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In The Summers and Between The Temples
All That We Love
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Yen Tan; Writer: Yen Tan, Clay Liford; Stars: Margaret Cho, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Kenneth Choi, Alice Lee, Atsuko Okatsuka, Missi Pyle, Devon Bostick)
A woman finds herself at a crossroads following the death of her family dog, and experiences a mid-life awakening.
Bad Shabbos
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Daniel Robbins; Writer: Zack Weiner, Daniel Robbins; Stars: Kyra Sedgwick, Cliff Smith, Jon Bass, Milana Vayntrub, David Paymer, Meghan Leathers)
An accidental death - or perhaps a murder - threatens to spoil two couples' Shabbat dinner plans.
Bang Bang
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Vincent Grashaw; Writer: Will Janowitz; Stars: Tim Blake Nelson, Glenn Plummer, Kevin Corrigan, Andrew Liner, Nina Arianda, Daniella Pineda, Erica Gimpel)
A former prizefighter finds himself facing a new challenge when his estranged daughter unexpectedly drops her troublemaking teenage son off at his doorstep.
Between The Temples
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Nathan Silver; Writer: Nathan Silver, C Mason Wells; Stars: Jason Schwartzman, Carol Kane, Caroline Aaron, Robert Smigel, Dolly De Leon, Madeline Weinstein, Matthew Shear, Jaden Waldman, Jacob Morrell, Laurent Rejto)
A cantor in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher re-enters his life as his new adult bat mitzvah student.
Crossing
(Country: Sweden, Denmark, France, Turkey, Georgia; Year: 2024; Director: Levan Akin; Writer: Levan Akin; Stars: Mzia Arabuli, Lucas Kankava, Deniz Dumanli)
A retired teacher, has promised to find her long-lost niece, Tekla. Her search takes her to Istanbul where she meets Evrim, a lawyer fighting for trans rights, and Tekla starts to feel closer than ever.
Daddio
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Christy Hall; Writer: Christy Hall; Stars: Jean-Luc De Fanti, Max Work, Kostas Tsoukalas, Christopher Donnelly)
On a late night drive from JFK Airport to Midtown Manhattan, a young woman and her cabbie form an unexpected bond.
The Damned
(Country: UK, Iceland, Ireland, Belgium; Year: 2024; Director: Thordur Palsson; Writer: Jamie Hannigan; Stars: Odessa Young, Joe Cole)
A young widow, faces an impossible choice when a ship sinks off the coast of her isolated fishing village during a cruel winter. With their food supplies dwindling, Eva and her town must decide whether to rescue the shipwrecked sailors or let them perish to ensure their own survival.
The Everything Pot
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Sherise Dorf; Writer: Sherise Dorf; Stars: Lisa Edelstein, James Wolk, Gina Torres, Erik Griffin, Delaney Rowe, Deja Monique Cruz)
A hastily chosen wedding gift causes complications.
Firebrand
(Year: 2023; Director: Karim Aïnouz; Writer: Henrietta Ashworth, Jessica Ashworth, based on the novel The Queen’s Gambit by Elizabeth Fremantle; Stars: Alicia Vikander, Eddie Marsan, Jude Law, Sam Riley, Ruby Bentall, Erin Doherty)
A dramatisation of the marriage between King Henry VIII of England and Catherine Parr.
Hannah Einbinder: Everything Must Go
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Sandi Honig; Writer: Hannah Einbinder; Stars: Hannah Einbinder)
Hannah Einbinder is best known for her Emmy-nominated starring role as Ava in Hacks, but her first love is stand-up comedy. This is her first ever standup special.
In The Summers
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Alessandra Lacorazza Samudio; Writer: Alessandra Lacorazza Samudio; Stars: Residente, Sasha Calle, Lio Mehiel, Leslie Grace, Emma Ramos, Sharlene Cruz, Luciana Elisa Quinonez, Dreya Castillo, Allison Salinas, Kimaya Thais, Gabriella Surodjawan, Indigo Montez, Shawn Cody Calvert, Natay Carroll, Julian Cavett)
On a journey that spans across the formative years of their lives, two sisters navigate their loving but volatile father during their yearly summer visits to his home in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Lake George
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Jeffrey Reiner; Writer: Tod Campbell; Stars: Shea Whigham, Carrie Coon, Glenn Fleshler, Max Casella)
Tasked by mobsters with putting an end to Phyllis’ life, Don is unable to pull the trigger, and instead the two set off on a road trip that evolves into something much more.
McVeigh
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Mike Ott; Writer: Mike Ott, Alex Gioulakis; Stars: Alfie Allen, Brett Gelman, Ashley Benson, Anthony Carrigan, Tracy Letts)
Timothy McVeigh, Unibomber, terrorism, radicalisation, conspiracy theory
Memes & Nightmares
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Charles Todd, Matt Mitchener; Writer: Matt Mitchener; Stars: Josiah Johnson, Jamel Johnson, Mero, Darius Miles, JR Smith, Jelani McCoy)
The true currency of our digital age isn’t rooted in crypto but instead a person’s ability to fire off a meme funny enough to take the world by storm.
A Mistake
(Country: New Zealand/Aotearoa; Year: 2024; Director: Christine Jeffs; Writer: Christine Jeffs; Stars: Elizabeth Banks, Simon McBurney, Mickey Sumner, Rena Owen)
surgeon, cover-up, surgical error, hospital
Nuked
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Deena Kashper; Writer: Deena Kashper; Stars: Justin Bartha, Anna Camp, Lucy Punch, George Young, Tawny Newsome, Ignacio Serricchio, Maulik Pancholy, Stephen Guarino, Natasha Leggero, Cole Stockel)
A relationship podcaster is celebrating her 40th birthday alongside her husband, with large quantities of cannabis, when everyone gets a sudden phone alert that a nuclear missile is headed directly toward them.
The Shallow Tale Of A Writer Who Decided To Write About A Serial Killer
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Tolga Karacelik; Writer: Tolga Karacelik; Stars: John Magaro, Steve Buscemi, Britt Lower)
A struggling writer befriends a retired serial killer, who becomes his unlikely marriage counselor and muse.
Treasure
(Country: Germany, France; Year: 2024; Director: Julia von Heinz; Writer: John Quester, Julia von Heinz; Stars: Lena Dunham, Stephen Fry, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Wenanty Nosul, Robert Besta, Oliver Ewy, David Krzysteczko)
In the early 1990s, New York music journalist Ruth travels with her father Edek, a Holocaust survivor, through his homeland of Poland.
The Wasp
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Guillem Morales; Writer: Morgan Lloyd Malcolm; Stars: Naomie Harris, Natalie Dormer, Dominic Allburn)
Estranged friends reunite over tea, only to find themselves caught up in a dangerous and deceptive plot that will irrevocably alter their lives.
Winter Spring Summer Or Fall
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Tiffany Paulsen; Writer: Dan Schoffer; Stars: Jenna Ortega, Percy Hynes-White, Marisol Nichols, Adam Rodriguez, Elias Kacavas, Evangeline Barrosse)
A young couple fall in love but face the prospect of being parted when one of them leaves to go to college.
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