United States
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"It's Fellini on an Ed Wood budget," says director Trent Harris. No kidding! Throw out all those American History texts that tell you why the Mormons settled in Utah and not someplace else. At last--believe it or not--the true origins of that fabled migration can now be told! Follow the adventures of the intrepid Lucinda, a slightly befuddled, non-practicing Mormon, as she seeks to unravel the deep dark secrets behind Brigham Young and his little-known twenty-eighth wife.
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Out Of Sight is a powerfully ironic film of considerable power. Diane Starin, sightless since an infant, openly reveals the most intimate details of her life--considerable warts and all--to the probing eye of filmmaker David Sutherland's camera. Bravely--but also rather matter-of-factly, she provides an unflinching look into a life that is always full, albeit one that is also achingly complicated and messy. Here the stereotypical image of the noble blind person, heroically coping with the world in darkness, is not only rejected; it is summarily blown to pieces.
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The film that swept the Thai Academy Awards is a warm and insightful charmer that introduces us to a wonderful ensemble cast. This is the story of a young, modern family which is experiencing the pain of divorce and separation and its effects on the children. What is striking here are the many similarities to western life (working parents, child care problems, tensions between parents and children) along with problems such as homelessness, drugs, and crime.
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The idea is simple. Get next to the President to film a staged assassination attempt. Make it look realistic. Don't use actors. But what happens when the plan takes a sinister turn, and you can no longer tell the difference between reality and fiction? You have one crazy ride on your hands is what you have, and the action does not stop until the you've sunk into the ultimate depths of madness. Radical filmmaker Arthur Gwenlyn is set on making the definitive Presidential assassination film.
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Afro-Brazilians in Sao Paulo and Bahia have suffered from a long history of racism and discrimination. Director Michele Stephenson shows us how a lack of identity leads one young group of Afro-Brazilian women to discover their identity through rap music. (Portuguese with English subtitles) -- Mike Rabehl
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"I have a dream..." are some of the most famous words used in history to express the state of a society undergoing momentous change in thought and action, and although Reverend Martin Luther King was assassinated for his dream, his words continue to ring true in the hearts and minds of today's youth. Known as the 'Black Harvard' to it's students, Morehouse College has been able to pride itself on having such graduates as Olympic Gold Medalist Edwin Moses, film director Spike Lee, 'Ebony' magazine publisher Lerone Bennett, and Reverend Martin Luther King.
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For brothers Dominic, 14, and Patrick, 21, life is a bucolic idyll. They live in an isolated corner of south-western Ireland. With one parent dead and the other a global wanderer, the boys are free to shape their own world - one in which they are responsible for their own survival, but are also able to roam with their beloved dog, Ishka, playact and roughhouse. One day a nosy aunt shows up on the boy's doorstep with a lovely, young German girl in tow. Her name is Anya, and she is intrigued by the boys and their circumstances.
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The Hollywood pitch for Miss Amerigua might be Gabriel Garcia Marquez meets Che Guevara and Jerry Lewis. But this isn't Hollywood, it's the fictional town of Amerigua, Paraguay, where the local military despot (guilty of murdering rebellious campesinos) presides over the annual beauty contest. It's an affair slightly less flamboyant than the Miss America Pageant, but no less important to the more prominent citizens of Amerigua. Complicating the judging is the fact that the general's future daughter-in-law and his mistress are both contestants.
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Crescenzio is 33-years-old, works for the gas company reading meters, still lives with his dysfunctional family, has no friends and on top of it all, his obesity attracts shouts of "Fatso!" from passing cars. He is in love with Giuliana who does not reciprocate his love. Guiliana works at a electronic repair shop as a secretary, and her boss is a violent and corrupt old man. Crescenzio's brother, Benjamine, also works at the repair shop and has an almost entirely opposite personality as Crescenzio.