Nathan Halpern

Nathan Halpern

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Nathan Halpern

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Will & Harper
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When Will Ferrell finds out his close friend of 30 years is coming out as a trans woman, the two decide to embark on a cross-country road trip to process this new stage of their relationship in an intimate portrait of friendship, transition, and America.
Emily, A Criminosa
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Sem sorte e sobrecarregada de dívidas, Emily se envolve em um golpe de cartão de crédito que a leva para o submundo do crime de Los Angeles, levando a consequências mortais.
Observador
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Julia abandonou a carreira de atriz para ir com o marido para um novo país. Ele conseguiu um emprego no país de onde veio. Indo atrás do marido, Julia acaba por se sentir deslocada e frequentemente sozinha, isso até que uma noite ela vê pela janela uma estranha figura no prédio a frente do dela. Ela pega a figura também olhando de volta a ela. Ela ignora. Em outro dia ela vai a um cinema local para assistir a um filme, mas o sentimento de estar sendo vigiada aumenta e começa a ter certeza que está sendo seguida por alguém.
Infiltrada: Golpe de Vingança
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Uma boxeadora se infiltra em um esquema de tráfico humano em busca de sua irmã desaparecida. Quando a missão fica ainda mais pessoal, ela é forçada a lutar contra um poderoso cartel e confrontar seu passado traumático.
O Efeito Martha Mitchell
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Este documentário traça o perfil da esposa do procurador-geral dos EUA na era Nixon, que foi tachada de louca por fazer denúncias contra o governo no caso Watergate.
Abaixo o Rei
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O astro do rap Money Merc foi enviado por seu empresário, Paul, para uma casa rural nos Berkshires para se concentrar em seu próximo álbum. Desiludido com sua carreira musical e com a manutenção 24 horas por dia, 7 dias por semana exigida pela fama, Merc não está com vontade de escrever nem gravar música. Em vez disso, ele passa a maior parte do tempo na fazenda do vizinho, aprendendo sobre agricultura e aproveitando a simplicidade da vida no campo. Depois que Merc anuncia abruptamente sua aposentadoria no Twitter, Paul corre para o interior para atraí-lo de volta à indústria da música.
In the Same Breath: Verdades e Mentiras da Pandemia
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Documentário que narra a origem e a propagação do coronavírus desde seus primeiros dias em Wuhan até sua disseminação pelos Estados Unidos.
The Antidote
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The Antidote weaves together stories of everyday people who are making the intentional choice to lift others up in powerful ways, taking action in the face of fundamentally unkind realities that are once unfortunate facts of life in America and deeply antithetical to our founding ideals.
Transhood: Crescer Transgênero
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Filmado ao longo de cinco anos em Kansas City, este documentário segue quatro crianças transexuais - começando com as idades de 4, 7, 12 e 15 - enquanto redefinem a “maioridade”. Essas crianças e suas famílias nos mostram as realidades íntimas de como o gênero está remodelando a família ao lado, em uma crônica única e sem precedentes sobre o crescimento de um transgênero no interior do país.
Pai, Filho, Pátria
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Depois de sofrer um ferimento grave no Afeganistão, um soldado embarca com seus filhos em uma jornada de amor, perda, redenção e legado.
Finding Yingying
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Yingying Zhang, a 26-year-old Chinese student, comes to the U.S. to study. In her detailed and beautiful diaries, the aspiring young scientist and teacher is full of optimism, hoping to also be married and a mother someday. Within weeks of her arrival, Yingying disappears from the campus. Through exclusive access to Yingying’s family and boyfriend, Finding Yingying closely follows their journey as they search to unravel the mystery of her disappearance and seek justice for their daughter while navigating a strange, foreign country. But most of all, Finding Yingying is the story of who Yingying was: a talented young woman loved by her family and friends.
Goldie
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Goldie, a precocious teenager in a family shelter, wages war against the system to keep her sisters together while she pursues her dreams of being a dancer. This is a story about displaced youth, ambition, and maintaining your spirit in the face of insurmountable obstacles.
Swallow
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Hunter é uma dona de casa grávida que parece ter tudo para ser feliz. Porém, cada vez mais pressionada em satisfazer as expectativas rígidas dos sogros controladores e do marido perfeito, sua fachada começa a ruir. Hunter desenvolve um hábito perigoso, e um segredo obscuro de seu passado é revelado.
Bully. Covarde. Vítima. A História de Roy Cohn
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Conheça a história de Roy Cohn, o advogado que ajudou a mandar seus avós, Julius e Ethel Rosenberg, para a cadeira elétrica.
One Child Nation
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Depois de se tornar mãe, um cineasta descobre a história incontável da política de um filho da China e as gerações de pais e filhos moldados para sempre por esse experimento social.
E Pluribus Unum: O Sonho Americano
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Neste curta documental, homens e mulheres de diversas origens compartilham suas histórias de vida enquanto se preparam para o teste da cidadania americana.
The Circus
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Drawing upon a vast and richly visual archive and featuring a host of performers, historians and aficionados, this four-hour mini-series follows the rise and fall of the gigantic, traveling tented railroad circus and brings to life an era when Circus Day would shut down a town and its stars were among the most famous people in the country.
Minding the Gap
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Três jovens se juntam para conseguirem escapar de suas famílias voláteis e da cidade onde nasceram, localizada em uma parte dos EUA que passa por um declínio da indústria. Enfrentando a responsabilidade da vida adulta, revelações inesperadas ameaçam a longa amizade do grupo.
Night Comes On
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Angel is released from juvenile detention on the eve of her 18th birthday. Haunted by her past, she embarks on a journey with her 10 year-old sister that could destroy their future.
Call Her Ganda
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Grassroots activists in the Philippines are spurred into action when a local transgender woman is found dead in a motel room with a 19-year-old U.S. marine as the leading suspect. As they demand answers and a just trial, hidden histories of U.S. colonization come bubbling to the surface.
Domando o Destino
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Depois de um acidente quase fatal na cabeça durante um rodeiro, um jovem cowboy passa a procurar uma nova identidade enquanto descobre o significado de ser um homem no coração da América do norte.
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
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A icônica cronista americana Joan Didion reflete sobre sua prolífica carreira e batalhas pessoais neste documentário dirigido por seu sobrinho, Griffin Dunne.
Almas Secas
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Duas amigas de infância voltando para casa, em um verão quente e úmido da Nova Inglaterra, passam os dias e noites em festas, mergulhando e reavivando velhos relacionamentos. Mas quando um problema vivido por ambas no passado se torna cada vez mais difícil de ser ignorado, a distância entre as duas começa a crescer.
I Am Another You
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Through the eyes of a young drifter who rejects society's rules and intentionally chooses to live on the streets, Chinese filmmaker Nanfu Wang explores the meaning of personal freedom – and its limits.
The Lovers and the Despot
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Hong Kong, 1978. South Korean actress Choi Eun-hee is kidnapped by North Korean operatives following orders from dictator Kim Jong-il. Her ex-husband, film director Shin Sang-ok, undertakes her search, but soon after he is kidnapped as well. In 1983, after living through years of tribulations, Kim Jong-il puts them in charge of the North Korean film industry in the hope of gaining international recognition.
Aborto: Histórias Contadas por Mulheres
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A thought-provoking look at the subject of abortion today, told through the stories of women struggling with unplanned pregnancies, abortion providers and clinic staff and activists on both sides of this contentious debate.
Hooligan Sparrow
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The danger is palpable as intrepid young filmmaker Nanfu Wang follows maverick activist Ye Haiyan (a.k.a Hooligan Sparrow) and her band of colleagues to Hainan Province in southern China to protest the case of six elementary school girls who were sexually abused by their principal. Marked as enemies of the state, the activists are under constant government surveillance and face interrogation, harassment, and imprisonment. Sparrow, who gained notoriety with her advocacy work for sex workers’ rights, continues to champion girls’ and women’s rights and arms herself with the power and reach of social media.
Sticky Notes
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The story of an emotionally detached backup dancer named Athena, who must return home to Florida to help care for her estranged father, Jack, after he gets diagnosed with cancer. There she must contend with Jack’s irresponsible lifestyle while looking after six year old Honey Bunny who is only beginning to grasp the err in Jack’s ways.
Out Run
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Mobilizing working-class transgender hairdressers and beauty queens, the dynamic leaders of the world's only LGBT political party wage a historic quest to elect a trans woman to the Philippine Congress.
What Was Ours
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Like millions of indigenous people, many Native American tribes do not control their own material history and culture. For the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes living on the isolated Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming, new contact with lost artifacts risks opening old wounds but also offers the possibility for healing. What Was Ours is the story of how a young journalist and a teenage powwow princess, both of the Arapaho tribe, travelled together with a Shoshone elder in search of missing artifacts in the vast archives of Chicago’s Field Museum. There they discover a treasure trove of ancestral objects, setting them on a journey to recover what has been lost and build hope for the future.
Right Footed
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Jessica Cox was born without arms as a result of a birth defect, but managed to overcome many physical and emotional challenges to become fully independent. She learned to type with her toes, drive a car with her feet, and amazingly -- fly an airplane with her feet. Right Footed follows Jessica as she transforms from a motivational speaker to a mentor, and eventually into a leading advocate for people with disability.
One & Two
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Um irmão e uma irmã descobrem uma saída sobrenatural para os problemas de sua casa, mas descobrem que seu elo é testado quando a realidade ameaça separar sua família.
The Age of Love
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A first-of-its-kind speed dating event for 70- to 90-year-olds sets up this comic and poignant look at the search for love among the booming senior set. Over one summer, we intimately follow as ten speed daters – fearlessly candid about their lives and desires – prepare for the big day, endure a rush of encounters, and anxiously receive their results. Then, as they head out on first dates, we discover how worries over physical appearance, intimacy and rejection, loss and new beginnings change – or don't change – from first love to the far reaches of life. Α funny and bittersweet story about the universality of love and desire, regardless of age.
Rich Hill
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If you ever find yourself traveling down Interstate 49 through Missouri, try not to blink—you may miss Rich Hill, population 1,396. Rich Hill is easy to overlook, but its inhabitants are as woven into the fabric of America as those living in any small town in the country. This movie intimately chronicles the turbulent lives of three boys living in said Midwestern town and the fragile family bonds that sustain them.
Here One Day
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When filmmaker Kathy Leichter moved back into her childhood home after her mother's suicide, she discovered a hidden box of audiotapes. Sixteen years passed before she had the courage to delve into this trove, unearthing details that her mother had recorded about every aspect of her life from the challenges of her marriage to a State Senator, to her son’s estrangement, to her struggles with bipolar disorder. HERE ONE DAY is a visually arresting, emotionally candid film about a woman coping with mental illness, her relationships with her family, and the ripple effects of her suicide on those she loved.
Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present
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Performance artist Marina Abramovic prepares for a major retrospective of her work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.