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OUR LAND
A rare success story from the rain forests of Brazil. An exclusive look inside the world of the Kaapor People of he Amazon as they evict loggers from their land and begin to rebuild their culture. Includes a tour of how they hunt, find water, and use the forest for their survival. And they did it without help from any NGO's.
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Steal This Film
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McLibel
It was the biggest corporate disaster ever. Two penniless activists hauled McDonald's through the longest trial in English history, determined to defend their right to criticise the company. But that wasn't enough for the 'McLibel 2'. Next they took the British Government to court, arguing that the original trial was unfair because they were forced to defend themselves against the country's most expensive lawyers. Against all odds, they won! The UK's notorious libel laws will now have to be rewritten.
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Radar Seventeen: Waterpod
Artist Mary Mattingly uses any medium to realize an idea, whether it’s photography, video, fashion or installation. With a specialization in interactive architecture and an interest in nomad culture, human conditioning and sustainable living, Mary worked with a team of volunteer engineers to create the Waterpod, a floating, self-sustaining eco-habitat inhabited by six artists for six months that roamed the NYC waterways as an experiment in potential future living spaces and lifestyles 50-100 years from now. Both an expression of art and life, the Waterpod changes as is inhabitants adapt and its systems renew. We spend the day with its crew to see what it is really like to live on a living sculpture.
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The Dune Runner
"I dream and see pictures and get up and make the pictures in the sand." -Vuyisile Funda. Vuyisile Funda lives in the village of Hamburg in the Eastern Cape region of South Africa. He has been a watchman for most of his life, but a beating left him unable to work. He now lives off a disability grant. Vuyisile calls himself “Gaba”, which in Xhosa means “the prophet”. Gaba believes he receives visitations from God in the early mornings. God instructs him not to hurt anyone, and sometimes tells him to go to the dunes along the edge of the sea and run patterns in the sand until his problems are resolved. So, in the early hours of morning he runs intricate patterns over the sand dunes in the area; the patterns are seldom seen by anyone as they fade soon after dawn. Gaba says that this pattern-making is unconscious, guided by God and that he runs on the dunes as a prayer for the world and to draw attention to the beauty of the natural world. Often, he runs in a red skirt to show his solidarity with women.
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Quest For Fire
The search for the hottest curry in the world.
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Gateway to Heaven
Through the art works of two established artist and 10 children paintings, the film reveals something about the Jewish residents of Hebron- the only city in the West Bank where Jews and Arabs live side by side, in a constantly growing tension.
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ROCK MUSIC ROCK ART
'Rock Music, Rock Art' is a cultural exchange adventure that set out to discover musical sounds of our earliest ancestors and fuse two very different music styles. A group of contemporary western classical musicians and traditional African musicians journey in perilous canoes to a remote island in Lake Victoria to make music using the most elaborate prehistoric 'rock gongs' on the African continent. They discover a new gong with notes that suggest this beautiful granite landscape could have been the original birthplace of both African and European musical scales.
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Tinkerers Sharpening Service
Documentary by Catherine Cooper. A couple reflect on their life as itinerant knife-sharpeners. Nominated for Best Documentary at the 2007 YoungCuts Film Festival. www.YoungCuts.com
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THE MARKET
Market shoppers use all of their senses when trying to ascertain whether the groceries are local or imported. The privileging of local produce over imported goods is ever present regardless of whether or not the groceries actually are better, this follows to lines of argument - that by buying Croatian produce they are supporting Croatian agriculture and that domestic produce is familiar and tastier, although it is not the origin of the goods but the method of its production that counts. They rather chose to buy local goods simply because it is "our" , Croatian, local produce, and not some foreign, unfamiliar and alien foodstuff which is therefore deemed of lesser quality. For the preserves traditionally prepared to last throughout the winter, only local produce is considered worthy, it has to be treated, and conserved, for it to be safe, and caught at its best moment of maturity. This process demands that all foreign bodies be destroyed, that only the best pieces are used, those without fault, all this need be cleansed for the preserved to be safe from all decay.
 

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