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14 Women
USA, 2007, 77 min.
An intimate documentary portrait of the 14 female senators who currently serve our country. Director Mary Lambert has gained extraordinary access, following the senators cinema verité style from 2004–2006 as they struggle to fight the good fight while balancing family, friends and workload.... more
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Beaufort
Israel, 2007, 120 min.
The last days of a legendary Israeli outpost in Lebanon are brought to harrowing life (and death) in this searing docudrama. Drawing comparisons to All Quiet on the Western Front, the film was awarded the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival.... more
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Body
Brazil, 2007, 85 min.
The body of a woman found in a mass grave dating back to the 1970s is strangely preserved, as if her death had just occurred. At the Sao Paolo morgue, a pathologist assigned to her case suspects that she was killed by the military dictatorship. He embarks on an obsessive search to uncover the truth.... more
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Body of War
USA, 2007, 87 min.
Veteran talk-show host Phil Donahue’s Academy Award-nominated documentary is a hardhitting indictment of governmental misuse of power focusing on one of its most courageous victims—a soldier paralyzed by a bullet five days after his arrival in Iraq.... more
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California Dreamin' (Endless)
Romania, 2007, 155 min.
This complex dark comedy of near-Shakespearean proportions was inspired by a Kosovo war incident involving American troops accompanying a NATO train who were stopped at a rural Romanian railway station because they lacked customs documents. Best Film, Un Certain Regard, 2007 Cannes Film Festival.... more
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Cosmic Radio
USA, 2008, 106 min.
Idyllic Idyllwild provides the setting for this story about the owner of a counter-culture radio station whose business is on the verge of going belly-up—along with the illusions that have fueled his life so far—when the daughter of a conservative Senator comes to town hoping to undermine an effort ... more
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Crossing the Dust
Kurdistan, 2006, 74 min.
The gripping story of two Kurdish foot soldiers, who come upon a lost child in the course of completing a mission, is an absorbing portrait of the societal strains that began to emerge in the aftermath of the quest to topple the Saddam Hussein. ... more
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Dharm
India, 2007, 103 min.
In Dharm, a four year old boy challenges the very core of a traditional Brahmin priest’s beliefs—and our faith in humanity—when it is found out that the little boy adopted by the priest is a Muslim.... more
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In the Name of God
Pakistan, 2007, 170 min.
Condemned by radical clerics who issued a fatwa (Islamic ruling) against it, In The Name Of God has become a huge hit in Pakistan. Critical of Muslim radicals it also takes on the reaction of US authorities post 9/11.... more
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Kill Them All
Uruguay, 2007, 97 min.
In this political thriller, Julia, a Uruguayan prosecutor, investigates the disappearance of a Chilean chemist with ties to Pinochet’s regime, revealing an international conspiracy. Julia must face her greatest fears and dig deep into her own past if she holds any hope of discovering the truth.... more
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Lake of Fire
USA, 2006, 152 min.
A brave look at the issue of abortion, this 15-years-in-the-making documentary tackles the conflict with shades of grey and offers no easy right or wrong. Utilizing a wide range of interviews with fundamentalists, pro-choicers and politicians, Lake of Fire focuses on the physical and psycholo... more
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My Enemy's Enemy
France, 2007, 87 min.
This hard-hitting documentary on the Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie looks at how society has trouble dealing with ‘human monsters’, and how the hypocrisy of Western governments allowed Barbie to operate as a U.S. counter-intelligence agent against budding democracies in Latin America.... more
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No End In Sight
USA, 2007, 102 min.
An excoriating survey of the U.S. policy that led to the Iraq conflict and the subsequent descent into guerilla warfare, criminality and anarchy after the fall of Baghdad because of decisions by officials with scant military experience or knowledge of the Arab world.... more
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Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
USA, 2007, 81 min.
A deeply moving documentary drawn from the letters, memoirs and fiction of U.S. personnel serving in Afghanistan and Iraq, providing a human window into America’s current conflicts, with historical perspective from established writers including Tobias Wolff.... more
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The Price of Sugar
USA, 2007, 90 min.
Most Americans know the Dominican Republic only as a tourist destination, but we use their chief export everyday. The Price of Sugar reveals the ugly truth behind the island nation’s biggest industry and chronicles the efforts of a caring and charismatic Spanish priest to change an unjust sys... more
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A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman
Canada, 2007, 92 min.
Peter Raymont’s documentary follows author Ariel Dorfman—the pre-eminent English-language chronicler of Chilean injustice in the wake of Pinochet’s 1973 coup—as he returns to Santiago after years in exile. A trenchant and long-overdue look at the artist as a man of principle.... more
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The Rebel
Vietnam, 2007, 103 min.
The 1920s love story between a French educated Vietnamese working as an undercover agent and the beautiful patriotic daughter of a revolutionary leader is the subject matter of the first film focusing on Vietnamese martial arts with lead actor Johnny Nguyen, the double behind the Spiderman mask.... more
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The Reject
Serbia, 2007, 103 min.
A provocative metaphorical drama about Serbia in transition from the director and producer/actor responsible for Awakening from Dead. Svetozar Cvetkovic, head of Belgrade’s prestigious Atelier 212, gives a towering performance.... more
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Shake Hands with the Devil
Canada, 2007, 112 min.
Shackled by an inadequate mandate, a U.N. general fights to prevent the seemingly inevitable violence as civil war threatens to break out in Rwanda in this devastating drama—an indictment of the global community’s failure to respond to humanitarian crisis.... more
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Taxi to the Dark Side
USA, 2007, 106 min.
Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) investigates the 2002 murder of an imprisoned taxi driver at a US military base, as well as the deliberately ambiguous torture policies of the Bush Administration.... more
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