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The new reality of artificial life. As tech companies race to dominate the artificial intelligence market, experts warn we're not prepared for what happens next. Grace Tobin investigates the misuse and abuse of generative AI.
AI. Rising (2023 )
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Fences are an integral part of Russian culture. They love 3-meter fences in dachas and private homes. City streets are dotted with fences, which often only interfere with normal movement around the city. They like to isolate themselves from the world with an iron curtain. The film is a visual reflection and an attempt to answer the question why life in Russia is surrounded by a fence.
Fences (2023 )
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Why do so many people in Ireland play music so well? Perhaps it's the land itself that gives creative inspiration to all born there and to those who come to stay. Perhaps it's something even more intrinsic in the culture that's gives rise to this remarkable gift. The spirit of the place is such that the people express a tremendous joy of living and creating, and are always on a quest for music and entertainment. "Where's the Craic?" explores this remarkable culture, and why a town of 20,000 people has many more live music pubs than anywhere else in Ireland.
Where's the Craic? (2023 )
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After the impressive Gulistan, Land of Roses (VdR 2016), the Kurdish filmmaker Zaynê Akyol returns with these conversations with imprisoned members of the Islamic State, alternating their words with aerial views of the countryside. An unexpected look at a far-reaching current political issue and a film whose subject matter and rhythm create an impressive cinematic object.
Rojek (2022 )
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Discover the process behind Charli XCX’s 2020 quarantine album "how i'm feeling now", created in 40 days during the COVID-19 pandemic, including its semi-collaborative nature with her community of online fans.
Charli XCX: Alone Together (2022 )
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Steve ‘Spaz’ Williams is a pioneer in computer animation. His digital dinosaurs of Jurassic Park transformed Hollywood in 1993, but an appetite for anarchy and reckless disregard for authority may have cost him the recognition he deserved.
Jurassic Punk (2022 )
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Explore the unlikely partnership and enduring legacy of one of the most prolific power couples in entertainment history. Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz risked everything to be together.
Lucy and Desi (2022 )
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After 52 years of armed conflict the FARC guerrillas are about to hand over their arms in exchange for political participation and social inclusion of the poor. Ernesto is one of them. The much celebrated Colombian peace agreement throws Ernesto and the polarised society around him into chaos in which everyone is afraid of the future and their own survival.
Colombia in My Arms (2022 )
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A much loved Parisian-style bistro located in Los Angeles between a thriving McDonalds and KFC, Belle Vie is owned and operated by the charming and hopeful Vincent Samarco, who struggles to adapt, survive and keep the bistro alive in the midst of a pandemic that has ravaged small businesses everywhere.
Belle Vie (2022 )
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This one-hour special chronicles the twists and turns of the tragic road trip through the lens of Gabby’s social media presence. Told by both the people who knew her best and a community of online strangers and cyber-sleuths who ended up banding together to ultimately solve this shocking homicide. Two timelines were unfolding in the Gabby Petito story–a private one and a very public one. Viewers will get an inside look at both sides of Gabby’s life and the chasm that existed between the two.
Beyond the Headlines: The Gabby Petito Story (2022 )
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A hybrid doc/narrative following Tony winning performer and comedian Sarah Jones. As a mixed-race Black woman in America, Sarah, alongside the multicultural characters she's known for, explores her own personal relationship to one of the most relevant issues in our current cultural climate: the sex industry, and the surprisingly diverse range of people whose lives it touches. Through interviews and monologues, this film poses the question: how can we as a society have a healthy relationship to sex, power, race and our economy, without exploitation or stigma? The goal is not to prescribe solutions, but to highlight the human faces and voices at the center of this subject.
Sell/Buy/Date (2022 )
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Follow the twists and turns of his life, legacy and legal battle as America's former favourite 'Dad' faces allegations from 60 women, spanning as far back as the '60s.
Bill Cosby: Walking Free (2022 )
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Despite having just 40,000 residents and limited financial resources, the Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns have been able to compete at the highest level of football in all of Europe. But as more money floods into the sport, coaches and fans must face the question: has this team become a relic of the past or can their remarkable culture propel them beyond the constraints of reality?
Unicorn Town (2022 )
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Ada is 19. She agrees to have dinner at the home of a boy she knows. It all happens very quickly, she does not defend herself. It is in 2013, after a screening of her first film, that Alexe Poukine meets her: a woman of her age who shares with her something that happened nine years before and that she does not know what to do with.
That Which Does Not Kill (2022 )
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The story of the only three minutes of footage —a home movie shot by David Kurtz in 1938— showing images of the Jewish inhabitants of Nasielsk (Poland) before the beginning of the Shoah.
Three Minutes: A Lengthening (2022 )
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Renowned artist Krzysztof Wodiczko creates powerful responses to the inequities and horrors of war. This in-depth investigation into the artist focuses on the recurring themes of war, trauma, and displacement in his work. An instigator for social change, Wodiczko’s powerful art interventions disrupt the valorization of state-sanctioned aggression.
The Art of Un-War (2022 )
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Four hard-hitting stores, from the deadliest period in U.S. Army Aviation, since Vietnam. Actual footage from the events, and interviews from the Soldiers, who were there - bring these intense and touching stories of courage and sacrifice to life.
The Longest Month (2022 )
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Relive one of the longest and most destructive sieges in history that led to the systematic starvation and destruction of the human population.
War in Russia: The Siege of Leningrad (2022 )
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A young Jewish woman named Helena Citron is taken to Auschwitz, where she develops an unlikely romantic relationship with Franz Wunsch, a high-ranking SS officer. Thirty years later, a letter arrives from Wunsch's wife asking Helena to testify on Wunsch's behalf. Faced with an impossible decision, Helena must choose. Will she help the man who brutalized so many lives but saved hers?
Love It Was Not (2022 )
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In 1985, Willem de Kooning’s “Woman-Ochre,” one of the most valuable paintings of the 20th century, vanished into the Arizona desert after being cut from its frame at the University of Arizona Museum of Art. 32 years later, the $160 million painting was found hanging in the home of Jerry and Rita Alter in rural New Mexico.
The Thief Collector (2022 )
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In March 2019, Yousef Makki was stabbed in the heart by a friend in a wealthy Manchester suburb. This documentary takes a forensic look at the killing, and subsequent trial of the friend.
Killed by a Rich Kid (2022 )
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A feature-length documentary exploring the unsolved murder of French bicyclist Alain Malessard who was found dead in an Oregon Coast campground on Thanksgiving 1987.
Old Growth Murder (2022 )
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Two bounty hunters meet an old man claiming to be hijacker DB Cooper. Can they help him dig up the cash he hid half a century ago? Documentary footage blends with period reenactments to tell the tangled tale.
I Am DB Cooper (2022 )
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One woman's unshakable connection to the JFK assassination continues to haunt her fifty years later.
The Assassination & Mrs. Paine (2022 )
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Chris Watts appeared to have a perfect life until he shockingly confesses to strangling his pregnant wife and two daughters.
Suburban Nightmare: Chris Watts (2022 )
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A new generation uses a new lens to look back on the case that shook the nation and the Beverly Hills brothers brutally murdered their parents in cold blood.
Suburban Nightmare: The Menendez Brothers (2022 )
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Charles Booker rode to the brink of one of the biggest upsets in political history. The documentary follows his campaign across Kentucky from the most urban to the most rural settings. Booker and his team rewrite the campaign playbook. They lean into the charge that average Kentuckians have common bonds, a unifying day-to-day struggle. That struggle is color blind. Booker fights to represent Kentuckians that feel invisible. His message is simple whether you are from the city “Hood,” or the Appalachian “Holler,” you are not invisible.
From the Hood to the Holler (2022 )
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Madeleine McCann was only three years old. She was a few days away from celebrating her fourth birthday. After discovering an empty bed, Kate and Gerry alerted the authorities and an investigation was swiftly in effect. Within days of Madeleine going missing, the McCanns had gathered international media attention. Their story was known nationwide and touched the hearts of parents across the country. The support received was like no other for a missing child. Several suspects were investigated by the Portuguese police, however, no charges were ever made due to lack of evidence. With new recent developments, the search for Madeleine continues.
The Unsolved Kidnapping of Madeleine McCann (2022 )
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Focuses on hip-hop culture & urban tribalism taking place within the five boroughs of New York.
Warriors of New York (2022 )
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It follows the resistance to modernization in rural Mexico. It is a reminder that it is still possible to live in tune with our essence as human beings.
Gods of Mexico (2022 )
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Follows childhood friends turned professional comedians, Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett, the founders of the Found Footage Festival. When Nick and Joe book their gag strongman routine on unsuspecting morning news shows, their pranks go viral and land them in federal court with a vengeful media conglomerate. The stress of the lawsuit and pressure to continue their pranks threatens their livelihood and tests their lifelong friendship.
Chop & Steele (2022 )
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Investigates the politics of cinematic shot design, and how this meta-level of filmmaking intersects with the twin epidemics of sexual abuse/assault and employment discrimination against women, with over 80 movie clips from 1896 - 2020.
Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power (2022 )
