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Poster for Holding Our Ground

1988 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Filmed in a squatter community of Labangon in Cebu, Philippines, Holding Our Ground is the inspiring story of a group of women who have organized collectively to pressure their government for land reform, to establish their own money-lending system and to create shelters for street kids. A story of grassroots organizing that can be a model in both hemispheres.

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2003 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The adventures of a toilet cleaner.

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Poster for Untitled Colourmation

1992 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A path doesn't always go straight - everything has to go around corners....

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2002 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for The Parisienne Uncovered

2021 · ★ 5.0 (2)

Debunking the image often conjured of the stereotypical Parisian woman, or la parisienne — white, clad in high-end fashion, upper-class, thin — the film interviews countless Parisian women who often feel invisibilized by this narrow representation.

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Poster for The Thing with Feathers

2022 · ★ 0.0 (0)

An Iranian-Afghan family's life in Germany can be solely seen through their hands. Maryam sticks to a daily studying routine, hoping to return to her medical career, while her husband receives a job interview, seeking to become a photographer.

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Poster for The Last Piece: Essay I

2022 · ★ 8.0 (1)

Disrupt, reject, destroy, avoid: At the interrupted rhythm of the broken photographs that a granddaughter has rescued from her grandfather’s hands, the last piece reconstructs the memory of an older man who has decided to leave behind his life impulses to surrender to sleep and calm. An essay on the act of joining our memories, the illusion of remembering and the freedom to forget.

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Poster for Duran Duran - A Night In

2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Duran Duran discuss their influences from music, film and art. Join them for a trip down memory lane to the key moments that stimulated their creativity.

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Poster for Acting Our Age

1992 · ★ 6.0 (1)

This humorous and thought-provoking film documents the residents of a South Asian home for the elderly in Britain. Director Gurinder Chadha assists the residents in directing their own video. The result is an examination of politics, ageism, and cross-cultural communication in contemporary British society. Interview subjects range from people on the street to Members of Parliament.

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Poster for 4:3

2008 · ★ 10.0 (1)

Slowly scrolling text about the twilight of public access television and the shift from analog to digital.

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2022 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for The Blue Curtain

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Utilizing the screen recording method, this desktop-essay film successively follows the colour blue that has been used in paintings and videos under expressive or technical decisions. The colour blue in this work connects artworks from different periods in art history and inquires about the truth and delusion in the act of seeing. After a short surfing session, there is a random yet organically constructed archive about the colour blue.

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Poster for Prisoners of Kanun

2014 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The centuries-old custom of blood feuds has started blighting lives since the collapse of communism in Albania, where many families are living locked down in their houses in fear of blood vengeance. The ancestral code of Kanun includes the right to murder to avenge an earlier killing: ‘blood must be paid with blood’.

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Poster for Among Houses and the Cosmos

2016 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In this sensual film essay, the director has assembled her experiences with rituals in various corners of the world, from Europe across Africa to Latin America.

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Poster for Behind a Masquerade of Rhymes

2021 · ★ 0.0 (0)

With a broken-heart, Jesse Collins uses her quick wit as a shield. Through a poetry program, Jesse meets Hannah, a housewife. The two find more than they expected, but could she possibly be the one to inspire Jesse to move on?

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Poster for Interview in Room No. 8

1990 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Interview with Amal Abul-Qassem Donqol, an egyptian poet.

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Poster for Winn

2023 · ★ 0.0 (0)

After miscarrying her baby in prison due to shackling, Pamela Winn becomes an activist, leading thousands to support the Dignity Bill. "Winn" exposes the horrifying experience that incarcerated pregnant women endure and documents Pamela's mission to end shackling and ultimately prison birth.

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Poster for Ma famille entre deux terres

2015 · ★ 7.0 (3)

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Poster for MoonBlues

2009 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A baby, the Moon and a balloon.

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Poster for Trop près du sol

— · ★ 0.0 (0)

A little tale about a turtle and a stork.

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