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Poster for I Saw The Sky

2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Contemporaries of “Perestroika” recall their hopes, expectations, and disappointments associated with it. Turning to emotional memory, they realize themselves not only as witnesses and eyewitnesses, but as real participants in the story.

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Poster for Where to, Miss?

2015 · ★ 6.8 (4)

Becoming a taxi driver is Devki`s biggest wish. To reach this goal, Devki has to stand up first to her father, then her husband and at the end even her father-in-law. Devki's story in 'Where to, Miss?' tells us, why it is difficult for Indian women, to step out of their deep embedded roles.

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Poster for The Still Point

1986 · ★ 1.0 (1)

Fifteen-year-old Sarah is at a crisis point in her life — she has to cope with deafness, her mother's boyfriend, peer group acceptance and an increasing sexual awakening.

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2011 · ★ 6.2 (4)

A short film about a supermom who takes care of everyone except herself.

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Poster for The Unseen

2005 · ★ 5.8 (4)

Set in small-town rural Georgia, a man returns to his hometown to face the deep-rooted racial tensions of a deep southern town that ages, but never changes.

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Poster for Windfall

2012 · ★ 4.5 (12)

Wind power... It's green... It's good... It reduces our dependency on foreign oil... That's what the people of Meredith, in upstate New York first thought when a wind developer looked to supplement this farm town's failing economy with a farm of their own — that of 40 industrial wind turbines. Attracted at first to the financial incentives, residents grow increasingly alarmed as they discover side effects they never dreamed of, as well as the potential for disturbing financial scams. With wind development growing rapidly at 39% annually in the US, WINDFALL is an eye-opener for anyone concerned about the future of renewable energy.

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Poster for Quand les anges s'en mêlent

2006 · ★ 2.0 (2)

Esther is a want-to-be author, trying to get her first novel published . She is about to get married to David, a young doctor. She feels quite unconfortable between her mom harassing her with the wedding preparation, her sister urging her to think twice before, her fiancé who falls for her best friend and a clairvoyant who tells her she will meet another man pretty soon. When she runs into Adam, a childhood friend, something clicks in her. She decides to reinvent her life. It is now time for her to make a real choice

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Princess Seraphina discreetly steps away from her royal obligations and adopts a new identity as aspiring writer Sarah Jennings in the small town of Chandler. After renting a guest house from Logan Hayes, a post-doctoral researcher striving to secure funding for his heart research, their growing bond faces challenges stemming from her concealed identity and the demands of her royal responsibilities.

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Poster for Cocoon

2024 · ★ 5.5 (2)

After receiving a gift from a mysterious stranger, a 7-year-old boy begins collecting small, delicate objects, retreating into the quiet sanctuary of his bedroom, his cocoon.

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Poster for Three Screaming Vaginas

2024 · ★ 6.0 (1)

Three Screaming Vaginas is a triptych short film which interweaves three respective intimate stories. It immerses us in the daily lives of three women, revealing to us the challenges and splendors of the vaginal experience, with humor and sincerity.

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Poster for I See You

2022 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A short film that follows the journey of a small group of women and genderqueer artists through a facilitated 5-day retreat as they use their art to explore and question their relationship with their bodies and their sexual health. The work of the retreat was to use somatic inquiries to examine the social conditionings of shame that are built around female and genderqueer bodies and their experiences with sexual health.

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Poster for The Jade King

1993 · ★ 0.0 (0)

On his way to Mecca for his pilgrimage, a young Orphan goes to Beijing, where is starts to learn about the art of jade crafting.

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Poster for They're Coming!

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Father finds his daughter in a zombie apocalypse.

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Poster for Boys

1972 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Zhenya Prokhorov, a pupil of an orphanage, draws the attention of the director of the capital's choir school. The professor strongly advises Zhenya to study. Having become a soloist in the boys' choir, Zhenya does not refuse from "left" concerts organized by the enterprising Victor Victorovich - and one day tears his voice. The young hero bears the first loss with dignity, and after graduating from the school enters the conservatory at the faculty of composition.

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Poster for Lili Alone

2021 · ★ 5.7 (3)

Lili, a young mother, lives with her gambler husband in a remote part of Sichuan. Lonely and poor, she heads for the city in a bid to earn enough money to save her dying father.

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2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Short film for the Action! 2020

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Poster for Lola, 15

2017 · ★ 2.0 (1)

LOLA, 15 is the first film in an upcoming series called LET ME GET WHAT I WANT THIS TIME. Its a short, formal documentary which intimately observes the sacred spaces of a fifteen year old girl named Lola. The larger series will examine many more of these spaces across a wide range of race, class, location and culture. The painful process of shedding adolescence is actualized in this highly curated interior--a sanctuary and visible elegy to childhood. Through languid drifts across the details of Lola's bedroom, a secret language is revealed.

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Poster for Ethnographic Films

1929 · ★ 7.5 (1)

These documentary sketches were made when the famed novelist was an anthropology student seeking to preserve a record of African American life in the rural South. Includes Children's games and baptism - Miami, Aug. 1929; Children's games and man with ax - April 1928; Children dancing and girl rocking on porch - Jan/Feb 1929; Baseball crowd and boy dancing capers Jan/Feb 1929.

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Poster for The Eighties

1985 · ★ 5.9 (9)

All of the time and effort put forth to stage a musical is chronicled here in this bright and funny French outing. The story is set at a shopping mall where people audition for an upcoming show. Afterwards, they are seen going through the grueling routines of learning the music and rehearsing.

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Poster for Prince and the N.P.G.: Diamonds and Pearls Video Collection

1992 · ★ 7.2 (4)

Prince and the new power generation music video

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