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Untitled Press Freedom Project
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Four women from Artsakh gather flowers on a mountaintop at sunrise.
There Was, There Was Not
SynopsisThe first line of every Armenian fairy tale, There Was, There Was Not tells the collective myth of a homeland nearly lost to war — and four
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An Ethiopian farmer wearing a yellow headscarf and flowery dress and her daughter in ponytail wearing a blue T-shirt and green skirt stand in dry teff field looking into the distance against a hazy background of a massive industrial zone.
Made in Ethiopia
Synopsis Three pioneering women navigate the bumpy expansion of the biggest Chinese industrial zone in Ethiopia.Xinyan Yu, Director/ProducerXinyan is
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Young hunters in Alaska scan an icy horizon with binoculars.
BASELINE: Part 1
SynopsisHow do you make sense of a story that lasts longer than a human lifetime? BASELINE: Part 1 is a letter to three children growing up on the
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A pair of children's feet in white socks are visible jumping mid-air from a bed with a blue blanket
Life + Life
SynopsisAn incarcerated musician struggles for healing and peace as he comes of age in this documentary-musical odyssey composed behind bars.Contessa
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Young person, wearing white makeup, black contact lenses, white outfit made of tubes and a tall hand-made headdress, is taking an escalator in subway.
Queendom
Synopsis Gena, a queer artist from a small town in Russia, dresses in otherworldly costumes made from junk and tape, and protests the government on
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Large, white stone figure of Mary and baby Jesus in the foreground with barn and hills in the background.
Sugarcane
SynopsisA gripping investigation of unmarked graves at an Indian residential school unearths secrets below and above ground, igniting a reckoning in
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Film still of a pensive Shiori under an umbrella, face in hand
Black Box
SynopsisFrom confessional-style iPhone and secret recordings mixed with verite shooting, a staggering account of Shiori's Ito's improbable fight as
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6 young children, in two rows of three, stand with their hands awkwardly raised in celebration. Behind them is a lush, green forest with tall and slim trees. The children are all wearing a paper mask that is a simple drawing of a young Hoolock Gibbon called Twiki. It is Twik's first birthday although he is not in the picture. We assume he is somewhere up in the trees behind them.
Our Hoolocks
SynopsisSidhanta, a fisherman, fights to protect India's fast-vanishing ape species, the Hoolock Gibbons in his village nestled in Northeast India
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A pair of hands wearing medical gloves cares for a crying newborn infant. The nurse is using a tape measure to measure the circumference of the baby's head.
My Midwife
SynopsisThe arrest of three homebirth midwives serving Amish and Mennonite communities in upstate New York ignites a legislative fight for freedom of
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