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Poster for This Land Is My Land

2020 · ★ 7.7 (3)

“What the hell happened to my country?” After Donald Trump’s election, this is a burning question for Susanne Brandstätter, an American filmmaker who’s lived most her life in Austria. With the critical distance of a European and an insider’s eye, she gets close to Trump voters in Ohio: a microcosm of a deeply divided USA. Showing striking parallels to Europe, the documentary explores polarization and why people stick to their political opinions – no matter what. Is there no way out?

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Poster for Retratos de Hideko

1981 · ★ 5.0 (1)

Four generations of the Japanese woman: the struggle for survival, the cult of traditions, adaptation to the city and cultural dilution.

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1993 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A drifting Vietnam veteran, Eddy, and an Amerasian girl, Tam, who he has taken under his wing travel around the country, stopping at night to gaze through picture windows of suburban homes as if watching foreign television. Tam dreams the American Dream of living inside one of these homes as part of a real family. When fundamentalist Christians take her into their home, she thinks her dream has come true, but the dream turns into a dark and eerie nightmare

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Poster for Sexy Sad I

1987 · ★ 1.0 (2)

In this détourned music video, Rist trains her camera on the nude male body, challenging the tropes of the form and of pop culture in general. Her anonymous male subject is more puppet than star player as he flails helplessly, chasing a receding camera, accompanied by a cut-and-paste remix of The Beatles' Sexy Sadie. Supersaturated colors and a woodland setting further serve to naturalize the surreal scenario.

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Poster for Absent Present

2010 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Benji was brought from Namibia to the GDR in 1979 as a young child and sent back in 1990 after German reunification. Levi got to know him there in 1991. Two years later, he hitchhiked back to Europe disguised as a tourist. But "in this film there is no main character. Benji, who should have been it, has disappeared," it is stated at the beginning of the movie. On her search for traces, Levi associatively links the story of the refugee with the stories of flight of those she meets underway. The journey leads from Germany to Namibia, to the Spanish mainland and the Canary Islands, all the way to Senegal. Without wanting to draw a geographical or political map, an essayistic documentary on the various forms of traveling emerges: vacation and migration, voluntary and forced return.

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Poster for Sold

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A film about friendship and the occasional loneliness.

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Poster for The Count in Oranges

2015 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Five friends go to the village to celebrate a birthday party. Igor has to take his small sister with them. The friends are full of hormones, alcohol, cigarettes, intrigues and fun when they suddenly realize the terrible: they've lost their sister. Igor is sure the reason is the locals with whom they have recently had a fight. The story becomes a bridge for teens from the childhood to the adult life.

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Poster for Closet Doors

2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

This short film explores the other half of the coming out conversation, the one that we never get to hear. For parents, that conversation ends with suddenly having to reshape your ideas, plans, and relationship with your child. Through a series of interviews, this documentary fixes its lens on the mothers, fathers, grandparents, and guardians of LGBT individuals who have come out of the closet.

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Poster for Graffiti Hall of Fame

1984 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Documenting Graffiti culture in a basketball court in the Bronx. The filmmaker was accompanied by Martin Wong who said, "bring your camera". The Graffiti Hall of Fame is the result.

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Poster for Womaniser

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Diario ordinário

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Inbetween fiction and documentary, this film sails through the brasilian street resistance following the parlamentary coup of state.

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Poster for GRACE + GRAVITY

2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Grace + Gravity is a choreographed performance that reflects on Simone Weil's poetic and profound writing entitled Gravity and Grace.

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Poster for Spender House

2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The Spender House in Essex was designed in 1968 by Richard and Su Rogers (Team 4) for photographer and artist Humphrey Spender. It was a prototype and precursor to the iconic house, Parkside, designed for Rogers’ parents the following year, making it the first example of hi-tech domestic architecture in the UK.

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Poster for Rituals of Resistance

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A Tibetan-American filmmaker explores modes of resistance to Chinese occupation by speaking with activists across generations. A former Tibetan monk broke his vows and became a guerilla leader. The filmmaker's own mother followed the Dalai Lama's Middle Path and raised her family in America. A young Tibetan man attempted to self-immolate in 2006. How does the filmmaker understand his place in the struggle?

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Poster for Tra il cane e il lupo

2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The experience of the Cinema Mitante collective from the city of Milan, a group of militant directors active during the hot militant 70s.

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Poster for Låt mig dansa

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Five young girls talk about their mental illness. They did not know each other before, but through the dance they have found fellowship, pain relief and a personal expression.

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Poster for The Remote Controller

2003 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Using found footage sourced from educational films in the Prelinger Archives, this work explores the subject of experimentation in human body and machine interfaces in the 20th century. The film edits together the different ways we have controlled our environment - through technology, magic and theatrical devices. As the world of communications brings people together, power still exists by pushing a button and pulling the puppet strings.

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Poster for Hambourg

1990 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A travel film.

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Poster for Pit-Stop

2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Two college friends going through a rough spot decide to make some money by hosting a bed and breakfast. Conflicts soon arise.

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Poster for Albina Sexova

2018 · ★ 3.5 (2)

Colleagues from the Union of Artists know Elena K * as a modest watercolor painter. Among the visitors of nightclubs, she is known as the singer of porno-chanson Albina Sexova.

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