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A rampant, street level story of mentorship and everyday heroism in tough circumstances. An inner city coach's son, estranged in his youth from his father, spends five years on ball fields in inner city Oakland and Havana, following the lives of two extraordinary youth baseball coaches, Roscoe in Oakland and Nicolas in Havana. The coaches meet on videotape and two years of red tape later, Coach Roscoe and nine Oakland players travel to Havana to play Coach Nicolas' team. For one week, the players and coaches eat, dance, swim, argue and play baseball together. But when the parent of an Oakland player is murdered back home, it brings back the inescapable reality and challenges of life in an American inner city.
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Seen through the eyes of family farmers in southwest France, AFTER WINTER, SPRING is an intimate portrait of an ancestral way of life under threat in a world increasingly dominated by large-scale industrial agriculture.
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Is it ever rational to choose death? On Independence Day at Stern Ranch, 77-year-old solar energy pioneer Bob Stern finds out he’s seriously ill – possibly dying. Meanwhile, an elderly in-law is dying on artificial life support. Bob decides to cheat that fate and take his own life. His family tries to stop him. Bob sets up a video camera. Daughter Susan Stern explores “rational suicide,” the “right-to-die” and the difficult end-of-life choices faced by an aging population.
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Documentário que retrata a história de sete crianças israelenses e palestinas em Jerusalém. Apesar de morarem no mesmo lugar, elas vivem em mundos completamente distintos, separados por diferenças religiosas. Com idades entre 8 e 13 anos, raramente elas falam por si mesmas e estão isoladas pelo medo. Neste filme, suas histórias oferecem uma nova e emocionante perspectiva sobre o conflito no Oriente Médio. Melhor filme na escolha do público no Festival Internacional de Roterdã de 2001: um caso inédito, já que o filme ainda não tinha distribuição na Europa.
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Filmmaker Ronald Levaco, journeys back to China, the nation of his boyhood days, to discover what became of an old friend of his family, Israel Epstein.
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This unconventional ethnographic documentary of the Hopi people, an indigenous people of the North American Southwest, weaves natural photography together with interviews about food and religious practice.
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An improvisational comedian, working with The Committee improv group in San Francisco, struggles to be taken seriously.
