Google e o Cérebro do Mundo (2013)
The story of Google's most ambitious project ever and the people who tried to stop it.
Gênero : Documentário
Runtime : 1H 30M
Director : Ben Lewis
Sinopse
O Google em 2002 tentou implementar um dos projetos mais ambiciosos da história da internet: escanear todos os livros existentes para criar uma livraria virtual , projeto previsto por HG Wells em 1937 e chamado de "World Brain". Porém, existem outras intenções além da preservação de todo o conhecimento registrado pela humanidade... Durante os escaneamentos, os escritores e editores entraram com ações para parar a ação de escaneamento da Google, alegando direitos autorais.
Jim Killeen googled his own name and made a documentary about the men with whom he shares it.
Laura 19 anos, estudante em seu primeiro ano de faculdade, quer terminar seus estudos, não importa o custo. Embora tenha um trabalho casual, ela não pode fazer face às despesas. Cada vez mais desesperada com sua situação financeira, ela resolve responder a um anúncio on-line certa noite.
"Joe, 57, gostaria de conhecer estudantes para os momentos de ternura . 100 euros por hora." Uma vez e nunca mais, Laura promete a si mesma. Três dias depois, Laura está em um quarto de hotel com Joe - e assim começa uma espiral descendente.
A ilusão do dinheiro "fácil": Esqueça as sensações repugnantes e pense apenas no envelope cheios de dinheiro. No momento em que ela chega ao seu segundo cliente, Laura, uma jovem estudante com a ferida, mas já uma prostituta, quer parar. Será que ela consegue fazer isso?
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A route by the Catalonia wine country accompanied by the reflections of wine personalities. History, land, ecology, genetic uniqueness, local consumption, etc. Halfway between documentary and reportage this work aims to rediscover a drink that reached the Catalonia's coast 2,700 years ago, and that nowadays it's an important part of people identity. Raul Deamo directs this debut documentary. It's an independent project, funded with crowd-funding and trans-media vocation that has taken three years to complete.
Rain or Shine takes the viewer on the comic journey of young Ella who’s keen to show off her swishy new sunglasses, only to be dogged by a persistent raincloud whenever she puts them on. The viewer has a direct impact on the pace of which the events unfold, depending on where their focus lies at various points throughout the film.
A charming illusionist, an adventurous queen of hearts and an evil green man journey through early cinema, film magic and love. Back to the Moon celebrates the artistry of film director and magician Georges Méliès.
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A cynical counselor at a crisis hotline finds himself in a life or death situation when a young man calls and threatens to kill three people and then himself.
Two sisters Tae and Yo come back to their old house which is soon to be torn down. Clearing up the family mementos, Tae finds a red box full of recipes and letters written by their mother who died 20 years ago. In these recipes and letters, she finds out how her mother had struggled in her life due to relocation from Japan to Taiwan, the death of her Taiwanese husband, and a battle with cancer. Tae travels to Taiwan to trace her mother's past, reminiscing about the dishes she made for the family.
A woman turns her sister's belated birthday celebration into an intervention, but as events unfold, it becomes unclear which sibling needs the most help.
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Love Is A Verb is an examination of a social movement of Sufi-inspired Sunni Muslims that began in Turkey in the l960s and now spans across the globe. The group is called Hizmet, the Turkish word for "service" or The Gülen Movement after its inspiration and teacher, Fethullah Gülen, a man TIME magazine named as one of the most influential leaders in the world in 2013 for "...preaching a message of tolerance."
Um veterano de guerra desiludido e amargo se envolve com o Partido Comunista e acaba se apaixonando por uma de suas "instrutoras". Primeiro, verdadeiros crentes, eles percebem seu erro quando testemunham líderes do PC assassinando um membro que questiona os princípios do partido. Eles tentam deixar a festa, mas são marcados por assassinato e caçados pelos membros do partido.
A blood feud divides a small town in rural Newfoundland.
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The daughter of a late comic is forced to confront her fears of performing.
Comédia, delírio rigoroso sobre a vida, paixão e obra do revolucionário escritor modernista Oswald de Andrade. Último longa-metragem de Joaquim Pedro, no qual ele recria o universo do movimento modernista de 1922, centrado nas atividades frenéticas do escritor e dos demais artistas e simpatizantes do período. Com imagem e som restaurados digitalmente, o longa-metragem vem acompanhado pelo precioso documentário Cinema Novo, de Joaquim Pedro, que filma, com intimidade, os cineastas do movimento em atividade nas diferentes fases de produção de seus filmes.
A down-and-out crook on the lam befriends a young street urchin, in an Italian port city. At first amused that the boy is a sneak thief, he tries to deflects the kid from a life of crime. Tipped off by a woman anxious to collect the reward for him (who is wanted for murder), the police pursue the two lost souls.
All the colour, depth and mystery of India's complex and riotous cultural heritage is brought to light in a single action which changes two countries forever. A proud Indian international student is attacked in a brightly lit train carriage against a backdrop of darkness. Unknown to his attackers his high caste status has little relevance, and in one poignant moment, he is rescued by his counterpart, an 'untouchable', a low caste. They are united by what would otherwise be impossible. The highly publicised event sends shock waves through the international community.
A bunch of pernicious salamander men from the planet Kulimon in the Moffit Galaxy plan on taking over Earth by unleashing a lethal plague on mankind. It's up to valiant superhero Starman from the Emerald Planet to save the human race before it's too late.
A blue-collar family man breaks the promise he'd made to never fight again. Now forty years old, with a wife and four children who need him, Joe Carman risks everything to go back into the fighting cage and come to terms with his past.
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THE IRON ORCHARD é a história de Jim McNeely (Lane Garrison), um jovem que foi para os vibrantes e brutais campos petrolíferos do oeste do Texas em 1939. Em um estado repleto de petróleo e cheio de ambição, McNeely se instala em uma comunidade de cidade pequena. superando lentamente o trauma da Grande Depressão. O formidável caminho à sua frente está cheio de obstáculos - chefes dominadores que tentam mantê-lo abaixado, homens de petróleo poderosos que relutam em investir em um rosto renovado e mulheres que vêem a salvação em seus encantos - mas ele encontra um vislumbre de esperança em seu primeiro ama: nova esposa Lee Montgomery (Ali Cobrin) e perfuração de petróleo. Com tudo se encaixando para subir ao topo da cadeia petrolífera, McNeely tropeça em seu sucesso e, por sua vez, põe em risco seu desejo desesperado de conquistar esse admirável mundo novo de influência e riqueza.
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