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This move presents the "story of of the lifelong romance between teenagers Tom and Joe, from their first humble meeting in the 1970s. In a world only just waking up to homosexuality, ot the sunset of their time together decades later, 'You Are My Sunshine' is a...sweeping love story set in the British countryside." --container
43) Last days at sea
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"Twelve-year-old Reyboy lives an idyllic childhood in an isolated fishing village where people catch their share and share their catch. But by summer's end, Reyboy will have to leave to study in the city. Until then he makes every swim, meal, and starry sky count, as the seconds slip away. Filmmaker Venice Atienza and her subject share a special familiarity in conversations that translate into poetry sprinkled over stunning sunsets and beach bonfires....
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This "story centers on the fictional Dunne family as they struggle to survive and endure while never losing faith in themselves. In the Oklahoma Panhandle, Milt, Julia, their two little girls, and Milt’s father, Konkie, share a life of cramped circumstances in a one-room dugout with never enough to eat. Yet buried in the drudgery of their everyday life are aspirations, failed dreams, and fleeting moments of hope. The land is their dream. The Dunne...
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"In Call Up the Waters, the natural world is an escape hatch, a refuge, a site of work, and an occasional antagonist. In the title story, a devastating drought leads a mother of two deep into the Colorado Rockies in search of water. In 'The Handler,' a woman leaves her boyfriend for the New Hampshire woods and fifty-seven sled dogs. A distress call from a boat in Massachusetts Bay compels a mother, in 'Sea Women,' to plumb her daughter’s secrets....
47) Pyre
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"Saroja and Kumaresan are young and in love. After meeting in a small southern Indian town where Kumaresan works at a soda bottling shop, they quickly marry before returning to Kumaresan’s family village, where they hope to build a happy life together. But they are harboring a terrible secret: Saroja is from a different caste than Kumaresan, and if the villagers find out, they will both be in grave danger. Faced with venom from her mother-in-law...
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"The town of Hudson in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains is home to Heartland, a family ranch dedicated to rescuing and rehabilitating troubled horses. After a tragedy puts the ranch in jeopardy, fifteen-year-old Am must use her talents as a horse healer to save the family business. Her sister Lou reluctantly leaves city life behind to help Amy and their grandfather Jack run the ranch. With tough times ahead, the family must pull together to...
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"For forty years Aurilla Cutter has tended a clutch of secrets that have turned her mean. A fatal accident becomes the catalyst for the release of the passions, needs, and hurts in everyone affected by her hidden past. Darlene, a seventeen -year-old widow, struggles to reconnect with her dead husband while proving herself still alive. Soon loss and death work their magic, drawing Darlene into an unlikely affair that threatens to upend Aurilla’s...
50) Nudes
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"Beginning with a story of an ex sex-worker drifting through a small rural town in the south, and ending with a young woman’s wedding night, who learns from her new husband what it takes to kill a man, Nash writes across the complications of working class women, rendering their desires with visceral prose and psychologically dissecting the fundamental root that threads her work: craving and the conflicts within." --publisher's website
51) Intregalde
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This "tale of best intentions gone wrong...follows a trio of well-meaning aid workers from Bucharest on a food delivery mission to the rural hinterlands of the Întregalde area of Transylvania. Guided off the beaten path by an elderly villager looking for a local sawmill, they find themselves trapped in an unfamiliar, dangerous place and facing the outer limits of their goodwill for each other and strangers. [This film is] an inquiry into the contemporary...
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"Hé fān huì zài zhè běnshū lǐ gàosù nǐ: Xiāngcūn zhènxīng, bùshì kào nóngmín fǎn xiāng, ér shì kào zài yuǎnfāng hé gùxiāng zhī jiān xíngchéng hùdòng; xiànchéng juéqǐ, jiāng chéngwéi wèilái wénhuà chuàngxīn de qiányán, tǐyù jìngjì de jīdì hé měi hào shēnghuó de yàngbǎn; rénkǒu lǎolíng huà——bù zhǐshì gè shèhuì de fùzhài, yě néng biànchéng yōuzhì de zīchǎn; biérén...
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"Set is a remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, it is the story of a young boy and a bootlegger who, unbeknownst to either of them, has killed the boy’s father. The boy, John Wesley Rattner, and the outlaw, Marion Sylder–together with Rattner’s Uncle Ather, who belongs to a former age in his communion with nature and his stoic independence--enact a drama that seems born of the land itself. All three are...
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"Gao Aijun is a son of the soil of Henan’s Balou Mountains, and after a service in the Army, he is on his way back to his ancestral village, feeling like a hero. Close to his arrival, he sees a strikingly attractive woman walking barefoot alongside a railway track in the warm afternoon sun, and he is instantly smitten. She is Xia Hongmei and lives up to her name of 'beautiful flower.' Hiding their relationship from their spouses, the pair hurl themselves...
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"In a dusty town in Nebraska’s rugged sandhills, weary sheriff’s deputy Harley Jensen patrols the streets at night, on the lookout for something—anything—out of the ordinary. It’s July 1978, and the heat is making people ornery, restless. That and the Reddick family patriarch has decided, decades after authorities ended the search for his murdered boy’s body, to lay a headstone. Instead of bringing closure, this decision is the spark that...
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"A man comes to awareness in a cold church in the Icelandic countryside, not knowing who he is, why he’s there or how he arrived, with a stranger staring mockingly from a few pews back. Startled by the man’s cryptic questions, he leaves—and plunges into a history spanning centuries, a past pressed into his genes that sinks him closer to some knowledge of himself. A city girl is drawn to the fjords by the memory of a blue-eyed gaze, and a generation...
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"MK and Colleen get reacquainted while working at different stores in a bankrupt mall. Way back, the women went to Catholic school together and collaborated on racy letters to a soldier in Vietnam who thought they were much older than seventh graders—a ruse that typifies later shenanigans, usually brought on by red-headed Colleen, a self-proclaimed 'Celtic warrior.' After ditching Colleen’s car to collect the insurance, they drive from one unexpected...
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"Shū zhōng de shīgē chéngxiànle shīrén duì àiqíng, qīnqíng, rì fù yī rì de shēnghuó de gǎnwù, dài yǒu cūnzhuāng, tǔdì de pǔshí qìxí, hùnhéle nǚxìng fēngfù, mǐnruì de qínggǎn shénjīng. Rúguǒ nǐ shì dàizhe hàoqí qù dú yúxiùhuá de shī, jì'ér biàn huì bèi tā shī zhōng zhǎnxiàn chūlái de bēnfàng, fēngyíng, chúnjìng de nèixīn shìjiè xíjuǎn, wúcóng kàngjù. Zài xiànshí...
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