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Poster for Jelena

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The lovesick Jelena spends her afternoons strolling among the tombs and leafless trees at Père-Lachaise cemetery. As she sings Françoise Hardy’s “Tous les garçons et les filles”, one old grave depicting a couple draws her attention.

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Poster for TÔ NA PISTA!

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

While picking up his passenger, an app driver is kidnapped. During the journey, the kidnapper strikes up a conversation with the driver and, as they talk, the two discover that they have a lot in common. What was supposed to be a very tense situation changes and becomes almost an outing between friends.

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1980 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A report on the 1980 trial in which Kurt Lischka, Herbert Hagen and Ernst Heinrichsohn were convicted of deporting the Jewish population of France during the Second World War.

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Poster for Broken Man

2023 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A child narrating her letter to a broken man against a melancholic scene of mundane imageries.

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Poster for Gun Girls

1997 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Tears of Blood

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A candid video revealing in vivid detail the stoma Tracey Emin lives with – a pulsing, sunset-red orifice that may be variously identified in the surgent valves, halos and potent reds that punctuate Emin’s paintings.

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Poster for Sembrava non finire mai

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Alberto, Francesco, and Mariella live in Carbonia. Their childhoods and youth were filmed on Super 8 and then stored away in an old box. Now, in a cinema, they will watch those images again after many years. Through three intertwining stories, the film explores the evolution of a country that experienced the rapid economic growth of the 1980s, feminist struggles, and the simple yet secure life of the old working class.

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Poster for Gennaro

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Rafael is an aspiring painter who has just arrived at Heitor's atelier, an experienced artist, but his entrance seems to arouse a series of consternations that go beyond his ordinary duty as a disciple.

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Poster for Marianela & The Corpse

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Marianela, a 19-year-old girl, has to reveal a secret to her complicated mother during a chaotic birthday party while dealing with a bigger issue: a mysterious corpse in her closet.

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Poster for Paléo, une odyssée 1976 – 2022

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The Paléo Festival – with its history, enraptured crowds, protagonists from all walks of life and questions about the future – is the subject of a captivating documentary series by students of the HEAD and the ECAL. Their four capsules, including archival footage, bring the sounds of this essential Swiss institution to life.

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Poster for A Passage of Pavements

2018 · ★ 5.0 (1)

Teenage sex trafficking of the United States is examined.

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2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

On the evening of an unseasonably warm Moon Festival, a Chinese immigrant mother goes about her ordinary routine of cooking dinner while controlling her daughter’s every move with a sharp tongue. But what is brewing beneath the surface? As night falls, a sinister figure emerges to threaten this small household.

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2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The sea gives us the game of laughter, food. The sea acts as a vehicle of transmission for knowledge, memories, the kind that travel in lightweight vessels.

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2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

At once emotionally devastating and deeply heartwarming, Ondi Timoner’s latest documentary follows the day to day lives of the residents at a hospice care center for the unhoused located in Salt Lake City. Crafted with immense compassion, The Inn Between forces us to identify with its subjects, exposing how close any of us really are to the rough living circumstances that thousands of Americans find themselves in.The Inn Between is the only end of life facility for the homeless in America, where miracles happen - as the once-unsheltered are treated with the humanity and community we all deserve.

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Poster for Kunst als Waffe - John Heartfield

2023 · ★ 8.0 (1)

With a pair of scissors and some paper, he turned his art into a weapon the Nazis feared. A look back at the eventful career of satirist John Heartfield (1891-1968), pioneer of photomontage and modern graphic design.

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Poster for Beneath Your Trembling

2023 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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2001 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A behind-the-headlines look at a diverse group of young adults who give a year of their lives through a San Francisco area AmeriCorps program to tutor and mentor needy kids. Despite their good intentions, they are confronted by a host of obstacles, including a racial divide that threatens to thwart their efforts. While documenting a year both turbulent and exhilarating, the film reveals the hopes and dreams, successes and setbacks of a group of individuals--potentially tomorrow's leaders-- searching for their place in the world and trying, against odds, to make a difference.

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Poster for The Governor

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Zvi Elpeleg, the director's grandfather, was a military governor of the Arab citizens of Israel after the establishment of the State. The positive image Zvi presented slowly crumbles when the director reveals his true actions as a ruler in both his military and family life. As she uncovers a family secret, the personal and political merge, reflecting on one another. The film investigates the subject of control and draws a portrait of a country that has, and still is, constantly and obsessively, since its inception, dealing with controlling populations.

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Poster for Rodicas

2012 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Okinawa Graveyard Club

2004 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Captured in black and white, Chikako Yamashiro is in tennis wear dancing in frenzied fashion to club beats in front of a tombstone in broad daylight. As her miniskirt gleams in the dazzling sunlight, a sun visor casts a dark shadow over her face. The video bursts with a vitality that seems to brazenly declare "I will embrace even conflict and wounds and dead, and live with them all."

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