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Poster for Mirage

1974 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A self-portrait, Mirage exposes Mendieta's naked body in nature reflected in a mirror. She holds a gourd and stabs it open to let its seeds fly away.

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Poster for Советская Империя - Сочи

2004 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Footprints of Pan-Africanism

2017 · ★ 8.0 (1)

In 1957, Ghana was the first African country to become independent of its colonial rulers, in this case the British. Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of what in 1960 became the Republic of Ghana, called on Africans from all over the world to come to Ghana to help build the new nation. The most important aim was to "undo the damage caused by the slave trade" as filmmaker Shirikiana Aina expressed it in her documentary Footprints of Pan Africanism. Several people speak in Aina’s film about the reconstruction of Ghana and Nkrumah, who was deposed in 1966, offering room for their frequently gripping personal stories. These are often marked by racism, the emerging civil rights movement and what it’s like to be black and live elsewhere. For many, returning to Africa was like going home.

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Poster for A World Without Down's Syndrome?

2016 · ★ 6.0 (5)

Documentary about Down's syndrome and the ethics of pregnancy screening, fronted by Sally Phillips. This film explores the science and thinking around the proposed new screening test for Down's syndrome and its possible availability on the NHS. Driven by the experience of raising her son Olly, who has Down's syndrome, Sally explores some of the ethical implications of our national screening policy. By talking to experts in the Down's syndrome community, the world's top scientists and including people with Down's syndrome in the debate, Sally investigates a thorny subject that begs questions relevant to us all: what sort of world do we want to live in and who do we want in it?

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2009 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Taking place in Inner Mongolia, a father comes back to his daughter after 20 years of absence, but she's not ready to forgive him yet. This causes a series of flashbacks, that bring back the painful past.

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1997 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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2016 · ★ 0.0 (0)

About how a man, in the final stages of his life, reflects back on his life through what is happening in the present.He sees how he is adversely affecting his surroundings, his daugher, his daugher in laws... but can he make the change that is demanded of him, and can he, in the process, discover himself come to free others and himself

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Poster for Poppies and Sailboats

2001 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Little is necessary for everything to appear differently. The date, the hour, the weather, the space's layout, one's glance or presence of mind . . . can make everything change. The boats sail out of the Vieux port in Marseille to be amongst the poppy fields.

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Poster for Life is waiting: referendum and resistance in Western Sahara

2015 · ★ 7.0 (3)

Forty years after its people were promised freedom by departing Spanish rulers, Western Sahara remains Africa's last colony. This film chronicles the everyday violence experienced by Sahrawis living under Moroccan occupation and voices the aspirations of a desert people for whom the era of colonialist never ended.

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Poster for Beauty and the Beast

1993 · ★ 6.5 (4)

Autobiographical notes about bringing up children. A birth, the bite in the umbilical cord, a baby between sheets of music. Mimi fiddles educationally on a violin without strings, offers her breast and enjoys the little king with an improvised hysterical performance, and suddenly starts with Dadaistic oracles, letting the blead dance and carrying the child out into big wide world.

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2009 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for The Patio

2004 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Martina and Sofia are sisters. They wake up one morning in great heat, eat breakfast on the patio and remain there all day watching TV. They eagerly await a call from their mother who lives abroad.

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Poster for Transit Dubai

2008 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In the heart of the Middle East, a metropolis is mushrooming. In Dubai, the city where anything seems possible, one after the other skyscraper shoots up. To realise the property developers' plans, workers are called in from India, Pakistan and Nepal, who earn a mere pittance. Just like the nannies and cleaning women of well-to-do expats. Eighty percent of the inhabitants of Dubai come from other parts of the world, so who calls this city home? The original inhabitants saw the city change and now contend with religious and social taboos, something that completely passes by the average expat. In a photography class, students of various origins show how they experience the city. Apparently, original residents, expats and workers live mostly separate lives in a class society where the labourer is driven into the ground and the rich housewife thinks everyone in the city is happy.

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Poster for Kali-Filme

1988 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The KALI-FILME are a compilation of 8 single short found footage films, which were composed of Hollywood war-, horror- and women in prison B-pictures, historical war documentaries and porno films. In the trivial films we find images of our own subconscious instincts, which are tabu in the official high culture. KALI is a mother goddess of the Hindu mythology. She is the birth giving mother and at the same time the killing and castrating woman. Since primeval times men do fear her power.

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Poster for Love Wanders in the Night

1981 · ★ 5.0 (4)

Eirini and Stella are two old maids and sisters who have grown up in the provinces and now live in Athens, in an apartment that looks out onto an open-air cinema. They are almost forty, still virgins and dependent on each other. Their only relative is their cousin Stefanos, with whom they were both in love, but who has been away in Paris for years. When he comes back and visits them, the balance between the two women is upset.

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2011 · ★ 5.5 (2)

Freezing insight into the bowels of the "black holes" of the Slovak justice. Political document about power and state of justice in Slovakia.

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Poster for A Stray Girlfriend

2007 · ★ 3.0 (7)

A romantic holiday has left Inés all alone. She's not at all happy about it.

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Poster for Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish

2012 · ★ 10.0 (1)

The play Romeo and Juliet has been translated around the world. Now Eve Annenberg’s gritty, funny feature film sets William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in contemporary New York City with Brooklyn-inflected English and Yiddish spoken by a talented cast.

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2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

My father often jokes that he's both a police officer and a hunter. While he has a busy job, he always returns to the tribe on his days off— to check traps, clear the water source, and weed the land.This film documents the time we spent together at the mountain spring. Step by step, he passed on his knowledge of the forest to me. I came to realize that he was trying to hand down the wisdom of my grandfather — how he drew water and lived in harmony with the land.

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Poster for About James

2022 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Marlene’s chance encounter with James at a bookstore, 50 years since their last meeting, brings back painful memories of a love lost. Is there a “second chance”?

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