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Poster for Life/Expectancy

1999 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Voice-over (by Fleming's partner, Zack Stiglicz) combines narrative fragments about a solitary woman and excerpts from books on psychology to create a sense of everyday melancholy

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Poster for Photograph of Wind

2001 · ★ 0.0 (0)

My daughter’s name is Maya. I’ve been told that the word maya means illusion in Hindu philosophy. As I watch her growing up, spinning like a top around me, I realize that her childhood is not something I can grasp but rather (like the wind) something I feel tenderly brushing across my cheek. - Lynne Sachs

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Poster for Miss South Pacific: Beauty and the Sea

2011 · ★ 2.0 (1)

What does a beauty pageant in Suva, Fiji have to do with climate change? Quite a lot, as it turns out. 'Miss South Pacific: Beauty and the Sea' is a short documentary film about the 2009-2010 Miss South Pacific Pageant that brought contestants, or Queens, from all the major Pacific Island Nations to compete in a week long pageant for the crown of Miss South Pacific. Addressing the theme of Climate Change and its impact on Pacific Island countries, the Queens eloquently and passionately implore judges, spectators, and the world at large to reduce global carbon emission lest their island homes will be lost to rising seas. Is it too late to turn back the tide? Watch Miss South Pacific and see.

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1999 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Filmmaker Teresa Blake's portrait of an 88-year-old man with a trail of Texas Exes: Houston oil man, Hollywood playboy, hotshot lawyer and serial monogamist Tommy Blake on a quirky and intimate journey, a daughter looks beyond myth, money, and society -- and all that hair -- in seeking the truth of her father.

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Poster for Buitenkampers

2013 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Poly Love in Peach City 2

2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

At a baby shower hosted by Leslie and Nygil, a couple in a polyamorous relationship. The event, meant to be a celebration, is filled with underlying tension as secrets and unresolved emotions simmer just beneath the surface.

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Poster for La pension des étranges

2004 · ★ 5.0 (1)

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Poster for CHOMALA BIRIYANI

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

palakkadan girl misses her hometown’s special biriyani and starts blabbering about it.

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Poster for Algum Lugar no Recreio

2015 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In the corners of the school, hidden dramas that the playground promotes and conceals: Lucas and Daniel prepare a bomb; Nicolas and Jaqueline kiss to hide their real desires; Carvalho tries to control his impulses after repeated insults; Alice needs clean urine to cover her secret; and Luiza just wants to find her place.

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Poster for A l'Aube d'un Renouveau

2023 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In this farewell letter to Ana (aka Anorexia), I reveal the suffering associated with this illness. I express my desire to regain my freedom and vitality by sharing not only my progress but also my relapses. Through the interweaving of drawings and poetry, I share this quest for reconstruction, which I hope will help raise awareness of this mental illness and bring a little hope to people affected by it and those around them.

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Poster for Biscoot

2023 · ★ 8.0 (1)

18 year old Em goes on a journey, with biscuits from her grandmother that she eats and shares with new friends. When down to her last biscuit, Em has to make a choice: eat it, or save it as a final link to her home.

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Poster for Weird Al: Never Off Beat

2023 · ★ 1.0 (2)

Call him a creative genius or just plain wacky. Either way Alfred Yankovic has carved his own brand of comedic parodies, polka medleys, and original songs for the outcast who never fit in.

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2022 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The documentary opens a fascinating page of Russia's development of the Far East, presents the viewer with a heroic portrait of the Russian naturalist and researcher R.K.Maak.

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Poster for Paper Bird Flying

2002 · ★ 3.0 (1)

When the wind blows, everything acquires a strange power

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Poster for Before We Fall

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

When Tyler runs away on the anniversary of his mother's death, a series of notes are left behind that lead the three cousins Ethan, Jesse, and Alex on a search for him.

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Poster for Naked Island – Detention

2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

This ultra-short film proves that walls are real and borders are imaginary with an animated critique of long-term detention for minors in immigration centres.

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Poster for Doubles

2021 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Young guys ride a skateboard. Each of them is trying to build relationships: someone succeeds, someone does not. But what if happiness is much closer than it seems to them, and they only need to make out a loved one - right under their noses.

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Poster for This is Jessica

2021 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Jessica Bair, a longtime LGBTQIA+ rights advocate with Human Rights Campaign, shares her struggle to remain in her Mormon faith despite coming out as transgender.

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Poster for Centuries and Still

2021 · ★ 0.0 (0)

“Centuries and Still” is a mixed media illustrated short film telling the history of anti-Asian racism and violence in the U.S. The film seeks to unveil how history took part in the birth and perpetuation of today’s surge of anti-Asian discrimination and hate crimes. The search for justice goes back to the Gold Rush era fetishization of Asian women, to today’s hate crimes targeting Asian elders. (Film Shortage)

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2003 · ★ 5.0 (1)

Sari, a 17-year-old Balinese girl, is the daughter of a famous painter. In charge of her father's gallery, she is also expected to continue preserving the traditional values. But secretly, Sari wants to become a disc jockey (DJ), knowing that her father would oppose it. Sari's father is preoccupied with his own problem, fearing that his new work would not match his previous ones. Then Sari meets Daniel, a musician from Jakarta. Her father opposes their relationship especially after finding out that Sari has been secretly learning to DJ.

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