Contemporary World Cinema

The Road to Redemption

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Country:United States of America

Director:Jonathan Stack

Program:Contemporary World Cinema

Year: 
2009

Duration: 
25

Summary:

Shaw describes the female survivors of the civil war in Liberia, the feelings of guilt, shame and the will to survive.


Darfur – War for Water

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Country:Slovenia

Director:Tomo Kriznar and Maja Weiss

Program:Contemporary World Cinema

Year: 
2008

Duration: 
89

Summary:

Kriznar travelled to the war zone in 2006 to plead for peace with rebel leaders of the SLA on behalf of Serbian president Drnovsek and discovered the real reason for the war.


Epilogue: Tribulation 99

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Country:United States of America

Director:Craig Baldwin

Program:Contemporary World Cinema

Year: 
1992

Duration: 
48

Summary:

This riff on recent history offers a Grand Unified Theory of Conspiracies including Castro, Kennedy, the wolf man, killer bees, the Panama Canal, and the United Fruit Company.


Burn!

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Country:Italy

Director:Gillo Pontecorvo

Program:Contemporary World Cinema

Year: 
1969

Duration: 
132

Summary:

A British agent, (Marlon Brando), is an agent provocateur sent to the island of Queimada to organize an uprising of black slaves to overthrow the Portuguese regime.


AMAKULA YOUTH REEL: Animation films and storytelling for children and youth

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Country:United States of America

Director:Various

Program:Contemporary World Cinema

Year: 
2009

Duration: 
180

Summary:

Animation films and storytelling for children and youth


AMAKULA YOUTH REEL: Animation films and storytelling for children and youth

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Country:United States of America

Director:Various

Program:Contemporary World Cinema

Year: 
2009

Duration: 
180

Summary:

Animation films and storytelling for children and youth


Mock Up on Mu

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Country:United States of America

Director:Craig Baldwin

Program:Contemporary World Cinema

Year: 
2008

Duration: 
114

Summary:

A cultural history of collected film images focusing on several historical figures: a crazy scientist, a science fiction author and a beatnik artist.


Moloch

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Country:Russia

Director:Alexander Sokurov

Program:Contemporary World Cinema

Year: 
1999

Duration: 
108

Summary:

During the spring of 1942, Adolf Hitler retires to his secluded retreat nestled on a remote hilltop where this film tries to present the person Hitler in more human guise.


Katyn

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Country:Poland

Director:Andrej Wajda

Program:Contemporary World Cinema

Year: 
2007

Duration: 
118

Summary:

An intimate history from master Andrej Wajda about a group of Polish officers and soldiers imprisoned by the Soviet Army on the border of Poland.


The Last Emperor

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Country:Italy

Director:Bernardo Bertolucci

Program:Contemporary World Cinema

Year: 
1987

Duration: 
163

Summary:

The life of the last Emperor of China from his ascension to the throne as a boy to his imprisonment and political rehabilitation by the Chinese Communist authorities.