Inc Kino Lorber
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English
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Being in the World raises the question of whether we have forgotten what it means to be truly human in today's technological age, and this program proceeds to answer this question by taking a journey around the world to meet a whole host of remarkable individuals, including Manuel Molina, the legendary poet and flamenco master; Leah Chase, affectionately known as the Queen of Creole Cuisine; and Hiroshi Sakaguchi, a master carpenter from Japan. While...
2) Taxi
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Persian
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Jafar Panahi drives a yellow cab through the vibrant streets of Tehran, picking up a diverse group of passengers in a single day. Each man, woman, and child candidly expresses his or her own view of the world while being interviewed by the curious and gracious driver.
3) Scrap
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English
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Discover the vast and strangely beautiful places where things go to die and meet the people who collect, restore, and recycle the world's scrap. SCRAP is a love letter to the things we use in our daily lives. This cinematic documentary tells the stories of people who have deep connections to objects that have reached their end of life. The stories convey a deeper environmental and human message about our relationship to things, the sadness we feel...
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English
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The inspiring story of Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Harry Chapin. Chapin sold over sixteen million albums and was one of his generation's most beloved artists and activists who spent his fame and fortune trying to end world hunger before his tragic passing. The film features a myriad of other performers intimately reflecting on Chapin's larger-than-life impact on music and the world.
5) Ali & Ava
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English
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Sparks fly as two people develop a deep connection despite the lingering legacy of past relationships. A compelling love story enveloped in music and imbued with humor. BAFTA nominee for Best British Film.
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English
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The Wiggles are having a Halloween Party and everyone is invited! Get ready for a spooktacular celebration. There's dress-ups aplenty, a Halloween feast, thirsty little vampires wanting cranberry juice, and, of course, lots of dancing including colorful skeletons doing the skeleton scat! Wiggle Town is decorated like never seen before with cobwebs, pumpkins, bats, and spiders. All the wiggly friends are there to join the party and sing and dance along...
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English
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The brilliant work, personal struggles, and cultural impact of iconic American writers Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams explodes onto the screen in this innovative dual-portrait documentary. Filmmaker Lisa Immordino Vreeland (Love, Cecil, and Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel) masterfully collages a wealth of archival material, including dishy talk show appearances with David Frost and Dick Cavett, with clips from some of the duo's most memorable...
8) Codegirl
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English
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Join high school-aged girls from around the world as they try to better their communities through technology and collaboration. The Technovation Challenge aims to empower girls worldwide to develop apps for an international competition.
9) Party time!
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English
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Emma, Anthony, Simon, and Lachy are planning to have a party, and all are invited! Enter the perfectly playful Master of the Australian Ballet, Mr. Paul Knobloch. Immaculate and classically impeccable, Paul the Party Planner helps the Wiggles create this interactive and entertaining release. Children will love to play and have fun with a collection of the most popular party songs, including Hokey Pokey; What's the Time, Mr Wolf?; Happy Birthday; and...
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English
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When a Chinese-American police officer kills an innocent, unarmed Black man in a darkened stairwell of a New York City housing project, it sets off a firestorm of emotion and calls for accountability. When he becomes the first NYPD officer convicted of an on-duty shooting in over a decade, the fight for justice becomes complicated, igniting one of the largest Asian-American protests in history, disrupting a legacy of solidarity, and putting an uneven...
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English
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Born in the Bronx to Orthodox Jewish emigres from Poland, Applebroog, now in her eighties, looks back at how she expressed herself through decades of drawings and paintings, as well as her private journals. With her daughter's encouragement, she investigates the stranger that is her former self, a woman who found psychological and sexual liberation through art.
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English
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Director Carolyn Jones looks at how the USA's biggest public health challenges, from the COVID-19 pandemic to the opioid crisis to gun violence and lack of insurance, collide in emergency departments. She follows emergency nurses and their patients in seven unique settings across the U.S., shedding light on some of the biggest health care crises facing Americans today, and the opportunity that emergency nurses have to help break a vicious cycle for...
13) Deerskin
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Français
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In this black comedy of middle-aged masculinity gone awry, a recent divorcee who becomes obsessed with a vintage fringed deerskin jacket that begins to exert an uncanny hold on him.
15) Ever deadly
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English
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Throughout her ground-breaking career, Inuk throat singer Tanya Tagaq has always had an intimate relationship with the Nuna the Land, a living, breathing organism present in her improvised performances. Hers is a voice that, according to The New York Times, ₃demands full attention, whether she's whispering in her softest register or howling at the sky. Ever Deadly weaves together intimate concert footage of Tagaq alongside moving personal reflections,...
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English
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The most successful children's entertainment group in the world has released a collection of their most loved clips. Anthony, Emma, Lachy and Simon have picked their favorite songs for you to enjoy! With catchy tunes that are instantly memorable and seen on TV screens across 190 countries, you will be up and wiggling in seconds! It₂s no wonder The New York Times has called them 'the band that rocks the cradle.'
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English
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A month after receiving a fatal diagnosis in January 2015, Oliver Sacks sat down for a series of filmed interviews in his apartment in New York City. For eighty hours, surrounded by family, friends, and notebooks from six decades of thinking and writing about the brain, he talked about his life and work, his abiding sense of wonder at the natural world, and the place of human beings within it. Drawing on these deeply personal reflections, as well...
19) Makala
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Swahili
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A powerful testament to one man's commitment to his family, and his endurance in working to provide them with a brighter future. Kasongo, a 28-year-old man living in Congo with his wife and daughters, dreams of purchasing a plot of land on which to build his family a home. He sees his opportunity to earn money by selling charcoal, culled from the ashes of a mighty hardwood tree that he has felled and baked in an earthen oven. Loading up the bags of...
20) Somos lengua
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Español
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"For three years, director Kyzza Terrazas followed over thirty men and women from all over Mexico to explore the underground hip-hop movement that was growing across Latin America. Using rhythm and creative language, rappers such as Serko Fu, Rabia Rivera, Menuda Coincidencia, C-Kan, Ximbo, Tino El Pingu·ino, Aczino and Mike Diþaz have been finding ways to express themselves with transformative words that help them survive in a country with so little...