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Gianfranco Rosi – Fuocoammare (2016)

Quote: Even if they were bringing the bodies of dead migrants ashore a few minutes from where you live, you’d still brew up coffee and cook dinner with the radio on. Your kids would still do their...

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Solveig Melkeraaen – Flink Pike AKA Good Girl (2014)

Quote: A feel good film about depressions. About being able to do it all, but losing it in a severe anxiety attack. About controlling angst together with the family, and be able to laugh of it all,...

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Stole Popov – Avstralija, Avstralija AKA Australia, Australia (1976)

Movie from 1976, in duration of 82 minutes. The movie is created in widescreen technique, with sound, in color and 35mm. Production: Vardar film – Skopje Content: The film reflects the life of the...

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Anthony Doncque – Guibert cinéma [+Extras] (2010)

Quote: Sometimes it’s easier to enter a work through the window than through the front door in order to catch it at its most intimate. The hypothesis of this interesting documentary is that the truth...

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José Luis Guerín – Unas fotos en la ciudad de Sylvia (2007)

An unnamed young man arrives in the foreign city of Strasbourg for reasons unstated. He waits at a hotel, visits a café, sketches passersby… Eventually his motives are revealed, but it is not a...

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Lionel Rogosin – On the Bowery (1957) (HD)

A mix of documentary and scripted footage on the Bowery, New York City’s skid row. Against a backdrop of men (and a few women) drinking in bars, talking and arguing, and sleeping on sidewalks, we have...

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Mark Rappaport – Our Stars (2015)

Stars of the 1940s and 1950s, were they cast for their mutual affinities or for their commercial appeal? If and when they were re-starred years later, did the magic still work? Did sparks still fly?...

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Mila Turajlic – Cinema Komunisto (2010)

Quote: When history has a different script from the one in your films, who wouldn’t invent a country to fool themselves? The collapsing sets of Tito’s Hollywood of the East take us on a journey...

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Lech Kowalski – On Hitler’s Highway (2002)

A very personal journey, almost like a diary, with hand held camera Kowalski travels along the oldest highway in Polan, built by Hitler. While travelling along the highway Kowalski meets the people...

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Kevin Brownlow – D.W. Griffith: Father of Film (1993)

This three-part documentary by Kevin Brownlow and David Gill explores D.W. Griffith’s career. Episode One covers from the beginning through Birth of a Nation. Episode Two examines (among others)...

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Pier Paolo Pasolini – Comizi d’amore AKA Love Meetings (1964)

Pasolini doesn’t so much ‘meet’ with people of all regions of his country as interrogate them, trying to investigate the sexual mores of his time in a typical melding of politics and sex, of Marx and...

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Aleksandr Sokurov – Pozyvnye R1NN AKA Prefisso R1NN AKA Calls R1NN (1975)

Plot (source IMDB): In the 20’s an enthusiast radio amateur, Fyodor Lbov, experiments one of the first short-waves radio in the city of Gorky....

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Bing Wang – Dead Souls AKA Les Âmes mortes (2018)

In Gansu Province, northwest China, lie the remains of countless prinosers abandoned in the Gobi desert sixty years ago. Designated as “ultra-rightists” in the Communist Party’s Anti-Rightist campaing...

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Jumana Manna – Wild Relatives (2018)

Wild Relatives follows the matrix of hierarchies and relationships involved in a transaction of seeds between the Norwegian town of Longyearbyen in Svalbard, an island in the Arctic Ocean, and the...

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Godfrey Reggio – Koyaanisqatsi (1983)

IMDB Review: Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi is a film with no actors, no storyline, and no dialogue. The only things we see during the experimental documentary’s 87 minutes are natural landscapes,...

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Sedat Pakay – James Baldwin: From Another Place (1973)

Quote: It was shot in Istanbul, Turkey, where Baldwin was living and writing. In the film, the author talks about living abroad, the black experience in America, and his controversial private life....

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Peter B. Hutton – Lodz Symphony (1993)

LODZ SYMPHONY 16mm / 20´ / 1991 / USA “Images of a vanishing world—the nineteenth-century manufacturing city of Lodz in Poland—are rendered with Atget-like devotion. As he wanders a ghostly city...

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Mario Schifano – Umano Non Umano (1972)

A rare 1972 movie by Mario Schifano, believed to be in the Public Domain. Apparances by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Alberto Moravia, Carmelo Bene and others....

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Jerónimo Rodríguez – Rastreador de estatuas (2015)

When Jorge, a Chilean filmmaker living in New York, decides to seek a statue of a Portuguese neurologist in a park in Chile, a curious investigation begins in the streets of Santiago, Brooklyn and...

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Andres Veiel – Beuys (2017)

Quote: A documentary about the 20th century German sculptor and performance artist Joseph Beuys. Quote: One of the most important figures in post-war German art, Joseph Beuys pushed the boundaries of...

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