Bad Things and Lost Soulz
Bad Things
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Stewart Thorndike; Writer: Stewart Thorndike; Stars: With Gayle Rankin, Hari Nef, Annabelle Dexter-Jones, Rad Pereira, Jared Abrahamson, Molly Ringwald)
A weekend getaway for four friends at a snowy resort turns into a psychological tailspin and bloody nightmare.
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Cypher
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Chris Mourkabel)
Pseudo-documentary charting the astronomical rise of rapper Tierra Whack.
World premiere
The Graduates
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Hannah Peterson; Writer: Hannah Peterson; Stars: Mina Sundwall, Alex Hibbert, Yasmeen Fletcher, Ewan Manley, John Cho, Maria Dizzia, Kelly O'Sullivan)
After a tragedy, a group of friends face an unsettling senior year.
World premiere
Lost Soulz
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Katherine Propper; Writer: Katherine Propper; Stars: Sauve Sidle, Syanda Stillwell, Micro TDH, Krystall Poppin, Alexander Brackney, Malachi Mabson)
A young rapper leaves behind his surrogate family and sets out on an expedition across Texas, contemplating new and old friendships.
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Mountains
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Monica Sorelle; Writer: Monica Sorelle, Robert Colom; Stars: Atibon Nazaire, Sheila Anozier, Chris Renois)
Xavier works in demolition and dreams of buying a bigger house for his family, while his adult son, caught between two cultures, struggles to find a place for himself.
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The Secret Art Of Human Flight
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: HP Mendoza; Writer: Jesse Orenshein; Stars: Grant Rosenmeyer, Paul Raci, Lucy DeVito, Nican Robinson, Reina Hardesty, Maggie Grace, Sendhil Ramamurthy)
While mourning the death of his wife and fending off an ambitious detective who thinks he killed her, Ben encounters a man who claims that he can teach him to fly.
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Smoking Tigers
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Shelly Yo; Writer: Shelly Yo; Stars: Ji Young Yoo, Jung Joon Ho, Abin Shim, Erin Yoo)
A Korean American girl navigates derision and growing tensions while balancing the duality of her low-income family and wealthy, elite high school environment.
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Somewhere Quiet
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Olivia West Lloyd; Writer: Olivia West Lloyd; Stars: Taylor Ava Shung, Emma Hannaway, Eamon Downey. With Jennifer Kim, Kentucker Audley, Marin Ireland)
A woman readjusts to normalcy after surviving a traumatic kidnapping — but her grounded sense of reality soon starts to deteriorate when she travels with her husband to his wealthy family’s isolated compound.
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