Doll Crafting with Dame Darcy & Courtney Love

This special focuses on a group of men who have fallen in love with their life-size dolls, called "Real Dolls." For these men, their $10,000 lifelike, built-to-order creations have replaced human women. For some people, finding a partner in life can be difficult. For these men, it's almost impossible. Some years ago, a small factory in California began making an alternative partner. Each one is tailored made to suit every taste. There are now 3000 real dolls across the world providing some of those with love and companionship that real women cannot.

The film spotlights the soaring success of Barbie, with sales of three hundred thousand dolls in the first year, to over two billion before Ruth Handler died. The enormous financial rewards for both multi-millionaire parents are exposed, and this leads to a surprising story of betrayal, sex, drugs and excessive partying.

The Amsterdam doll shop Colorful Goodies sells Barbies, boy dolls, and cuddly dolls that every child can recognize; from dolls with different skin colors and professions, to dolls with disabilities. This documentary follows three families of color who take home a doll. What does such a doll mean for your self-image if you struggle with it because you are of color, or because you have to learn to live with albinism? Is our dominant white society as tolerant as we think?

A lighthearted look at the weird and wonderful world of doll collectors. The film features individuals whose lives are ultimately shaped by their obsession. It taps into why the subjects would risk everything just to spend their best time all dolled up. Some are loveable, others you may love to hate, but we delight in watching all the collectors and their passions come to life in this off-the-doll-centric universe.

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Three estranged sisters return home to collect an inheritance only to confront each other and trigger a downward spiral of murder inside of a giant Doll House.

A mother and her son have left the marital home. The mother entrusts her son Jacques to a friend for the day. This is an opportunity for the little boy to play with Julie. But Jacques has a secret: he loves playing with dolls.

A hand awakens to find his body unconscious. As the hand struggles to revive his owner, he discovers that his body has attempted suicide. The hand develops a plan, which sends him parkouring across his apartment. On his journey, he overcomes obstacles through this story of isolation, perseverance, and hope.

Set over three generations and beginning with a sexually frustrated orderly during WWII who relieves his tensions in the most outlandish, gross ways. The result of his liaison is a glutton who grows up to be a champion speed eater. He produces a child who becomes obsessed with taxidermy.

Nervous about attaining his dream job, he faces the interview of a lifetime as he is questioned on the decisions that brought him to this very moment.

A boy breaks his sister's doll and it mends, grows, tears him up and eats him.

Fran is waiting for her partner to join her for therapy. Consumed by her internal voice, the waiting room becomes transformed.

Storytelling through dance is an effective way to make dance accessible and exciting to young children. In The Toy Castle collections, members of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet comprise a brightly costumed cast of girl and boy storybook characters including Ballerina, Soldier, China Doll and Rag Doll who live in a toy dollhouse and come to life at night when the children are sleeping. Nutcracker Sweet presents twelve short dance stories that include themes from famous classical ballets like the "Nutcracker Suite," "Romeo and Juliet," and "Petrouchka" and holiday motifs such as "Twelve Days of Christmas," "Waiting for Santa," and "I Believe." (Ages 3 to 10)

Abby awakens to find herself trapped inside a crate, with unknown figures outside and her only hope is to find a means of escape.

Two friends, plagued by bouts of 'existentiality', begin to doubt their existence and spiral into trying to find what life is truly about.

After their father's death two sisters reunite at their childhood home to uncover forgotten secrets and rip open old wounds.

Over the course of an afternoon in late spring, two longtime friends reunite under a mulberry tree to confront the ways their time apart has changed them.

Bill & Andy must choose between saving themselves from eviction and rescuing their best friend from being flushed to eternal damnation. Through the power of high grade kush and everlasting friendship, they will prevail!

A young woman finds herself in a strange inescapable room as she seeks refuge when chaos erupts in the streets.

A painter with artist's block is sent on a disorienting journey after a mysterious painting appears in his home.