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  random principle (Prinzip Zufall)

  1. A film by Romeo Grünfelder
  4. run time 25 minutes 32 seconds

  a paranormal experiment with a train set, designed by the psycho-physicist Dr. John Hagel.  (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 Notorious Road... (La Fameuse Route...)

  1. A film by Adolf El Assal
  4. run time 12 minutes 24 seconds

  Anything can happen on the notorious road...  (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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  Side Effects: Portrait of a young artist in Lahore

  1. A film by Mashhood Ahmed Sheikh
  4. run time 34 minutes

  Lahore is the second largest city of Pakistan with a population of more than 10 million. The city is famous for exquisite food, its rich culture, an education capital and the core of Pakistan's media and Arts scene. The film takes us deep into the life of a struggling young lower-middle class, Art student in Lahore.  (more)

  
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  Burma In Pieces (Burma In Pieces)

  1. A film by Arun Sharma
  4. run time 45 minutes

  Shot illegally and often covertly in Burma and Thailand over 2 years, Burma In Pieces is a poetic sound and visual metaphor of life under a military dictatorship, pieced together from 150 hours of original material, interviews and archive footage. Filmed on bustling city streets and in remote mountain villages, in trains and markets, guerrilla resistance compounds in the landmine infested Burmese...  (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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  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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  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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  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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  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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