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Our Body
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In a Parisian public hospital, Claire Simon questions what it means to live in women’s bodies, filming their diversity, singularity and their beauty in all stages throughout life. Unique stories of desires, fears and struggles unfold, including the one of the filmmaker herself.
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
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Just days after the Civil War ended, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre. As a fractured nation mourned, a manhunt closed in on his assassin, the twenty-six-year-old actor, John Wilkes Booth. The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln tracks the converging paths of the president and his killer, then tracks and draws connections between their last journeys, in the forms of Lincoln's funeral train route and Booth's desperate efforts to escape.
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
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Werner Herzog takes a film crew to the island of Guadeloupe when he hears that the volcano on the island is going to erupt. Everyone has left, except for one old man who refuses to leave.
El apagón: Aquí vive gente
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“El apagón: Aquí vive gente” is a 23-minute film that explores the socio-economic challenges in Puerto Rico, focusing on the effects of power outages and gentrification driven by the real estate and energy sectors. Through visuals and personal stories, the documentary highlights the experiences of Puerto Rican communities facing these issues.
Sundance 20
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A documentary profiling new generation of filmmakers in this original documentary on the Sundance Institute's Filmmaker's Lab program. An inside look at the Sundance Filmmaker's Lab, which was founded 20 years ago. The chronicle follows three young filmmakers as they grapple with the challenges of filmmaking amidst the breathtaking natural beauty of Northern Utah. Among the many filmmakers and actors discussing their involvement with the Sundance Filmmakers
The Last Year of Darkness
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Bass-heavy and neon-coloured portrait of the alternative Chinese youth in a country in constant state of change that now threatens the underground club Funky Town.
!Aitsa
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The ancient knowledge of indigenous peoples challenges high-tech science in a near-cosmic tale from a South African desert where the world’s largest radio telescope is being built with antennae aimed at the far corners of the universe.
Ecki's World
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The documentary is a portrait of of the oldest video library in the world and its owner, Eckhard "Ecki" Baum. Baum opened the "Video Film-Shop" in Kassel, Germany in the summer of 1975. It all began in the Wolfsanger district with the sale and exchange of Super 8 films, that soon led to a bigger shop and some daring methods.
Sir Bobby Charlton: The First Gentleman Of Football
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Documentary celebrating the remarkable life of one of England's greatest-ever footballers, Sir Bobby Charlton. Sir Bobby was a key member of the England team that won the World Cup in 1966 and a Manchester United team touched by success and tragedy in equal measure. Charlton survived the Munich air disaster in 1958, which killed several of his teammates, dubbed the Busby Babes. He became a crucial figure in the club's resurgence, winning two league titles and, unforgettably in 1968, the European Cup against Benfica. He received a knighthood in 1994 and was awarded the prestigious BBC Sports Personality of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008. A fiercely proud Englishman, Charlton was a pivotal figure at Manchester United as an ambassador, club director and close confidante of a succession of managers.