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Catarina Vasconcelos – Nocturno Para uma Floresta AKA Nocturne For a Forest...

DESCRIPTION In the 15th century, in Portugal, a group of monks built a wall around a forest and prevented the entry of women. But the hands of the living cannot control everything: in the invisible...

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Ana Rieper – Nada Será Como Antes AKA Nothing Like Before (2024)

Nothing Like Before delves into the creation of the Clube da Esquina Album (Brazil, 1972). Considered by many music critics one of the best albums of all time, it presented to the world musicians like...

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Nate Pommer & Eric Weinrib – Scream of My Blood: A Gogol Bordello Story (2023)

An intimate, career-spanning portrait of Ukrainian immigrant Eugene Hütz, chronicling his childhood journey to the U.S., his rise to fame with immigrant punk band Gogol Bordello and his defiant return...

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Leonardo Pirondi – Potenciais à Deriva AKA Adrift Potentials (2024)

Synopsis This pseudo diary film is made of found materials from an unfinished 16mm film. Potenciais à Deriva is a film started by a Brazilian artist under a pseudonym while living in exile in Los...

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Aicha Macky – L’Arbre sans fruit AKA The Fruitless Tree (2016)

The director, a married woman without children, deals with the issue of infertility in the country of Niger, by sharing stories of stigmatized wives, husbands who refuse to be tested (or who abandon...

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Oliver Schwehm – Kalanag – Der Magier und der Teufel (2022)

Helmut Schreiber alias Kalanag is one of the most controversial entertainers – a man with a white waistcoat and a dark past. Kalanag.Der.Magier.und.der.Teufel.720p.WEB-DL.h264.mkvGeneralContainer:...

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Asmae ElMoudir – Kadib Abyad AKA The Mother Of All Lies (2023)

Quote: A Moroccan woman’s search for truth tangles with a web of lies in her family history. As a daughter and filmmaker, she fuses personal and national history as she reflects on the 1981 Bread...

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Masato Ishioka – Yoyochu in the Land of the Rising Sex (2010)

Quote: “Yoyochu” is the nick name for Tadashi Yoyogi. He is the father of Japanese adult video. Before becoming a pornographer, he was a flower arranger and a member of the mob. Here, we follow...

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Boris Kaufman & Jean Vigo –À Propos de Nice [First Cut] (1930)

Synopsis: What starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on the French Côte d’Azur, especially its wealthy inhabitants....

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John Smith – Slow Glass (1991)

Alexander Stewart, notes for screening at Pioneer Works, New York 2015, wrote: A mesmerizing experimental documentary that presents a discussion of the manufacture of glass as a way to explore memory...

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Jean-Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Miéville – Comment ça va? AKA How Is It Going?...

Comment ça va is one of the most dense and abstracted of the several essayistic videos Jean-Luc Godard made in collaboration with his partner Anne-Marie Miéville during the latter half of the 1970s....

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Arun Bhattarai & Dorottya Zurbó – Agent of Happiness (2024)

Amber, a happiness agent, travels the Bhutanese Himalayas surveying people’s happiness. On his remote mountain journey, he searches for fulfillment....

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Romuald Gantkowski – Z Jerozolimy do Tel-Avivu AKA From Jerusalem to Tel Aviv...

Quote: Reportage showing views of old and new Jerusalem and the modern buildings of Tel-Aviv. It is one of two (along with ‘Tel Aviv’) reportages made in the late 1930s by Romuald Gantkowski in what...

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João Rui Guerra da Mata & João Pedro Rodrigues – Onde Fica Esta Rua? AKA...

Tribute to Paulo Rocha’s 1963 classic “The Green Year” Where.Is.This.Street.or.With.No.Before.or.After.2022.SUBBED.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.h264-Peep.mkvGeneralContainer: MatroskaRuntime: 1 h 27 minSize:...

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Oscar Harding – A Life On The Farm (2022)

A documentary film from rural England about a filmmaking farmer and the inspiring legacy of his long-lost home movies. When filmmaker Oscar Harding’s grandfather passed away in the rural English...

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Alison O’Daniel – The Tuba Thieves (2023)

“In this work of creative nonfiction, d/Deaf first-time feature director Alison O’Daniel presents the impact of these crimes from an unexpected angle. Blending documentary and fictionalized...

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Anna Marziano – Al di là dell’uno AKA Beyond the One (2017)

A cinematic treatise on diverse forms of affection, love and partnership, and the difficult search for an individual way of expressing these feelings in the face of tradition and social conventions....

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Anna Marziano – Al largo (2020)

Quote: Immersing us in a sea of words and images, Al largo brings us into contact with the experience of suffering. Dissolving the polarity between egoism and altruism, taking care becomes a gesture...

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Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman – Paragraph 175 (2000)

Quote: Historian Klaus Müller interviews survivors of the Nazi persecution of homosexuals because of the German Penal Code of 1871, Paragraph 175....

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Justin Pemberton – Le Capital au XXIe siècle AKA Capital in the Twenty-First...

Based on Thomas Piketty’s No. 1 New York Times Bestseller, Capital in the Twenty-First Century explores one of the most important and controversial subjects of our time: wealth, and who gets a share...

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