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Poster for Octopus Alarm

2006 · ★ 1.0 (2)

Alex is intersex. Although he has XY chromosomes, his sex is ambiguous. When Alex was an infant, his mother authorised genital reassignment surgery, and he was thereafter raised female. Now Alex is an adult, and he is consumed by feelings of anger and loss. After meeting other "XY women" and doing a lot of soul-searching, he decides he wants to live as a man.

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Poster for Lopez Street

2013 · ★ 6.3 (8)

In the eyes of a foreigner practically any street of Mexico City’s Centro Histórico holds potential for a film. Life on the street deserves more than just the natural condition of observer anyone could have, it demands an extra attention. In a 100-meter radius, the sociological exuberance of the events going on is simply impossible to ignore. The street is a mise en scène in itself.

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Poster for Theater Camp

2023 · ★ 6.5 (203)

After the indomitable and beloved founder of a scrappy theater camp in upstate New York falls into a coma, the eccentric staff must band together with her clueless "crypto-bro" son to keep the thespian paradise afloat.

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1983 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Mimosa is about a girl growing up in an orphanage who tries to make life fun for all the residents. It's a great Easter story, an animated fairy tale about a witch kid and what she's up to in the orphanage while the mother witch whips around with her broom. An excellent animated fairy tale about diversity and tolerance, made in Camilla Mickwitz's typical funny way.

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Poster for Please Remember Me

2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A young actress, successful in her small hometown, seeks fame and fortune in the big city. She goes to live with a friend, who is currently making a film about Zhao Dan. They live in a building about to be destroyed. Can their differing visions of art and love come to pass, or will heartbreak put an end to their relationship, as it does to the old Shanghai?

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Poster for The Kid from the Big Apple

2016 · ★ 6.7 (6)

Sarah, raised in New York, visits Malaysia for the first time and learns why her grandfather, Gen, and mother, Sophia, have not seen each other since she was born, and why they care so much about their cultural traditions.

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Poster for Foreigner

2008 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Drama about a man who is supposed to kill his daughter.

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Poster for Cúilín Dualach

2004 · ★ 5.7 (7)

Cúilín Dualach lives in a small town in the west of Ireland. He is the apple of his mother’s eye, yet his father shows him little affection. Everywhere he goes, people stare at him. Cúilín strives to fit in as best he can but that can be a difficult thing to do when your head is on backwards!

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Poster for Los Angeles/Tehran

2018 · ★ 4.5 (3)

Two men come to Iran. One to visit his grandmother and another as an art dealer. When they discover that they are neighbors, the story begins.

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Poster for The Convention

2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A short film exploring the annual Esprit gathering, where transgender women in their senior years who have been closeted their whole lives gather for a week of shared experience and understanding in a logging town in Northern Washington.

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Poster for The Waltz on the Petschora

1992 · ★ 5.0 (3)

Set in 1937 Stalinist Georgia, the film traces the parallel destinies of a mother, condemned by the government as "an enemy of the people" and exiled to a work camp in Siberia, and her daughter, who meanwhile is sent to an orphanage. Arriving at the overcrowded work camp, the mother and other women who are not considered strong enough to be labourers, must journey still farther, crossing the icy Siberian landscape in search of food and shelter. At the same time, the daughter escapes the orphanage and returns to her former home, where she finds that a KGB officer has taken up residence. He protects her and an uneasy rapport between them develops—one of abhorrence and attraction, need and suspicion.

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Poster for Go Brother!

2018 · ★ 6.9 (36)

Shi Miao hates her brother Shi Fen. So, she makes a birthday wish: She wants her brother gone. However, she did not expect the wish come true.

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Poster for Maybe It's Love

1984 · ★ 6.0 (3)

Sex and subterfuge bubble to the surface for residents of a small village when the young coquettish Mrs. Wang disappears.

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2021 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Adapted from the theatrical play "A festa" by Italian playwright Spiro Scimone, the short film portrays the misconnections and unsatisfied affections of an ordinary, less affluent family consisting of a father, a mother, and a son, isolated within a kitchen. The dramatic situation revolves around the preparations for the parents' wedding anniversary. In an atmosphere that blends comedy, melancholy, suggestive silences, and mundane phrases filled with double meanings, they react in various ways to the celebration of the marriage.

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Poster for Le grida del silenzio

2018 · ★ 3.4 (6)

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Poster for The Swarmers

2022 · ★ 10.0 (1)

Karla doesn't have it easy as a newcomer at boarding school. Between bullying and exclusion, the 16-year-old is confronted with power struggles amongst teenagers. This adaptation of Rainer Maria Rilke's "Gym Class" shows Karla's attempt at dealing with these challenges.

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Poster for Trust Me

2025 · ★ 8.5 (2)

In the faded beauty of Berlin, Sebastian and Alicja seem to have it all - a thriving business and a loving family. But beneath the surface, Sebastian's yearning for freedom sparks a turbulent journey. Alicja, the devoted wife, reluctantly unlocks the door to his exploration of other women. As love, independence, and societal norms collide, Alicja's convictions are pushed to their breaking point. 'Trust Me' unveils the raw truths, exposing a wife's quest for self-discovery amidst the seductive allure of East Berlin. In the heart of the city, the pursuit of freedom becomes an intoxicating reverie.

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Poster for Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald

2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

On the anniversary of Martin Luther King's death, Sir Trevor McDonald travels to the Deep South of America to get closer to the man who meant so much to him.

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Poster for Antwerp Through and Through

1953 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Smugglers try to ship their products via Pol Knol, a trader in medical products. Due to circumstances, the package remains on Mr Knol's desk. The smugglers think that Pol has deliberately withheld it. They come to pay him a "visit."

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Poster for Larry Kramer In Love & Anger

2015 · ★ 6.3 (9)

From the onset of the AIDS epidemic, author Larry Kramer emerged as a fiery activist, an Old Testament-style prophet full of righteous fury who denounced both the willful inaction of the government and the refusal of the gay community to curb potentially risky behaviors. Co-founder of both organization Gay Men's Health Crisis and the direct action protest group ACT UP, Kramer was vilified by some who saw his criticism to be an expression of self-hatred, while lionized by others who credit him with waking up the gay community — and, eventually, the government and medical establishment — to the devastation of the disease.

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