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In 2009, organized crime took over the Mexican community of Ostula. Murders and enforced disappearances soon became part of daily life. The entire community was displaced and the drug cartel took over their land. In 2014, armed self-defense groups helped the community reclaim their land. Community members who had been terrorized felt safe enough to return and begin reconstruction of the village and their farms. RECOVERING PARADISE documents...
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Systemic killings continue in Mexico - a genocide covered up or even perpetrated by the Mexican government. Carlos Spector, a U.S. immigration lawyer in El Paso, Texas fights to obtain political asylum for Mexicans fleeing the violence. Official Selection at the **Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival**.
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"New York Times and worldwide bestselling "dazzling storyteller" (Associated Press) Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping novel about three very different people who are brought together in a mesmerizing story that journeys from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil. In the Midst of Winter begins with a minor traffic accident--which becomes the catalyst for an unexpected and moving love story between two...
7) El Paso
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Alfhaville Cinema
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[2016]
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Español
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Journalists are being murdered in Mexico, which has become one of the most dangerous countries for this profession. El Paso follows two Mexican journalists exiled to the city of El Paso, Texas, and the human rights lawyer who advocates for their safety. Directed by Everardo González -- who after a handful of critically lauded documentaries has earned a reputation as one of Mexico's preeminent documentary journalists -- El Paso focuses on the story...
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Collective Eye Films
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We all know Washington is broken. Our federal government's spending, regulations and tax breaks are deeply corrupted in favor of the special interests that lobby it. Fed up with the status quo, Americans keep electing people who pledge to change it, to no avail. Why? With expert testimony from high-ranking officials, UNREPRESENTED reveals that what is stopping the Federal government from enacting popular reforms is the corrupt way it is financed....
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Outcast Films
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In a highly conservative Colorado town, a pink-loving, pig-tailed six-year-old girl named Coy becomes the unlikely poster child for transgender rights, in a 2013 landmark case that is reverberating in state courts across the country. Although she was born as a boy in a set of triplets, Coy’s gender identity was evident even as a toddler, leading her parents, Kathryn and Jeremy, to accept her early on as the girl she wished to be. At first their...
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Matt Shepard is a Friend of Mine explores the life and tragic death of Matthew Shepard, the gay student brutally murdered in Laramie, Wyoming in one of the most notorious hate crimes in U.S. history. Framed through the personal lens of friends and family, it’s a story of loss, love, and courage in the face of unspeakable tragedy. This film has earned 10 Best Documentary and Audience Choice Awards from film festivals worldwide, including the Audience...
11) Plot for peace
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Virgil Films
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[2015]
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English
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To some, such as South Africa's former President Mbeki, Jean-Yves Ollivier (alias 'Monsieur Jacques') was a mysterious businessman and sanctions buster or a French spy. For others, such as Winnie Mandela and Mozambique's former President Chissano, he was a trusted friend and man of bold vision. For the first time, heads of state, diplomats, master spies and anti-Apartheid fighters reveal how 'Monsieur Jacques' positioned himself to be the improbable...
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Dreamscape Media, LLC
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[2022]
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English
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From a very young age, Judy Heumann heard the word NO. When she wanted to attend public school, the principal said NO. When she wanted her teaching license, the New York Board of Education said NO. Judy and people with disabilities everywhere were tired of hearing "NO." In the 1970s, an important disability rights law, Section 504 of The Rehabilitation Act of 1973, was waiting to be signed. Judy and other disability-rights activists fought for "YES!"...
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Focus Features
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c2006
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English
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In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle is found brutally murdered. Tessa's companion, a doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and all the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that Tessa's widower, their mild-mannered and unambitious colleague Justin Quayle, will leave the matter to them. Haunted by remorse and jarred by rumors of his late wife's infidelities, Quayle surprises...
15) Children of men
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[Distributed by] Universal Studios Home Entertainment
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c2007
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English
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Theo Faron is a bureaucrat in a Britain gone despotic. It is 2027 and the entire planet has gone infertile. Women no longer have babies, and chaos has erupted: war, rebellion, mass destruction, and a huge refugee problem, with the imposition of martial law. One day, Theo is kidnapped. His ex-wife Julian has a proposition for her former spouse, and because of their relationship, she thinks Theo will acquiesce. Theo is about to be tossed into a...
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