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His methods are irreverent. His passion inspires.
Jay Holstein is a brilliant, charismatic, foul-mouthed professor at the University of Iowa, as well as an ordained rabbi who loves firing his handgun. Speaking to his impressionable and enraptured students on subjects such as sex, homosexuality, alcohol, the Holocaust, suicide and the inherent nature of man, the 69-year-old Holstein dominates the classroom in a way that turns the education system on its head.
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A film from the past determines the fate of a murderer.
In their film Aging Out (Cinequest 2004), Oscar-nominated Roger Weisberg and Oscar-winning Vanessa Roth portrayed the struggle of young people breaking out of the foster care system. Shortly after the film was completed, one of the subjects, Risa Bejarano, was brutally murdered. And to the dismay of Weisberg and Roth, their film played an integral role in determining whether the person accused of killing Risa was to live or die.
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Risking being denounced as an 'enemy of the people,' a man rescues 40,000 works of art.
During the reign of the Soviet Union, a small group of artists remained true to their vision despite threats of torture, imprisonment and even death. Igor Savitsky, recognizing the brilliance of these courageous men, cajoled money out of the same authorities who were banning the paintings and amassed an amazing collection of Russian modern art. With nowhere to display his collection, he convinced a desert outpost in Uzbekistan to build a museum to house the masterpieces, now worth millions.
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6 Wars. 10 Recipes. 60,361,024 Dead.
Six wars, all spanning the 20th century: World War II, Algeria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, the Balkans and finally Chechnya. And all those armies have to eat. In truth, there can be "no war without food."
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In the middle of the Caspian Sea lies perhaps the strangest city on earth.
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One man?s misery is another man?s art.
Tellervo and Oliver Kalleinen had a great idea - go around the world collecting people?s complaints, transforming them into a song and having the complainers perform it. And that?s exactly what they did. The result is often hilarious, both in the wide range of whines and grumbles and in the creative way these often trivial cavils are made into music.
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Can Mormons take the sex out of ?R? rated movies?
There are people who object to sex scenes in films. The Mormon Church goes so far as to advocate that their members avoid ?R? rated films. But with so many good movies carrying the dreaded ?R,? what is a devout Mormon to do? A company called Clean Flicks came up with a solution - edit out the offensive parts and everyone will be happy. Or so they thought.
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When facing even the most dire of situations, the strength of the human spirit prevails.
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A hauntingly beautiful, wordless film which transcends genres and easy definition with its poetically rendered tale of a buffalo stranded on the wrong side of the BORDER.
A young buffalo has somehow wandered across the Armenia-Azerbaijan border, with its high wire fences, sentry towers and armed guards, and gotten mired in the mud. Rescued by villagers, it is now a frightened outsider, silent witness and captive: a lone buffalo surrounded by cows, goats and humans. To return home is all it wants, but forever there is ? the border.