Boil Alert is a hybrid, border-crossing documentary featuring activist Layla Staats as our guide to the struggle of First Nations reserves to receive a basic human right — drinkable water.
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Boil Alert is a hybrid, border-crossing documentary featuring activist Layla Staats as our guide to the struggle of First Nations reserves to receive a basic human right — drinkable water.
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In Tautuktavuk (What We See), the lines between narrative and non-fiction connect to bring us the story of Uyarak and her eldest sister Saqpinak. The sisters begin a difficult healing journey that reminds them of the importance of community, culture, and family.
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What happens to the collective memory of an oppressed country if the ones who report on the oppression fail to remember? This is the question Oscar-nominated Chilean director Maite Alberdi’s The Eternal Memory asks of its main subjects: renowned journalist Augusto Góngora, who is in late-stage dementia; and Paulina Urrutia, a culture minister and Góngora’s life partner of 25 years.
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Traffic tickets can be utterly irritating, especially when you know you did nothing wrong… according to your version of events, that is.
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It is often said religion and politics should not mix. However, this is easier said than done.
Praying for Armageddon is a political thriller that reveals the power and influence of United States fundamentalist Evangelicals, as they aim to fulfill the Armageddon prophecy.
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In 1992, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the American soap opera Santa Barbara became a window into the western way of life for ordinary Russians. The show became hugely popular with the entire nation.
Thirty years later, director Gaukur Úlfarsson takes us along with Icelandic contemporary artist, Ragnar Kjartansson to Moscow as he brings the series to life as a living sculpture set to open an oligarch’s private museum.
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The reality that at a certain point in life, a woman must decide to have children or not is not without its pressures. Pressures from family, from partners, from society and from oneself.
In Huesera: The Bone Woman, Michelle Garza Cervera‘s first foray into genre filmmaking, this very pressure takes the shape of a haunting figure. Natalia Solián (Netflix’s Somos) stars as Valeria, a young woman expecting her first child who becomes cursed by this sinister entity.
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Demons are one of the most popular themes in horror films. The premise delivers and when done well, it will deliver serious creeps and honest scares. To change things up a bit in the genre and moving away from the Catholic point of view on demons, The Offering is taking this genre through a Jewish, more specifically a Hasidic lens.
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In the latest from writer/director Hlynur Pálmason, a 19th century Danish priest is assigned the responsibility of the construction of a church in a far off corner of Iceland.
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Written and directed by Julianna Notten her inspiration for Erin’s Guide to Kissing Girls was born out of wanting to “create a character who was confident in her sexuality without sensationalizing it, whose problems reached beyond the fact that she was attracted to other girls.”
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