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At the heart of Falling... In Love are four people. Alan is a self-centered, self-abasing, cynical young man, easily swayed, up for anything, who by day parks cars at a ?love motel? and by night is involved with gamblers as an underground boxer.
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An irate father throws his son?s basketball out the window. Follow it to a new girlfriend. A spoiled brat speeds off in her boyfriend?s car. Follow it to a bad idea. The good girl is saving up for a plane ticket. Follow her as hope takes off.
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On May 13, 2000, Eusebio de Haro, a young Mexican migrant, was shot and killed in Texas during one of his journeys north. The signpost at the beginning of El Inmigrante shows a high number of such occurrences, but this deeply humanitarian story focuses on Haro?s death to examine the Mexico-U.S. border crisis with particular scrupulousness.
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In 1964, St. Augustine, Florida was on the front lines of the civil rights battle. Martin Luther King fought against the segregated city beaches and businesses in town, and St. Augustine?s black residents led the struggle to overturn the racist establishment.
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Xiao-Yun is a sixteen-year-old high school student living in a small riverside town in China's southwestern Sichuan province. A clumsy teenage love affair gets Yun pregnant, and what at first is only a nuisance that she can?t get rid of soon becomes a mortal sin hushed away. Yun has violated China?s rigid morals and stigmatized herself for life. She and her boyfriend Wang Feng are expelled from school. He leaves her after convincing his sister Wang Zheng-Yue, to help Yun give birth to her baby, then give it up for adoption.
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Lumber baron Rex Clemens left a legacy to his small rural hometown of Philomath?every high school graduate receives a generous college scholarship. But after forty years and thousands of scholarships, Steve Lowther, Rex?s nephew, and overseer of his trust fund, is on a mission: to correct the ?political correctness? of the high school. And unless the person he blames goes?the Superintendent?the scholarship program will be terminated.
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In the comedic tradition of Arrested Development and The Office, Chalk pulls its viewer into the frenetic and awkwardly painful journey of three novice high school teachers as they navigate one memorable school year.
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Location: Mexico City. El Vago is an old school, three-cushion billiards man who has just won his own billiards hall in a game. And though he may hold dear the values of his sport, El Vago?s still just a hustler and not much of a businessman. Previous owner Mex, his daughter Pigeon, and her boyfriend Mutt are going to help Vago turn the hall into the type of successful establishment he wants. But Vago soon finds that?no matter what he can do with a cue?running his own hall isn?t as easy as he thought it would be.
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A corpse is wheeled into the morgue, but as soon as he starts telling his story to the curious bodies on the other slabs, you know that this is no ordinary movie. Opening with this outrageous bit of macabre humor, Darko Mitrevski?s (Goodbye, 20th Century ? Cinequest, 1999) rollicking Bal-can-can thrusts the viewer into its madcap world of crime, loyalty, wild escapades and dynamic fantasy spanning over fifty years. The plot kicks off in the 1950s, following blood brothers, Vitomir and Serafim, as they muscle their way through Macedonia.
Vlado Jovanovski, Adolfo Margiotta, Zvezda Angelovska, Branko Uri, Seka Sablji
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Is it always true that what doesn?t kill you makes you stronger? Back Home reveals the remarkable true story of 27-year-old J.B. Rutagarama. Like all Tutsis, he was marked for murder in Rwanda's 1994 genocide. Despite several close calls with machete-wielding militias, J.B. managed to survive. The rest of his family was not so lucky.