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Poster for Ghost Mode

2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In the suburbs of Paris, a small group of teenagers spend time together during the summer holidays. One day, Kenza, one of the girls from the group, does not appear at the scheduled time. She does not answer her phone, and she is disconnected from all the apps.

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Poster for Stepping Into the Boundary

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Donostia-San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain, 2011. Maider, a filmmaker, moves to the very same flat where pedadogist Elbira Zipitria Irastorza (1906-1982) clandestinely established the first ikastola, a Basque school, under the harsh regime of dictator Francisco Franco. Despite of her pioneering work, developed throughout thirty years, her story is not well known, so Maider, intrigued, begins to research…

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Poster for Invisible Days, or the Legend of the White Crocodile

1991 · ★ 6.0 (1)

In her essay film, Eva Hiller illustrates the nightly infrastructure of a large city, using Frankfurt am Main and Berlin as examples. Just as pet reptiles gone feral are reported to populate New York's sewers, so too is there bustling activity – often invisible to outsiders – when darkness falls on Germany’s metropolises.

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Poster for Enchantments

2015 · ★ 1.0 (2)

A romantic comedy loosely based on Jane Austen's 1815 novel Emma. Emma is now a pop culture loving, rom com obsessed, Zen seeking Wiccan lesbian living in New York City and working in a magic shop called Enchantments. In this re-telling of Jane Austen's classic we see bi-racial families and relationships and lgbtq relationships and realize that love is love. It doesn't matter how one loves, as long as it's true. It's a shiny, happy, campy love story like you've never seen before.

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Poster for I Am Joke, Said Joke

2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Documentary about the Dutch author, illustrator and performer Joke van Leeuwen, who has won various awards for her literature for children which sometimes uses a quest as a theme.

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Poster for Primal

2016 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Primal is an abstract animation made directly onto unprocessed fogged negative by rubbing and scraping the film and releasing its light. The sounds are made by rustling materials against the microphone.

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Poster for When You Hear the Bells

2016 · ★ 7.2 (6)

In Afghanistan, "batchas" are young male prostitutes who live under the protection of a master in a house where they are trained to dance dressed as girls for a men's audience. Veteran dancer Saman starts worrying when he sees Bijane, the new recruit, who has been chosen to replace him. Despite his jealousy, he must initiate Bijane into the art of the Batcha dancing.

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Poster for Peixonauta: Encontrando os Amigos

— · ★ 1.0 (1)

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2001 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for The Arrival

1980 · ★ 6.5 (2)

Primitive human Zan learns of his past and future lives when he discovers a spaceship.

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1989 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Initially airing on HBO's "America Undercover" series, this riveting documentary focuses on three families shattered by the psychiatric disorder of schizophrenia. Subjects "Bob," "Missy" and "Steven" have lived for over a decade with schizophrenia. The film documents the difficult day-to-day existence of both those afflicted with this order and the families searching for answers to their loved ones' suffering. This film also shows the varied and variably successful treatment methods for each of the subjects—one is placed in a group home, one is placed in an institution, and one is cared for at home. The documentary was critically acclaimed for its compassionate treatment of mental illness.

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1936 · ★ 6.1 (7)

A (barely) two minute short is that it was made specially for a Paramount newsreel segment on Bute and Nemeth making films in their teensy New York apartment. Paramount apparently never got round to including the filmmakers in any newsreel, but their own film survived in the Bute-Nemeth Archive. (weirdwildrealm.com) To the rhythm of music that sounds a bit like a Busby Berkeley tune, lines and circles appear against a black background. Then triangles, in groups. Black and white squares move in tandem. Sparkling forms turn in kaleidoscopic patterns. Then cubes appear, white against the background, bouncing; a yin and yang rotate a few times before the film ends with an quick burst of scattering light.

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Poster for Das Glück kommt unverhofft

2010 · ★ 5.8 (3)

Lotte has two children, an ex who doesn't pay and a job that is shaky. Meanwhile, investment banker Matthias sits alone in his luxury mansion. It takes a while for the mismatched couple to find each other. And then Matthias jeopardizes his happiness by concealing the fact that his bank is in the process of destroying Lotte's company.

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Poster for Family Portrait in Black and White

2011 · ★ 7.2 (6)

In a small Ukrainian town, Olga Nenya, raises 16 black orphans amidst a population of Slavic blue-eyed blondes. Their stories expose the harsh realities of growing up as a bi-racial child in Eastern Europe.

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Poster for Shellfish Knish

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Young, Jewish and misunderstood Simon Markowitz gets himself into hot water with his Rabbi when he creates his own recipe for a knish that no one in his family seems intent on eating.

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Poster for Pangarap

1940 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Carmen Concha’s final film.

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Poster for Thus a Noise Speaks

2012 · ★ 3.5 (4)

When Kacchi came back home for summer break from abroad, she came out to her family as a homosexual. Her mother and father couldn't take it and answered in negative. Though Kacchi had a depression for their reactions, she decided to face her family again throughout a filmmaking about the 'coming-out'.

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Poster for Three Room

2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A family that lives apart goes looking for a house to live with.

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Poster for Again Once Again

2019 · ★ 5.3 (12)

Romina returns to her roots to rediscover who she is. After the first overwhelming years as a mother, it's as if the mist starts to rise: she's a little too old for disco parties and hanging round with twenty-somethings, but still young enough to fantasise about others. Actress Romina Paula points the camera at herself, her son and her mother in this intriguing mixture of documentary and fiction.

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Poster for A Woman Captured

2017 · ★ 6.6 (9)

A Woman Captured is about Marish, a 52-year-old Hungarian woman who has been serving a family for a decade, working 20 hours a day without getting paid. Her ID was taken from her by her oppressors and she's not allowed to leave the house without permission. Treated like an animal,she only gets leftovers to eat and no bed to sleep in. Marish spends the days with fear in her heart, but dreaming of getting her life back. The film follows Marish’s heroic journey back to freedom.⠀

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