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  • Reunification

    Movie

    Filmed over a 17-year period, this deeply personal film is an intimate look at the contemporary Asian American immigrant experience. Fraught with betrayal, economic strife, and familial communication meltdowns, director Alvin Tsang illuminates his family's migration from Hong Kong to Los Angeles ...

  • Return to Bamako

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    Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb...Daesh...Boko Haram. So many extremist movements, of which Africa has become a breeding ground, have declared war against Western values and people.
    Beyond the misunderstandings that often paralyze us, we have to ask ourselves the real question: how did we get her...

  • Return To The Philippines - The Leon Cooper Story

    Movie

    WW II veteran, Leon Cooper travels to the Philippines to relive Macarthur's return and appeals for renewed efforts to bring MIA's back to their families.

  • Repetitive Motion

    Movie

    "Repetitive Motion" illustrates the process and philosophy behind Sky Cubacub's body art work.

    Every day is a performance; I wake up and decide what I feel like. I put on an armful of chain-mail bracelets. The chain-mail leaks down to my hips along with an array plastic army men and dinosaurs. I...

  • Remnants of a War

    Movie

    When the war is over, the battle to save the land begins.

  • Remembering Cuba

    Movie

    "Remembering Cuba" follows the story of one Cuban-American family, tracing how the experiences of Cuban immigrants themselves have shaped their first and second generation relatives over time.

  • Raised by Krump

    Movie

    Raised by Krump is a 22-minute documentary film that explores the Compton/South Central, Los Angeles-born dance movement called “Krumping”, and the lives of some of the area’s most influential and prolific dancers.

  • Queerama

    Movie

    Compilation of archive footage from 1919 to the present, from both documentary and fictional sources, set to music, illustrating the huge changes in LGBTQ life in Britain (mainly England) over the 20th century.

  • Queen Lear

    Movie

    In the early 2000s, a handful of peasant women from the mountains of southern Turkey formed a theater group, which later became the subject of the documentary, The Play. The women acted their lives in the village and changed their lives. Now, they take to the road with an adaptation of Shakespear...

  • QAMANIQ

    Movie

    In August 2017, a team of 3 women aged 25 to 30 embarked on a quest to discover their own boundaries in an immense, wild and remote territory. They covered 100 km in a few days through the Kuururjuaq National Park, along Mont d'Iberville and crossing the famous Koroc River.

    THE MISSION
    To deepen...

  • Punk: The Robert R. Young Story

    Movie

    A stockbroker from Texas battles eastern bankers, railroads and government.

  • Pro Wrestler

    Movie

    "Pro Wrestler" is a documentary about the unique subculture surrounding Independent Professional Wrestling. The piece follows 5 Wrestlers at different points in their careers. Filmmaker Kenny Johnson embedded himself in the 'fake' world of wrestling and filmed over 50 hours of footage. Yes, wrest...

  • Private Revolutions: Young, Female, Egyptian

    Movie

    Four young Egyptian women with different social background smartly fight for their ideals and rights. For almost two years we follow their everyday lives and their struggle in post-revolutionary Egypt.

  • Princess Jack

    Movie

    Jack is not your typical 10-year-old boy. His closet is jam-packed with dresses, his room stacked with hats and wigs, and every surface is covered with makeup. Princess Jack is a short documentary that gives a glimpse into Jack’s world, an autistic boy whose life is filled with fairytales. The st...

  • Pretty Faces

    Movie

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    Created conceptually by Lynsey Dyer.

    Released in 2014 complete with an all-female cast, this award-winning ski documentary film celebrates women who thrive in the snow.

    In Lynsey’s words: “I want to give young girls something positive to look up to. I want to give them thei...

  • Portraits from Varangerfjord

    Movie

    Living centrally in the middle of nowhere.

  • Portrait of a Sound Design Artist

    Movie

    Bathtubs, earplugs and a pickaxe.

  • Pixels and Polygons: An Indie Game Developer Story

    Movie

    True life story of a "starving artist" trying to make a career for himself.

  • Pink Palace

    Movie

    People with disabilities, enjoying sex like anyone else.

  • Picking for Picasso

    Movie

    Picking for Picasso is based on one man's fascinating true story of life as a "picker", the treasure hunters of the art world. We follow his adventurous life of ups and downs on the road, and find spirit and unwavering faith in times of despair, in his endless search for the 'big find'.

  • Phone Sex Grandma

    Movie

    Nothing is as it seems.

  • Pattern or Practice

    Movie

    Pattern or Practice peels the veneer off that shoddy pretense and provides a stark view of what institutionalized racism looks like. A small Midwestern town, once a manufacturing powerhouse, is a backsliding, post-industrial community with a race problem so pervasive that disbelief is nearly alwa...

  • Path to Glory: Spirit of the Arabian Horse

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    It can be said that the history of man is the history of the horse. Nowhere is that more true than in Poland with their beloved Arabian horse. This is the strange, unexpected story of far-flung lands as disparate as Egypt and the long-suffering Slavic kingdom of Poland coming together in war and ...

  • Path of Freedom

    Movie

    In the harsh environment of a Rhode Island men’s prison, a group of fifty inmates are transforming their lives through the practice of meditation. Path of Freedom follows former inmate Fleet Maull as he visits prison to share his strategies for surviving on the inside. The film offers a rare glim...