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Learn more about the Ukraine with a collection of over 25 informative films.
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Stephan James (Race, Shots Fired, If Beale Street Could Talk) is Mattie, a talented hockey player selected by a top NHL team, but his plans are jeopardized by his hustling brother (Shamier Anderson - Labyrinth, Wynonna Earp, Shots Fired) and the corrosive racial tension at his school. Sarah Jeffery (Shades of Blue) is Jayme, a beautiful young woman who must decide which world she belongs in.
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A touching story of eight very different people who are at a crossroads in life and must make decisions that will forever change who they are. Jack must decide to spend the rest of his life with his girlfriend Terri. Marina must reconnect with her aging father. Laurel must embrace her new pregnancy and come to terms with her father's early Alzheimer's. And Dave must learn why life is worth living.
4) Lorelei
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Wayland is released from prison after 15 years. He reunites with Dolores, his high school girlfriend, who is now a single mother of three. What follows is a lyrical take on love, regret, and second chances.
7) Stand!
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Set in 1919 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. An immigrant Romeo and Juliet battle for love and a better life, during a time of social upheaval.
9) Jackie Boy
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A self-destructive womanizer falls for a girl with mysterious intentions.
10) In Her Place
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Korean
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An affluent couple from Seoul arrives at a desolate farm in the South Korean countryside, where a pregnant teenager and her mother have agreed to let them adopt the girl's unborn child. As part of the arrangement, the wife will stay at the farm until the child is born. As the three unnamed women fall into a daily routine, a quiet unease almost immediately begins to percolate.
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Fatima (Shiva Negar) is a modern muslim girl raised in a family of mixed-cultures and mixed messages about what her role in the world is. After being drawn into the empowering world of sexy cabaret, she unleases her brave and confident Burlesque persona - "Baylon". Fatima must now try to reconcile her old self with her new found identity.
12) Copperhead
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An Upstate New York family is torn apart during the American Civil War.
14) The Cuban
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When a young Afghan immigrant named Mina gets her first job in a nursing home, an unexpected friendship with Luis, a resident with dementia, reignites her love of music and changes her life forever.
15) Working Man
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When a factory closure threatens a small Rust Belt town, one older factory worker continues going to his former job every day, despite the shutdown. His peculiar decision has a profound effect on the whole community, though his actions yield an outcome that no one ever expected.
16) Stonewall
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A young man's political awakening and coming of age during the days and weeks leading up to the Stonewall Riots.
17) Siddharth
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Hindi
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A chain-wallah from Delhi travels across India in search of his missing son, in the hopes that whoever took him, returns him unharmed.
20) She Paradise
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English
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A teenage girl stumbles upon a free-spirited dance crew, leading to alluring but unsettling encounters with nightlife and money.
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