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Breaking Fast and Cowboys
Breaking Fast
(Country: US; Year: 2020; Director: Mike Mosallam; Writer: Mike Mosallam; Stars: Veronica Cartwright, Michael Cassidy, Haaz Sleiman, Patrick Sabongui)
Mo, a practising Muslim living in West Hollywood, is learning to navigate life post heartbreak. Enter Kal, an All-American guy who surprises Mo by offering to break fast with him during the holy month of Ramadan.
The Carnivores
(Country: US; Year: 2020; Director: Caleb Johnson; Writer: Caleb Johnson, Jeff Bay Smith; Stars: Lindsay Burdge, Tallie Medel, Frank Mosley)
Alice and Bret's dog Harvey is dying, and he's ruining everything. What had been a bright little family is quickly getting consumed by clouds of self-doubt, suspicion and a disturbing amount of ground beef.
Cicada
(Country: US; Year: 2020; Director: Matthew Fifer, Kieran Mulcare; Writer: Matthew Fifer; Stars: Sheldon D Brown, Matthew Fifer, Cobie Smulders)
A young man is forced to face past traumas when he embarks on a new relationship.
Cowboys
(Country: US; Year: 2020; Director: Anna Kerrigan; Writer: Anna Kerrigan; Stars: Steve Zahn, Jillian Bell, Ann Dowd, Chris Coy, Bob Stephenson, Gary Farmer, Sasha Knight, Steve Zahn, Jillian Bell, Ann Dowd, Chris Coy, Bob Stephenson, Gary Farmer, Sasha Knight)
Troy and his young transgender son Joe are on the run from his conservative mother in the Montana wilderness, with a detective in hot pursuit.
Dramarama
(Country: US; Year: 2020; Director: Jonathan Wysocki; Writer: Jonathan Wysocki; Stars: Zak Henri, Anna Grace Barlow, Nico Greetham)
In 1994, a closeted teen struggles to part ways with his four high school drama friends at their final murder mystery party before they leave for college.
T11 Incomplete and Minyan
Gossamer Folds
(Country: US; Year: 2020; Director: Lisa Donato; Writer: Bridget Flanery; Stars: Jackson Robert Scott, Alexandra Grey, Sprague Grayden, Shane West)
In 1986, ten-year-old Tate is uprooted and unwillingly moved to the suburbs of Kansas City. As his parent's marriage unravels, Tate finds solace in the unlikely friendships of his next-door neighbours: a retired college professor and his transgender daughter, Gossamer.
Minyan
(Country: US; Year: 2020; Director: Eric Steel; Writer: David Bezmozgis, Daniel Pearle, Eric Steel; Stars: Brooke Bloom, Ron Rifkin, Alex Hurt, Chinaza Uche, Zane Pais, Richard Topol, Samuel H. Levine, Chris Perfetti, Elizabeth Loyacano, Sacha Seberg, Christopher McCann, Amir Levy, Julie Zanata, Eli Rosen, Margolis Mark)
New York in the 1980s. Seventeen-year-old David, who is tentatively beginning to express his homosexuality in the East Village gay scene, gradually starts to question the strict rules of his Jewish community.
T11 Incomplete
(Country: US; Year: 2019; Director: Suzanne Guacci; Writer: Suzanne Guacci; Stars: Kristen Renton, Zachary Booth, Karen Sillas, Katy Sullivan, Yvonne Jung, Colin Bates, Gregory M. Brown, Lauren Russell, Maxim Swinton, Maya Guacci, George Morafetis, Edward Hanlon, James Liszanckie, Lou Chimelli, Leonard Delorenzo)
Past mistakes haunt the present and threaten a new love affair between an older woman and her patient.
Tahara
(Country: US; Year: 2020; Director: Olivia Peace; Writer: Jess Zeidman; Stars: Madeline Grey DeFreece, Rachel Sennott, Daniel Taveras, Bernadette Quigley)
A queer, coming of age drama set in Rochester, NY about an anxious teen girl who is manipulated into a romantic encounter with her best friend during the funeral service of their former Hebrew school classmate.
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