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Poster for Sunshadow

1996 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Susanna Edwards' follows Christina Sanchez, Spain's most successful female bullfighter, in this intimate, intense documentary about what it means to be a woman in a male-dominated sport.

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Poster for Palle Alone in the World

1949 · ★ 6.6 (5)

A young boy wakes up to find all other people have gone, leaving him free to do whatever he wants.

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Poster for Eat with

2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A young cockroach left alone in the house where an elderly woman lives. She struggles to survive, but the most unbearable thing is the loneliness

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2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Doudou, a fifth-grade kid, is indignant when his Dad vents frustration on him after his divorce. One day, Doudou meets a cyber friend named "men killer" on an app, which makes him embark on his project of making his Dad disappear

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Poster for Prey and Prayers

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Indigenous young man Bali follows his father into the mountains to hunt. His father calls it a day when he senses something is off. Bali refuses to leave until they catch something, but his father knows that Bali is about to learn a painful lesson.

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Poster for 九死一生之把一切献给党

1992 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for One Thousand Buddhas

2014 · ★ 7.0 (1)

A monk carves one thousand Buddha statues throughout the year to enter nirvana.

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Poster for Lullabye for a Storm

2013 · ★ 0.0 (0)

"Tungkung Langit" is a title that refers to the god in the Panay epic whose tears become rain, but in the short film, two young children do not weep but offer an intimate perspective into their lives as they speak to each other about their experience during a typhoon that devastated their city and left them orphans. Speaking to each other of their trauma through play and in the smallest of whispers before falling asleep becomes “a means by which these orphans heal”; the film reinforces and envisions this healing.

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Poster for Silent Voice

2009 · ★ 6.0 (25)

An elderly woman wants to meet her son’s murderer. A sixteen-year-old girl who has crossed paths with a young hoodlum needs an adult to accompany her to the prison visiting room. A young medical supplies delivery man is offered a deal to take the place of a gangster inmate so that the latter may escape. Two women, one man, three destinies that come together in the visiting room of a prison…

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2026 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Two upper-class wives, their husbands away for the day, share a few toasts to their pre-marital dalliances—with the same man, who just may be en route from France to visit. Old rivalries and past scandals bubble to the surface in this intoxicating romp from one of theatre’s comedy masters.

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2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

OCULTA (Hidden) is a short film about Marisa Zanabria’s experience living with Endometriosis. Created as part of the Argentine art exhibition Raíces Ocultas, the film explores the invisible reality of chronic pain through an intimate and poetic lens. Blending personal testimony with evocative imagery, OCULTA reveals what often remains hidden beneath the surface: pain, silence, and resilience.

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Poster for Florecer Lunar

2015 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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2006 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A short documentary showing the work of a Japanese researcher on jellyfish.

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Poster for Dog Life

2024 · ★ 7.3 (20)

Romina, a controlling lawyer, wants her daughter's affection. She offers rent for a recovering alcoholic's dog in exchange for a fake boyfriend role. Unexpectedly, it might turn real.

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2016 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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1989 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Teenagers Sarah and Debbie run away from home and find themselves on the streets of London.

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Poster for Everybody Loves Jeanne

2022 · ★ 6.2 (147)

Everybody has always loved Jeanne. These days, she hates herself. Up to her ears in debt, she has to go to Lisbon and sell her mother’s apartment, who passed away one year ago. At the airport, she runs into Jean, a whimsical and somewhat intrusive former high school classmate.

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Poster for In Place of Monuments

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

With somatic knowledge, Naima Ramos-Chapman sculpts a kinetic monument on the same rooftop in the name of healing and freedom-- where they were arrested at gunpoint as a teen in 2005. Filmed during the pandemic and in the midst of the BLM movement, they intend to liberate their own body through the process of rupturing memory with collective recall and dreaming in response to the state violence and the only virus that has truly plagued their family for generations: white supremacy. May this be a balm.

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Poster for Shadows

2021 · ★ 3.0 (1)

A high school senior and her Catholic family cope with her older brother who has returned from prison as a converted Muslim.

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Poster for Tenants

2016 · ★ 6.0 (1)

Max and Red live illegally in an abandoned communal apartment. On New Year's Eve, a third neighbor, Lera, comes to visit them.

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