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Cast a Giant Shadow(en)

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Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
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Call Me Crazy: A Five Film(en)

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A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.

Return
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Return(en)

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Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes.

Bastard Out of Carolina
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Bastard Out of Carolina(en)

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A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.

Golda
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Golda(en)

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Set during the tense 19 days of the Yom Kippur War in 1973, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir is faced with the potential of Israel’s complete destruction. She must navigate overwhelming odds, a skeptical cabinet and a complex relationship with US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, with millions of lives in the balance. Her tough leadership and compassion would ultimately decide the fate of her nation and leave her with a controversial legacy around the world.

Mindwalk
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Mindwalk(en)

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On the French island of Mont Saint-Michel, Jack, a failed presidential candidate, Tom, his ex-speechwriter and Sonia, a physicist, engage in an intellectual conversation about politics, philosophy and life over the course of a single day.

The River
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The River(en)

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Tom and Mae Garvey are a Tennessee farming couple battling violent floods to save their land. In addition to natural disasters, the Garveys fight to stop a selfish land developer and a local corporation from foreclosing on their farm. While Mae stays at home to care for their children and tend to the crops, Tom finds work as a scab at a steel mill to preserve his family's property.

Skin
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Skin(en)

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Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.

The Girl in the Book
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The Girl in the Book(en)

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The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.

Holy Lands
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Holy Lands(en)

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When lapsed Jew and former cardiologist Harry suddenly decides to spend his retirement as a pig farmer in Nazareth, Israel, the move deeply shocks his family and his new neighbours. Back in New York, Harry’s ex-wife Monica is trying to manage the lives of their adult children, Annabelle and David, as well as her own.

The Safety of Objects
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The Safety of Objects(en)

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In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.

Strange Weather
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Strange Weather(en)

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Dear Zoe
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Dear Zoe(en)

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Tess enlists her biological father – a lovable slacker from the wrong side of the tracks – and the charming juvenile delinquent next door to help her come to grips with the death of her little sister.

The Attack
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The Attack(en)

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An Arab surgeon living in Tel Aviv discovers a dark secret about his wife in the aftermath of a suicide bombing.

Confirmation
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Confirmation(en)

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Judge Clarence Thomas' nomination to the United States' Supreme Court is called into question when former colleague, Anita Hill, testifies that he had sexually harassed her.

Come Sunday
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Come Sunday(en)

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What Maisie Knew
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What Maisie Knew(en)

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Adam
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Adam(en)

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All Together Now
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All Together Now(en)

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Lucky Them
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Lucky Them(en)

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More interested in partying and flirting with young musicians than work, veteran rock journalist Ellie Klug has one last chance to prove her value to her magazine’s editor: a no-stone-unturned search to discover what really happened to long lost rock god, Matt Smith, who also happens to be her ex-boyfriend. Teaming up with an eccentric amateur documentary filmmaker, Ellie hits the road in search of answers.

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Justine
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Justine(en)

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In Alexandria, in 1938, Darley, a young British schoolmaster and poet, makes friends through Pursewarden, the British consular officer, with Justine, the beautiful and mysterious wife of a Coptic banker. He observes the affairs of her heart and incidentally discovers that she is involved in a plot against the British, meant to arm the Jewish underground in Palestine. The plot finally fails, Justine is sent to jail and Darley decides to return to England.

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Achille Lauro - The terror cruise(it)

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The Time That Remains
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The Time That Remains(ar)

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An examination of the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 through to the present day. A semi-biographic film, in four chapters, about a family spanning from 1948 until recent times. Combined with intimate memories of each member, the film attempts to portray the daily life of those Palestinians who remained in their land and were labelled "Israeli-Arabs," living as a minority in their own homeland.

Under the Bombs
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Under the Bombs(fr)

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Cries from Ramah
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