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CAMPUS contains over 3000 National Film Board (NFB) films, features and resources in both English and French.
1) Yo
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Winner of Best Film at the Morelia International Film Festival, "Yo" is based on a short story by Nobel laureate J.M.G. Le Clezio. "My name is Yo, I'm 15 years old, or that's what they tell me," explains the protagonist (Raul Silva) early on. A strong young man with limited mental skills, he says he is fifteen years old, although he seems to be older. He lives and works in his mother's restaurant by a busy freeway. Yo loves his mother but hates her...
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Francisca, a young Portuguese woman who's living in Brazil, welcomes Teresa, an old acquaintance she'd lost contact with, into her home. While Teresa is discovering the place where she means to settle, Francisca craves for her life back in Lisbon. The film follows each woman's adventures in the city and the deep bond of friendship that grows between them, forcing them to deal with conflicting desires: a will to leave for an unknown country and a relentless...
Series
Criterion collection volume 304
Description
A science-fiction film in which a frail and exotic alien is exposed to and ultimately overcome by technology, American capitalism and earthly love.
10) Age of dinosaurs
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"Using breakthrough flesh-regeneration technology, a biotech firm creates a set of living dinosaurs. But when the creatures escape their museum exhibit and terrorize Los Angeles, a former firefighter must rescue his teenage daughter from the chaos brought on by the Age of Dinosaurs"--www.imdb.com.
16) Dark city
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A man wakes up with no memory, and can't remember why he is being pursued by police for a string of murders.
17) Jurassic World
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Twenty-two years following the events of Jurassic Park, Isla Nublar now includes a completely functioning dinosaur theme park, as once envisioned by John Hammond. After ten years of operation and decline in visitors, a unique attraction is designed to ignite visitor's interest, which fails horribly.
18) Thank God
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After encountering a serious accident, a conceited real estate broker burdened with substantial debts finds himself facing a momentous encounter. To his astonishment, he comes face to face with God, who reveals that he must partake in a profound "GAME OF LIFE." Success in the game will grant him another chance at life on Earth, but failure will lead him to an unfortunate fate in hell.
19) Un Autre Monde
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An executive manager, his wife, and his family are at the point when his professional choices are about to overturn all their lives. Philippe Lemesle and his wife are separating, their love irretrievably damaged by the pressures of work. A successful executive in an industrial conglomerate, Philippe no longer knows how to respond to the contradictory demands of his bosses. Yesterday they wanted a manager, today an enforcer. Now he must decide what...
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