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Bad Axe (Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: David Siev)
After leaving NYC for his rural hometown of Bad Axe, MI at the start of the pandemic, an Asian-American filmmaker documents his family's struggles to keep their restaurant open.
Clean (Country: Australia; Year: 2022; Director: Lachlan McLeod)
When illness forces her away from her beloved trauma cleaning business, Sandra faces up to her traumatic past and begins a search for her birth mother.
It’s Quieter In The Twilight (Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Billy Miossi)
A documentary about the team of engineers who pilot Earth's furthest reaching space mission, Voyager 2.
Jurassic Punk (Spaz) (Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Scott Leberecht; Stars: Steve ‘Spaz’ Williams, Robert Patrick)
Steve ‘Spaz’ Williams is a pioneer in computer animation. His digital dinosaurs in Jurassic Park transformed Hollywood in 1993, but an appetite for anarchy and reckless disregard for authority may have cost him the recognition he deserved.
Mama Bears (Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Daresha Kyi)
A documentary about two conservative, Christian mothers who have become fierce advocates for LGBTQ+ people—and a young lesbian whose struggle for self-acceptance exemplifies why the mama bears are so important.
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Mama Bears and The Pez Outlaw
Master Of Light (Country: Netherlands, US; Year: 2022; Director: Rosa Ruth Boesten)
A classical painter who spent ten years in federal prison travels to his hometown to paint his family members.
The Pez Outlaw (Country: Austria, US; Year: 2022; Director: Amy Bandlien Storkel, Bryan Storkel)
Steve Glew spent the 1990s smuggling rare pez dispensers into the USA from Eastern Europe, making millions of dollars. It was all magical until his arch-nemesis, The Pezident decided to destroy him.
Split At The Root (Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Linda Goldstein Knowlton)
When a Guatemalan mother seeking asylum was separated from her kids under Zero Tolerance Policy, a Facebook post by a mother in Queens coalesced into a movement as thousands of like-minded women across the US refused to stand by quietly.
The Thief Collector (Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Allison Otto; Writer: Mark Monroe, Nick Andert; Stars: Glenn Howerton, Sarah Minnich, Brandon Z Ruiz, Eric Banks, Hailee Cruzen)
A documentary exploring the mystery behind the infamous 1985 heist of Willem de Kooning’s seminal painting, Woman-Ochre.
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