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Kalani (Joi Campbell), is a teenager living in Harlem with her older brother Jacob, and her younger sister, Bebe, while her mother struggles to make ends meet. Her college counselor Mr. Rose (Danny Glover) sees great promise in her educational future. As Kalani's siblings get caught in a myriad of hardships, Kalani teeters on the brink of ruin as she struggles to keep both her family and her dream intact. Strive reminds us that hard work, optimism, and perseverance, in the face of overwhelming adversity, is the essence of what it is to be American.

Ahmed, originally from Somalia, was born into violence, with civil war ravaging his country. He is now a refugee desperate to improve his life, and that of his family.

A film that uses the visual story of a boxer going through intense training to illustrate truths about the challenges of authentic masculinity and the need for spiritual conversion.

The film is set in a future when the central government attempts to replace every citizen’s name with numbers. In such a social upheaval, Ma Yi cares nothing but cancels an auto-masturbating machine. While Ma Yi doesn’t violate the law, he is however arrested and interrogated by the police.

A television reporter's investigation into the life of a popular idol, singer Demis Flerianos, becomes an opportunity to highlight and document a series of political and social situations and issues in the early 1980s. Easy wealth, rural depopulation, cultural degeneration, bad taste, the preservation of sterile anti-communism, etc.

A young foreign couple commissions a carpet factory in Urumqi to make a specific rose pattern. The factory director sends three young men into Hotan to look for the right carpet.

During the Tang Dynasty, the Cao family village must protect a legendary sword passed down for generations. As jealousy, betrayal, and treachery threaten both the weapon and its guardians, the disciples must uncover hidden conspiracies and defend the sword to preserve their family’s sacred legacy.

Documentary film about the Brazilian football club Atletico Mineiro, but also about something intangible: football, its emotion and imperishable spirit.

Striving for the Present - Part A is an experimental film that combines a fictional character in a documentary setting.

Silesia, 1844. After her husband dies in a brutally suppressed weavers’ uprising, Mila emigrates to America. En route to Texas, she rescues Countess Cecilie Hohenberg from her violent husband. Captured by Comanche warrior Buffalo Hump, the women must navigate captivity, while Mila forges unexpected bonds amid the struggle for freedom.

Yasuichiro Isa, who works in the labor section of Sone Mining Tokyo Headquarters, paid a monthly fee for his younger brother, Reiji, who was in trouble because he had a bonus of 10,000 yen more.

Sol Badguy. This video depicts more than 20 years of the world of Guilty Gear and half his lifetime.

Still I Strive is a story of transcendence through compassion, unity and hope. At one orphanage in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, the performing arts are the path to healing and transformation. Guided by their matriarch Peng Phan, a renowned actress in her own right, the children aspire to achieve one of the highest honors in Cambodian society, to perform in front of Princess Bopha Devi as a symbol of their culture and heritage. Interspersed throughout the documentary are narrative film sequences featuring the children as actors.

A former sex worker recounts how she overcame a traumatic childhood to transform into an inspirational figure and motivational speaker.

When Death wants to bring the plague to Württemberg in 1349, he has not reckoned with the two guard soldiers Volckel and Utz, who engage him in a heated argument about plague ordinances and entry regulations.

A corrupt local official, Xi Men Qing, who lusts after women and money, pursues his brother's young wife, Lee Ping Er. Ping finds Men attractive, and under her drunken husband's nose, she and Men work their way through the illustrations of a pillow book, the "Golden Lotus." Men pursues the same feat with his fourth concubine, Pan Jing Lien, who lives in the compound next to Ping. Jing's jealousy compounds a tale of humiliation, childbirth, death, and depravity. Does karma or enlightenment await anyone?

Break the Simulation is a short film about having a positive mentality, striving to be the best at whatever you do, and never ever giving up on your dreams. The film is incredibly motivating and follows a number of remarkable individuals on their journey through life.

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A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

Frank Leone is nearing the end of his prison term for a relatively minor crime. Just before he is paroled, however, Warden Drumgoole takes charge. Drumgoole was assigned to a hell-hole prison after his administration was publicly humiliated by Leone, and has now arrived on the scene to ensure that Leone never sees the light of day.

Gino Felino is an NYPD detective from Brooklyn who knows everyone and everything in his neighborhood. Killing his partner was someone's big mistake... because he's now out for justice.

Terror and death plague a gloomy, coastal metropolis, as a vampiric entity known as 'Pharisee' feeds on the blood of the city's populous. As the police struggle to find the blood-thirsty maniac, a deranged escort named Zoe is unwillingly brought into his world in this bloody rock and roll fueled nightmare.

Follow the winding career and personal life of professional poker phenom Daniel Negreanu, who rose from humble roots to become the game's top ace.