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Poster for In Sudden Darkness

2020 · ★ 5.0 (2)

A slice of life film set in the Bronx, New York—In Sudden Darkness follows the life of the Moores, a working-class family trying to stay afloat in the midst of a city-wide blackout.

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Poster for Regard Noir

2021 · ★ 4.5 (2)

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Poster for Girasol

2016 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Disco Inferno

2015 · ★ 8.5 (2)

An infernal civil servant is on a mission to rescue her boss. But the Devil is not ready to get back to her daily routine.

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Poster for 11’09”01—September 11: India

2002 · ★ 7.0 (1)

It is September 11, 2001, and a young man goes missing in New York. Because of his eastern name and his Islamic religion, he is suspected of being involved in the World Trade Center attack. The FBI inquire about him. The neighbors of his family show their disapproval. His family hold out hope that he will be found and exonerated. (Originally appeared as a segment of the omnibus film 11’09”01—September 11, but later presented as a separate short film.)

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Poster for The Other Voice

2022 · ★ 3.5 (2)

It is parliamentary election spring 2019. Jukka, a professor from the University of Helsinki and a first time candidate, is walking to the kick-off event, and is determined to change the lousy University Act. At the same time, education and science professionals, Gaela, Lena and Taina, go through their own battle to be able to teach and research - struggling with law case, layoffs, lack of resources and dysfunctional structures. However, the biggest resistance is The Finnish anti-education and anti-science Government, which changes every four years.

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2015 · ★ 2.0 (2)

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Poster for The Last Resort

2026 · ★ 0.0 (0)

When a Danish family finds themselves on a holiday island, in the midst of the first major refugee crisis in Europe in our time, our northern European, well-intentioned, humanistic values are put to the test.

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Poster for Extracts

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Extracts is a short film with images from 1970 to 1972 in the cities of Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, London, Marrakech, Rabat and the Sahara Desert region. The images were filmed by Helena Ignez and Rogério Sganzerla in exile, in the "leaden years" of the military dictatorship.

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Poster for Calorie

2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Calorie follows three generations of women whose present and past collide during an emotionally packed summer in India. Monika is a stressed-out single mom of two teens, calorie-obsessed Alia and rebellious Simi. She decides to send her girls to India to visit their great aunt and uncle. Monika hopes that connecting her daughters to their Punjabi roots will set them straight. But what begins as a reluctant trip soon turns into a transformative coming-of-age journey. Amid culture shock, family clashes, and unexpected bonds, Alia and Simi discover a hidden family tragedy that Monika has kept hidden from them and whose wounds threaten to splinter the entire family in this bittersweet female-driven drama.

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Poster for Cow

2022 · ★ 6.4 (62)

A close-up portrait of the daily lives of a pair of cows: told by way of some narrative-free, intimate POV photography, with plenty of close shot images, we follow the daily routine of these animals as they live what can only be described as mundane, boring lives - all with an ultimate purpose within the human food chain.

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Poster for Freakonomics

2010 · ★ 6.1 (126)

Some of the world's most innovative documentary filmmakers will explore the hidden side of everything.

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2013 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In the form of an anthology film, travelers and hosts encounter one another in four different places in Europe via an internet-based hosting network called “Couchsurfing”. In Stuttgart, the Swabian publisher Annette meets the Polish master in the art of living Pawel, while her niece Nina is expecting a big fiesta in Spain, but meets only a deaf old man. In parallel Matti, a freshly minted high school graduate, hopes to find a great adventure in Paris, while the two Erasmus students Reka and Alma wander through Frankfurt desperately seeking their hosts. In the quest of adventure, diversion or just an authentic travel experience, encountering people whom one never would have met otherwise and so they are confronted not only with counterparts, but also with themselves.

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Poster for Lefty Lucy

2018 · ★ 7.0 (1)

A night in the life of Lucy a, self proclaimed, "open minded" driver for a new share-ride app. as she navigates through conversational customers with conflicting, yet also, open minded views.

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Poster for Pure

2019 · ★ 5.5 (56)

Teen girls perform a secret ritual at a Purity Retreat and, when one of them begins to see a supernatural entity, the terrifying question becomes what is more dangerous: the demon they’ve unleashed, or the pressure of their controlling fathers.

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Poster for Knitwits

1997 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Saturday afternoon in a knitting store in New York City.

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Poster for Late Night

2019 · ★ 6.4 (853)

A legendary late-night talk show host's world is turned upside down when she hires her only female staff writer. Originally intended to smooth over diversity concerns, her decision has unexpectedly hilarious consequences as the two women separated by culture and generation are united by their love of a biting punchline.

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Poster for Loverboy

1989 · ★ 6.1 (171)

Randy Bodek works as a pizza delivery boy at Señor Pizza to make a few extra bucks. Some customers are special, though: When the order is for a pizza with extra anchovies, it means the female customers are looking for some loving. But, as Randy soon learns, life as a professional gigolo can get pretty complicated.

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Poster for Maaginen Marla

2016 · ★ 2.0 (2)

Magical Marla is a story about a girl whose sense of reality becomes blurred as magic creeps into her life. Is it all just imagination, or are the nosebleeds a sign of awakening powers?

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Poster for Dawn

2015 · ★ 7.2 (6)

Dawn is a quiet young teenager who longs for something or someone to free her from her sheltered life.

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