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THE TRIALS OF MUHAMMAD ALI
  • THE TRIALS OF MUHAMMAD ALI
  • THE TRIALS OF MUHAMMAD ALI is a biography about an emerging sports superhero choosing faith and conscience over fame and fortune. At each stage, the challenges Ali faces go far beyond the boxing ring and ultimately encompass issues of power, race, faith and identity that confront us all.

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Griffen - On the tracks of Peter Handke
  • Griffen - On the tracks of Peter Handke
  • The filmmaker returns home to a place bordering the bilingual region of Lower Carinthia to talk to the people there about their “great son” Peter Handke. His search unearths the many unresolved contradictions and ambivalences of a small place where there is repression of the Slovenian-speaking past. As a result, the film about Handke’s birthplace becomes an exploration of literature, politics and life in the province. 

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Naked Opera
  • Naked Opera
  • Mark is brilliant, funny and an incredibly rich businessman in Luxembourg. Knowing his life will end soon, he escapes his work routine by traveling the world watching all Don Giovanni Opera's. He passionately introduces young lovers into this aristocratic world, until he falls in love with a young porn star.

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CASTING BY
  • CASTING BY
  • The film combines personal narratives from actors and directors – including Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, Glenn Close, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and John Travolta – with archival material, to reconstruct the untold tale of Hollywood’s most invisible and unheralded profession.

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Losing Sonia
  • Losing Sonia
  • Sonia is a nun in a Russian Orthodox monastery, trying to rebuild the values Russian society lost under successive political regimes. A journey into the Orthodox church, surprisingly full of life and artistic expression.

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Ballroom Dancer
  • Ballroom Dancer
  • 10 years after he won the world-championship, Slavik is in love with Anna, his new dance partner ... they plan a big comeback. This is the dazzling story of their love for dancing and each other. Is their love strong enough to become world-champions?

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The Boy Who was a King
  • The Boy Who was a King
  • Royalty meets Reality: the biography of SIMEON SAXE-COBURG-GOTHA, the exile boy-KING who gloriously returned as a republican politician to fall from grace in one of the greatest experiments of democracy today

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