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Poster for Lesbian Custody

2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A video essay about the personal and political context of a landmark lesbian feminist documentary film from 1977 called "In the Best Interests of the Children" about lesbian mothers fighting to regain custody of their children in the 1970s. As a nearly forgotten period of LGBTQ+ history, this documentary short introduces us to now retired filmmaker Frances Reid (award winning cinematographer and director) and her “step-daughter” Julie Stevens while they look through the film’s archives, discuss the making of the film and their personal relationship.

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Poster for Gerry Rafferty: Right Down the Line

2011 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Gerry Rafferty, who died in January 2011, was one of Scotland's best-loved singer/songwriters, famous around the world for hits such as "Baker Street" and "Stuck in the Middle With You". This ArtWorks Scotland film, narrated by David Tennant, tells the story of Rafferty's life through his often autobiographical songs and includes contributions from Gerry's daughter Martha and brother Jim, friends and colleagues including Billy Connolly, John Byrne, and Joe Egan, admirers such as Tom Robinson and La Roux, and words and music from Rafferty himself.

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Poster for Bambi's Youth

1986 · ★ 4.0 (3)

Second of the two movies bases on the novel "Bambi, a Life in the Woods" written by Felix Salten.

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Poster for Mama

1976 · ★ 6.0 (43)

Mrs. Rada the Goat tells her five children to behave while she goes to the fair, and under no circumstances open the door to anyone except her. But the Big Bad Wolf, Kostika (Titi) Suru, and his nephew, the Little Bad Wolf, along with friends Rassul the Lynx and Petrika the Donkey has made a plan to kidnap the children while their mother is away. And when the eldest child, Matei, decides to disobey his mother and visit the fair himself, things start to go badly for the goat-family.

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Poster for Damn Mother

2017 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A-Man, an unemployed single mother, and her daughter, Kai-yin depend on each other for life. She suffers from depression because of financial burdens, and wants to escape through suicide in the face of setbacks. She used a variety of methods of suicide, but never succeed.

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Poster for Pachyderm

2024 · ★ 6.8 (21)

As every summer, Louise is entrusted to her grand-parents for a few days of vacation in the country. The green grass of the garden, the swimming in the lake, the fishing with Grandpa, everything seems as sweet as Grandma's strawberry pies. Yet this year, the snow will fall in summer and a monster will die.

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Poster for Dolly Dearest

1991 · ★ 5.5 (132)

An American family moves to Mexico to fabricate dolls, but their toy factory happens to be next to a Sanzian grave and the toys come into possession of an old, malicious spirit.

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Poster for Show Her the Money

2023 · ★ 10.0 (1)

This is a story that’s never been told. SHOW HER THE MONEY addresses how women are getting less than 2% of venture capital funding and demystifies what venture capital is. Featuring rock-star female investors who invest in diverse women entrepreneurs with innovations that will change the world, Show Her The Money reminds us that money is power and women need it to achieve true equality.

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Poster for The Kangaroo King

2015 · ★ 7.0 (3)

Set against the dramatic backdrop of the Australian desert and bushland, see life through the eyes of a very special Red Kangaroo as he struggles to survive drought, bush fires, dingoes and roo hunters.

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Poster for Lucidité passagère

2009 · ★ 4.2 (4)

Véronique ne cache rien en amour. Mathieu est simplement un brin fatigué. Fred peuts'adapter à tous les genres de femmes. Rémi doit trouver ce qui l’allume dans la vie.Ce n'est que dans de brefs instants de lucidité que l'on parvient à voir le monde telqu'il est.

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Poster for Weather Forecast Love

2023 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Ban Dong-uk, a university student struggling with chronic insomnia and lingering anxiety, discovers that the only time he can sleep peacefully is when he is near Lee Do-hyeon, the confident captain of the school’s basketball team. The two share a complicated history from their high school days, when misunderstandings and unspoken feelings drove them apart. Reuniting on campus forces them to confront that past while navigating the pressures of college life and athletics. As Dong-uk grows increasingly dependent on Do-hyeon’s calming presence, their renewed closeness gradually reveals the affection they once buried. What begins as an unusual need for comfort slowly turns into a deeper emotional bond, pushing both young men to face their vulnerabilities and reconsider what their relationship truly means.

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Poster for Nice Ladies

2024 · ★ 8.0 (2)

A team of aging Ukrainian cheerleaders prepares to compete for the European championship. When the war escalates, the members are separated. Will the sisterhood be able to reunite amidst the emerging scars of war?

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Poster for Dust On Our Hearts

2013 · ★ 5.7 (6)

Kathi is 30 years old, a single mother and a luckless actress who is regularly turned down at auditions. While Kathi doesn't know how to get her life on track, her mother Chris is a successful psychoanalyst. Chris doesn't take her daughter's career choices seriously, and constantly tries to give her good advice on everything. One day, Kathi's father suddenly appears after 15 years of absence and wants to reunite the family. Confronted with the past, Kathi gets the unexpected chance to address the ongoing conflict with her mother and to set new goals for her future.

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Poster for Wolf and Sheep

2016 · ★ 6.4 (13)

In rural Afghanistan, people are storytellers who make up and tell each other tales of mystery and imagination to explain the world in which they live. The shepherd children own the mountains and, although no adults are around, they know the rules; they know that boys and girls are not allowed to be together. The boys practice with their slings to fight wolves. The girls smoke secretly and play at getting married, dreaming of finding a husband soon. They gossip about Sediqa; she’s eleven years old and an outsider. The girls think she is cursed. Qodrat, also eleven years old, becomes the subject of gossip when his mother remarries an old man with two wives. Qodrat roams alone in the most isolated parts of the mountains, where he meets Sediqa and they become friends.

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Poster for Beirut... Hide and Seek

2011 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In 1982 Beirut, the war, up to that point political, becomes an internal family struggle when Jamila discovers her brother's secret queer relationship with his friend Omar.

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Poster for American Virgin

2009 · ★ 4.9 (170)

A Freshman College Girl on a scholarship from an abstinence group that advocates saving sex until marriage discovers that her antics on a night of debauchery, when she reluctantly got drunk for the first time in her life, were captured on camera by a sleazy video producer. Now she and her friends must travel across country to recover the incriminating footage.

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Poster for High Beam

2025 · ★ 10.0 (1)

HIGH BEAM follows Genna, a 9-year-old gymnast who spends a day at work with her mother, a dedicated gymnastics coach. When it’s finally her turn to perform for her evaluation, she finds herself unable to execute the skill in front of the one person whose approval she craves most. Forcing her to question if this sport is worth pursuing anymore.

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Poster for Coral Fairytale

1968 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A poetic and colorful tale at the bottom of the sea.

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Poster for The Pigeon

2018 · ★ 6.4 (14)

Yusuf is a youngster living with his sister and brother in one of Adana’s suburbs. On the roof of the house where they live, he passionately feeds and raises the pigeons bequeathed by his father. He has got a special bond with a female pigeon named Maverdi. His brother forces him to work and to earn money. Yusuf who doesn’t know any other world than the one with his pigeons on the roof will face the labor life and the realities of his neighborhood.

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Poster for Zorori the Naughty Hero: Super Adventure!

2012 · ★ 5.7 (3)

Zorori, Ishishi, and Noshishi, while out searching for treasure, come upon a town with a widespread illness. In order to make the secret medicine for it, they must set out on an adventure.

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