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1981 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Documentary on the building of the Panama Canal with archival and contemporary photographs, film, and more.

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Poster for Letters from the Blitz

2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Told through beautifully restored original colour home movies and personal letters, this documentary offers a rare glimpse into life in Northern Ireland during World War II. Helen Ramsey Turtle was a young American mother living on an island outside Belfast. Her letters home to America reveal the horror of the Belfast Blitz, the buzz of American GIs arriving and her own deeply personal story of resilience and optimism in the face of an unexpected diagnosis.

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A dark musical comedy that tells the story of Krista Bomb, an octogenarian ex-con man-hater who crossdresses as an alpha-male to save her needy pony-playing middle-aged son from the absurdities of a masculinist cult. A surrealist satire where humor becomes the only way to subvert squareness.

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2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A personal documentary questioning the ways in which family imposed narratives force us into roles that we spend our lives either rebelling against or conforming to.

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2022 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Up, Up and Away

2023 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Facing many hard times and difficulties in life, Tsz-Chun has no one to share with but his toy astronaut. One day in school there was a drama show about space exploration. In between fantasy and reality he embarks on an adventurous journey.

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1975 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A story of a young boy and his pet boa. The boa gets loose in a library and gives the viewer a snake’s-eye view of the facilities. We also learn about snakes and other members of the reptile family.

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Eighteen-year-old Shahnura is about to graduate from high school. Her mother spends hours at the dining table while Shahnura is at school, wondering if her mother, sister, and brother are still alive. Living in Germany without a passport or nationality, she listens to the harrowing stories of her mother and two friends who have experienced imprisonment and re-education camps in China. These accounts reveal the suffering, human rights abuses, forced adoptions, and the grim reality of the camps where the predominantly Muslim Turkic Uyghurs are tortured and mistreated.

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Poster for In the Land of Machines

2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Every year, many Asian workers arrive in South Korea with dreams of prosperity, only to face exploitation in what is known as the 'City of Machines.' This documentary follows three Nepali workers as they endure harsh realities while reclaiming their dignity through poetry.

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In this experimental short from filmmaker Gaylene Preston, a no-nonsense hitchhiker is subjected to the ramblings of a deeply philosophical driver. Impressively, Peter Cathro delivers the long, stream of consciousness ramble in a single take — while actor Shirley Grace manages to keep a straight face throughout. The driver's musings on art, society and creative expression cannot be quashed (even by a kiss), and it becomes too much to bear for the hitchhiker, who just wants to get to Taihape. Filmed in a lo-fi style, this screened at The Women’s Gallery in Wellington as part of 1981 exhibition Sexxuality.

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Poster for Test of Courage

2016 · ★ 4.0 (1)

During WWII, a bunch of children, with 11-year old Anton and his younger brother Rudi in the middle, meet up at a wall at the cemetery. They regularly have tests of courage. As it is Rudi's turn, he makes his way, armed with a knife, to the grave of a child murderer, where the night ends in terror.

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1986 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Today, Japan is envied by the world for her economic prosperity, which however, has resulted in producing this sort of average family. Its contains a wife who has to serve her husband, a preoccupied businessman, and who showers all her attention on her child who is also left behind at home with the mother. The child, especially a son, becomes a replacement for her husband. Mother and son share an intimate life like lovers at home without the husband. It seems that this is such a common occurrence that Japanese society ignores this video work. Those that are envious of the Japanese economic success will become less so if they see this work and realize what this real phenomena in Japanese society is like.

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Poster for Sandy: Nós, Voz, Eles - Ao Vivo

2023 · ★ 9.2 (3)

“Nós, Voz, Eles” is a project by Brazilian singer-songwriter Sandy, which consists of duets with Brazilian musical artists in a studio at her home. The songs included in the project were released individually and preceded by their respective episodes, which are part of the web series “Nós, Voz, Eles”, where the process of creating the songs is shown. After the individual release of the songs, they were compiled into two albums, released in 2018 and 2022. In 2023, the singer releases the live version of the project, in video and audio, recorded during the tour with the same name, bringing together artists who previously recorded songs with the singer, and some recent singles.

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Poster for The Middle Place

2021 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Revolving around Olive, a young woman who is struggling with mental health and the consequences of what that means for her personality as she tries to find a way to navigate through the darkness.

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Poster for Les femmes préfèrent en rire

2022 · ★ 0.0 (0)

On an improbable train journey, nine comedian women and devilishly feminist, swing, hit, bite and move. With committed humour, they pinpoint the failings of our macho society. And when they are insulted or threatened in return, they prefer to laugh about it....

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1994 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A film by Stephanie Barber.

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Poster for Horse Girl

2022 · ★ 7.0 (1)

In this eloquently photographed depiction of a Midwestern farm, a rupture between parents forces Evangeline to see her life in the vast countryside, and her horse, in a new light.

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Poster for Смерть в пенсне или Наш Чехов

2010 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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1970 · ★ 0.0 (0)

(1970) color; 3 min.

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