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  • 7 Islands and a Metro

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    A frayed rug round his shoulders, My father came down the Sahyadris And stood at your doorstep, With only his labour in his hands. -From “Mumbai” by Narayan Surve

    The multilingual Bombay, the Bombay of intolerance, the Bombay of closed mills, of popular culture, sprawling slums and real estate o...

  • 500 Miles to Nowhere

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    Paragliding pilots Nate Scales, Nick Greece, Matt Beechinor and Gavin McClurg attempt a bivvy line from Hurricane Ridge, Utah to Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Filmed by Michael Paul Jones and Jeremy Canon with RED Epic cameras, human flight has never been captured in such a dramatic way and inspiring wa...

  • 50 50

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    Fathers who are fighting for a fair chance to get the time to be a true father to their children in a system that they believe to be corrupt and unfair.

  • 3 Days of Freedom

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    Piotr has a pass to leave prison after fifteen years.

  • 24 Hours on Craigslist

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    3 Billion pages. 10 million users. One website. One movie. No limits.

  • 24 Hours at the South Street Diner

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    On a corner in downtown Boston, there's a historic diner that a lot of people call home.

  • 24 Days in Brooks

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    In a decade, tiny Brooks, Alberta has been transformed from a socially conservative, primarily Caucasian town to one of the most diverse places in Canada. Hijabs have become commonplace, downtown bars feature calypso and residents speak 90 different languages.

    Immigrants and refugees have flocke...

  • 24 Davids

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    Céline Baril’s latest film takes us across three continents on a quest driven by a simple yet original idea: to shine a spotlight on the inimitable Davids of this world. The 24 Davids in this film are of varying ages and professions, ranging from cosmologist to recycler; together, they construct ...

  • 1976: Hunt vs Lauda

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    This powerful story captures the heart of the 1970s - told through unseen footage and exclusive interviews with the people who were really there - the team managers, families, journalists and friends who were in the front row of the season that changed Formula 1 forever.

  • 19 Days

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    This short documentary follows several refugee families during their first 19 days in Canada, as they navigate an unfamiliar terrain that has suddenly become their home.

    Located in the quiet Calgary neighborhood of Bridgeland, the Margaret Chisholm Resettlement Centre is the starting point for g...

  • 175 Grams

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    “175 grams” takes a closer look at lives of members of Flywild; how they got into Ultimate (frisbee), the way its shaping their daily lives and what they look forward to in the future as individuals and as a team.

  • 10 MPH

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    A Segway journey across the United States.

  • 1 Mes Y 2 Dias

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    I felt in love again. I dive into those feelings. I capture moments of my daily life for 1 month and 2 days.

  • 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...

  • Workhorse

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    "Workhorse" is an ode and essay on horse-powered labour through the contemporary experiences of three teamsters whose work and lives are intertwined with their stoic equine partners.