an artsy girl and a geek – in one small town in Indiana through their senior year of high school. We see the insecurities, the cliques, the jealousies, the first loves and heartbreaks, and the struggle to make profound decisions about the future.  Filming daily for ten months, filmmaker Nanette Burstein developed a deep understanding of her subjects. The result is a film that goes beyond the enduring stereotypes of high school to render complex young people trying to find their way into adulthood.

AUGUST
Director: Austin Chick
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AUGUST is the story of two brothers, Tom and Joshua Sterling (Josh Hartnett and Adam Scott) whose Internet start-up, Landshark, is as hot as a New York City summer – only this is the summer of 2001, their company is in lock up, its stock price is plunging and, in a few weeks, the world will change forever.

BAGHEAD
Director: Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass
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The Duplass Brothers explore the minutiae of relationship dynamics in this in-depth study of a group of desperate friends. What results is a comedic tale of a group of actors who, in an attempt to salvage their fledging careers, decide to hole up in a friend's cabin in the woods for the weekend to write a script staring themselves. What they come up with is far beyond any of their expectations.

BEFORE THE RAINS
Director: Santosh Sivan
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Acclaimed cinematographer Santosh Sivan brilliantly captures the rustic beauty of his native Kerala with its sweeping vistas as a backdrop for a torrid love affair set in 1937 India—a world where characters are caught between loyalty to British colonialism and the desire for freedom.

BIGGER, STRONGER, FASTER
Directed by:  Christopher Bell
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BIGGER, STRONGER, FASTER is the story of director Christopher Bell and his two brothers, who grew up idolizing muscular giants like Hulk Hogan, Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger, and who went on to become members of the steroid-subculture in an effort to realize their American dream.  When you discover that your heroes have all broken the rules, do you follow the rules, or do you follow your heroes?

BOY A
Director: John Crowley
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BOY A is a powerful coming-of-age drama that raises difficult questions about the morals of our times.  The fictional story stars Andrew Garfield as Jack. His involvement in the murder of another child means Jack, at 24, has spent most of his young life in juvenile prisons. Released from prison into an unrecognizable adult world, Jack is given a new name, new job, new home; a new life. But anonymity is both a blessing and a curse as Jack has to contend with not being able to tell the people he gets to know, and love, of his true past and the monstrous secret he must keep hidden.

BRICK LANE
Director: Sarah Gavron
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BRICK LANE is the story of a beautiful young Bangladeshi woman, Nazneen, who arrives in 1980’s London, leaving behind her beloved sister and home, for an arranged marriage and a new life. Trapped within the four walls of her flat in East London, and in a loveless marriage with the middle aged Chanu, she fears her soul is quietly dying. Her sister Hasina, meanwhile, continues to live a carefree life back in Bangladesh, stumbling from one adventure to the next. Nazneen struggles to accept her lifestyle, and keeps her head down in spite of life's blows, but she soon discovers that life cannot be avoided - and is forced to confront it the day that the hotheaded young Karim comes knocking at her door.

BRIDESHEAD REVISITED
Director: Julian Jarrold
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Based on the Evelyn Waugh novel, BRIDESHEAD follows the memoirs of Captain Charles Ryder who was stationed at Brideshead Castle during WWII and remembers his involvement with the owners of the Brideshead estate: the aristocratic yet Catholic Flyte family and in particular brother and sister Sebastian and Julia.

THE CHILDREN OF HUANG SHI
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
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Based on real events, THE CHILDREN OF HUANG SHI is a sweeping but intimate story set against war-torn China in the 1930's. The film centers on a young English journalist, an American nurse and the leader of a Chinese partisan group (Chow Yun-Fat) who meet in desperate and unexpected circumstances. Together they rescue 60 orphaned children, leading them on an extraordinary journey across hundreds of miles of treacherous terrain, through snow-covered mountains and an unforgiving desert. Along the way they discover the true meaning of love, responsibility and courage.

CHOKE
Director: Clark Gregg
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Victor Mancini, a sex-addicted med-school dropout, who keeps his increasingly deranged mother, Ida, in an expensive private medical hospital by working days as a historical reenactor at a Colonial Williamsburg theme park. At night Victor runs a scam by deliberately choking in upscale restaurants to form parasitic relationships with the wealthy patrons who "save" him. When, in a rare lucid movement, Ida reveals that she has withheld the shocking truth of his father's identity, Victor enlists the aid of his best friend, Denny and his mother's beautiful attending physician, Dr. Paige Marshall, to solve the mystery before the truth of his possibly divine parentage is lost forever. The film is adapted from the best-selling, critically acclaimed novel by Chuck Palahniuk.

CHRIS & DON
Directors: Tina Mascara & Guido Santi
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The film chronicles the 30 year relationship between British born author Christopher Isherwood and his much younger partner, artist Don Bachardy. Through home movie footage and candid recollections, the couple’s passion and commitment to each other comes alive. During the course of their relationship, Isherwood would nurture Don to become an accomplished painter. As would naturally seem to follow, Isherwood is forever immortalized in countless paintings and drawings lovingly crafted by Don over the years.

THE EDGE OF HEAVEN
Director: Fatih Akin
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The fragile lives of six people connect on emotional voyages toward forgiveness and reconciliation in Germany and Turkey. Nejat disapproves of his widower father Ali's choice of prostitute Yeter for a live-in girlfriend. But changes his mind when he discovers she sends money home to Turkey for her daughter's education. Yeter's sudden death distances father and son. Nejat travels to Istanbul to find Yeter's daughter Ayten. However, political activist Ayten is already in Germany, having to flee the Turkish police. There, she meets Lotte who invites rebellious Ayten to stay in her home, a gesture not pleasing to her conservative mother. When Ayten is eventually arrested, she is deported and imprisoned in Turkey. Lotte travels to Turkey, where she gets caught up in the seemingly hopeless situation of freeing Ayten.

ELITE SQUAD (TROPA DE ELITE)
Director: Jose Padilha
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With the help of veteran screenwriter Braulio Mantovani (CITY OF GOD), BOPE Captain Rodrigo Pimentel's uses his experiences over 19 years in the military police officer, to bring this controversial film to audiences world wide.  ELITE SQUAD is an intense and astonishing look at Rio de Janeiro's notorious favelas, the volatile slums on the edge of the city.  The film is set in 1997 and presents an intimate look at the city's vast and intricate web of corruption.

ELSA & FRED
Director: Marcos Carnevale
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When the retired seventy-seven years old hypochondriac widower Fred moves to an apartment in Madrid, his temperamental daughter Cuca has an incident with his next door neighbor, the elder Argentinean Elsa. Later, they meet each other and Elsa seduces Fred with her reckless behavior and view of life and they have a romance.

ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD
Director: Werner Herzog
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There is a hidden society at the end of the world. One thousand men and women live together under unbelievably close quarters in Antarctica, risking their lives and sanity in search of cutting-edge science. Now, for the first time, an outsider has been admitted. In his first documentary since GRIZZLY MAN, Werner Herzog, accompanied only by his cameraman, traveled to Antarctica, with rare access to the raw beauty and raw humanity of the ultimate Down Under.  Herzog's latest meditation on nature, explores this land of Fire, Ice and corrosive Solitude.

THE FALL
Director: Tarsem
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Los Angeles, circa 1920‘s, a little immigrant girl finds herself in a hospital recovering from a fall. She strikes up a friendship with a bedridden man who captivates her with a whimsical story that removes her far from the hospital doldrums into the exotic landscapes of her imagination. Making sure he keeps the girl interested in the story he interweaves her family and people she likes from the hospital into his tale.

THE FOOT FIST WAY
Director: Jody Hill
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Self-control, perseverance, integrity, indomitable spirit--that's what it's supposed to be all about at the Concord Tae Kwon Do Studio, where boys are turned into black-belts and suburbanites are chiseled into great warriors, all under the watchful tutelage of proud sensei Fred Simmons. That is, until Fred discovers his wife has been unfaithful and instantly descends into a blubbering mess. Ok, so maybe Fred is far more blowhard than kick-ass hero. But when he sets out on a last-ditch quest to meet his kung-fu idol--the 8-time undefeated champ and star of the SEVEN RINGS OF PAIN trilogy, Chuck "The Truck" Wallace--Fred winds up on a wild, comical journey that will take him from egomaniacal bluster all to the way to becoming the stand-up man of his delusional dreams.

FROZEN RIVER
Director: Courtney Hunt
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FROZEN RIVER takes place in the days before Christmas near a little-known border crossing on the Mohawk reservation between New York State and Quebec. Here, the lure of fast money from smuggling presents a daily challenge to single moms who would otherwise be earning minimum wage. Two single mothers faced with desperate circumstances are drawn into the world of border smuggling across the frozen water of the St. Lawrence River.

FUGITIVE PIECES
Director: Jeremy Podeswa
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Jakob Beer is a child who witnesses his family's slaughter at the hands of the Nazis. Athos Roussos, a Greek archaeologist, finds him and smuggles him out of Poland to Greece. After the war, they emigrate to Canada where Jakob eventually becomes a poet and translator. Ben, the young son of Holocaust survivors, learns of Jakob's past when he finds his diaries.

GONZO: THE LIFE AND WORK OF DR. HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Director: Alex Gibney  
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From Oscar-nominated director Alex Gibney and producer Graydon Carter comes a probing look into the uncanny life of national treasure and gonzo journalism inventor Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. A fast moving, wildly entertaining documentary with an iconic soundtrack, the film addresses the major touchstones in Thompson’s life—his intense and ill fated relationship with the Hell’s Angels, his near-successful bid for the office of sheriff in Aspen in 1970, the notorious story behind the landmark Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, his deep involvement in Senator George McGovern’s 1972 presidential campaign, and much more.

A JIHAD FOR LOVE
Director: Parvez Sharma
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A JIHAD FOR LOVE is the first-ever feature-length documentary to explore the complex global intersections of Islam and homosexuality. With unprecedented access and depth, gay Muslim filmmaker Parvez Sharma brings to light the hidden lives of gay and lesbian Muslims from countries like Iran, Pakistan, Egypt, Turkey, France, India, and South Africa.

THE LIFE BEFORE HER EYES
Director: Vadim Perelman
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Diana is a suburban wife and mother who begins to question her seemingly perfect life--and perhaps her sanity--on the 15th anniversary of a tragic high school shooting that took the life of her best friend. In flashbacks, Diana is a vibrant high schooler who, with her shy best friend Maureen, plot typical teenage strategies--cutting class, fantasizing about boys--and vow to leave their sleepy suburb at the first opportunity. The older Diana, however, is haunted by the increasingly strained relationship she had with Maureen as day of the school shooting approached. These memories disrupt the idyllic life she's now leading with her professor husband Paul and their young daughter Emma. As older Diana's life begins to unravel and younger Diana gets closer and closer to the fatal day, a deeper mystery slowly unravels.

MISS CONCEPTION
Director: Eric Styles
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Georgina is an ambitious young London professional who learns she has only one month left in which to conceive a child. After exhausting all possibilities with her baby-phobic boyfriend, Georgina turns to her wildly optimistic friend Clem, with whom she sets out to identify and "land" the perfect father for her child.

MOTHER OF TEARS
Director: Dario Argento
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Sarah Mandy (Asia Argento), an American studying art restoration at the Museum of Ancient Art in Rome, examines an urn found at an ancient, decrepit grave near Viterbo. Bound within are the relics of a witch known as the Mother of Tears, Mater Lachrimarum. Breaking the seal heralds the return of the beautiful yet malefic sorceress' powers, and the world is plunged into chaos. A wave of suicides and crime sweeps over Italy's capital as witches congregate to pay homage to their reborn queen. Sarah must eventually discover her latent supernatural powers with the help of her deceased mother and confront Lachrimarum at the opulent Palazzo Varelli.

NOISE
Director: Henry Bean
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From the creators of THE BELIEVER, winner of the 2001 Sundance Grand Jury Prize, comes a black comedy about a man caught in the most impossible of conundrums: in love with his hometown, New York City, but driven mad by its noise. Transforming himself into "The Rectifier," David takes on everyone from the schmuck who ignores his own car alarm to the city's most powerful citizen, the Mayor. As his daring grows, New Yorkers rally behind him inspiring David to win this fight by the most ingenious of schemes.

REDBELT
Director: David Mamet
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Set in the west-side Los Angeles fight world, a world inhabited by bouncers, cage-fighters, cops, and Special Forces types, REDBELT is the story of Mike Terry, a Jiu-jitsu master who has avoided the prize fighting circuit, choosing to instead pursue an honorable life by operating a self defense studio with a samaurai's code.  But an accident on a dark, rainy night at the Academy between an off duty officer and a distraught lawyer puts in motion a series of events that will change Terry's life dramatically introducing him to a world of promoters and movie stars. Faced with this, in order to pay off his debts and regain his honor, Terry must step into the ring for the first time in his life.

RELIGULOUS
Director: Larry Charles
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RELIGULOUS follows Bill Maher as he travels around the globe interviewing people about God and religion. Known for his astute analytical skills, irreverent wit and commitment to never pulling a punch, Maher brings his characteristic honesty to an unusual spiritual journey.

REPRISE
Director: Joachim Trier
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Erik and Phillip are trying to make it as writers. Erik is rejected by publishers as lacking in talent, while Phillip's manuscript is accepted and the young man becomes a major name on the Norwegian cultural scene practically overnight. Six months later, Erik and his friends come to visit Phillip at a psychiatric hospital to bring him home after long-term treatment. Writing is the last thing on Phillip's mind, but Erik is continuing his literary attempts and tries to convince his friend to go back to writing.

ROMAN DE GARE
Director:  Claude Lelouch
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In the still of the night, three lives are about to cross: a woman abandoned (Audrey Dana) a stranger awaiting his chance (Dominique Pinon,) and a best-selling author (Fanny Ardant,) who imagines the thriller of the year. Deceptively layered and intriguingly misleading, in a game with high stakes – and deadly consequences.

THE SKY TURNS (EL CIELO GIRA)
Director: Mercedes Álvarez
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The filmmaker travels to the village in Northern Spain where she was born to produce this breathtakingly beautiful meditation on place. Just as she thinks the village is on the brink of extinction, she finds it renewed by a wave of new migrants.

SON OF RAMBOW
Director: Garth Jennings
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Set in the 1980’s, SON OF RAMBOW is a coming of age comedy about two young English boys who are inspired after seeing RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD to make a Rambo movie of their own. Will is the eldest son in a family with a strict moral and religious view and has never been allowed to mix with other people, listen to music or watch TV. That is until he finds himself caught up in the extraordinary world of Lee Carter, the school terror and maker of bizarre home movies.

STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE
Director: Errol Morris
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S.O.P. is an examination of the unintended consequences of the Iraqi war with a focus on events at Abu Ghraib prison which began to appear in global media in 2004. The prison quickly became notorious for the shocking photos of the abuse and torture of terror suspects by military men and women. Ultimately, it is the story of soldiers who believed they were defending democracy but found themselves plunged into an unimagined nightmare.

STUCK
Director: Stuart Gordon
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STUCK is the story of two unlikely opponents thrown together through a macabre set of circumstances. Hardworking Brandi Boski hits a homeless man, Tom, with her car while driving home late at night. Brutally smashed headfirst into Brandi's windshield, impaling shards of glass keep Tom stuck as Brandi speeds home and hides car and victim in her garage. Making a snap decision knowing there were no witnesses to the event, she decides to let Tom slowly bleed to death in her garage. Meanwhile, Tom begins to realize the true horror of his absurd fate and tries to free his battered body from the car. STUCK accelerates into a bloody battle of wits and survival that leads to an unexpected and life-shattering conclusion.

THEN SHE FOUND ME
Director: Helen Hunt
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Adapted from Elinor Lipman's novel of the same name, Helen Hunt makes her feature directing debut with THEN SHE FOUND ME, a touching story of schoolteacher, April Epner, and her very unlikely path towards personal fulfillment. Following the separation from her husband and the death of her adopted mother, April is contacted by her apparent birth mother, who turns out to be a local talk show host Bernice Graves. As Bernice tries to become the mother to April that she was never able to be, April seems to find solace in the arms of the parent of one of her students, only to find that the mystery to life's questions cannot be solved by a simple revelation.

TO THE LIMIT
Director: Pepe Danquart
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Depicts the adventures of two brothers, Alexander and Thomas Huber, who have been searching for their own limits from earliest childhood and share a passion for rock climbing which has propelled them into the first league of sports and Alpine climbers. Their ultimate challenge is to speed climb up the El Capitan, the most dangerous peak in the Yosemite National Park in California.

TOWELHEAD
Director: Alan Ball
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TOWELHEAD follows the dark, bold and shockingly funny life of Jasira, a 13-year-old Arab-American girl, as she navigates the confusing and frightening path of adolescence and her own sexual awakening.

THE TRACEY FRAGMENTS
Director: Bruce McDonald
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Based on screenwriter Maureen Medved's novel of the same name, THE TRACEY FRAGMENTS uses highly inventive and dynamic Mondrian-like split screens to tell the story of why 15-year-old Tracey Berkowitz is riding out a blizzard in the back of a city bus, naked except for the tattered curtain she's wrapped in, and looking for her missing brother (whom she fears she has hypnotized). On screen for nearly every frame of the film, Page delivers a tour-de-force performance that cements her status as one of the most exciting young actresses on screen today.

TRANSSIBERIAN
Director: Brad Anderson
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Set on the legendary express train as it travels from China to Moscow, follows an American couple who board the train and make the acquaintance of a Russian police inspector on the trail of the killers of a drug dealer. The couple soon find themselves embroiled in a murderous plot with no escape.

TRUMBO
Director: Christopher Trumbo
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It is one of those odd ironies of history that renowned American screenwriter Dalton Trumbo – the author of an extraordinarily rich and laudable body of work – is still best known for the years of his life in which he didn’t work. In Trumbo, written by Dalton’s son, Christopher, celebrated performers Donald Sutherland, Liam Neeson, Michael Douglas, Joan Allen, David Strathairn, Nathan Lane, Paul Giamatti, Josh Lucas and others raise their voices to pay tribute to the legend.  The powerful character of the man who emerges in this riveting documentary is much more than the sum of these parts. The film explores Trumbo’s persona through interviews with those who knew him, and, even more richly, through his own words.

THE UNKNOWN WOMAN
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
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The Unknown Woman is Irena, an emigrant who fled Eastern Europe and has moved to a Northern Italian city. She lives amidst ghosts of the past and a search for the present, two planes of time that make up an intriguing puzzle.

UP THE YAZHE
Director: Yung Chang
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At the edge of the Yangtze River, not far from the Three Gorges Dam, young men and women take up employment on a cruise ship, where they confront rising waters and a radically changing China.

THE WACKNESS
Director: Jonathan Levine
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THE WACKNESS centers upon a troubled high school student named Luke Shapiro—a teenage pot dealer who forms a friendship with Dr. Jeffrey Squires, a psychiatrist and kindred lost soul. When the doctor proposes Luke trade him weed for therapy sessions, the two begin to explore both New York City and their own depression.  Set against the backdrop of the greatest year in hip hop history, THE WACKNESS takes place in a very different time: a time of pagers, not cell phones, a time in which Tupac and Biggie were alive, a time in which Kurt Cobain had just died. It uses this world to tell a very different story: one with humor, pathos, sex, drugs, and beats.

WAR, INC.
Director: Joshua Seftel
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WAR, INC. is set in the future, when the desert country of Turagistan is torn by a riot after a private corporation, owned by the former US president, has taken over the whole state. John Cusack plays the role of a hit man, who is hired by the corporation's head to kill the CEO of their competitor. Everything changes when the ruthless killer finds himself head-over-heels in love with a sexy reporter.

WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE YOUR FATHER?
Director: Anand Tucker
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Director Anand Tucker offers audiences an unflinching exploration of a father/son relationship, as Blake Morrison deals with his father Arthur's terminal illness and imminent death. Blake's memories of everything funny, embarrassing and upsetting about his childhood and teens are interspersed with tender and heartrending scenes in the present, as he struggles to come to terms with his father, and their history of conflict, and learns to accept that one's parents are not always accountable to their children.

WHERE IN THE WORLD IS OSAMA BIN LADEN?
Director: Morgan Spurlock
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If Morgan Spurlock has learned anything from over 30 years of movie-watching, it's that if the world needs saving, it's best done by one lone man willing to face danger head on to take it down, action hero style. So, with no military experience, knowledge or expertise, he sets off to do what the CIA, FBI and countless bounty hunters have failed to do: find the world's most wanted man. Why take on such a seemingly impossible mission? Simple -- he wants to make the world safe for his soon-to-be-born child. But before he finds Osama bin Laden, he first needs to learn where he came from, what makes him tick, and most importantly, what exactly created bin Laden to begin with.

YELLA
Director: Christian Petzold
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A young woman from the former East German province of Brandenburg begins a new job in western Germany, so as to escape a wretched marriage. But her old life keeps catching up with her.

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