2017
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Music: the universal language. No matter from what corner of the world you come, or color of your skin, or language you speak, at the heart of every culture lies the basis of what makes their culture: music. The Listen Project is an ongoing journey and ever-growing library of intimate and rarely seen performances of artists from every corner of the globe, as they attempt to answer the unanswerable: "What would we put into a time capsule that will be opened in 1000 years?" A narrative that spans from the beginning of time is spun through different cultures.
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Israel, a country of refugees. Levinsky Park, a community of refugees divided. No country has been more historically indebted to refugees than Israel. Yet, in the Levinsky Park neighborhood of Tel Aviv, a community of sub-Saharan African refugees seeking freedom in a strange new world has created a vexing clash between two cultures, each seeking to retain its own identity.
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Is there a proper way to do anything these days? Ben is an extremely laid-back young man. He spends his days between driving for Uber and hanging out with friends; by night, he is a stand-up comedian, using his personal life as the raw material for the jokes. Occasionally, he will meet a girl who charms him, but somehow, he fails to pursue the romance any further.
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When you're chasing your tail, life is always just out of reach. Thirty-two-year-old Laura is coasting, waiting for her life to fall into place like it has for her friends, with houses in the suburbs or gigs on the Jimmy Kimmel show. The draft of Lauras novel is never quite ready, and she can't bring herself to settle down with her supportive, unexciting boyfriend. Even an affair with an intriguing performance artist isn't enough to keep her interest for long. But the harder she works to be herself," the less satisfying her life becomes.
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Cinequests Opening Nights are always a spectacular treat for movie lovers, and youll want to join us for an evening of laughs, as director Mark Pellington (Arlington Road) presents his captivating new comedy, starring Shirley MacLaine (Terms of Endearment, Mrs. Winterbourne, Postcards from the Edge) and Amanda Seyfried (Les Misérables, Big Love, Mamma Mia!). In business, Harriet Lauler (MacLaine) was always as good as they come; although her luck in friends and family, not so much.
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At some point, all children lose their innocence. Ten-year-old Jamal loves his carefree life with his mum in rural Bangladesh, until the day when he is robbed of his innocence when his childhood friend and everyday playmate is forced to become a child bride. With new insight into social norms, Jamal begins to notice his surroundings and realizes his need for a social identity. His search puts his mother at risk, as she has a past she is forced to hide.
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Hilarity ensues when his royal majesty finds his soul on the road trip from h**l through the Balkans. A sly and delightful "mockumentary" featuring the only-for-show monarch of Belgium. Stuck in Turkey with only his entourage and a documentarian without air travel or cell phones (both having been knocked out by a cosmic event) they attempt to get back to Belgium to confront a domestic crisis before the clock runs out.
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Google, Executive Producer Ridley Scott, and Director Richie Mehta join forces to celebrate the passion of India. Its the story of a single day: October 10, 2015. Its the story of you, me, family, love, passion, and of us. Its a remarkable and poetic journey of what it means to live. Through an initiative backed by Google, millions of people across India turned on their cameras and smartphones for one day to show the world what their everyday is like.
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Do you change or accept the person you see in the mirror? Writer-Director Natasha Kermani beautifully orchestrates a journey of self-discovery with the story of two women, or really one. A mysterious woman lands in the Southwest and assumes the identity of the first person she sees: a woman on a magazine cover. That woman is Julianna Fox, a porn star trying to find herself amid her own self-destruction. Her life seems to be going anywhere but up. Although uncertain of each other's existence their paths are the same.
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He's about to show them why they should never have messed with him. Federico Anduaga is a shy and feeble architect whos been a victim of a violent and abusive environment. When he gets a new job at a construction company, he finds himself involved in a corruption scheme. The pressure he suffers at work added to the constant abuse will lead him to transform his fear into the wrath that will push him to an unexpected limit of his own humanity.