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En algún lugar de Europa, a mediados del siglo XX, Albert trabaja cuidando de Mia, una niña con dientes de hielo. Mia nunca sale de un apartamento donde las puertas y ventanas siempre están cerradas. El teléfono suena con regularidad, y un individuo conocido como el Maestro se interesa por el estado de Mia. Un día, Albert recibe instrucciones: debe preparar a la niña y salir al exterior.
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En 2008, Natasha, una mujer recién rica, decide abrir una estación de televisión independiente en Rusia y construye un equipo de parias de mente abierta. Para 2020, Natasha lo ha perdido todo por la guerra de Rusia entre la Propaganda y la Verdad.
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A documentary that examines the repercussions of the child abuse scandal that erupted on Jersey in 2007 and the role played by two bloggers in forcing the island to confront its past.
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Ike White fue un prodigio musical que grabó un álbum clásico de funk y soul dentro de una prisión californiana en 1974. Luego desapareció. 30 años después, el director Dan Vernon lo rastreó, solo para encontrar un rastro de esposas, vidas e identidades falsas que dejan tantas preguntas como respuestas.
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Over 30 filmmakers and friends of Strand Releasing have come together to honor the company’s indelible contribution to independent cinema over the past thirty years. The participating filmmakers have each created a short film for the project, all shot on iPhones.
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An amazing story of love and family, celebrity and music. A portrait of Hedi Jouini, the godfather of Tunisian music.
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British surrealist Leonora Carrington was a key part of the surrealist movement during its heyday in Paris and yet, until recently, remained a virtual unknown in the country of her birth. This film explores her dramatic evolution from British debutante to artist in exile, living out her days in Mexico City, and takes us on a journey into her darkly strange and cinematic world.
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Playtime’s cosmopolitan spectacle, presented in a kaleidoscopic montage across seven large screens, interconnects the lives of its archetypical characters—hedge fund managers and art world players in London; a photographer in Reykjavik; and a Filipina houseworker in Dubai—each of whom is based on a real-life individual directly affected by the market collapse.
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TEN THOUSAND WAVES is a 9-screen installation shot on location in China. The work poetically weaves together stories linking China’s ancient past and present. Through an architectural installation, the work explores the movement of people across countries and continents and meditates on unfinished journeys. Conceived and made over four years, TEN THOUSAND WAVES sees Julien collaborating with some of China’s leading artistic voices, including the legendary siren of Chinese cinema Maggie Cheung; rising star of Chinese film Zhao Tao; poet Wang Ping; master calligrapher Gong Fagen; artist Yang Fudong; acclaimed cinematographer Zhao Xiaoshi; and a 100-strong Chinese cast and crew. The film’s original musical score is by fellow East Londoner Jah Wobble and The Chinese Dub Orchestra and contemporary classical composer Maria de Alvear.
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Derek, in chronological order, records the work and life that stands at the foot of Derek Jarman's humour and spirit of being an artist. The filmmaker and actress, Isaac Julien and Tilda Swinton respectively, have produced and narrated a film on his life whereby the use of language is perpetuated to give some type of palpable meaning to British audiences alone, and to their own personal relationship with him.
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Iris, una niña de seis años, descubre rápidamente cuáles son las normas del internado en el que, principalmente, se enseña danza, educación física y biología. La obediencia es primordial, y aquella interna que se rebele y trate de escapar será condenada a servir a las demás y a permanecer en el internado para siempre. A medida que pasa el tiempo, Iris se va acostumbrandoa su nueva vida. Sin embargo, hay algo que la confunde: todos los días, a las nueve de la noche, un retumbo subterráneo resuena en el corazón del bosque donde se sitúa el internado, y Bianca, la mayor de las internas, abandona el edificio para participar en una reunión secreta. Una noche, Iris la sigue hasta la casa donde se alojan las profesoras. En la misma, todo parece desierto. Incluso Bianca parece haberse desvanecido en el aire... Un drama sobre un grupo de niñas estudiantes en un idílico bosque encantado con reminiscencias a "Picnic en Hanging Rock". (FILMAFFINITY)
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Fantôme Afrique, weaves cinematic and architectural references through the rich imagery of urban Ouagadougou, the centre for cinema in Africa, and the arid spaces of rural Burkina Faso, and is punctuated by archival footage from early colonial expeditions and landmark moments in African history. Renowned choreographer and dancer Stephen Galloway (Ballet Frankfurt) and actor Vanessa Myrie (Baltimore) figure as ‘trickster/phantom’ and ‘witness’ in this carefully composed meditation on the denationalised, de-territorialised spaces born of the encounters between local and global cultures, where the ghosts of history linger amid the realities of the day
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Entrevistas e imágenes de archivo que ilustran y comentan la historia del género "blaxploitation".
