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  • Generation Impact: The Guardians

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    In Generation Impact: The Guardians we meet three Costa Rican teens who became friends in high school and bonded over their passion for technology. Together, they are using their talents to help make public spaces safer for women in their country, where six in 10 women say they've experienced sex...

  • Generation Impact: The Coder

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    Generation Impact: The Coder, follows Jay Jay Patton, who at age 13 designed and built Photo Patch, a mobile app to help kids stay connected to their incarcerated parents by sending photos and letters.

  • Gay4Pay

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    Sydney based filmmaker, Craig Boreham, made a short film called Ostia - La Notte Finale, about the murder of Italian filmmaker Pasolini, and put a trailer of the film on YouTube for the world to see. One of the film's lead actors, Miles Szanto, who played a young gay rent-boy in the film, was sud...

  • Gawah

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    Gawah captures the pains of time by taking you into the grieving minds of victims who have gone through the aftermath traversing from the 1947 India-Pakistan Partition to the Mumbai terrorist attacks of 26/11 in 2008 and the July 13th serial blasts that took place in Mumbai in 2011…is the bomb st...

  • Gariteros

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    Each night usually in boxes located at the corners, the 'gariteros' should provide security to their subscribers. Without guns, only with a flashlight and a cell phone, they work more than 14 hours a day, risking his life for minimum wage.
    Away from their families, unable to get another job, some...

  • Game Face

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    The award-winning documentary Game Face tells the parallel story of Fallon Fox, MMAs first transgender pro fighter, and Terrence Clemens, a young, ambitious and talented college basketball player in Oklahoma, who happens to be gay. Both realize that coming out will be necessary for their own sens...

  • GO-BAMA: Between Hope & Dreams

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    This film interweaves complex cultural questions with the director’s biographical legacy and becomes a source of renewed inspiration reconciling the personal and universal dream for a better world.
    We follow filmmaker Satti, born to a German mother and Sudanese father and raised behind the Iron C...

  • Frontier of Firsts

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    Frontier of Firsts follows the experiences of a whitewater kayaker and an Alaskan bush pilot during a kayaking expedition in Southern Alaska. Similarities in their respective passions emerge as the two work together to explore three previously unrun rivers.

    Presented by Whitewater;
    usnwc.org;

    C...

  • From Beirut to Venus

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    "... Change is such a recurrent thing in my life" says Omar, so much that he had to learn to deal with it daily. We follow him in Paris, from where he tells us about Beirut, a city he had to leave to abruptly. He also tells us about Venus, a persona born from his personal experiences, through whi...

  • Freedom From Choice

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    A documentary about government corruption, overregulation, and the loss of our civil liberties.

  • Four Men, Three Legs, and an Ocean

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    Bound by injury four men are pushed to the limit of endurance as they take on the Atlantic.

  • Forty Foot

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    From March 5th to 9th 2009, 142 filmmaking teams from 15 different countries tried to shoot, edit and coplete a short non-fiction film as part of the International Documentary Challenge.

    One team entered from Ireland, Leticia Agudo, Aoibheann O’Sullivan and Paul McGrath.

    They chose to make a hi...

  • Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives

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    Compelling, often hilarious and always rebellious, nine women paint a portrait of lesbian sexuality against a backdrop of tabloid headlines, book covers and dramatizations from lesbian pulp novels.

  • Fools on the Hill

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    One man's quest... Every politician's nightmare.

  • Food Coop

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    "The Most Successful Supermarket in New York City Has Zero Customers and 17,000 Workers.

    Every day in Brooklyn, hundreds of busy New Yorkers walk past Whole Foods or dozens of other grocery stores promoting natural and organic foods to work at a small supermarket that does no marketing and never...

  • A Love Story in Milk

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    The brief was simple: make people emotionally engage with recycling.
    The vast majority of people know the ethical reasons to recycle, but rubbish is still sent to landfill. We were tasked with making people act who wouldn’t normally care.

    The film has over 1.5 million views, has won multiple ind...

  • Flesh on Fire: Addicted to a Dream

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    The Fire We All Have Inside...“Flesh on Fire: Addicted to a Dream” is a feature documentary film that takes the viewer on an intimate roller coaster of pain and joy as actor Donnie Faught climbs his way out of the backwoods of Arkansas to success in the City of Angels. Along this journey, passion...

  • Fished Out: The Truth Behind Lion Fish Addiction

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    A new epidemic is sweeping the Caribbean and everybody is getting hooked.

  • First Stories - Two Spirited

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    This short documentary presents the empowering story of Rodney "Geeyo" Poucette's struggle against prejudice in the Indigenous community as a two spirited person (gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender). Geeyo registers as a dancer in the Kamloopa Powwow under the Jingle Dress category (normally...

  • First Stories - Life Givers: Honouring Our Elders and Children

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    "Some say when a child dies, you lose your future, and when an elder dies, you lose your past." Life Givers: Honouring Our Elders and Children is a poignant short film that testifies to the need to grieve and honour the memory of loved ones.

  • First Flight - A Mother Hummingbird's Story

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    Sometimes, the smallest thing can change your life... This enchanting film invites you to take an intimate look into the magical hummingbird's secret life. Viewers are welcomed in to the entire process of a Black-chinned Hummingbird's nest on a backyard clothesline in Las Vegas. Celebrate the bea...

  • Firefall: Road to Burning Man

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    Discover what it takes to create an art installation for the biggest art festival in the world.

  • Finding Our Voices: Stories of American Dissent

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    No dissent, no debate. No debate, no democracy.

  • Finding Normal

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    It takes grit and grace to rebuild your life.