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Airplay |
 Winner of six "Best Documentary" awards, "Airplay" tells the powerful story of how the rock and roll music that made teenagers dance, riot, rebel, and ultimately shake the world came to be heard. There would have been no Elvis or James Brown, no Beatles or Coldplay without the pioneers who gave them airplay, igniting a cultural revolution that pushed civil rights and halted an unpopular war. Airplay celebrates an era when music changed our lives. more...
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Blow Horn |
 A group of Buddhist practitioners travel to Sherab Ling Monastery in India. They are going to receive teachings and initiations from their masters. We share their journey and we start to drop into a path of silence and emptiness. A poetic meditation. more...
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Blue Bus |
 Sixty-eight year old August Dupree is in a rut. A big one. He's in Act Three of his life, not knowing and honestly not caring if there is going to be an Act Four. One afternoon, he discovers a ramshackle old blue Volkswagen bus has been dropped off in his driveway. Inside, he finds a sealed wooden box and a letter from an old childhood friend who has recently died. The letter instructs him to take the bus and the box on a road trip from Los Angeles to New Orleans. Bound by his friend's last dying wish and without opening the box, "Augie" convinces another close friend to take the road trip with him to New Orleans, the city he left when he was just seventeen years old, never to return, until now.
What transpires is their adventure on the road, a "buddy flick" if you will, that actually develops into a coming of age story for two middle aged guys - one who has run from his past his entire life and the other, a Peter Pan character who has never really grown up. With a background of the great American landscape on the road and the rich vibes and textures of New Orleans, "Blue Bus" takes Augie and Joey on a journey of discovery and an adventure that will change their lives forever. more...
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Commit |
 Two strangers meet at a coffee shop for what seems like a blind date. But as the conversation progresses, it becomes clear that this couple, who have never seen each other face to face and who met on the Internet, have actually formed a suicide pact. Problems arise when the couple realizes that they may have finally found something worth living for. Comprised of three continuous takes-one take for each act-and shot over the course of two days, Commit is witty and isturbing, as well as an inspirational achievement in independent filmmaking. more...
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Dancing on a Dry Salt Lake |
 Dancing on a Dry Salt Lake is a serious story of one person’s journey to
enlightenment. And, it is a comedy.
WARNER DE SANTIS, a cosmologist obsessed with hearing God back in time at the
Origin of the Universe, disrupts a press conference and gets himself fired from NASA.
The same day his wife leaves him saying, “You’ve never listened to anyone but yourself
for years.” He drives east from Los Angeles, toward the desert, in search of a clear night
sky.
On the edge of Searles Dry Lake, he tries to drive his car to the moon. He does get
airborne for about three seconds; then he drops into the dry lakebed, about two metres
below.
Warner awakens with minor injuries in a mining town named after a mineral, TRONA.
While waiting for his car to be fixed, he encounters RICHARD, a Native American who
tells that his people, the Kawaiisu, consider the edge of the dry lake to be a kind of
spiritual highway along which “Spirit Messengers” pass looking for the One to ask to do
a special act. “Old talk says”, Richard adds, “that the Origin of the Universe lies
somewhere around the dry lake.”
Warner encounters a series of individuals that he believes might be “Messengers.” He
takes what they say as instructions, and heads out into the desert “on assignment.”
There, one very starry night, Warner finds the place of Origin, slides into the “Present,”
and begins to hear in all the ordinary things around him, close at hand, the presence of
the divine that had eluded him in the distance of space and time. more...
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Four Of A Kind |
 Lies. Betrayal. Blackmail. Murder
Four different women, each with a well-hidden secret they are coaxed, tricked or forced into revealing.
Through a veil of lies all four flirt with the truth as they experience betrayal, ambition, loneliness, pain and anger. But the lies they tell themselves might be the ones that hurt the most. more...
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Hope Without Future |
 "One family's dream of a better life.
One country's hope for a better future."
Hope Without Future? introduces Raju and Mamina, a young Nepalese couple who, like many children in Nepal, spent their youth without parents and living at great risk. Now both in their early twenties, they have each made it through many personal hardships - poverty, abuse and drug addiction - to find one another and love. They have worked hard to build a life together and start a family and believe that they can have a future.
Yet their hopes for a better life are reliant on Nepal finding political stability. After 13 years of insurgency, at a cost of over ten thousand lives, the Maoist party finally came to the negotiating table. After two failed attempts, an election was set to take place in April 2008 under the threat of violent clashes and bombings. It was hoped the election would create a constituent assembly to write the country’s first constitution, elect a Prime-minister and, most importantly, remove the monarch and in doing so turn the country into a republic. It would be a country governed by the people for the first time.
The film closely follows the election process and the key candidates as voting takes place, discovering what is needed to turn a country away from severe poverty to development. For Raju and Mamina, like the majority of Nepal, the outcome of the elections would be the best hope for an end to the continued years of struggle and insecurity and a new course to a more prosperous future. more...
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In 500 Words or Less |
 Set against the backdrop of the college admissions process, In 500 Words or Less introduces us to four of the 1.5 million families who navigate the college application process each year. Throughout the course of one school year, these four high school seniors take on this distinct rite of passage and discover within themselves their own identity, their family’s dynamics and what it feels like to become an adult. more...
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Land Gold Women |
 Nazir Ali Khan is an immigrant Indian professor in England who lives with his wife and two children Saira, 17 and Asif, 14. Nazir shares a great relationship with his children, indulging their love for all things English, but has taken great pains to keep the link to home strong. When his beloved daughter is found in an illicit relationship, Nazir is suddently on the brink of a tough decision to make. Should he save face? Or save his daughter? more...
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Last Will |
 When the beautiful Hayden (Tatum O’Neal) marries Frank Emery (Tom Berenger), a distinguished and very wealthy doctor, it is for love. But she soon learns that she has married the entire Emery dynasty, including his two younger, unscrupulous brothers who run the family real estate empire.
They see Hayden as a threat and when Frank has a stroke they con him into changing his will in their favor. When Frank later dies under mysterious circumstances Hayden is arrested for his murder while a corrupt judge (Peter Coyote) grants the brothers control of the estate.
Everywhere Hayden turns she finds more layers of corruption and violence. Her brother is beaten almost to death and a lawyer is murdered. Her only hope is the police detective who arrested her (James Brolin). He has his own debts to
settle with the Emery brothers. more...
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MANITOU API |
 A First Nations Elder and an Architectural Historian uncover ancient symbols in the Manitoba Legislative Building, which reveal a library of coded messages, and secret teachings inscribed in Masonic language. These symbols validate a present day Native American Prophecy that speaks of the return of The People to the Center and the revealing of the 7 Sacred Teachings of the Indigenous People; Love, Respect, Courage, Honesty, Wisdom, Humility and Truth. more...
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Meltdown in Tibet |
 Using undercover footage and stills, Meltdown in Tibet blows the lid off China's huge and potentially catastrophic dam-building projects in Tibet. The mighty rivers sourced in Tibet are lifelines to the people of India and Southeast Asia. These rivers are at great risk from rapidly receding glaciers—a meltdown accelerated by climate change—and from large-scale damming and diversion, more...
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My Only Sunshine |
 Hayat (14), her father and bedridden grand father live in a riverside shack near the dangerously dark but breathtakingly beautiful waters of the Bosphorus. Hayat's father owns a small boat that secures the family's survival trough a miscellany of not always lawful ventures. Beyond the motion and romance of the water, Hayat's life is harsh and unrelenting. But Hayat has an instinct for survival. Her capacity for courage, endurance and hope in the face of these trials suggest that there is Life despite the manifold injustice of an unjust world. more...
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Taking the Waewae Express |
 When Wiremu’s younger brother is killed in a car accident, all those involved are deeply affected.
With friendships and family ties at stake, who has the courage to forgive and move on? Can love and honesty prevail?
This coming of age story set on the south coast of New Zealand’s North Island abounds with authenticity, engaging characters, compassion and unexpected humour. more...
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The Anti Bin-Laden |
 How did an Armani-wearing accountant from a wealthy Egyptian family
become one of the Middle East’s most popular Muslim televangelists (The Joel Osteen of Islam)? And why do both the Egyptian government and religious leaders fear his power and influence among Muslim women and youths? Can his brand of moderate preaching prevent Egypt’s growing religious conservatism from becoming the next Iran or Afghanistan? more...
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The Road to Freedom |
 ‘The Road to Freedom’ tells the account of two photojournalists who brave the jungles of war-torn Cambodia to get their story during the 1972 Khmer Rouge terrorism. Based on true-life events, their journey is one of self-discovery that defines what it means to be a human being. more...
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