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Poster for Godfather II

2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A short film by Maria Lassnig, shot in 1974.

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Poster for Adomya

2014 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Juri faces several hardships after her husband dies of AIDS. She is thrown out of her in-laws' house. Soon, she returns to her village and gives birth to a baby girl.

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Poster for The Happiness Machine

2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

An inventor from rural Iowa explores what it means to pass on the gift of place.

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Poster for Gotthard Base Tunnel, Gotthard, Switzerland

2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Short film depicting the Gotthard Base Tunnel. Part of the Anthropocene installation.

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Poster for The Darby Bonarsky Story

2017 · ★ 6.0 (1)

A short film about a delusional actress and a strange documentarian who seeks to exploit her.

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Poster for Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity

2009 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Trixie can't wait to bring Knuffle Bunny to school and show him off. But an awful surprise awaits her: someone else has the exact same bunny! Thus begins an exciting, frustrating and ultimately revelatory twenty-four hours of chaos, where Trixie loses her beloved bunny and gains him back, along with something new: her very first best friend.

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Poster for The Revenge of Lemonade Bill

2018 · ★ 10.0 (2)

Limeville, the city of lime, fears it's legacy might be destroyed when the heirs of the land show up to claim the town and replace the lime with oranges. But there's only place for one fruit in this town...

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2011 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A film about love, about the relationship of a young couple living in a "civil marriage", and their opinion about marriage is official.

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Poster for My Life, My Lesson

2015 · ★ 9.5 (4)

My life my lesson is a raw yet tender documentary that follows 16-year-old Felicia over the course of two years as she is attempting to live a normal teenage-life, having been brought up witnessing her step-dad abusing her mum. It's an intimate portrait of a family living with the scars of domestic violence. Felicia's dream of a normal life is made impossible by her self-harming and the sleeping difficulties caused by the violence. After Rolf threatens to kill her mum the family is being sent to a secret location women's shelter. As things are put on edge Felicia's bravery is tested - will she stand up for her family and herself, and testify in court against the only father she has ever known?

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Poster for A Love Letter To The One I Made Up

2018 · ★ 6.0 (1)

A lonely walk home is intertwined with an underwater fantasy world. The relationship between reality and fantasy is portrayed in a love letter addressed to an imaginary "perfect" man. The film displays a critical, female point of view on the idea of romantic modern love in western society. Its main purpose is to dismantle the "knight in shining armor" myth.

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Poster for Only What You Need to Know About Me

2018 · ★ 1.0 (2)

Teenagers Laura and Fábio meet at a skate park and their friendship blossoms into something deeper. But when Laura disappears without a word, Fabio tracks her down to uncover the reason why.

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Poster for Rabbits in The Headlights

2016 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In a province small town a road junction is being built. It hangs over the buildings and the people. Two young girls, schoolmates, make a video blog about it while hoping to move out of this place forever. This is a story of their friendship, of being so close, that you lose yourself.

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1964 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A documentary about Josef Stalin.

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Poster for Egypt, City of the Dead

1978 · ★ 8.0 (1)

A portrait of the City of the Dead, an inhabited cemetery just outside of Cairo and on the fringes of the city’s public dumping ground, like a living reproach and a bad conscience. Starting from the City of the Dead, the film shows the populous neighborhoods of Cairo in the grip of hypertrophy and misery, every day more threatened by paralysis.

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Poster for Revolve

2016 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A girl is looking for herself, and yet she does not know, herself is looking for her as well.

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Poster for Honestly It's the Story of My Life

1988 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A down-to-earth portrait of art school life.

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Poster for Understanding the Law: The Coat

1999 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A fashion-conscious shopper sees beautiful coats advertised in the newspaper. The next day, he's the first in line to get his at the store. But they won't sell him one! "These are women's coats," the store owner says. "For women only!" On the grounds that the newspaper ad constitutes a contract, the customer takes the vendor to court to win his right to the coat. Understanding the Law: The Coat is episode one in a series of short, funny films designed to demystify everyday aspects of Canadian civil law. Wry humour and a whimsical style make this informative series lively and memorable.

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Poster for Musically Medicated

2013 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Music is a drug without side effects. Since the age of six Robbie has been driven by music. After his mother died he has lived and breathed it. All that is snatched away when he is diagnosed with Parkinson's disease at 28. His problems spiral out of control as he struggles to find his new normal. Isolated by his condition and addicted to his medication Robbie is alone fighting poverty, pills and Parkinson's.

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Poster for Le retrait des troupes

2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Anna’s life is well settled. She and her boyfriend Paul, a young soldier, diligently prepare for the arrival of their first child as the future father is set to leave on a mission abroad. But a few days before the departure, the French state decides to withdraw all troops, and Paul tells Anna that he will be able to stay with her the coming months. The unexpected news cause a big dilemma for her.

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Poster for The Gardeners of the Martyrs' Street

2003 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Close to 40 years after the war of Algeria ended, in a factory workers' garden, in Tourcoing, a city from the North of France, French and Algerian men work on their piece of land. These men were the conscripts, National Liberation Front militants or "harkis" from a colonial war led by the French republic.

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