City of Joy 2018 • Movie

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Plot:
This film follows the first class of students at a remarkable leadership center in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a region often referred to as “the worst place in the world to be a woman.” These women have been through unspeakable violence spurred on by a 20 year war driven by colonialism and greed. In the film, they band together with the three founders of this center: Dr. Denis Mukwege (2016 Nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize), radical playwright and activist Eve Ensler (“The Vagina Monolgoues”) and human rights activist, Christine Schuler-Deschryver, to find a way to create meaning in their lives even when all that was meaningful to them has long been stripped away. In this ultimately uplifting film, we witness the tremendous resilience as these women transform their devastation into powerful forms of leadership for their beloved country.

Bad Ben 7: The Haunted Highway 2019 • Movie

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Plot:
Tom Riley has a new job now as a ridesharing driver for the DropUOff service and the strange new experiences he has driving his clients on Halloween night in 2019 are all captured on his dashcam, body cam and surveillance cameras. Among his clients are a young woman carrying a suspicious parcel, a witch and an unfriendly scarecrow.

Cinta Buat Dara 2022 • TvSeries

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Plot:
Dara, a brash individual, consistently causes trouble for her mother. She is sent to the village for refinement training under her well-known aunt, Ros, a former champion in the Kebaya Ratu competition in town. Hariz, a music enthusiast with an ego, and Dara develop mutual feelings for each other quietly while working together at a grocery store. Atirah, the mysterious girl Hariz had spoken about before, suddenly appears one day.

Water, Wind, Dust 1990 • Movie

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Plot:
A young teenager returns home after an absence to find his village in Iran deserted because of an incredibly severe drought. He begins a search to find his family, traveling through an amazingly bleak and desolate landscape. Primarily an essay on the issue of humans vs. nature, the film is of interest for technical and cultural reasons.

London Kills Me 1991 • Movie

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Plot:
For want of a nail a shoe was lost, for want of a shoe… a young man’s life is almost lost, which is exactly what this film is all about: a man barely twenty who wants desperately to pull out of London’s drug world by taking a job as a waiter in a ‘normal’ restaurant. But to do this he must come up with a “sensible pair of shoes,” an item that his homeless meanderings hasn’t provided him. In fact, the shoes become a symbol of his striving to break away from those, like himself, who are caught up in the tragedy of drugs and lasciviousness which is so aptly described… sometimes graphically, always realistically… in this film.