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The legendary Jean-Luc Godard adds to his influential, iconoclastic legacy with this provocative collage film essay, a vast ontological inquiry into the history of the moving image and a commentary on the contemporary world. Displaying an encyclopedic grasp of cinema and its history, Godard pieces together fragments and clips them from some of the greatest films of the past, then digitally alters, bleaches, and washes them, all in the service of reflecting...
4) 12 Months
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The documentary is about a Los Angeles man who rents his three-bedroom home for $1 per month to help a family he has never met get on their feet.
9) Fish tail
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"Rabo de Peixe (literally translated as 'fish tail') is the name of a village in the Azores that is home to the largest collection of artisanal fisheries on the whole archipelago. The residents, mostly local fishermen and their families, have relied on these waters for generations. In recent years however, global industrial overfishing has created significant problems, throwing their livelihood into uncertainty and threatening to wipe out a centuries-old...
10) The matchbox man
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So what does a person do when their cherished childhood toy becomes an obsession? And then a collection. A really large collection. Charlie Mack makes his house into a museum! A generation-spanning monument to collecting, over 42,000 Matchbox cars and counting, a life's masterpiece unto itself.
11) Ramona
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Feeling unprepared for her upcoming role as a 15-year-old pregnant girl from the outskirts of Santo Domingo, an actor from a more affluent background, Camila, decides to sit down with pregnant young girls to hear their stories.
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"Two childhood friends travel the world to meet some of the greatest thinkers of our time. This incredible voyage, full of moments of doubt and moments of joy, will lead them to question the very beliefs that have shaped Western civilization. This film captures the change in human consciousness currently happening all over the planet, and the desire to live in harmony with oneself and the world"--from www.imdb.com.
13) 50 liters life
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The documentary tells the story of the worst drought ever to occur in South Africa, one that forced water consumption to just 50 liters per person, per day.
14) Ground war
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The honest and sardonic investigation explores humanity's obsession with conquering and perfecting nature, confronting our ignorance about pesticides.
17) Follow the money
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Using intel from a Dark Net cyber spy, this investigative documentary probes the relationship between terrorism and organized crime throughout the world.
20) Tomorrow's power
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It showcases three communities from Gaza, Colombia, and Germany and their responses to the environmental and economical crises they face.
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