<p>Aisha McAdams, a former competitive runner turned photographer, embarks on a journey to document the triumphs and struggles of famed ultra trailrunners, including Jim Walmsley and Eszter Csillag. Traveling to mythical races&#8212;the Western States Endurance Run in the mountains of eastern California, the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc in the French Alps&#8212;the film marvels at athletes who maintain their intensity as they run 100 miles of mountain trails while climbing thousands of vertical feet.</p>

<p>When an architect embarks on a Christmas road trip with his autistic son, their journey of struggle and hope inspires a billionaire developer who has an autistic son of his own.</p>

<p>A behind-the-scenes documentary filmed during the production of Paul Thomas Anderson&#8217;s One Battle After Another, featuring candid moments from the cast and crew.</p>

<p>The script focuses on world-renowned cutting-edge architect Davenport Lear (Dern). Nearing retirement, he summons his four dysfunctional children Glenn (Hall); Regan (Michalka); Kent (Bishop) and Rory (James Hoare) and their spouses, respectively Tyler (Stephen Ellis); Tom Cornwall (Astin); Delia (Ivy Matheson); and Natalie (Amy Argyle).</p><p>When they hear the bombshell that he has decided to marry his personal assistant that Sunday, it sets off an explosive round of devious behavior and conflict as each of them jockeys for position, borne by self-interest, greed and jealousy.</p>

<p>Following his false arrest during the 1965 Watts riots, Richard Kelly (NAACP Best Actor winner Cendric Sanders) must serve a two-semester probation at an all-white racist seminary. Inspired by a true story, the school's first black student is welcomed by its progressive president Alan Beckett (William Devane, West Wing, Payback). But Richard soon learns that the school wants black followers not leaders. Even former missionary, Kate Allison (NCIS' Lauren Holly), rejects him. Facing a decision that will land him in prison, Richard meets Samuel Benton (Oscar winner Louis Gossett Jr.), an elderly janitor who lives in the basement of Richard's dormitory. As Samuel guides Richard through the trials of racism and his personal demons, Richard has to choose between his dream and his destiny.</p>

<p>A priest returns to his old Catholic high school to replace a priest who has gone missing, only to begin to suspect that the missing priest may have been murdered by someone at the school to hide a darker secret.</p>

<p>As the social fabric of life in rural India disintegrates in the late 1990s, journalist Manav Banerjee (Sharman Joshi) moves with his pregnant wife to the town of Orissa in hope of a better life and the promise of a lucrative career. When speculation mounts that local Australian missionary Graham Staines (Stephen Baldwin) is illegally proselytizing leprosy patients, Manav agrees to investigate undercover for the newspaper. What he finds is a series of revelations that are difficult to fathom and even harder to explain, and Manav is forced to make a choice between his own ambition and the truth. In the end, his actions spark a tragic event that is felt around the world. Based on a true story and shot on location in India, "The Least of These" beautifully illustrates the power of love, hope and forgiveness to overcome hate.</p>

<p>In 1994, a college film crew began documenting two promising physics students, Yulon Ackster and Anthony Schmitt, as they claimed to have cracked the code of controlling time itself. The project was expunged following a terrorist attack in Melbourne, Florida. This is the unsealed footage of what they found.</p>

<p>A young nurse is kidnapped by a group of violent teens who escape from a mental hospital and take her on the road trip from hell. Pursued by an equally deranged lawman out for revenge, one of the teens is destined for tragedy and horrors that will destroy his mind, moulding him into a monster named Leatherface.</p>

<p>Oscar winners George Clooney and Renee Zellweger match wits in "Leatherheads," a quick-witted romantic comedy set against the backdrop of America's nascent pro-football league in 1925.</p><p>Clooney plays Dodge Connolly, a charming, brash football hero who is determined to guide his team from bar brawls to packed stadiums. But after the players lose their sponsor and the entire league faces certain collapse, Dodge convinces a college football star to join his ragtag ranks. The captain hopes his latest move will help the struggling sport finally capture the country's attention.</p><p>Welcome to the team Carter Rutherford (John Krasinski), America's favorite son. A golden-boy war hero who single-handedly forced multiple German soldiers to surrender in WWI, Carter has dashing good looks and unparalleled speed on the field. This new champ is almost too good to be true, and Lexie Littleton (Zellweger) aims to prove that's the case.</p><p>A cub journalist playing in the big leagues, Lexie is a spitfire newswoman who suspects there are holes in Carter's war story. But while she digs, the two teammates start to become serious off-field rivals for her affections.</p><p>As the new game of pro-football becomes less like the freewheeling sport he knew and loved, Dodge must both fight to keep his guys together and to get the girl of his dreams. Finding that love and football have a surprisingly similar playbook, however, he has one maneuver he will save just for the fourth quarter...</p>

<p>Architect Jesse Hughes uproots his wife and their two kids to an old house in the countryside, in the middle of nowhere, to try to piece back together an almost broken marriage. But Keith later finds that sometimes a change is not always the best solution when they get some unexpected visitors in their new home.</p>

<p>Michael Burns lets a hater ruin his week.</p>

<p>Suwardi (Suwardi Becak Lawu), a police officer with the rank of Assistant Commissioner, is transferred from Jakarta to his hometown in Garut to carry out a mission for the government&#8217;s Task Force on Human Trafficking (Satgas TPPO) to combat kidnapping and human trafficking. The joy of his return home turns into a nightmare when his own niece, Lilis (Cinta Kharisma), is kidnapped by a human trafficking ringleader. Overcome by deep guilt and in conflict with Asep (Iyang Darmawan), Lilis&#8217;s father, Suwardi forms a special task force to dismantle the largest human trafficking network in West Java, led by Rando (Macho Hungan). One ambush after another drags Suwardi into an escalating vortex of fistfights and shootouts until a shocking truth about Rando&#8217;s true identity is revealed.</p>

<p>The film tells the story of 13-year-old Caroline (McKenzie) and her father, Will (Foster), who are found living in Forest Park, a temperate rainforest abutting Portland, Ore. When authorities pluck them from their hidden world, where they lived peacefully and practically, Caroline and Will must embark on an increasingly erratic journey in search of a place to call their own.</p>

<p>The family drama based on Rumaan Alam's upcoming novel, "Leave the World Behind", is a story about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong.</p>

<p>When Ivy League classics professor Bill Kincaid receives news of the murder of his estranged identical twin brother, Brady (both played by two-time Academy Award nominee Edward Norton), in a pot deal gone bad, he leaves the world of Northeastern academia to travel back to his home state of Oklahoma. Upon arrival, he finds that reports of his brother's death are greatly exaggerated, and he's soon caught up in the dangerous and unpredictable world of drug commerce in the backwaters of the Southwest. In the process, he reconnects with his eccentric mother (Academy Award winner Susan Sarandon), meets a wise and educated young woman who has bypassed academia in favor of the gentler rhythms of life (Keri Russell), and unwittingly helps his troubled brother settle a score with a pernicious drug lord (Academy Award winner Richard Dreyfuss) who uses Tulsa, Oklahoma's small Jewish community for cover. Leaves of Grass follows a twisting narrative path merging crime drama, drug comedy, classical philosophy and sudden violence in pursuit of answering one of humanity's oldest questions: What does it truly mean to live a happy and constructive life?</p>

<p>A riveting new drama by the prolific French filmmaker Catherine Corsini, LEAVING (PARTIR) stars Oscar-nominee Kristin Scott Thomas as a woman prepared to abandon everything in pursuit of passion. A success with critics and audiences alike at the Toronto and Seattle film festivals,this elegantly told tale of intrigue is not to be missed.</p><p>Kristin Scott Thomas is Suzanne, the bourgeois wife of a successful doctor, Samuel (Yvan Attal), living together with their children in the south of France. Weighted down by a thrill-less lifestyle and a stale marriage, Suzanne falls for the handsome young Ivan (Sergi Lopez), an immigrant ex-con working on their property. Their affair is passionate, but Suzanne is wracked by guilt. When she confesses to her husband, his retaliation begins an ugly turn of events.</p>

<p>"Leaving Neverland" is a documentary exploring the separate but parallel experiences of two young boys, James Safechuck, at age ten, and Wade Robson, at age seven, both of whom were befriended by Michael Jackson. Through gut-wrenching interviews with Safechuck, now 40, and Robson, now 36, as well as their mothers, wives and siblings, the film crafts a portrait of sustained abuse, exploring the complicated feelings that led both men to confront their experiences after both had a young son of his own.</p>

<p>Ukraine, 2000. At the Svitlyachok orphanage, Kairo (8) and Stanislas (12) form a close friendship through shared routines and small adventures. After stealing chocolate for his friend, Kairo becomes trapped beneath the principal&#8217;s desk, where he witnesses Stanislas being adopted.</p>

<p>One step can change a life forever in "The Ledge", a sexy and suspenseful thriller, starring Charlie Hunnam, Liv Tyler, Patrick Wilson and Terrence Howard. After embarking on a passionate affair with his evangelical neighbor's wife (Tyler), Gavin (<i>Sons of Anarchy</i>'s Hunnam) soon finds himself in a battle of wills that will have life or death consequences. As a nonbeliever, Gavin is lured by his lover's husband (<i>Insidious</i>' Wilson) to the ledge of a high rise and told he has one hour to make a choice between his life or the one he loves. Without faith in an afterlife, will he be able to make a decision? </p><p>It's up to police officer Hollis (Howard) to save both their lives, but the clock is ticking in this edge-of-your-seat film that will leave you gasping until the final frame.</p>

<p>Former Vogue cover model Lee Miller travels to the front lines of World War II as a photojournalist and goes on a mission to expose the hidden truths of Nazi Germany. But in the aftermath of betrayal, she comes to a reckoning about the truths of her own past.</p>

<p>The young daughter of a journalist disappears into the desert without a trace&#8212;eight years later, the broken family is shocked when she is returned to them, as what should be a joyful reunion turns into a living nightmare.</p>

<p>"Lee Daniels' The Butler" tells the story of a White House butler who served eight American presidents over three decades. The film traces the dramatic changes that swept American society during this time, from the civil rights movement to Vietnam and beyond, and how those changes affected this man's life and family. Forest Whitaker stars as the butler with Robin Williams as Dwight Eisenhower, John Cusack as Richard Nixon, Alan Rickman as Ronald Reagan, James Marsden as John F. Kennedy, Liev Schreiber as Lyndon B. Johnson, and many more. Academy Award nominated Lee Daniels ("Precious") directs and co-wrote the script with Emmy-award winning Danny Strong ("Game Change").</p>

<p>LEENA 22:39 a lit awesome film. 4/7/26 Directed by Leena Çorbaji</p>

<p>A small group of survivors are left behind after millions of people suddenly vanish during the rapture and the world is plunged into chaos and destruction.</p>

<p>When the steel factory she&#8217;s working to dismantle comes back to life one night, immigrant Morana must face the fragility of her own existence - and how much she truly has in common with the laid-off workers.</p>

<p>After millions of people vanish and the world falls into chaos, a charismatic leader rises to lead the UN. However, his intentions are more sinister than they appear.</p>

<p>Sometimes left overs taste the best!</p>

<p>A mother and her two daughters move to Taipei to open a noodle stand at a vibrant night market, but family secrets and tradition test their fresh start.</p>

<p>When a geeky, overweight rushee is found dead at the hottest sorority on the campus, the three most popular girls of the house are prime suspects.</p>

<p>A star of hunting videos strives to bond with his 12-year-old son on a wilderness trip but learns familial connections can&apos;t be forced.</p>

<p>Based on the non-fiction JFK assassination book "Legacy of Secrecy," written by Lamar Waldron and Thom Hartmann, DiCaprio will play FBI informant Jack Van Laningham, who obtained the confession of Mafia godfather Carlos Marcello to having ordered JFK's assassination. As part of a dangerous and long-secret undercover operation, the FBI positioned Van Laningham to become the confidant of Marcello, who ruled organized crime in Louisiana and most of Texas for decades.</p>

<p>We follow two somewhat successful actresses who leave Colombia and travel to New York, aiming for greater fame and opportunity and a better life for themselves and a daughter, only to receive a rude awakening: they are only seen as immigrants now. Colombian director Daniel Arango, who lives in New York, clearly knows whereof he films, as do his leading actresses, Jennifer Arenas and Josefina Scaro, the latter of whom returns to MIFF after being here recently with the well-loved film American Thief.</p>

Fashionable sorority queen Elle Woods has it all, but, she wants nothing more than to be Mrs. Warner Huntington III. But he dumps her before heading to Harvard Law School. Elle rallies all of her resources and gets into Harvard, determined to win him back. While there, she figures out that there is more to herself than just good looks.

<p>Reese Whiterspoon is back as Elle Woods in Legally Blonde 2 : Red, White and Blonde. Now Elle is juggling a demanding career as a rising young lawyer as well as preparations for her wedding to the man of her dreams. But when she stands up for the rights of the other guy in her life - Bruiser - her chihuahua - Elle is fired from her job. She's devastated, but you can't keep an optimist down. Ms. Woods goes to Washington to take matters into her own well-manicured hands. Trying to learn the political ropes and win over self-serving politicians. Elle faces a formidable challenge. But with her clever and sassy signature blend of determination and intelligence, she bucks the system the Elle Woods way, inspiring those around her to find a voice of their own.</p>

<p>Moving from England to California, the youngest cousins of Elle Woods must defend themselves when their schools reigning forces turn on the girls and try to frame them for a crime.</p>

<p>A young Robin Hood and a teen prodigy hired to hunt him down who uncover an impossible truth about their totalitarian leaders.</p>

<p>A mysterious drifter bonds with a boy with tales of the West. Past and present collide when a lawman appears seeking long-lost gold.</p>

<p>After two years running from the law, bushranger Ben Hall has gone into hiding, He is soon drawn back into bushranging by the reappearance of his old friend, John Gilbert. Reforming the gang and taking on a new recruit John Dunn, the trio begin a spree of robberies and crimes across New South Wales. After the killing of two policemen, the three become the most wanted men in colony.</p><p>When the Government moves to declare them outlaws that can shot on sight by any person who chooses, Ben Hall makes desperate plans to flee the colony. But with a such a large bounty on their heads, treachery abounds where they least expect it ...</p>