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An overworked high school math teacher tries to teach his class on zoom when he comes to a devastating and infuriating realization.
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Naren Weiss
Mr. Collins
8 hours, complete lockdown in the whole of India, movement shut and state borders sealed. Thousands of migrants without food, water and mode of transport were forced to return to their homes. A crisis that shook the whole nation, a time when borders of disparity divided the people and one man stood for humanity.
Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss's two-minute submission to rbb.
In present-day Queens, a Turkish gravedigger is unable to face a shattering truth and risks losing the dearest connection left in his life.
Marcos is a boy obsessed with cleanliness and order. One day, his OCD will be threatened with the arrival of Pedro. He is a dirty plumber who must check and fix the plumbing in his apartment, compulsorily. In this way, Marcos will have to confront his condition and do everything in his power to return to his perfect daily life.
A recovering alcoholic’s journey lurches into a nightmare tailspin during a global crisis. Sober for only a few months, her sanity erodes as the demon in her brain drags her deeper and deeper into a vortex of madness.
Story of a friendship between Carl and the school's janitor, Richard. Then Carl's mother felt that her son is best suited to another school, after a 6-week COVID-19 lockdown, in which Carl and Richard had the entire school to themselves.
The year is 2020, the middle of the corona crisis. Art student Itsuka has her graduation exhibition canceled and must take home the piece which she had been working on for a year. In a whirlpool of emotions she clashes with her worried parents, her little sister overreacts to the virus and even her usually calm friend Hirai starts to build up frustration. In the middle of all that, she re-unites with Tanaka, who gave her the opportunity to absorb herself in painting, clashes with Hirai over their true feelings and tries to face her own future.
This film tells five independent and intertwined stories, presenting the anti-epidemic life with laughter and tears from the point of view of doctors, patients, volunteers in Hubei, grassroots staff and ordinary people. They pay tribute to the "ordinary heroes" in the epidemic and pass on the endless force of "spring".
Just another normal day, like any other in the last few years.
Gabriel is a depressed young man living a reclusive and lonely life, shaken by memories of a very turbulent past. Amid the corona-virus pandemic that is ravaging the world, Gabriel finds refuge in his passion for video games and decides to start a modest career in live broadcasts on the internet. With his shy personality, he creates a community of online fans who connect with his inspiring messages of perseverance and authenticity. As Gabriel shares his personal journey and encourages his viewers to face their fears, he becomes a source of hope for many, especially one young follower who, inspired by her words, finds the strength to report her attacker. As his stream views increase and positive comments flood his channel, Gabriel finds a sense of purpose, fulfillment, and courage he never imagined.
Juan, a seventy-year-old man with senile dementia, shares a room with Manuel, a young sparrow.
As a virus spreads throughout Brazil, a young filmmaker goes back to his village and tries to rekindle his relationship with his father. But as they become closer, stranger events start to happen, making their connection more difficult.
Upon the announcement of another UK national lockdown, Flo and Rob find themselves stuck in their house in London. Meanwhile, Flo tries to maintain a brand-new relationship with Evelyn, who had to abruptly leave to her hometown in Mexico.
What happens when sleep becomes a luxury
A quarantined man faces a battle to the death with his fiercest adversary - himself.
Brothers Max and Gelu are determined to survive the COVID-19 pandemic currently sweeping Italy. The two return to their native Romanian village, where they think they will be safe. Regardless of costs or means, Max and Gelu will gain immunity to the virus...
Terry Goon is keeping strict quarantine in his ex-husband’s Brooklyn brownstone while caring for his nephew — a 19-year-old model from Morocco named Bahlul — bedridden in a full leg cast after an electric scooter accident. Unfortunately for Terry, everyone in his life wants to meet the model.
A man in his mid-20s, still living at home with his mother and stepfather, puts all his eggs in one basket: the girl who works at his local coffee shop. The problem is, she has a serious boyfriend. As they become closer, the line between friendship and intimacy is blurred, and the situation forces both to examine where they are in their lives.
Frank Farrelli takes on the job as a middle man in the God-forsaken town of Karmack, USA, a community in a depression so deep that they need a middle man to professionally communicate more of the bad news.
Leo and Angela Russo live a simple life in Queens, surrounded by their overbearing Italian-American family. When their son finds success on his high school basketball team, Leo tears the family apart trying to make it happen.
A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults.
A burned-out paramedic tries to survive his last 24 hours on the job while training a new recruit.
Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.
Chang, a 16-year-old, Asian American, bets the high school basketball star that he can dunk by Homecoming. The bet leads 5' 8" Chang on a quest to learn to dunk—not only to impress his crush, Kristy, but to gain the respect of his high school peers too. But before he can rise up and truly throw one down, he'll have to reexamine everything he knows about himself, his friendships and his family.
When a self-destructive teenager is suspended from school and asked to look after his feisty alcoholic grandmother as a punishment, the crazy time they spend together turns his life around.
After NBA star Kevin Durant switches talent with 16 year old Brian, the teenager becomes the star of his high school team, but Durant starts struggling and eventually learns an important lesson.
In the present, artist Tom Warshaw recalls his traumatic coming of age. As a 13-year-old growing up in New York City in 1973, Tom hangs out with Pappass, a mentally disabled man. With Tom's mother battling depression after the death of her husband, the young boy is left to his own devices. When Tom develops a crush on schoolmate Melissa, Pappass feels abandoned and begins behaving erratically.
A 16-year-old girl takes her parents hostage after they miss her big jump-roping competition.
Alex is going through a midlife crisis and it has become a very difficult time for him. His marriage is struggling, he's worried about his son, and his job of killing people for his family has become the most stressful part of his life. He seeks the help of a therapist and meets a woman in the waiting room that he connects with.
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair.
When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.
An aspiring young filmmaker gets involved with an eccentric gangster for the financing of his first film.
When a clumsy deadbeat accidentally kills his landlord, he must do everything in his power to hide the body, only to find that the distractions of lust, the death of his beloved brother, and a crew of misfit characters force him on a journey where a fortune awaits him.
When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder, ButterflyAna. By the time Hannah's family realizes what is happening and get Hannah the help she needs, the disease has fully taken hold and Hannah is refusing to eat. Will this family be able to exorcise the demon of anorexia from their lives?
A young girl tries to fit in with a clique of popular middle school girls after moving into the guest house of one of their homes.
A dedicated family man becomes obsessed with saving the lives of the car accident victims on the sharp corner in front of his house – an obsession that could cost him everything.
