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Frances Hodgkins, Anything but a Still Life
Director Massiet du Biest's debut feature explores the life and art of celebrated New Zealand painter Frances Hodgkins. Spending much of her life and career in Europe, Hodgkins was a modernist painter whose work continues to inspire contemporary New Zealand artists. The film retraces Hodgkins' footsteps, taking viewers to the places she lived and worked, and shedding light on the challenges she faced and her unwavering commitment to her craft. Featuring insights from experts like Mary Kisler, Linda Tyler and Joanne Drayton, as well as creatives such as Kate Sylvester and Star Gossage, the film celebrates Hodgkins' courage and determination as a pioneering woman in the arts, and her enduring legacy as a role model for women everywhere.
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Golden Eagles: Witnesses to a Changing West
“Golden Eagles: Witnesses to a Changing West” takes you in the field with eagle researchers in Wyoming as they strive to discover how the birds are adapting to the many challenges facing them, climate change to sprawl, lead poisoning, energy development. Rappel into eagle nests; go behind the scenes at wildlife rehabilitation centers; hear stories of Indigenous peoples’ connections to the eagle.
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Echoes of the Han: A Journey Upstream
Born in a county town beside the Han River, Wan Ying, the host of the podcast bowuzhi.fm, never found interest in the river that flowed past her home every day. It wasn't until she returned home for a family funeral in early 2023, standing by the riverbank during a night of vigil, that she was deeply moved by the silent flow of the magnificent river. Inspired, she invites a few friends for a journey upstream the Han River, aiming to rediscover the mother river whose name has long been obscured. Han River, China's third mother river, originates between the Bashan Mountains and the Qinling Range. As it flows, it nurtures a commercial golden waterway connecting the north and south of China. This journey uncovers tales of pioneering construction, passionate departures from home, dramatic business legends, scenic views of vast farmlands, and breathtaking mountain vistas shrouded in mist.
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I Do This for a Living
“I Do This for a Living” is about what it means to grow up in the south, but more importantly growing up with secrets and thoughts that don’t align with the southern way of life. The story revolves around a broken family navigating the struggles of life and friendship.
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November 1963: The Killing of a President
Upcoming Roland Joffé film about the JFK assassination
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The Ballad of a Small Player
A high-stakes gambler decides to lay low in Macau after his past and debts catch up with him. Along the way he encounters a kindred spirit who might just hold the key to his salvation.
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Lucky Realy: the Portrait of a Doll
A fabricate with a loving dedication to Queer subtext. To cut and paste style evidence from the centuries of queer people surviving off of the scraps of heteronormative media. To stretching circumstantial to the extent that it is only barely believable. To stretching circumstantial to the effect that it does nothing to convince, but functions as a symbol, a carriage, a carrier, a provocateur, an insinuation, a gesture, or a false memorial. A trinket.
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The Battle
21 sequence shots depict moments in a defining night of the Battle of Rua Maria Antônia, in October 1968, from the point of view of the students and professors of the Left-wing Student Movement, in the Philosophy Faculty building of USP.
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Stars
Students at an academy of singing, dance, and music are subjected to strict rules and arduous challenges in an atmosphere of fierce rivalry as they pursue the dream of becoming show business stars. The clandestine relationship of Lisa and Damiano is likely to cost them the opportunity to participate in the final contest and will have to decide whether to sacrifice love to achieve success.
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Humble Pi
Matt Parker is no stranger to maths mistakes and so he sets out to fix them all. At last: a rigorous comedy show not afraid to show its working out. Being wrong has never felt so right.
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The Year I Started Masturbating
Ambitious overachiever Hanna just needs one more kid before her life is perfect. Instead, her baby daddy unexpectedly dumps her. Suddenly, she finds herself without a place to live, job or family. With every fiber of her being set for victory, Hanna refuses to give up and decides to win him back. But to get there means having to win something much more important, love and desire for herself and who she is.
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The Girl Who Killed Her Parents
Based on one of the most shocking and gruesome murder cases in Brazil, the film presents Daniel Cravinhos's point of view of the events that led to the death of Marísia and Manfred von Richthofen, his girlfriend’s parents.
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