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Janus Metz Pedersen
When operations get hairy, adrenaline addiction and cynicism set in for the young soldiers at the front line in Afghanistan. This contributes to… 
CastUnknown
LanguageDanish   CountryDenmark
RTR$18A

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Frederick Wiseman
The doc unfolds at Lord's Gym in Austin, Texas. 
CastRichard Lord
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
RTR$14A

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Werner Herzog
Herzog has apparently been given permission to film inside the Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc cave, a site in the Ardèche department of southern France tha… 
CastWerner Herzog
LanguageEnglish   CountryGermany
RTR$G

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Alex Gibney
An in-depth look at the rise and fall of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, including interviews with the scandalized, former politician. Alex Gi… 
CastEliot Spitzer
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
RTR$PG

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Ondi Timoner
A documentary that takes an alternative approach to dealing with the global warming crisis. Inspired by a book called Cool It by the economist … 
CastBjorn Lomborg
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
RTR$PG

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Jørgen Leth
Danish master Jørgen Leth travels the globe in this sensual, provocative and sometimes autobiographical essay film about a man struggling to com… 
CastJørgen Leth, Dorothye Laguerre, Schilaine Ca…
LanguageDanish   CountryDenmark
MAST$PG

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Christophe Nick & Thomas Bor…
This documentary examines the idea of the limits of obedience and punishment. Based on an experiment conducted in the sixties, the setting is a … 
CastUnknown
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance
RTR$14A

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Naomi Kawase
A serene observation of women giving birth at the clinic of Dr. Tadashi Yoshimura who has spent 40 years on the path of natural childbirth, Genp… 
CastTadashi Yoshimura
LanguageJapanese   CountryJapan
RTR$PG

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José Luis Guerín
"Guest" is a travel diary following a director as he goes to international film festivals. Jose Luis Guerin muses on the themes of travel, cine… 
CastJosé Luis Guerín
LanguageSpanish | English | …   CountrySpain
RTR$G

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Charles Ferguson
'Inside Job' is the first film to provide a comprehensive analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost over $20 trillion, ca… 
CastMatt Damon
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
RTR$PG

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Mark Hartley
From cult cinema documentary director Mark Hartley (Not Quite Hollywood) comes this account of the wild and unruly world of genre filmmaking in … 
CastJoe Dante, John Landis, Colleen Camp, Steve …
LanguageEnglish   CountryAustralia
RTR$PG

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J. Clay Tweel
Every year in Las Vegas, aspiring young magicians travel from around the globe to compete for the title of Teen World Champion at the World Magi… 
CastEd Alonzo, Albert M. Belmont Jr., Joan Caes…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
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Paul Clarke
In New York City in 1968 a revolution was under way in a tiny club called Max’s Kansas City. When Andy Warhol’s Factory superstars collided with… 
CastLillian Roxon, Iggy Pop, Alice Cooper, Germa…
LanguageEnglish   CountryAustralia
RTR$14A

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Patricio Guzmán
Guzman’s follow up to “Salvador Allende,” docu-feature “Nostalgia for the Light” turns on the Chilean director’s reflections on the passage of t… 
CastUnknown
LanguageSpanish   CountryChile
MAST$PG

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Unknown
“This year we will present a special free screening of the winner of the Cadillac People’s Choice Award on September 19, the last day of the Fes… 
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LanguageUnknown   CountryUnknown
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Kim Longinotto
India is the setting for the documentary Pink Saris, which is being made for UK Channel 4 and continues the theme of strong women fighting again… 
CastSampat Pal
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
RTR$PG

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Risteard O'Domhnaill
In a remote corner of the west of Ireland sits Broadhaven Bay. It is the perfect picture postcard, where the high cliffs of Erris Head and the S… 
CastWillie Corduff, Monica Muller, Pat O‘Donnell
LanguageEnglish   CountryIreland
RTR$14A

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Shlomi Eldar
A desperately ill Palestinian baby, his militant mother, an Israeli doctor and a Channel 10 reporter star in Shlomi Eldar's moving documentary, … 
CastMohammed Abu Mustafa, Raida Abu Mustafa, Dr.…
LanguageHebrew | English | A…   CountryIsrael
RTR$14A

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Thom Zimny
The recodring of Bruce Springsteen's "Darkness on the Edge of Town" album from 1978. 
CastBruce Springsteen
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
GALA$$PG

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Sarah McCarthy
This film follows three children from the slums of Mumbai as they prepare for a once in a lifetime concert. The head of the Bombay Chamber Orche… 
CastJini Dinshaw
LanguageEnglish   CountryIndia
RTR$PG

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Errol Morris
Joyce McKinney, a former Miss Wyoming, who, in the late seventies, abducted Kirk Anderson, a Mormon missionary in England, chained him to a bed … 
CastJoyce McKinney, Kirk Anderson
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
RTR$14A

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Vibeke Løkkeberg
The film follows three children through the war and the period after the ceasefire. In a rough style, by way of unique footage, the brutal cons… 
CastAmira Fat-hi Dawood El Eren Rasmia Al-Sultan…
LanguageArabic   CountryNorway | Palestine
RTR$18A

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Tomonari Nishikawa, Dominic …
As the pace of the contemporary urban experience grows faster and the world becomes increasingly fractured, artists are documenting the vestiges… 
CastVarious
LanguageVarious   CountryJapan, USA, United K…
WL$PG

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Vincent Grenier, John Price,…
As with painting, natural light and colour are inexhaustible sources of inspiration for film and video artists, whose plein-air shooting radical… 
CastVarious
LanguageVarious   CountryCanada, USA, France,…
WL$PG

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James Benning
Exchanging his 16mm Bolex for a high-definition video camera, and straying from his native soil, James Benning heads to Germany with Ruhr (Germ… 
CastUnknown
LanguageUnknown   CountryGermany
WL$PG

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Nathaniel Dorsky, T. Marie
Nathaniel Dorsky is one of the most gifted 16mm filmmakers of our time and was recently voted “The Best Experimental filmmaker of the Decade” by… 
CastVarious
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
WL$PG

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Mati Diop, Eve Heller, Kevin…
The ocean has always been a mythic source of life, as much as it has a legendary call to death. In the mysterious and melancholic Atlantiques (… 
CastVarious
LanguageVarious   CountrySenegal/France, Aust…
WL$PG

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Paolo Gioli, Ken Jacobs, Net…
Early cinema confronted the spectator like no other art, beckoning a reciprocal engagement and curiosity as both spectacle and document. This pr… 
CastVarious
LanguageVarious   CountryItaly, USA, Austria,…
WL$PG

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Guo Jing & Ke Dingding
When a child is born, nothing is ever going to be the same. A journey into the everyday life of young university teachers and researchers up aga… 
CastUnknown
LanguageMandarin   CountryChina
RTR$G

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Laura Israel
A documentary that tells the story of one small town in upstate New York and its struggle to decide whether or not to accept industrial wind tur… 
CastUnknown
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
RTR$G

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Lynn Hershman-Leeson
Through intimate interviews, art, and rarely seen archival film and video footage, !Women Art Revolution reveals how the Feminist Art Movement f… 
CastEleanor Antin, Judith Baca, Tammy Rae Carlan…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
RTR$PG