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Soraida, a Woman of Palestine
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Documentary |
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Theme: |
Human Interest |
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Duration: |
52m00s |
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Targeted Audience: |
Adult |
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Year of Production: |
2005 |
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Distributor: |
National Film Board of Canada |
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Production Company: |
NFB |
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Synopsis
Meeting Soraida will overturn any preconceived notions you may have about Palestine. In her neighbourhood, the women do not all wear veils, the men...
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Stationery
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Type: |
Not specified |
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Category: |
Animation |
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Theme: |
Human Interest |
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Duration: |
5m20s |
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Targeted Audience: |
Adult |
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Year of Production: |
2005 |
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Distributor: |
National Film Board of Canada |
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Production Company: |
NFB |
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Synopsis
A woman must find paperclips for a report due in the morning." With this apparently simple description, director Monica Rho begins to explore the...
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Stormy Night
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Type: |
Not specified |
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Category: |
Animation |
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Theme: |
Human Interest |
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Duration: |
9m49s |
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Targeted Audience: |
All Audiences |
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Year of Production: |
2005 |
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Distributor: |
National Film Board of Canada |
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Production Company: |
NFB |
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Synopsis
As a storm threatens one night, a little girl wonders aloud about the world, about herself. In Stormy Night, Michèle Lemieux explores thoughts of the...
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Story of a Beautiful Country
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Type: |
Not specified |
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Category: |
Documentary |
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Theme: |
Human Interest |
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Duration: |
72m14s |
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Targeted Audience: |
Adult |
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Year of Production: |
2005 |
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Distributor: |
National Film Board of Canada |
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Production Company: |
Day Zero Film and Video, NFB, South African Broadcasting corporation |
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Synopsis
Story of a Beautiful Country is the journey of Khalo Matabane, a young Black filmmaker in search of his "new country," the promised land - the new...
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Tales from the Crib
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Type: |
Not specified |
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Category: |
Animation |
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Theme: |
Human Interest |
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Duration: |
1m30s |
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Targeted Audience: |
Adult |
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Year of Production: |
2005 |
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Distributor: |
National Film Board of Canada |
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Production Company: |
NFB, Cinemaria |
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Synopsis
Adults on the verge of procreating... She's not sure why, but she feels a powerful gene current rushing her toward an uncertain destiny... Around...
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Tête à Tête à Tête
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Type: |
Not specified |
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Category: |
Animation |
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Theme: |
Human Interest |
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Duration: |
12m47s |
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Targeted Audience: |
All Audiences |
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Year of Production: |
2005 |
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Distributor: |
National Film Board of Canada |
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Production Company: |
NFB |
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Synopsis
Animator and director Marv Newland explores the concept of having a mind of your own, no matter how many minds you were born with. In this playful...
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The Danish Poet
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Type: |
Not specified |
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Category: |
Animation |
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Theme: |
Human Interest |
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Duration: |
14m24s |
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Targeted Audience: |
All Audiences |
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Year of Production: |
2005 |
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Distributor: |
National Film Board of Canada |
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Production Company: |
NFB, Mikrofilm As |
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Synopsis
Can we trace the chain of events that leads to our own birth? Is our existence just coincidence? Do little things matter? The narrator of the Oscar...
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The Hungry Squid
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Type: |
Not specified |
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Category: |
Animation |
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Theme: |
Human Interest |
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Duration: |
14m31s |
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Targeted Audience: |
Children |
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Year of Production: |
2005 |
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Distributor: |
National Film Board of Canada |
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Production Company: |
NFB |
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Synopsis
Dorothy Sue Ann Murguson isn't having the best of times. Her bodybuilder mother and food-additive salesman father are constantly on the road. Her...
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The Peace Tree
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Type: |
Not specified |
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Category: |
Drama |
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Theme: |
Human Interest |
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Duration: |
48m00s |
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Targeted Audience: |
All Audiences |
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Year of Production: |
2005 |
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Distributor: |
National Film Board of Canada |
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Production Company: |
Sandalwood Productions |
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Synopsis
Shazia, a 7-year-old Muslim girl, and Kylie, her Christian friend, live in Toronto and dream of celebrating each other's holidays. They run into...
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The Sharia in Canada
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Type: |
Not specified |
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Category: |
Documentary |
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Theme: |
Human Interest |
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Duration: |
44m03s |
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Targeted Audience: |
Adult |
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Year of Production: |
2005 |
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Distributor: |
National Film Board of Canada |
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Production Company: |
NFB, Mediatique Inc. |
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Synopsis
In December 2004, the Boyd Report recommended that Ontario authorize Islamic tribunals based on the sharia, a system of justice directly inspired by...
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The Ties that Bind
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Type: |
Not specified |
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Category: |
Documentary |
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Theme: |
Human Interest |
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Duration: |
55m37s |
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Targeted Audience: |
Adult |
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Year of Production: |
2005 |
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Distributor: |
National Film Board of Canada |
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Production Company: |
NFB, Force Four Entertainment Inc |
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Synopsis
In the Ties That Bind, award-winning documentary filmmaker John Ritchie takes a first-hand look at a family's struggle to let go, when every instinct...
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The Tobacco Conspiracy
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Type: |
Not specified |
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Category: |
Documentary |
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Theme: |
Human Interest |
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Duration: |
51m47s |
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Targeted Audience: |
All Audiences |
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Year of Production: |
2005 |
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Distributor: |
National Film Board of Canada |
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Production Company: |
NFB, Kuiv Productions |
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Synopsis
This France-Canada co-production goes behind the scenes of the huge tobacco industry, whose economic power has been expanding for five decades at the...
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The Weight of the World
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Type: |
Not specified |
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Category: |
Documentary |
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Theme: |
Human Interest |
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Duration: |
51m10s |
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Targeted Audience: |
All Audiences |
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Year of Production: |
2005 |
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Distributor: |
National Film Board of Canada |
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Production Company: |
NFB, CBC |
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Synopsis
It's been called the world's first man-made epidemic, and it's killing us. In this riveting documentary, Dr. Stephan Rossner of Stockholm, an expert...
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The Year Before
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Type: |
Not specified |
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Category: |
Documentary |
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Theme: |
Human Interest |
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Duration: |
63m00s |
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Targeted Audience: |
Teen |
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Year of Production: |
2005 |
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Distributor: |
National Film Board of Canada |
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Production Company: |
NFB |
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Synopsis
The Year Before is a portrait of four Montreal teenagers in their final year of high school. In classic vérité tradition, this film goes deep inside...
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Travel Damaging to public interest
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Type: |
Not specified |
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Category: |
Documentary |
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Theme: |
Human Interest |
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Duration: |
50m20s |
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Targeted Audience: |
All Audiences |
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Year of Production: |
2005 |
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Distributor: |
National Film Board of Canada |
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Production Company: |
NFB, 1956 Institure of Budapest |
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Synopsis
Kriszta and Laci were born not long after the Soviets invaded Hungary in 1956. They were in high school when they met and fell in love. Laci was a...
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Vendetta Song
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Type: |
Not specified |
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Category: |
Documentary |
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Theme: |
Human Interest |
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Duration: |
52m08s |
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Targeted Audience: |
Adult |
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Year of Production: |
2005 |
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Distributor: |
National Film Board of Canada |
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Production Company: |
DLI Productions Inc, NFB |
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Synopsis
Eylem Kaftan gazes from her hotel window down over the bustling streets of Istanbul. She is preparing for a 1400-kilometre journey into the heartland...
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Why Thee Wed
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Type: |
Not specified |
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Category: |
Documentary |
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Theme: |
Human Interest |
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Duration: |
50m00s |
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Targeted Audience: |
Adult |
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Year of Production: |
2005 |
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Distributor: |
National Film Board of Canada |
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Production Company: |
NFB |
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Synopsis
Why Thee Wed? looks at the experiences of two same-sex couples, one gay and one lesbian, who decide to marry. Their stories will unfold against the...
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Winning
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Type: |
Not specified |
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Category: |
Documentary |
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Theme: |
Human Interest |
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Duration: |
56m27s |
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Targeted Audience: |
All Audiences |
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Year of Production: |
2005 |
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Distributor: |
National Film Board of Canada |
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Production Company: |
Annau Inc, NFB |
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Synopsis
Who wants to be a millionaire? Even though lotteries offer the worst gambling odds, Canadians spend $7 billion a year on them, Americans $38.9...
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Women & Men Unglued
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Type: |
Not specified |
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Category: |
Documentary |
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Theme: |
Human Interest |
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Duration: |
86m23s |
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Targeted Audience: |
Adult |
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Year of Production: |
2005 |
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Distributor: |
National Film Board of Canada |
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Production Company: |
NFB |
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Synopsis
At the start of the new millennium, relations between men and women are in turmoil. Traditional marriage is challenged on all fronts. Long-held...
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Words of my Perfect Teacher
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Type: |
Not specified |
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Category: |
Documentary |
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Theme: |
Human Interest |
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Duration: |
101m27s |
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Targeted Audience: |
Adult |
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Year of Production: |
2005 |
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Distributor: |
National Film Board of Canada |
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Production Company: |
NFB, ZIJI Film & Television Productions Ltd |
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Synopsis
This film is about a group of Western students as they encounter a rascally, magical teacher, Khyentse Norbu, renowned as one of the most eminent...
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