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Jesper Wachtmeister – Kochuu – Japanese Architecture Influence & Origin (2003)
Quote:KOCHUU is a visually stunning film about modern Japanese architecture, its roots in the Japanese tradition, and its impact on the Nordic building tradition. Winding its way through visions of...
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Various – Bitva za Ukrainu (2014)
imdb:In the film Battle for Ukraine Andrei Konchalovsky, the famous Russian director, analyzes how Ukraine, a former part of the Soviet Empire and present big European country, struggles to escape...
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Nati Baratz – Unmistaken Child (2008)
The Buddhist concept of reincarnation, while both mysterious and enchanting, is hard for most westerners to grasp. UNMISTAKEN CHILD follows the four-year search for the reincarnation of Lama Konchog,...
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Basil Wright – The Song of Ceylon (1934)
The Song of Ceylon was originally commissioned as a series of short travelogues, but spawned an ambitious film transforming travelogue (exotic animals, eye-catching scenery, quirky customs) into a...
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Ute Adamczewski – Zustand und Gelände AKA Status and Terrain (2019)
The conceptual rigidity of Adamczewski’s film recalls the formal experiments of structural film in the 1970s. The care with which the film-maker handles her material has become rare in the digital age...
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Tulapop Saenjaroen – Notes from the Periphery (2021)
Commissioned by the Abandon Normal Devices Festival as an exploration into the globalised shipping networks, liminal territories and spaces of trade and labour that converge on the port city of Laem...
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Jean-Pierre Gorin – Poto and Cabengo (1979)
Quote:Grace and Virginia are young San Diego twins who speak unlike anyone else. With little exposure to the outside world, the two girls have created a private form of communication that’s an amalgam...
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Joe Lawlor & Christine Molloy – Further Beyond (2016)
In their debut documentary Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor take as their point of departure the compelling 18th Century figure, Ambrose O’Higgins – father of Bernardo O’Higgins, the first leader of...
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Mohanad Yaqubi – Kharej Al-Itar aw Thawra Hata el Nasser AKA Off Frame AKA...
Director Mohanad Yaqubi draws on recently-discovered and archival found footage to explore the tumultuous history of Palestine and Palestinian filmmaking in this timely and insightful documentary....
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Egor Klimovich – Imperiya koshek AKA Empire of Cats (2023)
A cute documentary will tell you why Russia has become the leader in the number of cats per capita in the world The film “Empire of Cats” tells about the most famous cats of Russia. According to...
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Arnaud des Pallières – Diane Wellington (2010)
Diane Wellington disappeared in South Dakota in 1938 at the age of 15. She has just be found. Arnaud des Pallières - Diane Wellington (2010).mkvGeneralContainer: MatroskaRuntime: 15 min 59 sSize: 366...
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Jim McBride – My Girlfriend’s Wedding (1969)
Quote:My Girlfriend’s Wedding (1969). In many respects, the best “critique” of David Holzman’s Diary that I know is McBride’s 63-minute follow-up to it. Initially conceived as an accompanying short,...
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Tong Xu – Lao tang tou AKA Shattered (2011)
Quote:Google Translate:Lao Tang Tou was born in Heilongjiang Province in 1930. His father, Tang Shirong, had saved the life of Zhao Shangzhi of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces during the...
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Ingmar Bergman – Fårö dokument (1970)
Quote:Ingmar Bergman had discovered the bleak, windswept Fårö while scouting locations for Through a Glass Darkly in 1960. Nearly a decade later—and after shooting a number of arresting dramas there...
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James Longley – Gaza Strip (2002)
Focuses on 13-year-old Mohammed Hejazi, a second-grade dropout the filmmaker encountered at the Karni crossing in the Gaza Strip, where Palestinian children often gather to throw stones....
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Marco Bellocchio & Silvano Agosti & Sandro Petraglia – Matti da slegare AKA...
Three young people leave the psychiatric hospital to lead a “normal life” while working in the factory. They confide in their future prospects. In 1968, alarmed by the catastrophic state of public...
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Steve McQueen – Occupied City (2023)
Plot: The past collides with the present in this excavation of the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam: a journey from World War II to recent years of pandemic and protest and a provocative, life-affirming...
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Peter Richardson – How to Die in Oregon (2011)
In 1994, Oregon became the first state to legalize physician-assisted suicide. At the time, only Belgium, Switzerland, and the Netherlands had legalized the practice. ‘How to Die in Oregon’ tell the...
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Mark Peranson, Albert Serra – Waiting for Sancho (2008)
Quote:Waiting for Sancho is an ontological investigation into a place where cinema becomes something more than cinema. Filmed in high-definition colour over five days in the Canary Islands of...
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Jørgen Leth – Composer Meets Quartet (1987)
imdb: An insight into the work by composer and pianist Herman D. Koppel with the American Cantilena Quartet before the first performance of his piano quartet ‘opus 114’ in 1986. The film is shot at...
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