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Gloria, a Chinese woman in her 70s, lives alone and entertains a simple, monotonous life taking walks in her suburban Bay Area neighborhood, perusing her enormous stack of National Geographics, and avoiding conversations with her son about her failing memory. One afternoon, she encounters an article titled "To Stave Off Dementia, Learn a Language?" Fearful and resentful, she refuses to read it. But after passing the Mexican grocery in her neighborhood, a sense of longing to improve her mental state and connect with her community activates a shift. Gloria dives into teaching herself Spanish, an act that introduces both newfound purpose and friendship.

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2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Mothers talk about their experiences. What is expected of them, what personal and social challenges do they face? Everything is represented: from nuclear families to single parents, homosexual parent constellations to motherhood through artificial insemination. Layer by layer, outdated and inverted role models and also the break with social norms become visible. Motherhood between backbreaking work and euphoria.

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Poster for Silver Anniversary for Bhilai

1984 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A short documentary about the visit of the Soviet delegation to India on the 25th anniversary of the founding of the city of Bhilai.

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Poster for Yore Gramps And The Whale

2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

After the loss of his beloved grandfather, young Mundinho finds the whale the old fisherman always spoke of. As it rests beside him on the beach, day after day, Mundinho comes to terms with his grandfather's death with the help of a close friend.

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Poster for The Garden of Alalá

2024 · ★ 5.5 (2)

After a global catastrophe, a volcanologist and a crow live in a deserted ice desert. Driven by deep longing, he fights for survival and builds a mysterious construct.

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Poster for a dios

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Two Latinx nannies meet God in the reflection of a puddle.

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Poster for Peshmerga, one more time!

2015 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Three old friends go on a road trip of a lifetime. All three were Peshmerga fighters 80’s, who fought against the Saddam regime in Northern Iraq, Kurdistan. They were members of the Iraqi communist party called “al Ansar” and non Kurds, unlike the rest of the Peshmerga today. The film documents their trip in Kurdistan where their memories come to life again. This coming of age story is filled with humor and political passion of the few remaining communist Arabs.

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Poster for Weddings and Diapers

2007 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In this touching and humorous documentary, four Kosovar couples share how they deal with chores, child raising, freedoms and infidelity. How have roles changed and what are the limits to modernity in the sacred union of marriage?

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Poster for Butterfly Jam

2021 · ★ 6.5 (2)

A young girl describes her father and his relationship with all his pets that he never really knew how to look after.

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Poster for Maria's Days

1960 · ★ 5.7 (3)

A day in the life of Maria, an old woman who lives on a farm in Puglia. She is not afraid of death, the gestures and actions that fill her days give meaning to time.

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Poster for Ornamentals

1979 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In Ornamentals (1979), Abigail Child explores rhythm and the poetry of the repetitive image form.

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2010 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Josette knocks on her parents' bedroom door. It seems daddy is in a bad mood. Mama has moved to the country for a couple of days and there's a strange tension in the air. Josette wants to play, but daddy has got to get up and dress for work. Based on a short story by Eugène Ionesco.

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2016 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A short documented visit to the ophthalmologist by Anhar Salem

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Poster for Reason Over Passion

1969 · ★ 5.8 (4)

The film consists primarily of degraded footage of landscapes shot from vehicles moving across the country; meanwhile, 537 computer-generated permutations of the film’s title appear like subtitles—the letters are scrambled over and over again, undermining the meaning of Pierre Trudeau's infamous motto.

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During his last ride of the night, taxi driver Gojko picks up a passenger who knows her destination very well. As the miles pass, it becomes increasingly clear that he is not only driving her, but also carrying a burden that will force him to question where is he really headed.

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Poster for Miari Texas

2026 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The story obscured by the banner: "Erasing 70 years of disgrace! Full-scale demolition of the red-light district!"

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Poster for Ultra Strong

2026 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Catherine tries to toughen herself to impress the “princes” in her circle, who turn out to be more off-putting than charming. When all her dubious strategies fail, she must face the ultimate test: learning how to embrace her true nature. In Ultra Strong, a candid and self-deprecating autofictional story by Catherine Lepage, we’re invited to reexamine our youthful ideals—from Cinderella to Iron Maiden.

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In the middle of a strange universe where light and darkness clash, two allies try to escape the war. Unfortunately, their survival depends on the invisible forces that manipulate their destiny.

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A young Muscovite Artem goes to Tyumen to get money for wedding, but unexpectedly agrees to his grandmother proposal to start on a trip to the oil and gas cities of Western Siberia in search of her longtime acquaintance. The road full of encounters with explorers, oilmen, geologists and indigenous peoples turns into his personal discovery: about the family past, about the power of human labor and about his own destiny. The further he penetrates the northern lands, the more realizes that the real path is not in search of other people wealth, but in recognition of own values.

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