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A Is for Autism
An animated collage of drawings, live-action sequences and voice-overs which offer insight into different aspects and forms of autism. A rare glimpse at the very private and personal worlds of...
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A.K.A. Don Bonus
Most American youngsters of eighteen are in their final highschool year and are filled with expectations and longings about the future. For Sokly 'Don Bonus' Ny, however, the examination year was...
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A.R.M. Around Moscow
A.R.M. stands for 'American Russian Matchmaking', which is a company that couples American men with Russian women. Four times a year, initiator Ron takes a group of candidates to Moscow on a festive...
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A/K/A Tommy Chong
How the old counterculture veteran Tommy Chong (who used to make up a comic duo with Cheech) lands in jail for dealing in bongs.
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A1 for alltid
Norwegian Astrid and her friend are totally crazy about boyband A1.
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A2
Revealing portrait, filmed from the inside, of the religious sect Aum Shinrikyo, responsible for the gas attack on a subway station in Tokyo.
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De aanhankelijkheid
Ceausescu is (for the last time) elected leader by the people's congress. The uprising in Romania starts on the day the programme is broadcast. Two weeks later, Ceausescu is dead.
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Abandoned Eden
Non-narrative visual experiment shows how a traditional South-Albanian community is slowly vanishing as younger generations move away.
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ABC
Portrait of the Windward Islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao and life in these overseas territories.
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Abductees
An animated documentary that illustrates people with recovering memories of their alien abductions under hypnosis.
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Abduction the Megumi Yokota Story
A Japanese couple tries to find out the truth about their daughter, who was kidnapped as a 13-year-old by the North Korean secret service in 1977.
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Able
Account of a three months stay in America of two mental handicapped boys from Japan.
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About a Farm
A quiet observation of the farewell process of director Junkkonen's parents, who for lack of a successor shut down their farm and face new worries.
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About Baghdad
American-Iraqi coproduction in which residents of and visitors to Baghdad express their previous horrors and present fears.
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About Canto
A journey into the mystery that is Canto Ostinato, a composition that has dramatically affected the lives of many people.
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About Love; Mr. & Mrs. Chan
This observation of Ting Chan's parents, who emigrated from Hong Kong to the Netherlands after their arranged marriage is at the same time an indirect self-analysis by the filmmaker.
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Abu Jamil Street
Four jolly young Palestinain men at work digging underground tunnels from the Gaza Strip to Egypt.
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Abuelos
Ecuadorian documentary filmmaker Carla Valencia Dávila's debut film about her two exceptional grandfathers: a political activist who died young and a "wonder doctor" who sought immortality.
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The Accidental Terrorist
What makes a terrorist?
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Achter gesloten ogen
Four war children from Liberia, Kosovo, Cambodia and Rwanda, portrayed in their lives after the war.
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Achtung Staatsgrenze
"I often felt ashamed from the bottom of my heart for being Austrian", says filmmaker Sabine Derflinger. In ACHTUNG STAATSGRENZE she introduces rejected asylum seekers who are locked up in the police...
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Across the Border - Five Views from Neighbours
An episodic documentary film about border experiences in Eastern Europe at the beginning of the 21st century.
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Act of Faith
Short documentary in which three men explain that there is no unequivocal answer to the question of whether homosexuality and Islam are compatible.
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Action Stations
A tribute to the Royal Canadian Navy. Action Stations is a report on the protection of convoys from Canada to England and Russia during World War II. Ivens follows a convoy until it is taken over by...
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Ada Gallery
Under the motto "Beauty influences people," Ada Raichonak organises a painting festival each year in her village in rural Belarus.
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Addicted in Afghanistan
An intimate and somber portrait of the teenagers Jabar and Zahir, two of the more than one million drug addicts in Afghanistan.
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Addicted to Freedom
At 88 years of age, a courageous Brazilian lawyer returns to court. His granddaughter makes a film about him and their society.
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Addicted to Plastic
A surprising look into the ecological impact of the most successful material of the past century: plastic.
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Addicted to Solitude
Very personal travelogue about South Africa in the post-apartheid years.
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Adieu Bakou
Since 1986, Armenia and Azerbaijan have been locked in a deadï·“end conflict about the control over Nagorno Karabach, a small Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan. Until 1989 Baku, the Azeri capital, had...
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Adio kerida
ADIO KERIDA is a cheerful and somewhat ironic story about an American seeking his roots in post-war Bosnia, at the time when everybody from Bosnia & Herzegovina is trying to leave for America....
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Adreline
Five boys are taking a course on how to deal with aggression and talk frankly about their experiences.
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Advertising Missionaries
Theatre group hired by a marketing firm advertises Western products in the interior of Papua New Guinea.
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Afghan abad
The children of Afghan refugees in the Iranian town of Afghan Abad work in a brickyard.
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Afghan Girls Can Kick
After years of repression by the Taliban, the women's national soccer team in Afghanistan tries to develop into a full-fledged team.
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Afghan Star
A snapshot of an optimistic but divided Afghanistan, centred around four young contestants on a tremendously popular TV talent show.
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Afghans Don't Flirt
Portrait of a 35-year-old German woman who works with humanitarian aid organisations in inaccessible regions of Afghanistan.
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The African Dream: the Black Star
In most African countries soccer players lead a poor existence, let alone that their sport will ever enable them to support themselves. Therefore it is not surprising that, when they get the chance...
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An African Election
Twenty-eight days before the presidential election in Ghana, the country oscillates between hope for change and fear of conflict.
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Afrikanskaja ochot
The African Hunt discloses new information about the execution of Russian poet Nikolay Gumilyov, who was put to death for monarchist conspiracy in 1921.
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Afrique 50
As a young filmmaker Ren‚ Vautier went to French colonial Africa to make his first film. Nominally a documentary which would provide insight in the life in the Occident and which would be fit to...
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Afriques: comment ça va avec la douleur?
In a long journey, leading along places like Soweto, Angola, Rwanda and Sudan, Depardon professionally struggles with his viewpoint and deprives the spectator of his stereotypical idea of Africa.
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Afscheid
Aleida Hartstra is 29 years old and suffers from leukaemia. In afscheid Aleida prepares herself for her death. She decides to stop taking medicine, knowing that she will not live much longer. She...
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Afstand van de berg
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After the Rape
A film about the efforts of the Pakistani Mukhtar Mai to fight the violence against women in her society with education.
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After Years of Walking
Almost ten years after the genocide in Rwanda, survivors and advocates of an objective historiography explain why the former official history of their country should no longer be taught, and how it...
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Aftermath
Aftermath is a UNWRA production dealing with the Palestinian refugee issue in 1967. Because of the Six-Day War many Palestinians are forced to leave Israel for the second time since 1948. Many of...
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Aftermath: the Remnants of War
The twentieth century was the most violent century in the history of mankind. In the countless wars waged, a total of one hundred million people were killed. And in many cases a war does not end by...
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Afterwards
In an extraordinarily brief space of time, the filmmaker manages to make us feel the indescribable tragedy of the Holocaust.
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The Age of Stupid
This documentary drama depicts an uninhabitable earth in the year 2055. The librarian of world history explains which decisions led to the definitive climate change.
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Agnes & Nancy
A portrait of two women wrestling with the fundamental changes brought on by early-onset dementia.
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Agnus Dei
A frank and moving portrait of a young adult who was sexually abused by a priest as a child.
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The Agony and Ecstasy of Phil Spector
A rare interview with the legendary music producer Phil Spector, who allegedly murdered the actress Lana Clarkson in 2003.
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Ahmed - Almost 13
An intimate glimpse into the daily life of a Chechen family in Norway, seen through the eyes of the oldest son, a 13-year-old.
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Aileen Wuornos - The Selling of a Serial Killer
The life story of a woman who is suspected of murder is turned into a genuine media hype.
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Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer
For the second time, Nick Broomfield focuses on the tragic fate of Aileen Wuornos, ‘America’s first female serial killer’.
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Ain't in It for My Health: A Film about Levon Helm
A portrait of Levon Helm, former drummer for The Band and successful country rock singer, on the eve of the Grammy Awards.
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Aizliegta zona
In the forbidden zone, at the same time a penal colony and a bridewell, children and youngsters, who have made themselves punishable by law because of one or more crimes are being re-educated. Herz...
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Ajax - Hark The Herald Angels Sing
Portrait of all sections of soccer club AFC Ajax during the 1999-2000 season.
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Ajit
AJIT is the third film by Indian director/producer Arvind Sinha. With eight-year-old Ajit's life as its subject, the film demonstrates that the Indian government fails to guarantee the bare...
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Ajuus
Eleven-year-old schoolgirl candidly tells about her feelings about and experiences with imminent emigration to France.
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Akys virs kryziu
EYES ABOVE THE CROSSES is a film about Stanislovas Jameikis who was deported in 1941 and overcame a six hundred kilometers long perilous march through Siberia.
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Albert's Winter
The world as seen through the eyes of an eight-year-old boy. Albert's parents want to send him to choir school, but he resists.
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Albino United
How a soccer team of albinos - potential prey for superstitious exorcists in their native Tanzania - fight prejudice with disarming teamwork.
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The Alcohol Years
Filmmaker interviews old acquaintances about the years when she was constantly drunk.
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Aldous Huxley: The Gravity of Light
Instead of making a classic writer‘s portrait, filmmaker Oliver Hockenhull chose to visualise Huxley‘s body of thoughts by using stock footage (including television interviews),...
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Alertez les bébés!
For years now, 'equal opportunities in education' has been the hobbyhorse of the French government. The purpose of the resulting policy is that all children are sent to identical schools. The fact...
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Algérie en Flammes
On the threshold of the Algerian struggle for independence, Ren‚ Vautier produced a film about the French conquest of Algeria in 1830. Subsequently, he was severely criticised by the French Ministry...
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De Algerijnse tijden
The film sketches a portrait of the late seventies in Algeria, more than fifteen years after the Algerian war of liberation. The country is dominated by contradictions, between the countryside and...
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Al-Halqa - In the Storyteller's Circle
Abderahim El Maqori teaches his son Zoheir the tricks of a dying trade: storytelling in the Halqa.
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Alice in the Land
A Bolivian teenager hikes all the way from her impoverished town to a city in Chile in search of a job.
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Alien Empire - 'Battlezone'
Many people are afraid of insects. This does not alter the fact that insects especially like to go for other insects. As is demonstrated by the episode BATTLEZONE from the ALIEN EMPIRE series, every...
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Aligermaas eventyr
Mongolian nine-year-old Aligermaa wants to compete in a horse race.
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All About Darfur
Language is the only weapon in this film by a British-Sudanese woman, who questions compatriots about the Darfur conflict and other thorny issues in her scourged motherland.
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All About Looking
All about looking is the second of three films about the American artist Jim Dine. The first one, JIM DINE: CHILDHOOD STORIES, dealt with the formation years of the artist, who belonged to the Pop...
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All Dressed Up And No Place To Go
'Cross-dressing' - men that dress up in women's clothes - is still an unmentionable subject. Transsexuals usually have the courage to be outspoken about their 'wrong body', but heterosexual men who...
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All for the Good of the World and Nosovice
A portrait of the rural Czech village Nosovice and its gigantic new Hyundai factory.
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All My Fathers
A self-confident personal documentary in which the truth about filmmaker Jan Raiber's biological father turns out differently than expected.
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All My Mothers
The Kurdish women in All My Mothers are not introduced by their age or position in life, but rather by the number of people they have lost. Beautifully filmed with side lighting, an old, wrinkled...
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All My Tomorrows
A cancer surgeon, a cell biologist, a night nurse, a pediatric oncologist and a pathologist go about their daily work in the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam.
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All Restrictions End
All Restrictions End is an experimental documentary dealing with contemporary Iranian history by focusing on the evolution of clothes and fashion.
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All the Time in The World
A successful marriage between science and visual art, in which the sound of seismologic activity travels across the northern English landscape.
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All Together Now
All Together Now is a year in the life of the stressful preparations for a Cirque du Soleil show based on Beatles music, under the watchful eye of none other than Paul McCartney.
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All Visitors Must Be Announced
For the hundreds of thousands of residents of so-called apartment buildings in New York the doorman is much more than just a doorkeeper who stops undesired visitors or receives packages from the...
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All We Ever Wanted
A portrait of four young go-getters finding their way in the world and running the risk of falling victim to their own ambitions.
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All White in Barking
All White in Barking shows how several native inhabitants of a London neighbourhood deal with their new neighbours.
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Allah heeft het zo gewild
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Alle dagen heel druk
ADHD child explains what it is like to be such an energetic child and how he deals with it.
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Alleen ik ben Timo
Fourteen-year-old Timo searches for his "self."
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Alleman
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Allentsteig
This portrait of Allentsteig, a military training area and nature reserve, presents various aspects of life in the area without comment but with a keen eye for humorous details.
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Alles moet anders
Curiosity for a period that he himself had not experienced caused René Seegers to make a film about post-war Holland. After the liberation, the idea that everything had to change was vivid among...
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Allo police
Allo Police is the third part of a trilogy the first two films of which were shown at the festival of Nyon. Du beurre surles Tartines shows the inside of a company, Malaise is an analysis of the...
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Alma
The relationship between a mother and daughter is constrained by past traumas.
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Almost Grown
Twelve-year-old Justin is addicted to the magical, virtual world of PlayStation, but he should really be doing his homework and thinking about his future.
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Almost Married
Fatma left Turkey for Italy when she was 20 years old, escaping her authoritarian father. Now she is returning to Istanbul to announce her intention to marry.
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Almost Real Life
The mentally disabled actors of the Berlin-based theatre company RAMBA ZAMBA on stage and behind the scenes of their modern productions.
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Alphabet of Hope
Survival in the 'dead zone', an abandoned area along the Bulgarian border, where children travel one hundred kilometres to the nearest school.
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Als die Mauer fiel - 50 Stunden die die Welt veranderten
The events that led to the collapse of the Berlin Wall, reconstructed from hour to hour.
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Am Rand der Städte
From interviews with Turks that made a fortune in Germany and returned to their native country, it is clear that emigration is a heavy burden on their families.
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Am siel
The sound-track of this film consists of a monologue by Robert Wolfgang Schnell. His voice speaks on behalf of the landscape. Words uttered by a channel are superimposed on images of a desolate...
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Amadeu, Amadeu!
On a Friday night in 1990, an Angolan contract worker who is working in a small town in the former GDR loses his life after a group of young Germans have rounded him up. Only when the victim's...
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Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony
The history of the struggle against apartheid and the role that music played in this process.
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The Ambassador & Me
Jan Czarlewski films his father, a national hero and diplomat, in order to recoup some of the attention he missed out on due to the man's busy life.
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The Ambassador
Filmed almost entirely with a hidden camera, this instruction manual for African diplomacy has its filmmaker playing the role of guide in bribery, corruption, the diamond trade, and other forms of...
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L'America a Roma
Journey to the golden years of the spaghetti western. Filmmaker visits the film studios and speaks with the stars of yesteryear.
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America: Freedom to Fascism
The search for the legal foundation of income tax reveals combined action by government and high finance that robs American citizens of their freedom.
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American Casino
As Washington pours trillions into bailing out Wall Street and everybody's broke, American Casino explains what happened and why.
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American Coup
A reconstruction of the political coup staged by the CIA in 1953 to remove Iran's first democratically elected government.
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American Dream
American Dream is set in the mid-eighties in the industrial town of Austin, Minnesota. A town where the employees of Hormel - like most Americans - believe that their work will be rewarded with a...
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American Eunuchs
Investigation of the motives of men who choose castration and a revealing portrayal of the eunuch community in America.
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American Gypsy: A Stranger in Everybody's Land
History of the Roma in the United States on the basis of the story of human rights activist Jimmy Marks.
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American Hollow
The history of an Appalachian family on the border between tradition and modernity.
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American Movie
A tragicomic cult classic about the indestructible American dream of a young man with drinking and money problems who wants to make his horror film debut.
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American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein
American Radical is the probing, definitive documentary about American academic Norman Finkelstein.
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The American Ruling Class
A search for an American ruling class, if one indeed exists, and its mores.
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De Amerikaan die ik nooit geweest ben
A multimedia project about the creation of the image of America via pop culture.
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Amerikan Passport
A young American made an alternative journey around the world and gives ironical comments on his experiences.
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Amerikkka
This film is about the anti-Vietnam demonstration in Washington D.C. in November 1969. AMERIKKKA focusses on the escalation of the protest movement.
Interviews with Vietnam veterans, teenagers, and...
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L'ami hollandais, Jef Last & André Gide
The friendship between writers Jef Last and André Gide in revolutionary days.
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Among Horses and Men
American convicts in the final phase of lengthy prison sentences. Before returning to society, they must train wild horses.
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Amor...no!
The inhabitants of the desertlike Andes in North Chile have the custom of erecting an altar on the spot where someone has unexpectedly died. AMOR...NO! interweaves that tradition with the concrete...
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L'amour existe
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L'Amour fou - LudvÃk sváb
LudvÃk Sváb, born in Prague, calls himself an amateur. His confession is surrealism. His profession is psychiatrist. His dedication is jazz. His passion is film. His love is a secret. This film was...
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Les amoureux de Dieu
In Macedonia, two sheiks contend for the right to pierce themselves during a Sufi ceremony.
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Amours
Depardon's photographs of deserted streets and interiors in Paris pass by from right to left.
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Amphibious (Login-Logout)
A group of turtles rides atop a log as it drifts slowly along the fast amphibious network of import and export activities on the Pearl River in China.
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Amsterdam Global Village
"I am far away on a distant journey through my own city", filmmaker Johan van der Keuken says at the end of his four-hour portrait of Amsterdam. The city is presented as a place where people from all...
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Amsterdam Reconstruction
A walk through the cultural ruins of the city of Amsterdam.
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Amsterdam, stad van het water
A demonstration of mechanical beauty and grace in a ballet of cranes in the port of Amsterdam.
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Anaphase, the Film
Since 1990 choreographer Ohad Naharin is the artistic director of the Batsheva Dance Company, which resulted in a successful international tour with the play Anaphase. By integrating dance, theatre,...
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Anatoly Rybakov: The Russian Story
The Russian author Anatoly Rybakov, who died in 1998, tells his life story, from Stalin's political purges to the ideological decline in the wake of Perestroika.
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The Anatomy of Evil
A Danish film essay about human evil and the motivations of mass murderers in war situations. A number of executioners divulge their bloody tales.
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And Along Came a Spider
Director Maziar Bahari interviews the 39-year-old serial killer Saeed Hanaei, who murdered 16 prostitutes in the Iranian city of Mashad.
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And Miles to Go
S. Sukhdev's AND MILES TO GO is representative of the angry protest oriented documentarists of the sixties and early seventies.
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And There Was Evening and There Was Morning
In Genesis it is written: "Let us create human beings in our image, to our likeness". Mordechai Ardon, a Jewish Pole by birth, student of, among other things, the Bauhaus school, and a friend of Klee...
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Anda Union - From the Steppes to the City
An emotionally touching road movie and a tribute to 10 young musicians and their modern interpretations of traditional Mongolian music.
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Een andere kijk op zwakzinnigheid
This documentary about an institution for mentally retarded people discusses the traditional attitude towards mental deficiency. The film does not in the first place regard mentally handicapped...
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André Hazes - Zij gelooft in mij
Portrait of Dutch torch singer André Hazes.
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Andrew and Jeremy Get Married
The relationship between two men who are joined in matrimony in London.
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Andrew Jenks, Room 335
A 19-year-old spends his summer vacation in a retirement home in Florida and finds out what growing old is all about.
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An Angel in Doel
An atmospheric black-and-white portrait of the last inhabitants of a Flemish village that has to give way to the growing harbors of Antwerp.
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Angelique & Titia
A mother and her mentally handicapped daughter have to let go of each other, so that each can make a new start.
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The Angelmakers
A Hungarian village was the backdrop for a series of arsenic murders in 1929 as 51 women poisoned the men of the village. Nowadays, the village contends with another type of loss.
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Angelos' Film
Poignant recut of amateur films that were shot by a Greek naval officer during WWII.
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Angels in the Dust
The Cloete family runs an orphanage in South Africa. They take care of the AIDS-stricken community and offer them education.
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Angola saudades de quem te ama
This portrait of a country under reconstruction and in disarray after three decades of civil war shows Angola in all its facets, from petrol-sniffing children to well-paid models.
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The Angry Eye
The American teacher Jane Elliott devotes her life to the fight against racism. For this purpose, she has developed an unusual method, which she has been putting into practice for many years now in...
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Animation: Private Snafu, Spies
Spies, an episode from the Private Snafu cartoons, imagines what can happen when a blabbermouth unknowingly spills military secrets.
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Anna Zeit Land
In ANNA ZEIT LAND, the borderline between documentary and fiction has been completely eliminated. The film follows two women on their separate tours of Germany in the turbulent years 1989-1993. Both...
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Anna: 6-18
ANNA: 6-18 is the first documentary by Russian author and director Nikita Mikhalkov, maker of feature films like OCI CIORNIE, URGA and recently SOLEIL TROMPEUR (BURNT BY THE SUN). Michalkov comes...
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Anna's Story
Anna is a teenager who copes with the loss of her mother by emulating pop idol Britney Spears, who does everything Anna wouldn't do herself.
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Anne anders!
Anne is 27 years old. She is the youngest child of a large family. An outsider, because Anne is a Mongol. But Anne is also an outsider in another way. It seldom happens that a Mongoloid child grows...
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Anne Frank Remembered
The diary of Anne Frank has sold more than 25 million copies. The house where she and her family stayed in hiding during WW II is now one of the biggest tourist draws in Amsterdam. Her life story has...
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Les années déclic
An autobiographical film in which Depardon uses his work to sketch his agrarian background and his development as a photographer and filmmaker.
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Another Life
The filmmaker joins a perilous journey made by many young Africans across the Sahara into Libya. From here, they will cross to Italy.
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Another Planet
The dream sequences of a Mexican girl reveal the horrors that children all over the world must contend with every day.
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Another Road Home
Israeli filmmaker confronts herself, her parents and her former Palestinian male babysitter with loads of questions concerning their shared motherland.
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Antarctica-projekt
Antarctica, the only continent on our planet that has not yet been colonized. The last piece of land where nature has not been violated by human acitivities. This virginity is in grave danger now...
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Anthem, an American Road Story
In 1995 two 26-year-old women from Hollywood made so bold as to make a film about the modern-day American society. On the off-chance they wrote letters to a large number of people to request them to...
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Anthrax War
In this investigative documentary about the origins of the anthrax letters sent in 2001, journalist Bob Coen follows a trail of dead scientists.
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Anti-rasister
Socially committed portrait of three fighters against racism in Sweden.
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Antoine
Curious portrait of the bon viveur and eccentric Antoine, who, draped in costumes from bygone ages and in a resolute voice, exaltedly contends that life is a stage and man simply an actor.
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Anton de Kom, wij slaven van Suriname
Portrait of Surinamese union leader and resistance fighter Anton de Kom.
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Antonio + Silvana = 2
Antonio and Silvana were once a couple. Since 77-year-old Antonio moved into a rest home in Rome, 60-year-old Silvana has been loudly attempting to win him back.
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Antwerp
In a poetic voice-over, a Russian man reflects on the moment he arrived as a young boy in Antwerp, together with thousands of other Russian immigrants.
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Anya (Straight Stories - Part 2)
Images of a snow-covered wharf in Istanbul are accompanied by a young woman's voice telling of her escape from Iraq and her 12-year-long stopover in Turkey.
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Anybody There..?
For the last 20 years, Wim Keyl and Jan Geyteman have been running a farm for troubled boys, using a tough and unorthodox approach.
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Aperture
With alienating camera angles and serene close-ups, Belgian documentarian Tim De Keersmaecker visualizes the mental condition of a man who has lost touch with reality.
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Apolliny
Optimistic and inspiring introduction to the hows and whys of the success of body-building in Poland.
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De appel-iep
In 1961 filmmaker Jan Vrijman made DE WERKELIJKHEID VAN KAREL APPEL, a portrait of Holland‘s most famous painter of the Cobra movement (1948-1951). Ed van der Elsken also made a film...
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The Apple of Our Eyes
A portrait of a blind couple raising a small boy with hardly any help from the outside world.
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April Diary
Personal chronicle of the horrors of the Falkland War.
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Aqua
The first film from a series called Le Trésor des Poubelles, in which N'Diaye shows people who make a living by reusing garbage. Every morning, Amadou goes to a pond in town to catch small fish....
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Aquà se construye (o ya no existe el lugar donde naci)
Chilean biologist watches his childhood neighbourhood disappear as a result of demolition and development.
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Arab Attraction
An Austrian feminist experiences a radical about-face when she marries a Yemenite named Khadher and converts to Islam.
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Arakajime usinawareta koibitotachi yo
Feature film in which a robber becomes obsessed with a deaf-and-dumb couple who are painted gold.
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Arakimentari
A dazzling impression of the work and methods of the Japanese `pornographic' photographer Nobuyoshi Arakari.
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Araya
One day in the life of three families in a region in Venezuela where sun and sea, salt-making, and fishing determine the lives of its inhabitants. This film belongs to the documentary tradition of...
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The Arbor
An impressive reconstruction of the short life of British playwright Andrea Dunbar, performed by actors who lip synch the voices of people from Dunbar's circle.
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Archeologia
A documentary film showing a most accusing form of archaeology. It tells a compact, sparse but impressive story about an excavation project by a team from the Institute of History of Material...
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Arches of Faith
The film ARCHES OF FAITH tells the story of the unveiling of the Voortrekker Monument which took place in December 1949, about a year and a half after the National Party took over the government of...
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Arena: Bob Dylan's Legends - Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
Reconstruction of the life story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, who was convicted for a murder he did not commit.
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Arena: Dylan in the Madhouse
Recollections of the BBC TV drama Madhouse on Castle Street from 1962, in which a very young Bob Dylan sang four of his songs.
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Aria ou les rumeurs de la Villa Médicis
Historians call the moments when they can almost sense the past 'historical sensations'. A yellowed letter from days long gone, an old garment: suddenly the feeling can arise of actually making...
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Arif Hossein, Etv, Dhaka
In weekly TV programme, thirteen-year-old working schoolboy from the slums raises issues like child labour and illiteracy in his native Bangladesh.
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Aristide: and the Endless Revolution
Investigative documentary shows how and why the international community stood by and watched while the democratically elected president of Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, was...
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Arizona
The bankruptcy of a Polish state farm has embittered the former workers.
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Ark of Noah
The film tells about the spiritual and physical condition of present-day Latvia.
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Armadillo
Embedded in Camp Armadillo in Afghanistan with young Danish soldiers, for whom war is an adrenalin kick.
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Armando
Maartje Seyferth and Victor Nieuwenhuijs have made a very personal portrait of the Dutch artist Armando. Starting from his work, they show the passion of this man. Seyferth and Nieuwenhuijs do not...
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Armando - Portrait of a Friend
In a personal portrait, we hear the multitalented artist Armando (1929) speak and see him at work.
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Armenia
ARMENIA is a film that was made by accident. The makers were in Armenia for another film-assignment. They were invited by an Armenian family. This hilaric and awkward film of 11 minutes is the result...
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Army of One
Three lost youths turn to the U.S.army as a quick fix to their life problems, but their issues only become magnified within the military.
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Arna's Children
Arna set up a children's theatre in Jenin, years later her son Juliano goes back to find the children.
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Art of Demolition
A group of artists turn a building in Teheran that is due for demolition into an art gallery.
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The Art of Dying
"There is an art of dying, and death is not something that happens tomorrow; when death comes it is always today."
A man and horse who have had a fatal accident set off the drama of this fragmented,...
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The Art of Flight
Personally flavoured journey to Sudan leads to investigation of refugees who are oppressed in Egypt. Where does the journalist end and the human being begin?
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Artek - Het ideale vakantiekamp
Former Soviet prestige camp for young communists in the Ukraine has to adapt itself to the modern age.
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Artel
Daily life in a small fishing village on the White Sea, captured in an exceptionally stylised manner.
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Article 61
Candid stories by women in the Evin Prison in Teheran who killed their husbands in self-defence and are sentenced to death for it.
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Artie Shaw: Time is All You've Got
A portrait of the chequered life and career of the popular and controversial jazz clarinettist and big band leader Artie Shaw, who was 74 at the time of shooting. When he was 29 years old he was a...
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L'artisanat et son pays
Programme overview: The 'Cinémathèque Africaine de Ouagadougou" (African Film Library of Ouagadougou) is happy to present a programme this year at the International Documentary Filmfestival...
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The Arts of Autobiography: Redux 1
An experimental short video based on a documentary about an adopted child who wonders who she is.
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Aruhi no higata
It took 2 years to complete locationing on the dry beaches of Gyotoku in Chiba and Ariake bay in Kyushu. The film captures the diversity of life on the dry beach from small shellfish to bird. Use of...
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Asbest, the Silent Killer
As early as the sixties international scientists declared that asbestos was a carcinogenic substance. Not only the people who are directly exposed to this substance, but also their housemates, as...
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Ash, World Wide Suicide
Interviews with people who discuss suicide on Internet newsgroup alt.suicide.holiday, or Ash.
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Askoo
In de gortdroge woestijn van Beloetsjistan, waar alleen de wind het gebrul van de dromedarissen overstemt, ontrafelt hoeder Kannar zijn haat-liefdeverhouding met zijn favoriete dromedaris.
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Asleep
By looking in a different way at everyday places, director Clarissa Campolina gets to know another side to her home city of Belo Horizonte in Brazil.
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Asmara
Personal account by the Swiss filmmaker Poloni of his search for his Italian father's past. The direct occasion was a photograph of six men hanging from the gallows, neatly pasted into the family...
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The Asmat
The south coast of the western part of Irian Jaya, inhabited by the Asmat, is one of the most isolated places in the world. The area is bounded by two rivers and the Arafura Sea, making up a large...
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Aspen
The American town of Aspen is a traditional Western town with a colourful history. In the 19th century it attracted speculators who hoped to strike it rich in the silvermines. At the same time Aspen...
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Associated
An attractive black-and-white portrait of a chockfull neighbourhood supermarket in Brooklyn during the celebration of Independence Day.
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Astronaut
Ten-year-old Joost suffers from ADHD, making it difficult for him to concentrate. He keeps his disorder secret from his classmates for a very long time.
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Asurot
In the centre of Hebron, three Palestinian widows and their eleven children live in absurd conditions. Since 1997, their house has been located exactly on the border: the front falls under Israeli...
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At the Death House Door
A portrait of a retired chaplain who stood by almost 100 death row inmates during their final moments, from 1982 to 1995.
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Atman
The pilgrimage of two Indian brothers to the source of the Ganges serves as a powerful portrait of religious India.
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Atomic Café
Satirical documentary about the American government’s attempts to influence public opinion in favour of nuclear weapons in the 1950’s.
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Atviri vartai
Atviri Vartai deals with patients in the clinics of Lavénai in Lithuania. They are poor, they suffer a hard existence, but they still sing and have their dreams. They live in their own, separate...
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Au carrefour de la vie
This film about juvenile delinquency was made under the authority of the United Nations, and was realized on close deliberation with representatives of this organization (Jean Benoit-Lévy, Mogens...
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L'aube
A clock is ticking. A man is sitting in a chair. Both his arms have been amputated below the elbow and he is blind: the result of a shell burst in Bosnian Gorazde. "I'm alive" the man says with a...
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Aubervilliers
In the suburbs of Paris, on the banks of the St. Denis canal, families live in pitiful conditions. Polluted air and water determine the social climate of this district, where the chemical plant of...
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The Audit of War
For the Western armed forces, Operation Desert Storm was an almost bloodless victory. There were only a few casualties and the better part of the 70 billion dollars that the war had cost was...
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The Audition
Getting the best out of yourself: that's what it's all about in this documentary about the finalists in an opera competition organized by the Metropolitan Opera of New York.
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Auf der Kippe
The Rumanian-German filmmaker Andrei Schwartz found the occasion for this film in his early youth, when he was still living in Bucharest, close to a Roma settlement that was located at the edge of a...
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Auf der suche nach Albert Richter - Radrennfahrer
In the years before World War II, Albert Richter was one of the highliest respected cyclists in Germany and abroad. In 1933, he became the amateur world champion sprint and Germany's most famous...
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Aufzeichnungen aus dem tiefparterre
Equally funny and frightening monologue by an eloquent misanthropic Viennese nurse, who unfolds his xenophobic view of the world, his Weltanschauung.
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Augstaka tiesa
Relentlessly, Herz Frank confronts the spectator with the moral problems involved in the death penalty. In Augstaka Tiesa he enters into a dialogue with Valerij Dolgov, a man who has been sentenced...
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Aus grauer städte mauern
Germany's Ruhr Basin is immediately associated with coal and steel (Krupp). In the past, thousands came from far and wide to mine coal and produce steel. In their 'gold seeker villages' they tried to...
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Autour de la mort d'un cochon
Every day thousands of pigs are slaughtered and many pounds of meat are consumed. In the supermarket the consumers inspect the pink meat that has been carefully wrapped in cellophane, they press it...
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Autumn Gold
Five elderly European athletes prepare for a competition in Finland. Although they are all rather long in the tooth, they all want to win a gold medal.
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Aux frontières
Road movie follows the borders of the elusive, hated and coveted country of Palestine/Israel.
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Avodah
Helmer Lerski's enthusiastically Zionist film is an important stepping-stone in the Israeli or Zionist cinema, recalling the national pathos of the 30's. Avoda was for many years considered...
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Avonturen op het land
The square kilometre of polder land surrounding the farm of the Van der Elsken family is the setting for ONCE UPON A TIME. After their Memisa project, the filmmaker and his wife Anneke again used a...
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Awful Normal
Woman confronts the man who sexually abused her as a child.
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The Awful Truth
Political and social items, sprinkled with a satirical sauce, in episodes of Michael Moore’s humorous TV series that will be screened continuously.
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Awkward Family Photos
Visitors share their awkward family photos with one another and the world: clumsy photos of gawky people in embarrassing situations.
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Ayautla (fragment)
Named after a little Indian Hamlet in the southern state of Oaxaca this ethnographical documentary deals with the voluntary work, called "TEQUIO" which is used by the people of these very poor...
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Ayla , het tsunami meisje
The Dutch girl Ayla and her family were staying in a hotel in Sri Lanka when the tsunami of 2004 hit the coast.
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Az örveny
Main character of AZ ÖRVÉNY is cameraman György Petö. His private films shot before and during World War II document his family, and particularly his girlfriend and later wife Eva Lengyel....
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Az út
Together with a flood of Chinese immigrants, the 60-year-old Chinese Liu Zhixian has emigrated to Hungary in 1990. Like those tens of thousands other Chinese, he hoped for a better life there. In...
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Azul
In 1988 it was exactly one hundred years ago that the Nicaraguan writer Ruben Dario published his first work. Azul was the first publication of modern poetry in the Spanish language. Legiarda-Laura...
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