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Made in Chinafrica
Movie + 5 extras
An animated documentary exploring the precarious lives of African migrants seeking their fortunes in China.
Africans are flocking to the Chinese export city of Guangzhou, the centre of a booming global market in counterfeit goods. MADE IN CHINAFRICA reveals the hidden networks of this undergroun...
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Citizen Nobel
Movie + 10 extras
The 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry transforms Jacques Dubochet’s life. Passing from the shadows to the light, he is solicited from all sides. What can he do with this voice, which is now being heard by everyone? How to define the struggles to be fought? How to become a “Citizen Nobel”, with the ob...
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The First Bridge
Movie + 8 extras
Krāslava bridge is the first bridge over the river Daugava in the territory of Latvia - gate for the Daugava river from Belarus to Latvia. Every film is about time, but ours maybe a bit more than others as it was shot on Kodak Eastman Plus-X Negative Film 5231, acquired in the year 1997 and disco...
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Beyond the White
Movie + 10 extras
Three villages are combined in one timeless space - somewhere beyond the Arctic Circle. On the Kola peninsula in the Russian North, a few dozen people still live in their traditional timber houses surrounded by water, forests, and sand. Nature provides for them, mainly the White Sea, but fish pop...
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The Exit of the Trains
Movie + 4 extras
On June 29, 1941, the Jewish residents of the city of Iasi were rounded up and beaten, shops and homes were looted, and most of the men were shot or crowded onto trains, where they later died of asphyxiation. While Germans took part in the pogrom, the majority of the perpetrators were Romanian po...
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Ancient Soul
Movie + 7 extras
Yono, or Mbah Jhiwo (ancient soul), a Kawah Ijen sulphur miner, sees his routine radically altered the moment his wife goes away. Trapped like Sisyphus into an eternal return, Yono will face similar events that mutate in appearance as his beliefs move from animism, to Islam and capitalism. An eth...
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Intimate Distances
Movie + 3 extras
On a street corner in Queens, New York, an elderly, white-haired woman hovers, apparently waiting or looking for something – then starts approaching passers by. Miked up close, but viewed from distant rooftops, she asks them philosophical questions about turning points in their lives, sometimes e...
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Purple Sea
Movie + 5 extras
“I see everything,” she says, as if it was a curse. Brilliant sunshine, clear blue skies. The sea is calm, framed by a piece of railing. Buzzing voices. A peaceful moment if it weren’t for the fact that the sea is standing upright, vertical, like a waterfall. A rush of images, twirling, upside do...
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Prayer for a Lost Mitten
Movie + 4 extras
Night has fallen and Montreal is under a blanket of snow. At the City Transit Company, people line up at the lost and found office where upon reflection, losing something becomes a symbol of a deeper loss. This creative documentary is sometimes melancholic, sometimes festive yet always compassion...
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War and Peace
Movie + 4 extras
War and Peace recounts the centuries-old relationship between cinema and war, from their first meeting back in 1911, on the occasion of the Italian invasion in Libya, to the present day.
From the sequences filmed by the pioneers of cinema to today's smart-phone footage shot by the citizens of th...
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Living Water
Movie + 5 extras
The vibration of machines echoes across the desert. Ever since Jordanian nomads settled in the spectacular landscape of Wadi Rum, they grew dependent on complex water infrastructure. The source is right below their feet, yet they struggle to meet basic needs.
In the meantime, deep water extracti...
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Luisita Photo Studio
Movie + 1 extra
At the crowded Corrientes Avenue in Buenos Aires City, in the theatre district, you can find Luisita´s Photo Studio. There, thousands of celebrities of show business and Argentinian culture were portrayed since the 60´s for more than thirty years. Artists like the popular singer Atahualpa Yupanqu...
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While We Are Here
Movie + 1 extra
Lamis and Wilson are migrants in New York. She's a Lebanese that just arrived, and he's a Brazilian that has lived there illegally, for 10 years.
While We Were Here is a hybrid narrative constructed with a poetic approach; a travel diary that becomes a chronicle and takes us into the essence of...