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First runner up

By Christine Pfeiffer Stocke

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 Seventeen years after losing the Miss Bay City crown the first runner up returns home to shake off her second place status and watch her best friend, who has reigned all this time, finally step down.

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GENRE: COMEDY, ROMANCE

Country: united states

REPRESENTATION: NONE

THE O'MALLEY

By John F. Sarno

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When England invades western Ireland, Grace O'Malley decides to confront the Crown in person. In London, both she and Queen Elizabeth learn that unrequited love conquers all.

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GENRE: DRAMA, HISTORICAL DRAMA

Country: United states

REPRESENTATION: NONE

The OLD BUG

By BILL LABONIA

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When the young and sheltered Jonah graduates from high school, he wants a car so he can be a "cool guy" to impress his crush Autumn. After finding out his Grandpa has an old car in the Garage, Jonah will count with the help of his best friend Rex to fix the car and get the girl before he is gone to college.

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GENRE: DRAMA, COMEDY

Country: BRAZIL

REPRESENTATION: NONE

THE separating sickness

By Emily redinbo

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 In 1914 Hawaii, as war rages in Europe, an African American chemist defies her envious boss to seek a cure for the leprosy that’s condemned her best friend to life in exile. Based on a true story.

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GENRE: DRAMA, FAMILY, historical

Country: united states

REPRESENTATION: NONE

W. SMITH

By Sophie Hexter

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A coming of age historical drama about a transgender farmhand who goes on to become one of the country's greatest horsemen. When his birth gender is accidentally uncovered, however, Smith is forced to take his employer to court, fighting for equal rights and fair pay, and a new Australian hero is born.

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GENRE: Historical drama

Country: AUSTRALIA

REPRESENTATION: NONE

THE NARRATOR

By Julia trofimova

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Finn and Tera—two miserable employees at Onemind Corp.—are given the opportunity to have their own “narrators”: individuals who follow them around and express their innermost thoughts. While the narrators drastically improve their lives at first, Finn and Tera begin to realize there may be a much more sinister plot at play.

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GENRE: COMEDY, dark comedy

Country: united states

REPRESENTATION: NONE

OUTCAST

By Sarah bellwood

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An orphaned Roman youth is banished by the British tribe who raised him from birth.  Marked by his Celtic tattoos, kidnapped and enslaved in the cynical, sophisticated Roman world, he must fight to survive in his quest for freedom and a place to belong.

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GENRE: ACTION, ADVENTURE, DRAMA

Country: United states

REPRESENTATION: NONE

MAIDENS OF BABYLON

By Tony Grady martin

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The remarkable true story behind W.T. Stead, an early pioneer of investigative journalism and suffragette Josephine Butler, who risked everything to expose the shameful trafficking of women in Victorian-era London. Inspired by W.T. Stead's highly controversial newspaper articles, "The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon."

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GENRE: period drama, POLITICAL DRAMA

Country: United states, UNITED KINGDOM

REPRESENTATION: NONE

GOD IS a butterfly

By adriana rosSaroLla

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A British girl creates a story about a Celtic heroine, and must choose between her mother's oppressive concepts and her desire to destroy those views.

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GENRE: DRAMA, ROMANCE

Country: united states

REPRESENTATION: NONE

the viciouses

By adam simmel

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Infamous rock n' roll couple Sid and Nancy, now clean of drugs and in their 60’s, take in a wayward, 16-year-old Marilyn Monroe impersonator just as the couple begins undergoing a crisis of their own.

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GENRE: COMEDY, dRAMA

Country: UNITED STATES

REPRESENTATION: NONE

THE SINS OF THE MANY

By ELLERY BOCK

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Two contrasting detectives from neighboring jurisdictions must work together to solve a gruesome series of decapitations tied to a backwoods insane asylum that was shuttered 30 years prior.

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GENRE: psychological THRILLER, crime

Country: australia

REPRESENTATION: NONE

OBSERVANCE

By Christopher Hooton

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In a dystopian future where all violence has been eliminated, a sudden murder shocks society, leading an idealist lawyer to defend the genius who committed the crime.

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GENRE: SCI-FI, DRAMA

Country: united kingdom

REPRESENTATION: NONE

Alec Guinness: A Kind of Victory

By bill baxter

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Alec Guinness is born fatherless to an alcoholic mother. Struggling in early life, he lands a small part in Hamlet at the Old Vic Theater. The play is marred by an aggressive Laurence Olivier and they cannot finish a rehearsal. The Company travels to Denmark for a performance at Elsinore Castle, Shakespeare’s setting for the play. The weather, workers and nature are against them. A funny, thoughtful and true story of a gentle and shy man overcoming impossible odds to become one of the world's most successful actors.

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GENRE: DRAMA, comING OF AGE

Country: CANADA

REPRESENTATION: NONE

BLOOD LAW

By Keith and Cassie Hayasaka

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Orphaned after his father is murdered in the Rock Springs Massacre of 1885, Bo helps his adopted family of sheep ranchers fight for their land in bloody range wars while struggling with his identity and reigniting a dangerous love affair.

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GENRE: WESTERN, dRAMA, HISTORICAL

Country: UNITED STATES

REPRESENTATION: NONE

THERE IS NO ONE IN HELL

By Nijean Philippe

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Once upon a time in slavery...In New York, a father of Haitian origin tells his daughter, six stories of slavery, the history of his family.

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GENRE: DRAMA, HISTORICAL

Country: martinique

REPRESENTATION: NONE

DO OR DARE

By MAREN CURTIS

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Three unsuspecting men are tricked onto a reality game show where they must say ‘I Do’ to their partners in front of a live studio audience…or else.

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GENRE: dark comedy, action

Country: United states

REPRESENTATION: NONE

IN YOUR HANDS

By Carlo Liberatore

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A priest, racked with guilt, takes refuge in a hermitage set in the mountains in order to escape the vindictive anger of a father.

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GENRE: Drama, FAITH, thriller

Country: ITALY

REPRESENTATION: NONE

PONTUS

By nicolas diaz

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Vanessa, the sole survivor in her family after a dog rescue gone wrong turns into a tragic drowning accident, grapples with grief, blame, and struggles to connect with her new legal guardian, Uncle Daniel, who is determined to get through their pain, together.

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GENRE: DRAMA

Country: United states

REPRESENTATION: NONE

7:04 A.M.

By Sam Downey, James Grachos

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Will, tired of feeling like a background character in his own life, decides for one momentous night to let a magic coin decide his fate.

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GENRE: Drama, thriller

Country: UNITED STATES

REPRESENTATION: NONE

DEMON CIRCLE

By Robert Duncan

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Two friends summon a demon to grant them their hearts desire. However their friendship is tested to the limit when the demon they summon isn’t what they expected.

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GENRE: Comedy, DARK COMEDY, HORROR

Country: united KINGDOM

REPRESENTATION: none

UNINSPIRED MOMENTS

By Kristen Brookman

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A chance encounter on a lonely night sparks the beginning of an unlikely friendship.

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GENRE: drama

Country: United kingdom

REPRESENTATION: NONE

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TRUE BLUE

By GIO FORLENZA

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When the tech bubble bursts, a laid-off father starts a garage band with his 5 year old daughter as he searches to find work and balance his family’s happiness in Austin Texas.

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GENRE: drama, comedy

Country: United states

REPRESENTATION: NONE

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DAMAGE CONTROL

By Stephen Hoover

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DAMAGE CONTROL is an edgy, animated comedy for adults about a public relations firm specializing in high profile disasters -- from oil spills to celebrity drunken rages. Led by type A+ personality Laird Parks, a diverse team of P.R. Specialists take on stories from tomorrow headlines and do DAMAGE CONTROL. The spin is in.

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GENRE: COMEDY

Country: UNITED STATES

REPRESENTATION: NONE

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THE CENTER

By Miles Woods

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Valerie Ernst, a young, Black single mom finds herself caught up in one of Los Angeles' most notorious hellscapes -- the world of private pre-schools.

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GENRE: COMEDY

Country: UNITED STATES

REPRESENTATION: NONE

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7 minutes and about 20 seconds

By Marina Bendocchi Alves

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A pair of teenagers rocked by the trauma of seeing someone they loved murdered during a school shooting cope in wildly different ways, trying to navigate the enmity that existed before the killing.

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GENRE: Drama, YOUNG ADULT

Country: GERMANY, BRAZIL

REPRESENTATION: NONE

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FEEDING THE ELEPHANT

By William Dobson

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A collage of interconnected characters collide in violent and troubling ways as a corrupt lawyer operates an elaborate money laundering scheme at the heart of the British legal system.

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GENRE: DRAMA, CRIME

Country: united KINGDOM

REPRESENTATION: none

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I.Am.RANI

By Sathish Easwaralingam

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After being raped by her own teacher, a high school girl becomes inspired by a world-wide movement of women retaliating against their abusers and decides to take action herself, unbeknownst to her a sinister conspiracy will further call her to action.

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GENRE: drama, THRILLER, SUSPENSE

Country: UNITED KINGDOM

REPRESENTATION: NONE

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VERSIONS

By Craig ReynoldS

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When a student accuses three rugby players of rape and her university fails to act, she makes her story public, inciting a storm of media attention and fomenting a national debate in Ireland.

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GENRE: drama, THRILLER

Country: IRELAND

REPRESENTATION: NONE

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ANGELS OF WAR

By Natalie Bergman, Victoria Rau

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The untold true story of a small group of American nurses trapped behind enemy lines for over three difficult years in the Philippines during World War II. Follow their heroism, relationships, endurance and survival as they fight to save lives and survive.

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GENRE: drama, HISTORICAL, ROMANCE

Country: UNITED STATES

REPRESENTATION: NONE

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Don't Change Your Husband

By John McCloskey

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Three married couples are best friends. All six of them are successful professionals in their early 30s. They decide to switch partners, switching beds. They are led into this by a dreamy philosophy of erotic love that gains a cult-like hold over them. What they learn is how one person changes another person, through attachment, need, expectation, betrayal.

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GENRE: ROMANTIC dramEDY, MYSTERY

Country: United states

REPRESENTATION: NONE

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