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Expanded from a one-character play by Evelyne de la Chenelière's, set in a Montreal elementary school, this beautifully crafted character study speaks of loss and death, innocence and guilt, imposture and honesty, in an eloquent and complex, yet simple and fluid manner. (tiff.net)

Running With Scissors is the hilarious and poignant feature film based on the personal memoir by Augusten Burroughs. The film chronicles Augusten's survival under the most extraordinary of circumstances. (Sony)

A special task force in the FBI investigates after every person on Earth simultaneously blackouts and awakens with a short vision of their future. (imdb)

Shadow and Faces is the coming-of-age story of a young girl who is separated from her father, a Karagöz shadow play master, during the beginning of the conflict between Turks and Greeks in Cyprus in 1963. With a backdrop of extraordinary natural beauty, the experiences of the villagers fleeing from their village in the Island's Karpas region to the relatively secure but alienating city sheds light on the story of Cyprus. (www.aksav.org.tr)

In the Pacific Northwest during the 1950's, two young sisters whose mother has abandoned them wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of the world and its conventions don't quite live up the most people's expectations. (imdb)

Peyton and Barney are fun loving high school students working on a science project with white mice. When one of the mice begins to move food toward itself with out touching it, Barney finds he has accidently discovered a formula for telekinetic powers. Now, how much trouble can a high school boy who can move things with just his mind get into? (imdb)

While on a TV talk show, a spin doctor for the current administration unexpectedly finds himself wishing that a caller's son could return from the dead to explain why he died in the ongoing war. Then the recently-killed soldiers do return from the dead--but why? (imdb)

Dave Chappelle returns to D.C. and riffs on politics, police, race relations, drugs, Sesame Street and more. (imdb)

A mermaid princess makes a faustian bargain with an unscrupulous seahag in order to meet a human prince on land. (imdb)

Senior year of high school takes center stage as Lara Jean returns from a family trip to Korea and considers her college plans — with and without Peter.