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20-20 Search for Independence (Canada) by Harold L. Brown |
An inventor with a plan that would replace oil must survive while forces in China, Canada and the United States vie for the technology. |
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Brothers to Dust (Australia) by Marie Parkins |
A young Aboriginal boy, taken from his mother, must find his way back home, or risk becoming another of Australia's "stolen generation" victims. |
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Buenos Aires (USA) by Olga Rojer |
World-War II Buenos Aires, its atmosphere tumultuous with tangos, Nazis, and political turmoil is the historical setting for this old-fashioned love story between an outcast journalist of Hitler's Germany and an impassioned Argentine woman. |
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Collide (USA) by Tom Smolko |
The very different stories of one privileged young man and one very poor young man are woven together as they meet an eerily similar fate. |
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Empress (USA) by Hanxi Li |
Some mysterious terrorists attempt to steal a hi-tech weapons system from a highly fortified American military installation. A CIA agent and his colleagues need to stop the terrorists. But, as he works to accomplish the vital mission at hand, the agent falls in love with one of the most dangerous terrorists. |
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Holy Baptism (China) by Hui Zhou |
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Horizon Faraway (China) by Duojipengcuo |
This story tells about three females of different age groups in Tibetan area of China, who sell the house to support two sons for colleges, and kowtow to Lhasa for worship by pulling the rack cart to complete the long-cherished wish of ancestors. |
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Madame Facades (USA) by Charles Laulette |
.A ten year old girl named, Daphne, is planted in an orphanage right after birth, and has already had to convince three lecherous type families that they really never wanted her to begin with, decides now to flee the orphanage the very night before going home with the fourth. (Inspired by the mythological story of Daphne and Apollo) |
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Red Ivory (USA) by Larry Thomas |
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Sacred Journey (China) by Hui Zhou |
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The Abolitionists (USA) by Leslie Lyshkov |
A Manchu cavalry officer ventures to Gold Rush era California to end the shipment to China of Sharps rifles for the Taiping rebels. |
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The Ancient Song of Love (China) by Hui Zhou |
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The Club of the Invincibles (Spain) by Pablo Burgos-Bosch |
.Alain and Jimmy travel to the Congo to inaugurate a school of football and do some business. The school only has a nun with a group of orphans and a french teacher.
At the same time three children that dream of being football players, join the football school; A child soldier, escape from the rebel army, Enmanuelle, leaves the coltan mine; Joseph leaves the settlement All join the club. |
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The Hoopla (Canada) by Thomas Nesti |
In a grim metropolis, the world¡¯s last movie theater is sanctuary to its assistant manager ¨C an abused orphan teenager named Asher. When the manager dies and the theater is trashed, Asher risks his life to find those responsible. |
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The Metaphors of The Heart Part I (Malawi) by Paul Paseli |
How does a young man overcome the pain of being rejected by his putative father after risking his life? |
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SHORT |
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Blinda (USA) by Vicki Bartholomew |
Blinda's imagination populates her real life with fairy tale characters who are in reality her own family doing ordinary things. Children's live action/animation. |
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Gorgeous Chamelons (Turkey) by Esra Cengel |
This is a story of a devoted woman who tries to make everyone in her life happy by changing her costumes according the occasions requires. The only period she feels relax is after midnight between one and two o'clock. |
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Hotel Soleil (UK) by Rebekah Wilkinson |
A chronically shy woman becomes a 12 year old cleaner's only hope of survival when civil war breaks out. |
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