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Poster for Letters from the Desert

2010 · ★ 6.0 (1)

A postman walks through the desert, his life flows slowly as does the desert sand. He is the only link between the secluded villagers, however, this is about to change due to a small technological device.

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1990 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for The Pool

1991 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A woman stands in the deep end of an empty and disused swimming pool. She wipes her face and stomach with her hands to clean away blood. She places her hands on the outstretched arm of a man who lifts her into the air and catches her where she falls. An eel swims, its gills flutter, opening and closing with the sound. The woman settle the eel in her arms and holds it against the body. When she swims she breathes out underwater.

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Poster for Light Years

2013 · ★ 10.0 (1)

Macarena (8) and Perla (6), two sisters, whom after the sudden death of their parents, embark on a journey in search of Virgin Mary in an attemp to bring them back. The physical and emotional journey of both sisters reaches a new meaning when Macarena finds herself confronting the acceptance of her new reality.

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Poster for Joan Mitchell: Portrait of an Abstract Painter

1993 · ★ 8.0 (1)

A powerful and intimate portrait, Joan Mitchell: Portrait of an Abstract Painter captures Mitchell's independent spirit and testifies eloquently to Mitchell's art. Joan Mitchell was born in Chicago in 1926 and died in Paris in 1992. After graduating from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Joan settled in New York City in 1950. She was an active participant of New York's dynamic Abstract Expressionist scene and hung out with fellow painters Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning and Philip Guston and, soon, poets Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler and John Ashbery. In the mid-fifties, she moved to Paris, France. There she was part of a circle of friends that included Pierre Matisse, Samuel Beckett and Alberto Giacometti. Mitchell is one of the great abstract painters of the 20th century. This elegantly edited documentary weaves interviews with the acerbic Mitchell and other leading painters and critics while letting her stunning pictures dominate the film.

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Poster for Terra Nova Matadora

2015 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A look at Canadian bullfighter Carolyn Hayward.

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Poster for Project Poor Noriko

2022 · ★ 0.0 (0)

As a young woman named Noriko awakens in a cellar chained up, she strives not only to free herself from her captivity but also from broken systems and questionable institutions. Embarking on both a literal and metaphorical quest for freedom, she meets various characters who have an impact on her journey to complete independence.

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Poster for Summer Rain

2021 · ★ 7.0 (1)

There has been no water in the house for days, and the reason may be the leak in the water tank on the roof. This adds another thing to Kao Li-Hsuan and Kao Cheng-Hsuan's to-do list today. In spite of their constant bickering, their relationship might be tighter than one can imagine during the rain.

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Poster for Splish Splash

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A transsexual pool party in the Hamptons.

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Poster for Parting Gift

2020 · ★ 7.5 (2)

Love arises between a florist and the woman she saved.

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2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A junior high school boy drowned in the local sea. After that, his mother accidentally finds an examination sheet in the house that doesn't belong to her son.

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Poster for Gloria's Call

2019 · ★ 3.3 (3)

In 1971, graduate student Gloria Orenstein received a call from Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington that sparked a lifelong journey into art, ecofeminism and shamanism. This short film uses art, animation and storytelling to celebrate this wild adventure. Now more than 40 years later, award-winning Dr. Gloria Feman Orenstein is a feminist art critic and pioneer scholar of women in Surrealism and ecofeminism in the arts. Her delightful tale brings alive an often unseen history of women in the arts.

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Poster for V.W. Vitesse Women

1974 · ★ 5.7 (3)

Claudine Eizykman with VITESSE WOMEN, presents a torrent, dazzling film that intersects several sequences according to various rhythms, sometimes close to the perceptive thresholds, allowing the deregulation of the senses desired by Rimbaud, opening the way to another mode of perception. —Michel Nuridsany, Le Figaro

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Poster for TALK SHOW

2026 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Talk Show is the final film in Jordan Strafer’s Loophole trilogy. The narrative unfolds across two periods of time: the turn of the millennium, shot in color, and the afterlife, shot in black and white. Structured around a talk show, the work examines 1990s celebrity culture, violence against women, and justice as televised spectacle. Its screenplay draws on sources ranging from news footage to self-help media, blending historical fact with fiction. [Overview courtesy of The Whitney]

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Leigh Jacobs stars in this 15min. short as an archaeologist who ends up trapped in a swelltering underground chamber. Jill (Leigh) is in search of artifacts for her assignment. When she discovers an ancient lantern in her dwellings, it releases it's mystical powers which leads to an uncontrolable destiny of this young adventurer.

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Poster for Lily

2026 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Two emotionally scarred individuals feel an instant connection when they meet, but their shared trauma slowly turns their bond into obsession, possessiveness, and darkness. As the relationship spirals, betrayal, revenge, and shocking revelations unfold in a slow-burn mystery thriller where both protagonists become each other’s enemy.

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2026 · ★ 0.0 (0)

An ocean separates them, the Atlantic. A granddaughter sets out to trace her grandfather's footsteps. She saw him often, but they never really met. At 91, Réal Arsenault has a life worth telling. A painter who left his mark on the history of contemporary art in Quebec, he was also very active in politics, working alongside supporters of a free and independent Quebec. This film will pay tribute to his life and his art, but it will also question what we leave behind on Earth, the legacy we pass on to our children and grandchildren, and the importance of communication within a family.

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Poster for The Institute of Grandmothers

1984 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The young couple, Alla and Robert, are planning to go to work in Norilsk for five years. Alla decides to leave the children with their grandmothers, but faces their resistance. The grandmothers believe that parents should raise their own children.

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Poster for Mr. Puntilla and His Man Matti

1974 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Mr. Puntilla is kind to his servants only when he's drunk, and at other times, they endure nothing but insults from him. However, the servant Matti manages to preserve his human dignity...

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Poster for Les filles

2009 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In a bar frequented by drunk and tired regulars showing pornography, a young girl falls in love with an unknown young man.

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