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Beneath the Polar Sun
Science meets adventure – an Arctic expedition is caught in the grip of the ice it has come to study. In the Last Ice Area, 500 nautical miles from the North Pole, a scientific team is on a rare mission to measure the world’s oldest ice floes. Tiny specks in a vast ocean wilderness, they are alone. And they’re in trouble. Jumbled slabs of sea ice are closing in from every corner. Hauling loaded kayaks, the team struggles to follow a route that had been navigable only years earlier. Trapped in a frozen maelstrom – caught in the grip of the floes they came to study – something has to give. The science is scuttled: bearing witness to Earth’s most pressing existential threat, what matters now is survival. They must escape the chaos by traversing a narrow channel between Canada and Greenland – the most formidable passage of the polar north.
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Calle Malaga
Maria Angeles, a 79-year-old Spanish woman, lives alone in Tangier, Morocco, and enjoys her daily routine. However, her life is turned upside down when her daughter arrives from Madrid to sell the apartment in which she has always lived. Determined to stay, she does everything she can to get her home and her belongings back and, unexpectedly, rediscovers love and sensuality.
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The Fabulous Gold Harvesting Machine
In Chile's Tierra del Fuego, "Toto" has spent 40 years hand-mining for gold in brutal conditions; after a stroke and with no social security, he still can't stop. His son Jorge sets out to design and build a homemade gold-harvesting machine to spare his father's labor, turning their struggle into an intimate father-son portrait about work, dignity, and hope.
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The Freedom of Fierro
César Fierro needs to rebuild his life after being wrongly sentenced to death in Texas. He spent most of his life in the "Polunsky Unit", a prison that keeps human beings in complete isolation during decades, deprived of any physical contact with other human beings. Director Santiago Esteinou and Cesar became friends over the last 14 years in prison when Santiago made a documentary about César's case. Released in the middle of a pandemic, with no place to go, César stayed with Santiago's family and began his journey to heal and reconstruct himself. César is immediately confronted with his own limitations, learning to use a cellphone, daring to leave his room, overcoming the anxiety of being around other people and reconnecting with his family, who don't even recognize his face anymore. Despite the challenges, César Fierro remains determined to find true freedom.
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Liberty & Slavery: Paradox of America's Founding
Our Founding Fathers were yearning for a nation of individual liberty. But, the origins of America were overflowing with a deep-seated paradox. They were rallying the colonists to liberty, while many were slave owners.
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On Their First Tri
On September 9, 1979, ninety-four people entered the murky waters of Banks Channel, NC, and created a legacy. Through interviews with nine of the original racers and archival photographs, audiences are taken back to 1979 and the beginning of a new sport.
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Peacock
At MyCompanion, the cultured and confident Matthias is available--for a reasonable fee--to fill any social role you desire, from 'the perfect son' to the 'enlightened boyfriend', or even 'pilot dad' to impress your classmates at bring your parent to school day. But while Matthias is at the top of his professional game, his personal life begins to crumble as he detaches from his own identity and burrows deeper into his fictitious lives.
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Pike River
The incredible true story of two women whose friendship empowered them to fight for justice after the Pike River Mine Tragedy took the lives of 29 men underground.
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Queen of the Ring
An extraordinary, true-life tale that follows Mildred Burke, the legendary professional wrestler and single mom who defied incredible odds to become the first million-dollar female athlete and longest reigning champion at a time when the sport was banned across most of America.
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Les âmes bossales = The soul of the Bossales
The Soul of the Bossales is a visceral immersion into popular Haitian life, where spirituality, creativity, and resilience flourish amid deep-seated challenges. Through intimate portraits of an activist, a priest, a filmmaker, and a laborer, the documentary traces Haiti's soul beleaguered by political unrest, economic hardship, and lingering trauma from the 2010 earthquake. Against a backdrop of traditional ceremonies and haunting, everyday reality, the film captures the unbreakable spirit of a people striving to maintain dignity and hope.
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Ties That Bind Us
A young single father struggling to rebuild his life and find the strength to love again. A fiercely independent feminist bookstore owner, single by conviction, who has long decided that motherhood is not for her. A perceptive six-year-old child searching for stability and a sense of belonging. When sudden tragedy strikes, their lives are unexpectedly intertwined as each must confront deeply held beliefs and unspoken fears. In The Ties That Bind Us, Carine Tardieu's gently observed adaptation of Alice Ferney's novel L'Intimité , she explores the many forms that love and parenthood can take, portraying how grief and intimacy can transform the ways in which people choose and learn to create a family.
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Time It Takes
Francesca Comencini returns with an intimate and deeply moving reflection on her relationship with her father, Luigi Comencini a revered figure in Italian cinema, yet a distant and elusive presence at home. With both tenderness and restraint, she explores the contradictions of their bond, tracing a path from the wonder of childhood through the turmoil of adolescence, offering an honest and evocative portrait of love, memory, and the spaces in between.
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