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Barbie meets another Barbie Roberts, forming a close friendship, nicknaming each other Malibu and Brooklyn when they both attend the Handlers, Performing Art School in NYC, over the summer, competing for a spot at the spotlight solo.

Little kids, big dreams and smashingly good music – Dixieland follows the amazing progress of four members of a Ukrainian children’s brass band from Kherson. Through steady practice under the wildest of conditions, Roman (12, trumpet), Polina (10, trombone, drums and many other instruments), Nikita (12, drums) and Nikita (14, piano) produce magical music with ancient, wobbly instruments. Not least due to their wit and good humor, they persevere together, helped along by their 80+-year-old conductor and a young teacher. These children of the post-Soviet provinces use American tunes to achieve their dream – to become someone in the world and make something of their lives, no matter how dire the circumstances. From the authors of an awards winning documentary film Ukrainian Sheriffs.

Big Dreams Little Tokyo is the story of Boyd, an American with an uncanny ability to speak Japanese. Boyd aspires to succeed in the world of Japanese business but finds himself mostly on the outside looking in. Meanwhile, his roommate Jerome, is a Japanese American who has always felt too American to be Japanese but too Japanese to be American. He aspires to be a sumo wrestler but finds his weight and blood pressure are thwarting his dreams. Together they struggle to find their place in a world where cultural identity is seldom what it seems.

Inspired by Czech Republic's 1998 Olympic win, 11-year-old Dom forms a hockey team with friends to pursue their dreams against all the odds.

A small damask family with their daily life, hopes, dreams and disappointments.

Three guys with no experience at film making try to make a horror film and it is a disaster. This DocuComedy is the behind the scenes look at the failed attempt to stardom. This Hilarious path to comedy was Directed by James Randall Stricklin two years after the movie was completed.

It’s 3 AM, the neon is buzzing, and nobody's where they thought they’d be. In the restless late hours of Miami, nine characters stumble through weird nights and even weirder dreams as they grapple with their dead-end jobs and absurdities of modern life: A diner breakdown to a reggaeton-fueled murder fantasy, a clown-vampire existential crisis, and a ten-year-old philosopher driving the last nail into the coffin of the American Dream - ultimately revealing a society teetering between exhaustion and hope.

Dottie West fought a difficult childhood to rise as one of country music's icons winning the first ever Grammy for Best Female Country Vocal Performance in 1965. She pushed the boundaries of country music and befriended some of their greatest musical artistes. Poor management besieged her with financial problems and she was on her way to fighting them through when she was tragically killed.

Get an inside look at a family of little people as they struggle through issues facing typical Americans, as well as special problems that arise because of their size. Only 4 feet tall, Matt and Amy Roloff are raising their four children -- a mixture of little and average-size siblings. The Roloffs deal with the financial and emotional repercussions of Matt's lengthy layoff; Amy goes back to work; and 14-year-old son Zach faces prejudice.

Documentary about Chinese theme park Dwarves Kingdom.

When they're sent to the tiny backwoods town of Little Hope to collect market research interviews, co-working opposites Linda and Kelly find there's literally no room at the inn, and they're forced to stay together at a local youth hostel. But sharing such a tight space produces interesting results.

Stand by for a behind the scenes journey through one of Australia's longest surviving and most-loved subcultures; the sometimes crazy world of Australian pro wrestling.

(From pbswisconsin.org) Learn the story of Civil Rights leader Vel Phillips. Discover how Phillips achieved an impressive list of "firsts" as part of her legacy, including the first African American judge in Wisconsin and the first woman, and African American, in the nation elected to executive office in state government.

A white-knuckled examination of audio pareidolia she experienced while on a wilderness expedition. A digital re-edit of a 16mm film shot in 2017, this experience has haunting sound design and hallucinatory images of mountains and conifers, all accompanied by a ghostly marching band that fades in and out.

It's time to dazzle and dream with Strawberry and her friends as they compete for some berry special prizes. Whether it's spinning in the annual dance-off or beating a world record, there is nothing these girls can't try. But when the road to success seems overwhelming, they'd soon discover that the real key to being a winner is just having fun with your friends.

Nodoka and the others obtain something known as the "Dream Pendant" which gives them the ability to see holographic images of various things in Tokyo. These things vary from fish to animals to sweets!

Explores the wins, losses, sweat and tears at the tournament in rural Pennsylvania.

A tiny town in the heart of New York's Adirondack Mountains held the world's premier winter sports event not just once, but twice, and gave the nation the Miracle On Ice. In 1932 Lake Placid hosted the Third Winter Olympics in the midst of the Great Depression, and over the next five decades this town of less than 3,000 people fought to bring the Games back. They succeeded with the 1980 Winter Olympics, where Eric Heiden won a record five gold medals on the speed skating oval outside the local high school, and an upstart team of young U.S. hockey players chocked the Soviet powerhouse in the greatest moment in American sports. Featuring newly restored footage and rare audio recordings, Small Town, Big Dreams tells how residents of one tiny village helped make dreams come true, and turned Lake Placid into a winter sports capital.

The stoic chronicles of Castor, orphaned as a child, forced to survive in the wild and his colorful journey through the criminal underworld of London.

When Josh gets the opportunity of a lifetime to audition for Rainbow Puppy’s Broadway musical, Josh and Blue skidoo to NYC for the very first time where they meet new friends and discover the magic of music, dance, and following one’s dreams.

A small goat with big dreams gets a once-in-a-lifetime shot to join the pros and play roarball, a high-intensity, co-ed, full-contact sport dominated by the fastest, fiercest animals in the world.

A waitress, desperate to fulfill her dreams as a restaurant owner, is set on a journey to turn a frog prince back into a human being, but she has to face the same problem after she kisses him.

Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.

Born June 8, 1964, Frank Matter films four "twins", born the same day as him, but in other latitudes. Interweaving their life stories with rich archival material, the filmmaker links these Parallel Lives with elements from his own biography, to compose a fascinating fresco where intimate trajectories are part of the advent of the global village.

It's July 1976, and two Nova Scotian teens, Kit and Alice, are hitting the road with their sights on Sydney and their minds on the future. With them is Kit's new imaginary friend, who looks conspicuously like Andy Warhol, but who assures Kit that he is a spirit animal. Kit and Alice have big dreams, but do they really want the same things?

Set in London’s underground club scene, reload follows Dee, torn between caring for her sick grandmother and chasing a long-shelved dream. When she skips a work shift to play a last-minute DJ set, the night becomes a test of self-belief, sisterhood and joy — and as the set takes a turn, she must decide: will she come back or choose herself?

After accidentally witnessing a mafia hit in the Windy City, gal pals Connie and Carla skip town for L.A., where they go way undercover as singers working the city's dinner theater circuit ... disguised as drag queens. Now, it's not enough that they become big hits on the scene; things get extra-weird when Connie meets Jeff -- a guy she'd like to be a woman with.

A soccer player, relentlessly pursues his dream of playing professionally, threatens his relationship with his sister after he is kicked off the team and exiled back to Miami. As they battle over their mother’s legacy, he will stop at nothing to get another chance at soccer glory, even if it means losing the only family he has left.

Willian sells rings on TV. One night, while he waits for the bus at the stop, Willian falls into his deepest pleasures...Willian is in great danger.

In the aftermath of a failed suicide attempt, a young man becomes obsessed with becoming a sailor.

A modern Cinderella in Paris: While the plain Kelly Carter works as a dresser for the famous fashion designer Francesco, she dreams of designing shoes for him. However she can't win his attention... until she helps a good fairy on the street who, unbeknownst to Kelly, enchants a pair of Kelly's shoes so that she turns into a supermodel whenever she wears them. She attends Francesco's Ball and immediately wins his heart. Now, how can she make him love her real self?

The young calf Klara dreams of becoming a big star, and is invited to her father’s farm. The ox Mosk is a big rock star, according to her mother, which is revealed isn’t true at all.

Two flat mates, three conversations, and the realisation that sometimes love can be unrequited. Pascal thinks he's found "the one", but during conversations with his flat mate, he learns to accept that sometimes dreams do not come true.

An original semi-autobiographical coming-of-age drama very loosely inspired by Max Hechtman's adolescence and college experience as a young filmmaker.

A famous Spanish actress who wants to become a mother and an aspiring Serbian actor who wants to earn a living use a popular application #MascotaCupid to fulfill their dreams. They only have to comply with the app's requirement to wear an animal mask to conceal their identity when they meet.

In a small circus deep in the Andes, a delusional performer named Loy dreams of building a miraculous show. But when his final act begins, reality refuses to behave.

Three working-class teenage girls in a port city in Bangladesh escape daily hardships and stifling family lives by riding waves on their surfboards and grabbing hold of the fleeting and thrilling sense of freedom that brings.

When Andres and Natalia met by accident, she wasn't impressed. In time they gravitated toward each other. But Paulo, a troubling figure from Natalia's past felt otherwise.

Born into a family of farmers in the mid-19th century, Karoline Augusta Antonsen moves to a nearby industrial city in her late teens, driven by the dream of building a large family and owning a big house. This short film follows her journey of hope, and her struggle to survive in a tough economy. Will she achieve her lifelong ambition or will her story end in tragedy?

Desperate to become as rich and successful as their idol, a trio of Michael Jackson impersonators hustle their way into Hollywood agencies, are accosted by paparazzi, and cross paths with Grammy-winning musicians as the American dream seems tantalisingly close. But as they perform for dollar bills and sleep in their car, the reality of the ruthless entertainment industry they dream about hits home.