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Liyana
Movie + 1 extra
"A lyrical work that's as bright and captivating as it is poignant." The Hollywood Reporter
Dublin International Film Festival
BFI London Film Festival
Palm Springs Films FestivalA Swazi girl embarks on a dangerous quest to rescue her young twin brothers in a tale is born of the imaginations o...
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Brainiac: Transmissions After Zero
Movie + 1 extra
“Compelling… ‘Transmissions After Zero’ chronicles Brainiac’s unlikely rise and subsequent fall with intelligence and humor.” -Variety
SXSW Film Festival
Cleveland Film Festival
Cork Film FestivalIn the mid 90’s the Dayton, OH music scene became a hot spot generating worldwide buzz for the inf...
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The Swing
Movie + 1 extra
"...the kind of intimate portrait that captivates purely on the basis of what it reveals about the pain and the complexity of the human experience." Hollywood Reporter
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
Open City Docs Fest
El Gouna Film FestivalFilmmaker Cyril Aris' directs his camera to...
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Silence Is A Falling Body
Movie + 1 extra
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
Filmfest Hamburg
Brooklyn Film FestivalSilence Is A Falling Body follows filmmaker Agustina Comedi as she explores hundreds of hours of footage from the videotapes that her father Jaime recorded throughout his life. Her search to learn more abou...
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Rival
Movie + 1 extra
"A superb performance from Yelizar Nazarenko propels this drama about a nine-year-old boy in increasingly dire straits." Screen Daily
Busan International Film Festival
AFI Fest
CamerimageAfter being smuggled across the border from Ukraine into Germany, nine-year-old Roman (Yelizar Nazarenko) i...
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While We Are Here
Movie + 1 extra
Rotterdam International Film Festival
Art of the Real
Montreal International Documentary FestivalA hybrid form of documentary, fiction, travelogue and letters makes for a compelling film diary in While We Are Here. The film focuses on Lamis, a Lebanese woman, who has just moved to New York and...
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The Cost of Freedom: Refugee Journalists in Canada
Movie + 2 extras
The latest film from award-winning Canadian filmmaker, historian, and journalist James Cullingham (Searching For Blind For Death) focuses on the lives of three journalists - Abdulrahman Matar from Syria, Luis Nájera of México and Arzu Yildiz from Turkey - exploring the reasons that each person fl...
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Microhabitat
Movie + 1 extra
Busan International Film Festival
Göteborg Film Festival
Los Angeles Film FestivalMiso (Esom) is a young woman struggling to get by as a housekeeper in Seoul, earning barely enough to cover rent and her two indulgences - whiskey and cigarettes. When she finds herself having to choose between re...
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Maggie
Movie + 1 extra
"Exuberantly nonsensical debut from South Korea’s Yi Okseop"
Busan International Film Festival
International Film Festival Rotterdam
Fantasia International Film FestivalStylish and surreal, Yi Okseop's bold debut feature is part relationship drama, part sci-fi, part comedic satire, and a lot m...
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Una Banda De Chicas (A Girl's Band)
Movie + 1 extra
Rotterdam International Film Festival
Mar del Plata Film Festival
FRAMELINE, San Francisco International LGBTQ Film FestivalUna Banda De Chicas (A Girl's Band) sees former punk band bassist, Marilina Giménez, documenting women's bands from across Argentina, showing their struggles and achieveme...
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Luisita Photo Studio
Movie + 1 extra
Buenos Aires Int’l Independent Film Festival
Havana Film Festival
Brooklyn Film FestivalAt the crowded Corrientes Avenue in Buenos Aires City, among all the theatres, you can find Estudio Luisita. From 1958 to 2009, the photographic studio produced iconic images of the stars of Buenos Aires sho...
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Summer Rebels
Movie + 1 extra
Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Cinekid Film Festival
Goa International Film Festival11-year-old Jonas (Eliás Vyskocil) longs to spend summer shooting rabbits and exploring the Slovakian countryside with his cool Grandpa Bernard, but his mother has already made alternate vacation plans...
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180 Degree Rule
Movie + 1 extra
Toronto International Film Festival
BFI London Film Festival
Fajr Film FestivalBased on real events, director Farnoosh Samadi's provocative debut feature is an incise and powerful examination of Iranian patriarchal society. Sahar Dolatshahi plays Sara, a school teacher from Tehran who is prepar...
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Sashinka
Movie + 1 extra
Seattle International Film Festival
Festival du Nouveau Cinéma de Montréal
Whistler Film FestivalWhen young, up-and-coming, musician Sasha receives a surprise visit from her mother just as she's about to perform one of the biggest shows of her career, she is forced confront a past she's worked ...
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Vanishing Days
Movie + 1 extra
"Vanishing Days marks the emergence of an artist with an audacious vision." The Hollywood Reporter
Berlin International Film Festival
Busan International Film Festival
Vancouver International Film FestivalFirst time director Zhu Xin's impressive debut feature is a surreal, poetic and dreamlike...
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Lapü
Movie + 1 extra
Sundance Film Festival
Berlin International Film Festival
Thessaloniki Documentary FestivalA young Wayúu woman named Doris has a dream that she reunites with her deceased cousin. When she tells her grandmother about the dream they decide that her vision is the inception of an ancient ritual. Do...
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Elena
Movie + 1 extra
"a mesmerizing, artful and emotional piece of filmmaking that consistently surprises and awes in its sensitivity." The Playlist
SXSW Film Festival
Hot Docs International Film Festival
Thessaloniki Documentary FestivalDreamlike, lyrical and haunting, Petra Costa’s deeply personal film document...
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A Distant Place
Movie + 1 extra
Inside Out Film Festival
L.A. Outfest
Jeonju International Film FestivalThe winner of he Grand Jury Prize at the L.A. Outfest film festival, A Distant Place centres on the life of Jin-woo, a sheep rancher who living with his niece, Seol, and the family who employs him on their farm. It's an id...
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Black Light
Movie + 1 extra
Tallinn Black Nights
Jeonju International Film Festival
Seoul Independent Film FestivalA collision occurs between two cars on a busy road. One man dies, the other goes into a coma. An investigation into the crash concludes that the dead man was at fault. Racked with guilt, the dead man's widow ...
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Origami
Movie + 1 extra
Fantasia International Film Festival
Quebec City Film Festival
Cinefest Sudbury International Film FestivalThis suspenseful sci-fi focusses on David (François Arnaud), a man on a unique trip that doesn't take him from one place to another but from one moment in time to another. Seeking to bette...
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P.S. Jerusalem
Movie + 1 extra
Toronto International Film Festival
DOC NYCFilmmaker Danae Elon was born in Israel to an Austrian Jewish refugee who became a leftist journalist and a mother who has been going to occupation protests since Danae was a child. Her father asks that she never return, but after his death, for reas...
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The Case Of The Three Sided Dream
Movie + 1 extra
“By emphasizing live performance and audio recordings over interviews, Kahan lets Kirk's talent speak for itself.” - Chicago Reader
Raindance Film Festival
Leeds International Film FestivalJazz musician Rahsaan Roland Kirk spent his career and life defying conventional limitations. Born blind,...
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The Stone Speakers
Movie
"Drljaca's camera travels each scene with slow insistence on its remarkable beauty." Globe and Mail
Toronto International Film Festival
Berlin International Film Festival
Festival du Nouveau Cinéma MontréalIgor Drjaca's documentary is a complex and insightful examination of the modern-day tour...
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Queerama
Movie + 1 extra
"...a heartening celebration of progress and a cautionary reminder of all the broken lives and lonely hearts trampled along the way." Screendaily
Sheffield Doc/Fest
IDFA
Seattle International Film FestivalThis expertly edited compilation of archive footage from 1919 to the present, from both d...