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La Santa Muerte: Saint Death
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La Santa Muerte: Saint Death

2007
Looking for spiritual solace, the disenfranchised of Mexico City's slums worship the skeletal figure of Saint Death. Filmmaker Eva Aridjis examines the role this icon plays in the lives of gang members, prisoners, transsexuals and everyday people. In their need for hope, this disparate group of poor and indigent finds a tangible presence in death that no other religious figure can provide. Gael García Bernal narrates.

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  • Eva Aridjis
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    I, the Worst of All
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    I, the Worst of All

    1990
    The life of brilliant and beautiful 17th-century Mexican poet Sister Juana Ines de la Cruz (Assumpta Serna) gets erotic treatment in this telling drama. To pursue her love of writing, Juana enters a convent and gains international renown. But when the Inquisition comes, the local Vicereine (Dominique Sanda) becomes Juana's protectress and erotic muse, sending the poetess down a romantic road of startling passion and intensity.

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  • Maria Luisa Bemberg
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    Draquila: Italy Trembles
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    Draquila: Italy Trembles

    2010
    Despite allegations of blackmail, bribery and worse, Silvio Berlusconi remains one of the most popular prime ministers in Italian history. In this sardonic documentary, satirist Sabina Guzzanti seeks to discover why he continues to be elected. At the heart of this 2010 Cannes Film Festival Official Selection is L'Aquila, an earthquake-ravaged small town that Guzzanti views as representative of the shift in Italian life under Berlusconi's leadership.

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  • Sabina Guzzanti
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    Wings
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    Wings

    1966
    Soviet film favorite Maya Bulgakova stars in director Larisa Shepitko's 1966 moving tale of a once-renowned Soviet fighter pilot, now constrained to a lackluster life as a schoolmistress far from the seats of power. Though her wartime exploits are renowned, she struggles against the despair of a lost love and a life increasingly marked by meaninglessness and waste. Sergei Nikonenko and Zhanna Bolotova co-star.

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  • Larisa Shepitko
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    The Rainbow Warriors of Waiheke Island
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    The Rainbow Warriors of Waiheke Island

    2009
    In this politically charged documentary, survivors of the 1985 attack on the Greenpeace ship the &NFi;Rainbow Warrior&NFi_; recount the vessel's history and its key role in increasing public awareness of nuclear testing on Mururoa Atoll in the Pacific. What began as a "rusty old ship" became a symbol of Greenpeace's environmental activism -- and eventually attracted the attention of the French secret service.

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  • Suzanne Raes
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    Amour de Femme
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    Amour de Femme

    2001
    Jeanne, a beautiful wife and mother, feels herself slipping further into loneliness and isolation every day. Her mainstream existence is crushing her, and her relationship with her husband becomes distant and strained. So, she begins spending quality time with the sexy and exuberant Marie, who becomes the conduit for bringing passion -- complete and with no small measure of sexual tension -- back into Jeanne's life.

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  • Sylvie Verheyde
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    My Name Was Sabina Spielrein
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    My Name Was Sabina Spielrein

    2002
    Using letters, photographs and dramatic reenactments, director Elisabeth Marton provides a portrait of Sabina Spielrein, a key but often overlooked figure in the early days of psychoanalysis. The first patient as well as the lover of Carl Jung -- a relationship Jung's mentor Sigmund Freud advised against -- Spielrein went on to become a psychoanalyst herself. The letters between Spielrein, Freud and Jung form the basis for this documentary.

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  • Elisabeth Marton
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    Comment Ça Va?
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    Comment Ça Va?

    1978
    In this philosophical feature from Jean-Luc Godard, the film's co-writer and co-director, Anne-Marie Miéville, stars as one of a pair of communist journalists who set out to make an honest documentary about their employer's printing plant.

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  • Jean-Luc Godard
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    Killing Words
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    Killing Words

    2003
    No one knows what's truly behind the genial facade of Ramon (Dario Grandinetti), a college instructor who's so meticulous, nothing in his world seems out of order. And yet, his basement is a dark place of chaos, one in which he's forced an unwitting guest named Laura (Goya Toledo) to stay and play a deadly game. The stakes are high: If she wins, she walks; if she loses, her life is on the line. Laura hopes she can hold her own.

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  • Laura Mana
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    The Good Life
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    The Good Life

    2010
    This gently observant documentary relates the tragicomic life story of once-wealthy dowager Mette Beckmann and her middle-aged daughter, Annemette, who subsist in a cramped Portuguese apartment on Mette's tiny pension and their own bickering company.

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  • Eva Mulvad
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    Hana, Dul, Sed...
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    Hana, Dul, Sed...

    2009
    Filmmaker Brigitte Weich follows four members of North Korea's national women's soccer team during their careers and after retirement in this fascinating documentary that provides a look inside the nation's culture. While playing, the women receive financial perks at home, but endure taunts about their country when abroad. Forced to retire when the team doesn't qualify for the Olympics, the women move on to other jobs or raising families.

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  • Brigitte Weich
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    Araya
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    Araya

    1959
    Director Margot Benacerraf offers this acclaimed 1959 film that chronicles the harsh existence of Venezuelan laborers who manually recover salt from the tropical marshes in Araya, an ancient salt-producing region in that country. As Benacerraf documents the harsh daily lives of three families dependent on the salt trade, she also captures the stark, otherworldly beauty of the marshes and the peculiarly lyrical pace of life in Araya.

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  • Margot Benacerraf
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    La Petite Jerusalem
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    La Petite Jerusalem

    2005
    Complications with the men in their lives prompt two Jewish sisters living in a cramped apartment in Paris's Little Jerusalem neighborhood to reevaluate their choices and their faith. Older sibling Mathilde (Elsa Zylberstein) grapples with how to respond to her husband's infidelity, while the younger Laura (Fanny Valette) falls in love with a Muslim co-worker. Their respective dilemmas send the two women on a soul-searching quest for wisdom.

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  • Karin Albou
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    Within the Whirlwind
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    Within the Whirlwind

    2009
    The real-life saga of Russian literature professor Evgenia Ginzburg provides the fodder for this drama, which tells the story of her arrest in the Stalinist purges of the 1930s and her 10 years of hard labor in a Siberian prison gulag.

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  • Marleen Gorris
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    Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
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    Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself

    2002
    In this darkly offbeat comedy, the titular Wilbur (Jamie Sives) keeps trying to kill himself, but his saintly brother Harbour (Adrian Rawlins) always saves him. The men's bleak routine is soon disrupted by the arrival of fetching cleaning lady Alice (Shirley Henderson). After a quick courtship, the timid single mom marries Harbour, but extramarital tensions mount between the bride and Wilbur in this charmer from Danish director Lone Scherfig.

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  • Lone Scherfig
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    The World of Jacques Demy
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    The World of Jacques Demy

    1995
    For a change, French New Wave auteur Jacques Demy is in front of, instead of behind, the lens in this fascinating documentary -- directed by his wife, filmmaker Agnes Varda -- that looks at Demy's life and his work. Get to know the director of the seminal Bay of Angels, Lola and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg through the eyes of those closest to him.

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    Now and Then
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    Now and Then

    1995
    Waxing nostalgic about the bittersweet passage from childhood to puberty in this tender coming-of-age tale, four childhood girlfriends -- Teeny, Chrissy, Samantha and Roberta -- recall the magical summer of 1970. During their walk down memory lane, they reconcile experiences with boys, secrets, bullies and more. Lesli Linka Glatter directs; Gaby Hoffmann, Ashleigh Aston Moore, Cloris Leachman, Thora Birch and Christina Ricci co-star.

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  • Lesli Linka Glatter
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    Now and Then (1995)
    A heartwarming movie about four childhood girlfriends who, in adulthood reunion, relive their experience of the life-changing summer of 1970, including a mystery death, divorce, standing up to the boys, first kiss, and the meaning of true friendship. Each explores her unique identity amidst family and friends. Beautifully directed by Lesli Linka Glatter.
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