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Poster for Ang mga Tigmo sa Akong Pagpauli

2013 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Alfad, a Lumad whose soul returns to his homeland to settle unfinished businesses and to finally rest. It is based on the Lumad’s belief that when a person dies his soul goes back to his homeland.

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2011 · ★ 5.5 (2)

Told through the eyes of an increasingly empowered heroine, THE CARRIER is a powerful and moving portrait of an unconventional family, set against the backdrop of the growing HIV/AIDS epidemic in Zambia. This lyrical film follows Mutinta Mweemba, a 28-year-old subsistence farmer living in a polygamous marriage. After learning she is HIV positive and pregnant, Mutinta sets out to keep her unborn child virus-free and break the cycle of transmission.

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Poster for Rise: The Story of Rave Outlaw Disco Donnie

2004 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A documentary about Disco Donnie at Mardi Gras.

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Poster for Ara

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Seventeen-year-old Noemí lives under strict religious control where desire is sin. After connecting with another girl, she is consumed by visions of punishment. As reality and hallucination blur, she confronts the cost of repressing who she is.

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Poster for The Last Act

2014 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A young Italian actress goes to visit her lover in Macedonia during the world war two. Her playfulness and nonchalant behavior leads to a tragic end.

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2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Armed with her book "The ABC of Seduction", a bored and romantic teenage girl disrupts her lazy summer by befriending a mysterious new boy who moves next door - leading to romance and potential damnation.

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Poster for La Vendedora de Sonrisas

2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Absence

1986 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Absence is a subtle and fragmented narrative about desire and expectation leaving the viewer to search for explanations, completion, and closure.

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Poster for Anakonda

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Pedestal, gold medal, flowers, and applause of fascinated spectators. We see the beautiful tip of the iceberg when the winner gets everything: recognition, sponsorship contracts, glossy photo shoots. But what really stands in the way of the title of the youngest two-time world champion in judo? What efforts were needed every step of the way to conquer Olympus, and who is the main rival? The short documentary "Anaconda" tells the story of one of the best athletes of today, Daria Bilodid. Who is Daria's main rival, what challenges does she face every day and why is the film called "Anaconda"?

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Poster for Mashallah. Why Did You Cross The Indian Ocean?

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Mashallah. Why Did You Cross The Indian Ocean? features interviews with two pairs of Indo-Hadhrami mothers and daughters living in Jeddah.The women routinely gather in Salem’s mother’s living room – a site of informal commerce through which women from the artist’s community would buy and sell various ethnic goods, crafts and food. These conversations unravel in a playful manner wherein the women share a meal and recount their experiences of migrating to Jeddah – navigating a new culture and supporting the economic, emotional, and physical wellbeing of their families, while implementing and preserving their matrilineal values and traditions.

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Poster for Caillou, Chou, Hibou

2023 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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2016 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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1995 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A short trip around, like a poem or a nostalgia for what you never had or knew anything about. We pick up speed around the equator. ANGUS MUSTANG is paralleling different travels, the physicality of travel pointed to, most clearly in the soundtrack and the pacing of the film, with the referees of travel's many orphans springing through the implied history.

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2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

One summer day, as Edouard and Celine undertake to kill themselves in the garden, Edouard’s young brother Pierre reappears after years of absence. Their newfound joy slowly cracks as family secrets unravel.

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Poster for Alganesh: Hope On the Horizon

2021 · ★ 8.0 (1)

This emotional doc explores Dr. Alganesh Fessaha's mission to breed hope and bright futures for young lives displaced by the Ethiopian-Eritrean Conflict.

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Poster for We Want to Get Married

2007 · ★ 0.0 (0)

On February 14, 2007, Valentine's Day, eight people who support gay relationships and marriage went to SOHO Modern City and various bus stops to give roses and cards to passersby, wish them a happy Valentine’s Day, and ask their support for gay rights. Upon seeing the words in the cards, everybody reacted differently. When they were asked their opinion of homosexuality, or what they would think if a family member were gay, their answers were all different and interesting, and even blackly humorous.

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2021 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The robot as a dancer does not interfere with anything – even wrenches instead of legs.

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Poster for Instructions for Survival

2021 · ★ 6.0 (1)

Alexander’s transgender identity means he is obliged to lead a life of secrecy in his home country. Being identified as “female” in his passport means he cannot legally find work, either. Since even a visit to the doctor is a risk for him, he has begun hormone therapy to transition on his own with support from internet forums and the local transgender community. Desperate to escape their hopeless situation and leave the country, Alexander’s wife Mari decides to become a surrogate mother for 12,000 dollars. But their ostensibly pragmatic plan backfires when Alex and Mari gradually develop an emotional bond with the unborn child.

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Poster for The Girl from Kazanqi

2017 · ★ 6.0 (1)

A group of young people living in Kazanqi overcoming numerous difficulties together.

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Poster for Paramnesia

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

To survive the old trauma and free herself from painful memories, Shura is forced to return to an ominous episode from her childhood: a little girl meets a strange stranger in an empty house.

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