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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
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Redemption Trail
Two powerful, yet deeply troubled women (refugees from political and personal trauma) flee a past that haunts them. The daughter of a murdered Black Panther revolutionary, Tess, lives off the grid on a Sonoma vineyard, fiercely detached from all connections. Her hermetic life...Watch Movie
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George Tice: Seeing Beyond the Moment
Long recognized for his deeply penetrating photographic record of America, George Tice works in the urban tradition of artists such as Edward Hopper and Walker Evans. From his home and studio in New Jersey, Tice shares his life and work spanning six decades and eighteen books...Watch Movie
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Alluvion
Different temporalities spatially co-exist in a Turkish coastal town: the linear time of history and daily life, the cyclical time of seasons and days and the tourist time that stands still. A father and his grown children of unnamed nationality, make their way through a landscape where ancient...Watch Movie
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Detonator
In this gritty Philadelphia-based thriller, Sully, former frontman of a once prominent punk band, anxiously trudges toward a new world in order to remain in his young son's daily life when ex-bandmate Mick catches him mid-stride with a promise to make good on an old debt. In one hellish night,...Watch Movie
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Aerodrome
Set in upstate New York's Old Rhineback Aerodrome. This visually stunning documentary paints an intimate portrait of a group of pilots who not only transcend the modern world of aviation, but stay true to what pioneers held close to their hearts over one hundred years ago. With the oldest flying...Watch Movie
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Bob Birdnow's Remarkable Tale of Human Survival and the Transcendence of Self
When invited by an old friend to speak to a struggling sales team at a conference, Bob Birdnow reluctantly agrees. Bob's attempt to say something motivational takes an unexpected turn when, forced off script and desperate, he begins the one story he'd hoped he'd never have to...Watch Movie
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I Always Said Yes
The story of a sometimes-overlooked gay liberation and independent filmmaking pioneer is told in I ALWAYS SAID YES. In late 1971, Wakefield Poole, a respected Broadway dancer and choreographer, had the audacity to put his real name above the title of his first film, a low-...Watch Movie
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Letters to Max
What is the job of a diplomat for a country that does not exist? With this question, acclaimed filmmaker Eric Baudelaire initiates a wide-ranging correspondence with his friend Maxim Gvinjia, former Minister of Foreign Affairs for Abkhazia, a country with physical borders, a government and its...Watch Movie
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What Now? Remind Me
Joaquim Pinto has been an instrumental figure in Portuguese cinema for over thirty years, whether directing his own films, as producer or sound designer for renowned filmmakers such as Raul Ruiz, Manoel de Oliveira and Joao Cesar Monteiro. In his newest film, WHAT NOW? REMIND...Watch Movie
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Stray Dogs
In the newest film from Tsai Ming-liang, a single father makes his meager living holding up an advertising placard on a traffic island in the middle of a busy highway. His children wait out their days in supermarkets before they eat with their father and go to sleep in an abandoned building. As...Watch Movie
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Siddharth
The spellbinding and gorgeously wrought tale of one father's journey across India in search of his son. Mehendra is a chain-wallah, eking out a living fixing zippers on the bustling streets of New Delhi. To ease his financial woes, he sends twelve-year-old Siddharth to work in a distant factory....Watch Movie
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The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
Cultural theorist superstar Slavoj Zizek re-teams with director Sophie Fiennes for another wildly entertaining romp through the crossroads of cinema and philosophy. With infectious zeal and a voracious appetite for popular culture, Zizek literally goes inside some truly...Watch Movie
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Child's Pose
The top prize winner at the Berlin Film Festival, Calin Peter Netzer's sharply crafted CHILD'S POSE pivots on a riveting performance by Luminita Gheorghiu as a steely, well-to-do Bucharest architect determined to keep her thirty-something deadbeat son out of jail after a deadly car crash. How far...Watch Movie
