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It sounds like a 70s American conspiracy thriller: one man fighting a powerful corporation against mounting odds. However, truth is stranger than fiction, as director Frederick Gertten soon learns when he turns the camera on himself.

On the eve of launching his previous film Bananas!*, following 12 Nicaraguan banana plantation workers attempting to sue Dole Foods, Gertten discovers just what it's like to be on the receiving end when an international corporation takes a disliking you. Dole's response was to attack the filmmakers and try to have the film banned, using media manipulation and veiled threats to undermine the credibility of the filmmakers and attempt to destroy their careers. As the organisation's tactics become increasingly nasty, Gertten is forced to fight harder to uphold free speech and break out of this absurdist, Orwellian nightmare. Big Boys Gone Bananas!* is a call to arms against the powerful corporate forces that threaten freedom and democracy around the world.

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Despite losing his job, Michel lives happily with Marie-Claire. They have been in love for more than 30 years... Their children and grand-children delight them... They have plenty of close friends... They are proud of their union and political struggles...

Their conscience is as clear as their view of life. This happiness will be shattered by two young men, armed and masked, who beat them, tie them up, snatch their wedding rings and flee with their credit cards... The shock will be all the more violent when they discover that this brutal attack was organised by one of the young workers laid off at the same time as Michel. Michel and Marie-Claire gradually discover that their attacker, Christophe, only did what he did because he had no choice..

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Oscar wakes up, terrified and bloodied; a shotgun in his hands, in what was once a respectable strip joint. He is surrounded by eight bodies, and a police detective has a gun aimed at his chest.

Reluctantly, Oscar starts relating the incredible story of four men who won top prize in a soccer pool and suddenly found themselves millionaires. But it turned out to be difficult to divide the money by four...

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Since her teenage years, Ah Tao has worked as a servant for the Leung family. Now, after 60 years of service, she is looking after Roger, the only member of the family still resident in Hong Kong. One day Roger comes home from work to find that Ah Tao has suffered a stroke.

He rushes her to hospital, where she announces that she wants to move permanently into a nursing home. Increasingly giving more and more time and attention to Ah Tao's needs, Roger comes to realise how much she means to him.

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Nik (Tristan Halilaj) is a normal 17-year-old in the last year of high school ready to embark on his first romance and the opening of his own cafe after graduation.

But when a local land dispute results in his father being accused of murder, Nik and the male members of his family are forced under house arrest. Nic's sister Rudina (Sindi Lacej) has to leave school to take over the family business and whilst she flourishes with her newfound responsibility, Nik's resentment at his enforced isolation causes him to try and end the feud even though it may cost him his life.

A filmmaker (Christopher Denham) and his girlfriend (Nicole Vicius) set out to expose the beautiful leader of a cult (Brit Marling), who claims to be from the future. But the more they explore, the more danger they face...

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Patricio Guzman travels 10,000 feet above sea level to the driest desert on earth for this hugely-praised documentary. Here, the sky is so translucent that it allows astronomers to see the boundaries of our universe.

Yet Chile's Atacama Desert climate also keeps human remains intact: pre-Columbian mummies; explorers and miners; and the remains of disappeared political prisoners from the years of the Pinochet regime. Women sift the desert soil for the bones of their loved ones, while archaeologists uncover traces of ancient civilizations and astronomers examine the most distant and oldest galaxies. Melding celestial and earthly quests, feature is a gorgeous, deeply moving, and personal odyssey into astronomy, archaeology, geology and human rights.

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Based on a true story 'King of Devil's Island' tells the unsettling tale of a group of young delinquents banished to the remote prison of Bastoy. Under the guise of rehabilitation the boys' daily regime is dictated by mental and physical abuse at the hands of their wardens.

The arrival of new boys Erling (Benjamin Helstad) and Ivar (Magnus Langlete) spark a chain of events that ultimately ignite rebellion. Feature explores a sinister moment in Norwegian history that won't be forgotten.

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Sick of the constant bickering between the men in their lives, a group of women in a tight-knit community decide to make a stand.

To prevent all-out conflict, the women take extreme steps to resolve the situation; whether it be hiring Ukrainian strippers or faking a miracle in their own village, there is nothing they won't try. Bringing the village back together was never going to be easy but no-one could have imagined it would be this much fun.

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The powerful story of two teenagers' struggle to live in dystopian future Japan destroyed by a natural disaster. Keiko (Fumi Nikaido) is a fourteen year old girl obsessed with Yuichi (Shota Sometani), in fact she is self admittedly his stalker.

She collects his words and wallpapers her room with them, repeating them like a prayer and getting overexcited at spending any time with him. Yuichi is going through troubling times, his mother has left, leaving him to run the family business and his drunken father has run up debts with the yakuza which he must repay. When young Yuichi is pushed too far he embarks on a violent campaign of revenge against society's evil doers and it's up to Keiko to try to bring him back to the path of a decent man.

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The Ambassador of the small South American country of Miranda is trafficking in drugs with some French bourgeois friends of his. But every time they want to have dinner together, their plans are put off due to unexpected events.

In their quest of a lavish feast, the dividing-line between reality and dreams becomes unclear for each guest, leading to complete and utter ridicule.

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Every night, a girl, a boy and an elderly technician meet in a little cinema that seems abandoned, but is in fact full of wonders. The three friends research, draw, invent, dress up and act out stories in a magical night where anything is possible.

From enchanted forests to cities of gold populated by sorcerers, fairies and werewolves, there is a tale for everyone and a visual delight for all.

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Cyril (Thomas Doret), almost 12, has only one plan: to find the father (Jeremie Renier) who left him temporarily in a children's home. By chance he meets Samantha (Cecile De France), who runs a hairdressing salon and agrees to let him stay with her at weekends.

Cyril doesn't recognize the love Samantha feels for him, a love he desperately needs to calm his rage.

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Escaping a prison sentence by the skin of his teeth, the wayward and disillusioned Robbie is given one last chance to turn his life around.

Along with three friends, he embarks on an adventure and discovers that turning to drink might just change their lives - not cheap fortified wine, but the best malt whiskies in the world.

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After fighting in WWII Belafonte realised he wanted a life in the arts. Whilst becoming a huge star he could be found on the front lines of practically every progressive political battle in modern memory, most significantly the Civil Rights Movement.

Along the way he became close to some of the most talented and influential people from the latter half of the 20th Century, but it was his intimate relationship with civil rights hero Dr Martin Luther King that was to be the most significant of his long political life. Belafonte has touched countless lives, both as an artist and an activist and "Sing Your Song" is a rare opportunity to share his story.