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FILM LIBRARY
ALL editions, films by category (1234)
SHORT NARRATIVE
JOTA
Dir: Manuel Román Sierra, Spain, 30 min, 2017, Short Narrative
LOCKE is a young executive who drives back home. While driving through the northern mountains, Locke is involved in a curious incident that finishes... more »
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LA BENVINGUDA
Dir: Carmen Puche Moré, Spain, 6 min, 2018, Short Narrative
She arrives new in the building, wants to erase her most recent past, flees from broken love. He does not know that he is about to erase his present... more »
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LA CIEGA
Dir: Susannah Greenblatt, Raphael Linden Susannah Greenblatt, Raphael Linden, United States, 15 min, 2018, Short Narrative
In the shadow of the Spanish Inquisition, a blind peasant woman named María Cotanilla, known in her small village as "La Ciega," sees what no one el... more »
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LADIA
Dir: Alvaro Congosto, United States, 6 min, 2018, Short Narrative
Inspired by female "superheroes" Lara Croft and Nadia Comaneci. LADIA is an experimental dance film where pain, exhaustion and will power become par... more »
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LAST ORDER
Dir: Joji Villanueva Alonso, Philippines, 16 min, 2018, Short Narrative
Last Order tells the story of Nitoy, a waiter in a small restaurant, and his seemingly dull but interesting encounters with people, problems, and tr... more »
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LATCHED
Dir: Justin Harding, Rob Brunner, Canada, 17 min, 2017, Short Narrative
A choreographer pursues creative inspiration at a cottage retreat while attempting to wean her demanding toddler - and unknowingly awakens a vile fa... more »
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LET MERCY COME
Dir: Andrew Serban, United States, 22 min, 2018, Short Narrative
A disaffected young woman finds the courage to take a stand against a group of white supremacist men when they threaten to commit a hate crime again... more »
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LIKE GLASS
Dir: Andrew K. Meyer, United States, 20 min, 2018, Short Narrative
Zion has recently discovered the world of drag queens and club kids - they get decked out in elaborate looks and go to NYC's most exciting nightlife... more »
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LIMBO
Dir: Ghasideh Golmakani , Iran, 15 min, 2017, Short Narrative
A former Iraqi sniper, took refuge in Iran and began to tattoo the names of all the soldiers he had killed in the conflicts and wars in Iraq. The la... more »
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MARGUERITE
Dir: Marianne Farley, Canada, 19 min, 2017, Short Narrative
For several years now Marguerite, a diabetic woman in her seventies, has been getting daily visits from Rachel, her home health nurse. In spite of h... more »
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MIDNIGHT CONFESSION
Dir: Maxwell McCabe-Lokos, Canada, 10 min, 2017, Short Narrative
West Berlin, 1989. Manny Jumpcannon prowls his dingy apartment, phoning various degenerates from his past. He's hoping for some uncertain vindicatio... more »
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MISDIRECTION
Dir: Carly Usdin, United States, 14 min, 2018, Short Narrative
Camila is your average college freshman with obsessive-compulsive disorder and a big, gay crush on her roommate. After both situations come to a hea... more »
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MUÑE
Dir: Catalina Jordan Alvarez, United States, 15 min, 2019, Short Narrative
Newly arrived in the rural South from Mexico, Muñe has a run-in with a family in their steel salvage yard.
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PAY TO STAY
Dir: Heather Taylor, United States, 11 min, 2019, Short Narrative
A lesbian couple takes a mini vacation to repair their relationship, unaware the apartment they rented online may lead to their untimely end.
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PLAY
Dir: Vangelis Liberopoulos, Greece, 30 min, 2017, Short Narrative
Most adults dream of staying in childhood forever and going through life like in a game, free of society's rules and restrictions. Five employees in... more »
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PRE-DRINK
Dir: Marc-Antoine Lemire, Canada, 23 min, 2017, Short Narrative
ALEXE is a young trans woman, and CARL a gay man. Best friends since forever, an evening spent together destabilizes ALEXE, when both decide to have... more »
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R.V
Dir: Will Hawkes, Melissa Center, United States, 10 min, 2017, Short Narrative
Stripped of her rights, a woman's life changes when she ventures with her husband to remedy an impossible situation.
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RUNOFF
Dir: Alex Demarco, United States, 20 min, 2018, Short Narrative
Senior year is almost over, Ray Waters has got the brains for college and his mom's routine collection of government checks make him eligible for al... more »
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SAFE SPACE
Dir: Ben S. Hyland, United States, 8 min, 2018, Short Narrative
Sarah is a key worker in a woman's refuge. Amne is her new client. For Amne the journey from victim to survivor is painful and traumatic. For Sarah... more »
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SEMELE
Dir: Myrsini Aristidou, Greece, 10 min, 2016, Short Narrative
Semele will do anything to spend some time with her long absent father. A school note becomes just the excuse for her to visit him at his workplace,... more »
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SEVENTY
Dir: Tong Jiage, China, 10 min, 2019, Short Narrative
Wang Shun is an seventy-year-old single man, who lives for collecting scraps in a backward village, and nobody cares about him. After Wang Shun's o... more »
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SHOWTIME
Dir: Shawn Antoine II, United States, 15 min, 2018, Short Narrative
Darius and Hakeem dance on New York City trains to earn honest money and escape the crime-riddled streets of Harlem. A woman sees Darius dancing on... more »
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SICKNESS
Dir: Hamza Zaman, United States, 8 min, 2018, Short Narrative
A man haunted by his past must confront his present - air has become too polluted to breathe. As society collapses, he makes a final valiant attemp... more »
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SISAK
Dir: Faraz Arif Ansari, India, 15 min, 2017, Short Narrative
There's much talk about the language of love - the beauty, the poesy, the intricacy and the eloquence. But what if the real romance rested between t... more »
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SLUGGISH LIFE
Dir: Mohsen Mehri Deravi, Iran, 11 min, 2018, Short Narrative
A man lives alone in a dark house between millions of eggs; he wants to call someone but he does not succeed until the phone rings...
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SOME OF HER PARTS
Dir: Abie Sidell , United States, 10 min, 2018, Short Narrative
When future medicine allows people to live past the human body's shelf life, a young woman visits her grandmother in the hospital and is forced to q... more »
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SPACEFARER
Dir: Aaron Lehmann, United States, 12 min, 2018, Short Narrative
Spacefarer is the story of a young boy, Ethan, who is obsessed with leaving planet Earth via a spaceship he has built in the forest by his home. A... more »
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STARVATION
Dir: Zahra Rostampour, Iran, 7 min, 2018, Short Narrative
A Hungry wolf gets stuck in stereotypes about being the big bad wolf of the story. She has to flee when everybody accuses her to violence and murder... more »
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STEVIE'S ALIENS
Dir: Austin Harris, United States, 16 min, 2018, Short Narrative
Greg, an aspiring writer whose dreams are shattered when he's rejected from his top choice college, is reinvigorated after he sees what he believes... more »
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SUN SHINE
Dir: Walker Hare, United States, 8 min, 2017, Short Narrative
When an African American teenager gets a seemingly depressed white guy to open up, she discovers he's on his way to commit a horrible act.
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THE APOLOGIZERS
Dir: Yasu Suzuki, United States, 21 min, 2017, Short Narrative
Two mysterious men wearing identical suits, coats and even glasses walk into a restaurant. Are they assassins? Secret government agents? The IRS? N... more »
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THE BEACH HOUSE
Dir: Eric Elizaga, United States, 12 min, 2018, Short Narrative
Max brings his new girlfriend, Jamie, to his beach house for a fun weekend together along with his three closest friends. Both Korean adoptees with... more »
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THE CHRISTMAS GIFT
Dir: Bogdan Muresanu, Romania, 20 min, 2018, Short Narrative
On the 20th of December, 1989, a few days after Ceausescu's bloody repression in Timisoara, a father's quiet evening turns to sheer ordeal as he fin... more »
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THE COST OF LIVING
Dir: Pamela Falkenberg, Jack Cochran, United States, 21 min, 2016, Short Narrative
Inspired by Polaroid stills and short poems by Jack Cochran, "The Cost of Living" is the first film produced by Jack and recently reconnected filmma... more »
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THE DAM
Dir: Matilda Szydagis, Ric Sechrest, United States, 6 min, 2018, Short Narrative
THE DAM is a horror story about disquiet waters, angry woods, and the man haunted by it all. In the North Woods, a dam worker is surrounded by myste... more »
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THE DARK AGE
Dir: Jonah Schwartz, United States, 22 min, 2018, Short Narrative
After a catastrophic solar storm destroys the global power grid and plunges humanity into darkness, two women from a survival colony track down an e... more »
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THE GAFFER
Dir: Paul Robinson, United States, 8 min, 2018, Short Narrative
When Daniel Foster crosses a dangerous crime leader, he resorts to humor in a desperate attempt to save his life.
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THE INKSECT
Dir: Pablo Calvillo, Mexico, 9 min, 2016, Short Narrative
In a dystopian future where books are banned and confiscated, an underground sect of intellectual creatures seeks books, in order to save humanity f... more »
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THE NANNY
Dir: Max Miller, Australia, 12 min, 2018, Short Narrative
Nancy wakes eight-year-old Sophie as part of their normal morning routine. A strange sense of unease and menace grows as Nancy guides Sophie through... more »
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THE RABBI
Dir: Uriya Hertz, Israel, 19 min, 2017, Short Narrative
Michael is a charismatic and much-admired Rabbi at a Jerusalem Yeshiva. When his favourite student, Gadi, shares with him his innermost secrets, the... more »
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THE REMIGRANT
Dir: Astrit Alihajdaraj, Kosovo, 20 min, 2018, Short Narrative
The Remigrant tells a story about Bashkim (50) and his son Besnik (17). They have a lot in common. They both had to leave their homes at their young... more »
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THE ROCKET SHIP
Dir: Taishon Black, United States, 7 min, 2018, Short Narrative
Seven year old Livy has seen her mother (Angie) deal with heart break and sadness too many times over; where in that she feels she has to do somethi... more »
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THE SONNET PROJECT # 153
Dir: Jill Salvino, United States, 1 min, 2018, Short Narrative
154 Sonnets. 462 Films. One Astounding Community. The Sonnet Project from New York Shakespeare Exchange is a tapestry of cinematic art that infuses... more »
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THE WIDOW
Dir: Eva Depoorter, United States, 17 min, 2018, Short Narrative
As she tastes the salt on her lips, a widow cannot but cry. But what better place to cool down tears, than a cold lover's lap?
The Widow is a vi... more »
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TOO LATE
Dir: Clayton Dean Smith, United States, 3 min, 2018, Short Narrative
Chad's ready to apologize to the woman he wronged. He can't screw up--the stakes couldn't be higher.
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TSAR BOMBA
Dir: Oskar Rosetti, Switzerland, 14 min, 2018, Short Narrative
Irina, a hard-working single mom, lives with her only son Ivan, 19 years old, in a modest apartment, and tries to keep educating him despite he's a... more »
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TURNED TO THE SUN
Dir: Keith Kopp, United States, 3 min, 2018, Short Narrative
Ben is janitor who is running away from his past as a soldier. He finds himself entangled in a metaphorical fight with his young self for the fate o... more »
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UNICA ZÜRN
Dir: Eddy Falconer, United States, 13 min, 2018, Short Narrative
An homage to the German-born surrealist visual artist and author of The Man of Jasmine, House of Illnesses, and much anagrammatic poetry, through th... more »
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VALENCIA
Dir: Chris Paraskevas, Australia, 10 min, 2018, Short Narrative
The Actor is in love with The Actress... but she has a boyfriend. The Actor asks The Filmmaker to create a romantic scene for himself and The Actres... more »
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VOUS
Dir: Pari Antoniou, Greece, 8 min, 2017, Short Narrative
The story is about the hopes and dreams of a girl who is about to pass away, slowly dying just like her country around her ,the beautiful moments ar... more »
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WANDA
Dir: Benjamin Nicolas, Canada, 18 min, 2018, Short Narrative
Wanda, 12 years old, is in the interrogatory room. This day will change her life for ever.
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WHAT DO THEY WANT?
Dir: Laurent Annoni, Charlotte Annoni, Switzerland, 4 min, 2018, Short Narrative
During a professional meeting, two young women lose their chance to realize a dream project against an arrogant boss. Their frustration bursts into... more »
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WINGS TAKEN
Dir: Lance Ferguson, United States, 11 min, 2018, Short Narrative
Set in the near very possible future, a mentally disabled woman has the ability to take a genetic treatment that will double her IQ. Her siblings ar... more »
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WONDERLAND
Dir: Tiffanie Hsu, United States, 14 min, 2017, Short Narrative
Twelve-year-old Adeline Tang struggles to navigate America's adult playground and keep her mother's gambling under control, all for the promise of t... more »
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WONDERWALL
Dir: Alexander Denysenko, Ukraine, 7 min, 2018, Short Narrative
WONDERWALL is a short film/narrative cinematic music video, which tells the story of unconditional love that helps overcome the loss of a loved one... more »
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WRITTEN BY?
Dir: Kankana Chakraborty, India, 15 min, 2018, Short Narrative
Story of two writers... two generations. Kamalesh Roy, a writer who has seen his golden days, but has not written anything in the last 10 years. Na... more »
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YOU LOOK GREAT
Dir: Justin Andrew Davis, United States, 26 min, 2018, Short Narrative
Using dark comedy, You Look Great is an unflinching, intimate look into our addictions, obsessions, and self-consciousness. Our narrative follows Pe... more »
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ZENITH
Dir: Ellie Foumbi, United States, 15 min, 2017, Short Narrative
When an adopted black Mennonite has an unexpected connection with a migrant worker, she is torn between her faith and her desire to explore the outs... more »
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#SELFIE
Dir: David M. Lorenz, Germany, 7 min, 2016, Short Narrative
A couple on holiday in Berlin. Everything is perfect, but then he wants to take a selfie... The ending of a relationship as seen through a mobile... more »
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(OUT)CASTE
Dir: Shilpi Shikha Agrawal, United States, 21 min, 2016, Short Narrative
Short synopsis: When a manual scavenger cannot continue her work, her 11-year-old daughter picks up where the mother left off. Long Synopsis: Dasi... more »
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A FAVOR
Dir: Tannia Kustka, United States, 3 min, 2017, Short Narrative
A woman torn between duty and family. Her daughter is why she does the work she does but will she lose her along the way?
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A TALE OF TWO SANTA'S
Dir: Brian Mcgleenon, Ireland, 11 min, 2017, Short Narrative
Nick Christmas always felt he was destined to be Santa. He had watched and learned all his life, waiting and hoping, desperately longing for his cha... more »
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AFRICAN FILM SCHOOL
Dir: Roger Horn, South Africa, 5 min, 2017, Short Narrative
Found Super 8mm home movies of wildlife from 1960s apartheid era South Africa and colonial Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) combined with audio collected in 2007... more »
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ANOTHER WINTER
Dir: Francisco Javier Gomez Pinteño , Spain, 10 min, 2018, Short Narrative
A couple celebrates their tenth anniversary by a deep retrospective exercise, a dialectical, sincere and bare confrontation, renewing desires, passi... more »
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ARE YOU VOLLEYBALL?!
Dir: Mohammad Bakhshi, Iran, 14 min, 2017, Short Narrative
A group of Arabian spoken asylum seekers arrive to an English spoken country border and can't keep going. They conflict with border soldiers everyda... more »
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ARM BAR
Dir: Ryan Kramer, United States, 11 min, 2016, Short Narrative
A young, aspiring MMA fighter, visits her local boxing gym to settle a dispute with the owner.
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AYESHA
Dir: Ambarien Alqadar, India, 18 min, 2017, Short Narrative
Ayesha's secret weekend plans with her boyfriend take an unexpected turn when her immigrant father encounters a US veteran suffering from post traum... more »
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BACKSTORY
Dir: Joschka Laukeninks, Germany, 8 min, 2016, Short Narrative
As a young child our protagonist is left by his mother and has to live with his violent father. He fights his way through adolescence and falls in... more »
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BEN MAMSHICH (HERITAGE)
Dir: Yuval Aharoni, Israel, 25 min, 2017, Short Narrative
Noam, a young gay guy, discovers his father, who just died, had a secret affair with another married man. He Follows and meets that man without tell... more »
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BLACKMOOR
Dir: James Lewis, England, 11 min, 2016, Short Narrative
A STRANGER visits an isolated house, apparently to buy it. Bewildered by this haggard but insistent man, its occupant DAVID reluctantly turns tour g... more »
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BLIND FAITH
Dir: Taishon Black, United States, 11 min, 2017, Short Narrative
Imagine meeting Jesus. What would you say to him? Would you recognize him? That's the conundrum facing a man like Henry Mickels. On a road trip towa... more »
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BREATHE
Dir: Brendan Lee, United States, 5 min, 2017, Short Narrative
PAUL is a firefighter. One day, while at the Long Island City waterfront he looses himself in his thoughts, reflecting on his life, his wife, his jo... more »
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CAL & V
Dir: Timothy Offor, United States, 13 min, 2017, Short Narrative
Shot primarily in one take, this film depicts a moment in the lives of two former lovers. Cal Reese, a movie star, fresh off a career comeback, retu... more »
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CASEY
Dir: Shanrica Evans, United States, 6 min, 2017, Short Narrative
A teenager with gender dysphoria witnesses the physical assault of a transgender woman.
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CLOUD KUMO
Dir: Yvonne Ng, United States, 15 min, 2016, Short Narrative
CLOUD KUMO is an experimental film that recounts the devastation of Hiroshima atomic bombing when Satoko Ishii, a real atomic bomb survivor revisit... more »
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COLD STORAGE
Dir: Thomas Freundlich, Finland, 9 min, 2016, Short Narrative
Cold Storage is a short dance film that pays homage to the virtuosic physical performances and melancholy comedy of the classic silent screen. On a... more »
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