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This Row House original reel is composed of the best classic movies, re-made by amateurs who replace A-list stars and CGI with whatever is laying around their houses and a ton of creativity. It’s odd, unexpected, and a whole lot of fun.

Sudan’s first Oscar submission, YOU WILL DIE AT TWENTY is a visually sumptuous “coming-of-death” fable. In a remote village, a young man and his mother grapple with the fear of dying at the age of 20 after a mystic prophecy deems him cursed.

Narrated by the legendary Meryl Streep and featuring artists like Nick Cave, Laurie Anderson, and David Byrne, MUSEUM TOWN tells the story of a unique museum, the small town it calls home, and the great risk, hope, and power of art to transform a desolate post-industrial city.

Emerging filmmaker Gillian Wallace Horvat directs and stars as a semi-fictionalized version of herself in this hilarious and disturbing mockumentary. The lines between art and real life begin to blur when Gillian realizes she’s good at getting away with murder.

Daniel, a young man recently released from a Warsaw juvenile detention center, is prevented from applying to a seminary due to his violent background. So, he impersonates a priest in a small town parish whose residents are still dealing with the effects of a recent tragedy.

Welcome to The Villages — a massive, self-contained, utopic community of retirees located in Central Florida. This documentary goes behind the palm-tree lines gates and invests in the dreams and desires of a small group of village residents who are unable to find happiness within the community’s pre-packaged paradise for a tender and surreal look at life, death, and aging.

COLLECTIVE is a gripping, real-time docu-thriller that follows a heroic team of journalists as they expose shocking corruption in the Romanian national health-care system.

This unpredictable documentary follows the story of the greatest soul man you’ve never heard. Starting a life sentence for murder in the early 1970s at age 19, music prodigy Ike White had plenty of time to perfect his musical talent, but little hope of putting it to use in the outside world…

In this short film, award-winning local filmmaker Jose Muniain and writer Brian Broome tackle American racial myths and misconceptions via the interactions of a young Black man and his white teacher.

Long known internationally through only a mangled and dubbed reedit, IKARIE XB 1 — a visionary work of Eastern Bloc science fiction — can now be enjoyed in all its avant-garde, space-age modernist glory. An inspiration for Kubrick’s 2001, this landmark Cold War sci-fi finds the unknown both terrifying and wondrous.