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CAMPUS contains over 3000 National Film Board (NFB) films, features and resources in both English and French.
1) Operator
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Joe (Martin Starr, Silicon Valley) is a programmer with a crippling anxiety problem who is unable to deal with uncertainty. At work he is tasked with creating an interactive call center answering machine that can convey empathy. Joe recruits his wife Emily (Mae Whitman, Arrested Development) who has the perfect voice for the system.
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David Warwik (Wyatt Cenac) is a struggling writer who has been toiling away at the same novel for years. His wife Jennifer (Greta Lee) is a hot young literary figure, who has just released a new masterpiece. When her publisher invites the couple to an artists' salon at his home in Connecticut, the pair embark on a twisted journey, and David must face his demons and try to "not be weird" among the waspy salon guests and competitive artists in attendance....
3) White Rabbit
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A dramatic comedy following a Korean American performance artist who struggles to be authentically heard and seen through her multiple identities in modern Los Angeles. Nominated for a Best of Next! Award at the **Sundance Film Festival**. "A*s vibrant and delightfully unfocused as its performance artist protagonist, "White Rabbit" is a bright, breezy exploration of a modern artist's life.*" - Kevin Crust, ***The Los Angeles Times***
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A contemporary fairy tale revolving around the unlikely of friendship between a reclusive young woman with dreams of being a children's book author and a cantankerous widower, set against the backdrop of a beautiful garden in the heart of London. Bella Brown (Jessica Brown Findlay) is a beautifully quirky young woman who dreams of writing and illustrating a successful children's book. When she is forced by her landlord to deal with her neglected garden...
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Jack Black and Mos Def star in this unique comedy from Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michel Gondry (*Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind*). Black stars as a lovable loser stuck in a life that's too small for his big dreams. But when he unintentionally erases all the tapes in a video store where his best friend works, he devises a plan to satisfy the store's few loyal customers by re-creating and re-filming every movie they decide to rent. Official...
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On the eve of his third marriage, Caveh Zahedi tells the story of how his attraction to prostitutes and his compulsive honesty combined to destroy each of his past relationships. The genre-bending mix of camera address, re-enactment, and home movie footage make for a strikingly funny and original film.
7) Freeland
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An aging pot farmer finds her world shattered as she races to bring in what could be her final harvest.
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The worlds of stand-up comedy and indie rock collide in the Tribeca Film Festival breakout hit Pitchfork calls “*a joy to join*.” Struggling comedian Paul Scott (*Girls’* Alex Karpovsky) is invited to open for his successful rocker buddy, Jason Black (*22 Jump Street's* Wyatt Russell), on his solo acoustic tour from Boston to Atlanta. Jason hopes the trip will help Paul get his 'mojo back' after being dumped by his fiancé. The misadventures...
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Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts shine in this fresh and insightful comedy from director Noah Baumbach (Frances Ha, The Squid and the Whale). After middle-aged filmmaker Josh (Stiller) and his wife Cornelia (Watts) meet a free- spirited twenty-something couple (Driver and Seyfried), they adopt a new lifestyle complete with hip-hop dance classes and mind-expanding parties. But with each hilarious attempt to act young, Josh and Cornelia start to appreciate...
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When Alice sets out to post one synonym for love every week for a year, she inadvertently sends a gentle ripple through her social network and discovers more about relationships than she imagined. Combining doc interviews with narrative drama, 52 WORDS FOR LOVE offers a humorous meditation on what it means to grapple with the vagaries of intimacy.
12) Locke
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Ivan Locke, a dedicated family man and successful construction manager, receives a phone call on the eve of the biggest challenge of his career that sets in motion a series of events that threaten his carefully cultivated existence.
13) Sunset
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A diverse group of people grapple with the imminent probability of a nuclear strike on the east coast of the United States. Winner of the Best Feature Film Award at the **Manhattan Film Festival.** Winner of the Best Ensemble Award at the **Los Angeles Film Awards.**
14) David
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As the son of the Imam of the local Brooklyn mosque, eleven year-old Daud has to juggle the high expectations of his Father and his feelings of isolation and difference– even from his peers in the Muslim community. Through an innocent act of good faith, Daud inadvertently befriends a group of Jewish boys who mistake him as a fellow classmate at their orthodox school, in the neighboring Jewish community. A genuine friendship grows between Daud and...
15) PVT CHAT
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**WARNING**: This film contains graphic sexual content and may be upsetting and/or offensive to some viewers. Jack is an internet gambler living in NYC who becomes fixated on Scarlet - a cam girl from San Francisco. His obsession reaches a boiling point when fantasy materializes in reality and Jack sees Scarlet on a rainy Chinatown street.
16) My Family
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Three generations of a Los Angeles family love, work and struggle against discrimination as non-Anglo outsiders in a city that was originally part of Mexico in this exquisitely wrought chronicle of Mi Familia.
17) My Name Is Emily
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After her mother dies and her father is institutionalized, Emily is placed in a foster home and in a new school where she is ostracized. When her father’s annual card fails to arrive on her 16th birthday, Emily knows something’s wrong. She decides to take matters into her own hands and, enlisting her only friend at school, Arden, sets off on a road trip to break her father out of the psych ward. As their journey progresses Emily and Arden become...
18) Nostalgia
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A profoundly moving drama about our collective need to find meaning in the objects we hold dear, NOSTALGIA is a mosaic of interconnected stories built around the central theme of loss and memory, filled with characters as real and recognizable as your friends and neighbors.
19) Ms. Purple
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In the dark karaoke rooms of Los Angeles’s Koreatown, Kasie works as a doumi girl, a young hostess paid to cater to rich businessmen. As she struggles to hide her troubles through soju-and-MDMA-fueled nights, her mind is focused on one thing: earning enough tips to continue providing for her bedridden father. When her father’s caretaker unexpectedly quits, Kasie seeks help from her estranged brother, and the siblings are forced to reconnect and...
20) Pawn Sacrifice
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In 1972, Bobby Fischer faced the Soviet Union in the greatest chess match ever played. On the board he fought the Cold War. In his mind he fought his madness.
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