My Beautiful Broken Brain
Nov 21, 2014 | IMDB 7.1
84 min Watch NowDocumentary
A profoundly personal voyage into the complexity, fragility and wonder of the human brain, after Lotje Sodderland miraculously survives a hemorrhagic stroke and finds herself starting again in an alien world, bereft of language and logic. This feature documentary takes us on a genre-twisting tale that is by turns excruciating and exquisite - from the devastating consequences of a first-time neurological experiment, through to the extraordinary revelations of her altered sensory perception.
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IMDB 0 | Jan , 1992
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IMDB 3 | Jan , 2006
Art, activism and disability are the starting point for what unfolds as a funny and intimate portrait of five surprising individuals. Director Bonnie Sherr Klein (Not a Love Story, and Speaking Our Peace) has been a pioneer of women's cinema and an inspiration to a generation of filmmakers around the world. SHAMELESS: the ART of Disability marks Klein's return to a career interrupted by a catastrophic stroke in 1987. Always the activist, she now turns the lens on the world of disability culture, and ultimately, the transformative power of art.Stille Nacht im fremden Land
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1986
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IMDB 7 | Jun , 2017
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IMDB 10 | Nov , 2019
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IMDB 6 | Jan , 2006
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IMDB 6.3 | Jul , 2002
Rosanna Arquette talks to various actresses about the pressures they face as women working in the entertainment industry.Lunch
IMDB 4 | Nov , 2012
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IMDB 5.8 | Nov , 2011
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IMDB 6.8 | Oct , 2020
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IMDB 7.4 | Nov , 2012
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IMDB 6.7 | Aug , 2019
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IMDB 5.8 | Jul , 1976
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IMDB 7 | Nov , 1985
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IMDB 8 | Nov , 2012
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IMDB 6.7 | Jul , 1983
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IMDB 0 | Mar , 2012
Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney were falsely arrested for car-bombing themselves on May 24, 1990 while on an Earth First! musical organizing tour for Redwood Summer. They sued the FBI for violations of the First Amendment, claiming the FBI knew they were innocent but arrested them to try to silence them. Having survived the bomb but now stricken by cancer, Judi Bari, a leader of the movement to save California's old growth redwoods, gives her on-camera, deathbed testimony about the attempt on her life and her colorful organizing history with the radical environmental movement Earth First.People's Park
IMDB 9 | Aug , 2012
One long tracking shot through a park in Chengdu.Atlantiques
IMDB 5.9 | Jun , 2009
Short lo-fi film set in Senegal. Mostly focussing on a group of Senegalese youths, discussing their hopes and fears concerning the crossing of the atlantic to get to Europe. Will life be easier there or not?Shoot for the Contents
IMDB 5 | Jan , 1992
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