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Alone Together (Year: 2021; Director: Bradley Bell, Pablo Jones-Soler)
A pop star in quarantine embarks on a whirlwind creative and romantic journey while making an album in 40 days that unites a community around the world.
Demi Lovato: Dancing With The Devil (Year: 2021; Director: Michael D Ratner)
A documentary exploring some of the events that led to the singer's nearly fatal overdose in 2018, and her awakenings in the aftermath.
Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free (Year: 2021; Director: Mary Wharton)
Drawn from a newly discovered archive of 16mm film showing Tom Petty at work on his 1994 record Wildflowers, considered by many including Rolling Stone to be his greatest album ever, this is an intimate view of a musical icon.
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