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Get Big(2018)

Ultimate Frisbee is founded on fair play and Spirit of the Game. There is no referee and players call their own fouls. Will Beefree, a team from Turin, be able to maintain the balance between the soul of Ultimate and the desire to win the Italian Championship?

Lua Morales - The Documentary(2021)

Documentary about the creative process of photographer Lua Morales, produced by the studio Bad Chinchilla.

Você tem medo do Bolsonaro?(2018)

Prior to the Brazilian 2018 presidential elections, a film crew went down on the streets of Rio de Janeiro in order to listen to people's opinion on candidate Jair Bolsonaro.

Faber(2019)

Um Cinema Quase Paradiso(2019)

This short documentary presents the singular movie theater of the historic city of Ouro Preto, in Brazil, the Cine Vila Rica. Throug the looks of five characters that represents different ages and different reasons for the existence of the movie room, the directors put on screen a sentimentalist view of cinema itself and of seeing yourself as a part of one special theater.

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For almost ten years Curitiba does not have a street cinema, then, in a revitalized corner of the downtown area, the Cine Passeio appears. The film begins the search based on the construction of the new cinema to find answers on how the cinema is seen nowadays.

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Round the Island(1956)

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Los Xey: A Real Movie Story(2024)

The incredible story of Los Xey, a musical group born in San Sebastián, Spain, in 1940, which achieved and maintained an extraordinary worldwide success until its dissolution in 1961.

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Mon Clown(2008)

Documentary from French TV channel Canal+ about Marion Cotillard's road to the Oscar for her performance as French singer Édith Piaf in the 2007 film 'La Vie en Rose', also featuring behind-the-scenes footage from the film.

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Follows six diverse trainers as they jockey for position along the 2006 Kentucky Derby trail.

Heroin King of Baltimore: The Rise and Fall of Melvin Williams(2013)

Baltimore City officials asked drug kingpin Melvin Williams to stop the riots happened following Martin Luther King's assassination. After helping the authorities out, Williams was then labeled a threat, framed and incarcerated by a hypocritical society.

The Hidden Hand: Alien Contact and the Government Cover-up(2013)

The Hidden Hand is a controversial Award-winning documentary that explores the possibility of an extraterrestrial presence here on Earth. The film takes a keen look at a spectrum of topics like alien abduction, human/alien hybridization, the military's reverse-engineering of alien technology and the government cover-up of anything related to extraterrestrials. Is preoccupation with E.T.'s a form of cultural madness, or is something really going on? How would E.T. contact change the religious and political institutions of our society? The Hidden Hand is full of riveting interviews with experts and experiencers alike: Whitley Strieber, Dr. Edgar Mitchell, the 6th astronaut on the moon, Paul Hellyer, a former Canadian Defence Minister, Richard Dolan, Jim Marrs, Linda Moulton Howe, Col. John Alexander, Lyn Buchanan, Clifford Stone, Nassim Haramein, David Icke, Dr. Roger Leir, Graham Hancock and Paola Harris, among others. The shadowy world of UFOs is suddenly brought to light.