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Poster for Gift for the Living

2005 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Inspired by the O. Henry short story "Gift of the Magi", Gift for the Living is a story about a grandmother and her granddaughter who, without the other's knowledge, sell their most treasured possession in order to buy the other a birthday gift. In the granddaughter's quest for the perfect gift, she discovers her grandmother's rich and unique history, a history her grandmother never spoke of. Gift for the Living is a story about love, friendship, loss and sacrifice.

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Poster for Die Hebamme - Auf Leben und Tod

2010 · ★ 6.0 (3)

The heroine is a traveler between worlds and times. Between the authorities of 1813, the church and science, Rosa Koelbl remains a stranger. The time is not yet ripe for the values ​​this woman embodies.

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Poster for Un dîner pas si parfait

2026 · ★ 10.0 (1)

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Poster for Happy & Gay

2014 · ★ 1.0 (1)

A revisionist history document reflecting the form of a 1930’s-styled cartoon musical.

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Poster for The Dying World

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Astrid lives torn between two worlds: a boundless, sterile office and a desolate blue realm composed of trash she struggles to recollect. When she finds a door to her childhood bedroom, she feeds what’s left of it to her only friend, Crow, who wonders how much longer she can live in these fragmented realities.

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Poster for Tamar Was Kidnapped

1973 · ★ 6.5 (2)

Dato’s friends learn that his lover Tamriko is getting married to another man. They decide to get Tamriko and Dato closer to each other. They ask Tamriko a nurse, to go with them in the ambulance outside the city. Tamriko learns that she is kidnapped and demands that she is brought back home. However, Tamriko gets to like the company of her "kidnappers" and stays.

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Poster for The Naked Travellers - One Night Special

2022 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Celebrate the 10th anniversary of Nans & Mouts adventures, two men who realize their dreams without any clothes or money.

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Poster for Here Out West

2022 · ★ 4.7 (3)

A baby is kidnapped from hospital by a desperate grandmother. Her flight sets off a chain of events that bring together complete strangers over the course of one day.

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Poster for Dark Whispers - Volume 1

2019 · ★ 5.7 (7)

When Clara discovers her deceased mother’s revered ‘Book of Dark Whispers’, she can’t stop reading the strange stories within its mystical pages. Each weird tale reveals a new facet of the twisted human psyche… or the not-so-human, as the case may be. From the horror of grief to sharehouse living disaster, from existential dread to right-swiping vampires, there’s something for all tastes; as long as those tastes are twisted!

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Poster for Have Tig at Your Party

2008 · ★ 0.0 (0)

"Have Tig at Your Party" is a video of comedian Tig Notaro standing still for one hour, filmed from the waist, up. Tig acts as though she is at the viewers own personal party, using limited dialog, in the hopes of blending into any situation. Another option on the DVD, is an infomercial hosted by comedians Sarah Silverman and Angela Hoover. During the infomercial, Sarah and Angela try to sell the live audience on the possible amazing benefits to having Tig at their parties. With the help of pre-recorded testimonials from several comedians and actors, it becomes clear to the audience that having Tig at their party, is something they should not live without. The third option is the unedited testimonials from the infomercial. Finally, fans of Tig's comedy will be happy to know the fourth option contains a segment of her stand-up.

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2005 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The film follows Vincent Schiavelli as he returns to Polizzi Generosa, the very town in Sicily his grandparents emigrated from in 1901.

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2004 · ★ 10.0 (1)

A documentary on an autistic woman's inner world, her writing, and the friends she made while in college.

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Poster for City by the Sea, or how to survive in Venice

1970 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Yannick Bellon's documentary paints a portrait of a city torn between the problem of unsanitary housing, pollution corroding walls and statues, and the recurring and increasing floods—all consequences of human activity. Faced with job shortages and rampant speculation, the overarching question arises of how industries can coexist with the city of Venice. Allowing them to develop risks destroying it; driving them out risks turning it into a museum, causing its inhabitants, and thus its soul, to leave.

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Poster for Dounia: The Great White North

2024 · ★ 7.0 (4)

Now settled, Dounia and her grandparents slowly get to know Canada, the new home that welcomed them: its intense seasons, its special foods, its languages (three and counting!). Dounia’s grandparents are sure to keep their Syrian traditions alive at home, while her new friends share traditions of their own, like Rosalie’s French-Canadian lifestyle or Miguizou’s vast indigenous folklore. So while she still misses her dad who stayed back in Aleppo, Dounia now has new ways to keep him with her. It’s when Kukum, Miguizo’s grandmother, teaches Dounia to call her father with all of her heart, that he just might find his way back to her.

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Poster for Pumpkin Walks Around the Garden

1997 · ★ 8.0 (1)

A humorous story-musical about a pumpkin, the host of a vegetable garden, his wife and many relatives and friends. They all live nearby and often solve some of their living problems. Cucumbers want to play, and the carrot-girls are waiting for worthy suitors. Here there are festivals and folk rituals and the work around which life revolves of vegetable villagers.

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Poster for Song & Story: Amazing Grace

2021 · ★ 1.0 (1)

Follows two women who find that their paths are intertwined, and have a surprising connection.

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Poster for 24 Days in Brooks

2007 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Over the course of a decade Brooks, Alberta, transformed from a socially conservative, primarily white town to one of the most diverse places in Canada as immigrants and refugees flocked to find jobs at the Lakeside Packers slaughterhouse. This film is a portrait of those people working together and adapting to change through the first-ever strike at Lakeside.

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Poster for Sound of Sun

2017 · ★ 7.5 (2)

The discovery of self-awareness in a twisting venture between dreams and reality. (The first piece of the director's Transformational Trilogy)

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Poster for Tag der Wahrheit

2015 · ★ 6.6 (4)

The truth about the ailing state of the Haut-Rhin nuclear power plant in the tri-border region is to come to light - this is the goal of the assassin David Kollwein. He brings the power plant in his power and extorted policy and operating company. The German prosecutor Marie Hoffmann has only three hours to procure explosive information together with the French policeman Jean-Luc Laboetie and to prevent the meltdown in the reactor ...

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Poster for Chuck Berry: Rock and Roll Music

1992 · ★ 8.0 (4)

A pioneer in the world of rock-'n'-roll guitar, Chuck Berry has created a legacy that spans decades. Berry performs some of his greatest hits and all-time favorites in this concert video that was filmed on September 13, 1969 at 'Toronto Rock'n'Roll Revival.' The Concert includes the songs "Rock and Roll Music," "Long Live Rock and Roll," "Johnny B. Goode," "Promised Land," "Carol," "Hoochie Koochie Man," "Maybellene," "Too Much Monkey Business," "Reelin' and Rockin'," "Sweet Little Sixteen" and "In the Wee, Wee Hours."

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