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2010 · ★ 4.2 (4)

100 year old Micky has been a member of the local bathing club for almost half a decade. Every day, every season, she swims with her friends. From her story we gain a perspective on ourselves and our existence.

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2008 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Matt Grant PSA for Spaying and Neutering Pets

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2015 · ★ 4.7 (3)

A passionate marine biologist and a young woman travel together in Brazil, looking for the world’s smartest animals: dolphins. On their journey they discover their actions are all portraits of animal behavior.

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2013 · ★ 10.0 (1)

Áurea and Vander, maids all his life, reflect on the new law regulating the profession.

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1980 · ★ 5.6 (11)

Created and produced as a sample of the proposed (never realized) animated feature. "It was like a 30's musical in which Anita left the alligator farm to pursue her dream of opening the ultimate tropical nightclub. I had a script and storyboard [...] Nightclub of the future with live alligators and a tipsy train that serves drinks." -SC

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2013 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Documentary about the role of images in Egypt before and during the revolution, almost entirely filmed inside the Egyptian State-run Al-Ahram newspaper building and its role in shaping the image of the state and its head in addition to the collective conscious. co-directed by Johanna Domke (Germany) and Marouan Omara (Egypt). The audio narrates the story of photographers before it gets to a critical understanding of how icons and frames are influential on the media industry in egypt, and how this is heavily state controlled. The footage shows the usually off-premises Al-Ahram newspaper building (and operations), and was shot in very particular times and very short period.

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1999 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The Jewish milliner May Aubert grew up in Kristiania with an English father and a German mother. Before WW II she was an apprentice hat maker in Berlin and delivered hats to UFA film studio's brightest stars such as Marlene Dietrich and Elisabeth Bergner. Later, she became a refugee, war hero and currency smuggler. Eighty-seven years old, she still goes to work every day and is the Norwegian Queen Sonja's regular hat maker.

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Poster for The Silent Majority Speaks

2010 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The Silent Majority Speaks collects images from several different cameras secretly recording the protests in the wake of the fraudulent June 2009 Iranian presidential elections. Clandestinely made and signed by the “Silent Collective,” the film mixes of-the-moment footage of the rise of Iran’s Green Movement with glimpses of revolutions long since suppressed and snippets of narration that recall a century of turbulence.

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2007 · ★ 5.0 (1)

On the small island Gressholmen outside Oslo were once a very special little community. Besides nudists who still seek out the place, the island was inhabited by rabbits.

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1997 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Short film by Birgit Hein with paintings and texts by Gabriele Kutz.

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2009 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Super 8 short by Milena Gierke.

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2013 · ★ 3.0 (1)

An animated documentary about and with Pelle Sandmark. He has Tourette syndrome and obsessive thoughts. The film is based on the time when Pelle was a teenager and symptoms of suffering began to enroll.

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2009 · ★ 9.0 (2)

Observational glimpse into the under the radar world of boys unfolds over two years through the experiences of Noah and Colin, two friends who attend an elite private boys' school. Documentary follows the boys as they navigate from grade eight to the senior school, playing video games, singing like angels in the choir, and alternately goofing off or napping in class.

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Poster for Scheherazade's Diary

2013 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In 2012, after a 10 months drama therapy workshop, the women inmates of a Beirut prison presented their play Scheherazade in Baabda inside prison to the audience. This film follows the women during these 10 months. The women tell their stories showing how difficult it is to be a woman in Lebanon, and in general in the Arab world, which is governed by a patriarchal mentality. They convey the voices of all women who are imprisoned by oppressive mentalities which in many cases lead women to crime.

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2010 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A compelling portrait of one of America's unsung heroes and the turbulent times in which he lived.

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2005 · ★ 10.0 (1)

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Poster for Why Are You Sad

2014 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A young girl's failed attempt at taking her own life has now thrown her into an aftermath of mixed emotions, loss of direction and a feeling of uncertainty. She must now deal with the consequences of her actions and how they have affected those who are closest to her.

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Poster for Ascendance: The Angels of Change Documentary

2015 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The models in the 2014 Angels of Change calendar rise above their own challenges to help others do the same.

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1965 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The observations of teachers and students at the Stuttgart evening school poses the question of whether everyone has the same education opportunities. Out of the 200 night-school students who start out, only 17 reach their aim: Graduation from school, which is the entry ticket to university and possibly the key to happiness later.

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2014 · ★ 5.0 (1)

An old man is invited as the guest of honor at a Kazakh school's celebration of the 69th anniversary of the end of World War II, but has a difficult time answering questions about his heroic deeds.

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