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Lynn True & Nelson Walker III & Tsering Perlo – Summer Pasture (2010)

Summer Pasture (2010) An intimate glimpse into the experiences of a young Tibetan family struggling to reconcile their traditional way of life with a rapidly modernizing world....

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Claus Räfle – Die Unsichtbaren AKA The Invisibles (2017)

Die Unsichtbaren (2017) Claus Räfle’s “The Invisibles” tells the true story of four Jewish teenagers—Cioma Schönhaus (Max Mauff), Hanni Lévy (Alice Dwyer), Ruth Arndt-Gumpel (Ruby O. Fee), Eugen...

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Harun Farocki – Stilleben AKA Still Life (1997)

Stilleben (1997) According to Harun Farocki, today’s photographers working in advertising are, in a way, continuing the tradition of 17th century Flemish painters in that they depict objects from...

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Rodrigo Moreno – Una ciudad de provincia (2017)

Una ciudad de provincia (2017) A world is made of different things: people, houses, dogs, shops, nightlife, trees. Like those of those photographers from the beginning of the 20th century, this trip...

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Sara Dosa – Fire of Love (2022)

Fire of Love (2022) Intrepid scientists and lovers Katia and Maurice Krafft died in a volcanic explosion doing the very thing that brought them together: unraveling the mysteries of volcanoes by...

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Ellen Goldfarb – Dare to Be Different (2017)

Dare to Be Different (2017) In August, 1982, a small group of radio visionaries at WLIR Long Island knew they couldn’t compete with the mega radio stations in New York City. With one brave decision,...

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Joe Ambrose – Destroy All Rational Thought (1998)

Destroy All Rational Thought (1998) blurb sez: In Sept./Oct. 1992 a mini festival took place in the Temple Bar Area of Dublin. Called ‘The Here To Go Show’, it celebrated William Burroughs and Brion...

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Stan Brakhage – Brakhage on Brakhage (1996)

Brakhage on Brakhage (1996) Quote:Working outside the mainstream, the wildly prolific, visionary Stan Brakhage made more than 350 films over a half century. Challenging all taboos in his exploration...

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Su Friedrich – The Odds of Recovery (2002)

The Odds of Recovery (2002) Quote:After a twenty year period of multiple illnesses and injuries, the filmmaker turns the camera on herself as a way to analyze her chances for a happier, healthier...

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Polska Agencja Telegraficzna – Zwiedzamy Gdynie AKA Visiting Gdynia (1936)

Zwiedzamy Gdynie (1936) Quote:Made by the Polish Telegraphic Agency, this reportage shows the construction and operation of the modern cargo port in Gdynia and its facilities. It is a typical example...

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Daniel Schmid – Notre Dame de la Croisette (1981)

Notre Dame de la Croisette (1981) ‘In NOTRE DAME DE LA CROISETTE’ Schmid turns his abundant eye on that loved and despised Mecca of European film life, the Cannes International Film Festival. Bulle...

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Sarah Colt & Helen Ryan Dobrowski – American Experience: Fly with Me (2024)

Fly with Me (2024) Fly With Me tells the story of the pioneering young women who became flight attendants at a time when single women were unable to order a drink, eat alone in a restaurant, own a...

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Sohn Koo-Yong – Night Walk (2023)

Night Walk (2023) Small nightly monochrome silent landscapes to observe and enter another time to feel how everyday transforms through the gaze.—This gorgeous landscape film is an invitation to the...

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Jean Eustache – La rosière de Pessac AKA The Virgin of Pessac (1968) (HD)

La rosière de Pessac (1968) As political and social tumult rocked France in May and June of 1968, Jean Eustache used his first documentary to focus on persistent tradition, in the form of a...

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Guy Gilles – Proust, l’art et la douleur (1971) (HD)

Proust, l’art et la douleur (1971) Quote:From Venice to Illiers, a journey into the memory of Proust. Made for French television on the occasion of Marcel Proust’s centenary. Guy Gilles’ film freely...

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Claudia Müller – Elfriede Jelinek – Die Sprache von der Leine lassen AKA...

Elfriede Jelinek Die Sprache von der Leine lassen (2022) Quote:ELFRIEDE JELINEK: “Language Unleashed” Child prodigy, scandal writer, traitor of the fatherland, theatre fury, feminist, model lover,...

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Bing Wang – Qingchun AKA Youth (Spring) (2023)

Synopsis:Liming is a worker district close to Shanghai – the richest city in China. Every year, many young people leave their villages and move there. They are between 17 and 20, all from rural Yunnan...

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David Schickele – Bushman (1971)

Bushman (1971) In 1968, Peace Corps veteran David Schickele enlisted his friend Paul Eyam Nzie Okpokam to star in a light-hearted comedy about the adventures of a young Nigerian intellectual in San...

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Benoît Jacquot – Par coeurs AKA By Heart (2022)

Par coeurs (2022) It’s summertime, 2021. Isabelle Huppert plays Lioubov, Chekhov’s unforgettably heroine in The Cherry Orchard. In a near theatre, Fabrice Luchini recites Nietzsche. Both actors are...

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Jana Sevciková – Jakub (1992)

Jakub (1992) Quote:After second world war the people from Ruthenia’s Carpathian villages were promised a better life in Bohemia. Once settled down they felt like strangers at the new places, so...

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