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A quirky high school girl has to learn that you can't fit friendship into a checkbox.

Adam and Stevie meet for the first time on their wedding day. However, It is 'hate at first sight' for the pair. They are then faced with the challenge of having to work together, and even learn to love each other, in order to not be deported and thrown in jail for marriage fraud.

A chance meeting with a nomadic musician sets an aimless and depressed young man's life on an entirely new trajectory.

An overworked intergalactic pizza boy deals with space pirates and space customer service.

An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.

Arnold Beckoff is looking for love and acceptance, but as a gay man working as a female impersonator in 1970s New York City, neither come easily. After a series of heartaches, Arnold believes he has found the love of his life in Alan, and the couple make plans to adopt. But when tragedy strikes, Arnold's life is shaken to its very core, leading to a confrontation with his overbearing mother, who has never approved of her son's lifestyle.

An argument between two families in a thrift store erupts into a full-scale brawl.

Two former high school classmates return from a night of heavy partying. The closeness of their friendship long ago quickly metamorphoses into a present day battle between tenderness and desire. As the pair open their minds to each other, dawn sheds light on their anxieties, which soon evaporate under the sun's rays.

After 25 years, a former hired gun visits his old colleague, now a small-town sheriff. Their past relationship is explored, as is how they reflect on it in the present.

An array of outrageous people, including a desperate nymphomaniac and a terrorist with an acute sense of smell, seek love and happiness in Madrid.

After a chance meeting with a girl, a nameless boy becomes her lover and guardian angel. Together they avenge the girl’s rape, fleeing into the woods in an attempt to escape the modern world and civilization. They commit more crimes, killing encountered people at random, until the third character comes into the story, changing the dynamic of the lovers’ relationship. It’s an emotional story of passion, violence and the impossibility of running away from oneself.

An uninspired stand-up comedian and a witty med school graduate tackle the ups and downs of life as they are forced to choose between their relationship and their careers.

Host Scott Forrest presents a curated compilation of eight independent short films in this rapid-fire science-fiction feature. Genres collide, narratives twist, aesthetics clash, and even humor, both campy and dystopian, showcase the vast creative possibilities of each story's individual world, offering the viewer a brief glimpse into the lives of every character's attempt to survive the otherworldly chaos around them. Released in 2001, the selected shorts span original creation dates of 1997 to 2001; most of the featured filmmakers also appear as themselves in short video interviews to talk about their inspirations, creative process and motivations while working on their individual shorts.

Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an alcoholic father and an unstable mother, he's handed off to his mother's therapist, Dr. Finch, and spends his adolescent years as a member of Finch's bizarre extended family.

Karim, 30, drives every night. One day at dawn, he drives his last client - a foreign artist, the same age than him. Karim feels irresistibly attracted towards this young man. What he feels will start questioning who he thought he was.

A young woman meets the ultimate terror, a supernatural reality-bending maniac with a very large collection of out of print VHS tapes.

While with one of his clients, the young male prostitute Cédric receives a voicemail from his mother. She is going through detoxification and desperately wants him to come and visit her. Cédric embarks on a journey through Paris, attempting to get to her as fast as he can against all the odds.

Meet Ben - he holds a sign for a living, and he loves his job more than almost anything. But today is his last day.

A socially-anxious college student makes multiple attempts to ask out the bookstore clerk that he has a crush on.

Overwhelmed by her husband’s medical bills, Sofia takes a desperate measure: she becomes an egoblogger.