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L'assenza
By chance, a man sees his double in an Italian film of the early 1960s. Fascinated, he returns to see the film again and again, only to find the images changing with every viewing. Becoming addicted to his own image, he travels to Paris for another encounter with his doppelganger. In the...Watch Movie
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Little Feet
Determined to set their pet goldfish free, Lana and Nico embark on a magical urban odyssey from their Los Angeles home to the ocean. Their adventure, seen through the eyes of the brother/sister team, is filled with an array of wild and sometimes frightening encounters. LITTLE FEET is the return...Watch Movie
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I Used to Be Darker
When Taryn, a Northern Irish runaway, finds herself in trouble in Ocean City, Maryland, she seeks refuge in Baltimore with her aunt and uncle. Kim and Bill are having problems of their own: they're trying to dissolve their marriage gracefully for the sake of their daughter,...Watch Movie
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Hank and Asha
In this award-winning romance, an Indian woman studying in Prague and a lonely New Yorker begin an unconventional correspondence through video letters, two strangers searching for deeper connection in a hyper-connected world. Before long their online relationship grows intimate as they share...Watch Movie
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In Bloom
Early nineties, in Tbilisi, the capital of the newly independent Georgia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The country is immersed in violence, there's a war on the Black Sea coast in Abkhazia and vigilante justice plagues society. But for Eka and Natia, fourteen-year-old inseparable...Watch Movie
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Stop the Pounding Heart
Sara is a young girl raised in a family of goat farmers. Her parents homeschool their twelve children, rigorously following the precepts of the Bible. Like her sisters, Sara is taught to be a devout woman, subservient to men while keeping her emotional and physical purity...Watch Movie
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Epilogue
At the end of his greatest adventure, Skillman has vanquished his nemesis, recovered the priceless artifact and saved his latest lover from certain doom. But as he struggles to figure out what comes next, his lady begins to realize her confident, capable man hasn't the first clue what to do once...Watch Movie
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The Prodigy
Olga Smirnova's talent and drive are taking her to new heights in the ultra-competitive arena of world-class ballet at the Bolshoi in Moscow. This film shows what that extreme sacrifice looks like behind the curtain, through images and the words of Olga and her demanding, but sensitive coach, who...Watch Movie
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Days of Gray
It is a world without language. A world where one is raised to respect the rules. No things are owned except the essentials. All must wear masks when venturing from home. All adult males must protect society from outsiders who do not follow the rules. Faith is dead. Hope is dead. Joy is dead....Watch Movie
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Get the Picture
This award-winning documentary recounts the remarkable life of John G. Morris, the revered Life Magazine photo-journalist who was involved in the D-Day Normandy landings. Morris worked alongside many of the greatest names in photography, during some of the most pivotal moments in the 20th...Watch Movie
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Massacred for Gold
In 1887, more than thirty Chinese miners were murdered in Hells Canyon, the deepest gorge in North America, in the worst act of violence against Chinese immigrants in the West; no one was ever held accountable. With a haunting score by Canadian composer, Tim Hecker, and...Watch Movie
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The Teacher's Country
THE TEACHER’S COUNTRY is the story of a land fifty years after its independence. It is about Tanzania, a country, which was formed by the ideas of "Mwalimu" Julius Nyerere, who stuck to his ideals and never became a detached politician. The film follows the youngest son of the...Watch Movie
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Vacation
Shot in the skid row district of San Francisco's Tenderloin the short film VACATION unfolds in a quick and visual ten minutes with an integral soundtrack featuring garage blues by Hasil Adkins, classics by Billie Holiday and contemporary pop from Madonna. Quotes from Charles Bukowski’s "Ham and...Watch Movie
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Half of a Yellow Sun
Olanna and Kainene are glamorous twins from a wealthy Nigerian family. Upon returning to a privileged city life in newly independent 1960s Nigeria after their expensive English education, the two women make very different choices. Olanna shocks her family by going to live with...Watch Movie
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Rohmer in Paris
A love letter to legendary nouvelle vague filmmaker Eric Rohmer and the world capital of cinema. The film begins with a chance encounter with Rohmer in 1994, while he was filming RENDEZVOUS IN PARIS on location in Montmartre. This accidental connection becomes the basis for a passionate...Watch Movie
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China in Three Words
Author Yu Hua is one of the only "honest writers to survive in China," Ian Johnson recently wrote. This makes him an inspiration. This short documentary takes its cue from an interview with Yu Hua about his book "China in Ten Words," focusing on words common in the Chinese...Watch Movie
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Balcony
A ten year old boy is sitting on the edge of a balcony on the fourth floor. Neighbors and passers-by, terrified by this situation, call the police and firefighters for help. But the situation quickly becomes unmanageable. BALCONY is an observation of the authentic mindset of our society, which...Watch Movie
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A Common Enemy
A COMMON ENEMY is a political documentary thriller based on the first ever free elections in Tunisia after the Arab Spring Revolution, seen through the eyes of the protagonists of this historical event. This revolution is now an echo in their minds, as impending changes will rapidly modify the...Watch Movie
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Breaking Through
In BREAKING THROUGH, openly LGBT elected officials at all levels (including the first gay US Senator, Tammy Baldwin) share their stories of self-doubt and triumph over multiple barriers ranging from race and poverty to gender and sexual orientation, revealing a deeply...Watch Movie
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Alien Boy
On September 17, 2006 James Chasse was stopped by three law enforcement officers in Portland, Oregon in broad daylight. A dozen eyewitnesses watched in horror as the officers tackled, beat, kicked and Taser'd James until he lay motionless on the pavement with sixteen broken ribs and a punctured...Watch Movie
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La Paz
Liso, an upper middle class young man, has just finished a stay at a psychiatric institute. He goes to live at his parent's house where he is treated as if he were a child. He begins a relationship of mutual complicity with Sonia, the Bolivian maid, who takes care of him and protects him. Liso...Watch Movie
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Diego Star
A serious accident occurs onboard the Diego Star, a dilapidated Russian cargo ship. Traoré, a mechanic from the Ivory Coast, is unfairly blamed for it. The ship is towed to the nearest shipyard for repairs. In the interim, crewmembers find shelter with the inhabitants of the small local village....Watch Movie
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Empire of Dirt
Going home was never an option for single mother Lena Mahikan. But when her thirteen year old daughter Peeka overdoses in the streets of Toronto, she is forced to return home to her estranged mother and face a life-long legacy of shame and resentment. EMPIRE OF DIRT is a story about second...Watch Movie
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Brothers Hypnotic
At 6:00 a.m. sharp, the children of jazz musician Phil Cohran began band rehearsal. A family of twenty-four living on Chicago's South Side, the "brothers" of the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble were brought up by their father and three mothers on a strict diet of jazz, funk and Black...Watch Movie
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Jobriath A.D.
Seventies glam rock musician Jobriath was known as the "American Bowie," "True Fairy of Rock and Roll" and "Hype of the Year." The first openly gay rock star, Jobriath's reign was brief, lasting less than two years and two albums. Done in by a over‐hyped publicity machine, shunned by the gay...Watch Movie
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Rhymes for Young Ghouls
An eye-catching feature about a teenage, Aboriginal and revenge-seeking drug-dealer. At Red Crow Mi'g Maq reservation in 1976: By government decree, every Indian child under the age of sixteen must attend residential school. In the kingdom of the Crow, that means imprisonment...Watch Movie
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Canopy
In Singapore, February 9, 1942, the Japanese invasion is underway. Jim, an Australian fighter pilot, wakes up dangling from a tree by his parachute strings somewhere in the middle of a vast jungle overrun by hostile forces. As night devours day, he forges into the danger he must navigate in...Watch Movie
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No God, No Master
When a series of package bombs show up on the doorsteps of prominent politicians and businessmen in the summer of 1919, U.S. Bureau of Investigation Agent William Flynn is assigned the task of finding those responsible. He becomes immersed in an investigation that uncovers an...Watch Movie
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Cinemanovels
In this slyly humorous family drama about what we inherit (and don't inherit) from our parents, Grace has not spoken to her recently deceased father, a fabled filmmaker, in years. She surprises her confidant (Jennifer Beals) and herself when, on a trip to pick up some of his belongings, she...Watch Movie
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In Effluence accord; Emulsion
A play between the internal and external, an investigation between the printer and the optical effects of projection. One strip of super-8 film is reconstructed, taped onto 16mm and then re-photographed on the optical printer. The effluence, according to its new emulsion,...Watch Movie
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Night Labor
Sherman Frank Merchant, a forty-six year old 6'6" Downeaster, is followed during his transition from an independent and rugged clam digger by day to manning a factory at night. With his white smock, arsenal of knives and signature black beret, Sherman performs the tasks of preparing and arranging...Watch Movie
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The Moving Creatures
In Caetano Gotardo's lyrical omnibus film THE MOVING CREATURES, three very different mothers are confronted, through three very different trials-by-ordeal, with the limits of what a mother "just knows." With little fanfare (and not a whiff of the blatant "interconnectedness"...Watch Movie
