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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.

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.

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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.

The late Len Bias still leaves more questions than answers. When Bias dropped dead two days after the 1986 NBA Draft, he forever altered our perception of casual drug use and became the tipping point of America's drug crisis in the mid-80's. Future generations continue to face the harsh punishment of drug policies that were influenced by the public outcry after his heartbreaking death. Instead of becoming an NBA star, he became a one-man deterrent, the athlete who reminded everyone just how dangerous drug use can be. Amazingly, questions still linger about his death nearly a quarter-century later. How good could he have been in the pro ranks? Has he become underrated or overrated as the years pass? How could a University of Maryland superstar and Boston Celtics lottery pick be derailed by a cocaine binge? Was Bias a one-time user as we were led to believe, or was there a pattern of recreational use that led to his fatal last night? Did he fall in with the wrong crowd.

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.

People spend so much time looking at a screen that they start building perceptions of people based off of things they see online, not things that they actually witness. As they start to witness things for themselves, biases begin to fade.

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When a girl was ten-years-old she developed a brain tumor. Doctors were able to remove it, but at the expense of the perception of her own face. She can see, just not herself. One night she has a dream where she's offered a chance to finally see herself...

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.

Motivated by her own harrowing birth experience, journalist Kimberly Seals Allers is disrupting the hospital system to transform Black maternal health outcomes in the U.S.

Kento Nakajima's first solo arena concert performances, held at the Ariake Arena from January 17〜19 of 2025, in promotion of his major solo debut with the album『 N / bias 』. The tour kicked off the following April with this recording announced on the first date, the 17th, & a July 9th release, eight days before the final batch of Shibuya concerts.

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.

What does it look like when you put equity at the heart of what you do? Preschool teachers reflect on their experience both in, and beyond, the classroom.

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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.

When Wany and Ismail return home for the celebration, they are warmly welcomed by their cousin Abang Andi. However, everything changes when they suddenly find themselves stranded on a remote island. They go through various strange and funny incidents in order to return to their grandmother's house.

Tells the story of Richard, Jonggi and Lingga, three miskom students who are trying to overcome routine financial problems. Of the many solution options that they often debated, they finally came up with one method that made Richard and his friends take a desperate path. Serve Mr. Brandon's challenge to get a hidden secret box in exchange for money and the heart of his daughter, Marsya.

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.

Angga is trapped in mounting online loan debt. At his lowest point, a friend invites him to a financial seminar led by Mira Prameswari, a charismatic motivational speaker. What begins as a promise of financial freedom turns into an absurd spectacle. As the line between motivation and manipulation begins to blur, Angga finds himself caught in an inner conflict between logic and the seductive dream of false salvation.

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...

A high school teacher meets his match in an over-achieving student politician.

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 ...

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.

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

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.

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

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."

Kirby Dick's provocative documentary investigates the secretive and inconsistent process by which the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) rates films, revealing the organization's underhanded efforts to control culture. Dick questions whether certain studios get preferential treatment and exposes the discrepancies in how the MPAA views sex and violence.

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.

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

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?

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

Although a real awareness of the populations is underway - the multiplication of natural disasters and heat records helping - the human activities responsible for global warming remain unchanged, as if the threat was unreal. This collective immobility could have its origin in the brain. A number of cognitive biases impede judgment.

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.

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.

What happens when images betray our words? How do we survive in a world that constantly misunderstands us? 'My Word' is a short film based on artificial intelligence where a woman shows us her journey to define herself.

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

Twenty-six year old Scott is living on the streets and trying to find his way back into society while on probation for petty crimes. He attempts to navigate his relationship with his two bit criminal of a boss and an enigmatic detective, while at the same time winning back the heart of his ex-girlfriend, a working single mom. Never having a mother or father himself, Scott discovers the true meaning of fatherhood.

As a mysterious high plains drifter travels across the wintry North Dakota prairie, he finds a man lying unconscious in the middle of the road and stops to lend a hand. After defrosting, the man explains that he's on his way to meet his pen-pal girlfriend for the first time, as she's being released from prison. Desperate for a girlfriend of his own, the drifter sees this as an opportunity to change his lonely existence, and hatches a plan to steal his new companion's identity, forever changing the destinies of all three people.

Denny, an off-the-grid oddball who calls a nurse hot-line for help with his nasty "fire piss" problem. When a dying man washes ashore, Denny and nurse Linda get caught up in the drama and become madcap partners in crime-solving.

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

A picador, an already mature man, keeps secret his love for the young orphan he raised. But she falls in love with a young picador...

Promises: Through Congress is a collaboration between Julie Mehretu, electronic music composer Floating Points aka Sam Shepherd, and filmmaker Trevor Tweeten. This 46-minute film features Mehretu’s expansive painting Congress (2003) and Promises (Luaka Bop, 2021), the acclaimed album from Floating Points and jazz titan Pharoah Sanders featuring the London Symphony Orchestra. Filmed on location at The Broad in Los Angeles.

At a high mountain hotel in Norway, porter Poppe tries to do the best he can for the guests with an often unhelpful piccolo Rudolf. This, however, leads to a lot of problems, and Poppe thinks some of the guests behave inappropriate.

A filming of and around a Chat Noir show revue from 1972.

A group of very different men are summoned for their refresher training at Haglemoen military camp. One more strange than the other, we get to meet jovial salesman Goggen Rask, car mechanic Bottolph Johansen, nicknamed daydreamer, and ship-owner Rieber Larsen Jr. They form an unruly faction which Major Kampstrup struggles to maintain structured and prepared, not to mention keeping them inside the camp premises before they pretend sick to see the nurses Bitten and Florence. The men do their best to get through their rigourous training, with great confusion and comical situations.

Inducted into the College Basketball Hall of Fame, Len Bias is one of Maryland's most iconic players. Terrapin Club+ brings you an unprecedented look inside Bias' life and legacy, told by some of the biggest names in sports.

Today, the art world and beyond is obsessed with shooting analog. Whether it's a fashion house seeking to bring a new edge to their creative work, an amateur perusing eBay for the perfect vintage Polaroid, or an influencer attempting to capture a comforting retro aesthetic on social media, analog photography has piqued the interest of people everywhere. Is this resurgence a backlash against digital photography? Is it just a trend perpetuated by our desire for authenticity in an increasingly superficial world? Or is it something else entirely? Grain: Analog Renaissance is a documentary by Alex Contell and Tommaso Sacconi that explores the stories of those committed to using film in modern day photography.

This story is a time travel story where some people who don't know each other go about their daily lives, and finally time also makes them meet each other.

The Magic Hourglass is Adam’s ray of hope. With the Magic Hourglass, he can make his younger sister Ralin happy and lift his family out of poverty. However, Professor Ginanjar, along with Hendrik and his henchmen, are plotting to steal the Magic Hourglass. Adam realizes that the integrity he has always upheld is far more valuable than the magic of the Magic Hourglass.

Panji and his Scout Patrol are preparing to attend a Penggalang Scout camping trip in the mountain forest. Unbeknownst to everyone, Budi, Panji's younger brother and a Cub Scout (Siaga) secretly sneaks aboard the group's truck, eager to experience the excitement of camping alongside his older brother. When Budi's presence is eventually discovered, he is allowed to stay and join Panji's group. What begins as an ordinary journey soon turns into a dangerous adventure when Panji and his patrol become separated from the main camp and find themselves lost deep within the forest. While searching for a way back, they stumble upon a terrifying secret: a hidden, abandoned warehouse where a criminal gang is holding kidnapped children captive. Caught in a life threatening situation, Panji and his friends must rely on their courage, ingenuity, teamwork, and the principles of the Scout Law (Dasa Dharma Pramuka) to survive, find help, and rescue the imprisoned children before it is too late.

Shelby Coles (Halle Berry) is engaged to marry talented white jazz musician Meade Howell, but the pair face opposition from both Meade's family, who object to an inter-racial marriage, and Shelby's parents, who want her to marry a professional. As Shelby is afflicted by pre-marital doubts, handsome Lute McNeil arrives on the scene, determined to make Shelby his at any cost.

A failed pilot about a rich Virginia plantation owner and his family caught up in the American Civil War. He has a slave for a mistress, his older son is to marry a working class Irish girl and his younger son promotes the Confederacy.

On the edge of Compton, California- a place notorious for gang violence-a hidden band of inner-city cowboys has persevered since the 1800's. Fire on the Hill is the story of the Black Cowboys of Compton and South Central LA, and their fight to preserve their culture by resurrecting an inner city horse stable that was mysteriously burnt to the ground.

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.

Michael and Katherine have enjoyed a long relationship together even before they tie the knot. But Michael does not hide the fact he's a womanizer and sex addict, cheating on Katherine during their pre-married relationship. Because Katherine is genuinely in love with him, she is willing to overlook this and believes that perhaps marriage will change things.

Inmates at a women's mental asylum stage a theatrical production of Herman Melville's 'Moby Dick.'

In the midst of a 3 year opioid epidemic, the unimaginable happens among three East Midtown friends. They all find themselves in a downward spiral as they attempt to avoid the inevitable.

Keisha is intimately involved in two relationships, one with a wonderful man and the other is a secret affair with a woman. Keisha has been hiding her relations from her family and friends for months and the pressure from her relationships is leaving her torn. Feeling the pressure to either end the other relationship or to take the plunge, Keisha must choose between the love of her life or to fit within the status quo.

A happily married yet utterly bored lesbian couple befriends their alluring new neighbor, who is actually a jilted lover plotting her revenge.

Onofrio died in Berlin in 1978 at the age 23, leaving behind some love letters, the last of which is from Maria, who believed him alive for 40 years. Made with the intention of giving a voice to the silence created by his family around this loss.