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Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (105 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Russian director Vitaly Mansky follows the life of one girl and her family in the year she prepares to join the Children's Union, on the 'Day of the Shining Star' (Kim Jong-Il's birthday). In doing so, Mansky crafts an indelible portrait of life in modern North Korea.
Publisher
Planet Group Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (51 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
The medieval Kingdom of Nepal, mystical favorite of trekkers, tourists and religious pilgrims, is caught between a desire for preservation and a need for progress.
3) Boatman
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1996.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (55 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
BOATMAN is Gianfranco Rosi's account of a boattrip along the Ganges river, together with his helmsman Gopal. They pass tourists and Indians who are bathing, working or meditating. In a series of small portraits Rosi depicts life on and at the banks of India's sacred river.
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (52 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Pakistan, ‘Land of the Pure’, remains a country of contradictions. A bastion of radical Islam trying to change to a modern state. We examine some of the undercurrents threatening the stability of this Atomic nation. Up in the Himalayas, at an altitude of 6,000 meters, a bizarre sort of war is being waged. 1,000 Pakistani soldiers face off against 3,000 Indian soldiers for control of the Siachen Glacier, biggest reserve of fresh water available....
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Publisher
Picador USA
Pub. Date
1996
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337 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Description
In 1988, a retired schoolteacher named Pius Fernandes receives an old diary found in the back room of an East African shop. Written in 1913 by a British colonial administrator, the diary captivates Fernandes, who begins to research the coded history he encounters in its terse, laconic entries. What he uncovers is a story of forbidden liaisons and simmering vengeances, family secrets and cultural exiles-a story that leads him on an investigative journey...
Publisher
Factory 25
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (71 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
One day, a Lord of the Rings-obsessed Chinese real estate investor met a little person on the train. This downtrodden man’s openness about his trouble finding a job inspired the businessman to try and help: he created an amusement park where people with dwarfism could live and earn money performing. Though the park has attracted negative attention from groups like Little People of America, DWARVES KINGDOM attempts to capture what the park means...
Publisher
Visual Antics
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (90 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Every year, on the 2nd Thursday of November, the entire country of South-Korea is put to the test. That day, more than half a million senior high school students take part in the National University Exam, better known as Suneung. ‘REACH FOR THE SKY’ tells the story of several South-Korean high school students, their families and teachers, as they prepare for the annual National Exam. The exam will not only determine where the high school seniors...
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2010.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (97 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
In San Antonio, Lisa and Brian Switzer risk their savings with a Medical Tourism company promising them an affordable solution after seven years of infertility. Halfway around the world in Mumbai, 27-year-old Aasia Khan, mother of three, contracts with a fertility clinic to be implanted with the Texas couple’s embryos. MADE IN INDIA, about real people involved in international surrogacy, follows the Switzers and Aasia through every stage of the...
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2022.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (31 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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A ship berthed at Gadani and the shipbreakers coming from all over Pakistan to break it discover that they might have more in common than otherwise imagined, when they enter into a conversation.
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (42 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Mica: it’s the common ingredient in cosmetic products such as nail polish, foundation, mascara and lipstick. It’s what gives them their luminosity, making them responsible for the fortune of major cosmetic groups like L’Oréal, Lancôme, Dior and Chanel. Unknown to its hundreds of millions of consumers is that most of it is filled with “dirty mica”, extracted using antiquated methods, close to slavery, in one of the poorest regions of the...
Publisher
Janson Media
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (54 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Between 1895 and 1945 Japan was constantly at war in South-East Asia. After its defeat in 1945, Japan pushed the population to turn inward to a strong and revisionist nationalist power. But is this ideology from the past a threat to its present democracy?
12) Angel of Nanjing
Publisher
Journeyman Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (67 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
The Yangtze River Bridge in Nanjing is the most popular place in the world to commit suicide, with over 5 attempts per week. For the past 11 years, blue-collar worker Chen Si has been patrolling this bridge every day, watching out for desperate people who've gone there to end their lives. With no formal training, he has saved over 300 people since he began; earning him the nickname the 'ANGEL OF NANJING'.
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Publisher
Journeyman Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (63 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
During the Vietnam War, the US bombed Laos more heavily than any other country had been bombed before. Spanning over three presidential terms, it was the largest covert CIA operation in US history. Today, the Laos people live among, and risk their lives to clear, over 80 million unexploded bombs on their doorsteps. With great beauty and empathy, this doc reveals the unbelievable stories of the men and women at the forefront of this monumental task....
14) Current Sea
Publisher
Journeyman Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (87 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A compelling testimony to the possibilities of local activism, CURRENT SEA follows investigative journalist, Matt Blomberg, and ocean activist, Paul Ferber, in their dangerous efforts to create a marine conservation area and combat the relentless tide of illegal fishing. Along the way a new generation of Cambodian environmentalists are inspired to create a better life for their people.
Publisher
Speakit Productions
Pub. Date
2010.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (75 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A rare grass roots view into one of the most important economic challenges of our age' (The Times), ‘When China Met Africa' tells the story of China’s foray into Africa,through the lens of a Chinese farmer, a road builder and Zambia’s minister of trade to reveal the expanding footprint of a rising global power.
16) Digitalkarma
Publisher
Feelsales
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (78 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
In a remote village nestled in the foggy hills of northern Bangladesh, Rupa fights against a predetermined destiny. With only a bike, a camera and her knowledge, she defies traditions and tries to make a place for herself in her community. When a twist of fate hits her family, Rupa’s freedom is threatened. Will she be able to maintain the fragile balance between the expectations of her loved ones and her own dreams?
Publisher
Filmotor
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (81 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Pepsi plays, in this documentary, the role of a 21st Century transgender version of Joan d’Arc, putting her journey on a different scale, even beyond survival: standing for human rights, request and asylum of the most marginalized communities. She escaped the Muslim military camp she grew up in because of her homosexuality, worked as a nurse for over 10 years in Gaddafi’s Libya. Because of gender discrimination, she was forced to join the flow...
18) Queer Japan
Publisher
Altered Innocence
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (99 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Trailblazing artists, activists, and everyday people from across the spectrum of gender and sexuality defy social norms and dare to shine in this kaleidoscopic view of LGBTQ+ culture in contemporary Japan. From glossy pride parades to playfully perverse underground parties, QUEER JAPAN pictures people living brazenly unconventional lives in the sunlight, the shadows, and everywhere in between.
19) Zen for Nothing
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (105 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
ZEN FOR NOTHING is a masterly immersion into life at a Japanese Zen monastery over three seasons. Swiss novice Sabine arrives at Antaiji and, after a brief welcome, she begins to learn the monastery rules: how to bow, sit in the meditation hall, carry out movements with chopsticks, etc. There’s more to life there than meditation, farming, and maintenance, however—there are picnics, music, and Wi-Fi. And after the last snow has melted away, the...
20) Cat Nation
Publisher
Journeyman Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (52 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Cat fanatics everywhere rejoice! CAT NATION takes viewers on a journey into the unique world of Japanese cat culture. Follow British YouTube personality Chris Broad, as he treks across the land of the rising sun to document numerous unusual cat-centric activities such as cat-themed cafes, bars, temples, and even entire cat islands! Discover cats with human jobs, explore cat friendly businesses, and uncover the origins of the iconic beckoning cat statue....
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