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  Leap Before You Look

  1. A film by Stephane Goldsand
  4. run time 21 minutes 50 seconds

  Faced with his wife's desire to become a mother, a filmmaker goes on a quest to find out how people decide to have kids and identify the sources of his own hesitation. What emerges is an intimate story, peppered with humor and poignancy, where memories and present moments converge in an effort to redefine a couple's future. Leap Before You Look is a first-person short documentary that...  (more)

  
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  The Dark Side of Green (À sombra de um delírio verde)

  1. A film by Cristiano Navarro
  4. run time 29 minutes

  In the southern Mato Grosso do Sul, bordering Paraguay, an indigenous ethnic group with the largest population in Brazil silently fight for their territory to try to halt the advance of powerful enemies. Driven by the continuous process of colonization, more than 40,000 Guarani Kaiowá live today in less than 1% of their original territory. On their land are thousands of acres of sugar cane...  (more)

  
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  The Conquest of High Passes (Hemels Bewegen)

  1. A film by Wout Conijn
  4. run time 55 minutes

  How to act when you are in top shape mentally but the body doesn't respond that way? Bas, Roelof and Evert are physically handicapped. Nevertheless they embark on a 1000 km bike trip across the Himalayas. From Lhasa to Kathmandu conquering mountain passes over 5000 meters high what makes enormous physical and mental demands to the participants. Bas came into contact as a soldier with a high...  (more)

  
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  The Colours of Cultural Diversity (Kültürel Farklılığın Renkleri)

  1. A film by Annie G. Pertan & Esra G. Pertan
  4. run time 98 minutes

  Throughout the centuries of the three empires – the Roman, the Byzantine and the Ottoman and now the Turkish Republic; people of different faiths and beliefs have lived together in Istanbul creating a strong cultural heritage. The theme of the documentary is about this cultural heritage. We have interviewed members of the Rum, Armenian, Jewish, Roma, Levantine and Syriac Communities, sixteen...  (more)

  
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  TuTuMUCH

  1. A film by Merit Jensen Carr
  4. run time 83 minutes

  TuTuMUCH follows 9 young dancers behind-the-scenes where they plié and pirouette for coveted spots in an intensive 4 week professional ballet summer program. Leaving behind their families and friends, often for the first time, each girl confronts in her own way the painstaking and sometimes rewarding realities of actually living her dream. TuTuMUCH is a glimpse of how it feels to embark on a...  (more)

  
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  Rock'n'roll...Of Corse

  1. A film by Lionel Guedj
  4. run time 90 minutes

  Some people’s fates deserved to be known by everyone. Henry Padovani, this young 24-year old Corsican, who arrived in London in December 1976, is one of them. Actor and witness of a period when the alternative and revolutionary trend, the punk movement, arose, this self-taught guitar player went through the 80’s like a meteorite falling from nowhere. From The Police he founded with Stewart...  (more)

  
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  The Tijuana Project

  1. A film by John Sheedy
  4. run time 62 minutes

  The Tijuana Project is a documentary film about the people who pick through the trash at the Tijuana garbage dump for survival and the lives of six children who live next to this immense mountain for trash. The stories that the children bring to light cover a range of pressing global themes such as garbage management, recycling, health issues, drug abuse, education, and family. This film is...  (more)

  
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  WE ARE THE BAUEN (NOSOTROS DEL BAUEN)

  1. A film by Didier ZYSERMAN
  4. run time 95 minutes

  The Hotel Bauen was built in Buenos Aires in 1978, under the military dictatorship. In December 2001, while the country sinks into a deep economic crisis, it goes bankrupt; its employees are being made redundant. Left in disarray, about thirty ex-employees invest in the place in March 2003; They become the Bauen workers cooperative. They rehabilitate the hotel and open it for customers in...  (more)

  
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  The gentle drifting of a haitian child (La dérive douce d'un enfant de Petit-Goâve)

  1. A film by Pedro Ruiz
  4. run time 84 minutes

  The gentle drifting of a haitian child... A sense of form, the whirl of poetry, thinking that is deep and light all at the same time… work that was never meant to be contained. From Port-au-Prince to Paris by way of Montreal, New York and Saint-Malo, The gentle drifting of a haitian child introduces us to one of Quebec’s most charismatic writers and filmmakers, Dany Laferrière. The film...  (more)

  
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  Postcard To Daddy

  1. A film by Michael Stock
  4. run time 85 minutes 12 seconds

  As a child, Michael Stock was sexually abused – by his own father. 25 years later he is still looking for inner peace. In conversations with his family and friends and his own reflections, he paints an ever clearer, if contradictory picture of what happened and of the consequences for each of the family members. Old family films seem to show a happy family – excerpts from Michael’s first...  (more)

  
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  Water Drums, an ancestral encounter (Tambores de agua un encuentro ancestral)

  1. A film by Clarissa Duque
  4. run time 72 minutes

  “Water Drums, an ancestral encounter” is a documentary film that shows the strength of the African roots in the Venezuelan musical manifestations. The history of the Afro descendents Venezuelans is set up in the film when the central character finds the ‘water drums’ , a peculiar and stunning musical expression of the region of Barlovento.The aquatic chimes from the water drums will...  (more)

  
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  ON THE EDGE OF HISTORY - MAJOR DIMITRIS KASLAS

  1. A film by Kostas Anestis
  4. run time 52 minutes

  The life of an ordinary man begins along with the 20th century in Pouri, Mount Pelion and meets up with Greece’s contemporary history at key points. The “hidden” Epic of 1941 and the battle at Point 731 against the Italians’ spring attack led by Mussolini himself. Survivors’ tales and documents from Kaslas’ unique archive. The documentary chronicles the subsequent participation of...  (more)

  
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  Iranian Cookbook (Dastore Ashpazi )

  1. A film by Mohammad Shirvani
  4. run time 72 minutes

  Seven middle class housewives live in Tehran. What are they really talking about? Iranian food or Iranian life?  (more)

  
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  B1 (B1- Tenório em Pequim)

  1. A film by Felipe Braga
  4. run time 99 minutes

  Antonio Tenorio is a B1: he’s totally blind, and he carries on his judo kimono the red circle that symbolizes it. The documentary follows this professional judo player, one of the few in the world to compete both in Paralympic and regular championships, as he prepares himself to fight for a fourth Paralympic gold medal, in Beijing. Filmed in Brazil, France and China, “B1” narrates an...  (more)

  
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  Bhutto (Bhutto)

  1. A film by Duane Baughman
  4. run time 115 minutes

  Bhutto unfolds like a Greek tragedy with unsolved murders, political intrigue, family feuds, hijackings, poisonings — you name it. Her story had all the elements from triumph to tragedy. There is a reason why the Bhuttos are called the Kennedys of Pakistan. For the trailer visit the film's website at: http://www.bhuttothefilm.com/trailer.html More on the story at:...  (more)

  
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  THE CHAI-WAN MATCHUP (THE CHAI-WAN MATCHUP)

  1. A film by Chung Chuan
  4. run time 75 minutes

  In 2008, China hosted the Beijing Olympics and Taiwan held a presidential election. The sensitive issue of national identity conflict between the two sides of the strait was again instigated. Taiwanese documentary filmmaker Chung Chuan living in China for the last eight years, utilizes film art to connect Taiwanese at home, in Beijing, and in New York. What Taiwanese show as fervent love for...  (more)

  
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  Africa Light / Gray Zone (Africa Light / Gray Zone)

  1. A film by Tino Schwanemann
  4. run time 13 minutes

  Africa is full of nature’s colors. A colorful experience! The social, political and economical problems of the continent, however, are unsaturated. Neither black nor white, but endless gray. “Africa Light” – as white local citizens call Namibia. The name suggests romance, the beauty of nature and promises a life without any problems in a country where the difference between rich and...  (more)

  
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  Ghosts

  1. A film by Morvary Samaré
  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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  Everyday But Sunday

  1. A film by Rosa Russo
  4. run time 17 minutes 30 seconds

  Hiwot Beyene is 12 years old and dreams of becom-ing a doctor. She lives in a small Ethiopian village with her parents and brothers in a two-room hut. Every morning she takes the 1.5 hour walk to school to learn about farming, hygiene and health. After school, Hiwot spends hours on household chores till the evening, when she steals an hour to do her homework.  (more)

  
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  Mama, to Life! (Mama, L'Chaim!)

  1. A film by Elkan Spiller
  4. run time 5 minutes 15 seconds

  Mama, L’Chaim! portrays the life of 63 year old Chaim, who lives together with his 96 year old mother, a concentration camp survivor, in an Jewish elderly home in Antwerpen. They are both lively and funny characters, we follow the pain of the Holocaust and laughter of their everyday existence as, with faith and humour, they keep going, never giving up hope. From a drug dealer, Hippy,...  (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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  MAWLA'S WEDDING (LA BODA DE MAWLA)

  1. A film by ZOLTAN ENEVOLD
  4. run time 52 minutes 42 seconds

  Mawla, a young man from Bangladesh living in Madrid (Spain), dreams of having a family. After seven years he decides to go back to his country for the first time in order to find a bride and get married.  (more)

  
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  Conspiracy (Sammensvergelse)

  1. A film by Peter Piotr Kuzinski
  4. run time 10 minutes 38 seconds

  Helene lives together with her paranoid brother Christian. He refuses to take medicines and believes there is poisonous gas coming into the apartment. A film on force medication, paranoia and relationship between a patient and the kinfolk.  (more)

  
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  Not Reconciled

  1. A film by Jill Daniels
  4. run time 41 minutes

  During the Spanish civil war and its aftermath, thousands of people were executed and thrown into mass unmarked graves. Today people in Spain are beginning to face up to a past that has remained for 70 years an uneasy alliance of a determination to forget. In Not Reconciled, historic accounts of the civil war and Franco’s regime, novels, diaries of republican and fascist fighters, are...  (more)

  
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  Bittersweet Waters (Eaux douces, eaux amères)

  1. A film by Nicolas Ploumpidis
  4. run time 53 minutes

  “Nowadays people just don’t appreciate how important water is. People should save water even more than they save money. We can’t create rain. If we waste water, there will be none left.” Tamil Selvan, farmer of Cuddalore district, Tamil Nadu. Two small villages in southern India now desperately trying to cope with dwindling water resources- from this very grass root level,...  (more)

  
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  How they Dance (Hvordan de Danser)

  1. A film by Jesper Ravn
  4. run time 5 minutes 26 seconds

  How They Dance is a documentary about ordinary people who love to dance. The film is a funny and unconventional portrait of these people.  (more)

  
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  Resonances (Oddzwiek)

  1. A film by Marc Recchia
  4. run time 26 minutes 4 seconds

  In Lodz, Anna alternates between several half-day shifts as an organist, singer and painter. She always wanted to become a nun but it turned out differently. What were her reasons to radically change her life and which questions is she asking herself today? Through her personal stories we discover her singular life-path. Slowly the film sketches the pursuit of liberty of a longing feminist in...  (more)

  
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  Chasing Che (Dar Radepayeh Che)

  1. A film by Alireza Rofougaran
  4. run time 78 minutes

  Chasing Che is the account of a four-year odyssey in which an Iranian businessman, Alireza Rofougaran, switches the course of his life. Inspired by a biography of Che Guevara, which he reads and then translates into Farsi, Alireza embarks on a long odyssey through Latin America and Europe, home movie camera in hand. His mission: to retrace Che's footsteps. In an effort to gain a greater personal...  (more)

  
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  The Death of the Gazelle (La mort de la gazelle)

  1. A film by Jeremie Reichenbach
  4. run time 45 minutes

  In the North of Niger, somewhere in the borders of Sahara, men are ready to the war. Under the threat of an invisible enemy, isolated by the world, they live looking forward to the fight.  (more)

  

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