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Poster for Michael Snow Up Close

1996 · ★ 6.0 (1)

MICHAEL SNOW UP CLOSE was produced on the occasion of The Michael Snow Project, a major, career-spanning, multi-venue retrospective of the artist. The documentary celebrates the multi-faceted shape of Snow's creative genius, including glimpses of his work in painting, sculpture, film, photo-works, performance, installations, and holography. Discussions with Snow, original documentation of his music and performance work, and excerpts from his avant-garde films, are complemented by interviews with filmmakers Jonas Mekas and Bruce Elder, Snow's dealer Av Isaacs, the architect Eb Zeidler, museum director Pierre Théberge, curator Louise Dompierre, and others. A deliberately conventional documentary about a deliberately unconventional artist.

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Poster for Reno: Rebel Without a Pause

2003 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Performance artist Reno's rapid-fire witness of the events of September 11th -- of the day itself and of the country's response, how they affected her personally and in the context of the world at large.

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Poster for The Story of the Swastika

2013 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In the week when Hindus celebrate the holy festival of Diwali, this documentary tells the story of one of their faith's most sacred symbols - the swastika. For many, the swastika has become a symbol synonymous with the Nazis and fascism. But this film reveals the fascinating and complex history of an emblem that is, in fact, a religious symbol, with a sacred past. For the almost one billion Hindus around the world, the swastika lies at the heart of religious practices and beliefs, as an emblem of benevolence, luck and good fortune.

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Poster for Diagnosis Bipolar: Five Families Search for Answers

2010 · ★ 6.0 (6)

Traumatized. Immobilized. Stigmatized. Families reveal the struggles, hopes and fears that arise from raising young children with Bipolar Mood Disorder. Shot over the course of 12 months, the film focuses on five sets of parents and how they handle the unique challenges of caring for their bipolar children in the shadow of depression, violence and the threat of suicide.

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Poster for Ud i den kolde sne

1934 · ★ 6.5 (2)

Taxi driver Peter Basse is a jovial and cheerful man who faithfully looks after his daughter at the wheel and steers his carriage through the streets of Copenhagen with unwavering composure. One day he drives for the stylish valet Johan, employed by the old Dowager Baroness von Hessen. The taxi driver is tasked with delivering an important letter to the Dowager Baroness's grandson. Along the way, Peter Basse learns that the Dowager Baroness may be going crazy. In any case, she has made the acquaintance of two spiritualists.

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2005 · ★ 0.0 (0)

This intimate documentary follows careers of two remarkable personalities: Carmen de Lavallade, a dynamic dancer and choreographer from California who moved to New York with Alvin Ailey and began a legacy of modern dance in America, and her husband Geoffrey Holder, a Trinidad-born choreographer, set and costume designer, painter and man about town with productions such as The Wiz. Features interviews and performance footage of friends and colleagues: dancers Judith Jamison, Gus Solomons, Jr., Dudley Williams, Ulysses Dove and Alvin Ailey.

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Poster for Ordinary Miracles: The Photo League’s New York

2012 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Ordinary Miracles: The Photo League's New York, narrated by Campbell Scott, chronicles the life and times of the Photo League, a legendary organization of amateur and professional photographers that flourished in New York between 1936 and 1951.

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Poster for The Story of the Turban

2012 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In September 2011, Sikhs from all over Britain gathered in Parliament Square to protest. The focus of their concern was the turban. Since the terrorist attacks of the 21st century Sikhs believe their turbans have singled them out for discrimination. In a case of mistaken identity the Sikhs claim they've been wrongly regarded as religious terrorists and subjected to increased airport security searches. This documentary traces the history of the turban in the Sikh religion, from its roots in Moghul India, through the battlefields of Europe, to the fight for British Sikhs to wear it without fear. It reveals that the turban is a crucial symbol of the Sikh faith - one that Sikhs will even risk their lives for.

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Poster for Raw Youth

2004 · ★ 5.0 (3)

The movie follows students at Hauketo Continuation School the last months before the exams.

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2010 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Mixing narrative, experimental, and vérité footage, director Yu Gu explores themes of exile, art, and family in this touching documentary. In the process, she discovers that the desire for freedom of speech is a force that unites three generations of her family.

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A pair of CIA agents help bring down one of the agency's biggest moles, Aldrich Ames, in the 1990s.

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2012 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Mouse: An autobiographical film (7min, sound, spring 2011). This autobiographical short documentary is made before and during the Iranian New Year (spring of 2011). This film also examines the imprisonment of Iranians inside Iran through featuring a mouse that seems to have taken control of everything.

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Poster for Sandra

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for TRICKS

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After an assault, Charlotte a trans sex worker gets her revenge on men with a newly discovered power

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Poster for To Duration: A Tribute to Peter Handke

2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Based on Handke's 1986 poem "Canto alla Durata". The film explores the concept of duration through the Austrian writer's life and work, featuring actor Bruno Ganz reading poems written by Handke.

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2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Sophie Biesenbach-Jansen and David Jansen invite us on a journey through time and to the far reaches of space. How did the two artists meet? What role do scissors play in their lives? What does Sophie think of the Lord's Prayer?

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Poster for Jeff Buckley: Live at The Middle East

2025 · ★ 10.0 (1)

As part of the theatrical release of It’s Never Over: Jeff Buckley, Magnolia Pictures will proudly present 26 minutes of exclusive, remastered footage from a rare solo performance at The Middle East in Cambridge, MA, filmed on February 19, 1994. This previously unreleased set will screen immediately following the film, offering both longtime fans and newcomers a rare opportunity to experience Jeff Buckley’s raw, unfiltered brilliance. Setlist: Eternal Life, Last Goodbye, Dink's Song, Lover You Should’ve Come Over.

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Poster for The Story of "Scénario"

2025 · ★ 6.0 (1)

A final meeting with Jean-Luc Godard. This documentary shows the filmmaker preparing Scénario, his unfinished testamentary film, before closing with a moving scene: the final appearance of a genius driven to the very end by a love of cinema. Consists of Exposé du film annonce du film “Scénario” and Scenarios combined together for TV.

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Poster for A Man Without A Case

1932 · ★ 0.0 (0)

At the school where worker Nikolai Zhikharev studied, students were given a lot of theoretical information, but how to work with machinery was not explained. Therefore, on one of the first working days at the plant Zhikharev made a serious mistake - he let steam out of the boiler. He was transferred to the clerk's office, but even there difficulties awaited the hero. However, Zhikharev did not give up. He decided to change the educational process in schools so that trained and prepared workers would come to the factories.

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Poster for Atomic Reaction

2024 · ★ 9.0 (1)

Atomic Reaction is a compelling documentary that delves into Canada's clandestine involvement in the Manhattan Project and its role in the creation of the world’s first weapons of mass destruction. Hot on the heels of last year’s Oscar-winning film Oppenheimer, this timely investigation of Canada’s complicity traces the connection from Gilbert LaBine’s 1930 discovery of a rare radium deposit in the Northwest Territories to today’s ongoing 2.6 billion dollar nuclear waste clean-up project in Port Hope, Ontario. Atomic Reaction features fascinating expert interviews, first hand testimonies, and generational accounts to present a nuanced and thought-provoking examination of how these hidden histories have impacted the Indigenous Dene people of the Northwest Territories, Port Hope residents, and other communities worldwide.

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