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Forbidden Voices: How to Start a Revolution with a Computer (2013)

Director

Miller Freeman plc

Subject

Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 96 minutes), $395.00

Documentary about three young women who use social media to document, denounce and combat violations of human rights and free speech in their countries. Yoani Sánchez, Zeng Jinyan and Farnaz Seifi are...

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Film Socialisme (2011)

Director

Jean-Luc Godard

Subject

Film studies; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 102 minutes)

An allegorical , semi-documentary cine-essay that is a meditation on the history, culture, philosophy and economics of modern Europe. Described by Godard as ‘a symphony in three movements’: THINGS SUCH...

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Masks, Fetishes and Other Obsessions: A Voyage into Traditional African Art (2008)

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 52 minutes), £120 [University rate]

Lekha Sarkar explores the myths and stereotypes associated with traditional African masks and through them their associated cultures. She traces her journey to Togo and the Cameroon, to High priests,...

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Qui était Kafka? (2007)

aka: Who was Kafka?

Director

Richard Dindo

Subject

Literature

Distribution

DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 96 minutes), 14.94 Euros

Documentarian Richard Dindo presents an impressionistic view of the life of Franz Kafka, consisting of actors presenting the author’s personal writings as if they were documentary interviews, set against a...

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Silent Waters (2006)

Director

Sabiha Sumar

Subject

Development studies; Film Studies; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 95 minutes), £19.99

The first feature by Pakistani independent documentary filmmaker Sabiha Sumar, is an intense and rare cinematic perspective of the political evolution of Pakistan, the advent of fundamentalism and the...

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Operation Shakespeare a la Vallee de Joux (2006 Film)

Director

Anne Cuneo

Subject

Drama

Documentary. The Compagnie du Cedar, in an attempt to make Shakespeare better known, commissions a play about the dramatist. An entire valley becomes fully involved in the project and helps to finance and...

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Macbeth (2002 Television, Video)

Director

Thomas Grimm; David Pountney

Subject

Drama; Music

Verdi’s Macbeth recorded live from the Zurich Opernhaus in July 2001. The Opernhaus Chorus and Orchestra are conducted by Franz Welser-Most with Thomas Hampson as Macbeth and Paoletta Marrocu as Lady...

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Jodorowsky Constellation the (2000)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 91 minutes), £12.99

A portrait of Alexandro Jodorowsky, born 60 years ago of Jewish parents who originated from Eastern Europe and found refuge in Chile. Beginning with his work in avant garde theatre, the film traces...

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Knowledge of Healing, The (1999)

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 89 minutes), £15.99

The first full-length film dealing extensively with Tibetan medicine, which takes a highly developed, holistic approach to health through the use of herbs, roots and minerals. Includes interview with The...

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Luna Papa (1999 Film)

aka: Lunnyy Papa

Director

Bakhytar Khudojnazarov

Producer

Bakhytar Khudojnazarov; Philippe Avril; Karl Baumgartner; Thomas Koerfer; Heinz Stussak; Igor Tolstunov

Feature film. Comedy-fantasy partly narrated by the unborn baby of a young stagestruck girl who finds herself pregnant following the visit of a touring theatre to the ancient city by the sea which is her...

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