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Poster for Ohero:kon - Under the Husk

2017 · ★ 6.0 (1)

This documentary follows two Mohawk girls on their journey to become Mohawk women. Friends since childhood, Kaienkwinehtha and Kasennakohe are members of the traditional community of Akwesasne on the U.S./Canada border. Together, they undertake a four-year rite of passage for adolescents, called Oheró:kon, or "under the husk." The ceremony had been nearly extinct, a casualty of colonialism and intergenerational trauma; revived in the past decade by two traditional leaders, it has since flourished. Filmmaker Katsitsionni Fox has served as a mentor, or "auntie," to many youth going through the passage rites.

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Poster for The Son of Wallingford

1921 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A young man's journey into adulthood, love, and ambition, inspired by a serial by George Randolph Chester exploring themes of love, ambition, and self-discovery, set against the backdrop of the Roaring Twenties.

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Poster for Fatale Collective: Bleed

2019 · ★ 4.3 (3)

In this brisk six-shooter anthology, an ensemble of women share entertainingly twisted tales that span disturbing subjects and sick styles through decidedly feminist lenses.

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Poster for Linie 41

2016 · ★ 0.0 (0)

"LINE 41" documents a Holocaust and Lodz Ghetto survivor's return back to today's Lodz (Poland). Until now, Grossmann had repressed his desire to learn about the fate of his brother he lost contact with in 1942. 70 years later, Grossmann starts a search for his missing brother. His search crosses paths with Jens-Jürgen Ventzki, son of the former Nazi Head Mayor of Lodz. Ventzki is pursuing his family's dark secret. In tracing their family histories, they inevitably confront each other.

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1990 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Taking place at a reclusive musician's house and portraying a single night, the film follows a young man, who has escaped from Germany to Istanbul.

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1998 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Marguerite as She Was

2003 · ★ 6.5 (2)

On June 3, 1991, Marguerite Duras gave me her last published work, "The North China Lover", autographed for the first time. She wrote: "For my friend Dominique Auvray, in memory of a wonder of wonders: a still recent past, when we worked together in the cinema". This is a portrait of her as she was cheerful and serious, authentic and provocative, considerate and categorical, but first and foremost young and free.

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2013 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Yael Staav's poignant and emotional interpretation of Dallas Clayton's celebrated storybook, An Awesome Book of Love, shows us that love is truly humanity's greatest gift.

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Poster for A Suspicious Character

1954 · ★ 5.0 (3)

A small town is disturbed by the arrival of a "suspicious person", an unknown man wanted by the local authorities. During the hunt, it turns out that the suspect is no one else than the mayor's son-in-law who checked under his false name in order to hide his whereabouts from his girlfriend's parents.

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2009 · ★ 0.0 (0)

This short documentary recounts a 2000-km expedition undertaken by 7 rangers (both Inuit and non-Native) and a female filmmaker to raise a flag on the northernmost tip of Canadian soil, 412 km from the North Pole. With a mesmerizing soundtrack by Nunavut-born singer Tanya Tagaq and spectacular footage of the Arctic landscape, This Land captures the epic adventure with raw immediacy.

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2026 · ★ 0.0 (0)

From the Vietnam War to the New York streets, Vietnamese refugees built the infamous 80s gang Born to Kill, bound by brotherhood, blood, and the mantra: Love. Money. Sin.

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Poster for Tall Tales

1970 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Based on Russian nursery rhymes and playful sayings.

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2003 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The award-winning short Halmoni (2003 / 10min), about the life of her Korean grandma who migrated to Japan at the age of three.

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Poster for Grandmother's Tale

2012 · ★ 0.0 (0)

An animated film based on the poem by S. Nėries.

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Poster for Keep Listening

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Keep Listening. Practice. Practice. Yeah.

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Poster for Paranoia Tapes 5: Rewind

2020 · ★ 6.5 (3)

A video is found, but the sender is unknown and the footage is unknown. What exactly is on this video? Does it show the mysteries of this world or does it combine the real-life horror that seems to be the reality.

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Poster for Stormy Summer

1989 · ★ 1.0 (1)

Every year, the whole gather in the French region of Auvergne's home. During this 1944 summer, Louis falls in love with his cousin Laurence. The arrival of a British skydiver, Jack, will completely upset Laurence. Louis, jealous like crazy, will betray the skydiver who will die in front of his eyes. But his cousin François-Xavier has also seen what happened.

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Poster for A History of Radness

2015 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Siblings Jack and Tessie's journey from their less-than-cool middle school beginnings to the start of their music careers as they put together a band of like-minded musicians, all considered outsiders by fellow classmates.

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Poster for Out of the Rubble

2016 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In Out Of The Rubble, Woolcock shows how planners grappled with the grimmest poverty imaginable in the post-war era, from Brixton to Glasgow, Islington to Birmingham, believing that tower blocks would transform the lives of those living in decaying slums. She follows the cycle of optimism, building and eventual decline, meeting people who 50 years on bear witness to the effects of housing on real families, striking a contemporary chord with the theme of immigration and gentrification affecting working class communities. The irresistible nostalgia of scenes from the 1950s, 60s and 70s is tempered by a realisation of the force of history at work.

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Poster for Villa of Discord, or New Year in Acapulco

2007 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A husband and wife are getting divorced. The bone of contention is a villa in Mexico, in Acapulco. Finally, the luxurious mansion is put up for auction, and the heroes go their separate ways. Time passes. The ex-spouses decide to celebrate the New Year in the mansion that has not yet been sold - of course, each is sure that he is the only one who came up with this bright idea. In addition, a buyer for the villa, the local Al Capone, appears on the doorstep of the house.

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