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This is a film about post-Soviet Russia seen through the eyes of the filmmaker, as she returns to her home town (Vladivostok, Russian Far East) after a decade of absence with the intention of resettling there. Unusual places, unusual characters, unusual ways-about, unusual mentality becomes a colorful and contrasting carousel of her welcome-home. And she comes to the realization that there is no place for her in this drastically changed country. She...
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Australia has developed the most integrated cost effective, coastal rescue and surveillance network. A total of 37,000 trained surf lifesavers patrol 400 of the country's beaches during the swimming season. Between the Flags celebrates 100 years of surf life saving in Australia.
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In 1974 former Khmer Rouge Commander Touj Soeurly and the fourteen year old Chhem Sip were deadly enemies. Sip was imprisoned, tortured, and just barely managed to escape with his life to the US. Now these two former enemies are working together to make possible the community of Veal Thom, a cooperative village composed primarily of soldiers - from both sides of the war - disabled by landmines, and their families. The amputees of Veal Thom cope with...
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Surfing with the Enemy is the story of a group of surfers from Havana struggling to establish a niche for their sport in Cuba's restrictive society. Guided by Eduardo Valdes, founder of the Havana Surf Association, two filmmakers from Venice Beach, California, travel across the island to the wave-rich but ill-famed Guantanamo province, home to the U.S. Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay. Chasing waves along this controversial coast, they discover a forbidden...
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Bees are under-appreciated workers who pollinate 80% of our flowering crops which constitute 1/3 of everything we eat, so if they disappear, they could take most of our insect pollinated plants with them, potentially reducing humankind to little more than a water diet. This documentary reveals how local citizens, farmers, small and large businesses, and beekeepers can help protect and preserve bee populations by utilizing the biodiversity of plants,...
8) Song of Life
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Song of Life' follows the Israeli Philharmonia Singers choir on a tour to Poland where they perform at the ceremony commemorating 60 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. During the rehearsal in Tel Aviv, they sing the famous requiem by Verdi. 76 year-old Greta Klinsberg has just joined the choir only to realize that she sang this requiem 62 years before, as a child in the ghetto of Terezienstadt. Then she was sent to the...
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