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Poster for Stacey Dooley: On the Psych Ward

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Stacey Dooley experiences life on the front-line of mental health services.

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Poster for Nice Chinese Girls Don't!

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Kitty Tsui, Chinese American writer, poet, body builder, and lesbian activist, tells of her arrival as an immigrant to San Francisco and, amidst the anti-Vietnam war protests, finding her way to San Francisco State, which influenced her on her path as an activist and poet. In this first ever documentary about a Chinese American Lesbian, Tsui brings to life her coming of age in San Francisco in the 1970s, her challenges, and her continued rise to celebrity by being re-discovered by a whole new generation of Feminists.

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Poster for Becoming a Man in 127 Easy Steps

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

While transgender men are rarely visible in the cultural imagination, amid tropes of transition and turmoil, the filmed interpretation of Scott Turner Schofield’s live work of the same name generated 127 pieces of short content (Steps) that deeply explore themes such as childhood, masculinity, love, sex, death, and survival.

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Poster for Over Coffee

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

She waits. He makes coffee.

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Poster for Drip Like Coffee

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

An intimate portrait of a Black woman whose desire for her female co-worker complicates her relationship with her boyfriend.

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Poster for Play Schengen

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A gaming company is creating a videogame for kids about the European Union. You play a national bird needing to breed and nest across borders, but you can only fly as allowed by your visa rights. We follow two game designers as they transform the European Union into pixel graphics in an effort to make Schengen catchy. The question they face: is it possible?

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2010 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A young film maker's journey through one of Zimbabwe's greatest taboos. A young woman media studies student is fascinated by the uproar about homosexuality in Zimbabwe, and the people her society condemns. Courageously, Porcia sets out to approach a taboo by looking compassionately at the lives of gay people in Zimbabwe.

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Poster for Río Turbio

2020 · ★ 7.0 (2)

According to the myth still in force in the coal towns of Patagonia, if a woman enters a mine, the earth becomes jealous. Then, there’s collapse and death. Shady River starts from a dark personal experience to transform in a film about the silence of women who live in men's villages. How to film where our presence is prohibited? How to record the resonances of what doesn’t sound? As the fog and smoke from the power plant cover the town, the voices of the women of Shady River force their way between the white of the ice and the hum of the drilling machines, until blowing up the structure of silence.

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Poster for Écart de Conduite

2012 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Chloé takes her driving test, for the ninth time.

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1978 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A 1978 documentary about healthcare services in five locations in Nigeria.

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1973 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A 1973 short film about the noted educator and president of Radcliffe College.

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Poster for A Matter of Baobab: With One Growth

1970 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A short experiment in compression on film.

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Poster for Waikiki: in the Wake of Dreams

2000 · ★ 0.0 (0)

This film chronicles Waikiki's history from Polynesian mythology to the present day where it is one of the world's leading urban resorts.

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Poster for Benito

2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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2001 · ★ 0.0 (0)

From the high mountains of Carrara marble in Italy to the coast of the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica, the documentary Polvo de Estrellas traces the spiritual journey of the Costa Rican sculptor Jorge Jimenez Deredia, the first Latin American artist who makes a sculpture for the Basilica San Pedro. In the vertigo of a new millennium stands its simple and harmonious work. The renowned critic Pierre Restany, defines his sculptures as objects of meditation that put us in touch with our inner dimension. We are stardust, says the artist, the cosmos is the mirror of our history. The soul a tie that binds us to infinity.

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2000 · ★ 0.0 (0)

short Costa Rica drama

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Poster for Domain~Lattice

2015 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Brenna Murphy's Domain~Lattice

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Poster for The Federal Court Hearing

2012 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Amid a severe housing crisis that made international headlines in 2011, the federal government imposed third-party management on the Attawapiskat First Nation. In response, the First Nation’s leadership filed a challenge in federal court, claiming the appointment was unreasonable, contrary to law and harmful to community members. Alanis Obomsawin documents the remarkable judicial review that ensued in April 2012 in this companion work to her feature documentary The People of the Kattawapiskak River.

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Poster for Puberty - Part 1

1975 · ★ 0.0 (0)

An intimate portrait of Marie Leo, a Sto:lo woman who was adopted into a Líl̓wat family as a baby. Marie’s gentle narrative of her remarkable early childhood demonstrates a deep connection to culture, land and family that continues to endure. This short is part of the L’il’wata series. In the early 1970s, at the outset of her documentary career, Alanis Obomsawin visited the Líl̓wat Nation, an Interior Salish First Nation in British Columbia, and created a series of shorts that provide personal narratives about Líl̓wat culture, histories and knowledge.

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2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Mother and little Eva return home on a winter evening from kindergarten. A random find helps the girl transform a dark twilight evening into a colorful world. My mother also tried…

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