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Poster for Crossing Over

2014 · ★ 1.0 (1)

Three transgender Mexican immigrants navigate different stages of political asylum in Los Angeles - all striving to establish stability and support systems in a foreign city.

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Poster for The Fist

2022 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Shot on 35mm film, The Fist is an intimate portrait of a modernist style factory – the first Guinness brewery built outside of Ireland and the UK, located in Nigeria, 12 miles from the centre of Lagos on the Ikeja Industrial Estate. Completed in 1962, in the wake of Nigeria’s independence from Britain, the factory is a site where interwoven histories of industrialisation and labour are brought into focus. Observing the comings and goings of workers, and the factory’s assembly and packing lines, Akingbade perceptively highlights the deep-rooted politics embedded in the beverage’s production.

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Poster for Within Limits

2009 · ★ 7.0 (3)

The documentary follows Finnish MPs in spring 2008 during committee debates on a bill raising health‑care and daycare fees. Over several intense months, it offers a close-up on four parliamentarians navigating closed-door discussions, party strategies, and public opposition. Despite heated arguments and political maneuvering, the bill proceeds largely unchanged.

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Poster for Hormones and Other Demons

2003 · ★ 2.0 (2)

Eduarda (Eddi) wants to become a woman, but what makes a woman? Maybe breasts help? She goes on holiday with her family and meets Lukas. Unfortunately, she is not the only family member who wants to feel attractive. Are we really defined by what others see?

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Poster for Carlo and Ester

1994 · ★ 3.2 (4)

A pair of octogenarians meet, fall in love, and have a passionate love affair, much to the horror of their disapproving children.

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Poster for La trattativa

2014 · ★ 7.5 (83)

What are we talking about when we talk about negotiations? About the state's concessions to the Mafia in exchange for ending the massacres? About who assassinated Falcone and Borsellino? Of the eternal coexistence between the Mafia and politics? Between the mafia and the church? Between the Mafia and law enforcement? Or is there more? A group of actors enacts the most relevant episodes of the affair known as the Mafia-state negotiation, impersonating mobsters, secret service agents, high officials, magistrates, victims and murderers, Freemasons, honest and courageous people, and courageous people up to a point. Thus one of the most intricate events in our history becomes an exciting tale.

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Poster for Tokyo Rendezvous

2008 · ★ 5.4 (5)

A salaryman debates selling his grandfather's land to pay off his father's debt.

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Poster for Lorsque l'enfant paraît

2025 · ★ 6.0 (1)

After World War II, the orderly life of a deputy secretary of state for family affairs, who had succeeded in closing brothels and increasing penalties for abortion offenses, is turned upside down when he learns on the same day that his wife is expecting a child and that his son has impregnated his secretary! This is only the beginning of a series of unexpected events that will shake up the foundations of this bourgeois family...

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Poster for Recursion

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

We record, broadcast and replicate our images on an unprecedented scale. Observing and seeing.

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Poster for Queen of the Morning Calm

2019 · ★ 4.2 (4)

Follows 29-year-old immigrant sex worker Debra, and her self-aware 10-year-old daughter Mona, as they embark on a journey of emancipation. Debra attempts to escape cycles of abuse and poverty while learning to become a more nurturing mother and discovering her own self-worth.

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Poster for Strawberry Fields

1997 · ★ 5.7 (3)

After a visit from the ghost of her sister, a rebellious 16 year old Japanese American girl hits the road with her boyfriend in search of a better life. Hooking up with activist friends along the way, she comes to an important realization about her past: that her parents were incarcerated in an internment camp during World War II. She detours her road trip, ditches her boyfriend and drives off into the Arizona desert in a determined search for the truth that will set her free.

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Poster for Mi Gober Precioso

2007 · ★ 5.0 (3)

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Poster for Where are you?

2011 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for 当代人

1981 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Tell Me I’m Worthless

— · ★ 0.0 (0)

Adaptation of Alison Rumfitt's dark, unflinching haunted house novel that takes readers from the well of the literary gothic, up through Brighton’s queer scene, and out into the heart of modern day trans experience in the UK.

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Poster for Fragments of Paradise

2022 · ★ 6.5 (4)

For over 70 years, Jonas Mekas, internationally known as the "godfather" of avant-garde cinema, documented his life in what came to be known as his diary films. From his arrival in New York City as a displaced person in 1949 to his death in 2019, he chronicled the trauma and loss of exile while pioneering institutions to support the growth of independent film in the United States. Fragments of Paradise is an intimate look at his life and work constructed from thousands of hours of his own video and film diaries-including never-before-seen tapes and unpublished audio recordings. It is a story about finding beauty amidst profound loss, and a man who tried to make sense of it all... with a camera.

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Poster for Made Public

2019 · ★ 5.4 (7)

On the eve of his wedding day, a groom's cold feet go viral, forcing him and his bride to rely on the court of public opinion to save-or destroy-their marriage.

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Poster for The Delta Girl

2018 · ★ 2.0 (1)

Seventeen year old Magnolia is torn between right and wrong at the height of the Civil Rights movement in 1964 Mississippi. Her views are challenged by her best friend Delilah, who hides a dangerous secret.

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Poster for Tarpaulins

2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

As an essay film, 'Tarpaulins' is a minute look at Los Angeles' tiniest inhabitants, termites, and at the same time a zig-zag attempt to grasp the macrocosm of the city's vast landscape.

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Poster for Dancing Trees

2009 · ★ 1.0 (1)

Martha (Katie Boland), 18, sees the world as animated and fun. She has a form of autism that means she is a mathematical genuis whilst incapable of looking after herself. Living in a dull routinewith her cousin Nicole (Brooke Burns), and mother Josephine (Amanda Tapping), she sees the good in everything and everyone. But suddenly, her mother is the casualty of a brutal crime before her eyes and Martha is sent to a foster home. Nicole is distraught and battle for custody of her cousin, but the police constantly block her requests. Finally, Detective Velez relents, on one condition: Martha must help solve the crime and find justice for her fallen mother.

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