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Poster for Playing With Fire

2014 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Playing with Fire is a documentary about the actresses in Afghanistan who are courageous enough to be involved with theater arts and find themselves facing harsh criticism, social disapproval and even threats about their lives and the lives of their families. Acting has even caused a girl's death in Kabul and many young actresses have been forced to flee the country. Anneta Papathanassou, actress and director from Greece, visits Kabul to teach ancient Greek theater and record the lives of Afghan artists, who try to combine art and culture under very difficult circumstances in this troubled country.

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Poster for Independence Day

2012 · ★ 0.0 (0)

It's a story of one celebration day. How does the young generation experience it? What does it dream about, what it aspires and what it does to achieve it. Independence Day through the eyes of the young and forsaken population of Ukrainian residential districts. Tragicomic history of failing to realize their freedom against the degraded values of the previous generations.

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Poster for High School Reunion

2003 · ★ 0.0 (0)

San Francisco video maker Sarah Jacobson returns to Edina, Minnesota, to settle scores with her old classmates a decade after they graduated.

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Poster for Surface Dive

2000 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Layers of animation featuring more than 600 sculptures, 200 glass pieces and 2200 drawings evoke an inspiring diving exploration in a freshwater lake in Yucatan.

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Poster for Sisterhood

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for News from the Near Future

2003 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Amsterdam-based photographer and video artist Fiona Tan (born 1966) has been a central figure on the contemporary art scene since the 1990s. In her video News from the Near Future (2003) a collage of historic film and audio material tells of man’s ambivalent relationship with water as a force of nature. Drawing on the archives of the Amsterdam Film Museum, Tan composed a narrative crescendo starting off with idyllic impressions of the watery world and building to increasingly menacing scenarios of an unleashed nature. Images of floods and churning seas, of wild winds and storms, parade before our eyes the destructive force of water. Tragedies at sea are reported in the style of old newsreels or radio shows, segueing into pictures of flooded cities that – as indicated in the work’s title – forebode future catastrophes. The cinematic repertoire of waves, tides and floods acts as an historical memory, presenting the sea as a metaphor for the flow of time.

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— · ★ 1.0 (1)

Self-centered insurance broker Stuart is heart-broken.

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Poster for Mother Vera

2025 · ★ 6.0 (1)

Shot in black and white in a lyrical, documentary style, Vera takes us from the hidden, religious world of the Belarusian convent to rural farmland, where men and women facing personal and social difficulties live and work. It is here that Vera expresses her deep connection with the horses that she looks after as part of her obedience (religious duty). The film is narrated by Vera as she tells her story of finding faith as a young woman and the impact it has had on her emotionally and spiritually.

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1992 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A girl escapes from a house where parental conflicts seem to hammer down the roof. Gliding through a dream-like environment, in her newfound freedom she encounters dangerous hurdles. Returning home, she discovers she has undergone an Alice in Wonderland-like change in scale and no longer fits in the confined boxes of family security. Her parents watch their now giant daughter through the window.

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Poster for Remembering Reno: Reflections on the Making of Desert Hearts

2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Filmed in Los Angeles in August 2017, director Donna Deitch, cinematographer Robert Elswit and production designer Jeannine Oppewall discuss their collaboration in creating the look of DESERT HEARTS.

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Poster for Remittance

2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A disenchanted Filipino cruise worker falls to pieces when she is unable to contact her ailing son.

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Poster for A Few Drunkards at the Mars Bar

2001 · ★ 0.0 (0)

It was during one of our usual visits to this famous bar, or “Library” as we often call it. Jonas Mekas, Julius Ziz, August Varkalis, Moira Tierney and I were engaging in our daily activity – “reading books”, which lasted from dusk till dawn.

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Poster for Laura & Marsha

2013 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Laura and Marsha are best friends since high school. Although their characteristics are way too different: Laura is a single mother, living with her mother since her husband left her without explanation, while Marsha, is a free-spirited girl who never worries about anything. One day, Marsha plans a trip to Europe, Laura refuses at first, but finally agrees to join on one condition: that Marsha follows her set of rules. Their friendship is tested when they argue and realize they lived with a truth left behind.

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Poster for Flip the Record

2017 · ★ 3.0 (1)

A little-known but lasting explosion of hip-hop culture grew out of the Filipino-American community of 1980s San Francisco. This film takes us into the beat of an aspiring mobile DJ crew in '84. Vanessa, sick of the the constraints and boring piano lessons in her conservative Filipino-American household.

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Poster for The Man Without a World

1991 · ★ 2.0 (2)

The Man Without a World is credited to the legendary (and imaginary) 1920s Soviet director, Yevgeny Antinov. But the film is anything but old. In fact, Antinov himself is the creation of contemporary filmmaker Eleanor Antin. Her film is a moving, comic melodrama set in a typical shtetl (village) in Poland. The Jews’ struggle against poverty and racial hatred is complicated by their own division into hostile political factions of the religious orthodoxy, assimilationists, socialists, Zionists, anarchists and survivors. While the Jews of the shtetl pursue their loves, politics, religion, business and dreams for the future, the Angel of Death is ever near...

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Poster for The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean

1966 · ★ 7.7 (2)

Written, directed, and self-financed by Juleen Compton, The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean is the story of a clairvoyant teenage girl, Norma Jean (Sharon Henesy), taken advantage of by a boy band, fashioned after The Beatles, determined to exploit the young woman's powers as part of a hoax revival.

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2011 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The night terrors of a child end happily when she surprises her parents in the act.

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Poster for We Still Live Here: Âs Nutayuneân

2011 · ★ 10.0 (1)

A documentary about the efforts taken to revitalize the Wampanoag language, which almost died out.

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Poster for Everything is Possible

2013 · ★ 0.0 (0)

This intimate documentary explores the spirit and motivation of 79-year-old Teresa Bancewicz, an intrepid hitchhiker stimulated by her meetings with all manner of people in many different cultures.

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2005 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Internal turmoil of the plastic kind.

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