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Follows members of the Zulu Club, New Orleans’ first Black Mardi Gras, as they work to bring the Zulu parade back to the streets for Mardi Gras Day 2022, in the face of a global pandemic, hurricane Ida and the loss of members due to COVID and gun violence.
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For over 70 years, Jonas Mekas, internationally known as the "godfather" of avant-garde cinema, documented his life in what came to be known as his diary films. From his arrival in New York City as a displaced person in 1949 to his death in 2019, he chronicled the trauma and loss of exile while pioneering institutions to support the growth of independent film in the United States. Fragments of Paradise is an intimate look at his life and work constructed from thousands of hours of his own video and film diaries-including never-before-seen tapes and unpublished audio recordings. It is a story about finding beauty amidst profound loss, and a man who tried to make sense of it all... with a camera.
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Documental que retrata las consecuencias del huracán Katrina y su impacto en la juventud de Nueva Orleans.
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A documentary about Michael Brody Jr., a 21-year-old hippie millionaire who in 1970 promised to give away his $25M inheritance in an effort to usher in a new era of world peace.
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When one’s sole focus is to provide for their children, the stakes are extremely high. The need for multiple jobs to make ends meet has become a common reality for many families in this country, which leads to a very important question: who looks after the children while their parents work? Through the Night examines the economic and emotional toll affecting some American families, told through the lens of a 24-hour daycare center in Westchester, New York. At the center of it all is Nunu, the primary caregiver and a hero to many families in need of a safe space to bring their children.
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AND SO I STAYED is an award-winning documentary about survivors of abuse fighting for their lives and spending years behind bars. These women paid a steep price with long prison sentences, lost time with loved ones, and painful memories. Formerly incarcerated survivor-advocate Kim Dadou Brown, who met her wife while incarcerated, is a driving force in the passage of New York’s Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act (DVSJA), a new law meant to prevent survivors from receiving harsh prison sentences for their acts of survival. Nikki Addimando, a mother of two young children, suffered the consequences when a judge didn’t follow the law’s guidelines. Tanisha Davis, a single mother who was ripped away from her son in 2013, is hopeful the new law is her way out of a harsh prison sentence.
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How the Monuments Came Down is a timely and searing look at the history of white supremacy and Black resistance in Richmond. The feature-length film-brought to life by history-makers, descendants, scholars, and activists-reveals how monuments to Confederate leaders stood for more than a century, and why they fell.
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What do we talk about when we talk about socialism in the US? The Big Scary “S” Word explores the rich history of the American socialist movement and the people striving to build a socialist future today.
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Moving from the country to the city, IN OUR NATURE is about the disconnection from the environment one experiences while in urban areas. Inspired by D.A. Pennebaker's DAYBREAK EXPRESS, the film takes the viewer on a road trip that encompasses quiet, rural back roads and swimming holes to the kaleidoscope center of New York.
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Walter, un inmigrante de Angola, se reúne tras 17 años con su hija y su mujer en los Estados Unidos. Con el tiempo se han convertido en un grupo de extraños que comparten un apartamento de una habitación. Sin embargo, descubren una misma pasión por la danza que les ayudará a superar la distancia que existe entre ellos.
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An intimate portrait of Alabama public interest attorney Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, who for more than three decades has advocated on behalf of the poor, the incarcerated and the condemned, seeking to eradicate racial discrimination in the criminal justice system.
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Accept the Call charts a Muslim American family’s struggle against Islamic radicalisation. Through a series of calls from federal prison, Yusuf and his son examine and rebuild their understanding of their faith.
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When 17-year-old Lennon Lacy is found hanging from a swing set in rural North Carolina in 2014, his mother's search for justice and reconciliation begins while the trauma of more than a century of lynching African Americans bleeds into the present.
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A sensitive examination of child sexual assault, based on the case of a girl who was raped in her New Jersey elementary school by another eleven-year-old student.
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En un pueblo rural de Delhi (India), las mujeres han comenzado una revolución pacífica. Su lucha es contra el estigma de la menstruación. Durante generaciones, las mujeres no han tenido acceso a productos de primera necesidad, viéndose obligadas en muchos casos a abandonar sus funciones o incluso los colegios en los que estaban estudiando. Sin embargo, un día una compañía instala en el pueblo una máquina dispensadora de compresas que les permite crear sus propios productos. El proyecto nace en California, y recibe el nombre de 'The Pad Project'.
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Things Break In is an intimate portrait of independence and love. Ida and Rosa work on a farm to support their families during wartime. Things Break In drops us into a unique circumstance that invites us to see what might happen when two women in 1940 are required to work together in privacy.
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Era el 1 de agosto de 1966, y un mensaje se repetía en los medios de comunicación de Austin: “aléjense de la zona universitaria, hay un francotirador en la torre y está disparando”. El sitio al campus de la University of Texas duró 96 minutos, lo mismo que esta película que combina animación con imágenes de archivo para reconstruir el primer tiroteo masivo en un centro educacional norteamericano.
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Una mirada en profundidad a la vida y obra del periodista estadounidense James Foley, quien fue asesinado por terroristas de ISIS en 2014.
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Shannon Whisnant ha comprado una parrillera usada en una subasta de la ciudad, pero al abrirla encuentra la parte de un cuerpo, y es que Shannon encuentra una pierna embalsamada dentro de la parrillera. Debido a esa situación John Word entra en acción quien dice que es dueño de esa pierna, este misterioso personaje hará todo lo que esté a su alcance para poder recuperar su extremidad. Pero Shannon no se la va a entregar y es que la prensa ha hecho que esa situación atraiga la atención de millones de personas y Shannon quiere aprovechar toda esa atención para cumplir su sueño de convertirse en una estrella, sin embargo John no estará tan contento que no se le devuelva su extremidad, por lo que tomará otras medidas para recuperarla…
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In search of the lucrative matsutake mushroom, two former soldiers discover the means to gradually heal their wounds of war. Roger, a self-described 'fall-down drunk' and sniper in Vietnam, and Kouy, a Cambodian refugee who fought the Khmer Rouge, bonded in the bustling tent-city known as Mushroom Camp, which pops up each autumn in the Oregon woods. Their friendship became an adoptive family; according to a Cambodian custom, if you lose your family like Kouy, you must rebuilt it anew. Now, however, this new family could be lost. Roger's health is declining and trauma flashbacks rack his mind; Kouy gently aids his family before the snow falls and the hunting season ends, signaling his time to leave.
