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This film portrays the daily life and action on a handball court called "West Fourth," in the heart of the world: th... more
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The Civil War may be long over but the spirit of rebellion is hard to extinguish, even in something as innocent as a girls' summer camp. "Southern Belle" examines the 186... more
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Out of love for her newly adopted country, Sibel Edmonds agreed to join the FBI as a translator in the wake of 9/11. But the world of this young Turkish-American soon gets turned upside down. Sibel reports to her supervisors that one of her colleagues is secretly working for Turkish targets of top secret FBI investigations. As a "reward" for her whistle blowing, Sibel is fired from the FBI. Today she is fighting for the very ideals on which American democracy relies, and is facing, agains... more

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Does everybody have the right to be beautiful? Miss Landmine is an art project that raises awareness of landmine issues and challenges traditional perceptions of disabled people. On the heels of a successful event in Africa, theater director Morten Traavik has now turned to Cambodia for the next edition of his controversial beauty pageant for landmine survivors. Faced with cries of sexism, exploitation, and a conservative Buddhist culture, Traavik seeks out new expressions of beauty in an increasingl... more

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The film "Don't let the Dream Die" is a documentary about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his contribution to the American Civil Rights Movement.

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How does the brains of the Soviet regime, an academician, the father of the hydrogen bomb, an outstanding intellectual for whom even in the Kremlin, all doors were open become an irreconcilable champion of human rights, prisoners of conscience, and an internationally renowned enemy of this system? The film "My Husband Andrey Sakharov" answers this question in an intriguing yet subdued, even intimate form: by presenting the views of witnesses to those times and Sakharov’s colleagues. His widow Yelen... more

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"Foreigners" is an animated documentary about foreigners who live in London. Based on interviews with ten young people from all over the world who live in the city, the film pieces together vignettes from multiple points of view that reveal London as an international metropolis that is both exciting and alienating. The interviews suggest a fresh look at contemporary English culture, and raise more fundamental questions about cultural differences and human nature.

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"Memories of Rain" tells the story of Jenny C. and Kevin Q., two South Africans, her from the white world, he from the Black, who fought as commanders in the intelligence service of the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC) against the apartheid government. The film is not a historical study of the armed struggle of the ANC but the story of two people’s personal experiences, of how they grew up and became involved in the underground, of their goals and ideals, and of the struggle t... more

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"Verse Code" reveals the power of the word and the new ways of urban expression through the main representatives of Spanish hip-hop MCs. Top-notch artists such as Frank T, El Langui, Arianna Pueyo, Kamikaze, Juaninacka, VKR, Tremendo Menda, Rafa Lechowsky, and Falsalarma, among others, will take part in Verse Code. Led by a university professor and a professor of poetry, the documentary explores the origin of social rap and draws comparisons between present MCs and poets of other eras to demonstrat... more

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When xenophobic attacks broke out across South Africa in 2008, many were caught off guard, shocked by violence that felt like a violation of the principles of their newl...more
 
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Perhaps the most ground-breaking discovery in the history of medicine was the development of penicillin, a substance that, upon its discovery, was called a true miracl...more
 
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Ukraine is a poverty-stricken country. A large proportion of the population, including five million children, live in extreme poverty. "Together Alone" is a shrill and quietl...more
 
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This video presentation advocates a new socioeconomic system, which is updated to present-day knowledge, featuring the life-long work of social engineer, futuris...more
 
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The filmmaker Elena Beloff is a Russian woman who has lived in New York for ten years. Her film explores stereotypes of Russian women that emerged in the 1990s; unfortunat...more
 
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Paris, 1942: Isaac, a Jewish child, escapes the Nazis, he finds refuge in the Mosquée of Paris where Ahmed, (Si Kaddour Benghabrit 1830 -1962) the Imam in charge, take...more
 
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