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Hawaii
When Martin gets stranded in the small Argentinian country town he grew up he ends up sleeping rough by the river and goes looking for odd jobs to feed himself. His search takes him to a large Estate where he manages to get some work only to discover that its present tenant is Eugenio one of…
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The Happy Sad
If you didn’t know any better after watching ‘The Happy Sad’ you would be forgiven for thinking that New York is in fact a very small place where the same total strangers keep running into each other all the time. Well this two couples do anyway and in this story start out as strangers and…
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HAPPY VALLEY
Although Amir Bar-Lev’s new documentary is about the sexual abuse that infamous Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky carried out on scores of young boys over a 15 year period, the focus is less on the crimes themselves but about the whole culture surrounding them and the devastating effects on that college town. Initially…
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DIFRET @ Sundance
Hirut, a 14 year old Ethiopian girl, is walking home through the fields from the village school when she is suddenly surrounded by a group of horsemen who snatch her up and take her off. Tadele their leader intends to marry her, but first he imprisons the frightened young schoolgirl in his hut,, and beats…
