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Atsuko's Story (2020)
Character: Atsuko
The surprisingly funny coming-of-age story of one Japanese-American undocumented immigrant.
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The Gaybysitters Club (2019)
Character: Claudia
When tomboy Kristi finds out her best friend Maryann might be dating a boy, she calls an emergency club meeting. But just why is Kristi so upset? Could it be that she's never come to terms with her own sexuality?
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Littlerock (2010)
Character: Atsuko Sakamoto
A pair of Japanese siblings get stranded in small-town California and become friends with other twentysomethings they meet, despite the complete lack of a common verbal language.
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Pearblossom Hwy (2012)
Character: Atsuko / Anna Sakamoto
Friends Cory and Anna are drifting through life, struggling to find their place. Cory is sick of life in the desert and wants to be on a reality show so he can prove to his brother that he isn't a screw-up. Anna is in the country illegally, selling sex to save enough money to take her citizenship test. When Cory's brother visits and Anna's dying grandmother takes a turn for the worst, the two are forced to examine the direction of their lives
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Lake Los Angeles (2014)
Character: Atsuko Sakamoto
After crossing into the U.S. with no family to speak of, young Cecilia finds herself in the charge of Francisco, a lonely Cuban immigrant long separated from his own family. Francisco operates a way station for border crossers on the outskirts of Lake Los Angeles, a surreal, desiccated lakebed in the California desert. While he copes with the alienation of living alone in a foreign land and the impossibility of realizing the American dream, Cecilia aimlessly wanders the dusty landscape, accompanied only by her fantastical imagination and distant memories of motherly love.
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Brentwood Strangler (2015)
Character: Female Victim
It's the Christmas season and a lonely woman goes on a blind date unbeknownst to her that her date is an active and notorious serial killer, The Brentwood Strangler. Is this love at first sight? Or the worst (and last) date of her life?
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Bigfoot Famous (2021)
Character: Dr. Jessica Tanaka
When a viral video of Bigfoot emerges, a once popular influencer goes on a mission to film a vlog with Bigfoot and regain her fame.
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The Day of Forevermore (2016)
Character: Bluebird of Happiness
A deeper exploration of the relationship between a young witch (Colette Weber Shaw) and an old witch (Marnie Weber) who has sold her soul to the devil.
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Discreet (2017)
Character: Mandy
After years in hiding and struggling to control his demons, an eccentric drifter returns home and discovers that his childhood abuser, the center of his pain, is still alive.
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Scare Package (2019)
Character: Ray
Chad Buckley is super crazy about horror movies, but also very lonely. He mostly spends his days in his small movie shop having wild discussions with his only returning customer, Sam.
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Outcome (2026)
Character: Unis Kim
Reef Hawk, Hollywood's poster child since age six, is not okay. When he learns about an extortion plot tied to a mysterious video, Reef preemptively sets out on a redemption tour to make amends, confront his demons, and avoid getting canceled.
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
Character: Yuri (voice)
After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters the Spider Society, a team of Spider-People charged with protecting the Multiverse's very existence. But when the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles finds himself pitted against the other Spiders and must set out on his own to save those he loves most.
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Let Them Die Like Lovers (2017)
Character: Ms. Lea
Fantastic Shorts award-winner Jesse Atlas (RECORD/PLAY) returns to the section with an arresting sci-fi character study about a body-hopping assassin.
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Ronny Chieng Takes Chinatown (2022)
Character: Self
Ronny Chieng and David Fung try and put together a charity event for a struggling restaurant in Chinatown that has deep ties to the community. First they need to raise their clout.
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Atsuko Okatsuka: Father (2025)
Character: Self
Fans call her 'Mother,' but Atsuko is 'Father'—thriving professionally yet clueless about basics. A 7-year laundry hiatus and learning that marriage licenses precede weddings are just some hilariously relatable discoveries she shares in her special.
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Kid Icarus (2008)
Character: Atsuko
18-year-old Leigh lives in a trailer park on the outskirts of Los Angeles, attends community college, has no real friends and works part time at Home Depot. With an obsession for Steven Spielberg and enrolled in a film production class, he sets out to make his cinematic debut. He hopes the film will be his ticket out of his mundane life and into a world of popularity, women and success. And he just may be on his way, if he doesn't self-destruct first.
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Group Therapy (2024)
Character: Self
A thoughtful and humorous navigation of personal conversations on mental health, through the lens of a group therapy session led by some of today's funniest comedians and comic performers.
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Atsuko Okatsuka: The Intruder (2022)
Character: Self
Comedian and actress Atsuko Okatsuka brings her brand of ingenious, offbeat storytelling to the Elsewhere stage in Brooklyn, New York where she dishes on the futile art of impressing teenagers, attending a “Magic Mike Live” show with her grandmother, and the alarming reactions that she and her husband had to the unwanted presence of an intruder.
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All That We Love (2025)
Character: Raven
Following the death of her family dog, Emma finds herself at a crossroads where grief and release play together: a midlife awakening is now in full throttle, and those closest to Emma feel the impact, including her best friend Stan and her rambunctious daughter Maggie. To make matters more complicated and ripe for comedic mishaps, Emma's estranged ex-husband Andy returns to the city from Singapore down on his professional luck and aiming to rekindle things with his lost love.
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Wallflower (2019)
Character: Strobe Rainbow
A man planning to commit a mass shooting at a rave is befriended by an eccentric group of partiers and finds himself conflicted about his intentions. Based on the real-life 2006 Capitol Hill Massacre in Seattle.
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Unbound (2017)
Character: Nishi
"Unbound" is an allegorical short film set in turn-of-the-century Japan. A young woman, Kitsune, works at a mysterious silk factory in order to save her destitute family. Soon she finds herself entangled in a disturbing metamorphosis as her body transforms into a Silkworm and she becomes the commodity that the factory is selling.
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Elio (2025)
Character: Ambassador Naos (voice)
Elio, a space fanatic with an active imagination, finds himself on a cosmic misadventure where he must form new bonds with eccentric alien lifeforms, navigate a crisis of intergalactic proportions and somehow discover who he is truly meant to be.
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Estuaries (2022)
Character: N/A
After the death of his partner, Eli turns to the recently deceased’s artist friends for a hand with his immigration, but some of them have ulterior motives.
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When I've Wanted To Die (2018)
Character: Young Grandmother
An autobiographical short film adapted from a collection of memories from various moments in this woman's life where she wanted to die.
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Good One: A Show About Jokes (2024)
Character: Self
Follow Mike Birbiglia from Providence, R.I. to Washington, D.C. as he builds jokes based on personal truths, mixing comedy with revelations and anecdotes from family and his fellow comedians.
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GODKRUSHER (2023)
Character: Imogen Cools-Lartee
After receiving a tip from an anonymous fan, an emotionally stunted yet popular video blogger becomes absolutely obsessed with hunting down the truth behind one of the most controversial video game of the 1980s.
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