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Poster for Tokeru

2016 · ★ 3.0 (1)

Mako is worried about her future, afraid to be stuck all alone with a baby in the countryside, just like all the young people of her age. While her friends stay busy by having sex, she has her own way to keep her mind off boredom.

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Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema was followed for a year by filmmaker Mijke de Jong, from crisis meetings to television interviews and from public appearances to closed-door sessions, as the right to protest clashed with public safety.

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Poster for Field of Blackbirds

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Syla, a tortured former political prisoner from Kosova, realizes that his political idealism destroyed his life. After twenty years of mundane life in London, he returns home to confront his troubled past.

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Poster for DAU. Natasha

2020 · ★ 5.6 (43)

Natasha runs the canteen at a secret 1950s Soviet research institute. This is the beating heart of the DAU universe, everyone drops in here: the institute's employees, scientists and visiting foreign guests. Natasha's world is a small one, split between the demands of the canteen during the day and alcohol fuelled nights with her younger colleague Olga, during which the two confide their hopes of romance and for a different future. At a party one evening Natasha becomes close to a visiting French scientist Luc Bige and the two sleep together. The following day her life takes a dramatic turn when she is summoned to an interrogation by the KGB's General Vladimir Azhippo who questions the nature of her relationship with the foreign guest.

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Poster for The Present

2020 · ★ 7.3 (52)

On his wedding anniversary, Yusef and his young daughter set out in the West Bank to buy his wife a gift. Between soldiers, segregated roads and checkpoints, how easy would it be to go shopping?

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2009 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A gang of teenagers in Rödeby, Sweden had since Dec 2006 harassed and bullied a 19-year-old boy with a developmental disorder. The boys father steps in to protect his son.

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2026 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A mother visits her young adult child's squalid house on Mother's Day.

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Poster for Scars

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Vetri decided to find her fellow former child soldiers. They, like her, fought for the independence of the Tamil state in northern Sri Lanka. Talking together, they open up the traumas of war and reveal stories that were meant to be forgotten.

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Poster for Abandoned: Angelique's Isle

2018 · ★ 6.2 (6)

Angelique's Isle is the true story of a harrowing tale of perseverance and survival that unfolds during the great copper rush of 1845, when newlyweds ANGELIQUE, a young Ojibway and CHARLIE, her voyageur husband, are left stranded and forced to survive a brutal and harsh winter on their own in the wilderness.

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Poster for He Hated Pigeons

2015 · ★ 4.6 (7)

A young man travels from the Northern Atacama Desert to the southern Patagonian edge of Chile on a cathartic journey of the spirit and to fulfill the wish of his mysteriously deceased lover.

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Poster for C'est La Vie

1990 · ★ 5.9 (69)

A story is about young teenage girl, with sister and brothers, a pleasant uncle and aunt, an annoying nanny, a young boy interested in kissing her, a close relationship with the imaginary addressee of her daily diary and her parents' disintegrating marriage - all this in a rented house in a summer resort.

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Poster for Christmas with You

2022 · ★ 5.8 (233)

Feeling career burnout, pop star Angelina escapes to grant a young fan's wish in small-town New York, where she not only finds the inspiration to revitalize her career but also a shot at true love.

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Poster for The Novice

2021 · ★ 6.4 (210)

A college freshman joins her university's rowing team and undertakes an obsessive physical and psychological journey to make it to the top varsity boat, no matter the cost.

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Poster for Great Journey

1987 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A tale about how the hippopotamus Topa and the kitten Tutti made a journey to a distant mountain and felt the joy of discovering a great and beautiful world.

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Poster for The Party's Over

2025 · ★ 6.5 (8)

Illegally arriving in Spain, young Senegalese immigrant Bilal evades the police and finds refuge in an Andalusian manor house. Discovered separately by the capricious lady of the house, Carmina, and the maid, Lupe, Bilal's sanctuary turns into a perilous prison.

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Poster for The Limits of Work

2017 · ★ 8.0 (2)

Working conditions in the worst-paid jobs in the Czech Republic were examined by journalist Saša Uhlová during six months. She spent several weeks in a hospital laundrette, poultry house, cash register or waste sorting facility. Her experience became the basis of a lived and very personal report of invisible employees working in appalling conditions. Uhlová wrote a series of reports on her project that were published on the Alarm website. Apolena Rychlíková made them into a documentary film consisting of scenes shot at Uhlová's home and video footage taken during her work. Uhlová accompanies the picture with read commentary.

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Poster for My Favorite War

2020 · ★ 7.0 (10)

Ilze Burkovska, a little girl who is obsessed with stories of World War II and will be a filmmaker in a distant future, lives in Latvia under the totalitarian boot of the Soviets and the ominous shadow of the many menaces and horrors of the Cold War.

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An East German student protest of the early 1990s, revisited by former acting students of Rostock’s “Ernst Busch” Academy.

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Poster for The Persian Version

2023 · ★ 5.9 (36)

When a large Iranian-American family gathers in New York City for the patriarch’s heart transplant, a family secret is uncovered and catapults the estranged mother and daughter into an exploration of the past.

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