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2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for It Happens to Us

1972 · ★ 7.0 (1)

Released a year before Roe v. Wade, this short film by Amalie Rothschild lays out the dire realities of illegal abortion, interviewing women from a variety of backgrounds who made the choice to terminate a pregnancy.

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Poster for Turtle

1969 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A life-light guilt trip, tragicomic psychodrama in the film time. Made in the darkness of my year in a women's dormitory. 1969, Tufts University, Medford, Mass. –M. K.

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1971 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The film provides an analysis of the essential role played by women during the Vietnamese war of liberation. Without a visa to film the war in Vietnam, Claudia von Alemann sets out to make an archive film about Vietnamese women. She manages to interview the Foreign Minister in exile, Mrs Nguyễn Thị Bình, filmed in Paris under difficult conditions.

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1991 · ★ 0.0 (0)

We hear the actor Alexander Moissi reading the fairy tale by Hans Christian Anderson (recorded in 1927), while seeing the face of a young woman standing outdoors against a distant hilly summer landscape.

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Poster for Along the Road Little Child

2005 · ★ 6.0 (1)

The story of the friendship, shared games and conversations between Finnish and Somali children in a suburb of Vantaa in 2004.

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Poster for The Art of Cleaning

2003 · ★ 0.0 (0)

About Wally Pettersson and her life consisting of cleaning, grandchildren, cats, fishing and nature.

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1983 · ★ 0.0 (0)

This documentary explores the lives of three adult sisters living in a remote holler in southern West Virginia. Sharon, a school teacher, has returned home after living elsewhere, affording her a world view not shared by the rest of her family.

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Poster for El crimen del expreso

1939 · ★ 5.0 (2)

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Poster for Painting with 14 Personalities

2012 · ★ 0.0 (0)

British artist Kim Noble talks about the reality of living with dissociative identity disorder and shows us the artwork created by 14 of her personalities. "I'm Patricia, I don't like being called Kim, but I have got used to it now."

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Poster for Rue Pouchkine

2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

"Yerevan, Armenia, in the illegible secret of the country, imprisoned in its shadows, in its nights of the underground, nights of the basements, trains for nowhere... ephemeral traveler, light sleeper..."

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Poster for The Beauty and the Animal

1977 · ★ 0.0 (0)

East German stop-motion animation version of the famous fairy tale, notable for its Beast appearing as an elephant.

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Poster for Jolicoeur Touriste

1989 · ★ 0.0 (0)

An enclosed space, a struggle against the constraints of personal isolation explored through a fractured narrative. A man living in a broken-down rented room in a Tourist Inn travels through his inebriation, his memories and his fantasies, transcending the limits of time and space, which suddenly intertwine. A film about loss and absence.

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Poster for X Magazine Benefit

2009 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Documents performances of DNA, James Chance and the Contortions, and Boris Policeband in NYC at a benefit concert for X Motion Picture Magazine and artists’ group Collaborative Projects Inc. It was shot in black and white super 8 and edited on video. It was filmed in 1978 but not completed until 2009.

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1984 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Television essay on the work of choreographer Pina Bausch, presented by Susan Sontag.

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Poster for Class Register. Second Book 1968-2000

2015 · ★ 0.0 (0)

School registers are made to record the students' absences and grades. But not all students are equal, not all of them are given the same opportunities. In this journey lasting over a century, teachers, children, parents from every part of Italy reconstruct the history of compulsory schooling, and their personal experiences, great expectations and deeply-felt disappointments.

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Poster for Art Comes from the Beak the Way It Has Grown

2021 · ★ 0.0 (0)

At the Mosaik art studio in Berlin, artists with disabilities are able to produce their work unhindered. Sabine Herpich focusses on the artistic process and finds in so doing a form as precise as it is tender.

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1998 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In Vision from the Edge: Breyten Breytenbach Painting the Lines, Stephen's camera follows the exiled South African poet–artist Breyten Breytenbach as he executes a series of scroll paintings for a museum in the Netherlands. Poetry readings in different tongues are fused with the poet's reflection on philosophies of religion and mind.

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Poster for Rabbit Tailor

2013 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Rabbit Tailor tells a story about a rabbit tailor who makes puppet dolls and sell them through internet. A Film by Siqi Song Thesis Film from China Central Academy of Fine Arts

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Poster for Le vidéoclip

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In order to be in her older brother's music video, Clara, a 13-year-old tomboy, agrees to undergo a radical change of style. She soon notices that this transformation changes her brother's friend's behaviour towards her.

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