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  28 Hotel Rooms

  USA , 2012 , 82 min. Matt Ross takes a new approach to filmmaking with this collage of hotel-room scenes between lovers who are married to other people yet find themselves falling deeper and deeper into a profound relationship.... more
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  A Doll's Life

  United Kingdom , 2012 , 6 min. Amanda and her mother are at terrible odds in this haunting portrayal of family secrets. ... more
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  After-School Special

  USA , 2010 , 10 min. While watching children play at an indoor playground, an attractive man (Wes Bentley) spies an equally attractive woman (Sarah Paulson) and is eager to strike up a conversation despite her obvious disinterest.... more
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  All About Her

  Lebanon , 2012 , 19 min. Amid New Year’s Eve celebrations, Chady recalls a promise made the year before. He finds himself headed back physically and emotionally to a place where he was deeply affected.... more
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  Alps

  Greece , 2011 , 90 min. A paramedic, a nurse, a gymnast, and her coach provide the service of standing in for the recently deceased. In this darkly comic, existential tale, director Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth) employs intertwining plots and striking camerawork.... more
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  An Evening With Andy Garcia

  USA , 2001 , 106 min. Join us this Friday, November 9th, 9:30pm, as Governor John Hickenlooper presents the incomparable Andy Garcia with the inaugural George Hickenlooper Honorary award at the L2 Arts and Culture Center.... more
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  Anna and Jerome

  France , 2012 , 24 min. Anna craves a new life for her young son in this poignant story. She and Jerome must come to terms with their diverging lives and their love for each other.... more
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  Another Bullet Dodged

  USA , 2011 , 13 min. Although their romantic relationship is over, there is some painful, intensely personal business that needs to be addressed on this final, profoundly troubling day together.... more
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  Any Day Now

  USA , 2011 , 96 min. A flamboyant drag performer (Alan Cumming) and a straitlaced and tightly closeted district attorney are would-be permanent custodians of a teenager with Down syndrome in 1979 Southern California.... more
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  Anything Helps

  USA , 2012 , 18 min. A story about forgiveness and being given a second chance while living on the streets of Denver.... more
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  The Art of Remembrance

  USA , 2010 , 11 min. Mexican artist Daniel Valle prepares for Day of the Dead in New York. His attempts to keep his culture alive in a foreign land while remembering lost loved ones have given him a unique perspective.... more
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  ASAD

  South Africa , 2011 , 18 min. A young Somali boy wrestles with the attraction of his village’s ocean-bound pirates against the needs of his family and war-torn community.... more
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  Audition

  Netherlands , 2012 , 6 min. Conveyed with elegant simplicity, this is the story of a young Auschwitz prisoner auditioning for the camp’s orchestra.... more
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  The Aviation Cocktail

  USA , 2012 , 96 min. NOW PLAYING through Thursday, May 2nd at the Sie FilmCenter Official Selection of the 35th Starz Denver Film Festival Director and cast in-person after the 7:15pm show on Saturday, April 27th! Digital presentation - Three World War II veterans learn that life back home can also be h... more
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  Barbara

  Germany , 2012 , 105 min. An East German doctor who has been banished from 1980s Berlin finds comfort in her skills and her patients. She must weigh her dedication to her patients when given the chance to reunite with her West German lover.... more
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  The Battle of the Jazz Guitarist

  USA , 2012 , 7 min. A documentary tribute to the director’s father, a once-famous jazz guitarist from the Fiji Islands who gave up his career to move to America for the betterment of his family.... more
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  Beauty

  Argentina , 2012 , 83 min. Yola, an indigenous girl employed as a maid in a remote village in Argentina, learns a hard truth of modern society. As the family she works for prepares a coming-out party for their daughter, Yola is taken advantage of in a devious, unexpected way.... more
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  Believing

  Netherlands , 2011 , 40 min. Martine is a successful doctor who champions emancipation, of women and immigrants. But her self-determination and worldview are challenged when her daughter decides to become a Muslim. Elsie de Brauw delivers a tour-de-force performance.... more
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  Bella Fleace Gave a Party

  United Kingdom , 2011 , 16 min. An impeccably produced adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's classic short story about an eccentric aristocrat who chooses to throw one last big party.... more
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  Beyond the Walls

  Belgium , 2012 , 98 min. Paulo, a sweet thing who hasn’t quite figured out his sexuality, and the hunky Ilir, whom he meets in a bar, blossom in a love affair until Ilir is arrested for drug possession. His time in prison can’t help but take a devastating toll on them both.... more
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  BFF

  USA , 2011 , 8 min. Jill suspects something is up with her boyfriend so of course she needs to confide in her BFF, Jack.... more
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  Bitter Moon

  France , 1992 , 139 min. On his second honeymoon, a sedate Englishman gets caught up in sex games with an S&M dominatrix and her angry, disabled husband. Roman Polanski’s twisted psychological thriller features standout performances by Hugh Grant and Peter Coyote.... more
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  Cadaver

  USA , 2011 , 8 min. Drawn entirely using Sharpie markers, this macabre tale uses the voices of Kathy Bates, Christopher Lloyd, and online wunderkind Tavi Gevinson to perfect effect in an account of a cadaver who wakes up to say a final farewell.... more
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  Camion

  Canada , 2012 , 94 min. When widower Germain, an experienced truck driver, gets into a horrific accident, his life changes dramatically. His two grown sons return home to help him deal with his ensuing depression, and the time together has unforeseen consequences for all.... more
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  Cherry Waves

  USA , 2011 , 15 min. Angie is a hardened street fighter who finally decides to risk everything in order to create the life she really wants.... more
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  City World

  USA , 2012 , 70 min. A beautifully drawn portrait of empty landscapes in Orlando, Florida, serves as backdrop for a boy’s ruminations on history and family. Images rich in atmosphere contrast with his notions about how Orlando came to be and what his life is like.... more
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  Clandestine Childhood

  Argentina , 2011 , 112 min. Benjamin Ávila’s coming-of-age tale of a boy living under an assumed name during Argentina’s military dictatorship is based on the director’s experience. While Juan’s parents continue guerrilla activities, he only wants to have a normal life.... more
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  Color of the Ocean

  Germany , 2011 , 95 min. Writer/director Maggie Peren weaves the lives of her three main characters—a disgruntled cop, a benevolent tourist, and an illegal immigrant—into a story of intrigue set in the Canary Islands. In Color of the Ocean, no good deed goes unpunished as their fates intertwine.... more
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  Crossing

  USA , 2011 , 18 min. In 1960s Georgia, a black teenager defies the rules of segregation and his conservative father when he walks through the front door of his white employer’s home.... more
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  Crush

  USA , 2011 , 7 min. The imaginative telling of one woman’s quest to find the ideal chair. ... more
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  Delivery

  USA , 2012 , 24 min. Ethan Suplee and Lukas Haas are brothers whose ill-fated trip is sidetracked by the same behavior and issues they’ve faced since childhood.... more
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  Double or Nothing

  USA , 2011 , 11 min. Clark and Becca are a happy couple whose encounter one night with a homeless man leads to unexpected action and reaction by all.... more
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  Edmond Was a Donkey

  Canada , 2012 , 15 min. Edmond has always been a bit of an outsider but it is still a surprise to see the unorthodox route he takes to learn how to be true to himself.... more
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  Eileen Pratt

  Australia , 2011 , 15 min. A look at the life of the painfully awkward Eileen Pratt, whose job as a bus driver is her only brush with normalcy.... more
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  The Enigma of Frank Ryan

  Ireland , 2012 , 90 min. Believing that his enemy’s enemy is his friend, IRA hero Frank Ryan took root in Berlin, only to find at a later date that his Nazi hosts’ hospitality came at the cost of his own integrity. Archival footage enriches this dramatization of Ryan’s war years.... more
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  Eternal Return

  USA , 2012 , 13 min. Late in life a man finds himself fixed in a static existence. Though stuck in the present, his memories of the past both haunt and elude him.... more
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  Everybody's Business

  USA , 2012 , 21 min. This documentary explores the tensions between individual choices and collective responsibilities in Vashon Island, Washington, which has become a reluctant poster child for the growing debate around childhood vaccinations.... more
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  Family Law

  Argentina , 2006 , 102 min. Drawing from his own life, writer-director Daniel Burman explores the relationship between father-and-son lawyers of Polish-Jewish extraction. The dramatic comedy is set to lilting klezmer music in bustling Buenos Aires.... more
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  Fear of Water

  Canada , 2011 , 122 min. A rural Quebec police sergeant comes up against a nasty detective from Montreal and a host of aberrant locals when he tries to investigate the rape and murder of the daughter of a small-town mayor.... more
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  First Contact

  Australia , 2011 , 21 min. The lives of a father and daughter eking out an isolated existence in the Australian outback are disrupted by the appearance of a man stranded and near death.... more
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  The Fitzgerald Family Christmas

  USA , 2012 , 99 min. Writer/director/star Ed Burns revisits the Irish-American roots of The Brothers McMullen, his 1995 Sundance breakout hit, for this holiday dramedy about a family reluctantly allowing a visit by the clan’s patriarch after a 20-year absence.... more
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  Flower Buds

  Czech Republic , 2011 , 91 min. The characters in Zdenek Jiráský’s unblinking vision of small-town Czech Republic life face tedium and depression in the uncertain aftermath of Stalinist totalitarianism. Vladimír Javorský stars as a defeated railroad worker and slot-machine junkie.... more
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  Folkswagon

  USA , 2011 , 20 min. In this darkly humorous, belated-coming-of-age story, a young Israeli man gets more than he bargained for when rooming with a quirky, eccentric Holocaust survivor in New York City.... more
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  Forever in Hiatus

  Vietnam , 2012 , 24 min. A chance encounter with the daughter of a Communist official gives a washed-up pop star, now a bicycle-taxi driver, a new chance at human connection, but with a raft of potential consequences.... more
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  Free Samples

  USA , 2012 , 80 min. Angry law school dropout Jillian has to hand out ice cream samples after a night of heavy drinking. Hung over, she doles out more than her customers bargain for as she faces her own existential dilemma. Jesse Eisenberg and Tippi Hedren contribute.... more
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  The Future

  Australia , 2011 , 8 min. Beth and Simon are young, in love, and celebrating their engagement at a restaurant when they are unexpectedly faced with the reality of what their shared future will look like.... more
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  Germania

  Argentina , 2012 , 75 min. A Volga German family on a farm in northern Argentina is beset by a mysterious plague, and some neighbors suspect divine punishment. Argentinian director/writer Maximiliano Schonfeld’s drama provides no answers.... more
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  Glory Days

  USA , 2012 , 12 min. Jack, a recovering alcoholic and divorced dad, takes his two kids on a trip for a New Year’s Eve party, where he must confront his past and prove his parental competence.... more
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  Grassroots Premiere & ROCK THE 'FEST at the Bluebird Presented by Reel Social Club

  USA , 2012 , 97 min. Come ROCK THE 'FEST with Reel Social Club at the Special Presentation premiere of GRASSROOTS followed by the only Rock the Vote concert in Denver at the Bluebird Theater!... more
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  Guilty

  France , 2011 , 101 min. This fact-based story of a man incarcerated nearly four years for horrific crimes he didn’t commit grippingly shows just how far awry the judicial process can fall. Viewers feel Alain Marécaux’s predicament with stunning immediacy.... more