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Atropia new_releases Release: 01-25-2025
When an aspiring actress in a military role-playing facility falls in love with a soldier cast as an insurgent, their unsimulated emotions threaten to derail the performance.

Seaweed Stories 2024
Presented by Lonely Whale in association with Re:wild. Narrated by Forest Whitaker, Seaweed Stories is a vibrant, global look at the wonders of seaweed, and some of the extraordinary stories and characters whose lives have been entangled by this often overlooked marine plant which may hold answers to some of humanity's biggest challenges. Seaweed Stories includes insights from a Silicon Valley startup creating plastic alternatives from macroalgae, to the Indigenous Shinnecock Kelp Farmers using seaweed to prove their sovereign right to coastal land, and a scientist in South Korea supporting seaweeds' sexual reproduction to create new species that can withstand the effects of a changing climate.

Walk Out Nice and Smooth 2023
13-year-old Dani and their mother Anne embark on an all-day odyssey to flip a stolen laptop and make a modest score for themselves. Pressures mount as the day runs long, forcing Dani to take drastic measures that unexpectedly bring the two of them closer.

Arctic Monkeys Live at Kings Theatre 2022 star_border 10
Arctic Monkeys play the Kings Theatre in Brooklyn, NY in support of their new album "The Car"

The African Desperate 2022 star_border 5.9
It’s MFA grad Palace Bryant’s final 24 hours in art school, and she is not going to the graduation party! She needs to get back home to Chicago from Upstate New York, but that means surviving a hazy, hilarious, and hallucinatory odyssey, stumbling from academic critiques to backseat hookups.

Goes By So Fast: A Mahal Film 2022
Goes By So Fast, a short film starring Eric André and Toro y Moi, a.k.a Chaz Bear.

Bud 2021 star_border 7
A little girl has a birthday dinner with her father that she'll never forget...

The Nowhere Inn 2021 star_border 6.1
When St. Vincent sets out to make a documentary about her music, the goal is to both reveal and revel in the unadorned truth behind her on-stage persona. But when she hires a close friend to direct, notions of reality, identity, and authenticity grow increasingly distorted and bizarre.

David 2020 star_border 7.1
David needs help. So does David. A severely depressed man reaches out for an emergency therapy session. He’s not the only one who needs help.

Ed Ruscha - Motorized Photographs of Sunset Blvd. and Other L.A. Streets 2019
Commissioned by The Getty Museum on the occasion of their 2019 Getty Medal to the painter, draftsman, photographer, and bookmaker, Ed Ruscha. Utilizing The Getty Research Institute's preservation and digitization of over a million images from Ed's Streets of Los Angeles photo series, and excerpts from Jack Kerouac's "On The Road," this film puts together two of Ed's major inspirations: Kerouac's text and the city of Los Angeles.

Shako Mako 2019
“Farah,” a bread seller, walks the streets of a Middle Eastern town, while an American military vehicle, surrounded by soldiers, slowly passes by. A moment’s silence. Then, a devastating explosion. Civilians are bloodied, wounded. The horrors of war. “Farah” looks around aghast and wailing. But nothing here is quite what it seems. In fact, “Farah” is a character played by an aspiring actress called Laila. And this isn’t Iraq, but a replica village erected on the Fort Irwin army base in California, used to train American troops before being sent abroad. Laila believes her acting talents are being wasted away in this arid simulation, where female role-players are limited to mute, background roles. She takes things much more seriously. Laila plots her way out.

Strange Company 2018 star_border 6
A realtor, a handyman, and a landscaper succumb to a mysterious passion.

Ugh! 2018
Tanya, world’s sexiest inventor, has just finished her newest invention: A future seeing machine. But, the future gets stuck in a loop and it’s super annoying.

Yo! My Saint 2018 star_border 4.4
The muses are heard. YO! MY SAINT is a three-pronged artistic endeavor incorporating music, film, and fashion. It’s not just a song, or a film, or clothes. It’s a project, and the culmination of creativity erupting from KENZO’s Spring/Summer 2018 collection. Linking them altogether is the underlying theme of muses – honoring, celebrating, and re-imagining the instigators and inspirations of creativity.

Super Dark Times 2017 star_border 6.5
Teenagers Zach and Josh have been best friends their whole lives, but when a gruesome accident leads to a cover-up, the secret drives a wedge between them and propels them down a rabbit hole of escalating paranoia and violence.

Cabiria, Charity, Chastity 2017 star_border 5
Cabiria, Charity, Chastity follows Chastity, on a surreal journey through a parallel plane, as she realizes that in order to face her future, she must first reconcile her Vaudevillian past.

I Do... Until I Don't 2017 star_border 5
In Vero Beach, Florida, a trio of couples at various points in their relationships become the subjects of a film about marriage being an antiquated idea that needs a reboot: Why not turn marriage into a seven-year deal with an option to renew?

The Realest Real 2016 star_border 5.8
The Realest Real is a humorous exploration of the fickle and instant world of the internet.

Too Cool for School 2015 star_border 4
An apathetic teenager with sex on his brain decides to ditch school. The decisions he makes culminate into something of a waking nightmare, tearing apart any facade he has put on and revealing his true personality.

Picturing Barbara Kruger 2015 star_border 5.7
A short documentary about the artist Barbara Kruger.

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