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  • Project Frontline: The Crisis

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    Massachusetts was one of the states hit hardest by the first wave of the SARS-COV-2 virus in the early part of 2020. As the case count surged, supplies of testing equipment and critical personal protective equipment (PPE) for frontline workers ran short, leading hospital executives to take extrao...

  • il Messaggero

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    The story of an Italian man from a small village in Calabria, Italy and his idea to bring messages of hope and joy to the United States as an immigrant in 1966.
    In doing so, he unknowingly immortalizes a generation of Italians through rare audio recordings. More than 50 years later we see its imp...

  • dik
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    dik

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    A six year old boy brings home a piece of schoolwork that provokes his parents to question his sexual orientation, and their own, with disastrous and hilarious results.

  • Zero Silence

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    A documentary about the free wor(l)d.

  • Zagros

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    Zagros follows the creation of carpets across the Western mountains of Iran, the land of Bakhtiaris. Wool is the guiding thread that traverses nomadic and sedentary cultures, revealing the worlds of weavers, dyers and shepherds through their labour. Carpets weave the social fabric of their lives,...

  • Yukon Kings

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    Set in the remote Alaskan Yukon Delta, Yukon Kings follows Yup'ik fisherman Ray Waska as he teaches his grandkids how to fish during the summer salmon run. With environmental and cultural forces threatening their subsistence way of life, Ray holds onto the hope that his grandsons will one day pas...

  • Yoga Maya

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    Unveiling the illusions of a sacred science.

  • Yoga Is: A Transformational Journey

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    This is the story of a woman who thought she had it all until she lost her beloved mother to cancer.

  • Yemeniettes

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    Three Yemeni teenage girls enter an entrepreneurship competition but along the way encounter the hardships of a country marked by a broken educational system, joblessness and a threatening Al-Qaeda presence.

  • Wurundjeri Baggarrook

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    The last Coming of Age ceremony held by the Wurundjeri Tribe took place at Coranderrk, 185 years ago; from that point all cultural ceremony and practice was forbidden. A group of Wurundjeri women, descendants of the families who went through the last recorded Wurundjeri ceremony are determined to...

  • Work in Progress

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    Why should work be a burden that we should get rid of as soon as possible? Work in Progress explores the different ways to give meaning to your work thanks to the transformations of the last few years. In the 21st century, it is up to us to find the environment that suits us, to find the codes we...

  • Wood of Value

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    A journey of a tree.

  • Won't Let the Angels Take You Away

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    A family, a flood, and folk music: Three months after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, a husband and wife country/bluegrass band called Truckstop Honeymoon return from their new residence in Lawrence, Kansas to survey the damage to their home and community in the Ninth Ward.

    Utilizing the dire...

  • Women's March

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    On January 21, 2017, hundreds of thousands of women marched on Washington, DC. That same day, hundreds of sister marches took place across the country and around the world. It grew into the largest one-day protest in American history.

  • Within A Season

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    Jan Conner is one of the most successful and controversial basketball coaches in Indiana. After winning 2 high school state championships, she retired in 2001. 5 years later, she returned to coaching at a new school with a new team. Within A Season follows her and the players throughout their ent...

  • Wisconsin Rising

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    Wisconsin Rising documents the largest sustained workers' resistance movement in American history. Wisconsin was a testing ground for the nation in 2011 as big money attempted to undo basic workers' rights when newly-elected Republican Governor Scott Walker suddenly stripped collective bargaining...

  • Windjammer

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    Mighty Adventure . . .

  • Will & Right: Religion, Politics and Gay Marriage

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    On February 24th, 2004 President George W. Bush announced his support for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. Three days later in response to the President’s words and inspired by events in Massachusetts, Village of New Paltz Mayor, Jason West, began solemnizing same-sex marriag...

  • Wide Boyz

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    The world of offwidth crack climbing is a strange sub-culture rumoured to be dominated by knuckle-dragging, bar-brawling dirt-bags! The climbing is tough, painful and bloody. Two climbers from England, Pete Whittaker and Tom Randall, set out to explore this world and climb the world’s hardest off...

  • Wide Boyz II - Slender Gentlemen

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    After their success climbing the world’s hardest offwidth, the Wide Boyz, Pete Whittaker and Tom Randall, embark on their next crack climbing mission. This time their sights are set on the thinner end of the crack climbing spectrum. Their goal is the mighty Cobra Crack in Squamish BC, considered ...

  • Why Not Now John Henry

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    A docubiopic of young Harlem entrepreneur John Henry, who asked "Why not now?" and went from doorman to dry cleaner to dealmaker.

  • Whose War?

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    With a body count of nearly three thousand U.S. soldiers, the U.S. invasion of Iraq has been seen by many as the ultimate folly of the Bush Administration. Now in the documentary "Whose War?" three leading American anti-war activists gather to dissect the motives and fatal consequences of this, A...

  • Who Will Stand

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    Unlike other films about the war in Iraq, but “Who Will Stand” addresses the issues soldiers deal with after they return home.

    The documentary covers the plights of more than a dozen soldiers who have returned either physically or psychologically wounded. It addresses a soldier’s unwillingness ...

  • Who We Are

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    A young Iñupiaq artist connects to ancestral lands through her work. As she paints, she reflects on climate change and its effects on Alaska Native villages. She narrates the motivation behind the portrait while exploring her role in the preservation of land and culture. The film aims to honor th...