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CAMPUS contains over 3000 National Film Board (NFB) films, features and resources in both English and French.
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In rural Gaotai county, two lonely, middle-aged outcasts are pushed into an arranged marriage by their families. Ma (Wu Renlin) is a humble farmer with little to offer his timid and sickly wife, Cao (Hai Qing), except for a small abandoned house on a barren patch of land. From just a few seeds, their newly planted crops take root and flourish; and similarly, an unexpected bond between the two starts to blossom. As seasons pass their dedication to...
2) Oklahoma!
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In Oklahoma, several farmers, cowboys and a traveling salesman compete for the romantic favors of various local ladies.
3) Nightbreed
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Boone (Craig Sheffer) may be a troubled young man, but his troubles are just beginning. Set up as the fall guy in a string of slasher murders, he decides he'll hide by crossing the threshold that separates “us” from “them” and sneak into the forbidden subterranean realm of Midian. Boone will live among the monsters. Based on Clive Barker's novella "Cabal".
4) Curiosa
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Paris 1895. Pierre Louÿs is a Parisian dandy and poet on the verge of fame. Pierre and his friend Henri De Régnier are both madly in love with Marie de Heredia (Noemie Merlant), the cheeky daughter of their mentor. Despite her feelings for Pierre, Marie eventually marries Henri who has a better situation. Badly hurt, Pierre leaves for Algeria where he meets Zohra, a bewitching local girl with whom he shares a tumultuous relationship and a passion...
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In contrast to the high-end 2K digital technology used to restore Manhatta, I learned filmmaking on a 35mm Oxberry beam-splitter, multihead, aerial- image bi-pac optical printer. A dinosaur by today’s standards and all hand operated. Pt. 3 took 26 hours to shoot straight through without one mistake. “Sappho” was Barbara Lattanzi’s dog; and “Jerry” was the Chicago deli owner made famous by Tom Palazollo’s film. - Bruce Posner (director)....
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In this heartwarming true story, Angela Logan is a single mother with three teenage boys, a completely chaotic life, and a house that’s falling apart. Now, with the basement flooded, the roof collapsing, a mountain of debt and 10 days to pay her mortgage and taxes, Angela risks everything and decides to bake her way out of her mess, selling her amazing apple cakes to save her family and home from foreclosure.
8) Stone Pillow
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In an effort to understand the plight of homeless women living on the streets, young social worker, Carrie Lange (Daphne Zuniga) attempts befriending a homeless woman named Florabelle (Lucille Ball). Florabelle believes Carrie is runaway and tells her to go to the homeless shelter for help. Carrie stops another woman from stealing Florabelle's cart and gains her dubious trust. So begins Carrie's education in survival on the streets of Manhattan.
10) One Chance
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The true story of Paul Potts, a shy, bullied shop assistant by day and an amateur opera singer by night who became a phenomenon after being chosen for -- and ultimately winning -- Britain's Got Talent (2007).
11) Humor Me
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With an interminable case of writer's block and a personal family crisis, playwright Nate is forced to move into his father's retirement community. But a chance encounter with the local community theatre group may help turn his life around … or signal the end of his once promising career for good.
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Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara, he feels like a fraud: he hasn't really tasted life, and yet he's offering advice to patients who are just not getting any happier. So Hector decides to break out of his deluded and routine driven life. Armed with buckets of courage and child-like curiosity, he embarks on a global quest in hopes of uncovering the elusive secret...
13) The Breadwinner
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A headstrong young girl in Afghanistan disguises herself as a boy in order to provide for her family.
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A laugh out loud comedy about an ex-convict, Just released from prison and placed on probation, Tijuana Jackson (Romany Malco) sets out to fulfill his dream of becoming a world renowned motivational speaker, but fails to comply with strict orders from his no-nonsense probation officer (Regina Hall). And with his sister Sharea (Tami Roman) needing TJ to be a better role model for her son Lil' Eric (Alkoya Brunson), his mother (lyne Odums) needing him...
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Marchello, a sheltered indoor cat escapes and is forced to face the challenges of the mean city streets in a quest to find his way home. THE AMAZING ADVENTURE OF MARCHELLO THE CAT is the first-ever live feature with a cast of real cats and was heartwarmingly filmed over six years, from the cats' point of view--eight inches from the ground.
17) Ben is Back
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19 year-old Ben Burns (Lucas Hedges) unexpectedly returns home to his family's suburban home on Christmas Eve morning. Ben's mother, Holly (Julia Roberts), is relieved and welcoming but wary of her son staying clean. Over a turbulent 24 hours, new truths are revealed, and a mother's undying love for her son is tested as she does everything in her power to keep him safe
18) Summertime
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Over the course of a hot summer day in Los Angeles, the lives of 25 young Angelenos intersect. A skating guitarist, a tagger, two wannabe rappers, an exasperated fast-food worker, a limo driver- they all weave in and out of eachother's stories. Through poetry they express life, love, heartache, family, home and fear. One of them just wants to find someplace that still serves good cheeseburgers.
19) Incarnate
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After a single-mother witnesses a demonic possession in her 11-year-old son, a scientist attempts to rid him of the evil spirit. Driven by his own tragic past, he enters the boy’s unconscious mind where he confronts a ferocious demon.
20) Asian Stories
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A collection of student films from the University of Southern California Cinematic Arts.
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