Citizen Cinema
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What Happened Here?
WHAT HAPPENED HERE is a personal essay and a "road movie" seeking the site of Leon Trotsky's birth and home town, virtually unknown today due to Joseph Stalin's attempt to erase him from Soviet history. It follows the trail to the Golan Heights of Israel where Mikhael...Watch Movie
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Winter Oranges
Ryuki lives on Sagi, a small island off the coast of Hiroshima. His ancestors have always grown oranges and scallions there but Ryuki is tired of all that. His wife, Kaori, is expecting their first child. But Ryuki dreams about going to Tokyo to work in the theatre. He is attracted to Hinako, a...Watch Movie
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Heat and Sunlight
HEAT AND SUNLIGHT, winner of the Grand Prize at the 1988 Sundance Film Festival, explores the intersects of obsession, jealousy and violence. The last few hours of a love affair between Mel Hurley (played by Director Rob Nilsson), a photographer traumatized by the Biafran War,...Watch Movie
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Frank Dead Souls
A bus meanders its way through Cape Town and heads north along the South African beaches towards a swanky resort in Stellenbosch. The Frank Magazine editorial staff is on a "team building" exercise. But the team is falling apart. Shaky marriages examine new options. Closet...Watch Movie
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Opening
A gallery opening. The art crowd has assembled with its nervous owners, venal dealers, philistines with agendas and real estate developers with plans. Clandestine romances, artistic feuds, petty intrigues, jealousies, ghosts in the closet... all are dangerously close to the surface, awaiting...Watch Movie
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A Leap to Take
A small-time club owner takes his wife out for a birthday "night on the town" accompanied by a retinue of friends: would- be escorts, potential johns, ersatz modern artists; a motley group watching their lives go up in smoke due to the economic downturn. A satirical rocket ride of political...Watch Movie
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Samt
Ashtar, a young Jordanian woman from a small town outside Amman who seeks greater personal and cultural freedom from a traditional family, wants to attend a youth conference in Petra. Her more conservative brother, Jihad, is opposed even though their father seems the most progressive of the...Watch Movie
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Security
"We're taking back 9/11 with a flashy, forceful feature that surveys safety in a time of orange alerts. SECURITY began with an unforeseen death on the streets of Berkeley that provoked dismay in a band of student actors. Activated by this unexpected turn, the actors looked inward and moved...Watch Movie
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A Bridge to a Border
Pakal Gomez is an ex-border patrol officer who was railroaded into prison by a superior officer after two illegal immigrants were killed during a border crossing near Piedras Negras. He begins to suffer seizures and is transferred to a medical halfway house in the Bay Area...Watch Movie
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Collapse
America faces grim times. The financial collapse we are experiencing endangers homes, families, livelihoods and rattles the peace of mind of millions. It is perhaps an indication of the relative social irrelevance of much contemporary art that few people are asking what role film, music, dance...Watch Movie
