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Logline: Set against the warring conflict in the province of Bougainville in Papa New Guinea, story follows 13-year-old Matilda Laimo and her mother, Dolores, as they are unified with the rest of their village in their efforts for survival. Amid the chaos, Mr. Watts, the only white local, offers to fill in as the children’s schoolteacher and teaches from Charles Dickens’s “Great Expectations.”

Logline: An animal activist must protect the small town he is currently doing research in when a tiger begins attacking its inhabitants.

Logline: On the eve of the Presidential Iowa primary, a novice criminal tries to outfox an overwhelmed Iowan police force and rob several banks with his equally amateurish friends.