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Wibbly has got all his friends coming round for a game of hide and seek, but there is a problem - he can’t stop sneezing! He won’t be able to hide anywhere because he’ll give himself away! He tries lots of different ways of stopping the sneezes but nothing seems to work. Then it is too late - everyone is here... Because he is the ‘sneezer’ Wibbly decides to be ‘it’ - but then something strange happens - everyone else gives themselves...
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15-year-old Leshka lives in an isolated village on the Bering Strait. Like most men where he lives, he is a whale hunter. When internet arrives in the village, Leshka becomes infatuated with a webcam model from America - so far away and yet almost close enough to see across the waters of the Strait. Coming of age in the male-dominated whaling community, Leshka's encounter with this mysterious woman awakens in him a desire to find love outside of the...
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The first reaction of most new leaders is to take on more work"”it's a natural reflex. How else can they be sure their project gets done right? But the more the leader takes on, the less motivated the team members become. The greatest challenge for team leaders is to let go of their work. The leader's job is to provide the tools, motivation and direction the team members need to do the work itself. Unfortunately, many leaders get no formal training...
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Meet the "father of the Turks": Mustafa Kemal. By following his life and career, you'll come away from this fascinating lecture with a well-rounded understanding of how he came to play such a decisive role in the modernization of Turkish civilization and the creation of the Turkish Republic.
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Tobe is about 16, living with her dad and younger brother in LA's San Fernando Valley. She invites a gas station attendant named Harlan to come to the beach with her and her friends. He's from South Dakota, wears a cowboy hat, talks country, and has been a ranch hand. They have a great time, his simple expressions seem like wisdom, he's attentive and polite, and even though he's more than twice her age, she wants to spend time with him. When her father...
6) Back Home
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This is the farm where Thomas was born. This is his family. His brother, who won’t be coming back, his mother, who is going down the same road, and his father, who has always stood aloof. Thomas gets back to everything he ran away from twelve years ago.
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Based on the filmmaker's true story, 16-year-old Jamie Schwartz is desperate to be a worldly adolescent. After stumbling through a series of disastrous relationships at boarding school, he runs away. Joined by a local town girl Jamie travels to the mountains of New Hampshire to search for J.D. Salinger, the reclusive author of THE CATCHER IN THE RYE. Winner, Best American Independent Feature Film, **Cleaveland International Film Festival** "*The film's...
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When is the best time to invite students to become actively involved in think-alouds? Join classroom teacher, Patrick Allen, in this 35 minute video, and watch as he engages the students in his fourth-grade classroom, demonstrating that you don’t need to wait very long to make the most of your think-alouds. The importance of nonfiction literature in literacy instruction is. Using Seymour Simon’s Animals Nobody Loves, Patrick demonstrates how comprehension...
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First-class pool shark and all-around hustler Jaeckie Zucker is up to his ears in debt, again. He faces jail, divorce and general ruin. When word comes that his mother has died, leaving an inheritance, it's a stroke of luck. But according to his mother's will, before he can cash in Zucker must first reconcile with his long-estranged, Orthodox brother Samuel, who is arriving the next day, family in tow, expecting to sit shiva for seven days. Can Zucker,...
10) Vital
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Hiroshi Takagi (played by the fantastic Tadanobu Asano - Zatoichi, Ichi the Killer), a young man in his 20s, awakens in a hospital bed to find an auto accident has completely wiped his memory away. Back home with his parents and attempting to rebuild his life, he comes across a medical textbook full of detailed drawings of dissection. Utterly fascinated by the subject, Hiroshi is drawn to the medical school to which he was once accepted, but refused...
11) England Is Mine
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Seventeen-year-old Steven Patrick Morrissey is a shy dreamer amid the tough, macho world of 1970s Manchester; a world away from the life he’ll one day lead as the frontman for seminal 80’s band The Smiths. He spends most of his time writing savage music letters to the NME to avoid his parents’ deteriorating relationship until he reluctantly takes an office job he hates to support the family. His dream of being the lead singer of a band is put...
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This film records the reaction of one clan leader, Narritjin Maymuru, to the coming of the Gove bauxite mine. In mid-1971 Narritjin held a mortuary ceremony at Yirrkala in memory of several relatives. He opened this ceremony to visitors from the mining town, charging them a small entrance fee. Narritjin had two objectives in mind. Firstly, he wanted to raise money so that he could move with his family away from Yirrkala and the mine and set up a small...
13) Three Worlds
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Al, a young man from a modest background, is ten days away from marrying the daughter of his boss, along with succeeding him as the head of the car dealership where Al has been working for most of his life. One night, while coming back drunk from his bachelor party, Al commits a hit-and-run when he hits a man by accident and is urged to leave the scene of the crime by his two childhood friends who are with him in the car. The next day, gnawed by guilt,...
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Thure Lindhardt (Keep the Lights On) stars in this quirky horror-comedy as Lars, a former darling of the art scene slipping away into the land of has-beens and struggling with lack of inspiration. When Lars’ art dealer Ronny arranges a teaching job in a small town as a “therapeutic measure” to stir up his creative juices, things don’t quite turn out as planned. At first, life in the peaceful small town seems rosy, as he settles in and impresses...
15) White Frog
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From talented gay director Quentin Lee, WHITE FROG is a universal story of the power of family, friendship and love. This deeply moving family drama tells the tale of Nick (Twilight’s Booboo Stewart), a young teen with Asperger’s syndrome. When his big brother Chaz (Glee’s Harry Shum Jr.) passes away in a tragic accident, Chaz’s friends comfort young Nick as he gradually discovers the truth — Chaz was gay, but afraid to come out to their...
16) The Dark Valley
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Somewhere high in the Alps, a lone rider makes his way along a hidden path and reaches a small village, tucked away between the steep mountains. This stranger goes by the name of Greider; nobody knows where he’s from and, met with blatant distrust, nobody wants him in the village. The sons of Old Brenner, the village patriarch who holds the entire community under his threatening, violent ways, would have chased him away if Greider hadn’t given...
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Through the vivid personal stories of students, PETERSBURG RISING celebrates how one community rallied behind an inspiring leader to support its schools, breaking generational cycles of failure and underperformance to achieve success through re-accreditation. Petersburg, VA was once home to the largest free Black community in America, and fell into financial ruin a century later, after a major corporation pulled up stakes. For more than a decade following,...
18) 51 Birch Street
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Documentary filmmaker Doug Block had every reason to believe his parents 54-year marriage was a good one. So he isnt prepared when, just a few months after his mothers unexpected death, his 83-year old father, Mike, phones to announce that hes moving to Florida to live with “Kitty”, his secretary from 40 years before. Always close to his mother and equally distant from his father, hes stunned and suspicious. When Mike and Kitty marry and sell...
19) Cochengo Miranda
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The extensive region of the Pampas in Central Argentina is one of the most fertile in the world. However, as the rains subside towards the West, the land becomes arid and dry. Here live a sparse population of rugged cattlemen whose nearest neighbor may be 10 miles away. The center of life is a well and a windmill to which the cattle come every day to drink, and then go off to find the scarce grasses in the vast plains where no fences are necessary....
20) Allegro
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Meet ALLEGRO, a young boy who can’t stand practicing the piano. It’s hard and frustrating and he is ready to give up—until the music itself suddenly whisks him away on a magical adventure!Classical music comes to life like never before in this magical journey through 11 timeless compositions. Follow along as ALLEGRO is carried through a range of emotive landscapes, each accompanied by a famous classical theme. Little ones will appreciate music...
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