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A fifty-two minute video clip-like montage with a heady pace that speaks out against capitalistic consumerism and its methods of advertising, while using the same brain washing techniques as a television advert. Erik Gandini has created a militant film. Its inspiration is the message touted by...
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The film re-discovers one of the most incredible dance phenomena that world has ever seen.
Originally known as B-boying, breakdancing was an urban dance form that originated from the street of New York City during the seventies.
Along the Emceeing, Graffiti and DJing, B-boying served as...
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Struggling filmmaker Lee Kazimir reads the words of Werner Herzog, who said that filmmakers should skip film school and instead make a journey alone, on foot, for a distance of 5,000 kilometers, let\'s say from Madrid to Kiev. Herzog states that this journey would teach one more about what...
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Copyright © 2007 HBO Films
An opus in three parts, Iraq In Fragments offers a series of intimate, passionately-felt portraits: A fatherless 11-year-old is apprenticed to the domineering owner of a Baghdad garage; Sadr followers in two Shiite cities rally for regional...
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Copyright © 2007 THINKFilm
Set in Northern Uganda, a country ravaged by more than two decades of civil war,
Oscar-nominated documentary WAR/DANCE tells the story of Dominic,
Rose, and Nancy, three children whose families have been torn apart,
their homes destroyed, and who...
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Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have
just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic
destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat...
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In this road movie through Israel, Jordan, Egypt and Lebanon, we meet belly dancers who live in an ongoing conflict within their societies. They will reveal unknown aspects of their trade. Belly dancing, that is considered to be immoral in parts of the Arab world, will be seen here for the first...
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