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Poster for Total Control

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Alex Irving, an Indigenous woman, gets media attention after her heroic action. Her life then changes when the prime minister recruits her as a senator.

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Poster for Dressing Room

2024 · ★ 7.0 (1)

'Dressing Room' follows Margot, a burlesque dancer in the 1980s, struggling with the mounting pressure of being a woman performer. Due to looming realities she's facing in her personal life, as well as an unfavourable view of herself in comparison to her fellow dancer Penny, Margot worries about the future of her career. This short is where the male gaze, body image, womanhood, and the spotlight all come to a head.

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Poster for Classroom Delusions

2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

After a bombing at the school, the father of terrorist Jung Hae-sung sues teacher. The teacher goes around to get a petition with a lawyer and meets the people around Hae-sung. Through them, the teacher hears a story about Hae-sung that he did not know.

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Poster for Unrest

2017 · ★ 6.9 (49)

When Harvard PhD student Jennifer Brea is struck down at 28 by a fever that leaves her bedridden, doctors tell her it’s "all in her head." Determined to live, she sets out on a virtual journey to document her story—and four other families' stories—fighting a disease medicine forgot.

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Poster for My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow

2025 · ★ 10.0 (1)

American filmmaker Julia Loktev, born in the Soviet Union, returned to Moscow in 2021 to make a documentary on the persistence of independent media journalism in Putin’s Russia—just months, as it turned out, before the country’s invasion of Ukraine. Structured in five chapters, Loktev’s film is an extraordinary vérité document of a moment of immense change and anxiety.

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Poster for Miss Cherry's Love Puzzle

2013 · ★ 5.0 (1)

Prospective writer Aeng-Doo lives with So-Young, Yoon-Jin and Na-Eun. Aeng-Doo and her 3 friends do not have much in common except that they all don't have boyfriends. One day, Aeng-Doo happens to find a rejected work from an annual spring literary contest on the street. Since then, the lives of Aeng-Doo and her 3 friends begin to slowly change.

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Poster for Last Party 2000

2001 · ★ 6.1 (10)

Filmed over the last six months of the 2000 Presidential election, Phillip Seymour Hoffman starts documenting the campaign at the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, but spends more time outside, in the street protests and police actions than in the orchestrated conventions. Hoffman shows an obvious distaste for money politics and the conservative right. He looks seedier and more disillusioned the campaign progresses. Eventually Hoffman seems most energized by the Ralph Nader campaign as an alternative to the nearly indistinguishable major parties. The high point of the film are the comments by Barney Frank who says that marches and demonstrations are largely a waste of time, and that the really effective political players such as the NRA and the AARP never bother with walk ins, sit-ins, shoot-ins or shuffles. In the interview with Jesse Jackson, Hoffman is too flustered to ask all of his questions.

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Poster for Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber

2005 · ★ 4.3 (72)

Katya Livingston, a self-centered, obnoxious and conceited 28-year-old ad sales exec, won't let anything or anyone stand in her way in getting to the top of the San Francisco social ladder. When tax inspectors question her claims Katya is forced to keep a financial diary and finds time to add details about her friends, enemies and lovers all from her unique point of view.

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Poster for Cash for Gold

2024 · ★ 8.6 (5)

Struggling to save her home from foreclosure and stay sober after her military husband's death, Grace goes to work for her small town's only Muslim family and is forced to come face-to-face with the demons that threaten to pull her under.

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Poster for Maa Inti Bangaram

— · ★ 0.0 (0)

Samantha plays a newly married woman who visits her in laws' house. The family appears normal and traditional, but something is off. They underestimate her, not knowing that she carries a violent past and has come with a clear mission.

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Poster for First Lady of BMF: The Tonesa Welch Story

2023 · ★ 10.0 (3)

Inspired by the true life of Detroit native Tonesa Welch. It charts Welch's rise from a teenager's mother to a drug dealer, she is referred to by federal prosecutors as "The First Lady of the BMF"

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Poster for How to Rig an Election: The Racist History of the 1876 Presidential Contest

2023 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The most hotly contested presidential election in U.S. history did not take place in 2020, or even 2000. It took place 11 years after the Civil War and ended in a backroom deal with devastating consequences still felt to this day.

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Poster for My Heavenly City

2023 · ★ 7.0 (1)

Three interrelated stories about life in New York City: A lonely interpreter; two young hip-hop dance enthusiasts; and a couple struggling to cope with their mentally ill son. They inspire one another in their journey of finding hope in this seemingly heavenly city.

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Poster for The Year of the Everlasting Storm

2021 · ★ 6.5 (9)

Featuring seven stories from seven auteurs from around the world, the film chronicles this unprecedented moment in time, and is a true love letter to the power of cinema and its storytellers.

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Poster for SAYOUNARA

2018 · ★ 6.2 (9)

When Yuki's classmate suddenly dies, rumors begin to spread about her death and the relationships between Yuki and her classmates are disrupted amidst grief and forced normalcy.

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Poster for Call of Cuteness

2017 · ★ 6.1 (7)

While we watch the ‘cat fail’ of the day in cheerful safety, all that remains invisible in this neoliberal nightmare catches up with us. The cat’s body is consumed, exploited and controlled. The fear of pain is greater than the will for freedom. Objects are fetishized and subjects are made into things – quantifiable and ready for use. They are the natural commodity for a luxury they are not even aware of. We are here, because you were there – and waste is disposed of in the sea. In the end, the bodies reveal the causes and effects of power, lust and hate.

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Poster for Alerte à Paris!

2006 · ★ 4.0 (3)

Laurence Renoux, chef du service des maladies tropicales et infectieuses dans un hôpital parisien, est inquiète. Depuis quelques jours, elle est confrontée à une épidémie de source inconnue dont les symptômes s'apparentent à une méningite fulgurante, et qu'elle ne parvient pas à endiguer.

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Poster for Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession

2004 · ★ 7.1 (39)

A documentary on the Z Channel, one of the first pay cable stations in the US, and its programming chief, Jerry Harvey. Debuting in 1974, the LA-based channel's eclectic slate of movies became a prime example of the untapped power of cable television.

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Poster for Brujas

2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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— · ★ 0.0 (0)

A story about death at an airport

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