Joerg Giessler

The humour is pitch-black and the cast a true pack of characters. You can find everything your heart desires in second-hand toasters and DVD players at the second-hand palace of the two choleric pawnbrokers, Jola and Wiesiek, who run the largest pawn shop in Poland. You can also have a sausage and a pat on the back if life is hard and your drunk husband has been a pain. But times are tough in the once bustling industrial town, and bankruptcy is looming until Jola and Wiesiek come up with a fresh idea to save the business and give the locals new hope for the town. 'The Pawnshop' is a darkly funny docu-comedy with a heart, and with moments of genuine caring. And though they snap both at each other, the customers and their three young employees, the two proprietors also see fit to give a homeless man a bowl of soup and a job shovelling snow, amid all the very low-level conflicts that surround them in their surreal Wunderkammer of a shop.

Lombard

Lombard (2022)

Danny Perez

Monique Perez

Jacques Perez

Brian Béla Schellenberg

What if everything you believed about yourself was a lie. The Last of the Winthrops explores the secrets and revelations of a woman who reclaims her sense of self after a life altering event. At age 49, Viviane Winthrop must confront the seismic truth that her father, Reginald Winthrop, who could literally trace his heritage to the founders of America, was not her biological father. When he and his beautiful French Canadian wife Claire have their "miracle child," Viviane is raised as an heir to the historic Winthrop exceptionalism. Through archival footage, private letters and recordings, the film follows Viviane on an epic journey across five countries and hundreds of years to reclaim her new identity, resolving powerful themes about the relationship between love, blood, and family.

The Last of the Winthrops

The Last of the Winthrops (2022)

Ziye Lin

Mao Xuewen

Ximeng Li

Jiayi Fang

Luo Zhi, a college girl, accidentally meets Sheng Huainan, her former crush.

My Blue Summer

My Blue Summer (2022)

Jennifer Laporte

Anwen O'Driscoll

Liane Balaban

Nicole Leroux

When lesbian teen Jaime is sent to live in a Jehovah's Witness community, she falls hard for a devout Witness girl and the two embark on an intense affair with consequences that will reshape the rest of their lives.

You Can Live Forever

You Can Live Forever (2022)

Michelle Rodríguez

Regina Blandón

Aislinn Derbez

Hermes Damian

With the Years That I Have Left

With the Years That I Have Left (2022)

James Cosmo

Catherine Walker

Nora-Jane Noone

Molly McCann

Howard, a retired sea captain, refuses any help from his daughter Grace. When she hires Annie as domestic help for him, Howard unexpectedly falls in love. He gives all his affection to Annie and her family, but rejects his own daughter. My Sailor, My Love is a story about a guilt-affected daughter-father relationship. But it's also a love story between two elderly people, proving that a new beginning is never too late.—Jimmy Karlsson and Kirsi Vikman

My Sailor, My Love

My Sailor, My Love (2022)

Tom Cruise

John Krasinski

Michael Bay

Oliver Stone

"Top Gun: Maverick" was the biggest hit of 2022, but audiences were largely unaware that a behind-the-scenes contract with Paramount gave the military the right to "weave in key talking points," edit the script, and screen the film before its release. This was not the first time, of course. Internal documents from the Pentagon's Entertainment Media Office praised its work with "Top Gun" (1986) as having "rehabilitated the military's image, which had been savaged by the Vietnam War." Naturally, the upper echelons of the military see Hollywood as a PR opportunity, but questions arise: How deep does this PR campaign go? How many films? What's the extent of script doctoring?Roger Stahl, a professor of communication at the University of Georgia, has studied the "military-entertainment complex" for a decade. He's aware that the military housed an office for doing business with Hollywood and TV, but the scholarly consensus was that it was a small-time operation that perhaps influenced a couple hundred films. Then he learns of two British researchers, Matthew Alford (University of Bath) and Tom Secker (freelance journalist), who obtained tens of thousands of pages of internal U.S. Defense Department and CIA documents through Freedom of Information Act requests. The documents confirm that the security state has exercised direct editorial control over at least 1,000 feature films and another 1,000 television shows.The DealProducers who want access to military hardware, personnel, and installations must visit the Pentagon offices in Los Angeles whose "entertainment liaison" in turn asks to review the entire script. Typically, producers receive several pages of line-by-line script change requests. If the producer makes the changes, they sign a contract, get the military goods to use as set pieces, and begin production with military oversight. If the military is unsatisfied with the script changes, or the producer refuses to make them, then there is no deal, and the producer walks away with what amounts to a competitive disadvantage in the movie business. This influence has a "chilling effect" on screenwriters even before their scripts land on the Pentagon's desk. The CIA has modeled their entertainment office off the military's. Professor Tricia Jenkins (author of The CIA in Hollywood) notes, however, that the CIA has found success by involving itself in preproduction and story conceptualization.Shot DownThe Pentagon's ability to deny assistance to a film or show is a powerful weapon. It began issuing more denials after Vietnam based on objections to forbidden themes the military internally calls "showstoppers." Such denials make productions more difficult and expensive. "Thirteen Days" (2000), for example, had to go to the Philippines to obtain equipment. A denial sometimes means a film is never made. Paramount Studios required producers to get military approval or it would not green light "The Hunt for Red October" (1990). Thereafter, virtually every Jack Ryan film (and the TV series) had Pentagon and CIA help. Films denied by the Pentagon often are never made. "Countermeasures" was to be a big-budget Touchstone film about weapons smuggling on an aircraft carrier. Although Sigourney Weaver had agreed to play the lead role, the Pentagon objected that "there is no need to denigrate the White House or remind the public of the Iran-Contra Affair." The film was never produced. A database maintained by the Pentagon Entertainment Media Office confirms that dozens of films have suffered this fate. Publicly, the Pentagon publicly says that it denies films that are "inaccurate," which is disingenuous. Internal documents show they were aware of authenticity and accuracy problems with "Top Gun," but they supported it nonetheless because it had PR value. At the same time, they have often denied films written or produced by veterans who experienced events firsthand. These include "Jarhead" (2005) and "Fields of Fire" from the late 90s, which was never produced. "Fields of Fire" is particularly dramatic as it was based on a book by Vietnam vet James Webb (former Secretary of the Navy) that is still required reading for Marine officers. It was rejected because it referenced drug abuse and war crimes. Army veteran Oliver Stone's films "Platoon" (1986) and "Born on the Fourth of July" (1989) were denied for similar reasons. In an interview, Stahl hands Stone his rejection letter for "Platoon." Stone talks about why the military's objections were self-serving and did not reflect concern for accuracy.How We KnowUntil recently, scholars assumed DOD and CIA influence was limited. The only major book on the subject was Guts and Glory by historian Lawrence Suid, which was remarkably uncritical of these practices. The DOD had apparently given him exclusive access to internal documents, which he kept in a private and inaccessible archive at Georgetown University. This provoked speculation about Suid's objectivity. In 2004, investigative reporter David Robb wrote Operation Hollywood, which used available documentation to argue that the entertainment office was engaging in propaganda. Suid attacked the book. Robb's work inspired researchers Matthew Alford and Tom Secker, however, who began making FOIA requests. They confirmed the DOD and CIA had worked on over 2,000 film and TV scripts. If individual TV episodes are counted, the number is over 10,000. Tricia Jenkins says that the CIA files are harder to crack. Meanwhile, Suid's death meant that his large archive of official DOD documents was opened to the public. In it, Stahl discovers evidence of a cozy relationship with the Pentagon, which may explain why his book was so favorable to the Pentagon's benign narrative.Projecting the InstitutionWhen it comes to the Pentagon office's interests, the most obvious is recruiting, which runs deeper than one might think. Beyond "Top Gun," the Navy turned a series of recruiting ads into the feature film, "Act of Valor" (2012), and the Air Force staged a massive "Captain Marvel" (2019) campaign to recruit young women. The CIA used "Alias" (2001-06) and Jennifer Garner to project a recruiting message and actually wrote the first draft of "The Recruit" (2003) starring Al Pacino and Colin Farrell. The Pentagon office is also interested in minimizing certain controversies like veteran suicide and racism in the ranks, which they remove from scripts. A big issue is sexual assault, which they have sought to replace (through perennially supported shows like "Army Wives" and "NCIS") with a story of how the victim refuses to talk but the military is so eager to find justice that they pursue the case anyway. This official storyline is at odds with the realities that victims report.The Soft SellOne of the main interests of the Pentagon is product-placing weapons systems in venues from History and Discovery Channel specials to feature films like the Iron Man and Transformers franchises. This is especially important for controversial systems like the F-35, which has been shoehorned into numerous productions. "Iron Man" (2008) is particularly dramatic. In the original script, Tony Stark goes to battle against the arms manufacturers, including his own father. After the film went through the DOD mill, however, the original script disappeared, Tony Stark inherited his father's business, and he became an arms dealer himself. This plot inversion allowed for the integration and celebration of military hardware. Apart from selling weapons, the Pentagon has endeavored to make the military the heroes of the story. They denied "Independence Day" (1996) because the aliens overwhelm the military and blow up the Pentagon (a scene that disappears from the final cut). Films like "Black Hawk Down" (2001) were an opportunity to take a military disaster and rewrite it as a triumphant rescue story. "Argo" (2012) functioned similarly for the CIA. The film's storyline, which the CIA had been pushing in Hollywood for years, de-emphasized the most unflattering aspects of the most embarrassing episode in CIA history and focused instead on the comparatively minor success of this single operation.On the RoadThe National Geographic Channel miniseries "The Long Road Home" (2017) was an Army-supported project filmed entirely at Fort Hood. It tells the story of an ambush on American soldiers outside of Baghdad in 2004, another military embarrassment. And like "Black Hawk Down" (2001), it turns the story of tragedy and mismanagement into a heroic rescue. Two veterans who were wounded in the ambush talk of how the show twisted the facts. First, "The Long Road Home" denigrated one character, Tomas Young, who later went on to be a prominent anti-war activist. Second, the show lionized the Battalion Commander responsible for the debacle and who, coincidentally, served as Chief of Army Public Affairs during the show's production. The veterans conclude that the changes in the show were part of a PR campaign. "That's not creative license," one says. "That's a cover-up."Skeletons in the ClosetThe CIA and Pentagon have scrubbed references to war crimes and other unsavory episodes from scripts. The CIA once rejected any mention of torture but after 9/11 began spinning it as necessary in shows like "24" (2002-14) and "Zero Dark Thirty" (2012). The Pentagon has removed mention of war crimes from a number of films, including "Lone Survivor" (2013). During a Navy-sponsored webinar, Stahl poses the question of why this was done the former Chief Information Officer, who defends the change even though it contradicted actual events. The Pentagon has also pushed to normalize the U.S. overthrow of foreign governments in supported films like "Iron Man" (2008, Afghanistan) and "The Suicide Squad" (2021, Latin America). The Amazon Prime series "Jack Ryan" (2018-19), supported both by the DOD and CIA, justified a U.S. intervention into Venezuelan politics at a time when the CIA was actually trying to stoke an insurrection to overturn a Venezuelan election. The Pentagon would also like viewers to forget about the dangers of American WMD's. They have removed references to Agent Orange and rejected films that insist on its portrayal. The same goes for any critique of nuclear weapons policy or the suggestion that keeping a large arsenal may itself pose a threat. In the case of "Godzilla" (2014), they removed speech about the horrors of Hiroshima and helped turn the franchise from a critique of nuclear proliferation into a celebration of the Bomb.Mission CreepThis is not just about war movies. Especially in the wake of recent unpopular wars, military PR has taken refuge in other genres like sci-fi and particularly reality TV - from game shows to home renovation to those that embed the viewer in overseas occupations. Recent Chief of Entertainment Media, David Evans, talks about "Inside Combat Rescue" (2013-16) as a particular success story for military PR. The military has also become more proactive through outreach and actively soliciting projects. Even though the office publicly denies pitching story ideas, the documents are rife with such activity. Evans' LinkedIn account plainly states that the office routinely intervenes the "concept and script development" stage.The Big PictureMilitary intervention in the entertainment industry is an important issue because of the degree of military intervention in other countries. The U.S. has a military larger than the next dozen countries combined and has been on a continuous bombing run since World War II. This kind of PR activity bolsters public support for these actions, creating another "cinematic universe," which has had enormous costs in terms of money spent and civilians killed. The question arises: What can we do about this propaganda effort? Part of the answer is legal. Because the DOD and CIA have blocked efforts at transparency, scholars suggest legal means for making this documentation accessible. And because the U.S. has laws against propagandizing to domestic populations, legislation could shut these operations down, automatically make documents public, or at least mandate disclosure of Pentagon and CIA support at the opening of a film or TV show. Such actions would arm audiences with critical tools "in a world" where the security state occupies so much cultural territory.

Theaters of War

Theaters of War (2022)

Bailey Bass

Heather McComb

Kate Orsini

Emily Koschella

Forced to transfer to a new school, Dylan quickly rubs reigning mean girl Tiffany the wrong way. Dylan's family offers to throw her a sweet 16 party to help her adjust, but Tiffany will stop at nothing to destroy Dylan's plans, including murder.—AndreaPomMom

Psycho Sweet 16

Psycho Sweet 16 (2022)

Corbin Bernsen

Kristanna Loken

Justin Nesbitt

James Faulkner

Find. Kill. Repeat. For hit man Smith (Paul Sidhu), these are the only words to live by. But a botched job in Colombia forces him to take a high-stakes open contract arranged by his handler, Mann (Corbin Bernsen). Smith's latest target? The hacker-activist Rousseau (Nick Moran), who has run afoul of corrupt corporations and powerful men like Silver (James Faulkner), the boss of a criminal empire. In the border towns of Mexico, Smith confronts local gangs, competing contract killers Botha (Gary Daniels) and Sykes (Kristanna Loken), and a crisis of conscience with deadly consequences.

Repeater

Repeater (2022)

Stephanie Bennett

Jonathan Cherry

Catriona Leger

Nate Sapriken

To save her father's lake-front restaurant, a talented interior designer must partner with the celebrity chef her father hired without her knowledge to revamp the place before time runs out.

Love for Starters

Love for Starters (2022)

Catharine Daddario

Jennifer Titus

Molly Hargrave

Amelia Still

Lydia moves to LA with her daughter Elle under mysterious circumstances, becoming the assistant principal at Bellview High where Elle is a senior. With her mom by her side, Elle won't stop to become homecoming queen and gain popularity.

Dying for a Crown

Dying for a Crown (2022)

Chris McHallem

Ernest Shackleton

Sven Habermann

Alexandra Shackleton

Ernest Shackleton died in his cabin in 1922 while on board The Quest, which was to be his final expedition. One hundred years later that same cabin has ended up in the hands of an esteemed historical object conservator called Sven Habermann, waiting to be restored to its former glory. With just one photograph of the cabin's interior in existence, Shackleton's thrilling story is brought to life through Sven's pursuit of all the original materials contained in the cabin. The documentary reveals previously unseen archive material which will bring the viewer deep into the world of Ernest Shackleton's fearless adventures. Contributors include Jan Chojecki whose grandfather financed the expedition, Alexandra Shackleton, Ernest Shackleton's grand-daughter and the world's greatest living explorer Ranulph Fiennes, who gives a fascinating insight into the mindset of an explorer.

Shackletons Cabin

Shackletons Cabin (2022)

Teresa Mo

Lai-Ying Tang

Jer Ying-Ting Lau

Ka-Ki Sham

Mei-fung was once a top artiste manager and helped produce some of the biggest stars for her record label. But when she got pregnant, she chose family over career. Today, Mei-fung is living a seemingly worry-free housewife life, but her 17-year-old son, Jonathan, is about to study abroad, and the gap between her and her husband is growing ever wider. All alone, she decides to get back in action and rediscover her values in life. Fong Ching is an orphan, and only works at the cafe to make ends meet, but his passion and talent have always been singing and dancing. Ching reignites Mei-fung's spark, except causing rivalry between her own son Jonathan and Ching. Most importantly, can Jonathan ever forgive Mei-fung and accept the new her? Keung To and Jer Lau, two members of the wildly-popular Hong Kong boy band "Mirror" are making their screen debut in this movie.

Mama's Affair

Mama's Affair (2022)

Emilio Sakraya

Peter Simonischek

Til Schweiger

Heiner Lauterbach

Kurt (Til Schweiger) and Lena (Franziska Machens) move together into an old house outside the city that is in need of renovation in order to be closer to Kurt's six-year-old son, little Kurt (Levi Wolter), and ex-wife Jana (Jasmin Gerat). But before their patchwork family happiness can really begin, little Kurt is killed in an accident - leaving behind three adults who don't know how to live with this tragic loss.

Lieber Kurt

Lieber Kurt (2022)

Jon McLaren

Celeste Desjardins

Alys Crocker

Jake Raymond

Zoey gave up her passion for wedding photography after her ex-fiancé, left her at the altar. But when a childhood friend insists her to be the photographer for her wedding, she is forced to confront her past, and allow love to return.

Picture Perfect Romance

Picture Perfect Romance (2022)

Peter Coyote

James Fox

Roger Leir

Jose Carlos Pereira

Moment of Contact is an exploration of extraterrestrial encounters, this one centered on a series of events in 1996 when citizens of Varginha, Brazil, reported seeing one or more strange creatures and a UFO crash. A number of locals, including a group of girls ranging in age from 14-21, had a close encounter with a being described as about 4 feet tall, with brown oily skin, a large head and huge red eyes.—1091

Moment of Contact

Moment of Contact (2022)

Ginna Claire Mason

Danny Burstein

Sara Bareilles

Patti LuPone

Follows the complex road to reopening Broadway, chronicling the hundreds of restaurant owners and staff, costume houses, designers and more.

Broadway Rising

Broadway Rising (2022)

Tammin Sursok

Madeleine West

Jason Wilder

Nicholas Cooper

As the Compliance and Outreach Manager for The Animal Discovery Institute, a non-profit animal rights organization headquartered in San Diego, Tilly Monterey finally gets a chance to lead the charge on the company's next project: an Australian penguin sanctuary in dire need of some financial assistance. Joined by her sister Gemma, Tilly journeys to The Crystal Bay Penguin Sanctuary, where she meets the local team including the wonderfully compassionate head zoologist, Fletcher Grant. As Fletcher teaches her more about the sanctuary's needs and Little Blue penguins that they house, it becomes clear to Tilly that planning a fundraising gala to bring more attention - and donations - to the sanctuary is the way to go. Given one week to complete the task, its all-hands-on deck as Tilly, Fletcher, Gemma and the team fundraise, promote, and prepare for the epic event. At first, Tilly and Fletcher have a very different approach to the cause, however, as they explore the luscious landscapes of Australia and harmonize their energy to give back, their efforts turn from jarring to motivating to ultimately pull off a successful gala. Through their time spent together - and with a little inspiration from the sanctuary's penguins - Tilly and Fletcher learn that once you open your heart and stretch your wings, you may just find the one you want to waddle through life with.—Incendo

Love and Penguins

Love and Penguins (2022)

Coley Campany

Kristina Cole

Ashton Leigh

Brittany Madelynn Daniels

When botanist Violet needs help preparing flower arrangements for a wedding, she calls upon Jack, a nature photographer. Can they ensure the wedding is a success, and find love in the process?

The Wedding Arrangement

The Wedding Arrangement (2022)

Mia Artemis

Tammy Macintosh

Jasmine Karam

Alex King

Three disconnected siblings find themselves living once again under the same roof when the father who abandoned them returns to their lives.

The Longest Weekend

The Longest Weekend (2022)

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