18-year-old Benjamin – described by those who knew him as soft-spoken and “extraordinarily ordinary” was sentenced to life in prison for the grisly murder of his friend. He has made a full confession but remains unable to explain his actions, leaving both families desperate for answers. This documentary seeks meaning where none seems possible.

Portraits of the two teens emerge through interviews with family, friends, teachers, counselors, and Benjamin himself, in prison, struggling to examine his past and his actions.

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Ground London’ is an experimental documentary that explores the British capital with a very specific point-of-view, locked in photography that never gets more than three inches off the ground, along with heavy manipulation of both sound and image, exposing a London seldom examined: a city that moves poetically and with great order when observed slowly and in minute detail.

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A story of connection and love between two old friends set against the backdrop of a rapidly changing Berlin.

An unspoken connection between two elderly neighbors deepens when they face the inevitable together. Albert and Marta, both in their late 70s, live across the street from one another in a bustling section of Berlin’s Mitte. Every day, the two neighbors meet – each in their perspective windows – at nine am to watch the world unfold below them.

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An ex-reality star gives up the limelight to give public nature tours. What he discovers is that the public has ulterior motives. A group of female students is abandoned on one of his tours. Jealousy, insecurity, friendship and madness are common amongst this group. How will they survive?

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A depiction of the Istanbul during the Summer of the uprising in Taksim Square. It juxtaposes the street battles with action along the river and a ferry going from Kadikoy to Beyoglu. This experimental film presents the battle next to the goal of a normal life that all sides are trying to nurture. Unresolved in both the film, and life, is the normal life that will actually win out.

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A hilarious workplace comedy about a disillusioned company man who has only one day to save his floundering career. Besieged on all sides by incompetent co-workers and a ruthless nemesis, he must fight for what he believes in, conquer his enemies, and not get dumped by his girlfriend.

The Next Step is a tremendous debut from director Jack McQuistin. This feature film is the story of quiet and self-conscious Richard Floyd, along with his three friends Will, Myles, and Stew.

Upon entering there last year of high school, and knowing that after graduation the four will all be going on their separate ways, they decide to make it a year to remember and do anything they can think of together. However, when Richard meet the new girl Holly and quickly become almost inseparable, tension slowly builds between Richard and his friends.