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2013 · ★ 5.0 (2)

After the death of his French wife, Ward tries to pick up the pieces back home in Holland. He hires Romanian worker Doru to reconstruct his house, but when Doru suddenly disappears, Ward is left with Doru's nine year old son Mihai. When Ward travels to Romania in search for Mihai's mother, he has to reconcile himself with his past and his future.

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Poster for Three Novels

1986 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Three stories about how citizens need nature

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Poster for Why I Never Became a Dancer

1995 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Emin uses her emotional life as the source and subject matter of her art. This takes the form of narrative or documentation of traumatic events such as the death of a family member or close friend, her rape and her abortions, coupled with the direct expression of such feelings as love, hate, anger, fear and desire. By sharing thoughts and feelings of the type for which people are generally made to feel ashamed, Emin taps into collective experience in an affirmative way.

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Poster for A Boy Like Her: A Personal Story About an Unavoidable Journey

2012 · ★ 1.0 (2)

The documentary "A boy like her" is about the Icelandic boy Halldor who believed from a young age that he was a girl. When he came to realize that his gender would not change even if he prayed and wished he soon realized that he only had two options in life - to take his own life or to undergo a sex-change. As a teenager he went through terrible periods and people around him started to ask questions about what was wrong. He did not dare to tell his parents, family and friends that he was girl. He decided to move abroad and live as a girl in foreign countries. At the age of twenty he realized he had to return home and face his past. With the population of only 320,000 people, returning home was not easy. Only about 20 Icelanders had undergone a sex-change and he wanted to become of of them

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Poster for Funeral at Bongo: The Death of Old Anai

1979 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In 1972, the Dogon of the Bandiagara cliff in Mali celebrated the funeral of Anaï Dolo, head of the Bongo Masks Society, who died at the age of 122. On this occasion, the large Bongo mask, is erected and for twenty days, family members, elders, men from neighbouring villages purify the village.

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2013 · ★ 7.8 (4)

Grace Lee Boggs is an activist and philosopher in Detroit who has dedicated her life to the next American Revolution and the possibility of a better, more just future for all of humanity. At age 97, she has been building movements and developing strategies for social change for most of her life -- reminding us that revolution is not only possible and necessary, but a process that must always be in motion.

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Poster for The Children From the Napf

2011 · ★ 8.0 (2)

In the tradition of ETRE ET AVOIR and some of THE STORY OF THE WEEPING CAMEL Fifty children of mountain farmers, six miles of walking to school, a childhood in the heart of Switzerland.

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Poster for Psychomontage

1963 · ★ 4.4 (15)

Sexologists, psychologists, and proponents of sexual freedom, the Kronhausens here attempt to induce erotic response in the audience by carefully chosen visual stimuli and juxtapositions (aimed at both conscious and unconscious). Phallic symbols and open orifices, a tongue licking an orange, an unexpected finger entering the frame: almost any object or act, no matter how innocuous, the Kronhausens show, can be made to appear erotic, and reveals our predisposition towards ‘shaping’ visual evidence for purposes of erotic gratification.

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1935 · ★ 7.6 (10)

Synchromy No. 2, synchronized to the "Evening Star" aria from Wagner's Tannhäuser, uses a statue of Venus to represent the star.

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1996 · ★ 0.0 (0)

With the help of animated films, animators reveal to the viewer the most ancient parables of the human race, full of drama and wisdom. The Biblical story of Abraham.

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Poster for Windy Ledge Farm

1932 · ★ 6.8 (4)

Simple title cards link ten home movies shot at Maine's Windy Ledge Farm, at a neighbor's place, and visiting the Brownes in Chocorua, New Hampshire. We watch an uncle mow, farm hands haying with the White Mountains in the background, various young children playing, a lad holding his cat while carrying milk cans on a yoke, a pointer stalking a cat, the annual burning of brush and rubbish, and a montage of chores and relaxation on the farm. The last shot is of spring, a flag in the background. The films are sweet and straightforward, with clear black and white images.

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Poster for Gaelle

2012 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In 2010 an earthquake shooked Haiti, reducing the poorest country in America to rubble. A team of Spanish firefighters, accompanied by the rescue dog Turco became the protagonists of one of the most media rescue: two years old Redjeson, was found alife 48 hours after the earthquake, becoming a symbol of hope. One year after the tragedy, when the world seems to have forgotten about the little island, three Spanish firefighters decide to return to search for Redjeson and try to get their wounds to heal.

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1987 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Documentary about poet Omar Cabezas and the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua.

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Poster for M - Le Tour de M

2002 · ★ 8.0 (4)

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Poster for I Have Always Been a Dreamer

2012 · ★ 0.0 (0)

I Have Always Been A Dreamer is a documentary travelogue and film portrait of two cities in contrasting states of development: Dubai, UAE and Detroit, U.S.A. Within the context of a boom and bust economy, the film questions the collective ideologies that shape the physical landscape and impact local communities.

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2012 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The Honor Code illustrates the ideas of philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah whobelieves honor is the key to lasting social change from within. With a storyteller's flairand a philosopher's rigor, Appiah shows how the concept of honor propelled moralrevolutions in the past and can do so in the future too.

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Poster for Big Junior

2010 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Big Junior comes to town with a briefcase loaded with heroin. He has a meeting set up in his motel room with Skip Fawn, a local drug dealer/pimp. Fawn's girlfriend, a trashy whore named Lainey, comes along for the buy. The drug deal goes off without a hitch, but the rest of the evening quickly becomes a dark journey into total depravity and shocking real-world horror.

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Poster for Avenue de l'Opéra

1900 · ★ 5.5 (19)

A shot of a busy street in Paris is shown in reverse.

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1993 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In 1985, the administrators of St. Augustine's, a poor Catholic school in the South Bronx where many children were failing miserably at basic academics, tried a new approach. They revamped the curriculum to stress the arts, particularly music. The kids lifted up their instruments and, eventually, their test scores, too. This infectious, inspiring musical documentary by Emma Joan Morris won three awards at the Sundance Film Festival.

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2010 · ★ 0.0 (0)

It looks like it's going to be a typical 24th December day for suave Creative Director, Reggie and perhaps a slightly more memorable one. As Reggie's mind goes into overdrive, events unfold into very hilarious circumstances and it seems the day may just end in heartbreak and a gun to Reggie's head.

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