Written and directed by Jim Capobianco, the Academy Award nominated writer of Pixar hit Ratatouille, The Inventor is a new stop-motion adventure film about the life of Leonardo da Vinci.
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DEAR ALBERT (2021)
Written, directed and produced by Armin Amiri, Dear Albert is a new short film starring Max Amini as the titular character. The film is a neo-noir drama that is both enigmatic and entertaining. Filmed from the perspective of Albert, the audience emphasizes with the troubled protagonist. Albert, who suffers from marcotia, a form of Fragile-X Syndrome, has a high pitched voice and enlarged ears. He lives with his mother and is a Maître d’ at a prestigious Hollywood lounge, where agents and power brokers come to do deals. Albert commutes to work in a bicycle and lives a simple existence. Despite his physical deformities Albert is respected at his place of work.
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THE NIGHT (2020)
An Iranian suspenseful, psychological thriller that tells the story of an Iranian couple and their one-year-old daughter living in the US. They become trapped inside an old hotel where insidious, supernatural forces cause them to face the secrets that have come between them in a night that terrifyingly never ends.
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