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A Lone Watcher
China | 101min Feature | Drama
Director: Fuping Luo
Synopsis: In a rural area of Gansu Province in Northwest China, villagers' life is extremely difficult due to endless drought. At the beginning of the 20th century, the government issued a policy to move the whole village to the city. However, a middle-aged villager named Xiaonanfang insisted on staying. What will be waiting for him to face? |
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Gagauzes - In the Sign of Cross and Wolf
Turkey | 55min Feature | Documentary
Director: Ali Kerem Gulermen
Synopsis: Gagauz people are explained to the audience with different Gagauz generations, Oguzsport Football Team, wolf (monster) symbol, ethnography museum, cinema, women's monastery and many more. Gagauz peopletried to protect themselves under the pressure of the repressive Soviet regime and atheism in the past, speak of themselves.
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Made in China
USA | 76 min Feature | Drama
Director: Brendan Merrill Synopsis: While working for a shady real-estate company in Shanghai, Bryan Zellerman is framed by his corrupt employers. Faced with a choice between escape or finding out the truth behind his betrayal, his path veers terribly out of control..
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News from Fukushima
Japan | 75 min Feature | Art
Director: Yoshiaki Tago
Synopsis: The nuclear disaster in Fukushima set off three meltdowns. This film documents a theater piece, performed in San Francisco in 2017, by a multicultural cast, bringing together poetry, dance and music to explore the ideas of human error and suffering juxtaposed to the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.
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Precipice Herdsman
China | 113min Feature | Documentary
Director: xingchi Chen
Synopsis: This is a film that leads you to experience the life in one of the clearest lands in the world – Shangri-la. The herders there have to travel through primeval forests and climb over snow mountains in order to search for pastures every year. This film documented their everday l ife in the sacred nature. |
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The Pursuit of Life
China | 90min Feature | Drama
Director: Xiaoyan Shang
Synopsis: The film tells the story of Shang Yu, a female teacher at Yueliangwan Middle School in the impoverished mountainous area of Sichuan Province, China, and her two generations of students who dropped out of school because of poverty and returned to school. |
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The Handler
USA | 76 min Feature | Drama
Director: Michael Matteo Rossi
Synopsis:While working for a shady real-estate company in Shanghai, Bryan Zellerman is framed by his corrupt employers. Faced with a choice between escape or finding out the truth behind his betrayal, his path veers terribly |
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The Way Home
Taiwan | 78 min Feature | Documentary
Director: Feng Yang
Synopsis: Dremedrema is the tribal chief heir of her tribe. She is the eldest daughter; therefore, she must accept her inheritance of the position and status according to tradition. But her mother and children hope that she disavows the obligation. Even Dremedrema herself has run away from her tribe once. And there are many other family’s members who have their eyes on the position.
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The Witch Princess
Germany| 90 min Feature | Drama
Director: Ngo The Chau
Synopsis: Two royal daughters couldn't be more different. Amalindis, the firstborn of the two twins, tries to live up to her father's demands: she dutifully wants to agree to marry Prince Tanka. Zottel, on the other hand, the second-born, feels connected not to her nobility, but to the great outdoors and a full-grown wolf - a wild girl who sleeps in the forest and who has long since fallen out with her father.
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Toprak
Turkey | 106min Feature | Drama
Director: Sevgi Hirschhäuser
Synopsis: TOPRAK is the dramatic story of a simple family in rural Turkey dealing with poverty, family traditions, and religious heritage. Since the death of his parents, the teenage Burak has lived with his uncle Cemil and grandmother in a remote Turkish village. The small family unit has been trying to make a living by selling fruits. While the religious Cemil is satisfied to live his life in poverty, Burak struggles to leave for the city and attend university |
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Vision Quest
United States | 90min Feature | Documentary
Director: Tamara Bell
Synopsis: This epic documentary examines the long and winding path that Canada’s Indigenous people travelled to achieve independence. Relying on discussion and detailed examination, the film establishes a “then and now” style narrative approach that considers historical events and their significance through the prism of contemporary, early 21st-century conditions.
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Who are We
Australia | 105min Feature | Drama
Director: A.Hassan Keivan
Synopsis: The story of the film is about a man who is looking for his real identity and his constant question is, who am I?. And this can be the question of each of us, Who are we?. He misses the chance to live with a girl because of the Islamic revolution in Iran. After his mother's death, he discovers that his real parents are not those that have raised him.
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Snow Blaze
China | 92min Feature | Drama
Director: Mingming Chen
Synopsis: A delivery girl Xueli from the remote countryside, to find their own father, resolutely decided to participate in the Winter Olympics, created a miracle with a super difficult acti
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