Author: Josh Hornbeck

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Marona’s Fantastic Tale (2020) | June 6

Marona, an innocent and empathetic little female dog, remembers the life she has shared with different masters, whom she has loved unconditionally. – JustWatch.com

Director: Anca Damian

Cast: Lizzie Brocheré, Bruno Salomone, Thierry Hancisse, Nathalie Boutefeu, Shirelle Mai-Yvart, Maïra Schmitt, Georges Claisse

Country: France

Distributor: GKIDS

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hour, 32 minutes

Platform: Hoopla

Special Programming: Family Films

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Gretel & Hansel (2020) | June 5

A long time ago in a distant fairy tale countryside, a young girl leads her little brother into a dark wood in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon a nexus of terrifying evil. – JustWatch.com

Director: Oz Perkins

Cast: Sophia Lillis, Samuel Leakey, Alice Krige, Jessica De Gouw, Charles Babalola, Fiona O’Shaughnessy, Donncha Crowley

Country: United States

Distributor: Warner Bros.

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 1 hour, 27 minutes

Platform: Hulu, Prime Video

Special Programming: Midnight Movies

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Lingua Franca (2020) | June 5

Olivia, an undocumented Filipina immigrant paranoid about deportation works as a caregiver to a Russian-Jewish grandmother in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, NY. When the man she’s secretly paying for a green card marriage backs out, she becomes involved with a slaughterhouse worker who is unaware that she’s a trans woman. – JustWatch.com

Director: Isabel Sandoval

Cast: Isabel Sandoval, Lynn Cohen, Eamon Farren, Ivory Aquino, Lev Gorn, P.J. Boudousqué, Andrea Leigh, Leif Steinert, Roman Blat

Country: United States

Distributor: ARRAY Releasing

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hour, 35 minutes

Platform: Netflix

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Apparition (2012) | June 5

Tucked away in a remote forest, the convent of Adoration is inhabited by a group of nuns seeking a peaceful life of devotion and discipline, filling their days with nothing but mundane chores and prayers. But the wish for a life in isolation is threatened when President Ferdinand Marcos declares martial law, and political protests and chaos begin to infiltrate every corner of the archipelago. Suddenly, the nuns find themselves engulfed in violence and unrest that will eventually put their faith and conscience to the test. – JustWatch.com

Director: Isabel Sandoval

Cast:Mylene Dizon, Jodi Sta. Maria, Raquel Villavicencio, Rustica Carpio, Fides Cuyugan-Asensio, Star Orjaliza, Madeleine Nicolas

Country: Philippines

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hour, 27 minutes

Platform: The Criterion Channel

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Señorita (2011) | June 5

Wanting to quit sex work in Manila and start a new life, Donna, a transgender woman, gets her chance when an old friend asks Donna to look after her 12-year-old son Tomas while she works overseas for a year. Donna moves to a small town to look after Tomas only to find out that the town mayor who is seeking re-election is a crony of one of her regular clients back in Manila. In her efforts to break away from her past, she becomes entangled in the town’s local politics and ends up leading a double life. – JustWatch.com

Director: Isabel Sandoval

Cast: Isabel Sandoval, Publio Briones III, Dominic Milano Palomo, Richard Manabat, Stella Palomo Monteño

Country: Philippines

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hour, 40 minutes

Platform: The Criterion Channel

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Finding ‘Ohana (2021) | June 5

Two Brooklyn siblings’ summer in a rural Oahu town takes an exciting turn when a journal pointing to long-lost treasure sets them on an adventure, leading them to reconnect with their Hawaiian heritage. – JustWatch.com

Director: Jude Weng

Cast: Kea Peahu, Alex Aiono, Lindsay Watson, Owen Vaccaro, Kelly Hu, Branscombe Richmond, Chris Parnell, Marc Evan Jackson

Country: United States

Distributor: Netflix

Rating: PG

Runtime: 2 hours, 3 minutes

Platform: Netflix

Special Programming: Family Films

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The Other Lamb (2020) | June 4

A girl born into an all-female cult led by a man in their compound begins to question his teachings and her own reality. – IMDb.com

Director: Małgorzata Szumowska

Cast: Michiel Huisman, Raffey Cassidy, Denise Gough, Eve Connolly, Kelly Campbell, Isabelle Connolly, Charlotte Moore, Zara Devlin

Country: Ireland

Distributor: IFC Midnight

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hour, 37 minutes

Platform: Hulu

Special Programming: Midnight Movies

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Martin Eden (2019) | June 4

The tale of an individualist proletarian in a time marked by the rise of mass political movements. In early 20th-century Italy, illiterate sailor Martin Eden seeks fame as a writer while torn between the love of a bourgeois girl and allegiance to his social class. – JustWatch.com

Director: Pietro Marcello

Cast: Luca Marinelli, Jessica Cressy, Vincenzo Nemolato, Marco Leonardi, Elisabetta Valgoi, Pietro Ragusa, Carlo Cecchi

Country: Italy

Distributor: Kino Lorber

Rating: TV-PG

Runtime: 2 hours, 5 minutes

Platform: MUBI, Kanopy

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