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Poster for Soulmates

1999 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The innocence of creating a mirror, only to repeatedly crush it underfoot.

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Poster for Pedra que Samba

2015 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Rehearsal on a roda de samba, event that takes place every week at Pedra do Sal. A tour of the African Heritage circuit in the region of the old port of Rio de Janeiro. A slave's voice evokes the past. Buildings are demolished. The city never tires of reinventing itself. Remain the people. And the samba.

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Poster for Bath House of Whales

2019 · ★ 7.0 (1)

Mizuki Kiyama's short animation utilizes a paint on glass technique to render a young girl's visit to a neighborhood sento (bath house) with her mother with dazzling sensuous wonder. Evoking childish fascination at daily rituals, this quotidian act amidst feminine intimacy becomes a space of otherworldly fantasy.

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Poster for The Cheese & The Worms

2006 · ★ 6.0 (1)

A documentary that records the daily life of a mother with a limited life expectancy and a grandmother, directed by the daughter, Haruyo Kato.

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The picture is about the impossibility of love of two young people. In the picture, the authors ask themselves whether the responsible person can be happy, how to choose between what you want and what is right and what is generally right.

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Poster for Local Power, Popular Power

1970 · ★ 6.5 (2)

About the election in assembly of the President of the Poder Popular (Popular Power)

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Poster for Perm Antiquities. The Elephant of Okhansk

2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

200 to 300 thousand years ago the banks of the river now called Kama were inhabited by mammoth’s and elephant’s ancestors. Presently fishermen have found the fossils of these in the steep banks of Kama. All of it started from there… In the film, you can see how the discovery of the trogonterii mammoth’s fossils became the center of the social initiative for people from the nearest villages and even the Krai’s administrative capital.

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Poster for Girl

2018 · ★ 3.3 (3)

A young migrant gets her period whilst on the move.

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Poster for The Washing Society

2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

When you drop off a bag of dirty laundry, who's doing the washing and folding? The Washing Society brings us into New York City laundromats and the experiences of the people who work there by observing these disappearing neighborhood spaces and the continual, intimate labor that is performed there.

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Poster for Home of the Brave

1985 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In this film Indians—and only Indians—talk about the contemporary threats they are facing today. They are no longer the Conquerors or the American Cavalry. Now it is industrial development that is wiping out traditional land. Shot on three continents: the USA with the Hopi and Navajo; Amazonia, and on the Bolivian highlands, and in Geneva where Indians of the Americas come together to create an international indigenous network.

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Poster for Elena

2016 · ★ 10.0 (1)

An old woman suffering from dementia thinks she is twenty years old and is about to run away with her lover. How does this illness affect her son?

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Poster for Elles s'aiment depuis 20 ans

2017 · ★ 6.2 (14)

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Poster for Territorio

2016 · ★ 7.0 (1)

Alexandra Cuesta cites eternal wanderer Henri Michaux as one of the inspirations for her first feature. It’s curious, then, that the opening sequence of Territorio (the first film Cuesta shot in her native Ecuador) shows us a boat heading for the shore. It is very likely that, to Cuesta, the image of water hides the same connotation than it does to the author of “The Sea of Breasts”: returning home, being sheltered in the mother’s womb. Without detouring from the formal approaches of her previous work, Cuesta traces a journey that crosses the country from north to south, drawing a human cartography in which the aim is to achieve an impossible balance between the foreign traveler’s gaze and the earnest familiarity of those who return home temporarily.

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Poster for Orpheus (Outtakes)

2012 · ★ 0.0 (0)

“Using footage from Cocteau’s Orphée, Clark optically prints an interstitial space where the ghosts of cinema lurk beyond and within the frames.” – Andrea Picard

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1999 · ★ 2.0 (2)

Like many Japanese Americans released from WWII internment camps, the young Omori sisters did their best to erase the memories and scars of life under confinement. Fifty years later acclaimed filmmaker Emiko Omori asks her older sister and other detainees to reflect on the personal and political consequences of internment. From the exuberant recollections of a typical teenager, to the simmering rage of citizens forced to sign loyalty oaths, Omori renders a poetic and illuminating picture of a deeply troubling chapter in American history.

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Poster for Rhythm of Life

1989 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The great Egyptian documentarian El Abnoudy skillfully and subtly undermines the tendency towards nostalgia regarding the subject of manual labor in her work by showing that this job is now almost exclusively carried out by women and older men, while the young men strive for better professions or abroad.

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Poster for Det gælder os alle

1949 · ★ 5.5 (2)

After World War II, Europe lies in ruins and help is desperately needed everywhere. One person trying to make a difference is Dr. Jørgen Vedel, who travels with the Red Cross to Vienna to vaccinate children. There he meets Leni, a girl who has been to Auschwitz, where she lost her mother. Jørgen arranges for Leni to come to Denmark, where she can start a whole new life.

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Poster for Dreams and Desires: Family Ties

2006 · ★ 6.7 (10)

Beryl acquires a new Digi Video camera and becomes obsessed with the art of filmmaking, using it to articulate her desires, dreams and thoughts in a video diary. As “cineaste par excellence” she agrees to film her friend’s wedding, seizing the opportunity to “strut her stuff filmically” with disastrous and often hilarious results.

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Poster for 900 Days

2012 · ★ 6.1 (9)

The documentary focuses on the struggles of those who survived the long siege by German forces during World War II (from 8 September 1941 to 27 January 1944). The three million inhabitants of Leningrad (now renamed St Petersburg) suffered extremes of starvation and deprivation.

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Poster for Daughters of the Sun

2004 · ★ 5.1 (7)

Amangol (Altinay Ghelich Taghani) is the eldest daughter in a poor rural family. To help support them, her head is shaven and begins work as a boy named Aman in an isolated carpet weaving shop. The girls who work there are beaten by the owner, as is Aman, toiling at the loom until their hands bleed. As a male apprentice, he supervises the girls and lives in the shop, locked in and isolated.

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