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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
Because George W. Bush sees a relationship between terror and drugs, nowadays all old hippies with a predilection for mind-expanding substances are under fire. Tommy Chong, for example, once half of...
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A1 for alltid
Thirteen-year-old Astrid lives in a small village in the middle of Norway. With her friend Mai-Åse, she shares a passion for A1, a popular boyband. Astrid’s bedroom walls are filled with posters of...
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A2
A2 is the sequel to A from 1997, a film about the religious sect Aum Shinrikyo, which was responsible for the lethal gas attack in March 1995 on a subway station in Tokyo. For filmmaker Tatsuya Mori,...
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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
This non-narrative documentary, wonderfully shot, poetically depicts the despair and loneliness of older Albanians who are left alone after their children have emigrated in search of a better future....
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ABC
In the 1950s, the Windward Islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao were largely unknown to most Dutch people. In an attempt to change this, many films were made about life in these overseas...
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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
In 1977, 13-year-old Megumi Yokota disappeared when she was on her way home from school. For years, her parents had no idea what had become of their daughter. Had she been kidnapped or even run away?...
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Able
When Kathleen Rubi is called and asked if she wants to be a foster mother to two Japanese boys for three months, she has some doubts. After all, the boys not only come from a strange culture, they...
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About a Farm
In the summer of 2002, trucks appear in the Junkkonen farmyard. They have come to get the cows, to take them to the slaughterhouse. Maija and Pentti Junkkonen, the director's parents, have yielded to...
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About Baghdad
In July 2003, Sinan Antoon, an exiled Iraqi writer and poet, returned to Baghdad to see what had become of his city after wars, sanctions, decades of oppression, violence and now occupation. He...
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About Love; Mr. & Mrs. Chan
When the single, 35-year-old Ting asks her elderly father about his memories, the answer she gets is "Blown by the wind." He'd rather not look back at the past: let bygones be bygones. Still, the...
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The Accidental Terrorist
Cem Aslan is an integrated Danish Muslim of Turkish origin and a student at the University of Aalborg. In The Accidental Terrorist, he wonders how it is possible that Abdulkadir Cesur, a young man of...
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Achter gesloten ogen
In ACHTER GESLOTEN OGEN, director Duco Tellegen follows four children from four former war zones: Liberia, Kosovo, Cambodia and Rwanda. The title of this television series of four short films...
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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
ACROSS THE BORDER - FIVE VIEWS FROM NEIGHBOURS is an episodic documentary film about border experiences at the beginning of the 21st century. In a cinematic journey from north to south, the five...
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Act of Faith
In the history of Islam, love between men is a century-old phenomenon. Homosexuality was something you did, not professed. At the same time, the Koran is everything but multi-interpretable regarding...
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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
The residents of Hiermanavichy in rural Belarus can barely make ends meet. Ada Raichonak is a former teacher who spends her retirement trying to alleviate people's misfortune by organising an annual...
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Addicted in Afghanistan
There are more than a million drug addicts in Afghanistan, including a shockingly high percentage of children. Addicted in Afghanistan, the feature-length debut of director Jawed Taiman, is about the...
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Addicted to Freedom
The main hero of the film is the grandfather of one of the filmmaker’s, the courageous, daring Brazilian lawyer, Evandro Lins e Silva. By following the stories of his battle for justice, Lius e Silva...
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Addicted to Plastic
When it was launched, plastic was a miracle, the undisputed material of the future. Wood, stone and cloth were all finite, so a new, cheap and easy-to-handle material was needed to manufacture goods....
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Addicted to Solitude
A documentary travelogue by Jon Bang Carlsen about South Africa after apartheid. The director talks with various inhabitants of rural South-African regions about the history of their country and...
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Adieu Bakou
Since 1986, Armenia and Azerbaijan have been locked in a deadend 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
Sjoerd, Dennis, Mendez and two boys named Tommy are taking a course on how to deal with aggression. This is because they have all committed an offence involving an act of violence. "You should not...
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Advertising Missionaries
One aspect of capitalism is that it is always looking for consumers. ADVERTISING MISSIONARIES is an extreme example of this pattern. The film follows a theatre group of four people who on behalf of a...
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Afghan abad
Afghan Abad is the name of a town close to Qazvin. The place owes its name to the large number of Afghan refugees that live there. Their children are forced to work in the local brickyard. The...
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Afghan Girls Can Kick
Under the Taliban, the freedom of women in Afghanistan was almost entirely curbed. For five long years, they went through life veiled, preferably indoors, excluded from education and, of course,...
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Afghan Star
The music has finally come back to Afghanistan. Until a few years ago, when the Taliban was still in power, people risked prison sentences and even the death penalty if they sang, danced or listened...
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Afghans Don't Flirt
More than thirteen years ago, 35-year-old Suzana Lipovac swapped her well-paid job in Germany for a life as a relief worker. Lipovac, a daughter of Bosnian-Croatian refugees, initially worked in the...
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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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Afrikanskaja ochot
The Russian poet Nikolay Gumilyov, husband of the poet Anna Akhmatova, was executed in 1921 for participating in monarchist conspiracy. The African Hunt discloses new information about his execution...
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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?
From July 1993 till February 1996 Raymond Depardon travelled straight through Africa. From the southern tip, where he made a beautiful shot of a silent Nelson Mandela, he successively crossed Angola,...
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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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Afscheid
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Afstand van de berg
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After the Rape
In 2002, a woman from the Pakistani countryside named Mukhtar Mai made world headlines. After the rumour that her 12-year-old brother was having a relationship with a woman from another clan, Mukhtar...
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After Years of Walking
The way history is told can have great consequences, but these consequences are rarely so inconceivably cruel and bloody as in Rwanda. The Hutus misused the prevailing myths about the origin of...
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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. Lotte Weis, the sole survivor of an entire family that perished at...
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The Age of Stupid
The year is 2055. Las Vegas has vanished under sandstorms; Sydney is on fire and ski lifts dangle uselessly in the scorching heat. The world as we know it no longer exists. Somewhere on the North...
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The Agony and Ecstasy of Phil Spector
In October of this year, the second trial against the legendary music producer Phil Spector began in Los Angeles. Spector stands accused of murdering the B-movie actress Lana Clarkson in 2003. Last...
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Aileen Wuornos - The Selling of a Serial Killer
Aileen Wuornos is alleged to be the first female serial killer. Hitch hiking as a prostitute, she killed seven customers. Now she is on death row in the state of Florida, waiting for her execution in...
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Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer
In 1992, documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield completed AILEEN WUORNOS: THE SELLING OF A SERIAL KILLER, revealing how film producers and publishers fought like dogs for the rights to the story of an...
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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
For the first team of the Amsterdam soccer club Ajax, the 1999-2000 season was a dramatic one. They lost match after match, when they should have been celebrating: it was the club’s 100th...
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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 Denise Gründmann detests the idea of leaving her home country and emigrating to the camping site her parents have bought in France. She feels comfortable in her class, Sjoukje is her...
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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
Albert's mother has cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy, but this is something he would rather not talk about. Albert is eight years old and the world is still a mystery to him. He does the same...
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The Alcohol Years
In the early eighties, English filmmaker Carol Morley led a wild and wanton life. Every night she went out, every night she got drunk and preferably spent every night with a different bedfellow; man...
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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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Alice in the Land
A teenage girl walks briskly through a vast landscape. Mountain ridges and picturesque clouds grace the backdrop. Alice in the Land follows a Bolivian girl as she hikes more than a hundred miles from...
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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
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All About Darfur
Since early 2003, the western Sudanese province of Darfur has been the stage of a bloody conflict. The fight mainly rages between the Janjaweed (government-backed troops recruited from local Arab...
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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 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 Restrictions End
"In the early days of the Iranian revolution, anyone with press lines on his trousers would be dismissed from work. How can one say his prayers [to Allah] without breaking his trousers' press lines?"...
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All the Time in The World
All the time in the world is visualised with the speed of sound and compressed into an animated five-minute documentary. This sounds complicated, but produces a gorgeous spectacle. Data on...
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All Together Now
George Harrison once came up with the idea of building a Cirque du Soleil show around Beatles music. This probably had something to do with the fact that Guy Laliberté, the founder of Cirque du...
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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 White in Barking
"You are what you eat," the saying goes, and in the London district of Barking, not everyone eats the same. Not anymore, that is. With observant eyes, some older locals look upon the large-scale...
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Allah heeft het zo gewild
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Alle dagen heel druk
‘I’m Wouter and I will sit still on this chair for the entire film.’ The camera zooms in and Wouter remains seated - and in the next shot he slides splashing and splattering through the...
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Alleen ik ben Timo
Fourteen-year-old Timo writes, “I'm a boy who doesn't know exactly where my “self” is. As a matter of fact, my whole life has been one long search for my “self.” I'm different from other people, I...
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Alleman
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Alles komt ergens van
Dutch actor Gerard Thoolen (1943-1996) dreamt of a ‘home theatre’: there was cooking and friends were always welcome and could sit at the table, to eat together, to talk, to drink, to sing and play....
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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
Margie Thorpe works as a barkeeper and sings in her own country band. This film, of which she is both the leading character and the co-producer, primarily deals with Margie‘s complicated...
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Almost Grown
Twelve-year-old Justin doesn't want to be spoiled anymore by the time he's 20, but he still has a long way to go. He just got a moped and is addicted to his PlayStation. Every chance he gets, he...
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Almost Real Life
Under the stage, a woman with white grease paint and a black costume is waiting for her turn to enter. The filmmaker’s voice-over is a whisper, otherwise the show would be disturbed. The woman...
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Alphabet of Hope
There is a piece of land called ‘the dead zone’, unmarked, two hundred meters wide and stretching for kilometres along the Bulgarian border. Most of the inhabitants fled to Turkey in the 1980s when...
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Als die Mauer fiel - 50 Stunden die die Welt veranderten
On 9 November 1989, the Berlin Wall came down. In this film, the occurrences that led to this historic event are reconstructed from hour to hour. From interviews with the key figures of this period -...
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Am Rand der Städte
On the edge of the city of Mersin, in the south of Turkey, one apartment complex after another is popping up. They are mostly situated around a park and a swimming pool, which all the balconies look...
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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
From 1948 to 1991, apartheid was the governing political policy in South Africa. In this period, the freedom of the black population was increasingly curtailed. The right of assembly, the freedom of...
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L'America a Roma
Director Gianfranco Pannone grew up during the golden years of the spaghetti western. In L‘AMERICA A ROMA, he and ex-western actor and stunt man Guglielmo Spoletini (film name: William...
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America: Freedom to Fascism
"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning." This quote from Henry...
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American Casino
An analysis of how a lack of rules and a surplus of faith in the market led to the collapse of the American banking system, which is compared to a casino. Experts and former employees who were...
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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
Castration is one of America’s best-kept secrets. Officially, the operation is rarely – and always after intensive psychological counselling – performed. Health insurers refuse to reimburse the...
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American Gypsy: A Stranger in Everybody's Land
When the police burst into the house of Grover Marks, inhabitant of the American city of Spokane, on 10 June 1986, they found more than one million dollars in cash and a large quantity of precious...
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American Hollow
For one year, documentary filmmaker Rory Kennedy lived with the Appalachian Bowling family in Saul, Kentucky, one of the poorest and most isolated parts of the Appalachian Mountains, or as it is...
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American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein
For many years, Jewish-American professor Norman Finkelstein has been leveling tough criticism at Israeli policy in his books focusing on what he describes as the Holocaust industry: the misuse of...
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The American Ruling Class
Is there something akin to a ruling class in the United States, a country built on the idea of a classless society? In this first of its kind "dramatic-documentary-musical," the unimpeachable, old...
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De Amerikaan die ik nooit geweest ben
DE AMERIKAAN DIE IK NOOIT GEWEEST BEN shows the discovery of New Jersey, as told by a man who comes home to where he never lived. As the son of a Dutch development-aid worker, he grew up in distant...
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Amerikan Passport
The plan of the 23-year-old American Reed Paget to visit a number of ancient ruins all over the world results in an exciting world tour along five continents. Without a preconceived plan, Paget ends...
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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.
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L'ami hollandais, Jef Last & André Gide
"Fortunately, I'm not afraid. Not of bullets at the front and not of bullets from behind," Jef Last wrote to André Gide from Spain in 1937. Incited by his social sense of justice, Last sided with the...
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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 - Ludvík sváb
Ludvík 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 the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, two sheiks contend for power in a Sufi brotherhood. Both allege to meet the most important conditions for leading the community. The first because he...
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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)
Amphibious means having more than one mode of existence, being of doubtful nature, existing in more than one particular realm. Amphibious, as a concept, asserts its singularity through its...
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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. Using a 35mm film tray with a pinhole, Schlomoff captures the empty halls of the Stedelijk Museum, the Rijksmuseum, Gallery W139, and the...
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Amsterdam, stad van het water
There are not many more rewarding subjects to film than Amsterdam and its alliance with the water. Canals obviously play a prominent role, but the IJ-harbours are vital to the position 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
"Stalin walked over a million corpses to get to his throne." With fiery eyes, Anatoly Rybakov looks into the video camera of Marina Goldovskaya. Over the course of several years, the Russian...
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The Anatomy of Evil
For this film essay, the Danish director Ove Nyholm researched human evil and looked for an answer to questions like these: what are a mass murderer's motivations in a situation of war? And after the...
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And Along Came a Spider
Aided by investigative journalist Roya Karimi, director Maziar Bahari interviews the 39-year-old serial killer Saeed Hanaei, who murdered 16 prostitutes in the Iranian city of Mashad. Disturbingly...
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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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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
André Hazes is one of the most popular interpreters of the Dutch torch song. For more than twenty years, he has been singing his hit songs like Een beetje verliefd and Zij gelooft in...
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Andrew and Jeremy Get Married
Jeremy and Andrew are both men who are sexually attracted to other men. Apart from this, they are as different as night and day. Jeremy is a 68-year-old retired teacher of English with refined tastes...
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Andrew Jenks, Room 335
To get to know the world he lives in, college kid Andrew Jenks doesn't take off to remote, exotic places with a backpack, but instead decides to go and stay in a retirement home in Florida for a few...
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Angelique & Titia
Angelique is a 22-year-old girl with Down syndrome. She lives with her mother - her brothers and sisters have already moved out. They make up a close-knit family; they often get together and support...
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The Angelmakers
A small village in the Hungarian countryside appears to have a dubious past: in 1929, a series of arsenic murders was exposed here, and 51 women were arrested on suspicion of poisoning their husbands...
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Angelos' Film
The prominent Hungarian filmmaker Péter Forgács has many found footage films to his credit, for which he (re-)cut seemingly cheerful home movies and amateur films in such a way that they divulge...
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Angels in the Dust
Marion and Con Cloete joke about how they could have lived in Johannesburg, in a luxurious house with a pool. 19 years ago, however, they invested their savings in an orphanage in Magaliesburg, South...
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Angola saudades de quem te ama
Director Richard Pakleppa takes his camera into the streets of Angola to capture stories from all sections of society, and thus find out how the country has been doing since the end of the horrible...
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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
Without rival, the zaniest U.S. government films are the Private Snafu cartoons. Released between 1943 and 1945 to World War II personnel, the Snafu" series was a regular part of the Army-Navy...
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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. Anna tells her story to the camera, either while sitting...
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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
Les années déclic is an autobiographical film in which Depardon uses his film and photo work to sketch his agrarian background and professional development. Two short films, lots of...
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Another Planet
On three different continents, children are filmed as they tell about their daily lives, and generally speaking, their stories are horrifying. One girl talks about how she was molested for the first...
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Another Road Home
“You always used to iron my army uniform?” The Israeli filmmaker Danae Elon at long last poses this question to her Palestinian babysitter Mahmoud “Musa” Obeidallah. Musa, a father of eleven children...
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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
New York-based investigative journalist Bob Coen goes in search of the origins of the almost forgotten anthrax letters affair of 2001, which cost five people their lives. The prime suspect was Bruce...
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Anti-rasister
In the media coverage of xenophobia, the Swedish filmmaker Liv Weisberg noticed the tendency to emphasise the racist expressions, instead of paying attention to the victims. Moreover, she is...
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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, exaultedly hold forth that life is a stage and man simply an actor.
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Anton de Kom, wij slaven van Suriname
‘No people can reach maturity that keeps having a hereditary feeling of inferiority‘, Anton de Kom wrote in his book We slaves of Suriname. De Kom’s grandfather was a slave; as...
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Anya (Straight Stories - Part 2)
It is snowing in Istanbul. A passenger on a ship gazes out towards the dark wharf. A gloomy silhouette speeds homewards, or is he perhaps following the call of the fragments of music drifting over...
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Anybody There..?
A boy is chased out of a trailer. Just out of bed, he stands in his underpants looking groggily around him. "Don't you understand?" Wim Keyl asks him. The boy nods. He understands all too well. Wim...
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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. Early on in the film, mother Kati tells us that people who can see sometimes ask, although uncalled for...
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April Diary
Last October, during a state visit to Great Britain, the Argentine president declared that he wants to keep claiming the Falkland Islands, but will not wage another war for them. The documentary...
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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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Aquí se construye (o ya no existe el lugar donde naci)
Between June 1997 and October 1999, filmmaker Ignacio Agüero followed the demolition and real estate development in a neighbourhood in the Chilean capital Santiago. Agüero contrasts the continuous...
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Arakajime usinawareta koibitotachi yo
Ko used to be a pole-vaulter, who was even scheduled to participate in the Olympic Games. Today, he is a civilised robber, who always asks for the money politely. One day, Ko spots a man and a woman...
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Arakimentari
He has the qualities of a monster, one of his models says about the legendary Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki. His portraits of passers-by were already remarkable, but Araki made his definite...
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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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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
In 1976, Bob Dylan launched one of his biggest hits, "Hurricane." This protest song was based on the conviction of Rubin Carter, aka The Hurricane, a boxer who was competing for the world...
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Arena: Dylan in the Madhouse
In December 1962, at that time the severest winter since time immemorial, a young Bob Dylan came to London and mingled with the folk singers who were catching on back then. Director Philip Saville...
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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
Four children each visit a special school for a week that is quite different from what they are used to. The atheistically raised Asha goes to an Islamic school, Junior joins the students at an...
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Aristide: and the Endless Revolution
While the international community passively looked on, the democratically elected president of the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere was violently deposed twice. Aristide: and the Endless...
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Arizona
The title does not refer to the American state, but to a cheap wine brand that flows liberally in this documentary. Socially, things look bad for the inhabitants of the Polish village Zagórki since...
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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
What happens when politics of war meets the chaos of reality?A close up account of alienation, paranoia and adrenaline addiction for young soldiers at the Helmand front line.
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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
It is "no fun" being an artist, Armando claims. But that is what he is. And that is why he has been expressing his ideas for all his long life. As a painter, sculptor, graphic artist, poet, writer,...
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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
How to change a broker, a dancer and an unemployed Puerto Rican into members of the world's most sophisticated killing machine – the US military. This is revealed in ARMY OF ONE - a portrait of three...
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Arna's Children
The film tells the story of a theatre group that was established by Arna Mer. She comes from a Zionist family and in the 1950s married a Palestinian Arab. On the West Bank, she opened an alternative...
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Art of Demolition
A small group of artists in Teheran decides to turn an old house that is soon due for demolition into a temporary art gallery. This is the first time that artists from different backgrounds...
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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
The Sudanese Army kills between 250 and 300 villagers every day. Militia war criminals kidnap women and children and turn them into war slaves. The civil war in Sudan is one of the longest-lasting...
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Artek - Het ideale vakantiekamp
On archive footage, the red banners of the young Soviet pioneers wave in front of Lenin’s huge statue. ‘The living statue of Lenin’, was what the exclusive youth camp Artek was sometimes called in...
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Artel
Master shots, long takes, wide lens, black-and-white - absurd poetry of daily life. It seems to be a film formula that Russian directors have a patent on. You could make all sorts of critical remarks...
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Article 61
Fakhteh escaped from the man who had held her captive for two weeks, but the man did not survive the blow she dealt him. Article 61 of the Islamic criminal code states: "If, whilst defending one's...
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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
The Art of Autobiography: Redux I is the first in a series of video shorts Dana Inkster is developing from her documentary The Art of Autobiography (2003). The original work, which explores the...
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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
Most outsiders are opposed to the Internet newsgroup alt.suicide.holiday, or Ash, where (formerly-) suicidal people post messages about motives and ways to commit suicide. Sometimes someone actually...
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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
Brooklyn, 4 July 2004. Jenny Perlin spends her entire Independence Day filming her neighbourhood supermarket. Although the front of the building is dilapidated and the sign is so old you can barely...
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Astronaut
Joost seems like any ordinary 10-year-old boy who goes to school and likes to play outside. But Joost is different, because he has Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). There is so much...
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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
Chaplain Carroll J. Pickett is still surprised by the change of direction his life took. From 1982 to 1995, he accompanied almost 100 death row inmates to their lethal injections. When he first...
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Atman
In honour of their deceased mother two Indian brothers set out on a 6000-kilometre pilgrimage, from the holy river Ganges to the sacred town of Haridwar in the Himalayas. One of the two brothers is...
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Atomic Café
On the basis of a number of radio programmes, cartoons and propaganda films, atomic café shows how the American government and the media tried to sway public opinion in the fifties. Without exception...
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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
The American director Susan Froemke followed 11 finalists in an opera competition organized by the Metropolitan Opera of New York. These are exciting times in the lives of the young singers, who want...
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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
Filmmaker Rainer Frimmel (WIEN: SIEBEN SZENEN, 1998, CHE BELLA È LA VITA, 1997) edited many hours of home movie footage that was shot between 1993 and 1999 by the Viennese nurse Peter Haindl, who...
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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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Aux frontières
In this road movie, filmmaker Danielle Arbid tries to conjure up an image of the country that is called Israel or Palestine. She literally makes an outflanking movement: for some weeks, she follows...
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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
For the sake of peace, Celesta kept her mouth shut for 25 years, but now she has had it. “You stop being a victim as soon as you take action,” her elder sister Karen tells her. A married mother,...
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The Awful Truth
After the success of the TV series TV NATION, Michael Moore was provided the means to shoot his older feature film project CANADIAN BACON. Pitifully, the film was a box-office flop and only after...
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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
During the Christmas holidays, the Dutch girl Ayla and her family were staying in a seaside hotel in Sri Lanka when the tsunami of 2004 hit the coast. The massive tidal wave dragged her under and she...
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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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