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Poster for The Virgen, The Old Lady, The Journey

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Rocio, a Colombian immigrant living in New York, is forced to work as a cleaner. After a phone call with her family, she learns that her grandmother is severely ill and is about to pass away. While communicating at a distance becomes more difficult, Rocio will use technology to say farewell her grandmother.

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1976 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A 1976 film by Maria Saret.

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Poster for Terrarium Locker Room

2020 · ★ 8.3 (3)

Twenty six year old Momo works quietly at her office and finds secret pleasure in growing a terrarium in her locker. A chance meeting with a mysterious gardener is all that’s needed to bring about a gradual and positive change in this mousy office worker.

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Poster for Ode to Life (Minuet In G Major)

— · ★ 0.0 (0)

1997, 3:11 min, b&w, sound

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Poster for News From the Other World

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The Mamleev family portrait, set in the cramped interior of a small Moscow flat, is an experiment in metaphysical documentary making. Yury Mamleev, the great writer of the Russian chthonic, plays with a cat while his wife, the translator Maria Mamleeva, flips through a photo album from their émigré years in Paris and America. But something eerie seeps into these scenes of simple comfort, vaguely manifesting itself in the elliptical editing and the soundtrack’s unsettling, abstract humming.

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Poster for Ruby Rose

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

After the death of his sweetheart, Fred can’t remember how to be happy anymore. Fortuitously, he meets an exuberant princess who takes him on an adventure which he'd almost forgotten he once had.

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Poster for Now I Know

2019 · ★ 1.0 (2)

When seventeen-year-old Liza starts exploring her bisexuality at a high school party, her best friend Emily starts to question how well she really knows her friend.

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Poster for Cloud of the Unknown

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A girl lives on the edge of (un)reality, and whenever she falls asleep, she disappears into uncanny dreams: a violin with broken strings, a room on fire, vacant streets, infinite staircases; a pair of flying hands guiding her (and us) through thorns and bushes, pulling out endless multiples of herself.

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Poster for Spirits and Rocks: An Azorean Myth

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

From the ocean, a volcanic island rises into steamy mist. The black rock of the earth stands in sharp contrast to the billowing vapor that hovers and drifts above the surface. A narrator describes how the island’s first inhabitants sought to explain the violent eruption by attributing the devastation to the wrath of angry gods. With breathtaking black-and-white cinematography, this poetic exploration considers the human relationship to this volatile land, where residents live alongside the looming threat of eruption with reverence, fear, and awe. A collection of scenes where dark and light miraculously coexist illuminates both the physical and spiritual landscapes of this extraordinary place, where life endures the perils of the natural world.

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Poster for A Trip to Heaven

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

During a peculiar bus tour to the Mekong Delta, the 50-year-old Mdm. Tam bumps into her high school sweetheart. She's hopeful for a chance at reconciliation, but he might not be.

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Poster for Distance

2010 · ★ 8.0 (1)

Time spent at two shores, one thinly populated, the other a wasteland, joined by the interluency of various paths taken, each bit real enough, though exact measures being obscurely indicated. Notions of home and its ache are, to borrow a phrase, “not capable of being told unless by far-off hints and adumbrations”.

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Poster for Black Atlantis: the Plantationocene

2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Black Atlantis is a multi-part, live audio-visual essay that looks at possible afterlives of the Black Atlantic: in contemporary illegalized migration at sea, in oceanic environments, through Afrofuturistic dancefloors and soundsystems, and in outer space.

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2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Director Miranda July took a new video camera to the 2005 Deauville American Film Festival in France, which she was invited to attend with ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW. Criterion discovered the footage she shot there in July’s archives and edited it for this release. Presented here, it offers a glimpse into July’s capacity to turn any occasion into an opportunity for artistic expression.

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Poster for Returning Souls

2012 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In the historically most famous ancestral house of the matrilineal Amis tribe in Taiwan, the carved pillars tell legends, such as the great flood, the glowing girl, the descending shaman sent by the Mother Sun, and the father-killing headhunting event. After a strong typhoon toppled the house 40 years ago, the pillars were moved to the Institute of Ethnology Museum. Recently young villagers, with assistance from female shamans, pushed the descendants and village representatives to communicate with ancestors in the pillars. They eventually brought the ancestral souls rather than the pillars back and began reconstructing the house.

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Poster for Existe un Hombre que Tiene la Costumbre de Pegarme con un Paraguas en la Cabeza

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1998 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A lonely older woman receives a visit from a seller at home. She uses him to materialize her dreams.

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Poster for Explosion

1998 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The film was shot over four years. A woman — from Hui'an, Fujian province — finds out that her husband has become infected with a venereal disease. She takes out her revenge on the local hotel and the barber shop (which are known as sites of secret prostitution in the city) by setting four explosives. Da Yi's film tries to understand why a kind, virtuous wife and mother turns to this extreme act.

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1987 · ★ 0.0 (0)

North Buxton, near Chatham, Ontario, has been a black settlement since the middle of the last century, when it was one of the destinations of escaped slaves traveling north on the Underground Railroad. Prieto and McTair went to Buxton to record one year's 'homecoming,' and came back with a celebratory reminder of the long history blacks have had in Canada. -- Images Festival

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Poster for Space Dogs

2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Little dogs in a big space... They were launched into weightlessness one after another. It was the only way to discover what problems and complexities the one who flies next will face — the human. Dozens of dogs’ lives were sacrificed to the science and safety of people. The pioneers of Soviet space, the first to fly around our planet, Belka and Strelka, became sym bols of the breakthrough beyond the limits of gravity. Colossal work preceded their flight. Why were these dogs chosen for the experiments, how were they trained for flights, what was waiting for those which could return alive?

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Poster for Voices Unveiled: Turkish Women Who Dare

2009 · ★ 0.0 (0)

An intimate feature documentary that juxtaposes the Islamic traditions and Western culture of Istanbul in the lives of three Turkish women.

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