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Mahmoud and Rezhev are Kurds who have smuggled themselves out of Iraq into London, seeking political asylum in a land which promises them freedom and opportunities. They file their papers with the proper authorities and await their destiny. However, due to a bureaucratic snafu, their paperwork is lost. Sought by the police for deportation, they face the unenviable choice of hiding or turning themselves in to face certain torture and probable death back home.
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Just like the other residents at the assisted living facility, Harbor Place, I played bingo, hung out in the courtyards contemplating "the golden years," and even helped fellow neighbors change their oxygen tanks. However, unlike Tammy (aged 95) or even Bill (aged 80), I am only nineteen years old.
My name is Andrew Jenks and this past summer, I moved into a senior residence in Florida. I moved into room 335. For one summer, I did all of the things that old people do. I wanted to find the answer to the question: how do they feel now that they face the end of their lives?
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A classic of the world theatre since it was first published in 1882, Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People is given a modern film adaptation under the masterful direction of Erik Skjoldbjaerg (Insomnia, 1997). Instead of a contaminated spa, however, this modern retelling cleverly involves the contamination a small Norwegian town?s mineral water bottling plant?a plant that is tied to the town?s economy because its product is about to be launched internationally.
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The right to vote in America is sacred. American Blackout examines the recurring pattern of the disenfranchisement of the African-American vote. It is a story that goes to the very heart of our democracy, and it has been virtually ignored by the mainstream media.
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An intense tour de force, Ambulance is a fast-paced thriller about Tim and Frank, desperate and in need of fast cash to save their dying mother. They decide to rob a bank in order to raise enough money, but things go horribly wrong, and when their getaway car is blocked by the police, they grab the first vehicle they can get their hands on. And keeping with their bad luck of the day, it happens to be an ambulance.
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Addison is a 9-year-old coping with the death of his father in his own way. Shutting out the rest of the world, he refuses to speak to anyone and finds refuge hiding behind a blanket he has hung from his bedroom wall?a place where he develops a new and powerful voice that only he can hear. Can he really affect life around him from this secret command post? Has he unleashed some indefinable force?
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On a rainy night, the composer Mimi Nightingale meets a young singer to whom he gives the poetic name ?Venus Morningstar? and for whom he will write his most beautiful songs. And everything seems to go great. But after seven years of petty arguing, Mimi and Venus? relationship falls apart. After their separation, they both become painfully aware that they have lost the love of their lives. At first, they attempt practical solutions to overcome their grief: Venus finds a new boyfriend and Mimi?kills himself.
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Best friends Dunkin and Jay have little to live for in Los Angeles. Dunkin is tired of the monotony of his aimless existence and is suffering from a chronic stomach disease. Jay has just been dumped by his fiancé. With nothing else to anticipate at home but the next cocaine-induced high, Dunkin and Jay journey on a whim to exotic Colombia.
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Showing a stylistic bravura and confidence rare among upcoming Spanish helmers, Ramon Salazar's 20 Centimeters is a vastly entertaining sophomore effort that fuses a wide range of influences?Hollywood musicals, neo-realism and early-Almodovarian kitsch into a distinctive, giddy whole.
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Mónica Cervera, Pablo Puyol
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"What do you know about an Irish Circus?"
As a writer and a poet, I was always interested in the link between performance and one's native culture. Ireland has produced such a rich history of exceptional artists that it was interesting to me what kinds of bridges there were between past traveling artisans, and the lifestyle of performance artists today.
The circus is such a mystical lifestyle that it was interesting to be able to find a group of circus people who were living like they had for hundreds of years.