Lucinda Urrusti. Pintora. (VO)
$3.00 - $5.00
Retrato de la pintora Lucinda Urrusti (Melilla, 1926), que llegó a México con sus padres y su hermano en 1939 como refugiados de la Guerra de España. La película se basa en el texto que el crítico de arte Jaime Moreno Villarreal escribió en 2012 para la presentación…
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CHINESE WORKERS OF WW1
$10.55 - $15.00
History is often told according to the interpretation and biases of prevailing historical actors, but remnants of the past, can help us tell History differently. In 2014, the year of the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I, I discovered First World War Cemetary of Chinese Labourers at…
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- Documentary / Instructional
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In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee
$5.99 - $24.95
Her passport said she was Cha Jung Hee. She knew she was not. So began a 40-year deception for a Korean adoptee who came to the US in 1966. Told to keep her true identity a secret from her new American family, this eight-year-old girl quickly forgot she was ever anyone else. But why had her identity…
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Memory of Forgotten War
$5.99 - $19.99
MEMORY OF FORGOTTEN WAR conveys the human costs of military conflict through deeply personal accounts of the Korean War (1950-53) by four Korean-American survivors. Their stories take audiences through the trajectory of the war, from extensive bombing campaigns, to day-to-day struggle for survival, and…
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First Person Plural
$5.99 - $24.95
In 1966, Deann Borshay was adopted by an American family and was sent from Korea to her new home. Growing up in California, the memory of her birth family was nearly obliterated until recurring dreams lead Deann to discover the truth: her Korean mother was very much alive. Bravely uniting her biological…
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Geographies of Kinship
$5.99 - $24.95
In this powerful tale about the rise of Korea’s global adoption program, four adult adoptees return to their country of birth and recover the personal histories that were erased when they were adopted. Raised in foreign families, each sets out on a journey to reconnect with their roots, mapping…
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Homeownership: the rise and fall of public housing
$9.00
After the second world war, in the UK, Aneurin Bevan imagined the building of excellent-quality council housing not only as essential to narrowing inequalities in public health, but as a way of forging a society where class mattered less. He pushed forward a programme of building large, several-bedroomed…
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DANS LA LUMIÈRE D'ALBERT
$1.00 - $9.99
- English version : www.vimeo.com/ondemand/followingalbert Je n’ai jamais connu Albert Balay, mon grand-père paternel. Serge, mon père, lui non plus ne l’a jamais connu. Je n’ai jamais eu le récit complet de la disparition d’Albert, seulement des fragments…
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We Were Famous, You Dont Remember: The Embarrassment
$3.25 - $9.25
“An inspiring reminder that creativity can sprout anywhere.” Mark Olsen, The Los Angeles Times "The Embos' modern primitivism raises its grizzly head. Altogether confounding and exhilarating and awesome and joyous and more." New York Rocker, 1982 “Kansas itself…
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FOLLOWING ALBERT
$1.00 - $9.99
- Version française : www.vimeo.com/ondemand/danslalumieredalbert I never knew Albert Balay, my paternal grandfather. Nor did my father. I never had the full story of Albert's disappearance, only fragments of stories and anecdotes that eventually settled on me: gendarme in the Resistance,…
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The Lost Arcade
$3.25 - $9.25
"Part Scrappy, Part Sweet and Wholly Enjoyable." The New York Times "Raw and Intimate." The New Yorker "A Gem of a Film." The Guardian "Scrappy, Ebullient, Energizing." Variety The story of Chinatown Fair, the legendary arcade located in the heart…
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- Documentary
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