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2025 · ★ 5.0 (1)

Kabaddi is a high-energy team sport originating in South Asia played between two teams of seven players on a divided court. The sport combines elements of tag, wrestling, and tactical invasion. A game of strategy, that has evolved from ancient Indian military training exercises. In Alia Syeds film, the choreography plays out with bodies in slow motion.

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Poster for Eminem: Count Me In

2023 · ★ 6.8 (4)

Rapper, record producer, songwriter, and actor, Eminem has a wide range of talents. Despite his struggles, this rap artiste has won the hearts of critics and fans alike, earning more than a dozen Grammy awards.

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Poster for Greener Mountains

2005 · ★ 4.9 (7)

Greener Mountains is a family friendly, coming-of-age story about finding your place in the world.

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Poster for 1957 Hati Malaya

2007 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Four young Malaysians, Salmi, Razak, Ani and Angee have been assigned to do a picture book of ‘1957’. While two of them grudgingly carry out the request made by the publisher, Zahari, one of them takes on the role enthusiastically. Along the way, they find themselves immersed in the characters, emotional moments, identifying with and finding meaning in the struggle of ‘1957’. They weave the story of independence by transporting themselves back to the past. Ordinary Malaysians who fell in love, and found their love for the country override their personal emotions. The present characters find new meaning to ‘Merdeka’

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Poster for Kathmandu Lullaby

2011 · ★ 6.1 (28)

Kathmandu, Nepal, early 1990s. Laia, a young teacher from Catalonia, Spain, works at a local school in the slums of the city where poverty reigns. Her personal path, besieged by a harsh sum of indescribable social conditions, will be a struggle against a nefarious educational system, but a journey of self-discovery as well.

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Follows a family in crisis where a teenager, her grandfather, and his trusty basset hound struggle to keep the household together at Christmas.

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Poster for Maïco : Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier, la révoltée

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Communist, resistance fighter, deportee, Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier is one of the great heroines of the 20th century. Nicknamed Maïco, she became a photojournalist and embraced the class struggle at the same time as she fell in love with one of the figures of the Popular Front, Paul Vaillant-Couturier. During World War II, she joined the Resistance and later gave decisive testimony at Nuremberg.

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Poster for Business Bag

2024 · ★ 10.0 (2)

Under Riyadh’s moonlit hustle, Salim’s routine shatters when mischievous aliens whisk his bag away, launching him into an unexpected adventure.

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Poster for Bug Diner

2024 · ★ 6.5 (10)

A dissatisfied marriage, a secret crush, and workplace fantasies come to a head in a diner run by a mole with a hot ass.

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Poster for 中秋奇妙游

2021 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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2013 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In the flow of ordinary days and thoughts trying to outrun the wind, sometimes there is a situation when it is necessary to make a choice and give up your sincere loneliness.

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Poster for Like Father, Like Daughter

2019 · ★ 10.0 (1)

On the day Taiwan passes its same-sex marriage law, Wen-de’s daughter is at home, celebrating her new engagement to her girlfriend.

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Poster for Hello From Taiwan

2020 · ★ 10.0 (1)

After a year of separation, a young Taiwanese American girl and her mom struggle to reconnect with her dad and two older sisters across familial and cultural divides.

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Poster for Theatre of War

2018 · ★ 7.2 (13)

Theatre of War is an essay on how to represent war, performed by former enemies. British and Argentinian veterans of the Falklands war come together to discuss, rehearse and re-enact their memories 35 years after the conflict.

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Poster for The Shield Around the K

2000 · ★ 8.5 (3)

Profiles the birth and growth of the punk rock DIY record label, K Records, based in Olympia, Washington.

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Poster for The Ornament of the Lovestruck Heart

1919 · ★ 6.2 (3)

The first film directed by influential German-born silhouette animator Lotte Reiniger is delightfully reminiscent of a Valentine’s Day card come to life. Two lovers interact with an ornate background that shifts and changes in tandem with their own balletic movements as they express their feelings for each other.

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— · ★ 0.0 (0)

Details of the project remain under wraps, but the film is said to be inspired by Mizuno’s own dance background.

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2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In a dystopian society, Mariam, like all citizens, receives a government call precisely 24 hours before her predetermined death informing her of her final day.

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Poster for Through Your Eyes

2026 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In an effort to understand where she came from, Fabiola asked a question that became the central phrase of the film: what would my life have been like if I'd stayed in Haiti? Taking as her starting point her biological mother's precarious economic situation, she had no choice but to entrust her daughter to her care. Fabiola could have ended up restavek, or in a loving foster family, or on the streets abandoned to her fate, or adopted abroad.

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Poster for Beginning

2020 · ★ 5.7 (45)

In a sleepy provincial town, a Jehovah’s Witness community is under attack from an extremist group. In the midst of this conflict is Yana, the wife of the community leader, whose familiar world is slowly crumbling around her. Meanwhile, a detective intrudes on her home with devastating consequences.

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