documentary
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Pervert Park
Scandinavian filmmaking couple Frida & Lasse Barkfors made a somewhat bizarre choice for this, their debut documentary that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival where it won a Special Jury Award. They opted to paint a very humanized picture of a halfway house for convicted sex offenders in Florida. Surprisingly they achieved it quite perfectly with…
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Lord Montagu
This real-life story of Edward John Barrington Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu, a quintessential member of the English aristocracy, is a remarkable tale of how he survived one of the most notorious sex scandals of the 20th Century that resulted in a prison term, and then regained his position in society totally forgiven. It’s the…
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Finders Keepers
John Wood has a bad habit of losing things. Soon after he lost his job, he then lost his house too and when it was foreclosed, he put all his worldly possessions into a storage unit. When he failed to pay the rent for that, he lost the entire contents which were auctioned off in…
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Oriented
Brit filmmaker Jake Witzenfeld’s impressive and heartwarming documentary thankfully settles down after a somewhat uneven start to become an intriguing snapshot of what life is like for gay Arabs living in a trendy suburb of Tel Aviv today. He follows three extremely engaging best friends in their early twenties for 18 months through 2013 –…
