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81) Beauty
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English
Description
In a world of fixed positions and prescribed roles, expanding the definition of gender requires the courage to dive deep into understanding and acceptance. Christina Willings’ documentary BEAUTY explores the lives of five gender-creative kids, each uniquely engaged in shaping their ideas of what it means to be fully human. Claiming your own sense of gender when everything around you insists that you comply and conform can be challenging, and sometimes...
83) The clowns
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Italiano
Description
Fellini's fascination with the circus and the surreal come to a head in one of his final masterpieces, The clowns. The film reflects Fellini's childhood obsession with clowns and begins with a young boy watching a circus set up from his bedroom window. Though comical and referred to as a "docu-comedy", this film explores deeper human conditions that resonate through the various clowns who vary from a local sex-crazed hobo, a midget nun, to a mutilated...
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English
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Over a 70+ year career, Rita Moreno defied both her humble upbringing and relentless racism to become one of the rare EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) Award Winners of our time. Her resilience and talent triumphed over adversity and broke barriers for generations of artists who refuse to be pigeonholed.
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Español
Description
Filmmaker Agustina Comedi delves into her father Jaime’s past. The reconstruction of his intimate life as a father, undress a clandestine past; not only that of a political activist, but also that of a gay man. Before getting married to Agustina’s mother, Jaime had been in a relationship with another man for more than 10 years. In Catholic Argentina of the ’80s, Jaime’s true nature was a family secret. SILENCE IS A FALLING BODY is narrated...
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English
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One record producer, the creators of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” and top indie rock artists come together to create a tribute album benefiting the Hetrick-Martin Institute, home of the Harvey Milk High School—the first accredited high school in the country for LGBTQ youth. Produced in association with Sundance Channel, “FOLLOW MY VOICE: WITH THE MUSIC OF HEDWIG” weaves the compelling, courageous stories of four students at this controversial...
89) Square Grouper
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English
Description
SQUARE GROUPER paints a vivid portrait of Miami's pot smuggling culture in the '70s and '80s and its major players: the smuggling Black Tuna Gang, the pot dealing Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church and the tiny fishing village of Everglades City.
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English
Description
IT'S BAD FOR YA, Carlin's Emmy-nominated 14th and final HBO special from March of 2008 features Carlin's noted irreverent and unapologetic observations on topics ranging from death, religion, bureaucracy, patriotism, overprotected children and big business to the pungent examinations of modern language and the decrepit state of the American culture. Carlin once again comes up with an hour of brand new material that not only makes you laugh, but makes...
91) Opioids, Inc
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English
Description
The story of a drug company that pushed opioids by bribing doctors and committing insurance fraud, this is an investigation of how Insys Therapeutics profited from a fentanyl-based painkiller 50 times stronger than heroin.
93) Old age and hope
Language
Français
Description
Veteran filmmaker Fernand Dansereau has already proven that humour, joy (Old age and laughter, 2012) and sexuality (Old age and erotism, 2017), don’t disappear as we age. But what about hope? When the passing years bring failing physical and mental faculties, how can we anticipate, desire and appreciate everything life still has to offer? OLD AGE AND HOPE does feature some health experts and philosophers, but elderly individuals are front and centre,...
95) Under the Sun
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English
Description
Russian director Vitaly Mansky follows the life of one girl and her family in the year she prepares to join the Children's Union, on the 'Day of the Shining Star' (Kim Jong-Il's birthday). In doing so, Mansky crafts an indelible portrait of life in modern North Korea.
96) Hired Gun
Language
English
Description
"First Call, A-List" musicians share their incredible stories of touring, the dedication required to play next to the world’s most iconic musicians, and the origin of rock's most celebrated songs.
98) Welcome to Unity
Language
English
Description
In a sleepy mountain town nestled in rural America, seven foreign exchange students set out to tackle the 'American Dream.'
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