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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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  Havana

  1. A film by Estabuan Rodriguez
  2. International Student Media Festival
  3. October 29 - 31, 2009
  4. run time 26 minutes

  Cuban family trys to flee Cuba because of the way things are being governed by Vidal Castro. Vidal sends his soldiers to kill a revolutionist (the main Character)who ends up killing two soldiers before trying to take his family to America.  (more)

  
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  Passing Eyes (Yan Jing De Fong Si)

  1. A film by Chang Heng Ju
  2. Durban International Film Festival
  3. July 22 - August 02, 2009
  4. run time 16 minutes 40 seconds

  From now on, what I have is a brand-new face, so do I look as attractive as... Taipei City to where I look forward most ? Pheiphei walks out of a cosmetic surgery clinic with a pair of sunglasses on her eyes. Through the dark glasses, the city at dusk looks just as dark. She calls her cousin, who promised to pick her up but apologizes for not being able to get off duty for another 2 or 3...  (more)

  
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  The Threat (LA MINACCIA)

  1. A film by Luca Bellino
  4. run time 86 minutes 1 seconds

  “Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution are the greatest threat since the time of the Soviet Union and communism”. Doctrine for Asymmetric War Against Venezuela, U.S. Army, 2006 This is the starting point for a journey across the country which gave rise to the “red wave” in Latin America. Does Venezuela represent the dream of a new socialist society or is it just another distortion...  (more)

  
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  The Province of Lost Film

  1. A film by Thomas Lahusen
  4. run time 47 minutes

  “Cinema Paradiso Soviet style,” The Province of Lost Film is about the magic and nostalgia of watching film collectively: in a movie house; a workers’ club; or at night, on an improvised screen hung in the village square. Employees of the former distribution and exhibition network, projectionists, and viewers from central Russia reflect upon the unique and already bygone experience of the...  (more)

  
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  This is Not a Love Story

  1. A film by Alexandra Lemay
  4. run time 11 minutes 11 seconds

  Driven by his infatuations, a young man demonstrates the conundrums of relationships by gambling with the game of seduction.  (more)

  
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  Being Frank

  1. A film by Jacob Pedersen
  2. Sheffield Doc/Fest
  3. November 04 - 08, 2009
  4. run time 30 minutes

  ‘Iraq has got weapons of mass destruction. That is not something we think. We know it!’- Danish Prime Minister - Anders Fogh Rasmussen, 21. March 2003 Danish whistleblower, former Military Intelligence Officer Frank Grevil, faces imprisonment, public shame and the destruction of his family after exposing his government’s doubts on the Iraqi weapons program. A devastating critique on the...  (more)

  
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  Blue Gold: World Water Wars

  1. A film by Sam Bozzo
  2. Planet in Focus Toronto Environmental Film and Video Festival
  3. October 21 - 25, 2009
  4. run time 89 minutes 45 seconds

  Wars of the future will be fought over water, as they today over oil, as the source of all life enters the global marketplace and political arena. Corporate giants, private investors, and corrupt governments vie for control of our dwindling fresh water supply, prompting protests, lawsuits, and revolutions from citizens fighting for the right to survive. Past civilizations have collapsed from poor...  (more)

  
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  Flowers of Rwanda (Flores de Ruanda)

  1. A film by David Munoz
  2. Planet in Focus Toronto Environmental Film and Video Festival
  3. October 21 - 25, 2009
  4. run time 24 minutes

  Rwanda. 14 years after the genocide that took away the lives of more than 800.000 people. What's the current situation of the country? What feelings prevail in the hearts of the victims? Can victims and killers live together? What's the importance of education in a society that has lived through a genocide? Can a Film Festival make a difference?. May a genocide happen again in Rwanda? Who should...  (more)

  
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  The Last American Freak Show

  1. A film by Richard Butchins
  4. run time 85 minutes

  Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the last American Freak Show. Careering across America in a ramshackle old school bus, run on stolen vegetable oil, and piloted by Lowrent the Clown. Samantha X and Dylan have started their own show, staring such self-defined freaks as The Lobster Girl, The Half Woman, Dame Demure, and The Elephant Man. This motley crew of outsiders are resurrecting the dying art...  (more)

  
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  Pensil

  1. A film by M.Subash
  4. run time 110 minutes

  A heart-breaking look at physically disabled Indian orphan Badrul (M.Subash), who leads a hard life as he is mistreated by his stepmother Mon (Maimon Mutalib) and step-aunt Zaitun (Khatijah Tan). Despite his disabilities, Badrul is independent and earns his living by selling keropok and porridge. He still loves his stepmother unconditionally even though she verbally and physically abuses...  (more)

  
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  Cycle of Change - Beijing, my old home (Cycle of Change - Peking, mein altes zuhause)

  1. A film by Enno Ladwig
  4. run time 26 minutes

  I have lived in Beijing during four of my teenage years. As I return 15 years later, I find a totally changed city. In my search for the old Beijing of my childhood I find the new rhythm of this fast-changing metropolis, preparing for Olympia. Old video-recordings mix with images of a modern Beijing, constructing a personal portrait of a city that I still feel at home in.  (more)

  
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  A Desire Obtained (Ichchepuron)

  1. A film by Balaram Neogi
  4. run time 5 minutes

  Bengali telefilm(5mins) directed by Balaram Neogi. Story about a lonely childless couple who adopts a dog. Ultimately the dog win their hearts and takes the place of their child.  (more)

  
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  Everybody Present! (Allar mættar!)

  1. A film by Anna Dís Ólafsdóttir
  2. Reykjavik International Film Festival
  3. September 17 - 27, 2009
  4. run time 39 minutes

  A documentary on a group of Icelandic women who have met up twice a week during the last half a century, performing creative dance together in Iceland and abroad. The group is put together by women from all walks of life, showing their friendship and support for each other. This amazing group is still performing together today. In this documentary the women also reflect on how times have changed...  (more)

  
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  Unbroken (Ungebrochen)

  1. A film by Jolanka Hoehn
  2. Hamptons International Film Festival
  3. October 08 - 12, 2009
  4. run time 6 minutes 5 seconds

  Wolfgang, in his fifties now, grew up in the former GDR. He studied external trade in Berlin and after his diploma worked for 17 years at TechnoCommerz, a company specialised in machine trade for the delivery industry. With the fall of the wall, he has to change professions and becomes an insurance salesman. First employed with a German insurance firm, then he starts his own company and manages...  (more)

  
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  The Cascade and its Dust (Staubkaskade)

  1. A film by Stefan Pautze
  4. run time 4 minutes 35 seconds

  In fact, fractals are nothing new. As colorful illustrations they hav been appearing in media for many years. But there is more behind this. Fractals provide the mathematical tool set to describe complex structures including coastlines, clouds, mountains, plants, vascular systems,growth processes, stock-exchange prices or the distribution of matter in outer space. From there it is just a little...  (more)

  
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  Another Planet (Másik bolygó)

  1. A film by Ferenc Moldoványi
  4. run time 95 minutes

  "Words lose their meaning. And the green sea and the blue sky lose their colour, painted as they were by the algae that kindly wafted oxygen during 3,000 million years. Are these little night-lights spying on us? The stars shake with astonishment and fear. They are at a loss to understand how this world of ours, so ardently bent upon its own annihilation, goes on being alive." Eduardo...  (more)

  
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  Over My Dad's Body (Kosot Ru'ach Le'Aba)

  1. A film by Taliya Finkel
  4. run time 70 minutes

  A documentary thriller. When Taliya was young, she never knew for sure whether her uncle was a KGB agent in disguise or a true member of the family. Her father claimed that his brother had been murdered in a Ukrainian prison and substituted by an imposter from the KGB, forced on the family by the old soviet regime. Her father presented his claims in a way that made his family believe this...  (more)

  
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  Fatherhood Dreams

  1. A film by Boris Ivanov
  4. run time 55 minutes

  In this heartfelt documentary, four gay men explore different options to attain their Fatherhood Dreams – Randy and Drew turn to adoption, Stephen co-parented his two daughters with a lesbian couple, and Scott prepares for the arrival of his twins through surrogacy  (more)

  
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  Considering Democracy: 8 Things to Ask Your Representative

  1. A film by Keya Lea Horiuchi
  4. run time 57 minutes 40 seconds

  While the U.S. is the most flaunted democracy in the world, how do we compare, and what does the rest of the world think of U.S. domestic and foreign policy? Americans are continually told through their media that freedom and democracy are being given to people abroad, but is it true?The documentary looks at seemingly different topics and creates a tapestry of tantalizing information that...  (more)

  
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  Behave (Juízo)

  1. A film by Maria Ramos
  4. run time 90 minutes

  JUIZO (BEHAVE) follows the process of minors (less than 18) who have fallen into the hands of the Brazilian legal system. Boys and girls from underprivileged backgrounds faced with crime, ruling, and sentences handed down for theft, drug trafficking, and even murder. Due to legal constraints about revealing the true identity of the minors charged, the accused adolescents were substituted with...  (more)

  
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  Tony Zear (Tony Zoreil)

  1. A film by Valentin Potier
  4. run time 19 minutes 30 seconds

  Tony is a 28 year-old single who inherited from an remarkable physical particularity. He has like the rest of his family very big ears and suffers from an extreme sensitivity to the slightest noise.  (more)

  
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  a disappearance foretold (dans les décombres)

  1. A film by olivier meys
  4. run time 85 minutes 1 seconds

  “Qianmen” is a popular neighbourhood in the very heart of Beijing, just south of the Tiananmen Square. In the perspective of the 2008 Olympic games, the city decided that the six hundred years old neighbourhood has to be “rehabilitated”. It is now in the line of fire of the promoters, and the 80000 people living there are facing drastic (and dramatic) changes.  (more)

  
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  Of Shadows and Men (Les ombres de Yunmeng)

  1. A film by Aurélien Foucault
  4. run time 22 minutes 11 seconds

  In Yunmeng, a rural city in the Hubei Province, there’s a theater, a teahouse where old men gather amongst the shadows of the past, drinking tea and playing cards. There, an ancient art takes place and brings magic back into everyday life.But China’s growth towards a new century brings up a few questions…  (more)

  
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  Anne and the Reverend (Anne et le Révérend)

  1. A film by Francois Uzan
  4. run time 49 minutes

  Anne and the Reverend tells the story of Makoto Otsuka, a reverend from Hiroshima, who met Anne Frank's father 30 years ago and, since then, transmits the memory of the Holocaust to Japanese children. Through the portrayal of this moving man, a surprising Japan, searching for its own memory, unveils itself.  (more)

  
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  My own 1000 square meters

  1. A film by Atousa Bandeh Ghiasabadi
  4. run time 14 minutes 5 seconds

  Een Iraanse vrouw besluit, na 17 jaar in Nederland gewoond te hebben, om terug te gaan naar haar thuisland met de droom een stuk grond te kopen. Langzaamaan ontdekt ze dat haar droom minder gemakkelijk te realiseren is dan zij had gedacht.  (more)

  
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  how i am (wie ich bin)

  1. A film by Ingrid demetz
  4. run time 49 minutes

  "I’m like a hermit on an island." This is what Patrick writes about his life as an autistic who lives caught in his own body. With the wisdom of a thinker and the dreams and fears of a teenager, Patrick takes us on a trip into his world and allows us a glimpse of his inner feelings.  (more)

  
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  A Long Day ('Na sciurnata longa)

  1. A film by Anna Bianco
  4. run time 17 minutes 40 seconds

  Giuseppina feels that her days never end. She lives alone in her flat with her habits, her daily tasks that her age makes longer and more fatiguing with every day that goes by, and the glimpses of life seen through the window. Against this existence, with its so few happenings, Giuseppina has her liveliness and the wealth of her interior world.  (more)

  
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  Mirror Mirror

  1. A film by John Winter
  4. run time 10 minutes 29 seconds

  The story of an elderly crossdresser... After so many years together, Joe faces life without Jana. Saying goodbye to yourself is never easy.  (more)

  
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  Nature's Beauty (Water is Life)

  1. A film by Saroj Khan
  4. run time 13 minutes 40 seconds

  Scene taken from Chawkkalmi village under Bargahchali Mouza of West Bengal where village is surrounded by water and dry land is very rare where water is all as because it has necessity of ferrying by small boats and castles by villagers and peoples are used to fishing and hands to mouth by fishing as it is their profession.  (more)

  
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  Rapping with Shakespeare

  1. A film by Michael King
  4. run time 83 minutes

  RAPPING WITH SHAKESPEARE is a modern day hip-hop version of Shakespeare’s tales that explores the lives of five South Central Los Angeles’ teenagers attending Crenshaw High School. The student’s personal stories subtly parallel Shakespeare’s archetypal characters. Also, the documentary examines how a popular English teacher, Andy Molnar uses the students’ popular culture, hip-hop/rap to...  (more)

  
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  River Ways

  1. A film by Colin Stryker
  4. run time 85 minutes

  “River Ways” explores the lives of regular working people affected by the issue of whether to remove four dams on the Snake River in Eastern Washington. Environmental groups and fishing interests criticize the dams for their negative impact on salmon populations, but agricultural communities dependent on the dams oppose efforts to remove them. Combining interviews with careful everyday...  (more)

  
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  1000 Journals

  1. A film by Andrea Kreuzhage
  4. run time 88 minutes

  1000 blank journals are passed from hand to hand throughout the world, collecting stories, pictures, collages -- slices of the lives they touch. One came back, filled. Where are the other 999? 1000 Journals investigates their worldwide journeys, and chronicles the self-governed collaboration of thousands of random people who added to this global "message in a bottle."  (more)

  
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  Word on the Str33t

  1. A film by Shekinah Apedo
  4. run time 66 minutes

  WORD ON THE STR33T" is a feature-length documentary that investigates the legitimacy of Christian Hip-Hop as a tool for ministry or as another genre of music aimed at acquiring profits. The investigation examines the history and growth of this movement in the United States through interviews from the industry's pioneering rappers. Further investigation on the topic covers the status of Christian...  (more)

  
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  They Turned Our Desert Into Fire

  1. A film by Mark Brecke
  4. run time 88 minutes 42 seconds

  Mark Brecke's They Turned Our Desert Into Fire tells the story of the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Darfur, Sudan, through the perspectives of Amtrak passengers during a three-day, cross-country train trip. In dramatic contrast to the benign American landscape outside the train, Mark's photographic images of desolation, death, and human suffering in the burned out villages of Darfur and refugee...  (more)

  
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  From The 50 Yard Line

  1. A film by Doug Lantz
  4. run time 98 minutes

  The documentary tells the emotional marching band story more up-close and personal than ever before. Travel on adventures through the audition process, practices, band camp, the marching season, and 2006 competitions. See the life-changing effects for these exceptional students and consider the ramifications when music programs are cut. Learn about the substantial rewards of disciplined practice,...  (more)

  
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  Games of the European Countries (ΤΑ ΠΑΙΧΝΙΔΙΑ ΤΩΝ ΚΡΑΤΩΝ ΤΗΣ ΕΥΡΩΠΣΗ)

  1. A film by Gregory Zorzos
  4. run time 47 minutes 4 seconds

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  Playing Between Elephants (Di Antara Gajah-gajah)

  1. A film by Aryo Danusiri
  4. run time 90 minutes

  There is an Indonesian saying that when the elephants are locked in a fight, the mousedeer would die in the middle. But in this documentary, the mousedeer does not die - instead, it manages to play between them and get what it wants. This film documents a post-tsunami and post-conflict Aceh, where an international body that is assigned to build houses, while an Acehnese village chief leads his...  (more)

  
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  Every Step You Take (Every Step You Take)

  1. A film by Nino Leitner
  4. run time 65 minutes

  With an estimated four million surveillance cameras, Britain is by far the most-watched nation on earth. How could this come about in George Orwell's mother country? Why haven't other nations copied the schemes if they really are as successful as the Home Office is saying? Is there a real effect in crime reduction or has CCTV only been introduced for the people's 'peace of mind'?Trying to answer...  (more)

  
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  Rock 'n Tokyo (Rock 'n Tokyo)

  1. A film by Pamela Valente
  4. run time 90 minutes

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  Naked on the Inside

  1. A film by Kim Farrant
  4. run time 81 minutes

  naked on the inside comes at a time when the Western world has never been more obsessed with body image. This unnerving feature-length documentary asks a simple, but audacious, question: Beyond our clothes and skin, who are we?In Taiwan, a female Sunday school teacher lives a covert life as a man. On the streets of East LA, the gangland tattoos of a convicted killer brand him to his past,...  (more)

  
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  Ilya and Marusya (Иля + Маруся)

  1. A film by Vladimir Nepevny
  4. run time 39 minutes

  At the core of this poetically edited assemblage are the love letters between the writer Ilya Ilf (1897-1937) and his wife, Maria Tasarenko (Marusya), recently published by their daughter, Alexandra. The film uses beautiful, historic black and white footage, scenes from Russian film history, superbly chosen background music, as well as countless photographs made by Ilya Ilf himself, to bring to...  (more)

  
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  4 Elements

  1. A film by Jiska Rickels
  4. run time 89 minutes

  4 Elements consists of four chapters that each show the struggle of mankind with the different elements. FIRE shows the ‘smokejumpers’ of Siberia that control the fire but also shows how they paradoxically make a fire in the base camp to cook their dinner. WATER tells the story of the Kingcrabfishers in Alaska and shows the men during the season of four days and nights. In EARTH two...  (more)

  
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  Indestructible

  1. A film by Ben Byer
  4. run time 117 minutes

  When 31 year-old Ben Byer is diagnosed with ALS, a fatal neurodegenerative disease, he begins documenting his life on camera. What begins as a series of video diaries grows into a three-year journey that takes him around the world looking for answers, and maybe even a cure.  (more)

  
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  Monster Camp

  1. A film by Cullen Hoback
  4. run time 78 minutes

  A rare and fascinating glimpse into a real-life version of World of Warcraft where gamer stereotypes are simultaneously shattered and confirmed. For 48 consecutive hours-- there are no breaks, not even for sleep -- immerse yourself in a world completely unlike our own. A world built upon fantasy, chivalry, and imagination; a place where you can be anything, dress however, have almost any power,...  (more)

  
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  Village People Radio Show (Apa Khabar Orang Kampung)

  1. A film by Amir Muhammad
  4. run time 72 minutes

  In the propaganda war against the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM), much was made of the fact that the party comprised ethnic Chinese who adopted an atheistic political philosophy. This tactic proved effective as the country was mainly Malay and Muslim. However, a large and influential division of the CPM comprised Malay-Muslims. This documentary is a portrait of life in a tranquil South Thailand...  (more)

  
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  Scott Walker: 30 Century Man

  1. A film by Stephen Kijak
  4. run time 95 minutes

  Scott Walker: 30 Century Man is a rare glimpse into the creative world of the most enigmatic figure in rock history, and will trace the undeniable impact he has had on popular music through casual interviews with some of his biggest, highest profile fans. We explore his fascinating trajectory, from jobbing bass player on LA’s Sunset Strip, to his domination of the British pop scene that...  (more)

  
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  Two Homelands, Cuba and the Night (Dos Patrias, Cuba y la noche)

  1. A film by Christian Liffers
  4. run time 84 minutes

  ”Life for gay men in Cuba is explored via six protags in novice helmer Christian Liffers' handsome "Two Homelands. Cuba and the Night." Nicely structured without being rigidly tied down, docu steers clear of colonialist patronizing or prurient exploitation, aiming instead for a more nuanced view of the Cuban character and gay life under Castro's homophobic rule. Respectful p.o.v. may leave...  (more)

  
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  Music Is My Life, Politics My Mistress

  1. A film by donnie l. betts
  4. run time 110 minutes

  A powerful and gripping portrait of the remarkable artistry and life of poet, singer, playwright, composer and social activist Oscar Brown Jr. A playful and charismatic performer, Brown is also an acclaimed jazz lyricist who worked closely with Abbey Lincoln and Nina Simone and collaborated with Max Roach and Bobby Timmons on some of the most memorable compositions of the hard bop era. Beyond...  (more)

  
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  Hell on Wheels

  1. A film by Bob Ray & Werner Campbell
  4. run time 90 minutes

  Hell on Wheels is the ass kicking documentary film telling the story of a group of Texas women who band together to resurrect roller derby for the 21st century. Emerging from the Austin music and arts scene, these women create a rock and roll fueled version of all-girl roller derby that has spawned the derby craze that's sweeping the nation. Hell on Wheels is the birth of the rollergirl...  (more)

  
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  Darkbeat

  1. A film by Iris B. Cegarra
  4. run time 60 minutes

  Darkbeat An Electro World Voyage is a documentary on the Electro music experience told by artists from the oldschool to the new school. The film aims to recognize this form of music and expose the passion it takes by the artists, D.J.’s and small communities around the world to create and preserve it. This documentary expands on the past, present and future uses of technology and its...  (more)

  
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  Kamp Katrina

  1. A film by Ashley Sabin and David Redmon
  4. run time 74 minutes

  Ms. Pearl — a New Orleans native — converts her backyard into a tent city where 14 displaced people live for 6 months. She provides construction jobs and basic resources to help them assist in rebuilding the city. The situation gradually goes violently awry and she is confronted with an array of abuses amidst a broken city. Kamp Katrina is a verité documentary set in post-Katrina New...  (more)

  
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  Queens of Sound- A Herstory of Reggae and Dancehall

  1. A film by Sandra Krampelhuber
  4. run time 74 minutes

  For the first time the feature length documentary film "QUEENS OF SOUND – A Herstory of Reggae and Dancehall" explores the long neglected female side of Reggae and Dancehall music in Jamaica. Three generations of women in the Jamaican music business tell us about their role in past and present, their first steps into the career, their struggle for acceptance in a male-dominated business, their...  (more)

  
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  Quilombo Country

  1. A film by Leonard Abrams
  4. run time 73 minutes

  Brazil, once the world's largest slave colony, was a brutal and deadly place for millions of Africans. But many thousands escaped or rebelled, creating their own communities in Brazil's untamed hinterland. Today they navigate the hazards of the modern world. “Quilombo Country” (“Quilombo” is an Angolan word meaning “encampment”), which ranges from the Northeastern sugar-growing...  (more)

  
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  Soufre

  1. A film by Florian Geyer
  4. run time 40 minutes

  A day in the life of a sulfur miner on the island of Java. Twice daily, he carries out the woven baskets containing the 80 kilograms of sulfur he has dug with his bare hands. At night, he does it by torchlight. He delivers his load by foot, picking his way among the rocks on the Green Crater, breathing the highly toxic hydrochloric and sulfuric fumes of the still active volcano. The film is...  (more)

  

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