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Bitter Seeds
India, 2011, 88 min.
Beautifully told and deeply disturbing, Micha Peled’s documentary explores the way farming with genetically modified seeds is having disastrous consequences in India. The third film in Peled’s “Globalization Trilogy” after China Blue and Store Wars.... more
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California State of Mind: The Legacy of Pat Brown
USA, 2010, 90 min.
An illuminating and personal portrait of Gov. Edmund G “Pat” Brown, the patriarch of the so-called “West Coast Kennedys” and one of California’s most important governors, by his granddaughter Sascha Rice.... more
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The Island President
USA, 2011, 101 min.
In this dazzling documentary, the charismatic and inspiring first democratic President of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, fights for one of the most low-lying countries in the world to stay above water at the Copenhagen Climate Summit.... more
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Land of Oblivion
France, 2011, 115 min.
A powerful recreation of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster anchors the first half of Boganim’s timely drama. But it is in the second half, ten years later, that the profound and heartbreaking implications hit home for survivor Anya (Olga Kuylenko). ... more
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Last Winter
Belgium, 2011, 103 min.
Johann, the head of a farming co-op in central France, runs the cattle farm he has inherited from his father with great care. But economic realities increasely pressure him to sell. John Shank’s feature debut is effused with a quiet llonging for simpler times.... more
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Semper Fi: Always Faithful
USA, 2011, 76 min.
The heartbreaking and inspirational story of Marine Corps Master Sergeant Jerry Ensminger whose daughter’s death from leukemia took him on a thirteen-year quest to hold the Marine Corps accountable in one of the country’s largest cases of environmental contamination.... more
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Women with Cows
Sweden, 2011, 93 min.
One of the most popular Swedish documentaries of all-time, this film features Inger, who is not so fond of cows, older sis Britt, who loves them, and a bunch of photogenic cows. Warning: film contains one scene of animal destruction. ... more
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