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Poster for Uppo-Nalle

1991 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Little girl finds a teddy bear from the seashore. Reeta and Teddy Uppo form a deep friendship with each other, but what happens when Uppo meets an old hermit?

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Poster for Radical Age

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

60-year-old Neal Unger tests his limits on a skateboard. 70 year-old Ann Perez de Tejada is the world’s oldest female MMA fighter. Helen Lambin got her first tattoo at the age of 75. 86 year-old James Haake is the world’s oldest working drag queen. After 40 years, Zillah Minx’s band is still as punk as it’s ever been, and Stephen Leafloor is turning his decades-long passion for hip-hop into a powerful tool for change. Their stories are Radical Age, a documentary that proves it’s never too late to defy convention.

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Poster for I, Douglas Fairbanks

2018 · ★ 8.5 (4)

The dashing and dazzling Douglas Fairbanks was the movie star who "swashbuckled in Zorro, dueled exuberantly in Robin Hood and soared magnificently in The Thief of Bagdad"-- He was the "First King of Hollywood".

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Poster for Tortilla Soup

2001 · ★ 6.3 (51)

A Mexican-American master chef and father to three daughters has lost his taste for food but not for life.

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Poster for Merry Liddle Christmas

2019 · ★ 7.1 (23)

The messy family of a successful, super-together single tech entrepreneur descends on her gleaming new dream home for the holidays. Christmas traditions collide and family drama ensues as she struggles to keep her house together in time for a glossy video shoot of "the perfect Christmas."

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Poster for Reveal

2026 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A hard drive found at an archaeological site in Méier—an old suburb of what was known as Rio de Janeiro—reveals previously unseen images of the preparations for a festive ritual celebrated during the Years of the Outbreak: the gender reveal party.

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Poster for Curtain Up!

2020 · ★ 8.0 (1)

Curtain Up! follows elementary school kids in New York’s Chinatown as they prepare for a production and begin to discover themselves. Behind the scenes, they face families’ expectations and uncertainties post-graduation. Interestingly, it is through rehearsing for this American favorite that these kids come to grapple with their Chinese roots.

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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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A no-nonsense reality TV producer is sent to Georgia to oversee the reboot of the hit dating show Cowboy Hearts. She expects chaos behind the scenes, not romantic sparks with the cowboy himself. Now, with the cameras rolling and her job on the line, she'll have to decide if love is worth going off script.

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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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