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Poster for Torn Apart: Separated at the Border

2019 · ★ 6.3 (3)

Two mothers who were each separated from their children in the United States for months after fleeing from danger in their homelands to seek asylum work with pro-bono lawyers and volunteers to reunite with their kids who have been placed thousands of miles away from them with little access to communication.

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1978 · ★ 0.0 (0)

An experimental film set during the transition period after the death of Franco that explores Basque identity and state oppression of the Basque population.

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2009 · ★ 0.0 (0)

37 year old sales manager Iwatsu is so caught up in work, he's unable to truly live his life. One night while looking at his graduation album on his phone, he receives a sudden call from a girl named Kana. He's taken to his hometown Kobe, where he lived as a teenager. Slowly, by way of Kana, Iwatsu's past is resuscitated.

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Poster for Vanakkam Chennai

2013 · ★ 5.8 (13)

Tricked by a fraudster, Ajay and Anjali are forced to stay in the same flat. They gradually warm up to each other and start getting romantic notions but the arrival of Deepak, Anjali's fiance, puts them in a dilemma.

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Poster for Syntagma

1983 · ★ 6.0 (5)

The body and specifically the "woman's body" is often used as a focus for questions of origin, subject-object relations, political resistance and sexuality. Valie Export's notion of "body language" poses an ironic relation to these questions that acknowledges "the end of the body" or at least the final break with the way in which we understand it to be a biological, existential, or metaphysical entity. Export has broken away from any notion of unity - either body, space, or time - into the fragmented world of doubling and difference that is caught in representation.

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Poster for The Good News

2008 · ★ 6.4 (5)

Miguel is appointed parish priest of a socialist town coinciding with the uprising of 1936. In his struggle to defend the reprisals, the young priest will face the ecclesiastical and military hierarchy, putting his own life at stake.

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Poster for I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School

1993 · ★ 5.8 (5)

An unflinching verité portrait of the children of Stanton Elementary School in North Philadelphia, an inner-city neighborhood where 90% of the students live below the poverty line. Seen through the viewpoint of devoted principal Deanna Burney, the film shows Stanton as grossly underfunded, understaffed, and filled with children struggling to overcome their difficulties. But for these at-risk kids, however, the hope for their future survives only in the success of their education. A captivating series of vignettes concerning children growing up outside the American dream, echoing current “hot-button” issues in our country’s ongoing political discussion.

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Poster for Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing

2006 · ★ 6.7 (47)

Shut Up and Sing is a documentary about the country band from Texas called the Dixie Chicks and how one tiny comment against President Bush dropped their number one hit off the charts and caused fans to hate them, destroy their CD’s, and protest at their concerts. A film about freedom of speech gone out of control and the three girls lives that were forever changed by a small anti-Bush comment

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Poster for Late Bloomer

2026 · ★ 0.0 (0)

30-year-old Harper Muller has always been a Late Bloomer, so when cervical cancer turns her life plans upside-down, she recruits her two best friends to sleep with her so she can lose her virginity. It’s a weird ask; believe her, she knows! But hey, what are friends for?

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Poster for Zdrowaśki

— · ★ 0.0 (0)

A poetic coming-of-age, in which the characters drift through memories, searching for a place in a world that constantly casts them aside. It’s an intimate, indie-aesthetic story about reminiscences preserved on camera, lost and regained bonds and people learning to grow up within a space lacking both home and the assurance that anyone is waiting for their return.

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Poster for Today in Our City...

1989 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Poetry on Film

2023 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Poetry on Film is a moving image commissioning project for young and emerging Hong Kong filmmakers, motivated by the belief that poetry possesses an inherent cinematic quality. Its rhythmic cadence, vivid imagery, and emotional depth offer a rich tapestry for filmmakers to weave their visual narratives. Animator STEP C., narrative filmmaker Chu Hoi Ying, analogue film artist Jolene Mok, and documentarian Lee Wai Shing were asked to choose a contemporary Chinese-language poem written by a local writer, then visualise it using their personal cinematic language. The resulting shorts showcase the diversity of Hong Kong moving image practice, with unique approaches to medium, storytelling, cinematography, and sound.

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Poster for Wet with Rope

1989 · ★ 2.0 (2)

Toshiko lives with an older man, Shozo. On her back was a tattoo of Hannya carved by Shozo. Her tattoo artist, Shozo, who inherited the blood of her masters, tattooed her in order to keep her in her hands. He is currently traveling to Europe because a foreigner asked him to tattoo him. Asako and Shinji, who live in the room next to Toshiko, are student lovers, but when Asako finds out that she's cheating on her, she goes to her girlfriend's Masao. After hearing about her situation, Toshiko puts Asako to sleep when he comes to retrieve her belongings and tattoos a dragon on her secret spot, but...

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Poster for Taipei Factory

2013 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A collaborative project consisting four young generation of Taiwan directors, and four young foreign directors from Chile, France, Iran, and South Korea.Without being acquainted previously before meeting each other in Taipei, the eight of them shared their life experiences, and then co-wrote and co-directed four short films based on impressions and imaginations of a city.

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Poster for A Day in the Country

2010 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The doctor makes a house call but three is a crowd after the action is over… A film about existential loneliness.

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Poster for Las chicas de tía

2021 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for 田野又是青纱帐

1986 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Mitterrand, président culturel

2021 · ★ 0.0 (0)

On the occasion of the fourty years anniversary of François Mitterand's election, a look back to the relationship between the President and artists, from admiration to manipulation.

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Poster for Lust Life Love

2021 · ★ 3.1 (12)

A star-crossed love story set in the world of polyamory and sex parties in New York City.

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Poster for Sweet Jam

2001 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The doors of the jam produced by a company do not open. In order for them to be able to sell their jam, they reward the one who can open the jam. All the people try to open the door of the jam.

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