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A mother of two returns to her home and children in Bolivia after 15 years of working in Israel to make a better life for her kids, only to find her family members have become strangers. "A Working Mom" is a story that demonstrates the extremes that individuals will go to in order to save their families -- sometimes saving and losing them in the same act.

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Brother Born Again is an intimate documentary about Julia Pimsleur’s attempt to reconnect with her only brother, Marc, a born again Christian who spent ten years living with his spiritual family on a remote island in Alaska. Julia, a bisexual Jewish New Yorker, travels to Alaska to try to understand why Marc dropped out of college and converted to Christianity. Alternately funny and poignant, the film explores family dynamics, as well as the definition of family itself.

Chahinaz, a 20-year-old student in Algeria, has mixed feelings about the Western world and its values, but she admires the freedom of Western women. Through her curiosity and voyage of self-discovery, Chahinaz begins to wonder what life is like for women in other Muslim countries and around the world and why things are slow to change in Algeria.

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Julianna (Jenna Mattison) is a struggling actress in a dead end relationship with Danny (Brad Rowe), a fireman who no longer lights her fire. When she decides to leave him and go “find herself” she ends up falling in love with an egotistical director, Michael (Bryan Callen), who can barely fit her in between his Pilates classes. Julianna’s over-sexed and cynical best friend, Vicky (Jennifer Blanc) convinces her to dump him too and sow her wild oats on the LA dating scene. Between blind dates from hell and in-your-face intimacy issues, Julianna finds solace with Ben (Brian A. Green of 90210), her acting partner who is clearly Mr. Right—she just can’t see it. Tripping from one mistake to the next she meets Greta (Edie McClurg), a homeless woman who teaches her to follow her heart. In the end Julianna learns some pretty big life lessons in this witty, no-holds-barred, coming of age dramedy that is being hailed as the female version of “Swingers.”

A desperate wife turns to the Santera looking for a miracle: she wants the forces of Santería to stop her husband from leaving her.

And when the sacred conch shells roll over the carpet…the future has just arrived.

From then on, both women will witness the Santería´s full power in action and this old ancient African wisdom will shine brightly until its task is finally completed.

Lucia acude a "Santeria Milagrosa" en busca de un milagro para que su marido no la abandone.

Necesita un "Amarre" de Santería para atar a un ser querido.

Y cuando la Santera tira las carcolas ... el futuro de llegar.

Ambas presenciarán a partir de ese instante toda la fuerza de la Santería en acción y esta ancestral sabiduría africana brillará con todo su esplendor para cumplir su ardua tarea.

Playfully updating the 1950's school documentary, "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness" offers up political and social satire regarding the current state of reproductive rights in a fast-paced spoonful. Found-footage, animation and original images are interwoven into a collage containing the fictional stories of a conservative politician, a young couple, and a fundamentalist activist (portrayed by Survival Research Laboratories founder Mark Pauline) along with the decline in amphibian populations and the insidious creeping erosion of reproductive rights in the United States. All linked together through a Chinese dry cleaner.

This short documentary is a warm, funny, and joyous look at gay marriage in San Francisco.  It provides a glimpse of those who have been seeking to exercise a right that most of society takes for granted: the right to marry their loved ones. Going inside San Francisco City Hall during the historic days of February, 2004, the film follows a lesbian couple through the marriage process and their wedding reception with friends and family in Napa, California.

A documentary of love, joy, and pardon about one family's survival from the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia. Socheata learns a family secret, hidden away for 25 years, that leads her and her family back to Cambodia to get answers. She discovers what her parents hid in shame is in fact her family's great heroism while proving that healing is only possible when you begin to tell the story.

Imagine a technology which has the potential to change what it means to be human.

New Garden Technologies has just patented a new life form, microbes made to be inserted in the brain to control memory. The nations of the world want this technology controlled; so when New Garden apprehends someone trying to steal these genetic blue prints, the UN is quick to send Burke, a legendary female operative who has been debriefing tainted spies since the Cold War. But Robin McAlister is not your typical thief; she is a Chicago real estate agent and mother of two. So how could she possibly be involved in this crime? Unfortunately, this question may take some time to answer, because Robin claims not to even remember who she is. Burke must pick her way through Robin’s mind, figuring out what is real and what has been manufactured. Burke realizes the stakes are high: How easily can our minds be taken away from us? How quickly can our identity be changed? Do we even have a self to lose? Agent Burke is about to find out.