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AGAINST THE HILLSIDE

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Over the course of 30 years, a drone pilot in New Mexico, a mother in Pakistan, and eventually their children in London struggle with the pervasive, relentless brutality of modern warfare.

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WINK

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Sofie is an unhappy housewife, Gregor is her bread-winning husband, Dr. Franz is their psychiatrist, Wink is the cat… and Gregor has just skinned the cat. Violent desires, domestic terrorism, and feline vengeance make WINK a dark comedy about the thin, thin line between savagery and civilization.

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WILD GOOSE DREAMS

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Nanhee is a North Korean defector whose family was left behind in North Korea. Minsung is a South Korean goose father whose family has left him behind in South Korea. Nanhee and Minsung find each other on the internet. A story about modern aspirations and its betrayals, Wild Goose Dreams explores the miracle of quiet intimacy among the noise of the contemporary world.

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TRANSFERS

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As two young men from the Bronx vie for acceptance to an elite liberal arts college, their shared past threatens to overshadow their bright futures. Class, ambition and expectations are called into question when higher education and it’s life changing potential is within reach.

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THE RUG DEALER

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“I’m mad to be a woman running this rug business…but…sometimes the right person comes along for the right rug and the match is magic.”

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OUT OF ORBIT

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The Jet Propulsion Lab Scientist mom and the underachiever teenage daughter: Sara lives on Mars time, spearheading the Mars Rover Expedition, visiting a planet she cannot touch, while her daughter, Lis, on earth time, falls under the spell of the cyber-cypher Edgar2330. Sometimes it takes being worlds apart for an exploring woman and a longing-to-be-explored girl to find each other in our increasingly disconnected universe.

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MERIT

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Mona is the only black student and Southerner in a prestigious graduate fiction program in rural Vermont. When she befriends her divorced literary hero, sexy secrets, betrayal and ferocity ensue.

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COLLECTIVE RAGE: A PLAY IN FIVE BOOPS

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Betty is rich; Betty is lonely; Betty’s busy working on her truck; Betty wants to talk about love, but Betty needs to hit something; Betty keeps using a small hand mirror to stare into parts of herself she’s never examined. Five different women named Betty collide at the intersection of anger, sex, and the “thea-tah.”

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BRILLIANT WORKS OF ART

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Law student Abby Gates has no qualms about becoming a sugar baby to get her tuition bills paid–until it means keeping a secret from the man she loves, an artist exploring confession and thresholds of shame. When Abby’s two worlds collide, she discovers her sugar daddy has taught her about more than good wine.

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381 BLEECKER

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It’s 2015, and Meg, an avant-garde choreographer in her early 60s, is losing the West Village apartment where she’s spent her entire adult life. When her sister, Ellen, shows up with her nephew, David, to help Meg pack, the two women must reckon with a complicated snarl of old wounds connected to their brother’s battle with AIDS in the 1980s.