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Poster for Saute ma ville

1968 · ★ 6.3 (53)

A young girl shuts herself away in her apartment and goes about her business in a strange way, as she wastes the night in the kitchen – humming all along.

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Xiao Wu, A Tu, and Jack, who grew up together, retake their high school entrance exams at 17, just before turning 18. All three experience their first love. Xiao Wu and A Tu participate in a car-themed social event and both develop feelings for Aya, though they keep their feelings hidden. Xiao Wu, seeing himself attending a third-rate school, decides to drop out and pursue Aya openly. Their romance is finally revealed, but they can’t escape the lessons of growing up as Xiao Wu fulfills the mandatory military service. Aya and A Tu are drawn to each other, disregarding their friendship. At 17, their relationship abruptly ends in pain and loss.

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Poster for Carnaval dos Deuses

2010 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Jacob, Mairun and João are 6 years old and are making their carnival costumes for the school party. Ana does not participate in the activity because she believes that carnival is a sin. This situation causes surprise among her little friends who start a conversation about their different religious backgrounds.

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2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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2015 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Precocious and brave-faced Eleanor needs to pass "The Egg Baby Experiment" in Health Class. But, when her assigned partner turns out to be her ex-best friend, Michael, she learns that accountability in friendship is as fragile as their Baby Egg.

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2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The video resembles a nursery rhyme about different months, but within the poetic lines looms allusions to a planetary catastrophe. In a transformed world, resilient creatures like cockroaches, coyotes, and fungi are ready to take the stage.

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Poster for Our Little Pond

2021 · ★ 0.0 (0)

I'm the only one who can't live without an oxygen tank in the underwater world. No matter how suffocated I feel, I preserve peace and harmony by pretending the selfish girl and my friends with complicated family backgrounds don't bother me.

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Poster for Real Boys Against The Zombie

2020 · ★ 5.9 (11)

An ancient Permian Komi virus was brought to Perm, which is gradually turning the inhabitants into zombies. A year later, the city is cordoned off by the military, scientists are trying to find an antidote. The planes are dropping food. But the heroes, like the rest of the inhabitants of Perm, have adapted to the new reality. They live an ordinary life: they go to cafes, do business, make plans for the future and try to clear the city of zombies on their own. Everything is getting better until one of the usual post-apocalyptic days Leroux is not bitten.

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Poster for Heaven Hell

2005 · ★ 6.0 (3)

A young priest comes to a town to help the old provost in pastoral ministry. It early May, the parish prepares for the First Communion. Unexpectedly, the provost is admitted to hospital with a heart attack. Priest Piotr is on his own now in a completely new place. At a catechesis, one of the girls catches his attention. She’s sad, introvert and sometimes even aggressive. Marta is a daughter of the richest man in the town. During her confession, the priest feels she’s hiding something. When the time of Sacrament reception comes, Marta runs away from the altar. After hours of searching, priest Piotr finds her hidden in a vestry. The girl tells him the horrible truth.

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Poster for Soif

2014 · ★ 6.0 (1)

A woman plays out her existence on the screen of her life. Alcohol is the essence of her being. She imbibes her youth and becomes completely absorbed by the desire to satisfy her thirst. Moving from parties to binge drinking, pleasure to distress, joy to delirium, she lets herself be lulled by the undulating waves of bottles. She floats in the intoxicating liquid, sees her childhood re-emerge, and feels as if she is a tiny fish lost in an ocean of madness. Her craving for alcohol engenders a burning passion. Drinking becomes a fatal embrace... On the verge of drowning in the torrent of this insane obsession, will she find the strength to rise to the surface?

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Poster for Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets

1989 · ★ 5.0 (1)

Maria Beatty's documentary exploring the insights and influences of the American Beat Poets. The film conveys their consciousness and sensibility through interviews with William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Diane Di Prima, among others. Also weaves in additional commentary from contemporary musicians, poets and writers such as Marianne Faithfull, Richard Hell, Lydia Lunch and Henry Rollins. Also expands upon how the poets reached new levels of creativity and inspired social change.

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Poster for Why Your Crush Doesn't Have a Crush on You?

2013 · ★ 5.8 (13)

Sandy Veloso is a modern-day ugly duckling who is obsessed with her boyfriend. After being dumped by her beau, Sandy is left to ponder why she feels unwanted. Matters turn worse for Sandy when she gets laid off from the company she is working at.

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Poster for Araya

1959 · ★ 7.0 (31)

"Araya" is an old natural salt mine located in a peninsula in northeastern Venezuela which was still, by 1959, being exploited manually five hundred years after its discovery by the Spanish. In images, the life of the "salineros" and their archaic methods of work before their definite disappearance with the arrival of the industrial exploitation.

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Poster for Dissolution, histoire d'un séisme politique

2024 · ★ 8.0 (1)

Misunderstood by the French, Emmanuel Macron’s dissolution of the National Assembly on June 9, 2024, led to an unprecedented political deadlock. This documentary examines whether he miscalculated, why he took such a risk, and whether this signals a deeper institutional crisis in the Fifth Republic.

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Poster for Sandpaintings

1992 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Two Navajo-inspired figures explore symbols and their meaning. Piano music by VR inventor and philosopher Jaron Lanier. A pioneering film using VPL DataGlove motion tracking to animate the sign language hand. Art is not to be feared.

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Poster for no more room in hell

2023 · ★ 0.0 (0)

"no more room in hell" began with initial research conducted at the archive of horror director George A. Romero (Dir. Night of the Living Dead) housed at the University of Pittsburgh. Extending research beyond the archive, the film examines the implications of zombiehood in relation to industry, late techno-capitalism, and apocalyptic realities. The experimental cinematic work models itself after Romero’s cult classics which birthed the American cinematic zombie against the industrial backdrop of Western Pennsylvania.

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Poster for The Holiday Swap

2022 · ★ 6.0 (5)

When two strangers mistakenly pick up the wrong piece of luggage at the airport, each must use the intriguing contents within to track down the other's whereabouts in time for Christmas.

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Poster for 27 September

2021 · ★ 5.5 (2)

The story is about life, love, and nirvana. Siddharth (42) is in the holy city of Banaras for the first time. One day at the ghat he sees and instantly gets hooked with the aura of Malvika (38). He is at a loss for words as this is the same girl whom he saw 17 years ago while crossing the road. Is destiny playing a game with him? Is it mere attraction? Graceful, Soulful, and Cheerful Malvika clear all his illusions as she believes in the flow of mystical energy. The undercurrents make them bond together to explore many hidden facets and at the same time, Malvika feels some interruptions. She is waiting eagerly for the sunset of 27th September. Will destiny would be kind enough to their coming together?

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Poster for Sisters' Busy Hands

2020 · ★ 6.0 (1)

There are many things that a woman's hands can do but wiping tears off is not one of them. This is Meng Meng Betel Nut Stand run by three women, which offers comfort to the residents in this small seaside town.

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Poster for Without Leon

2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Leon, Flavia’s partner for eight years, has died. As Flavia mourns her loss, she is also confused, overwhelmed by daily tasks and situations which make her feel fragile and incomplete. Her very life is an unknown. Lucia, Leon’s daughter by his former wife, barges into Flavia’s life in search of the father gure who is no longer around. Her encounters with the child confront her with her own doubts and desire of being a mother. Flavia will have to resign herself to the fact that a life project has ended, and learn to find a new one.

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