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Falhan's Love 2021
Untung and Nesti really love their 6 year old son who has autism. Their daily life becomes more challenging because both of their parents are disabled, but their love and passion is truly heartwarming.
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Baby Girl 2021
Cunenk grew up as a girl trapped in a boy’s body. She could not wait to leave her village and become a performer.
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Let My Body Speak 2020
Our bodies store memories. The body does not forget. A childhood in Damascus, OCD, the revolution, falling in love with a woman. My body remembers, it keeps the trauma. And after all the losses, I had to start listening to my body.
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Divided We Scroll 2019
'Divided We Scroll' is an eerie depiction of our intimate relationships with technology.
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Think About the Beautiful Future Ahead 2018
Historically, the queer community has not been portrayed in mainstream culture as being capable of protecting children and young people. Yet my uncle Ricardo, himself an openly gay man, was the ultimate guardian of my childhood.
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Theatre of War 2018    star_border 7.2
Theatre of War is an essay on how to represent war, performed by former enemies. British and Argentinian veterans of the Falklands war come together to discuss, rehearse and re-enact their memories 35 years after the conflict.
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India on Film: 1899 – 1947 2017
As part of the 2017 UK-India Year of Culture, the British Council and British Film Institute share a unique collection of films documenting the sights and culture of a bygone India. Filmed between 1899-1947, and preserved in the BFI National Archive since then, these rare films capture many glimpses of life in India, from dances and markets, to hunts and pageantry.
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Dear Mr Shakespeare: Shakespeare Lives 2016    star_border 7
An evocative and imaginative exploration of the racial tensions in Othello and how the themes in Shakespeare's play still resonate today.
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Miranda's Letter 2016    star_border 8
Miranda's Letter takes as a starting point the 'missing women' in Shakespeare, in this instance, The Tempest, and imagines what Miranda's mother would have wanted to say to her daughter. Commissioned as part of Shakespeare Lives 2016.
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Media & Diversity 2008
British Council's public campaign, consisting of 5 TV clips with brief and vivid messages on inclusion issues related to race, physical disability, sexual orientation, social and economic diversity. Used by the Council in over 20 countries. Screened at numerous festivals, including Annecy, HAFF, Anifest, SICAF, ANIMA MUNDI.
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Rufus 2003
Rufus is a child with an extraordinary obsession: a burning, inþamed desire for anything red. Driven by this impassioned, scarlet fixation, which he can neither control nor understand, he shifts through life in a whirlwind of redness, entirely in the hands of his bizarre compulsion.
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Lucky Man 1995
A profile and interview of director, Lindsay Anderson.
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Coventry Cathedral 1958
A documentary feature with Basil Spence explaining, with the aid of a model, the concepts behind the design of the new Coventry Cathedral to replace the one destroyed during WWII.
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Triumph Over Deafness 1946
Instead of learning sign-language, deaf children are taught to speak and lip-read so that they might interact with others as easily as possible. This is a shortened version of 'Education of the Deaf'.
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General Election 1946
In the run up to the 1945 general election, the film focuses on the electoral race of one of the 640 local constituencies in Britain, that of Kettering in Northamptonshire.
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English Criminal Justice 1946
Dramatically told, English Criminal Justice takes us on a journey through the principles and procedures of the various courts of law in Britain.
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Westminster Abbey 1945
The history of Westminster Abbey and a tour of the monuments within it; accompanied by choral music and including footage of the coronation of King George VI in 1937.
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Cambridge 1945
An introduction to the famous and historic university town, showing the colleges, as well as the place itself.
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A Farmer's Boy 1945
A young man learns to become a farmer, keen to show the integration of traditional farming with modern science and education.
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Let's See 1945
A look at the manufacture of optical lenses, and their many uses throughout the different industries; from microscopes to spectacles to full use in the war effort.
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