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The Price of Free (2018)
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<p>The story of how Kailash Satyarthi built a global movement to rescue children from slavery.</p>
<p>An old mining town on the Arizona-Mexico border finally reckons with its darkest day: the deportation of 1200 immigrant miners exactly 100 years ago. Locals collaborate to stage recreations of their controversial past.</p>
<p>A group of brave NYPD officers risk it all to expose the truth about illegal quota practices in police departments.</p>
<p>Nadia Murad, a 23-year-old Yazidi, survived genocide and sexual slavery committed by ISIS. Repeating her story to the world, this ordinary girl finds herself thrust onto the international stage as the voice of her people.</p>
<p>It's about thwarting any election that is against progressives.</p>
<p>A group of citizens in West Virginia challenges a powerful corporation to be more environmentally responsible.</p>
<p>A kaleidoscopic and humanistic view of the Black community in Hale County, Alabama.</p>
<p>Passionate teenage innovators from around the globe who are creating cutting-edge solutions to confront the world's environmental threats.</p>
<p>In 1993, a teenage girl is forced into a gay conversion therapy center by her conservative guardians.</p>
<p>The Republic of Kiribati will be swallowed by the Pacific Ocean within decades. Anote Tong, Kiribati’s President, races to protect his island home set against the backdrop of international climate negotiations and the ght to recognize climate displacement as an urgent human rights issue</p>
<p>A look at the shadowy underworld of the Internet where questionable content is removed.</p>
<p>A European woman has been kept by a family as a domestic slave for 10 years. Drawing courage from the filmmaker's presence, she decides to escape the unbearable oppression and become a free person.</p>
<p>Irene has only a few days to surpass the anxiety and discover a new strength before sending her eldest son away to the world.</p>
<p>The story of a man who feels happy only when he is unhappy, a man addicted to sadness, who has such need for pity, he's willing to do everything to evoke it from others. This is the life of a man in a world not cruel enough for him.</p>
<p>A Russian Literature professor at the University of Havana is ordered to work as a translator for child victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster when they are sent to Cuba for medical treatment.</p>
<p>The film observes the harsh and dangerous life of so-called mammoth hunters on the remote New Siberian Islands in the far north of Siberia. The archaic landscape in which these people are looking for the tusks of extinct mammoths looks like primordial earth. There is a kind of gold rush fever in the air, because the prices for this white gold have never been so high. But the thawing permafrost unveils more than just precious ivory. Sometimes the hunters find an almost completely preserved mammoth carcass with fur, liquid blood and muscle tissue on which arctic foxes gnaw.</p> <p>Such finds are magnets for high-tech Russian and South Korean clone researchers in search of mammoth cells with the greatest possible degree of intact DNA. Their mission could be part of a science-fiction plot. They want to bring the extinct woolly mammoth back to life à la “Jurassic Park”, and resurrect it as a species. And that’s just the beginning. Worldwide, biologists are working on re-inventing life. They want to learn the language of nature and create life following the Lego principle. The goal of synthetic biology is to produce complete artificial biological systems. Man becomes the Creator.</p> <p>The resurrection of the mammoth is a first track and manifestation of this next great technological revolution. An exercise. A multi-million dollar game. The new technology may turn the world as we know it completely on its head ... and all of this has its origin in the unstoppably thawing permafrost at the extreme edge of Siberia.<br /> <br /> Genesis two point zero.</p>
<p>A bumbling pig farmer, a feisty salon owner, a sensitive busboy, an expat architect and a disenchanted rich girl converge and collide as thousands of dead pigs float down the river towards a rapidly-modernizing Shanghai.</p>
<p>After his 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a desperate father breaks into her laptop to look for clues to find her. A thriller that unfolds entirely on computer screens.</p>
<p>When two siblings undertake an archaeological excavation of their late grandmother's house, they embark on a magical-realist journey in search of what life remains in the objects we leave behind.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Nine high school students from disparate corners of the globe navigate rivalries, setbacks, and hormones on their quest to win the international science fair. Only one can be named "Best in Fair."</span></span></span></p>
<p>Sugar was the engine of the slave trade that brought millions of Africans to America. Glucose is sweet, marketable, and easy to consume, but its surface satisfaction is a thin coating on the pain of many disenfranchised people.</p>
<p>THIS IS HOME is an intimate portrait of four Syrian refugee families arriving in America and struggling to find their footing. Displaced from their homes and separated from loved ones, they are given eight months of assistance from the International Rescue Committee to become self-sufficient. As they learn to adapt to challenges, including the newly imposed travel ban, their strength and resilience are tested. It is a universal story, highlighted by humor and heartbreak, about what it’s like to start over, no matter the obstacles.</p>
<p>A traveling trader provides a window into rural life in the Republic of Georgia, where potatoes are currency and ambition is crushed by poverty.</p>
<p>Set in a surface mine, two boys sink into a seemingly innocent power game with Mother Nature as the sole observer.</p>
<p>An animated musical with apocalyptic undertones. The story is divided into four episodes that takes place in a supermarket, a long term hotel, a call center and a hamburger restaurant. All of the settings are located in a modern, generic market place next to a large freeway.<br /> The characters, portrayed as animals, perform musical numbers with singing and dancing.<br /> The episodes varies both in story and mood, and spans from cheerful tap routine to nightmarish black.</p>
<p>It is clear from the moment she appears that Ramona is not one for standing still. In her Galician fishing village she has not one but two jobs, both of which require hard work and assertiveness. She earns extra money on a mussel boat, but she also energetically drives a team of women in an industrial cleaning company as their supervisor. The workers may keep each other amused with crude jokes but their rough-and-ready tone cannot conceal the strong sense of collegiality that exists among them. Ramona adopts a similarly determined approach when it comes to her private life – which means towards her 18-year-old daughter who hardly ever comes home anymore, and her boyfriend, who likes to have one too many drinks. When their employer tries to force the women to return to a minimum wage after eight years of service, Ramona decides she has had enough. What begins as a search for a new job soon sets far more in motion in her life.<br /> </p>
<p>Emily is visited by a backup clone of herself from the even-more distant future, as they must venture into each other's psyches in order to restore the clone's deteriorating mind.</p>
<p>Margaret has been plagued with dreams of a strange world since she was a little girl. After a mysterious man with a map visits her one night, she decides to give in to the incessant calls of The Blazing World...</p>
<p>A young woman who has been sexually assaulted by a stranger on the subway is rendered with psychological menace and sensory dislocation in this elliptical tale.</p>
<p>A middle-aged woman battles her loneliness and boredom by robbing banks in the guise of a cowboy on her lunch break. But after the adrenaline rush wears off, she still has to deal with her deeply unhappy life. Inspired by a true story.</p>
<p>A new medical procedure promises to free America from persistent “racial glaucoma”.</p>
<p>A young South L.A black girl experiences a series of events that intersects racism and sexism during the 4th of July holiday.</p>
<p>In an alternative 1990s equal parts Yorgos Lanthimos and Todd Solondz (but gentler), an awkward young teen must complete a school requirement in which students wear electronic collars that detach only upon engaging in their first kiss. </p> <p>In an alternate 1990s universe of analog technology, adolescent suburbanites are fitted with electronic collars for a school-mandated sexuality test; once you get your first kiss, you have completed this level of the No Child Left Alone program and the collar pops off, allowing you to enjoy the rest of your youth with few restrictions. That seems easy, but shy, lonely freshman Wyrm (Theo Taplitz) is the only one in class still sporting the equipment, rendering him all but invisible to his classmates and especially his twin sister Myrcella (Azure Brandi). Besides, this is just one of Wyrm’s many worries: His family is in crisis after the untimely death of their popular eldest son, sending Wyrm’s parents into separate emotional spirals and leaving him and sister under the watch of their uncle Chet (Tommy Dewey, “Casual”). If his support system can’t even provide a stable home life, how will this dictionary-carrying, dinosaur-obsessed kid learn to grow up? Absurdist, dry as a sauvignon blanc, accessibly melancholy, and deceptively heartfelt, writer/director Christopher Winterbauer’s feature debut is a wholly unique coming-of-age tale that feels like a combination of Wes Anderson’s lo-fi whimsy and a more chill version of humanity-skewering provocateur Todd Solondz.</p> <p>— Marcus Gorman</p>
<p>Smita faces housing discrimination in Mumbai for being a single woman.</p>
<p>A story about a hunter's son, who was born with antlers, and about how each man kills the thing he loves.</p>
<p>Tomás, a humble Cuban fisherman, is having a harsh winter at the open sea. For the sake of his family and against all odds, he needs to capture a fish tonight.</p>
<p>Over the last decade, an oil boom in North Dakota has seen the state's population double with primarily male workers flocking to the region. With this dramatic increase, has come an influx of drugs, crime and sexual violence. On the Fort Berthold Indian reservation alone, rates of sexual violence have increased 168%, with Indigenous women most affected. Juxtaposing the ravaged yet starkly beautiful landscape with personal testimony from young Indigenous women living on the reservation, Nuuca is an evocative mediation revealing the connections between the rape of the earth and the violence perpetrated against Indigenous women and girls.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Zuzia - 12, has been training vaulting for two years and has extraordinary role topping the acrobatic pyramid. She is “flyer” lifted by the stronger and more experienced vaulters-“base”.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Another intensive season begins. During training sessions it becomes apparent that the girl has lost some of her grace and lightness. At first the coach blames the “base” but they admit that Zuzia is to big to lift her. It became clear that she is “just growing” and her role is given over to a younger girl.</span></span></p>
<p>‘Black’ (‘黒’) tells about a pair of astronauts trapped on an orbital space station because of a nuclear war that erupted unexpectedly on Earth. They lost contact with Earth and all attempts to communicate with their base or anybody else have failed. All they can do now is watch nuclear explosions taking place on the surface of the Earth and try to survive together somehow...</p>
<p>In a lush and lively forest lives a hedgehog. He is respected and envied by the other animals. However, Hedgehog’s unwavering devotion to his home annoys a quartet of insatiable beasts. Together, they march off towards Hedgehog’s home and spark a tense and prickly standoff.</p> <p>Exquisitely directed by Eva Cvijanović and based on the classic story by Branko Ćopić, a writer from the former Yugoslavia, <strong><em>Hedgehog’s Home</em></strong> is a warm and universal tale for young and old that reminds us there truly is no place like home.</p>
<p>The film takes you on a journey through a world, where there is no spoken language, but it is crossed by different vibrations created by the creatures that inhabit it. Every living being can communicate, hunt, eat, drink or even move using particular ranges of sound. Due to the heavy task they want to execute sing vibrations, they’ll need an enormous strength to create the right amount of air pressure and reach the strongest range of the infra sound and ultrasound, so that they’ll need multiple sources of sound frequencies. That is why most of these creatures have two throats instead of one. The ability to correctly use these throats is fundamental to survive in this world.</p>
<p>Filmed and edited in intimate vérité style, this movie follows visionary medical practitioners who are working on the cutting edge of life and death and are dedicated to changing our thinking about both.</p>
<p>RX: EARLY DETECTION A Cancer Journey with Sandra Lee follows the intense and intimate journey of a woman whose life becomes dramatically altered when her routine medical check-up delivers a cancer diagnosis. Executive produced by Sandra Lee and Sheila Nevins. An HBO Documentary Film.</p>
<p>For the third and final contribution to Contour 8 Biennale, inhabitants has commissioned Adam Khalil and Zack Khalil in order to host an urgent reflection on indigenous sovereignty, the undead violence of museum archives, and post-mortem justice.</p> <p>Filmmakers Adam and Zack Khalil, in collaboration with artist Jackson Polys, investigate the recent court case that decided the fate of the remains of a prehistoric Paleoamerican man found in Kennewick, Washington State in 1996. The case pitted the Umatilla people and other tribes, who wanted to provide a burial to the “Ancient One”, against two scientists—one of which from the publicly-funded Smithsonian Institute—who wanted to study the “Kennewick Man”. In order for the claim to fall under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) it became necessary to establish the lineage of these remains. This fight unleashed a controversy with groups attempting to establish white ancestry, and with this seeking to altogether undermine the indigenous sovereignty over land and ancestors and annul centuries of colonial violence. The evolving science of DNA and cranial morphology was grotesquely called in to testify to the purity of the bones' ethnicity, where native claims to embodied knowledge of its origin had little means of addressing the court. Despite all of this, the Umatilla people and other tribes ultimately repatriated the “Ancient One” and he was reburied earlier this year in 2017.</p>
<p>“One night, I was dreaming I was a scorpion. A scorpion happy with itself and doing as it pleased, unaware that I was myself. Soon, I was awakening and there I was, unmistakably real. Now I do not know whether I was myself when I was dreaming that I was a scorpion, or whether I am now a scorpion, dreaming I am human. Yet, between a human and a scorpion, there should be some difference! Don’t you think so?”</p> <p>A woman named Kanchana and several scorpions explore collaborative survival approaches in a posthuman future in which all living beings are considered equal. “Ultraviolet” invites us to an encounter with other forms of life and experiences involving themes of inter-species sociability, the Anthropocene, the Capitalocene and speculative Fabulations. Inspired by a Chinese poem of the 3rd century BC - written by Zhuangzi - "The Butterfly's Dream", “Ultraviolet” conveys an allegorical narrative in which the parable and the fable unfold in a futuristic and enchanted world.</p>
<p>Dinner Party is a 3D virtual reality experience based on the true story of Betty and Barney Hill, an interracial couple who in 1961 reported the first nationally known UFO abduction. It's the pilot episode for The Incident, an anthology series that takes viewers on an immersive and intimate journey through true-life supernatural events. When the Hills were not able to remember and reconcile the details of an inexplicable event, they sought hypnosis. At a dinner party they played their recorded hypnoses to their friends, where viewers experience the separate and radically different accounts of the Hills' abduction.</p>
<p>Microgiants tells the story of insects and plants in microecosystem with vivid detail and elaborate design. 360 animation brings the secret world in forests and under grass back to life. The world is magnified by hundreds to thousands of time and presented to audience through VR. Insects, leaves and drops, in meticulous details, paint a spectacular picture.</p>
<p>A three-part virtual reality experience offering an immersive journey through the cosmos, its origins and its songs.</p>
<p>A teacher in Denmark takes a job in rural Greenland where he struggles to fit in with the locals.</p>