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It Came From Connecticut
The Oddbodies are a group of four friends from New Haven Connecticut making loud music. This film explores the group as they discover their own bond and the Connecticut music scene post debut EP. WATCH NOW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3JjUabsssQ |
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Not Enough Fish?
Peter and Chantelle, a family struggling with the hardships of independent fishing, tell of their daily lives, as they both do their part to keep their business, and family, afloat. In true observational form, we view their contrasting lives through visual poetry. |
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Khayalami (My Home)
A story about an African woman’s struggle to keep her traditions and customs alive while living in an increasingly Western world. |
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Do not kill,Brother!
Is ISIS black messengers of the hell leading the world to the end? From 2011 when Islamic extremist started to genesis People in brutal ways to establish their own territory and ideology ,Many Muslim have been Kidnapped , killed and lost their homes.Young girls being raped in Iraq and Syria or sold in Sex markets . there is one way to get in and no exit to get out. |
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Unfathomable Reality
Unfathomable reality is a reality documentary on the lives of children in one of the oldest and richest democratic countries in the world - India. The director, a 15 year old girl, has boldly shown reality that is a norm and not an exception to millions of lives in the country. Although child abuse has various situations, the director has carefully chosen every scenario, every situation and every case that impacts the lives of millions daily. The documentary focuses on the struggle faced not just by millions of children abused from their birth but also focuses on the handful of unsung heroes who have focused their own lives in trying to protect and give hope to these children. |
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The Road to Tighza
Two doctors from Chicago bring medical supplies and first aid knowledge to a remote village deep in the mountains of Morocco, where the native people still use black magic to cure illnesses. |
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Heroes Without Capes
After forty years, surgeon Carlo Spagnolli returns to Uganda to visit the places where he started his career: two hospitals founded and still continued by courageous men and women, heroes (without capes) in a country which suffered dictatorships, guerrilla and ebola but where, thanks to these heroes, a burst of hope can still be found. WATCH NOW https://vimeo.com/154701517 psw: auroravision |
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CIGNO (SWAN)
A travel through the sea and through generations, following an ancient and daily labor, made of simple gestures repeated over and over in the dark, until the dawn comes. In “Cigno” the camera becomes the discrete observer of a common workday of common people, not to report or denounce, but to observe with curiosity a hidden routine, far from the modern society speed of life. And in the rusted deck, in the beat of the hammer, in the surfacing net we glimpse the dignity and the beauty of the Swan. |
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Above & Below Galápagos National Park
This film from the young film makers crew 'Behind the Mask' tells about Florian's 14 days dive expedition to the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. In this travel and wild life documentary Florian takes the audience to the different spots of his trip and shows the beauty and the biodiversity of the ecosystem - 'Above & Below Galápagos National Park'. |
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Last Exit Alexanderplatz
Last Exit Alexanderplatz discusses the disputed attempt to transform the East-German Alexanderplatz into a Manhattan-like business district. Through interviews with the architects and politicians, involved in re-planning the square in the early 90s, the film highlights the insensitivity that characterized much planning in post-reunification Berlin. But it also depicts a square, which despite all failures is regaining its foothold in the city. |
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What we are made of
What we are made of is a look into the state of Colombian cinema through the experience of a filmmaker who is working on his first feature film. Edison Vanegas, the father of a child with Down syndrome, is directing and producing Talento Millonario, a film that shows the skills and capabilities of people with learning difficulties. What we are made of tracks the efforts Vanegas makes to accomplish his goals as a filmmaker during the preproduction and production of the film. The documentary is an opportunity to learn about the effects of the “Film Act” created in 2003, which increased the number of productions being made in the country and gave filmmakers more tools and resources to make their project come to life. |
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J Street
Locked in a condo with no money but plenty of free time, a group of neighbors spend time making movies with their VHS. J Street is about a group gathered by bonds of friendship built during idle afternoons and an affinity : love of movies. |
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America We Thank You
This film is about the herculean task of America's humanitarian relief efforts to the Armenians during the Genocide of 1915. |
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Trial By Fire a film about CRPS/rsd
Sister to the late reggae legend Bob Marley is faced with a horrible disease that has no cure. The pain is rated higher than amputation and childbirth. Her son, celebrity chef Charles Mattocks film maker and best selling author, goes on a crusade to tell her story while becoming a face for the hundreds of thousands worldwide that suffer from this condition.' Trial by fire a film based on crps' goes into the stories of the many who suffer each day and some of the limited treatment that only helps decrease the the pain a small amount. CRPS otherwise known as complex regional pain syndrome, can afflict anyone at anytime and is also called the suicide disease. |
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School of Monkey
Toboh Gadang Village located at Padang Pariaman, West Sumatera, has a "school" for primates which is called Baruak in local language. Baruak or most people known as monkey, often used by some people in a few different area in West Sumatera as coconut picker dan it has become a tradition which exist until today. Yuang Oroh (65), was born from Pabaruak family and ever since elementary school, he decided to quit school and proceed doing his parents profession. To be able to produce a talented in picking coconut and high-priced monkey, he began selecting, raising, training, selling and also trading monkeys which takes most of his time everyday. It is because of the profit gained is not equal as the hardwork, this profession has become extermely rare in West Sumatera. Moreover, as years goes by, Yuang Oroh's health condition has gotten worse, leaving his 2 sons, Ris and Masrizal as one of the few monkey trainer. |
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Cape Espichel - In Land of a Lost World
a journey through time and history of one of the most important religious sites in the time of the Portuguese monarchy, now almost left abandoned by the Republicans. 16 experts talk about all aspects since millions of years to the present day. |
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Searching for Abbas Kiarestami
A Syrian man carries a large photo of the Iranian director Abbas Kiarestami and wanders in the streets of Paris to ask the passers-by the address of him. He wants him to talk about the Syrian revolution to his government. He heads to the Iranian embassy, subways and coffee shops but gets no answer. |
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They said NO
They said NO is an insightful documentary which reflects the journeys of two women who despite so many odds and adversities survives on their own terms. They live in the suburbs of Kolkata and are seen to resist against patriarchal norms; derives courage and convictions from the learning of their lives. Though being apparently very ordinary women, they hardly conform to men’s idea of an “ideal woman”. |
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56
Three children struggle to get 56 kg of rice: the cost of going to school in Soavinarivo, a small village isolated in the Madagascar inland. |
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OBJECTS IN MIRROR ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR
I met Abraham three years ago when he asked me to make a film with him. Abraham lives in Reynosa, Mexico, one of the most unsafe cities with narcotics and gangs fighting. Flamenco is his way to escape. Memories of lost love travel with him like the dust of his homeland. This film is my painting of Abraham Lezama Juarez. -Jukka Rajala-Granstubb WATCH NOW https://vimeo.com/107460397 |
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On the way
Adi, Veno and Lilo are three children who are being raised as Krishna devotees in Hungary. The film is a monologue of the film director questioning her path in life and the hidden child in each one of us that is being put on the way to the future adult we become. WATCH TRAILER https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYz8LIl2vtk |
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Expedition Philippines
Explore the magical islands of the Philippines |
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Belly button
Navel is our ancestral source , where we feed and grow . Navel is the connection between two or more bodies. Cord memories! In this cord , a boy goes in search of stories and memories of her mother . In walking, the mirror of a popularly Brazilian family , rural and migrant . Together they seek to compose the mother's life trajectory : his birth, the wanderings in retreat with the Sisters , the reunions and the strength gained by becoming the parent midwife Val A film - reunion among women, daughters , son and family . . A reunion with female strength. A string of memories that brings us to the most important moment of life : time of birth . |
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Fallen Bird
While serving a sentence for assault in Wheatfield Prison, young prisoner Eric Boylan began channeling his anger and frustration into one of his childhood passions: painting. Now that he’s been released, Eric has set out to pursue a career in fine art - while attempting to navigate the obstacles of life as an ex-prisoner. |
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Music from every Corner
When a visionary submerges his community in music, it becomes a tradition; and a new generation surges that adopts a better way of life. Sebastian is one of many who now carry the music in his blood. |
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