Cast: Lily McInerny, Jonathan Tucker, Gretchen Mol. This monotony is disrupted by an encounter with Tom, a man twice her age, who promises an alternative to Lea’s unsatisfying adolescent life. (Director and Screenwriter: Jamie Dack, Screenwriter: Audrey Findlay, Producers: Leah Chen Baker, Jamie Dack) - Seventeen-year-old Lea spends her summer aimlessly tanning with her best friend, tiptoeing around her fragile mother, and getting stoned with a group of boys from school. Cast: Anna Diop, Michelle Monaghan, Sinqua Walls, Morgan Spector, Rose Decker, Leslie Uggams. As she prepares for the arrival of the son she left behind in Senegal, a violent supernatural presence invades her reality, threatening the American dream she is painstakingly piecing together.

(Director and Screenwriter: Nikyatu Jusu, Producers: Nikkia Moulterie, Daniela Taplin Lundberg) - Aisha is an undocumented nanny working for a privileged couple in New York City. Cast: Regina Hall, Zoe Renee, Talia Ryder, Talia Balsam, Amber Gray. As the insidious specter of racism haunts the campus in increasingly supernatural fashion, each fights to survive in this space of privilege. (Director and Screenwriter: Mariama Diallo, Producers: Joshua Astrachan, Brad Becker-Parton, Andrea Roa) - Three women strive to find their place at an elite New England university. Cast: RJ Cyler, Donald Watkins, Sebastian Chacon, Sabrina Carpenter.

(Director: Carey Williams, Screenwriter: KD Davila, Producers: Marty Bowen, Isaac Klausner, John Fischer) - Ready for a night of partying, a group of Black and Latino college students must weigh the pros and cons of calling the police when faced with an unusual emergency. Cast: Karen Gillan, Aaron Paul, Beulah Koale. When she makes a miraculous recovery, her attempt to have her clone decommissioned fails, and leads to a court-mandated duel to the death. (Director and Screenwriter: Riley Stearns, Producers: Nate Bolotin, Aram Tertzakian, Lee Kim, Riley Stearns, Nick Spicer, Maxime Cottray) - After receiving a terminal diagnosis, Sarah commissions a clone of herself to ease the loss for her friends and family. Cast: Dakota Johnson, Cooper Raiff, Vanessa Burghardt, Evan Assante, Brad Garrett, Leslie Mann. (Director and Screenwriter: Cooper Raiff, Producers: Dakota Johnson, Ro Donnelly, Erik Feig, Jessica Switch, Cooper Raiff) - A directionless college graduate embarks on a relationship with a young mom and her teenage daughter while learning the boundaries of his new bar mitzvah party-starting gig. World Premiere.Ĭha Cha Real Smooth / U.S.A. Cast: Carla Juri, Takashi Ueno, Gustaf Skarsgård, Futaba Okazaki, Issey Ogata. But when comforting turns to affection, she realizes she must give herself permission before she can fall in love again. (Director and Screenwriter: Bradley Rust Gray, Producers: David Urrutia, Bradley Rust Gray, So Yong Kim, Elika Portnoy, Alex Orlovsky, Jonathon Komack Martin) - After the death of her husband, a young woman travels to Japan where she finds solace in an old friend. Cast: Keke Palmer, Common, Jonny Lee Miller, Gaius Charles. (Director and Screenwriter: Krystin Ver Linden, Producer: Peter Lawson) - When a woman in servitude in 1800s Georgia escapes the 55-acre confines of her captor, she discovers the shocking reality that exists beyond the treeline…it’s 1973.

No other options, he walks into a Wells Fargo Bank and says “I’ve got a bomb.” Cast: John Boyega, Michael Kenneth Williams, Nicole Beharie, Connie Britton, Olivia Washington, Selenis Leyva. (Director and Screenwriter: Abi Damaris Corbin, Screenwriter: Kwame Kwei-Armah, Producers: Ashley Levinson, Salman Al-Rashid, Sam Frohman, Kevin Turen, Mackenzie Fargo) - When Brian Brown-Easley’s disability check fails to materialize from Veterans Affairs, he finds himself on the brink of homelessness and breaking his daughter’s heart. Wherever you may live, it’s our problem, and it will take all of us raising our voices if there is to be any hope of change.892 / U.S.A. These arguments overlook the fact that it’s music that often reflects the artists’ life experiences, many of whom grew up in inner city neighborhoods where gun violence was and can be a part of life.īut as more and more mass shootings are happening across the United States, we are reminded this is not just an urban issue – and never has been. Hip-hop has often been criticized as a medium that glorifies violence. guilty of first-degree murder in the 2019 death of rapper Nipsey Hussle. Last week, a Los Angeles jury found Eric Ronald Holder Jr. The constant news about gun violence in our society reminds me that it touches all aspects of our lives in this country. Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for Warner Music Nipsey Hussle performs onstage at the Warner Music Pre-Grammy Party at the NoMad Hotel on February 7, 2019, in Los Angeles.

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