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The Encampments (2025)

The Encampments is a political documentary brought to you by Watermelon Pictures and it captures the rise of student-led protests for Palestinian liberation across U.S. college campuses. Blending archival storytelling with on-the-ground footage, the film offers a timely portrait of youth resistance and institutional power.

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Inclusive Space (2024)

Directed by Sophia Conger, Inclusive Space is a satirical comedy short that critiques how the influencer-driven digital era prioritizes self-transformation over societal change. It tackles social status, virtue signaling, and our shrinking attention spans that undermine our genuine identity, meaningful action, and social progress

— all while we compete for the corporate influencer throne.

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Red Road (2007)

Red Road (2007) is a tense psychological thriller by Andrea Arnold that follows a CCTV operator whose job of surveillance takes a dark and personal turn, forcing her to confront the fine line between observation and obsession.

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Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story (2019)

Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story is a historical drama directed by Karen Moncrieff and written by Helen Childress. The film follows Nellie Bly, the first journalist to go undercover in a mental institution, as she feigns insanity to expose the horrific conditions at Blackwell's Asylum in 1887 New York.

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Polite Society (2023)

Polite Society, written and directed by Nida Manzoor, is a kung-fu film that follows Ria, a high schooler with dreams of becoming a stunt actor, as she navigates her sister Lena's engagement and the pressure to conform to traditional expectations.

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Scrambled (2023)

Scrambled is a comedy about a young women, Nellie, who wants to freeze her eggs just in case she decides she wants kids one day.

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Fair Play (2023)

Fair Play is a psychological thriller about a couple whose recent engagement begins to unravel when one of them gets the promotion that the other wanted.

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