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Fall 2013 Releases
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Bittersweet Joke - Examines the experiences of single mothers in South Korea, where there remains a strong social taboo against single parenthood. (new September, 2013)
China Concerto - An observational essay about public spectacles in contemporary China. (new September, 2013)
Class of Struggle - Workers at the Yema Watch Factory in Besançon depict their own labor struggles in this collective production initiated by Chris Marker. (new September, 2013)
Far from Vietnam - The landmark collaboration between Jean-Luc Godard, Joris Ivens, William Klein, Claude Lelouch, Chris Marker and Alain Resnais in protest of the Vietnam war. (new August, 2013)
Gambling Boys - Looks at the growing problem of gambling addiction among teenagers. (new September, 2013)
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The Great Flood - Multimedia artist Bill Morrison and composer Bill Frisell explore the catastrophic Mississippi River Flood of 1927, and the ensuing transformation of American society. (new September, 2013)
Guerrilla Grannies - Women veterans of Mozambique's independence war offer an intimate view of the country's troubled history since 1975. (new May, 2013)
Housemaids - Seven Brazilian teenagers film their housemaids, exposing issues of class, race, and gender in their families, and in their country. (new September, 2013)
The Human Zoo - Traces the history of 25 people from four different Chilean indigenous groups who, in the late 19th century, were kidnapped and exhibited as attractions throughout Europe. (new September, 2013)
Le Joli Mai - Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme's legendary portrait of Paris and Parisians at the close of the Algerian war. (new September, 2013)
Lost Rivers - Explore the growing movement and innovative projects around the world to uncover once-buried urban waterways. (new September, 2013)
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Man for a Day - Performance artist and drag king Diane Torr leads a workshop in which women develop male characters. (new September, 2013)
One Day Pina Asked - Chantal Akerman follows choreographer Pina Bausch and her dance company on a five-week tour across Europe. (new October, 2013)
The Other Day - Filmmaker Ignacio Agüero's gentle exploration of home, family, history and Chilean society. (new September, 2013)
To Chris Marker, An Unsent Letter - A cinematic love letter to filmmaker Chris Marker. (new October, 2013)
Toward Daylight - To kindle the hope necessary for the living to face, and move on from, the pain and loss of suicide, five people tell their stories. (new August, 2013)
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Cuba Media Project
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ALABBÁ - An exploration of the fascinating history of Santería. (new September, 2013)
A Bridge Over the River - Profiles Lency, a man who lives in Cuba's central mountains who has a creative solution to all of life's daily problems there. (new September, 2013)
Cuban Animations from the Young Directors Film Festival - Eight animated shorts from the most important showcase for young cinematic talent in Cuba (new September, 2013)
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Freddy Ilanga: Che's Swahili Translator - A documentary about Freddy Ilanga, an African man whose life was abruptly transformed through a chance encounter with Che Guevara. (new September, 2013)
The Infinite Island - In this doc-fiction hybrid, a peasant journeys through the Sierra Maestra to buy a new mule. (new September, 2013)
Major Leagues? - Profiles members of the Cuban National women's baseball team, who pursue their passion in a soceity filled with machismo and prejudice. (new September, 2013)
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New Comedy Shorts from Cuba - This DVD collects two recent comedy shorts from Cuba. (new September, 2013)
They Would All Be Queens - Tells the story The stories of several Soviet women who married Cuban men and moved to Cuba before the dissolution of the Soviet Union. (new September, 2013)
Zone of Silence - Five Cuban intellectuals discuss censorship as a historical, political and social phenomenon. (new September, 2013)
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Spring 2013 Releases
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Electric Signs - Explores the effects of new screen-based advertising sign systems on urban environments and public space. (new March, 2013)
Flower in Otomi - Tells the story of Dení Prieto Stock, a 19-year-old woman killed by the Mexican army in a 1973 raid on the Fuerzas de Liberación Nacional. (new January, 2013)
The Forgotten Space - Allan Sekula and Noël Burch investigate maritime trade, the global supply chain and 21st-century capitalism. (new January, 2013)
Golden Slumbers - An inventively directed history of the lost Cambodian cinema. (new April, 2013)
In Search of the Unreturned Soldiers - Shohei Imamura travels first to Malaysia and then to Thailand, to investigate the lives and experiences of Japanese soldiers who, during World War II, chose to desert. (new January, 2013)
Jaguar - In Jean Rouch's collaborative ethnofiction, three Nigerien men journey to Accra for work. (new January, 2013)
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Karayuki-San, The Making of a Prostitute - Shohei Imamura profiles a Japanese woman forced into sexual slavery for the Japanese military in Southeast Asia. (new January, 2013)
Khmer Rouge, A Simple Matter of Justice - A UN-appointed court tracks down those responsible of the crimes committed under the Khmer Rouge. (new February, 2013)
The Lion Hunters - Jean Rouch's self-reflexive depiction of lion hunting among the Songhay people of Niger, and the social structure that underlies it. (new January, 2013)
Little By Little - Jean Rouch brings his Nigerien collaborators to France to perform a reverse ethnography of late-1960s Parisian life. (new January, 2013)
Login 2 Life - Profiles seven people who spend most of their lives in online virtual worlds such as Second Life and World of Warcraft. (new January, 2013)
The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear - A kaleidoscopic view of life for young adults in the contemporary Republic of Georgia. (new January, 2013)
The Mad Masters - Jean Rouch depicts a Hauka possession ceremony that doubles as a theatrical protest against The Gold Coast's colonial rulers. (new January, 2013)
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Mammy Water - A gentle portrait by Jean Rouch of the spiritual traditions of a fishing village in the Gulf of Guinea. (new January, 2013)
Moi, Un Noir - In this landmark documentary, Jean Rouch collaborates with his subjects to produce a complex portrait of Nigerien migrants in Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire. (new January, 2013)
Outlaw-Matsu Comes Home - Shohei Imamura follows a former Japanese soldier during his first trip home after having been abandoned by the military in Thailand during World War II. (new January, 2013)
The Pirates of Bubuan - Shohei Imamura's look at rival gangs of pirates in the Philippines. (new January, 2013)
The Search - A film crew travels through Tibet, searching for actors for their adaptation of a classic Buddhist story. (new March, 2013)
The Virgin, the Copts and Me - A filmmaker's revealing, personal exploration of Egypt's Copt community. (new May, 2013)
When the Bough Breaks - On the outskirts of Beijing, two teenage girls from a migrant family struggle to earn the money to pay for their brother's schooling. (new January, 2013)
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