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Poster for Blüte

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Blüte explores from the female perspective a woman’s first tinge of love which colors her teenage heart. Every woman has the right to love and be loved, so please be proud of your courage to chase after love!

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Poster for Nobody May Come

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Follows indignant and eccentric 67-year-old Valerie Sassyfras as she attempts to follow her popstar dreams. More than just a New Orleans-based entertainer, Sassyfras opens up to the camera as both a performer and a daughter, sister, and widow, with her iconic song "Girls Night Out" as the soundtrack to her own life. Her professional journey and unresolved familial ties intertwine in a lively and vulnerable portrait of being utterly oneself.

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Poster for Bye bye c'est fini

2008 · ★ 0.0 (0)

73-year-old Lina Merceis lives in a two-room flat in Rio de Janeiro. She works as a telephone operator and after she gets off work she enjoys life and entertains herself with one of her younger lovers. She has chosen to live a single life and rejects the idea of having to take care of some unrefined man.

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2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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1972 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Eyewitness

2011 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A documentary that mainly deals with the stories of the wartime and the suffering of the people of Afghanistan.

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Poster for A Woman Singing in the Desert

2009 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Bustling around a fiery oven, a woman baker explains her struggles and highlights the multitude of complicated roles women play in Afghan society.

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Poster for Big Tip/Back Up/Shout Out

1976 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Lynda Benglis was a visiting artist at CalArts in 1973 when she encouraged then-student Susan Mogul to explore video as a medium. "Big Tip/Back Up/Shout Out" is a direct monologue to the camera about the economic impossibilities of being an artist, especially as a woman. “Her extroversion is so extreme that her story leaps from the vacuum around her, over the camera and off the screen entirely.” —Artforum, from a review after the premiere of this video at Anthology Film Archives in 1976, as part of a program curated by Shigeko Kubota.

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2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

After having shared a common experience in Cuba, twelve filmmakers say goodbye to return to their countries and make a pact: to make a collective film that answers the questions: what does it mean to plagiarize images and how to do it in the distance? The mechanism is unusual: a director makes a short and sends it to the next director, who in turn makes his own short for the purpose of plagiarizing the one he received. And so the chain of plagiarism continues until it reaches the last one. Each one interprets in their own way what it means to plagiarize the received film. The first link in the chain is James Benning, one of the world's most patient filmmakers. His extensive plans are replicated in the following fragments. Disobedience moves the exercise away from literality and an exploration of the texture of the images begins. In its repetitive mechanism, we can see that cinema is, in addition to record of reality, an art of images and sound. (Santiago González Cragnolino)

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2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A woman house-sits during the height of the pandemic to escape a relationship, and when she gets stuck with six cats and two sugar gliders, a friend must help her make it through the night.

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Poster for Birthmark

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A director's documentary journey - physical and metaphysical. Maria's mother was diagnosed with schizophrenia, when the girl was two years old. Now Maria documents her journey to occupied Crimea in search of crucial answers - could her mother have more bearable life and how to get there, why the illness becomes a stigma and what are the ways to being together, but not just physically. Maria in search of Mother, under the sign of birthmark.

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2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The film tells about the architect Tsogik Arabian and the fate of the house she built.

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Poster for Handywoman

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The story of three women who live in a small town in the south of Tajikistan and every day go to the handyman market, where they offer their services: for only $ 3, they are ready to take on any hard, even male, work, just to return to their children in the evening not empty-handed...

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2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Lena hides not only her real name, appearance, but also the source of income - from her mother. She did not fit into adulthood, and became one of those who own at night the central bridge between Victory Square and the circus. The conversation with her was filmed several years ago as a reflection on the next financial crisis, but, unfortunately, it is still relevant.

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Poster for Sem título #2 (Verónica)

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Verónica Valenttino emerges from the darkness of São Paulo’s night as a transgressive and sensual subversion. In this short film, the face of the São Paulo based singer-songwriter and trans actress, is accompanied by the melodies of a melancholic piano with deep intensities (composed by Arrigo Barnabé) and, in the bottom of the frame, some flashes of light from the city. In a high-contrast chiaroscuro, the main focus is on the face, the gesture; we see Veronica smoking while taking a break on a tremendously black night. A city break, an intimate moment, a languid rhythm that leads us to contemplate it as a calm beast, as tenaciously nocturnal. In just over two minutes we find a profile, the footprint of a city, a decision and a look. In this film, Priscyla Bettim & Renato Coelho share a unique way of portraying, in the manner of Andy Warhol's screen tests, to capture another modality of glamour and subversion, with the final gesture of Verónica imperious, diva, full of vital force.

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Poster for Wind Above Thunder

— · ★ 0.0 (0)

A visual haiku of image and sound shot in Super 8mm film while traveling through the American southwest.

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Poster for At Santa Monica 1

1974 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A woman’s image as a mind-scape, after she had plastic surgery.

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2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

This dress has become a family legend. It was worn on especially solemn occasions, passing to each other. Today, family members live in different countries, but the history of the green dress has brought them together again in the virtual space.

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2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Time to wake up is an online documentary filmed during the period of coronavirus. It’s an almanac of stories that would not have appeared without quarantine. The crisis revealed two types of people: those who are waiting for instructions, and those who adapt to new conditions. The characters of the film, volunteers, street musicians, founders of charitable foundations, entrepreneurs and artists, find themselves in the same house, called the new reality. Pupils of the “Anton tut ryadom” center collectively practice vocals and dances through ZOOM so as not to become isolated again. The owner of the 3D printer company decides to produce protective shields for doctors, although it is almost impossible to certify these products. A twenty-year-old student teaches free digital professions to people with difficulties appeared during a crisis. Danish street musicians, without earnings, believe that the world broke a couple of eggs in order to find out what kind of omelette it will turn out.

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