어느 여름날 저녁 뉴욕의 한 아파트에서 지적이고 말쑥한 두 젊은이 브랜던 쇼와 필립 모건은 단지 스릴을 맛보려고 대학 친구를 로프로 목졸라 살해한다. 시체를 상자 속에 숨긴 그들은 샴페인으로 살인을 자축한다. 곧 그 방에서 칵테일 파티가 열리는데 초대받은 참석자 중에는 죽은 친구의 부모와 약혼녀 그리고 그들의 대학 시절 은사인 루퍼트 콜뎀 교수도 끼어있다. 브랜던은 시체를 숨겨둔 상자 위에서 식사를 하자고 하고 은근히 자신의 범죄를 암시하는 말을 하는 등 자신의 범죄를 즐기는데...
명문 파리 고등사범학교에서 가장 인정받는 수학 천재 ‘마거리트’는 세계 난제 ‘골드바흐의 추측’에 관한 연구를 증명하는 세미나에서 오류를 범하고 만다 그날 이후 충격에 빠져 학교를 그만둔 ‘마거리트’는 새로운 세상을 마주하며 변화하기 시작하는데•••
아너에게는 뚜렷한 목표가 있다. 바로 지도 교사 캘빈의 추천을 발판 삼아 하버드에 입학하는 것. 아너는 경쟁자들을 제칠 작전을 짜지만 가장 강력한 경쟁자 마이클을 좋아하게 된다. 그때부터 아너의 계획이 삐걱대기 시작한다.
A quantum physicist is about to have the breakthrough of the century, but as he closes in on his goal, versions of him from parallel realities force him to untangle the mystery of his own existence; how to be a present father for his son.
A tenure-obsessed English professor accidentally takes a student's life. Desperate to protect his career, he makes a fateful decision, sending his life spiraling out of control.
Staying is a choice.
Six California kids test their brains and talents against students in Odyssey of the Mind, a problem-solving competition requiring mechanical, creative and intellectual skills. With little money and zero adult participation, the teens build a robot to tell a story about bullying, exclusion and mental health. But how does their solution measure up?
A haven for Black intellectuals, artists and revolutionaries—and path of promise toward the American dream—Black colleges and universities have educated the architects of freedom movements and cultivated leaders in every field. They have been unapologetically Black for 150 years. For the first time ever, their story is told.
오랜 세월 새로운 통신 기술을 연구해 온 ‘조지’는 한 대학교의 후원을 받아 천재적 두뇌를 가진 ‘톰’과 연구를 이어간다. 그러던 어느 날, 우연히 통신기가 외계로부터 온 시그널을 감지한 ‘톰’. 욕망에 눈이 먼 그는 위험한 실험을 감행하고 놀라운 변화를 맞이한다. 그러나, 실험의 부작용으로 ‘톰’은 점점 원래의 모습을 잃어가는데…
Paywall: The Business of Scholarship is a documentary which focuses on the need for open access to research and science, questions the rationale behind the $25.2 billion a year that flows into for-profit academic publishers, examines the 35-40% profit margin associated with the top academic publisher Elsevier and looks at how that profit margin is often greater than some of the most profitable tech companies like Apple, Facebook and Google.
A merited female scientist is at an international conference and realises that a male moderator is explaining her own theory back at her, until a remark from the audience wakes both speakers and listeners.
Virgil, a college writing student, hopes to have his latest story published, but he must first get over one major hurdle before his work gets out to the world, his mercurial writing professor Richard Laymen.
The repercussions are immediate when activist history professor Arthur Collins - out of frustration - assigns his class to design a plan to assassinate the President of the United States. Life becomes particularly tough for the professor's teaching assistant T.K., whose reluctance to choose a side plants the young man right in the middle.
After receiving some bad news, a New York escapes to Southern Indiana to visit her old friend, a frustrated sex researcher. The two women embark on a local road trip through a place that has seen better days. Part road trip, part meditation, part improvised fiction, part documentary, Rosehill is a film about crisis and eternal change, the darkness and resilience of the human spirit.
What begins as an enquiry on things that mean other things itself becomes a thing that means other things, too. And whatever exactly that thing is, the latest by one of Canada’s most ingenious auteurs is another astounding feat of cerebral and cinephilic dexterity.