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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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  Passing Eyes (Yan Jing De Fong Si)

  1. A film by Chang Heng Ju
  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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  Charlie Thistle

  1. A film by Bragi Schut Jr.
  4. run time 14 minutes 32 seconds

  Charlie Thistle dreams of a better world. He dreams of a world in color, where animals speak and trees grow indoor. Unfortunately, Charlie works for the Department of Normality, where change isn't tolerated. But there comes a time in every man's life when he has to stand up for what he believes in, and Charlie's day is coming!  (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
  2. Aubagne International Film Festival
  3. March 21 - 26, 2011
  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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