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2015 · ★ 6.5 (5)

Anna, a young Czech doctor, gets held up at US immigration after a humanitarian trip to Uganda, the day her boyfriend wants to propose to her.

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1976 · ★ 8.0 (1)

A cinema verité documentary about the mid-seventies body rub industry in Toronto. Customers furtively come and go, and women talk together in the dressing room, explaining the tricks of their trade.

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Poster for Haunted Harmony Mysteries: Buried at C

2025 · ★ 6.5 (6)

Our favorite music teacher Gethsemane is back again along with her trusted ghost friend Eamon to solve the unexplained death of a sea captain.

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Poster for City of Pearls

2026 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Dubai was a city once built on pearls. This documentary follows four "invisible" workers, the pearls, living far from their families to keep other people's dreams alive while quietly pursuing their own in the land of opportunity.

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Poster for The Royal We

2025 · ★ 6.5 (14)

When her older sister elopes with a non-royal, Princess Bea who has lived her life away from her royal duties must now step in and honor the arranged marriage to a small kingdom prince.

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Poster for Massacre

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Two sisters, aged ten and twelve, are about to leave their beloved island, which has become too expensive for their family. Their sadness turns into rage towards those forcing them to leave: the tourists. This last summer will be dark, deadly, as toxic as the seaweed swarming over the beaches.

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Poster for My King

2015 · ★ 7.1 (800)

Tony is admitted to a rehabilitation center after a serious ski accident. Dependent on the medical staff and pain relievers, she takes time to look back on a turbulent relationship that she experienced with Georgio.

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Poster for Intangible Cultural Heritage One

2026 · ★ 0.0 (0)

With a history of over 320 years, the Yeung Hau Temple in Tai O carries the profound cultural customs of both land and water residents. Among its most significant traditions is the Tai O Dragon Boat Water Parade, which is inscribed on the national list of intangible cultural heritage. Through the Hau Wong Festival, the documentary presents the craftsmanship of bamboo-shed theatre and Cantonese opera performances, bearing witness to the enduring legacy of this intangible heritage and the unwavering perseverance of seven generations of the local community. The Craftsmanship of the "Three Treasures of Cha Chaan Teng" examines the techniques behind Hong Kong-style milk tea, pineapple buns, and egg tarts—three culinary treasures that have been officially inscribed on Hong Kong's intangible cultural heritage inventory, embodying a fusion of Eastern and Western cultures through taste and carrying the collective memory of the city's people.

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1941 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A portrait of life in Shetland, composed of clips from the films of Shetland filmmaker Jenny Gilbertson (aka Jenny Brown).

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Poster for When It Melts

2023 · ★ 6.7 (26)

Many years after a sweltering summer that spun out of control, Eva returns to the village she grew up in with an ice block in the back of her car. In the dead of winter, she confronts her past and faces up to her tormentors.

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Poster for Your Fat Friend

2024 · ★ 7.4 (7)

Charting Aubrey Gordon's journey from anonymous blogger to NY Times bestselling author and podcast host, and the complexities of making change. It’s a film about fatness, family and the deep, messy feelings all of us hold about our bodies.

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Poster for Muttertier - Muttermensch

1999 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Lucy, who is already human-like, claims that the first humans were mothers: The mother built a nest to secure the child when it became too heavy to carry. This is how she invented the house. She penetrated the dense branches with her voice to maintain contact with the child. That's how she invented language. Today, Lucy shakes her head and asks: "How did you let yourself be dragged down like that?".

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Poster for Retrotherapy

2024 · ★ 5.9 (6)

Yvonne loses her mind and confuses her teenage granddaughter, Manon, with her deceased daughter. Manon plays the role of the mother she never knew, reviving her grandmother's years of feminist activism. In this troubled game, Manon will learn to become a woman.

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Poster for Foxhole

2018 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Sylvie escapes her abusive marriage by running away to a place known as Foxhole. However, her reasons for joining the cult may not be all that they appear to be.

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Poster for Wherever you want to be

— · ★ 0.0 (0)

Javiera and Isidora are friends that decide to go hiking at night. While there, Javiera hides her intention to take her own life.

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Poster for Echo

2023 · ★ 7.0 (1)

Ania and Bartek, two stuttering teenagers undergoing speech therapy, are learning to like themselves and stop being afraid.

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Poster for Tingling

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Over a devastating night, a couple grapples with memories from the Gulf War.

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Poster for Artisan Spirit

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In the woodcarvers' town far from the bustling metropolis, the traditional Chinese craftsmanship is still passed down from generation to generation. Young designer Lu Hao and Taiwanese businessman Fang Hanbing returned to their hometown town for a rennovation program. They regained their love for their grandchildren and found the ingenuity of the young people in the present.

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Poster for A Memorial of Eternal Flowers

2026 · ★ 0.0 (0)

«A Memorial of Eternal Flowers» is a lament for the departed and for all that has been lost to time. A non-fiction documentary about Hedieh Ahmadi’s installation, held in Tehran.

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2002 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A single mother's personal ritual combines her history, poetry and a volleyball-inspired aerobic workout

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