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History came to bathe in a public swimming pool in Kosice, Slovakia. The director creates an ingenious audiovisual collage of life in twentieth century Central Europe through several stories, which unfold from the time the pool was built in 1936 until 2002. Kerekes’ grandmother’s life story and...
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The incredible survival story of the Uruguayan rugby team that survived a plane
crash in 1972 and managed to stay alive for more than ten weeks on a 4000
metre high glacier in the Andes 35 years later, is as spectacular as ever.
Not in the least because they were forced to eat human flesh....
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Kibbutz Eshbal in the Galilee, established in 1998 as an educational center, runs a boarding school for
adolescents who have been expelled from other educational institutions. At Eshbal, Baruch, Ora, Moshe and Yael,
first-generation immigrants from Ethiopia, are counseled by Yoav and Vickie,...
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Creating The Stradivarius of Organs
An artistic co-operation.
In 1993 a remarkable collaboration between dozens of artists and artisans on two continents resulted in the first tracker organ installed in New York City since the 19th century. Standing over 45 feet high and weighing more...
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Algerian women remember their youth when they joined the
rebels during the Algerian war. Seeking the traces of the past
and telling the personal stories of the moudjahidates,
the director learns about her own roots but mostly
she brings her questions back to the condition of
being a...
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This film tells a son’s desire to connect to his absent father through the audio tape letters “written” by him while working away from home as a migrant worker in Saudi Arabia.
Directors: DZeynel Dogan & Melisa Onel
Produced in the framework of the...
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