Neon (Firm)
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English
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A documentary about regenerative farming in Southern California, this film follows filmmaker John Chester and his wife Molly as they leave Los Angeles to transform 200 acres of barren land into Apricot Lane Farms. Over eight years, the film documents their efforts to restore soil health, manage biodiversity, and balance ecosystems—raising everything from ducks to pigs to cover crops. With vivid cinematography and personal narration, their journey...
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ALL LIGHT, EVERYWHERE is an exploration of the shared histories of cameras, weapons, policing and justice. As surveillance technologies become a fixture in everyday life, the film interrogates the complexity of an objective point of view, probing the biases inherent in both human perception and the lens.
4) Notturno
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Filmed over three years on the borders between Iraq, Kurdistan, Syria and Lebanon, director Gianfranco Rosi's NOTTURNO captures the everyday life that lies in the aftermath of tyranny, invasions and terrorism. Winner of the Arca CinemaGiovani Award and the Sorriso Diverso Venezia Award at the **Venice Film Festival**.
5) Gunda
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GUNDA chronicles the unfiltered lives of a mother pig, a flock of chickens, and a herd of cows with masterful intimacy. Using stark, transcendent black and white cinematography and the farm's ambient soundtrack, acclaimed director Victor Kossakovsky invites us to meditate on the mystery of animal consciousness, and reckon with the role humanity plays in it.
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From the makers of CONSOLE WARS comes the origin story of the GameStop stock market phenomenon, featuring exclusive access to the original players who lit the fuse on a historic amateur investor uprising. Spotlighting the human side of a sensational business drama, GAMESTOP: RISE OF THE PLAYERS is a David vs Goliath tale about ordinary people waking up to the power they have in numbers.
7) Robot Dreams
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Dog lives in Manhattan and he’s tired of being alone. One day he decides to build himself a robot, a companion. Their friendship blossoms, until they become inseparable, to the rhythm of '80s NYC. One summer night, Dog, with great sadness, is forced to abandon Robot at the beach. Will they ever meet again?
8) Ailey
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Alvin Ailey was a trailblazing pioneer who found salvation through dance. AILEY traces the full contours of this brilliant and enigmatic man whose search for the truth in movement resulted in enduring choreography that centers on the Black American experience with grace, strength, and unparalleled beauty.
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Portrait photographer Elsa Dorfman found her medium in 1980: the larger–than–life Polaroid Land 20x24 camera. For the next thirty–five years she captured the "surfaces" of those who visited her Cambridge, Mass studio: families, Beat poets, rock stars, and Harvard notables. As pictures begin to fade and her retirement looms, Dorfman gives Errol Morris an inside tour of her backyard archive.
10) Honeyland
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HONEYLAND is an epic, visually stunning portrait of the delicate balance between nature and humanity that has something sweet for everyone. Nominated for Best Documentary Feature and Best International Feature Film at the Academy Awards. Nominated for Best Documentary at the Film Independent Spirit Awards. Winner of the World Cinema – Documentary Grand Jury Prize, Cinematography Award, and Special Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival.
11) Ted K
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A bracing, cinematic journey into the tortured mind of America’s most notorious and enigmatic terrorist, The Unabomber becomes radicalized with rage as the outside world encroaches on his mountain sanctuary deep in the Rocky Mountains. What begins with small acts of sabotage culminates in deadly bomb attacks, national media attention, and the largest manhunt in American history.
12) Amazing Grace
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A documentary presenting the live recording of Aretha Franklin's album AMAZING GRACE at The New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Watts, Los Angeles in January 1972.
13) Risk
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Filmed over six years, Julian Assange is undeterred to undermine the organization he leads and fracture the movement he inspired. In a new world order where a keystroke can alter history, RISK is a portrait of power, betrayal, truth, and sacrifice.
14) Beba
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English
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In this courageous, deeply human, and poetic self-portrait of an Afro-Latina artist hungry for knowledge and yearning for connection, filmmaker Rebeca “Beba” Huntt searches for a way to forge her own creative path amid a landscape of intense racial and political unrest.
15) Sharp Edges
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SHARP EDGES is an intimate look of the early years of figure skater, Tonya Harding. Featuring footage from the 80's and interviews with Tonya, her coaches and mother (portrayed by Allison Janney in an Oscar winning performance in "I, Tonya") the film focuses on her 1st National Figure Skating Championship 5 years before becoming the first American female figure skater to nail the triple axel.
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Presents a home movie shot by David Kurtz in 1938 in a Jewish town in Poland. As long as we are watching, history is not over yet. The three minutes of footage, mostly in color, are the only moving images left of the Jewish inhabitants of Nasielsk before the Holocaust. The existing three minutes are examined to unravel the human stories hidden in the celluloid.
17) Immaculate
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English
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Cecilia is an American nun of devout faith, embarking on a new journey in a remote convent in the picturesque Italian countryside. Cecilia's warm welcome quickly devolves into a nightmare as it becomes clear her new home harbors a sinister secret and unspeakable horrors.
18) Moonage daydream
Series
Criterion collection volume 1192
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English
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"An ecstatic voyage through the creative and spiritual universe of David Bowie, Moonage Daydream is a fittingly unclassifiable tribute to the shape-shifting rock iconoclast and his singular sound and vision. Exploding the conventions of the music documentary, director Brett Morgen remixes dazzling, never-before-seen footage of the artist throughout his career, reveling in his otherworldly presence while revealing the restless philosophical inquiry...
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Criterion collection volume 1218
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Français
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"An eerily riveting courtroom thriller that examines the line where truth becomes fiction and fiction becomes truth. When Sandra Voyter, a writer who turns the material of her life into autofiction, is put on trial for the suspicious death by defenestration -- or was it suicide? -- of her husband, it opens up an inquiry that will turn a troubled home inside out. [A] mystery that is ultimately less about a death than about the hidden lives we lead"--Container....
20) Border
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A BORDER guard with the special ability to smell human emotions meets a mysterious man that confounds her detection, forcing her to confront disturbing insights about herself. Nominated for Best Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling at the **Academy Awards**. Winner of the Un Certain Regard Award at the **Cannes Film Festival**.






