Kristine Samuelson

Hundreds of refugee children in Sweden, who have fled with their families from extreme trauma, have become afflicted with 'uppgivenhetssyndrom,' or Resignation Syndrome. Facing deportation, they withdraw from the world into a coma-like state, as if frozen, for months, or even years.

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The portrait of a city: ancient yet constantly remaking itself. A poem in images: stillness, patterns, urban motion. And in words: a tofu seller, a homeless woman, a Buddhist priest, contemplating nature, the metabolism of their city, mortality. And 20,000 crows, unruly avatars of the natural world, sardonically observing it all.

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A collection of shorts made by various directors in response to 9/11.

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EMPIRE OF THE MOON wryly deconstructs the experience of being a tourist. Paris, gorgeously photographed in black-and-white, is the setting for cultural explorations ranging from the mundane to the sublime, as visitors trek from icon to icon, snapping the same photos, climbing the same steps and at times experiencing the transformative wonder they came to find.

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This film is a realistic look at parenting during the first few months after birth. It touches on a wide range of parental concerns, such as nursing, crying and colic, fatigue, mother’s recovery, sexuality, fathering, single parenthood, and returning to work. The film is straight forward, presenting a diverse group of new parents who relate their experiences with warmth and humour. Narrated by Robbie Engelmann.

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One of the strange guests at the eerie inn is a serial killer, trapping a ventriloquist investigator and his wooden sidekick.

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Humans and an invasive alien species have come to a stalemate. Humans in rural areas can only survive at night with a shield built from alien tech. Marauders steal an older couple's shield power source and troubles begin.

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A legendary author plagued with writer's block is offered a unique deal from a mysterious stranger.

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Demon hunter Jebediah Huntley teams up with an FBI agent to battle a supernatural force in the southern state of Mississippi.

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A troubled, young history professor tries to escape his past by taking a job at a new university, where he struggles with an entrenched and equally-troubled department chair, rampant student apathy, and new relationships that complicate and challenge his world-view.

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In post-Katrina New Orleans, street hustler Red sells carnations to support himself and his disabled male lover, Sal. Living in a crowded halfway house, Red struggles to earn enough money to get Sal and himself a little place where they can be together. One fateful night Red is forced to weigh his desire for a home of his own against the realities of urban life.

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Hundreds of refugee children in Sweden, who have fled with their families from extreme trauma, have become afflicted with 'uppgivenhetssyndrom,' or Resignation Syndrome. Facing deportation, they withdraw from the world into a coma-like state, as if frozen, for months, or even years.

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A film about Arthur and Lillie Mayer, 89 and 86 years old and still young. Arthur can remember being taken to the first movie show in America, in 1895; Lillie was among the first American suffragettes. Arthur Mayer reminisces about his famous publicity stunts for Paramount, his Broadway horror film theatre, and beginning the importation of great European films with Rossellini's Open City. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

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