Movies
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Willie Whopper: Stratos-Fear
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Surrealistic sci-fi fantasy in which Willie becomes a zeppelin and floats to a planet where scientists talk backward and musical instruments play themselves.
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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Who Wants to Live Forever, The Wisdom of Aging
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Who Wants to Live Forever, the Wisdom of Aging is a one hour documentary film about the myths, facts and contradictions in the never-ending battle for both longevity and healthy aging. The filmmakers behind this movie offer no conclusions but suggest each viewer examine the information and decide...
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Who Leads
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Within a few hours, one couple ends and another begins. Adam is leaving Trent, ending their dysfunctional relationship. Jordan, a mover and recent San Francisco transplant, crosses paths with their roommate Spencer. Their intense connection is questioned as they watch the disintegration of Adam a...
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Who Killed Catalina Sanchez?
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A group of high school students elicit the help of a Ouija board to find out which one of them is responsible for the death of their friend. The youth from Sun Valley High School’s Media Academy wanted to create a unique film with a diverse cast that represented the makeup of their community. In ...
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White Fire
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The true story of a young man's battle with bone cancer and his family's fight to carry him through. Written and Directed by the older brother of the story's main character, this biographical account offers an intimate glimpse into a family persevering in hope when faced with their worst nightmare.
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White Fang
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Set in 1896 in the Klondike region of Yukon, Canada the film follows the adventures of White Fang, a wolf dog, who aids a young Indian boy, Mitsah. Jason Scott, a journalist arrives in the small gold rush town of Dawson City which is run by a ruthless and greedy businessman named Charles Smith an...
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Whispering (Sottovoce)
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Anna is fed up with the flatness of the city and decides to take a journey back in time. She convinces two of her colleagues to go with her to the place where she used to spend every summer since she was a child: Sibari Lakes. On this occasion, she’ll meet a girl who seems to be hiding something ...
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While You Weren't Looking
Movie
A kid's first adventure starts when Mom's not looking.
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Which Way to the War?
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Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, was also becoming the world's 3rd largest democracy with its free elections in 1998. While most of the country remained remarkably peaceful during this transitional moment, a remote area on the island of Sulawesi - Poso - fell victim to brutal c...
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Where Have All the Mermaids Gone?
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Two commercial fishermen struggle to make ends meet.
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When the Dragon Swallowed the Sun
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Unfortunately, the 14th Dalai Lama and the Tibetan people receive little political support in their drive to put an end to the Chinese brutal regime.
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When a Town Runs Dry
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When A Town Runs Dry documents life in Stratford, a small town in California's Central Valley. A farming community for over a hundred years, Stratford is suffering from a drought that is severely impacting the community, land, and residents' daily lives.
Currently in its sixth year of drought, t...
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When a Peeping Tom met a Kleptomaniac
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This is a fun story filled with a refreshingly unique type of romance. Every person living in this boundless world of ours is unique: we all have our eccentricities. Life is meant to be a little strange. When two similarly strange people connect, they often adopt of a manner of interacting whereb...
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When a Man's a Man
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A landslide has diverted water from the Baldwin ranch to Cambert's. With their cattle dying, Cambert refuses to let them have any water. Larry Knight takes a job with the Baldwins and he has a plan to divert the water back to the Baldwin ranch. But Phil, jealous of Kitty's attraction to Larry, le...
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When We Were Knights
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Understanding that his life was threaded with risk, climber and BASE jumper Matt Blank embarked on a project: writing letters to his closest friends and family to let them know how much they meant to him. That way, he figured, if his life were cut short he’d leave something behind to express his ...
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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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When I Grow Up...
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Kelly Rose is currently running for the Georgia State Senate in District 17. She is challenging the incumbent Republican Senator and hopes to be the Democratic nominee to flip the seat. After taking her grievances to the State Senate regarding women's rights, she found that they were unwilling to...
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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...