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201) Ayar
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English
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Ayar, a first-generation American Latina, returns home to reunite with her daughter. But when her mother, Renata, refuses to let her see her due to Covid, Ayar is confronted by the many roles she's been forced to play.
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Français
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"Un jeune publicitaire voyage jusqu'au fin fond de la campagne pour des funérailles et constate que personne n'y connaît son nom ni la nature de sa relation avec le défunt. Lorsque le frère aîné de celui-ci lui impose un jeu de rôles malsain visant à protéger sa mère et l'honneur de leur famille, une relation toxique s'amorce bientôt pour ne s'arrêter que lorsque la vérité éclatera enfin, quelles que soient les conséquences" -- Jaquette
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203) Red Victoria
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English
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"Jim is a writer, down on his luck because his emotional dramas just aren't selling. After his agent convinces him to write a horror script to make money, Jim begrudgingly begins writing... only to find his muse, an undead one named Victoria. Intent on teaching Jim about horror she begins killing his friends and family. Can Jim finish his horror movie to Victoria's approval before everyone he knows is slaughtered?"--Container.
204) Are we not cats
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English
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The strange but tender story of a man who, after losing his job, his girlfriend, and his apartment in a single day, attempts to restart his life, but is side tracked when he meets a woman who shares his unorthodox habit, a proclivity for eating hair.
205) Who's crazy?
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English
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A group of mental patients who hole up in a deserted Belgian farmhouse, where they cook large quantities of eggs and condemn one of their own in an impromptu court. The actors don't have much need for words when they can dance around, light things on fire, and drip hot wax on each other instead.
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Meet America's new farmers. Resourceful and hard-working, Greenhorns are passionate about improving the food we eat through sustainable and humane farming practices. Their inspirational stories speak to the challenges and rewards of earning a living off the land, embracing risks, and feeding local communities- all while maintaining a profound respect for the Earth.
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Español
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Jacob Van Oppen, the former strongest man on Earth, and his crafty manager, Orsini, make a good living by traveling around small South American towns, organizing bogus wrestling exhibitions in run-down theaters. Once this oddball pair disembarks at the village of Santa Maria, business really kicks off: the local newspaper sponsors the fight and helping hands place posters announcing an open call for a worthy adversary.
208) The motel
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English
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Chinese-American adolescent Ernest works after school cleaning rooms at the dingy motel owned by his bossy mother. A Korean-American playboy drifter helps Ernest come out of his shell, encouraging him to pursue an older girl he has a crush on. Ernest absorbes life lessons about girls, bullies, baseball and success.
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English
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An award-winning, feature-length documentary about the federal government's ban on Florida's iconic airboats in much of the Everglades. The measure is part of the world's largest effort to repair a damaged ecosystem, a vast river of grass that has been ravaged by more than a century of development, pollution, and other environmental degradation. The outcome will determine the future of the region's water supply, and its ability to withstand rising...
211) Losing ground
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Losing Ground: Tells the story of a marriage of two remarkable people, both at a crossroads in their lives. Sara Rogers, a black professor of philosophy, is embarking on an intellectual quest to understand "ecstasy" just as her painter husband Victor sets off on a more earthly exploration of joy. Celebrating a recent museum sale, Victor decides to rent a country house where he can return to more realism after years working as an abstract expressionist....
212) Always in season
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English
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Follows Claudia Lacy's search for justice and reconciliation after her seveneteen-year-old son Lennon is found hanging from a swing set in rural North Carolina on August 29, 2014.
213) Abnormal attraction
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English
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In a world where fairy tales are much more than tales, monsters and humans must coexist. Some people respect the differences between races while others do not. For years tension has been growing and today it will reach its breaking point.
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English
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Filmmakers Sarah and Greg set out to critically explore American culture, compassion, and fear by relying on the kindness of strangers for a home each night. Traveling through 30 states in 60 days, they spend every day in a new town, learning why people may or may not be willing to open their homes. At times funny, heartbreaking, and inspirational, these individual stories reflect the daily choices we make to trust, to confide, to care for, and to...
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Español
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In the Mexican-Guatemalan border, young teenage lovers, Sabina and Jovany, both Hondurans, accidentally meet again years later. She plans to get to the United States and dreams about being a great singer; he commits all the required atrocities to be accepted by the gang, la Mara Salvatrucha.
216) Collectors
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English
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"A feature length documentary about artwork by serial killers: the killers who make it, the people who promote it and those who detest it."--Container.
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Criterion collection volume 1095
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English
Description
Sweet sweetback's baadasssss song: A young hustler's aimless pleasure-seeking turns to radicalism after witnessing the beating of a Black revolutionary by two white cops.
Baadasssss: A candid portrait of Melvin Van Peebles' struggles as a young, black director during the society-shifting 70's. Determined to make a film that matters, Melvin deals with two-faced backers, a rag-tag crew, threatening creditors, and various shades of Hollywood hypocrisy....
218) The inheritance
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English
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Part documentary, part narrative, this experimental, quasi-documentary ensemble work is a "speculative re-enactment" based partly on Asili's own experiences in a West Philadelphia Black liberationist group. Infusing this documentary scaffold is a scripted drama centered on a young man who inherits a sprawling, multi-story house in West Philadelphia from his grandmother and decides to refashion the property into a collective of young, Black artists...
219) Vision portraits
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English
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"VISION PORTRAITS is a deeply personal documentary by award-winning filmmaker Rodney Evans (BROTHER TO BROTHER) as he explores how his loss of vision may impact his creative future, and what it means to be a blind or visually impaired creative artist. It's a celebration of the possibilities of art created by a Manhattan photographer (John Dugdale), a Bronx-based dancer (Kayla Hamilton), a Canadian writer (Ryan Knighton) and the filmmaker himself,...
220) Thar-lo =: Tharlo
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Tibetan
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Tharlo is a Tibetan shepherd, used to living with little human contact. Visiting a Tibetan town in Qinghai province to obtain a proper ID card from the local police station, Tharlo surprises Police Chief Dorje by reciting from memory a lengthy excerpt from one of Chairman Mao's essays. But things develop in a romantic rather than a political direction. To prepare for his ID photo, Tharlo needs his hair washed, and so meets Yangtso, a beautiful local...
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