<p>"MirrorMask" centers on Helena, a 15 year old girl in a family of circus entertainers, who often wishes she could run off and join real life. After a fight with her parents about her future plans, her mother falls quite ill and Helena is convinced that it is all her fault. On the eve of her mother's major surgery, she dreams that she is in a strange world with two opposing queens, bizarre creatures, and masked inhabitants. All is not well in this new world - the white queen has fallen ill and can only be restored by the MirrorMask, and it's up to Helena to find it. But as her adventures continue, she begins to wonder whether she's in a dream, or something far more sinister.</p>

<p>An ex-cop and his family are the target of an evil force that is using mirrors as a gateway into their home.</p>

<p>When Max, who is recovering from a traumatic accident, takes a job as a nighttime security guard, he begins to see visions of a young mysterious woman in the store&apos;s mirror.</p>

<p>Two star-crossed lovers must battle the forces which try to keep them apart at different timelines and at different world&apos;s.</p>

<p>The story of a "necro-detective" who goes in search of people's lost, dead relatives.</p>

<p>Embark on a story of survival with JANM&#8217;s film screening of The Misadventures of a Nisei Week Queen. Told with poise, humor, and strength, this documentary chronicles the Forrest Gump life of spirited 92-year-old June Aochi Berk. Growing up in prewar Little Tokyo, she goes from surviving in a horse stall at the Santa Anita temporary detention center and in a barrack at the Rohwer concentration camp during World War II to being crowned Nisei Week Queen in Los Angeles.</p>

<p>A road trip pic through New York featuring talking animals, and with an element of social comedy.</p>

<p>Based on the true story in 1970, the Miss World competition took place in London, hosted by US comedy legend, Bob Hope. At the time, Miss World was the most-watched TV show on the planet with over 100 million viewers. Claiming that beauty competitions demeaned women, the newly formed Women's Liberation Movement achieved overnight fame by invading the stage and disrupting the live broadcast of the competition. Not only that, when the show resumed, the result caused uproar: the winner was not the Swedish favourite but Miss Grenada, the first black woman to be crowned Miss World. In a matter of hours, a global audience had witnessed the patriarchy driven from the stage and the Western ideal of beauty turned on its head.</p>

<p>An ambitious lawyer finds himself caught in a power struggle between a corrupt pharmaceutical executive and his firm&#8217;s senior partner. When the case takes a deadly turn, he must race to uncover the truth before he loses everything.</p>

<p>Pennsylvania, 1993. After getting caught with another girl, teenager Cameron Post is sent to a conversion therapy center run by the strict Dr. Lydia Marsh and her brother, Reverend Rick, whose treatment consists in repenting for feeling &#8220;same sex attraction.&#8221; Cameron befriends fellow sinners Jane and Adam, thus creating a new family to deal with the surrounding intolerance.</p>

<p>A 30-year-old part-time actor/full-time waiter goes on a date with a girl he kind of likes. The next day, he's awakened by a phone call from kidnappers who tell him they have his girlfriend, and will kill her if he doesn't come up with $50,000 in ransom. Considering he barely knows the girl, he's conflicted.</p>

After an accident, acclaimed novelist Paul Sheldon is rescued by a nurse who claims to be his biggest fan. Her obsession takes a dark turn when she holds him captive in her remote Colorado home and forces him to write back to life the popular literary character he killed off.

<p>Jimmy Fallon, Tom Hanks, Amy Schumer, Jim Gaffigan, Judd Apatow, Lisa Kudrow, Larry David, and Jon Favreau are among over 60 famous funny people featured in this hilarious twist on the age-old truth: misery loves company. In-depth, candid interviews with some of the most revered comedy greats who each share their unique path and a life devoted to making strangers laugh. <p></p> With arresting anecdotes and insights from the comedy underbelly that reveal a performer's deep desire to connect with audiences, Kevin Pollak's "Misery Loves Comedy" is the definitive master class on the art of humor that details a comedian's rare ability to help us understand life as only they can.</p>

<p>The Final Live performance from Misery Signals, recorded at Union Hall, Edmonton 10.19.24</p>

<p>After being recruited by a group of unconventional thieves, renowned criminal Richard Pace finds himself caught up in an elaborate gold heist that promises to have far-reaching implications on his life and the lives of countless others.</p>

<p>Steeped in quiet dread and simmering unease, Miso Soup follows Kenji, a young Japanese tour guide scraping by in the neon-lit underbelly of Tokyo. His mundane existence is upended when he’s hired by Frank, a boisterous and unsettlingly inquisitive American tourist, to navigate the city’s seedy nightlife. Initially charmed by Frank’s brash energy and generous tips, Kenji soon finds the line between cultural curiosity and predatory obsession blurring. As the night deepens, Kenji’s growing suspicion transforms into a chilling realization that he may be chaperoning a monster. The film masterfully blends the gritty atmosphere of a psychological thriller with a harrowing character study, forcing Kenji to confront his own complicity as he’s drawn into a horrifying game of cat and mouse. With every alleyway and crowded bar, the tension escalates, leading to a nerve-shredding confrontation that will test his morality and his very survival.</p>

<p>In a single, fully-stocked hotel room on the night of the 2016 general election, two Trump supporters celebrate the unexpected results, in the latest from indie provocateur Onur Tukel.</p><p>As the night rages on, an ensemble of characters venture in and out of the room. Some match the two's enthusiasm while others voice their terror at the prospect of the incoming President, but most struggle to find reasons to care less about the results causing the debauched celebration around them.</p><p>Led by Dylan Baker's gleefully deranged performance, Tukel's tongue-in-cheek exploration of a divided America digs deep into the night's mass existential crisis and uncovers some disquieting truths.</p>

<p>A raw and emotionally revealing look at one of the most iconic artists of our time during a transformational period in her life as she learns to embrace her role not only as a songwriter and performer, but as a woman harnessing the full power of her voice.</p>

<p>The remarkable story of 91 year old Cuban-American singer-songwriter Angela Alvarez who&apos;s lifetime of songs were nearly lost to the world. An inspiring tale of love, loss, struggle but ultimately triumph, &apos;Miss Angela&apos; is a story 75 years in the making.</p>

<p>One of the most exciting young talents around, the Mexican director Gerardo Naranjo approaches the hot-button topic of drug violence through the perspective of an unlikely, unwitting heroine: a Tijuana beauty pageant contestant (Stephanie Sigman) who stumbles into the path of ruthless cartel operatives and corrupt officials. Although inspired by a true story, Miss Bala avoids docudrama cliches and tabloid sensationalism, and instead evokes the pervasive climate of fear and confusion that has enveloped daily life in some increasingly lawless pockets of northern Mexico. Using long takes and fluid, precise camera work, Naranjo fashions a highly original thriller: an anguished and harrowing mood piece with an undertow of bleakly absurdist humor and moments of heart-stopping action.</p>

<p>Georgina Scott (Heather Graham) is a broody 33 year-old who sends her partner packing when it becomes obvious that he doesn't share her desire for a bundle of joy. Zak (Tom Ellis) was going away on a documentary shoot anyway and he hopes that she'll cool off in his absence. But Georgina discovers that early menopause runs in her family and heads for a specialist with her reluctant best friend Clem (Mia Kirshner) in tow. Learning that her baby making days are numbered and her next cycle will be her last, Georgina enlists the help of Clem and their camp pal, Justin, to make the most of it. A battle plan is drawn up but their escapades become increasingly frantic and elaborate as Georgina explores internet sperm donors, night clubbers, builders and funeral-goers in her desperate and hilarious attempts to beat the biological clock.</p>

When the local FBI office receives a letter from a terrorist known only as 'The Citizen', it's quickly determined that he's planning his next act at the Miss America beauty pageant. Because tough-as-nails Gracie Hart is the only female Agent at the office, she's chosen to go undercover as the contestant from New Jersey.

<p>Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous catches up with FBI agent Gracie Hart (Sandra Bullock) shortly after she successfully disarmed a threat against the Miss United States Pageant while working undercover as a contestant in Miss Congeniality and became an overnight media sensation.</p> <p>Things haven't been going so well for her lately. Reeling from a broken romance and frustrated to find her newfound fame is jeopardizing the undercover work she loves, Gracie now reluctantly agrees to serve the Bureau in the only way possible: coifed and styled for the talk show circuit as "the face of the FBI." Though resistant at first, she soon warms to the attention and it's not long before she's getting into her new role a little too much. Her new partner Sam Fuller (Regina King), a tough, ambitious agent who is clearly not her biggest fan, is the first to point out that the pampered Bureau star is turning into FBI Barbie. But when Gracie's best friend, pageant winner Cheryl Frazier (Heather Burns), and emcee Stan Fields (William Shatner), are kidnapped in Las Vegas, Gracie's crime-fighting instincts kick back in.</p> <p>Not wanting to risk losing their greatest PR asset, the FBI top brass forbid her to get involved and charge Sam with keeping her in line. But when it comes to breaking a difficult case and helping her friends, there's nothing Gracie won't do.</p>

<p>Fely is an elderly woman who finds second chance at youth after a visit to a mysterious photo studio.</p>

<p>From award-winning director Keiichi Hara (Colorful) and Japanese powerhouse Production I.G (creators of Ghost in the Shell) comes a remarkable story of the daughter behind one of history's most famous artists.</p><p>As all of Edo flocks to see the work of the revered painter Hokusai, his daughter O-Ei toils diligently inside his studio. Her masterful portraits, dragons and erotic sketches - sold under the name of her father - are coveted by upper crust Lords and journeyman print makers alike. </p><p>Shy and reserved in public, in the studio O-Ei is as brash and uninhibited as her father, smoking a pipe while sketching drawings that would make contemporary Japanese ladies blush. But despite this fiercely independent spirit, O-Ei struggles under the domineering influence of her father and is ridiculed for lacking the life experience that she is attempting to portray in her art. </p><p>Miss Hokusai's bustling Edo (present day Tokyo) is filled with yokai spirits, dragons, and conniving tradesmen, while O-Ei's relationships with her demanding father and blind younger sister provide a powerful emotional underpinning to this sumptuously-animated coming-of-age tale.</p>

<p>An insecure and innocent fashion bloggers negative attitude towards Chanel&apos;s new season goes viral, causing her to spiral and find the root of her negativity.</p>

<p>Taking place at a large country estate in Britain over the course of one 1880s midsummer night, Miss Julie explores the brutal, flirtatious power struggle between Julie and John - a young aristocratic woman and her father's valet.</p><p>She is all hauteur longing for abasement; he, polished but coarse. The two of them held together by mutual loathing and attraction. At turns seductive and tender, savage and bullying, their story builds inevitably to a mad, impulsive tryst. Plans are made in desperation, a vision of a life together - unsure if the morning light then brings hope or hopelessness, Julie and John find their escape in an act that is as sublime and horrific as anything in Greek tragedy.</p><p>Liv Ullman's Miss Julie will skillfully weave this great original story of the battle between the sexes and the classes.</p>

<p>Turquoise, a former beauty queen turned hardworking single mother, prepares her rebellious teenage daughter for the &#8220;Miss Juneteenth&#8221; pageant, hoping to keep her from repeating the same mistakes in life that she did.</p>

Miss Kobayashi, Tohru, Kanna, and Iruru's peaceful lives are shattered when Kanna's father, Kimun Kamui, leader of the Chaos Forces, arrives and forces her to return to the Dragon World to fix a past mistake. With a war brewing between Chaos and Harmony, Kanna must find a way to unite the two worlds but is torn between her loyalty to her friends and her father's demands. Miss Kobayashi, however, refuses to let her go and tries to mend Kanna and Kamui's broken bond. As dragons clash, Iruru uncovers a hidden force manipulating the war. Can they stop the war before it consumes both worlds?

<p>A young man awakens from a four-year coma to hear that his once virginal high-school sweetheart has since become a centerfold in one of the world&apos;s most famous men&apos;s magazines. He and his sex-crazed best friend decide to take a cross-country road trip in order to crash a party at the magazine&apos;s legendary mansion headquarters and win back the girl.</p>

<p>Miss Meadows is a school teacher with impeccable manners and grace. However, underneath the candy-sweet exterior hides a ruthless gun-toting vigilante who takes it upon herself to right the wrongs in the world by whatever means necessary. For Miss Meadows, bad behavior is simply unforgivable.</p>

<p>From the cobbled streets of Paris to the wild countryside of Europe, follow Miss Moxy &#8212; a pampered cat with a whole lot of cattitude &#8212; as she&#8217;s thrown into the adventure of a lifetime. Lost far from home, she must team up with a goofy dog and a wise old bird to find her way back&#8230; and discover who she truly is along the way.</p>

<p>A modern and murderous fable of success, love and the single woman, Miss Nobody is a darkly comic movie about Sarah Jane McKinney's (Leslie Bibb) rise up the corporate ladder and the delightful but complicated romance that ensues.</p><p>Unlucky in love, living at home with her eccentric mom (Kathy Baker), and stuck in a dead end secretarial job at Judge Pharmaceuticals, Sarah Jane longs for more out of life. Her surprise promotion to junior executive appears to be just the ticket. But with promotion comes a new world of wily and complicated executives, most notably a dashing newcomer, Milo Beeber (Brandon Routh). </p><p>Soon Sarah Jane must balance her dreams of success and true love with other diversions...namely Beeber's resume as a potential mate, a miracle cure for Alzheimer's and corporate intrigue at Judge.</p><p>Sarah Jane finds the executive suites of Judge Pharmaceuticals are not only filled with quirky and scheming co-workers but also with opportunities for a girl with a killer instinct. And as Sarah Jane literally eliminates the competition, she unexpectedly falls for the man of her dreams, Detective Bill Malloy (Adam Goldberg) - unfortunately the cop intent on cracking the case of the mysterious deaths at Judge Pharmaceuticals.</p>

<p>A teenager finds himself transported to an island where he must help protect a group of orphans with special powers from creatures intent on destroying them.</p>

<p>Can you get a life and discover love, all in one day? Two women are about to find out. In the sophisticated and heartfelt comedy Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Academy Award winner Frances McDormand plays the film's title role opposite Academy Award nominee Amy Adams (star of theb lockbuster Enchanted).The cast also includes Golden Globe Award nominee Lee Pace (of the hit series Pushing Daisies), Ciaran Hinds (There Will Be Blood), Shirley Henderson (the Harry Potter films), Mark Strong (Stardust), and screen newcomer Tom Payne.</p><p>In 1939 London, Miss Guinevere Pettigrew (played by Ms. McDormand) is a middle-aged governess who finds herself once again unfairly dismissed from her job. Without so much as severance pay, Miss Pettigrew realizes that she must - for the first time in two decades - seize the day. This she does, by intercepting an employment assignment outside of her comfort level - as "social secretary." Arriving at a penthouse apartment for the interview, Miss Pettigrew is catapulted into the glamorous world and dizzying social whirl of an American actress and singer, Delysia Lafosse (Ms. Adams). Within minutes, Miss Pettigrew finds herself swept into a heady high-society milieu - and, within hours, living it up. Taking the "social secretary" designation to heart, she tries to help her new friend Delysia navigate a love life and career, both of which are complicated by the three men in Delysia's orbit; devoted pianist Michael (Mr. Pace), intimidating nightclub owner Nick (Mr. Strong), and impressionable junior impresario Phil (Mr. Payne). Miss Pettigrew herself is blushingly drawn to the gallant Joe (Mr. Hinds), a successful designer who is tenuously engaged to haughty fashion maven Edythe (Ms. Henderson) - the one person who senses that the new "social secretary" may be out of her element, and schemes to undermine her. Over the next 24 hours, Guinevere and Delysia will empower each other to discover their romantic destinies.</p>

<p>Beatrix Potter has delighted generations of children with her books. But she kept her own private life locked carefully away. Oscar-winning star Renée Zellweger is now bringing her secret story to the screen in "Miss Potter," the first film directed by Chris Noonan since his charming 1995 movie, "Babe."</p> <p>It is set in the high summer days of late Victorian and Edwardian England, during which Beatrix develops her natural skills as artist and story-teller. When she finally publishes her debut book, "The Tale of Peter Rabbit," she becomes a writing celebrity. It also leads to courtship and her first love with publisher Norman Warne, played by Ewan McGregor. Their relationship and his marriage proposal in July, 1905, was to change Beatrix's life for ever.</p> <p>It was a love which she could not announce - or even talk about. In high-society London, her parents had insisted she keep it from friends and neighbours. They considered her proposed wedding a mismatch. Warne, they said, was from 'trade' and demanded that she carefully reconsider their life together. Beatrix allowed herself to be persuaded to leave her fiancé and London.</p> <p>It was supposed to be a time for reflection and calm. But, instead, she faced tragedy and loneliness and returned, with a different outlook. She became a woman of strong views and independence. She also built up a farming dynasty in the Lake District - a dynasty over which she took charge long after her writing career virtually ended in 1913. It established her as a woman ahead of her time. Despite becoming the world’s most successful children's writer and a wealthy landowner and prize-winning farmer, she never forgot her first love.</p>

<p>Two-time Academy Award® winner Barbara Kopple shines a powerful, inspiring and entertaining spotlight on contemporary soul queen Sharon Jones. As she prepares to release her much-anticipated new album, Sharon comes face to-face with the greatest challenge of her life: a grave cancer diagnosis. Follow this tour de force over the course of an eventful and remarkable year as she struggles to hold her band The Dap-Kings together while battling her way back to the stage with the unstoppable determination of a true soul survivor</p>

<p>"Miss Sloane" is the story a ruthless lobbyist (Jessica Chastain) who is notorious for her unparalleled talent and her desire to win at all costs, even when it puts her own career at risk. The thriller pulls back the curtain on how Capitol Hill games are played and won as Sloane faces off against the most influential powers in D.C.</p>

<p>Stuck at a crossroads in her personal life, it falls on Miss Stevens to chaperone three of her students-Billy, Margot and Sam-on a weekend trip to a drama competition. Exploring the fine line between being a grown-up and being a kid, "Miss Stevens" is about students becoming teachers and teachers coming to realize that the messiness of youth never really goes away.</p>