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Poster for Secret Words and Related Stories

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Secret Words and Related Stories is a set of anonymously collected passwords and the stories behind them. The entry point is personal “secrets” and security, and their place in contemporary society. To examine independence—a limited kind of independence—is to unravel what security means to the identity, a kind of coding of physical history and memory to access all kinds of commerce and services in the virtual world. That key is compressed into these fragments of language (passwords) that are unpackaged through the work. In the video, young actors between the ages of 12 and 16 years stand in front of a red backdrop and read from a sheet of paper, narrating personal confessions, childhood memories, and clichéd rationalities. These are thoughtful, humorous, and emotional stories about a chosen word that often discloses personal information, which is the antithesis of its purpose.

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Poster for Mr. Schmidt of the Gestapo

1989 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A 74-year-old man stands before the Dresden District Court. After more than forty years, the former highly decorated SS man has been brought to the scene of his crimes. The trial is the cinematic framework in which the background and mechanisms of the social system of nationalism are uncovered by tracing the social development of this SS man.

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Poster for Xiao Ci Wei Zou Ming Qu

1983 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Mariupol. Reconstruction

2022 · ★ 0.0 (0)

"Mariupol. Reconstruction" is a film about a lost city. Director Svetlana Lischinskaya shares her memories and tells the story of her relationship with the city. She meets with refugees from Mariupol to remember with them what the city was like before it was destroyed by Russian troops

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2022 · ★ 0.0 (0)

He Had Wings presents a portrait of the prolific artist, Ronnie Goodman, and the impact of his creative activism to stand for social justice. He Had Wings provides insight into the trauma and resilience of Ronnie’s journey as one of the thousands experiencing homelessness in San Francisco. The film shows how people like him, and his friend, Alton “Coach” McSween can have a positive impact on those who battle the crisis currently affecting the wealthy City by the Bay.

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2022 · ★ 0.0 (0)

During the Cold War it seemed as if there was no other choice than taking the side of the capitalist West or the Soviet Bloc. Yet Yugoslav President Tito sought allies in non-Western countries for an alternative political vision. In 1961, during a founding conference in Belgrade which gathered leaders of 25 countries and 17 liberation movements, the Non-Aligned Movement was officially created. Marking the era by speaking up about decolonization, disarmament, and opposition to racism, this movement is notably absent from Western history books.

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2016 · ★ 4.0 (1)

The documentary tells the history of the oldest ghetto in Europe and of the Venetian Jewish community. 2016 will be its Quincentennial.The eyes of a Jewish teenager, of Venetian origin, but born and raised in New York, will lead us in this journey. Lorenzo is guided by his Aunt and two young Venetian cousins who offer him the stimulus to enter more and more into a world unknown to him.The Ghetto's atmosphere, places and history are recreated by interviews to scholars, docu-fiction and a modern animation. The history of the Venice ghetto offers us an opportunity to reflect on the story of an immigration and of a slow integration, an example of the enormous wealth that the exchange of diverse cultures can give us.

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Poster for Stalin: The Funeral of a God

2003 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Rare color footage shot by one of the Soviet Union’s greatest filmmakers, Mikheil Chiaureli, who was responsible for the film “The Fall of Berlin” has been restored and edited into what can best be described as a sixty minute ‘you are there’ documentary covering the funeral of Stalin.

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Poster for China Quake

2009 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In 2008, China's monster quake claimed 80,000 lives and destroyed five million buildings. In town after town, poorly constructed school buildings crumbled, wiping out classrooms filled with students. A year later an international team began searching the rubble for vital clues to how the earthquake caused so much damage. Their startling findings may help save lives in future natural disasters.

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Poster for Don't Be Afraid of Anything

2021 · ★ 0.0 (0)

An ordinary family — mom, dad and teenage son Ivan. As a result of a car accident, Mom can no longer walk. The son decides to help his mother and begins to study with her at home — this determines his future profession. The father, having lost hope for his wife's recovery, goes to another woman. But after many years, he himself will need the help of those he abandoned.

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Poster for this is the body of a bird

2022 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Where I Am Now

2022 · ★ 6.0 (1)

F. has been living in Bucharest for four years since fleeing Afghanistan with her family. The thoughtful 18-year-old films her life in the Romanian capital: her trips to the park, life at home with her brothers and sisters, and the conversations she has with her Romanian friends. When the Covid-19 pandemic approaches, bringing a lockdown, she has to spend a month indoors. She kills time with funny observations of life outdoors, filmed through the window.

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2014 · ★ 10.0 (1)

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After the death of her father and a flood of unsolved murders, a young girl struggles to unlock the truth in a town too afraid to confront its own demons.

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Poster for Stay Alive, My Son

2021 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Upon being shown a photograph of a 6-year old boy, now digitally aged to 50, Yathay Pin’s realities collide. Haunted by his inner demons, his guilt surfaces for abandoning his son to escape during the Cambodian genocide. The Player, embodying Yathay, plummets into his mental prison, containing locked memories.

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Poster for Big Feelings

1998 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Brought to life from the depths of a cake-mixing bowl a small rabbit appears and falls for the wrong guy. She will use all of her feminine charms to win his stony heart and still fail. A bitter-sweet love story told with humour which journeys along the road of devotion, jealousy, intrigue, pride and pain. Big feelings on the kitchen shelves.

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1993 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The erotic charge of the title is underscored by its visual treatment in the film’s opening, with pink typography evoking the aesthetics of hourly hotels and titillating shows from the 1990s. Instead of sexual imagery, however, the film consists of an animated choreography of two apples, reminiscent of the surrealist stop-motion films of Jan Švankmajer.

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2005 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Tamara Moyzes graduated from the New Media Studio in 2005 with this project consisting of a three-channel video installation, for which she received the award for the best thesis project of the year at the Academy of Fine Arts. She later edited the triptych into a kind of promo video, which highlights her central theme as an artist, namely the sexualization of violence in a political context. The protagonist of the film is Liad, a twenty-six-year-old Jewish citizen of Israel who studies Middle Eastern political science and also makes a living as a dominatrix. Due to her political beliefs and free thinking with regard to sexuality, she often finds herself in conflict with the laws of her own country.

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2003 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In 2003, an international peace conference was held in Ramallah in the West Bank, and Tamara Moyzes, who was studying abroad in Israel at the time, decided to cross the border and attend the conference. She even managed to sneak into a press conference with Yasser Arafat and make a video recording of it, which she then intercut with footage of her difficult journey across the border.

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Poster for Maria Rita: O Samba Em Mim - Ao Vivo Na Lapa

2016 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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