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Calling All Earthlings

This peculiar documentary centers on the legacy of ufologist George Van Tassel.

Support the Girls

Regina Hall stars as a manager at Double Whammies, a Hooters-style exurban watering hole where a mostly male clientele laps up beer, breasts, and big-screen TV.

Minding the Gap

A years-in-the-making documentary that is startlingly reflective.

Skate Kitchen

A shy Long Island teenage girl’s world opens up when she joins a female skateboard posse on the Lower East Side.

Bye Bye Germany

Living in displaced limbo by selling schmattes to hausfraus and recalling jokes made to the SS.

Breath

Surfing the Australia coast and adolescent male angst in the 1970s.

This Is Home: A Refugee Story

The documentary, an audience award winner at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, follows four Syrian refugee families relocating and adapting to Baltimore.

Cargo

Zombie movies, for the most part, are the least sentimental of horror films. Cargo focuses on empathy, which gives it a bit of a different flavor.

Coming to My Senses

Aaron Baker, a motocross athlete, learns to walk again—and cross Death Valley—after an accident leaves him paralyzed.