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Poster for Birth of a Family

2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Over several decades, at least 20,000 Indigenous children were forcibly taken from their homes in Canada and adopted out to non-Indigenous families. Now, four siblings come together for the first time to build the family ties they were once denied.

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Poster for Spectres are Haunting Europe

2018 · ★ 5.0 (1)

The Idomeni refugee camp housed people from the Middle East who were trying to cross the border into Europe. When the Greek police closed the camp, the refugees resisted and blocked a railway line used to deliver goods. Maria Kourkouta’s minimalist documentary not only observes these events but also presents carefully modeled static images that open up the space within and without the frame of view, and in the closing black-and-white sequence offers a poetic commentary. The result is a bleak portrait of a place where endless lines of refugees try to preserve the final remnants of their individual freedoms. “This film is a call to welcome the refugees that cross the European borders, as well as the ghosts that return with them.”

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Poster for Break the Power of the Manipulators

1968 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Documentary by Helke Sander, in collaboration with Harun Farocki (among others), about the campaign of the West German New Left against the publishing house Springer, particularly its control and manipulation of the news.

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Poster for 87 ore

2015 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Mulheres do Brasil

2006 · ★ 4.0 (1)

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1993 · ★ 1.0 (1)

Gary is a drugged out former kickboxer who owes gangsters $15,000. Alonso, the young mob chief, forgives the debt if Gary is willing to transport a briefcase full of drugs to Istanbul. He loses the case, the criminals come after him, and his former girlfriend, Sam, must now come to his rescue.

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2005 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Tabula Rasa is the second chapter of a three part project, where its central element, which follows Nocte, is a performance continuing the same plan: a double screen where images of a black and white reel unwind and a third beam where matter is invented for every projection. An imaginary journey throughout Europe tracing cartography of the ruin, a melancholic voyage through time, a look at fingerprints and trace, absence, stone and dust. To experience the silver film as wall experiences the passing of men and time, in search of fracture, a breach where only it survives, among the ashes and the debris, a blind light wave travels a wasted land. There is no bond that time does not erase.

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Poster for Sex(ed): The Movie

2014 · ★ 7.3 (3)

A documentary on the history of sex education

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Poster for The Lebanese Rocket Society

2012 · ★ 6.4 (6)

Lebanon's brief flirtation with space travel in the 1960s becomes a poignant metaphor for the Arab world's utopian dreams in this riveting documentary.

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Poster for With Heartfelt Sincerity

1949 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A film record of the gifts and gift-givers to comrade Stalin on the occasion of his 70th birthday in 1948. The majority of the action takes place in the Halls of Gifts to Comrade Stalin in the Museum of the Revolution in Moscow.

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Poster for Born to Fight

2022 · ★ 9.0 (1)

A story about a boxing club in New Rochelle NY and very inspiring individuals that create the team.

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Poster for Zombie Cheerleaders

2023 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Things are starting to get good. One of the girls goes missing...

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In 2002, Sophie Constantinou interviewed Ron Padgett, Connie Lewellyn and Kenward Elmslie and recorded their recollections of Joe Brainard’s life, including his longtime partnership with Elmslie, and his works, including his noted garden collages. These moments were captured as part a series of short films catalyzed by Elmslie. Elmslie’s vision was to illustrate the artistic spirit of and collaborations among American writers, poets and artists from the late 50s to today.

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Poster for When Night Meets Dawn

2021 · ★ 6.0 (1)

A teenage boy goes looking for his new friend on the hot streets of an eerie city. As the blue night falls, a sensual journey begins. Nature around him becomes exotic and the exotic becomes erotic. In the illuminating dawn, he discovers he’s not like the rest.

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Poster for Kinder und andere Baustellen

2020 · ★ 4.0 (1)

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Poster for Meu Corpo é Mais

2018 · ★ 6.0 (1)

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Poster for 18 - Dare to Live

2014 · ★ 10.0 (1)

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2016 · ★ 0.0 (0)

16 women, 16 stories, 16 fates in Teheran. Women between 20 and 80. 16 women finding their self conception. Snapshots. What are their thoughts, feelings, actions? What is it they expect from their lives? This film by Bahar Ebrahim is an appraisal of 16 women in every day situations, their ideas, visions and perceptions. 16 Iranian women and their views on the past, loneliness, men, fashion, love, freedom and self determination. Two of them remain silent, convincing the others to immerse in music and dance. Art in shape of a warming coat for the soul. "Life is a prison, my eyes an ocean of tears. Oh Life, sweet life, I have had enough of you, let me go."

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Poster for That White Rush

2007 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Sam Taylor-Wood says she can't believe the silly questions that people keep asking about her latest work, presented in the Ukrainian pavilion. That White Rush is a video of a young woman lying naked with a white swan decomposing on top of her; her toe twitches as the swan's internal liquids spew out. It is made up of two seamlessly integrated films, one taken of the girl over four minutes and one of the swan over four weeks. "People actually ask me if the girl lay there for four weeks," says Taylor-Wood.

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1994 · ★ 1.0 (2)

Documentary (a tie-in to the book of the same name) centered around actress / producer / writer Jewel Shepard. Features clips of the actresses film, television and talk show appearances plus interviews with several other B movie queens.

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