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Miscellaneous
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Bi ll and Turner Ross
90 minutes
***WINNER - Grand Jury Award SXSW***
***HONORABLE MENTION - HBO New Filmmakers Award Full Frame Film Festival***
***WINNER - Special Documentary Feature Jury Prize at the Newport International Film Festival***
45365 (pronounced: four, five, three, six, five) captures small town American life in striking cinema verité style that peels away the layers of Sidney, Ohio -- population 20,000 -- to reveal a deeper shared experience. Middle America turns out to be much more complicated than a Norman Rockwell painting would have us believe. Filmmakers Turner and Bill Ross deliver slices of life in gorgeous HD photography building the unique faces, places, and events into a powerful mosaic of humanity.
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"Meticulously balancing cinema-verite intimacy and dreamlike reverie, '45365' fashions a seductive, fascinating tapestry of small-town life by interweaving seemingly random glimpses of residents in Sidney, Ohio."-Variety
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World Affairs
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Nahid Pe rsson
90 minutes
When Nahid Persson Sarvestani, an Iranian exile, set out to make a documentary about Farrah, the wife of the shah of Iran, she expected to encounter her opposite. As a child, Persson Sarvestani had lived in dire poverty, watching Farrah’s wedding as if it were a fairy tale. As a teenager, she joined the Communist faction of Khomeini’s revolution that deposed the shah, sending him and his family volleying from country to country. When Khomeini betrayed his promise for democracy, imposing more violent measures than the shah had, Persson Sarvestani was also forced to flee.
Thirty years later, she needs key questions answered and goes directly to the source. Surprisingly, Queen Farrah welcomes her as a fellow refugee from their beloved homeland, granting unprecedented access. Over the next year and a half, Persson Sarvestani enters the queen’s world, planning to challenge the shah’s ideology; instead, she must rethink her own. When Persson Sarvestani’s prior opposition to the shah surfaces, the queen shuts down filming. Yet, in the struggle to understand each other’s experiences, an unlikely friendship has blossomed. Confronting Farrah about the shah’s repression has become not only a political conflict but a personal one, and Persson Sarvestani’s objectivity is shaken.In this gripping, poignant consideration of subjectivity as truth, we learn that people write history. And can also heal it. The Queen and I couldn’t be more relevant as we reach across our own political aisles.
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Iran’s former empress speaks out about unrest
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Narrated by John Malkovich
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Co co Schrijber
80 minutes
A substantial part of life is claimed by boredom. Beauty, love, work..
sometimes it just isn't worth getting out of bed. A girl in a
strawberry pie
factory, a stressed desert nomad, a Wall street stockbroker, the last
living
WW2 female spy, a painter who paints Time for 42 years, the first school
shooter in history who wounded eleven children and killed two adults
because: 'I don't like Mondays', are the portraits that reveal our
complex relationship to boredom. John
Malkovich gives voice to our inner bored selves. He gets under the
skin, prompting questions like, "How many people in the world are
like me?"
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Women
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Rob ert Dunlap
56/68 minutes
XAVIERA HOLLANDER, "THE HAPPY HOOKER": PORTRAIT OF A SEXUAL
REVOLUTIONARY is about one of the world's most important sexual
icons. Through interviews with Larry King, rare footage and
commentary from America's foremost sexologists- the film explores
Xaviera's rise and fall, her deportation from the United States and
her political significance to the Feminist Movement and Sexual
Revolution of the 1970's. During a recent book tour in Bulgaria the
interviewer confessed, 'I learned English by reading THE HAPPY
HOOKER!' Her revolutionary masterpiece about the exploits of a call
girl who became the world's most famous madam, is now in it's 28th
printing, having sold over 20 million copies. Nineteen books were to
follow. Her column 'Call Me Madam' for Penthouse Magazine has kept
her in the public spotlight for over 35 years.
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