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Poster for Cuando brillan las estrellas

2018 · ★ 6.0 (2)

As a child, Lucas falls in love with Ana. His story is truncated: she moves away and he loses track of her. Today Lucas does crossword puzzles and has almost zero love-sexual life. Meanwhile, his friend Santiago has a blind date with Verónica that ends after a few seconds. Verónica's neighbor is in a secret and quite toxic relationship.

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Poster for Rules of the Assembly Line, at High Speed

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A small town in Western Germany is the last stop for 26,000 pigs per day and a brief home for masses of Eastern European temporary workers. The workers of the largest slaughterhouse in the country are fighting for survival, while German activists who stand up for their rights are fighting against the local authorities. At the same time, Munich high school students are working on the play "Saint Joan of the Stockyards" and trying to grasp the old text and German capitalism of our days. Interwoven with the young people's examination of the text in the rehearsals, the film deals in various fragments with conditions and facets of temporary work and labour migration in Germany.

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Poster for Election - "The Passion of Martin" Introduction

2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Introductory piece to Alexander Payne's student film "The Passion of Martin" included on the Criterion Collection release of Election (1999).

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Poster for Granny Squatters

2016 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Two elderly women take on the battle to save their elderly home.

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Poster for The Bag Lady

1985 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In Candy Guard's debut film, an overweight woman with a bag on her head sits down and swears at everyone she sees.

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Poster for Gender Me: Homosexuality and Islam

2008 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Gender Me is a road movie about Mansour’s voyage into the world of Islam. It is a personal odyssey through a world of taboos, filled with contradictory images. He explores questions regarding faith and gender in Islam with a special focus on the unusual stories of Muslim gays. Mansour is a homosexual Iranian refugee who has been living in Oslo for the past 18 years where he works as a pharmacist. Now he wants to travel back to Istanbul, where he lived for two years before he was granted asylum in Norway.

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Poster for Liebe ist das schönste Geschenk

2007 · ★ 4.0 (2)

After much hesitation, the doctor, who fell in love, Peter Hauser finally managed to make his girlfriend Stella a marriage proposal. But when the two want to surprise his father Heinrich with the good news, the one holds much greater surprise ready: On holiday, he has fallen in love with the attractive widow Johanna and married her right away. Peter is anything but excited. He believes that Johanna is a notorious husband murderer. However, in trying to gather evidence of his suspicion, the awkward amateur detective moves from one fool to the next.

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Poster for Eames Lounge Chair

1956 · ★ 6.3 (3)

Stop-motion animation depicts a man assembling an Eames lounge chair, sitting down to relax in it, and then disassembling it for shipment.

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Poster for Dear Mandela

2012 · ★ 0.0 (0)

When their shantytowns are threatened with mass eviction, three ‘young lions’ of South Africa’s new generation rise from the shacks and take their government to the highest court in the land, putting the promises of democracy to the test.

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2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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David, a once-brilliant jazz musician, can no longer hear music. Doctors search for a diagnosis while debating whether his condition is neurological or psychological, but answers remain elusive. As pressure mounts to institutionalize him, David is guided through an unconventional therapy that pulls him into memories of faith, discipline, and unresolved trauma.

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2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

JAMAAL depicts a day in the life of a Black man, with no additional trauma. Cuz let’s keep it 💯, life has enough challenges- we don’t need no help making it harder.

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1987 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Vicus Spacorum

1982 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Emma is bringing up her son Oscar alone. Her life is divided between her work, her voluntary work as a public writer, her lover and her son. Oscar gradually sinks into melancholy, his existential questions echoing those of his mother.

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Poster for Jason et les royaumes

2025 · ★ 8.0 (1)

After a suicide attempt, Jason spends the summer with his grandmother, Aimée. Each week, a taxi takes him to his physiotherapy sessions, driven by Agatha. To escape the truth about his accident, Jason invents a new life for himself during the rides, turning the road into an imaginary and romantic escape.

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Poster for Ver Van Je Bed

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Registration of the Dutch musical comedy show 'Ver van je bed'. Hannah and Pieter visit their parental home for their parents' thirtieth wedding anniversary. However, a surprise awaits them when their mother Marjan tells them that they have broken up and that she now has a new boyfriend: her life coach Jan Dirk. Hilarity ensues.

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Poster for Témoins

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for With a Thin Thread

2023 · ★ 7.0 (1)

A fine thread weave scraps at the crossroads of the art cinema, documentary and improvisation with the participation of residents of the five authentic regions of Russia. The characters of the film, artists and fashion designers, will go through the way of reflection and rethinking the outgoing culture, becoming participants of amazing rites and witnesses of the disappearing way of life. Drama, comedy, phantasmagoria - everything is connected with a thin thread with folk philosophy, sadness and beauty of folk culture, ancient signs and new readings.

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