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Publisher
Galloping Films
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Social business is one that uses business to solve social problems. Equity holders may gradually recoup their investments, costs and profits without taking dividends. Bangladeshi Nobel laureate Professor Yunus' lecture shows how this works across the business spectrum, including multinational companies, very small enterprises and even a circus company in Cambodia. In English and French with forced English and French subtitles.
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Bloodlines of the slave trade examines the lives of two people whose only connection is a genetic link to John Armfield, one of the most notorious slave traders of the 1830s. Rodney Williams, who is Black, and Susanna Grannis, who is white, each trace their ancestry back to Armfield, detailing the diverging paths their lineages took. While their relationship to this past is fundamentally different, and they never meet in the film, they both share...
Publisher
Movie Time Video
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Hindi
Description
The story of sex, love and the search for privacy in a small, one-room Mumbai chawl. Shukla, an auto driver from an orthodox Brahmin family, has never intimately known a woman other than the celluloid starlets he watches every day on the four inch display of his mobile phone. When his mother arranges his sudden marriage, Shukla and his new wife face the experience of so many couples in Mumbai: a new marriage, no experience in a relationship and a...
4) Yuni
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Indonesian
Description
Yuni is a smart teenage girl with big dreams of attending university. When two men she barely knows ask to marry her, she rejects their proposals, sparking gossip about a myth that a woman who rejects three proposals will never marry. The pressure is building when a third man asks for her hand, and Yuni must choose between the myth of a final chance at marriage, or her dream of future happiness.
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
In 1821, Sequoyah completed the Cherokee syllabary, the first written language developed on the North American continent. The Cherokee language is deeply tied to Cherokee identity, yet in 2019 the tri-council of Cherokee tribes declared it to be in a state of emergency after generations of assimilation efforts by the US government, as well as anti-Indigenous stigma. Fewer than an estimated 2000 fluent speakers, the majority of whom are elderly remain...
Publisher
Vision Films
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A love letter to all things great and Irish that reveals some surprising facts about what it means to be Irish. Featuring a distinguished cast including Pierce Brosnan, Jeremy Irons, and Prince Albert II, enter a glamorous world of castles, palaces, and presidents that reveals fascinating views on the Irish and their vast influence.
Series
Publisher
Milestone Film and Video
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Nancy Savoca's star-studded indie gem Household Saints is a chronicle of a spirited Italian American New York family that perfectly balances humor, tragedy, and pathos. Joseph Santangelo is a butcher with a wicked sense of humor who 'wins' his wife Catherine in a pinochle game. Over the protests of his mother who talks to ghosts and makes deals with saints, Joseph marries Catherine. When the old lady dies, her spirit is channeled into her granddaughter...
8) Rebel
Publisher
Yellow Veil Pictures
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Arabic
Description
When Kamal resolves to change his life for the better, he leaves Belgium to help war victims in Syria. But, having arrived, he is forced to join ISIS and is left stranded in Raqqa. Back home, his younger brother Nassim quickly becomes easy prey for radical recruiters, who promise to reunite him with his brother. Their mother, Leila, fights to protect the only thing she has left: her youngest son.
Publisher
EPF Media
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Français
Description
Through exclusive testimonies and clandestine videos, We Iranian Women gives voice to courageous women in Iran who risked their lives to share their stories. Many prominent women in culture, art, and academia, who were forced to leave their beloved country, explain their perilous and often tragic experiences. The Film chronicles their ongoing battle against patriarchy, economic crisis, corruption, and rigid religious and ideological beliefs.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1215
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Hungarian
Description
The mesmeric parable of societal collapse is an enigma of transcendent visual, philosophical, and mystical resonance. Adapted from a novel by László Krasznahorkai, Werckmeister Harmonies unfolds in an unknown time in an unnamed village, where, one day, a mysterious circus completed with an enormous stuffed whale and a shadowy, demagogue-like figure known as the Prince arrives and appears to awaken a kind of madness in the citizens that builds inexorably...
Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Was Roy Lichtenstein a great artist, a thief, or both? This is the question addressed by the feature documentary. Along with Andy Warhol, Lichtenstein created the Pop Art movement of the 1960s. His comic-based paintings reside in the greatest art galleries and can fetch more than $150 million. But some view this renowned artist as a plagiarist. WHAAM! BLAM! focuses upon the last living comic artists whose work was 'appropriated' by Lichtenstein, and...
12) Night swim
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Ray Waller, a former major league baseball player is forced into early retirement by a degenerative illness, he moves into a new home with his concerned wife Eve, teenage daughter Izzy, and young son Elliot. Secretly hoping, against the odds, to return to pro ball, Ray persuades Eve that the new home's shimmering backyard swimming pool will be fun for the kids and provide physical therapy for him. But a dark secret in the home's past will unleash...
13) Signs of war
Publisher
EPF Media
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Français
Description
After years of working in the Dutch parliament, photographer Pierre Crom decides that "it might be more interesting to follow the results of their political decisions instead of making propaganda for politicians". In February 2014, he travelled to Crimea in Ukraine on a one-way plane ticket, one day before its annexation by Russia. From then on, he found himself in the middle of a rapidly escalating conflict and decided to stay. The start of the war...
14) Mama!
Publisher
Freestyle Digital Media
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Follow three mothers from Minnesota, the national hotbed for the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020, as they fight for accountability for their fallen sons, finding strength in one another to make sure no other mothers suffer their grief again.
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
日本語
Description
Investigative filmmaker Yuko is putting together a piece about the bereaved families connected with a bullied schoolgirl's suicide. Determined to shed light on the truth, Yuko's uncompromising nature brings her into conflict with the conservative-minded management at her television network but succeeds in getting her interview subjects to place their trust in her. Then Yuko discovers that her father, Masashi, who runs a test prep school, has made...
16) Underdog
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Doug Butler is a hardscrabble Vermont dairy farmer with an offbeat passion for dog mushing. A local folk hero, Doug's ease with cows, dogs, and people is a joy to behold. And when he trains his team of mutts on the family farm with a dream to compete at the world championships in Alaska, his teenage exuberance seems to erase the tired lines on his sixty-five-year-old face.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Seeking a retreat where they can salvage their struggling relationship, young couple Leyla and Tristan travel to a remote island at the invitation of Leyla's childhood friend Stella, where it soon becomes clear that what the island offers is more mysterious than a simple vacation. Leyla and Tristan join another couple in a ritual to exchange bodies and see the world through the eyes of someone else a chance to find themselves or, for some of them,...
Publisher
TBN Films
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Continues Joel Osteen's legacy of encouraging you to live a hopeful, abundant, and God-centered life. The premise is simple: Overwhelming pressure, impossible odds, dream-crushing setbacks, in life, you'll face them all. But no matter what the world may say, God has given you the strength to live a victorious life. You are stronger than you think!
Publisher
Bridgestone Multimedia Group
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In the enchanting tapestry of "Just the Two of Us," three couples embark on separate journeys, each an important chapter in the novel of love. Zoë and Anthony, a collision of personalities, traverse the uncharted territory of their new online connection. Kevin and Rachel celebrate their 13th wedding anniversary. Successful in their careers, their marriage faces turbulent waters. Christopher and Grace, whose love story spans over three decades, grapple...
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