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Gut Hack
Josiah Zayner, a former NASA scientist turned bio-hacker, seeks to rid himself of ongoing physical ailments by replacing all the bacteria living inside of him with that of a donor's. This method involves, among other things, swallowing pills made of the donor's poop, and scrubbing himself "clean"...Watch Movie
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The Hawk is Dying
George Gattling finds little fulfillment as an auto upholsterer, the patriarch of a broken family, and the occasional lover of a lonely psychology student. When stricken with a family tragedy, George becomes obsessed with taming a wild, red-tail hawk. At his weakest moment, he...Watch Movie
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Dream City
In Iraqi Kurdistan, two friends, Emma, a filmmaker from the US, and Diana, a local aspiring actress, make a movie. When they begin Diana is living on her own in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan's buzzing capital city. She is studying to be a flight attendant and enjoying the freedom of being independent...Watch Movie
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Metalhead
Fueled by a remarkable breakout performance by actress Thora Bjorg Helga, director Ragnar Bragason's intense drama of loss, faith, redemption, Megadeth, and Judas Priest, begins with a farming accident in the 1980s that sends a young girl, Hera, and her parents into a tail-spin of grief over the...Watch Movie
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Behind the Door
Writer Gouverneur Morris's bizarre tale unfolds in a series of disquieting flashbacks that serve to continually ratchet up suspense and foreboding. Producer Thomas H. Ince and director Irvin Willat showed daring and imagination in their adaptation of the sensational material. U-boat captain...Watch Movie
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This is Bossa Nova
Paulo Thiago's acclaimed documentary THIS IS BOSSA NOVA tells the story of Bossa Nova, the Brazilian music born in the early-1950s that would attain definite international recognition a decade later with a memorable concert at New York's Carnegie Hall. This film includes...Watch Movie
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The Case Of The Three Sided Dream
The story of multi-instrumentalist Rahsaan Roland Kirk who went from blind infant, to child prodigy, to adult visionary, to political activist, and finally to paralyzed showman. A seemingly superhuman musical force who played literally until the day he died.Watch Movie
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Elektro Moskva
Welcome to a weird and definitely wired world of avant-garde rock musicians, DIY circuit benders, vodka-swilling dealers and urban archaeologists/collectors, all fascinated with obsolete Soviet-era electronic synthesizers: primitive and ungainly beasts like the Polyvox, ESKO, Yunost and the...Watch Movie
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Sophisticated Acquaintance
Filmmaker Daniel Kremer began shooting SOPHISTICATED ACQUAINTANCE as his first feature-length film in 2006. He shelved an early cut of it in 2007, only to finally finish it ten years later in 2016. Mixing elements of narrative, experimental, pseudo-documentary and essayist...Watch Movie
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Raise Your Kids on Seltzer
Terry and Tessa are married ex cult deprogrammers living in the San Francisco Bay Area. A "deprogrammer" is a professional contracted by families to kidnap people away from dangerous cults. Terry and Tessa's cryptic motto during their often verbally and physically abusive...Watch Movie
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Zyara with Rene Deek
Renee Deek is an old Lebanese actress and model. She broke all the rules and fought for her dream and passion for the arts. She now lives with her brother, who is unable to be independent for lack of support by the government. She is still active as an actress and teacher.Watch Movie
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Scrap Odyssey
SCRAP ODYSSEY's title (and Richard Strauss theme) refer to Stanley Kubrick's 2001. But this odyssey is distinctly down-to-earth. Polish documentarians Paweł Ferdek and Łukasz Gutt offer an arresting snapshot of the shifting plates of global trade by focusing on one Kyrgyz truck...Watch Movie
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Niezależna Republika Samosiuk
A brief portrait of Zygmunt Samosiuk, a great forgotten Polish cinematographer who died in 1983, leaving behind a tremendous body of work in Polish cinema (such as THE BIRCH WOOD, LANDSCAPE AFTER THE BATTLE and AUSTERIA). Among his amazing accomplishments, he introduced...Watch Movie
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Hotel Polski
A mysterious and little known event that occurred in Warsaw during the summer of 1943 that was referred to as the "Hotel Polonia Affair" is the subject of the short documentary from director Kama Veymont, who puts himself on a quest to find out what happened to around 2500 Jews who obtained false...Watch Movie
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The Brass Band
What happens to the Brass Band, founded in 1953 by the workers of Mittal Steel (formerly Lenin Steelworks in Krakow, Poland), when a new owner takes over the factory in a privatization process? Their story is a great example of a former socialist country's painful transition to capitalism. The...Watch Movie
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Leaders
Documentary filmmaker Paweł Ferdek delves into the take-no-prisoners world of electoral politics as seen in one Warsaw elementary school. Marcel, a self-acknowledged long-shot, opens LEADERS saying that he is running for student council out of boredom, a desire to make certain that pesky...Watch Movie
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How It is Done
A popular media advisor and consultant to many leading Polish politicians, Piotr Tymochowicz conducts a controversial experiment to prove he can make a charismatic leader out of any anonymous person. Filmmaker Marcel Lozinski decides to test Tymochowicz's theories and follow him with his camera....Watch Movie
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The Secret of Love
Director Krystian Matysek explores the greatest question of all: what is love? Is it suffering, as in Russia? A nervous rush, like in France? Or a sense of home, as in Indonesia? Is it fidelity, misfortune, death or jealousy? Are we born to be monogamous or polyamorous?...Watch Movie
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Komeda: A Soundtrack for a Life
An invaluable introduction to a largely unknown creative talent (outside of Poland), KOMEDA: A SOUNDTRACK FOR LIFE introduces viewers to Krzysztof Komeda, a Polish jazz musician best-known for his score for Roman Polanski’s ROSEMARY'S BABY. Komeda, who died prematurely in 1969...Watch Movie
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Broken Dream
An adrenalin-infused telling of one of the most promising motorcycle racers in Poland, Krzysztof Cegielski (aka Cegla), who participated in the championships of the Polish, English and Swedish speedway divisions. His bright and promising future was suddenly interrupted by a devastating accident....Watch Movie
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La ronde
Come nightfall, Ariane bids farewell to her father's bungalow, twin brother, hometown and landmarks, driven by a longing to wake up elsewhere- anywhere but here. Her final scooter ride through the streets, fields, and woods is a solemn journey filled with evocative encounters. In LA RONDE, Sophie...Watch Movie
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The Jaundiced Eye
This harrowing documentary chronicles the decade long trials and traumas incurred by a Michigan man, Stephen Matthews, and his straight father, Melvin Matthews, who were wrongfully accused by Stephen's ex-girlfriend and her boyfriend of molesting Stephen's son. Despite the...Watch Movie
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Concrete Night
A stunning, dream-like odyssey through a beautiful and otherworldly Helsinki over the course of one evening, CONCRETE NIGHT follows the impressionable fourteen-year-old Simo as he keeps his soon-to-be incarcerated brother company. The official Finnish submission to the Academy Awards® for Best...Watch Movie
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I am Not a Hipster
A young singer/songwriter with a growing local following wanders through his apathetic life. When his dad and three sisters show up to spread his mother's ashes, he is reminded of the part of himself he left back in Ohio and is forced to deal with the person he has become. I...Watch Movie
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OK, Good
Guided by motivational affirmations and encouraged by an intense physical-movement workshop, actor Paul Kaplan struggles through a series of demoralizing auditions that push him towards the edge. OK, GOOD mixes vérite technique with confining formalism to build a hypnotic and tweaked-out...Watch Movie
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American Radical
A devoted son of Holocaust survivors and ardent critic of Israeli foreign policy, the polarizing American political scientist and author Norman Finkelstein has been called a lunatic and self-hating Jew by some, and an inspirational revolutionary by others. Exploring the deeply...Watch Movie
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You Weren't There
YOU WEREN'T THERE: A HISTORY OF CHICAGO PUNK 1977-1984 looks back on the impact that the Punk movement had on the Windy City. Though overlooked in the annals of Rock history when compared to media-centric Los Angeles, New York and London, Chicago served as an important early...Watch Movie
