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  The Hybrid Union

  1. A film by Serguei Kouchnerov
  4. run time 4 minutes 30 seconds

  The oil paintings by Serguei Kouchnerov come alive in Hybrid Union. Two abstract characters, Plus and Minus, whose energy is running out, go on a quest to find a new source. When their predicament forces them to unite, they create a new, startling, energy - The Hybrid Union. Will Plus and Minus win the race against the newcomer? Whimsical and bright, energetic and with great sense of style, it...  (more)

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  A Fable from the Himalayas (A Fable from the Himalayas)

  1. A film by Nitin Das
  4. run time 8 minutes

  A magical fable about a young boy who finds the solution to Global Warming from a monk in the mountains. The film has been shot in the remote ice desert region of the Himalayas. It was selected as part of UNEP Billion Tree Campaign  (more)

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  Gila Monster: The Adventures of Adrian Manx

  1. A film by Alonzo Crawford
  4. run time 11 minutes

  Detective Adrian Manx, an agent for the FBI with a license to kill--code-name “Gila Monster”—working undercover inside the DC Police Department, is in an apartment building to investigate a murder that may blow the lid off a case against a local drug-czar, suspected of several high profile murders, drug trafficking, and obstruction of justice. On his way up to interrogate witnesses, he...  (more)

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  Ghosts (Ghosts)

  1. A film by Morvary Samaré
  2. DOXA: Documentary Film + Video Festival
  3. May 07 - 16, 2010
  4. run time 54 minutes

  Three Canadian men; Abdullah Almalki, Ahmad El Maati and Muayyed Nureddin were detained and tortured for months and years in Syria and, in Ahmad El Maati's case, Egypt. Upon their release, they return to Canada and try to find answers to why they were detained in the first place. An inquiry was struck into their cases in order to determine the role of Canadian agencies and officials in their...  (more)

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  Child (Anak)

  1. A film by Kerstin Liwayway Rexrodt
  2. Brussels Short Film Festival
  3. April 29 - May 09, 2010
  4. run time 9 minutes 1 seconds

  A filipino immigrant girl who lives in Germany gets into a conflict between filipino tradition and european way of live. Caught between two stools she is a victim of her own roots. The untold tradition says, that the youngest daughter in a filipinos family has not the obligation to get married. She has to stay from cradle to death in her parents house to take care of her parents until they die.  (more)

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  Playtime (Playtime)

  1. A film by Steven Woloshen
  4. run time 2 minutes 44 seconds

  As a member of Canada’s Painters 11, the late Jock MacDonald painted in both worlds: figurative and the abstract. Playtime pays homage to his dedication, spirit and wonderful subject matter – both real and imaginary. In Cinemascope.  (more)

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  ELVIS AND MADONA (ELVIS E MADONA)

  1. A film by Marcelo Laffitte
  2. Melbourne Queer Film Festival
  3. March 17 - 28, 2010
  4. run time 105 minutes

  Elvis and Madona is a romantic comedy featuring a lesbian biker Elvis (Simone Spoladore) and a transvestite, Madona (Igor Cotrim), showing the trajectory of two characters who are chasing their dreams and life’s projects. Elvis, born 25 years ago as Elvira, is a beautiful and solitary woman. The rebel daughter of a traditional family from the countryside, Elvis is in Rio to pursue her dream...  (more)

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  Waiting room (Quarto de espera)

  1. A film by Davi Pretto
  4. run time 12 minutes 30 seconds

  A young man wearing a gas mask wanders through the deserted streets of a crumbling city. Only a few people - all male - still roam the streets and frequent the coffee shops. Their interaction is minimal and marked by sudden and unprovoked outbursts of violence. Everyone is seemingly waiting for an undisclosed something. It seems to be the next-to-last stop on a decadent ride.  (more)

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  STOLEN (STOLEN)

  1. A film by Violeta Ayala
  4. run time 78 minutes

  Australian based filmmakers Violeta Ayala and Dan Fallshaw go to the Polisario governed refugee camps in the Algerian desert to make a film about a family reunion. Everything changes when the black Saharawis start to talk about a forbidden subject...their freedom.  (more)

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