Movies
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When We Talk About KGB
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A young freedom fighter and a KGB operative both grew up during the Soviet era. Today they describe what made them choose their different directions. After many years of waiting for her husband to return from a psychiatric hospital-prison, a dissident's wife tries to fill the enormous vacuum in h...
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When They Come for Me - A Poem by Alejandro Jimenez
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Part love story and part resistance, Alejandro's poem brings to light the difficult conversations that undocumented immigrants have with their loved ones. While fear may be used as a tool to oppress communities, this poem illustrates that an immigrant's spirit/memory is not easily erased nor cage...
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When Mama Returns
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20 years after a mother abandoned her family, she returns to a daughter who thought she had passed away, to let her know that she never stopped loving her. And to an angry husband, to seek his forgiveness. Although her motives were questionable, she proves that some mistakes can be repaired and e...
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What the Snow Brings (Yuki ni negau koto)
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Manabu Yazaki, who had big dreams of success in Tokyo, loses his high-class lifestyle as well as his family and returns home to the Hokkaido heartland in midwinter. There his elder brother Takeo manages a stable for “Banei horserace”, a sleigh-pulling race unique to Hokkaido. Their long overdue r...
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What Remains After We're Gone
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A group of jilted souls have found refuge inside a forsaken neighbourhood scorched by brutal violence, fire and destruction. They try to build themselves a home but the memories of the place still walk among them. A sensorial reflexion about what we leave of us in the place we’ve been.
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What Lays in Tiffany's Mind
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A powerful story of a teenage girl’s battle with the opinions of others. They youth wanted to create a film that made people think about their actions, and the repercussions that come with being bullied.
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What Have You Done to Solange?
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Several girls are murdered by an elusive "Catholic priest" in a residents college. Police and teachers are unable to locate the killer, and prevent further deaths. Henry, who has a romantic interest in one of the students, Elizabeth, becomes a main suspect, but so are other male, and even female ...
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What Comes After Religion
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The debate between believers and atheists usually goes nowhere. The real issue is: what should fill the gaps created by the end of widespread belief? What should fill the God-shaped hole?
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What Became of Us
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Have you ever wondered how your old schoolmates are? Perhaps the guy next to you, who is doing time in jail at the moment, still thinks you are his best and only friend. Perhaps your first crush might've been interested in you all these years but was too afraid to tell you that. Perhaps, if it we...
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Werewolf in a Girls Dormitory
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The new science teacher Dr. Julian Olcott with a mysterious past arrives in an institutional boarding school for troublemaker girls. Along the night, the intern Mary Smith, who is blackmailing another teacher - Sir Alfred Whiteman - with some love letters, is slaughtered by a werewolf. The detect...
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Welcome Home, Soldier Boys
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Danny, Shooter, Fatback, and the Kid are carrying a deadly disease. War.
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Weightless
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Jenny, engaged and very much in love with her fiancé, gets stuck in an elevator with a perfect stranger. That is Thomas, a cold and arrogant published novel writer. They immediately clash... but the circumstance leads the two to slowly drop their act and Jenny realizes that Thomas' arrogance is n...
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Weightless
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Fat girls rule the water in Weightless, a short documentary film about a scuba diving camp for plus-size women. Called Big Adventures, the camp was created by Liz Nickels, a psychologist and certified scuba diver & instructor. Nickels created Big Adventures after her own experience learning how t...
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Wednesday
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A couple tries to maintain a sense of normalcy while stuck at home, dealing with Coronavirus.
I've been thinking a lot about the strain this pandemic is having on romantic relationships and the distance it can create. This is especially interesting to me since I am in a long distance relationshi...
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Wearing Normal
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An adult brother and sister struggle with their mother's desire to be euthanized when her Alzheimer's becomes too advanced. Ellen, the ultra responsible, successful sister believes only God has the right to decide life and death. Erik, the ne'er-do-well, substance-abusing brother sees it as their...
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Warrior
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Sitting around a campfire, three infantry veterans candidly talk about their experiences in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Integrating real helmet camera footage from their tour the film delivers an unforgettable insight into the warrior psyche by contrasting the here and there.
Nearly 5 years since thei... -
Warm Beer Lousy Food
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Warm Beer Lousy Food is the untold story of America's first comedy club, the Crazy Country Club in Brooklyn, and its founder and self-proclaimed nut, Lou Burdo. The film includes rare footage of the club throughout its nearly 50 year history and testimonials from the founder, staff, and patrons, ...
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Warhead
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A weapons expert is reluctantly sent on a mission to a middle-east warzone to locate a lost nuclear warhead and dismantle it before it falls into the wrong hands. But before he can complete his work, he is taken prisoner and thrust into the conflict, and finds himself looking out for more than ju...
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War Matters
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War Matters chronicles 10 years of anti-war protest in the city of London through the story of Brian Haw, a veteran peace campaigner who camped in Parliament Square for over 10 years against the war in Iraq, and examines the British arms trade and the repercussions of the Iraq and Afghanistan war...
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Wake Me When the War Is Over
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During the latter days of WW2 an American Lieutenant (Berry), accidentally falls out of an airplane that he was on and falls into German territory. He is taken in by a Baroness (Gabor). She is taken with him and doesn't want him to leave, so she doesn't tell him that the war has ended. So, for ne...
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Wait Up Harriet
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That is until his wife’s friend and ‘spiritual mentor’, Marty, pays him a visit and they strike up an unusual friendship. Through the efforts of Marty and Todd, his twelve year old son, Jack slowly begins his journey of recovery. However, when he makes an incredible discovery about his wife, Jack...
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Wagah
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Each night the only border crossing between India and Pakistan on a 1000km stretch becomes the sight of an extraordinary event. Thousands of people gather to witness the ritual closing of the border, after which the masses get as close as possible to the gate to greet their former neighbors. This...
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Wilson (A Tribute to Wes Anderson)
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Wilson is very good at decision-making in daily life. But he actually uses tricks...
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W. Kamau Bell Doesn't Want to Fit In
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Comedian W. Kamau Bell struggled with his identity growing up. As a self-described “nerd,” he favored martial arts over basketball and rock over hip-hop. This struggle carried over into adulthood and his early efforts at standup comedy. At one point, he even considered giving up comedy entirely. ...
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Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women
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Astronauts landing on Venus encounter dangerous creatures.
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Voyage to a Prehistoric Planet
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In 2020, after the colonization of the moon, the spaceships Vega, Sirius and Capella are launched from Lunar Station 7. They are to explore Venus under the command of Professor Hartman, but an asteroid collides and explodes Capella. The leader ship Vega stays orbiting and sends the astronauts Ker...
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Voices of the Wisdom Keepers
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A poetic, moving and urgent call to action with four prolific indigenous elders addressing the biggest issues facing our society today.
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Violet, Fisher of the Black Sea (Violeta, La Pescadora Del Mar Negro)
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Violeta loves fishing into the darkest depths.
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Vinyl
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Zeke is an eighteen year old Sudanese refugee living with his parents and younger brother in a small housing commission flat. He has lost one of his younger brothers to the fighting which engulfed his country and his whole family struggles with their loss as well as their new life. Zeke feels lik...