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Academy Award nominee James Cromwell plays an enlightened clerk who works in the Admissions Room for the afterlife. He is called on to guide an Israeli couple (Anna Khaja & Anthony Batarse), and a Palestinian (Oren Dayan), who go through Admissions together because they have suffered similar tragic endings. As the details of their deaths and how their fates are intertwined become clear, the Clerk attempts to teach them the wisdom required to find everlasting peace.

A gifted high-school student flubs her college admissions interviews for the most unexpected reasons in this independent coming-of-age drama. Cynical, world-weary Evie is more interested in taking care of her family than getting into the Ivy League institutions for which she seems destined. Dad Harry spends all his time building model trains in the basement, while workaholic mom Martha depends on Evie to take care of her other daughter, developmentally challenged Emily. When she's not busy reading poetry to her sister Emily, Evie hangs out with James (Fran Kranz), the sensitive boy next door, whose romantic overtures prove too confusing to acknowledge. College also seems too daunting, so Evie deliberately blows one university interview after another in the hopes of staying at home as her sister's keeper. Meanwhile, Evie begins passing off her own poems as Emily's, fuelling the belief that her brain-damaged sister is actually a literary savant.

In the third and final installment of Not Alone, a persistent mother tries to convince the principal of a prestigious middle school to admit her daughter, but his elitism and reluctance to engage with her goes beyond what might be expected. As the conversation grows increasingly uncomfortable, the mother is forced to confront a horrifying truth. Desperation becomes grief, and her "daughter" has become something else entirely.

In a landmark Supreme Court case pitting Asian American plaintiffs against Harvard University, activists on both sides wrestle with hard truths about race and equality, as the fate of affirmative action hangs in the balance.

An examination that goes beyond the celebrity-driven headlines and dives into the methods used by Rick Singer, the man at the center of the shocking 2019 college admissions scandal, to persuade his wealthy clients to cheat an educational system already designed to benefit the privileged.

The basic content of this film is all about a revolutionary movement started by the victims of our stereotypical education system. A disheartened IT professor called Tariq Siddhiqi, (Anupam kher) who is basically disappointed with the orthodox education system and Devang Tripathi (Ashish Vidyarthi) an alcoholic professor who is thrown out from Mumbai University for his abstract methodology for teaching and Arjun Sheghal, (Ankur Khanna) an under achieving student who disenchants the traditional education system as he doesn't believe in grading system and Priyanka (Arshi) who wants to break through the typical parental pressure of our society to accomplish her passion as a super model. Finally as they all possess the same perception towards our stereotypical education system, they decide to go against to it and they form an abstract pattern of education system to encourage the failed students of our society.

Gretchen Carlson explores the unbelievable true story of the rich and famous abusing their privilege to get their kids into college and the FBI's secret investigation to expose the scandal.

Comedian Paul Virzi takes the stage to spill on awkward drugstore runs, his obsession with crime shows and why his wife sabotaged his fitness goals.

An indifferent speech professor doing hack work in an urban college suddenly finds herself challenged by a ghetto youth with an intense desire to get a good education in this issue-oriented drama.

A short film of Chiang Mai University reflects the confusion between what we choose and what we love to study.

Every parent wants to secure the best possible future for their child. For Sun and Li, that means getting their six-year-old son, Yu, admitted to an elite international school. However, after the interview, whispers of rejection emerge, prompting the couple to meet with their trusted "helpers" – a board member and an admissions agent – in a hotel room to find out who is to blame. As suspicion mounts, hidden motives and quiet frustrations begin to surface, revealing that the school admission process is merely a reflection of deeper anxieties concerning success, security and self-worth.

An erotic film about the tearful survival story of two female employees who got a job at a strange, unmanned company in the non-face-to-face era.

Two wealthy mothers, Caroline, a sought after interior designer and Bethany, an owner of a successful financial services firm, who share an obsession with getting their teenagers into the best possible college.

A man and a woman talk on the phone and express their feelings and desires for each other for the first time. We watch as they listen to the other's admissions.

At the time this film was made, motion picture theaters were required to pay a 20% tax on gross ticket sales, and Congress was debating lowering this tax (as well as others) in a bill being considered by a Congressional committee. This film, which was made especially to be shown to members of the committee, sets forth the motion picture industry's case for reducing, if not eliminating, the tax.

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Friends are trapped in theater, where suddenly started the killings....

It's three o'clock in the afternoon of an August Friday in the province of Corrientes. A few weeks before embarking on their graduation trip, a group of students in the last year of high school meets after school to decide who will receive the free trip to go to Bariloche.

Four dancers and two promoters embody the spectacle. Unrestrained and directionless, the interviews reveal the sterility of fantasy, challenging authenticity. Admission Fee immerses us in Gilles concept of hyperspectacle. Society mobilizes under the hyperbolic sign of seduction and mass entertainment through images.

Straitlaced Princeton University admissions officer Portia Nathan is caught off-guard when she makes a recruiting visit to an alternative high school overseen by her former classmate, the freewheeling John Pressman. Pressman has surmised that Jeremiah, his gifted yet very unconventional student, might well be the son that Portia secretly gave up for adoption many years ago.

Louise, an unfulfilled divorced woman with regrets, gets the chance to relive her past when she meets a young man who bears an uncanny resemblance, in name and appearance, to her high school sweetheart who died many years before.

'Salt Mango Tree' explores certain systems at work in the current educational and social establishments and how aspirations are high to climb the haloed social ladder of the expected norm.

Although Brad has a satisfying career, a sweet wife and a comfortable life in suburban Sacramento, things aren't quite what he imagined during his college glory days. When he accompanies his musical prodigy son on a university tour, he can't help comparing his life with those of his four best college friends who seemingly have more wealthy and glamorous lives. But when circumstances force him to reconnect with his former friends, Brad begins to question whether he has really failed or if their lives are actually more flawed than they appear.

Fynn is waiting for the train to meet up with his girlfriend Lara, when he bumps into his old friend from school Tom. They haven't spoken in a while and chat about the past. But before Fynn even notices, the chat turns into something way more serious...