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Lourdes - Trailer
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Jessica Hausner • 2009 • Austria • Lourdes unsettles epistemologies about the occurrence of miracles
Charting a course of ambiguity between faith and doubt, Lourdes unsettles epistemologies regarding the occurrence of miracles.
Christine is afflicted by multiple sclerosis and thus c...
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Love, Cecil - Trailer
Lisa Immordino Vreeland • United States • 2017 • A stirring portrait of queer icon Cecil Beaton.
Cecil Beaton was an incandescent talent. Born to a well-to-do British family, Beaton charmed his way into the upper echelons of the elite, learning to photograph on his nanny’s camera before embarki...
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Manufactured Lanscapes - Trailer
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Jennifer Baichwal • Canada • 2006 • A nuanced picture of the ecological toll of the way we live now.
Photographer Edward Burtynsky has won international accolades for his large-scale photographs of 'manufactured landscapes'—sites of industrial waste and ruin. In an ethically ambival...
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Miele (Honey) - Trailer
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Valeria Golino • 2013 • Italy
Explores assisted suicide, a practice that remains illegal in Italy.
Irene lives in a small town along the Tyrrhenian Sea. While her friends and family believe she is student, Irene freelances as a clandestine euthanasia consultant. Using the profess...
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Monk With a Camera - Trailer
// Presented as part of April's Docs in Focus II Series //
Guido Santi & Tina Mascara / 2014, Ashland Independent, Cleveland, Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Hot Docs, IDFA - Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival, Palm Springs, ReFrame Film Festival, Sedona / 91'
Nicholas Vree...
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My Wonderful Wanda - Trailer
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Bettina Oberli • Switzerland, Germany • 2020 • A delightful satire of the haves and the have-nots.
Wanda left two young sons with her parents in Warsaw to travel to Switzerland in search of gainful employment. Here she labors as an in-home caregiver, tending to Josef, a wealthy indus...
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Never Gonna Snow Again - Trailer
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Małgorzata Szumowska & Michał Englert • Poland • 2020
Zhenia arrives from the East with barely a suitcase, a folding massage bed draped over his shoulder. Navigating a series of highway underpasses to the Polish immigration office, he declares his intention to stay. Zhenia may or m...
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Nuit #1 - Trailer
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Anne Émond • 2011 • Canada • Two lovers share their deepest secrets over the course of one night.
Shot in bracing, intimate detail, and replete with philosophical musings, Nuit #1 reveals two characters adrift at the threshold of adulthood. Anne Émond's feature film debut premiered...
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Pop Aye - Trailer
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Kirsten Tan • 2016 • Thailand-Singapore • A retired architect journeys home with an elephant in tow.
Kirsten Tan's debut posits an unlikely friendship as a man and an elephant journey to Thailand's Isan province.
Thana is a middle-aged architect living in Bangkok. While professiona...
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Putin's Kiss - Trailer
Lise Birk Pedersen • Denmark, U.S. • 2011
Before Nashi, teenage Masha had a pretty average middle-class life in Russia. At 16 she joined the democratic, anti-fascist and anti-oligarch-capitalist political youth movement, working her way up to leadership roles and eventually becoming the host of...
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Red Road
Andrea Arnold • UK • 2006 • Jackie notices a man from her past monitoring CCTV cameras.
Jackie lives alone, monitoring CCTV cameras in a high-rise housing complex in Glasgow's northern periphery. She engages from time to time in an affair with a married man, but her life is otherwise uneventful....
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Salt of This Sea - Trailer
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Annemarie Jacir • Palestine • 2008 • A portrait of a woman's determination to reclaim her birthright.
Sixty years after her grandparents' exile from Jaffa, Soraya feels something is not right. Departing Brooklyn for a homeland she has never known, she is greeted instead with suspici...
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Seeds of Time - Trailer
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Sandy McLeod • USA • 2015 • Building seed banks that will stand the test of time.
Agriculturist Cary Fowler, director of Global Crop Diversity Trust and co-founder of Norway's Svalbard Global Seed Vault, has spent his life's work seeking to safeguard biodiversity. Since humans evolv...
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Sister - Trailer
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Ursula Meier • 2012 • Switzerland • A ski resort drama with a powerful performance by Léa Seydoux.
At the very edge of adolescence, Simon lives with his sister Louise in a Swiss valley beneath a large mountain range. Each day he makes the commute to a luxury ski resort at altitude, ...
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Sweet Bean - Trailer
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Naomi Kawase • 2015 • Japan • A heart-warming tale of food and friendship in contemporary Japan.
Sentaro runs a small bakery on the corner of a tree-lined street. Tokue is a seventy-six year old woman skilled in the art of preparing an, a traditional red bean paste in dorayaki. The...
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The Cave of the Yellow Dog - Trailer
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Byambasuren Davaa • Mongolia-Germany • 2005
Nansal is the eldest daughter of a nomadic family. One the way home from school one day, she happens upon a black and white puppy, naming him Zochor (Spot). Her father immediately refuses to allow the dog to stay, however, fearing that it...
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The Chambermaid - Trailer
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Lila Avilés • Mexico • 2018 • Eve labors invisibly while evoking the restlessness of her own dreams.
Eve works as a chambermaid at a luxurious hotel in Mexico City. Steeped in architectural splendor and sumptuous textures of privilege, Eve's surroundings are privvy to others, not her...
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The Divine Order - Trailer
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The Land of Azaba - Trailer
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Greta Schiller • USA • 2020 • A radical experiment of ecological restoration.
The Campanarios de Azaba Nature Reserve in Spain is one of the largest remaining tracts of wild nature in western Europe. Over the past centuries, it has fallen victim to exploitation—in the forms of hunti...
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The Messenger - Trailer
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Su Rynard • Canada, France, Costa Rica, Germany, Netherlands, Turkey, United States • 2015
An encompassing vision of the lives of songbirds and their integral role in wider ecosystems.
For thousands of years, songbirds have been regarded as spiritual creatures, a link between the fi...
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The Tree - Trailer
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Julie Bertuccelli • France • 2010 • The restorative power of nature in the face of loss.
Dawn and Peter live with their four children in the idyllic outskirts of Brisbane, Australia. Bathed in sunshine dappled by a glorious Moreton Bay fig tree, their life consists of resplendent m...
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The Woman Who Loves Giraffes - Trailer
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Alison Reid • Canada • 2018 • A paean to a long-overlooked pioneer of giraffe conservation.
In 1956, then 23-year-old Anne Innis Dagg traveled to South Africa to observe giraffes in the wild. Apart from an isolated study of red deer in Scotland, Dagg's journey was the first of its k...
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Touch Me Not - Trailer
// Presented as part of April's Docs in Focus II Series //
Adina Pintilie / 2018, Berlin, Bergen, BFI London, CPH:PIX, DOK Leipzig, FICUNAM, FNC - Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Göteborg, Helsinki, IDFA - Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival, Istanbul, Jerusalem, Karlovy Vary, Moscow,...
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Trouble the Water - Trailer
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Carl Deal & Tia Lessen • 2008 • USA • An African-American couple fights to survive Hurricane Katrina
Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine producers Carl Deal and Tia Lessen illuminate the racial politics of environmental crisis vis-à-vis a young couple's battle to survive Hurric...