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1 week ago | 
videolibrarian.com | Cyndi Elliot |Caroline Madden
Imagine spending the last days of your life with an incurable disease. It’s not a matter of whether it will snatch your life, but when. You only have a few months to live. Linda’s Last Trip documents such a story. The film is about 63-year-old Linda Ann Patchett, diagnosed with an incurable cancer. Adam films Linda as she courageously lives through her last months and comes to terms with her terminal condition. Family support stands out. She spends her last days playing and talking to her grandsons.
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1 week ago | 
videolibrarian.com | Cyndi Elliot |Caroline Madden
Yves Robert’s My Father’s Glory is an adaptation of Marcel Pagnol’s novel, which has the same title. The biography film is in the sequel that includes another film, “My Mother’s Castle,” also authored by Marcel. Both films are memoirs of Marcel’s childhood. My Father’s Glory tells the story of a little boy, Marcel, born in a village in southern France and raised in Marseilles, who looks up to his father. The film’s setting is before the First World War. It’s packed with moments of warmth and charm.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
videolibrarian.com | Cyndi Elliot |Caroline Madden
Blessed Unrest has numerous awards, including the New York Independent Cinema Award, the Best Documentary at the Berlin International Art Film Festival, and the Best Documentary at the Hispanic International Film Festival. It has also been featured and nominated in numerous international film festivals. Blessed Unrest was directed and produced by Mari Bonnemaison. Having bagged such big awards says a lot about the documentary.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
videolibrarian.com | Cyndi Elliot |Caroline Madden
Bayard Street is a short film directed by Cindy Chu. The film is set in the 1980s, mainly in Chinatown. It delves into the struggle of Asian immigrants chasing their American dreams. They come to the US hoping for a better life but end up with menial jobs. It’s about them pursuing their dreams and struggling to survive in a city where no one cares about them. It’s also about a blossoming love despite the hardships and not giving up.
Bayard Street is the heart of Chinatown in Manhattan.
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Nov 7, 2023 | 
videolibrarian.com | Cyndi Elliot
If you love studying matters concerned with the human body, then this documentary is perfect for you. Director Noah Hutton made a very big decision to follow Henry Markram—the brains behind the brains.
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Oct 30, 2023 | 
videolibrarian.com | Cyndi Elliot
A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff is a film about Alicia Jo Rabins, a poet and musician. The film starts with Rabins walking out of the Wall Street train station staircase on her way to her newly secured artistry residency on the 9th floor of a Wall Street office building after the 2008 financial crash. Originally planning to work on a song cycle about biblical women, Rabins became fascinated with Bernie Madoff when she saw a picture of him in the newspaper and noticed his resemblance to her father.
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Sep 19, 2023 | 
videolibrarian.com | Cyndi Elliot
The Swimmer starts with a scene of a chiseled man getting a shave. During this scene, the opening credits are displayed as the razor glides through the shaving cream. The main character, Erez (Omer Perelman Striks), is a young athlete in his twenties who arrives at a secluded training camp in an undisclosed location in Israel. The purpose of this camp is to determine which one of the five participants will earn the opportunity to represent Israel in the upcoming Olympics in swimming.
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Aug 25, 2023 | 
videolibrarian.com | Cyndi Elliot
When Men Were Men offers a fresh and compelling take on the coming-of-age genre. The story revolves around Kieran (Izzi Rojas), a transgender teen who faces bullying at school and pressure from his religious mother to conform to traditional gender roles. However, the theater becomes Kieran's sanctuary, where he is respected and valued as a talented actor, typically cast as a male lead.
Everything changes when Egan (Aidan Dick), a new boy in town, enters Kieran's life.
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Aug 22, 2023 | 
videolibrarian.com | Cyndi Elliot
Eddie Lowry (Jayce Venditti) is a journalist who remains true to his principles in the midst of a media landscape filled with clickbait headlines and misinformation. In George Jac's indie film, Last Chance, Eddie's unwavering commitment to integrity confronts the harsh realities of our contemporary world.
Eddie, on the brink of losing his career, challenges his own profession with a provocative article titled The Art of Misinformation.
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Jun 10, 2023 | 
videolibrarian.com | Cyndi Elliot
The Wounded Man follows a young adolescent boy, Henri, who lives with his parents in a provincial coastal town in France. While at the train station to bid his sister goodbye, Henri meets Jean, a much older man and a hustler. He was shocked to witness Jean turn violent on an older man. He was even more dazed and confused when Jean went up and kissed him.
Because of the confusion, Henri didn't even realize when or how Jean left.
