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Note: Some films are NOT available online, usually because they're in other film festival competitions requiring not posting films on internet.
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Cast Out of Paradise
Cast Out of Paradise is the story of a middle-aged Ecuadorian squatter who makes his living from selling ice lollies in the suburban areas of Milan. With more than 24, 000 families applying for council accommodation and thousands of empty unlisted council houses, Milan is facing an unprecedented housing crisis. |
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The Big Green
At eighteen years of age, a small town boy named Max Chaiet goes to Hollywood to uncover the truth about the character Shrek, who he believes stole his looks from the leading character of his parents' children's book. While on his quest, he interviews the first creative team of Shrek, as well as different kinds of experts on the subject, including a copyright lawyer, actor Kevin Bacon, individuals who have gotten their intellectual property stolen and others. Were his parents victims of plagiarism? You be the judge. |
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Art and Madness in the City of Geel
In its historic sites, the Middle Gate exhibition, Geel 2013, linked the expressive productions of two categories of people : Artists and Crazy Folk. More precisely, by attempting to benefit from Geel's secular tradition of welcoming the mentally unwell, this international art event proposed a visual reflexion on the norms covering, and the discrepancies between, mental health and madness. |
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The Last Tear
Sexual violence against women has accompanied almost every large-scale conflict, yet most of its victims are silenced. One such sad episode is that of the “comfort women,” or more accurately, the estimated 200,000 women who were recruited to sexually serve the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. As part of this immense system, many young women from all over Japan’s occupied territories in Asia were forced into service where they faced rape, torture and extreme violence at military camps, euphemistically termed “comfort stations. |
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Pepín Bello, the man who never did anything
At the end of 2005, I was lucky enough to get to know Jose "Pepin" Bello, the last living voice of the Generation of '27. Intimate friend of Salvador Dalí, Luis Buñuel and Federico García Lorca among others, "Pepin" modestly, had influenced both the work and lives of tens of renowned artists. |
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Manganiyars, Tales of the Thar desert
For the last 300 years, a caste of Muslim nomads has been gathering the most important skilled musicians as well as those related to the folk singing of the west side of India. Well known in the whole of Rajasthan for the liveliness of their music the Manganiyars possess an immense repertoire of profane and religious songs, Hindus as well as Sufi, which covers from the epic poem up to poetry of pure philosophical abstraction. What you are going to see and listen to will be narrated by our friend, the singer Manganiyar Mame Khan. |
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Dirty Hearts
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John Paul II in America: Uniting a Continent
John Paul II in America: Uniting a Continent explores how the papacy of St. John Paul II left an indelible mark on the American continent. Driven by his singular conviction of a “United American Continent” under the patronage of Our Lady of Guadalupe, John Paul II’s papal travels from Argentina to Alaska generated massive crowds, shaped an entire generation and ultimately changed the course of history. Narrated by Andy Garcia. |
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FINALLY A VOICE: The Birth of the Vietnam
Veterans of America FINALLY A VOICE: The Birth of the Vietnam Veterans of America tells the story of the founding convention of the Vietnam Veterans of America. Filming began 32 years ago, during a frenzied week in Washington DC, when hundreds of Vietnam veterans from all over the country gathered to seize control of their destiny. Their goal was to create a veterans organization that would represent their positions and address their needs. The traditional veterans organizations, congress and the Veterans Administration itself were indifferent to the special needs of Vietnam veterans, who had been characterized as losers, dopers and crazies and not worthy of benefits or respect. |
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Hidden in the Everglades: American Crocodiles
A documentary detailing the resurgence of the American Crocodile from the brink of extinction and the struggle the species may face going forward. Including human development, invasive species and climate change. |
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