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"Bias" challenges us to confront our hidden biases and understand what we risk when we follow our gut. Through exposing her own biases, award-winning documentary filmmaker Robin Hauser highlights the nature of implicit bias, the grip it holds on our social and professional lives, and what it will take to induce change.

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Somad is a young religious man who is looking for a job as a religious teacher in Jakarta. After few months he hasn't got the job yet, which eats away at his savings. When Somad has breakfast in a food stall with the little money he has left, Sari, a transwoman who has just finished her 'night job', comes into the same food stall.

College student Yakumo Saito can see ghosts with his red left eye. Associate professor Gakuto Mikoshiba is a genius mathematician. When a ghost begins possessing students at the college, the two must team up to discover the truth of what's going on.

In 2022, an exhibition on the Swiss painter-sculptor Flavio Paolucci was planned in a German museum. The museum had reserved a white wall on which the artist was to create a work. Everything was ready, but the pandemic prevented the 88-year-old artist from travelling. So Flavio Paolucci had the idea of creating this mural in his studio and then destroying it.

Mekhala is a young carefree lady who is wealthy, charming and lives in a large rural house. There is a rumor that any man who has romantic relationship with her will die mysteriously.

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Yosuke, who is unemployed, was thinking of an easy way to earn money. One day he witnesses a person whose characteristics matches a wanted criminal. He, along with his friend Takuma start following the alleged criminal for an informative bounty.

He (she), as a small group of people who are not recognized by the current society, suffers from misunderstanding and discrimination caused by society and family, and they experience various violence problems, work discrimination problems and medical problems. Through 8 transgender people and their families, doctors, and our most real camera stories, take you to approach, understand, and get to know them.

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Guillaume Dodut is a stationmaster in rural France at a station where trains no longer stop. His dream has always been to holiday in the famous resort town of Biarritz. Meanwhile, he gets involved in the romantic life of his son who is studying to be an engineer in London.

Nabqa the seamstress is looking for a groom. She reads in the newspaper ads about a groom named Gamil Gamal, so they get engaged. Unfortunately, Nabqa goes out on the train one day, and without her noticing, a thief steals her wallet, including her engagement papers to Gamil Gamal and her ID card, and claims to be a woman of good lineage.

Bukan Cinta Biasa is a film-type romantic comedy that was released on May 7, 2009. The film is the screen play is very fun and entertaining. Flavored by setting and ambience of Indonesian pop music, this film will make the hearts of the audience to sing, but it also can shed tears.

Two brothers, a mining supervisor and a mining engineer, are interested in a girl at the same time without knowing about it.

The Story of a blind young man gets hold of an amulet that makes him a deadly sharpshooter a special power he uses to help those in need

Exploring the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's startling discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, and her journey to push for the first-ever legislation in the U.S. to govern against bias in the algorithms that impact us all.

A middle-aged man meets a young woman who is waiting on a canal bridge for her lover's return.

After the mutual relationship between Lintang and Tommy and her son Nikita in the first series of No Ordinary Love (2009) ago, problems now arise when Vino arrives. Vino is reportedly the son of Tommy from one of his girlfriends in the past, Voni. Lintang as a wife did not stay silent and felt shocked by the presence of Vino. Not to mention Vino's attitude, which is approximately 70% the same as Tommy's, is also a factor in the damage to Tommy's household life. Nikita as a child and sister is unclear where her certainty from Vino became even more confused with the problems faced by her family.

In this alternate world, Bia and Manuel will have a tempestuous relationship. Pixie, the hateful and stunning owner of Laix, decides to buy the Fundom. The great conflict erupts when Pixie announces a concert. This will have Bia and Helena, who in this upside down universe are divas and rivals, fighting to be the headliner in the final show.

When a woman from a rich family falls for a man with humble roots, parental opposition to their marriage is just the first of several hurdles to come.

Tracy Flick is running unopposed for this year’s high school student election. But Jim McAllister has a different plan. Partly to establish a more democratic election, and partly to satisfy some deep personal anger toward Tracy, Jim talks football player Paul Metzler to run for president as well.

In the 1950s, a Japanese-American fisherman is suspected of killing his neighbour at sea. For Ishmael, a local reporter, the trial strikes a deep emotional chord when he finds his ex-lover is linked to the case. As he investigates the killing, he uncovers some startling clues that lead him to a shocking discovery.

Although living a comfortable life in Salon-de-Provence, a charming town in the South of France, Julie has been feeling depressed for a while. To please her, Philippe Abrams, a post office administrator, her husband, tries to obtain a transfer to a seaside town, on the French Riviera, at any cost. The trouble is that he is caught red-handed while trying to scam an inspector. Philippe is immediately banished to the distant unheard of town of Bergues, in the Far North of France...

An immigrant Indian mother fights the Norwegian foster care system and legal machinery to win back custody of her children.

Elsa Lundenstein is accused of having murdered her lover. The jury discusses the case vividly. All members are somehow prejudiced because of personal life experience and subsequently each member reads something different into the presented facts.

Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other.

Alberto, post office manager of a small town in Brianza, under pressure of his wife Sylvia, is willing to do anything to get the transfer to Milan. Even pretending to be disabled to climb in the ranking. But the trick does not work and as punishment, he is transferred in a small town in Campania, which to an inhabitant of the north is equivalent to a nightmare ...

The life of Camille Claudel, a French sculptor who becomes the apprentice of Auguste Rodin and later his lover. Her passion for her art and Rodin drive her further away from reason and rationality.

Sports media scholars look at the persistence of heterosexism and homophobia in perpetuating gender stereotypes. They argue for new media images which fairly and accurately depict the strength and competence of female athletes.

Andy Warhol's experimental reconstruction of the assassination of the President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, which serves as his critical commentary on the way the media presented the tragic event.

This film examines how media empires, led by Rupert Murdoch's Fox News, have been running a "race to the bottom" in television news, and provides an in-depth look at Fox News and the dangerous impact on society when a broad swath of media is controlled by one person. Media experts, including Jeff Cohen (FAIR) Bob McChesney (Free Press), Chellie Pingree (Common Cause), Jeff Chester (Center for Digital Democracy) and David Brock (Media Matters) provide context and guidance for the story of Fox News and its effect on society. This documentary also reveals the secrets of Former Fox news producers, reporters, bookers and writers who expose what it's like to work for Fox News. These former Fox employees talk about how they were forced to push a "right-wing" point of view or risk their jobs. Some have even chosen to remain anonymous in order to protect their current livelihoods. As one employee said "There's no sense of integrity as far as having a line that can't be crossed."

A man arrives at an unknown home with an unknown agenda.

Sven arrives in nowadays Auschwitz to do his civil service at the memorial. He encounters unfriendliness, especially by Stanislaw Krzeminski, the 85 year old KZ-survivor, and Krzysztof Lanuszewski, brother of his early love affair Ania. Even his boss Herold, the places manager, does little to help Sven familiarize. But when problems accumulate Sven realises that he already has become involved.

Set around a classic case of broken vows – the defendant having literally left the claimant at the altar – the trial bubbles over with emotion, humour, and downright chaos, leaving the jury divided. This Opera Australia performance was recorded in 2005.

Filmmaker Theo Anthony offers a far-ranging look at the biases in how people see things, focusing on the recorded image.

After tragedy strikes, a meek Ruby Oliver enters a broken VR game for a last chance to see the dead. Little does she know that this game treats all girls as a virus as she fights to save herself.

An examination of the current state of political polarization in the United States of the America.

As the first part of our investigation, the CORONA.FILM prologue will delve into the science behind the pandemic. Starting at the very beginning, we shine a light on the responses. The aim is not to point the finger; our aim is to tell the whole story in all its complexity, as we believe that justice cannot prevail if only one side of the story is told.

In 2001, Jimmy Wales published the first article on Wikipedia, a collaborative effort that began with a promise: to democratize the spreading of knowledge, monopolized by the elites for centuries. But is Wikipedia really a utopia come true?

Five young people apply to live in an isolated house together for six months whilst their every move is filmed by numerous cameras.

A career driven professional from Manhattan is wooed by a young painter, who also happens to be the son of her psychoanalyst.

After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the empire into a bloody spiral of madness and depravity.

A man ahead of his time, Cyrano de Bergerac dazzles whether with ferocious wordplay at a verbal joust or with brilliant swordplay in a duel. But, convinced that his appearance renders him unworthy of the love of a devoted friend, the luminous Roxanne, Cyrano has yet to declare his feelings for her—and Roxanne has fallen in love, at first sight, with Christian.

In the episode "Textual," set in the near future, a man clings to a pornographic video he's found. The episode "Trip" takes place on a space voyage where a device records and reproduces sexual sensations. In the episode "Fade to Black," a house's caretaker, a video enthusiast, obsessively spies on a neighbor.

Following the burial of his father, in his village right in the middle of the Corsican countryside , Dumè discovered the existence of a brother, Lucien, with whom he will have to share the inheritance left by the patriarch... On the condition of being able to live together for a month in the family home. Under the backdrop of cultural legitimacy and of real estate inheritance a balance of power will be established between Lucien, the blood son, and Dumè, the adopted son.

Two boys inherit a hotel from their uncle.

A summer in the early 2001 set in the city of Riccione.

A crime comedy about the crazy night of a rapper and his manager

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Sixty percent of our body is made up of water and we also come from the water in the womb. An elderly woman dives into the sea and recovers her deepest 'I': herself as a child.

Sergio Cortesi dedicated his life to solar observation. At the “Specola solare” in Locarno, between 1957 and 2021, he made over 15.000 sunspots drawings, driven by the faith of a monk to whom his own god never gave an answer.

A Portuguese soldier, who got stranded from his team during the La Lys battle, struggles by himself through dozens of German offensives so he can guarantee the safety of his companions.

Drama students decide to pay tribute to their favorite horror star by stealing his body from his crypt for a farewell party. They fail to realize their violation of the tomb has triggered powerful black magic, and Conrad hasn't taken his final bows yet.

Two best friends from Berlin win a trip to Greece. On their excursion, they get lost on an island. They wander in the woods until they find an abandoned village where they encounter a mysterious creature, who calls himself Hercules. They spend the night together in a cave and dream a mystical dream. On the next day, nothing between the two will be like it was before.

1960. Vincenzo is an enterprising and determined young man who, at the age of just eleven, decides to run away from a small village in Basilicata, abandoning his family to take refuge in the capital with his shoemaker brother. Against the backdrop of an Italy in the midst of its economic boom, he begins working in a bar and graduates from elementary school. Everything seems to be going well, but a sad discovery turns his life upside down. Vincenzo seeks further redemption for himself and his brother by opening a business and thus consolidating his social standing in the capital, but always with the regret of not having his family of origin, especially his brother Giovanni, close by. He returns to his hometown as a grown man, to the bedside of his dying father, bringing with him the memories of a child, a man who was a winner for his people, but deeply defeated and a victim of regret for a life lived halfway.

Based on a true story, a film about teenage Luka who goes to a religious rehab centre led by a self-proclaimed priest, Antonio. The despotic regime enforced with moral and physical torture make him realise that escape is the only way to survive.

A symphonic journey into our obsessive consumption. The many objects we accumulate begin their production journey in silent secluded industrial site where borderline men work in isolation without any interference. These men trigger, unconsciously, the long chain of creation, transport, commercialization and destruction of the objects feeding our bulimic lifestyle.

A strange love story between a devoted young nun and a young Marxist determined to help run the hospital wards where the nun is the head nurse.

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Don Michele, a young priest from Puglia, arrives in Rome when he is called by his uncle Mimi.

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Matías and Micaela will slowly get involved in the independent film world at the 3rd International Film Festival of Cosquín. A very tender and shy love story will begin between them.

After a one-night stand results in pregnancy, a young woman decides to become partners with the emotionally immature father-to-be.

The film tells the story of Ariel, a 21-year-old who decides to form a rock band to compete for a prize of ten thousand dollars in a musical band contest, this as a last option when trying to get money to save their relationship and reunite with his ex-girlfriend, which breaks due to the trip she must make to Finland for an internship. Ariel with her friend Ortega, decides to make a casting to find the other members of the band, although they do not know nothing about music, thus forming a band with members that have diverse and opposite personalities.

At a high-school party, four friends find that losing their collective virginity isn't as easy as they had thought. But they still believe that they need to do so before college. To motivate themselves, they enter a pact to all "score" by their senior prom.

A man returns home to his wife from a business trip only to find a dead body in their yard.

Rich and respected Emanuele Lo Curcio dies leaving all his possessions to his natural daughter Domitilla, actually a nun, whose relatives, including his brother and Mayor Angelo Lo Curcio, ignored the existence of hers. The disappointment and anger of his numerous relatives, indebted up to their necks, pushes them to try with all sorts of scams to strip off Domitilla's legacy.

The story of a beautiful young woman who, for the love of her ambitious husband, becomes a blackmail victim and has to resort to prostitution...