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Poster for Marwan: Tomorrow's Freedom

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Marwan Barghouti, often described as the ‘Palestinian Nelson Mandela’, is serving five life sentences in an Israeli prison. This is his story.

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Poster for Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A

2022 · ★ 6.0 (1)

Follows Japanese director Naomi Kawase as she directs the official film of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, giving a message that goes beyond the physical exploit to mark souls, with her style and all her subtlety.

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Poster for Theatre Girls

1978 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In her final piece at film school, Longinotto and her partner take us into the "Theatre Girls Club" in Soho, London–a hostel for elderly and destitute women and the only shelter in London that would take in any woman at any time. The filmmakers lived in the hostel for more than two months, establishing an extraordinary level of trust with their “cast” —from the home’s feisty cook to an elderly resident who was a terminal alcoholic. In what will later be recognized as a signature style, Longinotto films without judgement and finds the humor and humanity in situations and characters that might otherwise be seen as tragic. This stunning film debut earned awards at several European festivals and screened to acclaim in the US and Asia.

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Poster for Xuxa Só Para Baixinhos 13: ABC do XSPB

2016 · ★ 10.0 (1)

The queen is back! The “Xuxa Só Para Baixinhos” collection has just won a new edition, which continues to bring learning with fun to all children. With 27 new songs, the project teaches the alphabet in a light and fun way, allowing children to learn more about each letter.

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Poster for 13 :46

2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

On a renovation site in Shanghai in the 80’s, workers are waking up from their daily nap and going back to work.

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Poster for Why is Mrs B. Happy?

1968 · ★ 5.0 (1)

The story of a miner's wife in the Ruhr area, and the story of 40 years of a worker's life in Germany. The biographical film acknowledges the proletarian tradition and is considered to be one of the most important documentary films of the late 60s that tried to combine the private sphere with the reality of society. The film's fascination lies, above all, in the personal charisma of the miner's widow from Duisburg. She knows how to tell the story in a vivacious and exciting way.

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Poster for Ausência

2004 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Brazilian short film, directed by Julia Murat.

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Poster for The Secret History

1999 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A loop of horses frolicking in the pasture.

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Poster for TIMBERLINE

2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

For decades, the Navy base known as Sugar Grove Station provided jobs and a sense of stability for the residents of Sugar Grove, West Virginia. Now, it’s being auctioned off to the highest bidder. As their mainstay fades away, members of the community consider the "Upper Base” of the former Navy post, where an NSA listening post remains operational—and sealed off from the rest of the town.

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Poster for Doll House

1984 · ★ 0.0 (0)

"Rapid montage shows a plethora of objects all arranged in, or with reference to, the central prop of a dollhouse. We see whimsical references to domesticity (kitchen implements), clothing (shoes), the housing situation (want ads), feminist film (Annette Kuhn's book Women's Pictures), relationships, claustrophobia. The final shots show the dollhouse outside, up in the branches of a tree - by the effort of cinema, the dollhouse has become a tree-house. This thematic movement mirrors the movement of Barbara Hammer's films in the last few years: from preoccupation with inside/the body, to a claiming of outside/the landscape." —Claudia Gorbman, Jump Cut.

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Poster for I Have Sinned a Rapturous Sin

2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Neatly chalked extracts and spoken fragments of Forugh Farrokhzad's radical poem Sin directly contradict the unembellished recordings of clerics instructing women to suppress their sexual predilections. How? By eating lettuce, of course.

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Poster for Second Nature

2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Driven by the problem of marine plastic pollution, two designers collect nets from the bottom of the sea and, with 3D-printing, transform them into symbols of marine beauty.

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Poster for Muhi – Generally Temporary

2017 · ★ 9.5 (4)

Muhi, a brave and funny Palestinian child, was born in Gaza with a rare, life-threatening medical condition. Confined to an Israeli hospital for the past seven years, his time is running out and Muhi now faces the most critical choices of his life.

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Poster for Voevoda

2017 · ★ 7.2 (2)

At the end of the 18th century in Bulgaria under Ottoman slavery, a young woman leaves home and family to become leader of a guerrilla gang.

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2008 · ★ 3.0 (3)

Documentary portrays the life of gay men in China and how some of the men still must marry and have children to please their parents.

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Poster for White Horse

2008 · ★ 7.5 (3)

White Horse is a short documentary by filmmakers Maryann DeLeo and Christophe Bisson that features a man (Maxym Surkov) returning to his Ukraine home for the first time in twenty years. Evacuated from the city of Prypiat, Ukraine in 1986 due to the Chornobyl disaster, he has not returned since then.

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2005 · ★ 5.0 (1)

The humorous portrait of a female artist. The film follows the career of 24-year-old Janine F. who in 2002 caused a commotion from the rooftop of a Berlin building.

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Poster for Risible amour

2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Sunday Dysphoria

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

An updated, explicit version of the short film "Episodes", from the anthology film "The Way We Dream", documenting a young man's gloomy recollections of violent, self-loathing dreams and desires. With each thought, someone or something is lured out from the darkest corners of his house and his mind.

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Poster for Alone Again in Fukushima

2023 · ★ 0.0 (0)

“Alone Again is Fukushima” is the long-awaited sequel to "Alone in Fukushima" (2015), which followed Naoto Matsumura, a man who remained in the nuclear zone in Fukushima to tend animals. The film has followed Naoto for nearly a decade and portrays how Naoto and the animals survived the residents' return to the town, Tokyo Olympics, and COVID-19. In the course of 10 years, many animals and humans were born and died. But Naoto remained in the town and took care of the animals. He raised chickens and kept bees in order to survive. In 2017, Tomioka became the place where people can come back to live, however most young people didn’t return. There is no end in sight for the nuclear crisis in Fukushima. The contaminated water is overflowing and will be pumped out to the ocean soon. Meanwhile the government is trying to restart the nuclear reactors all over the country. The film will give us a chance to reflect on this situation by looking at how Naoto and animals survive in Fukushima.

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