Brett Allen Smith

Defective portraits from a remote Amazonian village exposes bleak memories of addiction, disease and abandonment.

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At first glance, Brett Allen Smith’s memory worlds seem slightly otherworldly but peaceful. There is a little pug – curious, bouncy and, most importantly, alive, a harmless explorer of lawns and living rooms. At the same time, the director is driven by an inner fracture, an irritation to be illuminated by means of phone conversations with family members: How real are the memories that had such a tremendous impact on him? Like the hill towering in front of Smith’s inner eye under which two dogs lie buried. And there are sunflowers, imposing plants that are impossible to pick for his five-year old’s hands because their roots have bored so deeply into the soil.

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Three boys are growing up in Israel and the Palestinian territories, right next to each other, in completely different worlds. We follow them over the course of a year, through adolescence. We watch as they experience life in promiscuous Tel Aviv, in the religious ideology of a Jewish settlement and in the occupied city of Hebron, where Israeli soldiers are in control. One year of trials and tribulations of three sixteen year old boys. They try to fulfill their teenage dreams in an environment of violence and sometimes war.

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The surreal story of a young woman who, through interacting with a mysterious, crying stranger at the grocery store, comes to realize her own sadness.

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The unlikely friendship of two twenty-somethings in Seattle blossoms, complicates, and ultimately redefines their understanding of sexuality and modern relationships.

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Eight-year-old Hyrum Marker runs away from home. His father Thomas never leaves the couch. And his big brother Joseph is just about out of ideas.

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Following the passage of an ordinance outlawing the feeding the homeless in public parks, Orlando's community was left with one question: Is food a right, or a privilege?

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After witnessing a senseless act of animal cruelty, Ian starts stalking a man using an old MiniDV camera, inadvertently triggering events which may or may not cause every man to disappear off the face of the Earth. Or something.

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From his hidden outpost somewhere in the mountains, Yuval Mendelovich rescues abused Pit Bills across Israel and the occupied Palestinian West Bank. But this isolated life on the edge comes at a dark cost.

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A woman wanders a vast, alien landscape in search of a way to make her fingernails grow backwards. Produced under the guidance of legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog.

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Sixteen-year-old Jane works all day in a factory in hopes of saving up enough money to start a new life on her own. The only thing stopping her is everyday life.

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At first glance, Brett Allen Smith’s memory worlds seem slightly otherworldly but peaceful. There is a little pug – curious, bouncy and, most importantly, alive, a harmless explorer of lawns and living rooms. At the same time, the director is driven by an inner fracture, an irritation to be illuminated by means of phone conversations with family members: How real are the memories that had such a tremendous impact on him? Like the hill towering in front of Smith’s inner eye under which two dogs lie buried. And there are sunflowers, imposing plants that are impossible to pick for his five-year old’s hands because their roots have bored so deeply into the soil.

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After witnessing a senseless act of animal cruelty, Ian starts stalking a man using an old MiniDV camera, inadvertently triggering events which may or may not cause every man to disappear off the face of the Earth. Or something.

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The surreal story of a young woman who, through interacting with a mysterious, crying stranger at the grocery store, comes to realize her own sadness.

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When 15-year-old Joey’s mother goes missing in the rural, economically depressed corner of northern Florida that he and his best friend Nick call home, they go searching for her through increasingly dangerous territory

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Eight-year-old Hyrum Marker runs away from home. His father Thomas never leaves the couch. And his big brother Joseph is just about out of ideas.

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After witnessing a senseless act of animal cruelty, Ian starts stalking a man using an old MiniDV camera, inadvertently triggering events which may or may not cause every man to disappear off the face of the Earth. Or something.

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A woman wanders a vast, alien landscape in search of a way to make her fingernails grow backwards. Produced under the guidance of legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog.

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Sixteen-year-old Jane works all day in a factory in hopes of saving up enough money to start a new life on her own. The only thing stopping her is everyday life.

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