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Product Code: S1R000
Approx. Run Time: 100 min.
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Product Code: S1K000
Approx. Run Time: 90 min.
Samuel J. surprises his adopted brother, Samuel K., with a trip back to his birth country of Cameroon for college graduation, but Samuel K. has no desire to face a place and a past that abandoned him. Samuel J. and K. challenges the traditional definitions of family and asks if a place we've only imagined can become home overnight.
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Product Code: PK7000
Approx. Run Time: 90 min.
Two American diplomats stationed in Iran in 1979, are taken hostage by student revolutionaries and begin a trial of endurance that lasts 444 days. We go forward to the year 2009 to New York's Columbia University, where a fashionable Iranian, Azadeh, introduces herself to an American photojournalist, Emily, neither of them aware that their mothers met 30 years ago in a prison in Teheran.
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Product Code: HF9000
Approx. Run Time: 90 min.
This uplifting story is about a chemistry teacher who braves the trials of aging, while keeping her imagination, charm and dignity intact. Her daughter struggles to keep her mother's mind solidly anchored in reality, but her grandsons watch in wonder and amazement as their mischievous grandmother slips away day by day into the mysterious and unfathomable clouds of dementia.
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Product Code: S1L000
Approx. Run Time: 100 min.
Ten years ago, Emily, the lone survivor of a horrible school bus accident, was sent away from her tiny town. Now in her senior year, Emily must return in order to graduate from high school. She must learn to fit in with her classmates while yearning to stay out of the spotlight. Can this strange girl with even stranger telekinetic powers be the hero that her town is longing for, or will her secret destroy them all?
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Product Code: TT4000
Approx. Run Time: 100 min.
Sixteen-year-old Jim, Captain Billy Bones, Doctor Livesay and Squire Trelawney outfit a ship—the Hispaniola— and travel the seas in hunt of hidden treasure. Aboard the ship, Jim meets Long John Silver and quickly learns who he really is and what his plans are. Aided by Ben Gunn, the wild and half-insane maroon, Jim takes on the responsibility to save the ship and his shipmates and to secure the treasure.
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Product Code: TT5000
Approx. Run Time: 60 min.
The Transition of Doodle Pequeño is a magic-filled, multiple award-winning play for all ages about two boys who become friends in spite of their differences. It examines the consequences of misused language, provides insight into the lives of Mexican-immigrant children and interrogates the issues of gender identity and homophobic bullying.
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Product Code: SJ1000
Approx. Run Time: 70 min.
Elikia is a child who is kidnapped from her family and is forced to become a child soldier. It is little Joseph, the youngest child to come to the rebels' camp, who reminds her of her humanity and gives her the courage to break the chain of violence into which she has been pulled. While Joseph and Elikia are on the run, experiencing doubts, fears and a wish to return to civilized life where children may grow up as children, Angelina, the nurse who greets them at the hospital where they take refuge, puts this painful reality into perspective and opens the window to a light that is uncertain—but a light, nonetheless.
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Product Code: FE5000
Approx. Run Time: 90 min.
Jo is busy fending off suburban boredom, when her teacher assigns Carson McCullers' novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter to her English class. She relates to the central character: forever the listener, definitively the outsider and perpetually misunderstood. When she is the victim of a gay bashing, those close to Jo question their own responsibility and find a voice for those persecuted simply for being different.
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Product Code: AK1000
Approx. Run Time: 60 min.
In a fantastical world (not entirely unlike our own) where "conformity is compulsory," one boy cannot conform.
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