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Poster for Aldebaran Sees

1969 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Aldebaran is the brightest star in the Taurus constellation.

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Poster for Untitled

2012 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Lit like the central figure on a stage the body, seen here as a quiet monument, fills out the frame. Small puffy clouds of steam hover across it.

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1983 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Mothers, Daughters & Other Issues

2018 · ★ 10.0 (1)

The bond between mothers and daughters from a very personal and intimate point of view on love and the passage of time. Because of its intensity, the most primary link has many faces; the mother/daughter relationship has a lot of love, pain, intolerance, competition, attachment, detachment, and love once again. The story also develops during a family trip to the grandmother’s hometown.

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Poster for Freedom on the Inside

1976 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Five San Quentin prisoners find self identity in spite of their surroundings.

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Poster for Not a Still Life

2013 · ★ 1.0 (2)

Not a Still Life is a portrait of Steve Stone, an older gay, Jewish man who shares the naked truth of the struggles, joys and sorrows of his unconventional life. Steve opens his heart as he tells of childhood ridicule in the 50's, coming out and living openly gay during the decades of the 60s to the 80s- a period rife with homophobia- finding true love, dealing with tragedy and loss, loneliness and aging. His gradual evolution includes embracing sobriety, connecting with a long lost relative and discovering his spirituality only to find that he is in danger of losing his home and business. His entertaining reflections stimulate argument and offer us a refreshing appreciation of life, love and living.

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Poster for The New Embodied Sign Language

1972 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A series of six, roughly ten minute body art videos - selected from an original twelve - produced by Friederike Pezold between 1973 and 1977, and originally shown as an installation in 1977. Each video features a part of Pezold's body up close in black-and-white, slowly moved and molded over the runtime.

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2004 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The story of Jewish tenor Joseph Schmidt whose voice touched millions in the early Thirties. When Germany voted Hitler into power, Schmidt had to flee. He died in Switzerland at the age of 38.

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Poster for K: Exil

2008 · ★ 7.0 (1)

Two-thirds of K (Exil) consists of images of the women and children who remain at home, alone, while the men leave for a life of exile. These images, always fragmentary (either cut-up or inserted piece by piece within the image as a whole), alternating between negative and positive, complementing or contradicting each other - give an insight into the wrenching separation experienced by those members of the population who remain at home, left to their fate in an inhospitable landscape. Over what we call the 'joints', we will engrave words in French or Kabyle (Berber), echoing the masculine voices of Rachid Adel and Michel Amarger. An original composition by Mr. Djamel Tareb will form the musical sound-track for the film.

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Poster for Les tournesols colorés

1983 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Les tournesols colorés is derived from the same footage used in Les tournesols, but with candy colors, giving other modulations to movie movements. The two versions can be shown one after the other, although they were designed to be played separately.

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Poster for There Is a Spider Living Between Us

2009 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A reflection on lesbian desire.

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Poster for Close to Home

1985 · ★ 5.0 (1)

Gibraltar as a real place – and an imagined geography and history. In the first part, the camera travels around West Berlin picking out touristic monuments and describing them in terms of their significance to military history… In the second half (in which the commentary also charts the escalation of land frontier sea and air restrictions), a ferry leaves a quayside and sails into the open Strait. It is an image of freedom but also a melancholy image of parting.

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Poster for Skin for Skin

2017 · ★ 7.0 (1)

Skin for Skin is a dark allegory of greed and spiritual reckoning set during the early days of the fur trade. In 1823, the Governor of the largest fur-trading company in the world travels across his Dominion, extracting ever-greater riches from the winter bounty of animal furs. In his brutal world of profit and loss, animals are slaughtered to the brink of extinction until the balance of power shifts, and the forces of nature exact their own terrible price. With nods to Melville and Coleridge, directors Carol Beecher & Kevin Kurytnik have created a visually stunning contemporary myth about the cost of arrogance and greed.

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Poster for Uncle Bob's Hospital Visit

2007 · ★ 7.0 (2)

Uncle Bob is getting up in years, but manages quite well, thank you. Then an unexpected illness changes everything. Suddenly he's scooped out of his safe and familiar surroundings and deposited inside the foreign and chaotic world of the hospital. Here the once self-reliant Uncle Bob becomes vulnerable and dependent.

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Poster for Animastress

1994 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Picture thousands of hens stacked layer upon layer, aisle after aisle, endlessly producing. Like an assembly line. Their food, water and supplements are delivered mechanically, their eggs gathered by conveyor belt. With no instinct left in this sterile environment, the poor stressed-out birds are led through their paces by an inspirational video of a model hen. Then, one day, a technologist accidentally slips in the wrong cassette and the monitor shows a good mother hen surrounded by her happy brood. Realizing they have been duped and exploited, the whole hen house rises up in revolt. But it's not that easy to escape the system, and soon the hens end up served to customers in a fast-food restaurant. When food is manufactured with the sole goal of maximizing profits, how does it affect those who consume it? This animated short contains a surprising answer. An animated film without words.

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Poster for Teacher: The Tradition Bearer

2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Indira Manikam and her sister took a leap of faith by establishing Tanjai Kamala Indira Dance School (TKI) in Kuala Lumpur. This documentary captures her journey, explore the power of art, and above all, the courage and resilience of a woman’s spirit.

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Poster for post benning generation

2012 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Short by UMMMI.

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Poster for Uma História Severina

2010 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The documentary narrates the painful pilgrimage of Severina, a woman living in Chã Grande, in Pernambuco's countryside, who is in search of her right to abort the brainless fetus that she carried in her uterus. On the day that the Brazilian Supreme Court cancelled the right to abortion, Severina was in a hospital to interrupt her four-month-long pregnancy. The surgery was then canceled and the painful journey of Severina and her husband Rosivaldo began. The story of this mother ends in a long and painful day which wasn't witnessed by the Supreme Court judges.

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Poster for Letter to Anita

2014 · ★ 0.0 (0)

What happens when a person must make a life-changing choice about the reality of who she loves? In 1977, Anita Bryant's anti-gay campaign, the 'Save Our Children' coalition was formed. The next year, while living in Florida, Ronni Sanlo came out as a lesbian and five months later she lost custody of her two young children. Narrated by Meredith Baxter (both on and off screen), LETTER TO ANITA offers insight into the life experiences of Ronnie Sanlo. From having her children taken away, to becoming an activist for the LGBT community, Ronni's journey finall leads her to resolve and peace in the simple act of writing a letter.

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Poster for Here and Now

2013 · ★ 0.0 (0)

'Here and Now' tenderly unveils self made adversities in everyday life of three friends. Artist Jo is suffering from a mental block and her canvas is still blank. Her therapist asks her to do nothing to conquer the block. But how on earth can you do nothing? Restaurateur Luke longs to do nothing as he is terrorized by his thoughts. He takes a time-out to flee the pending madness. But who is actually thinking in his head? Nothing left but fear in musician Gibsi's head as the date of her gig approaches. She'd love to escape her destiny - but if not now, when? A Dramedy set in Switzerland and vividly portrayed by a non professional gay and lesbian cast.

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