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How Long, Not Long

Aug 21, 2016

0h 6m

★ 6.0

Overview

A visual journey that challenges us to think about a universal belonging that doesn’t confine itself to a city, region or national boundary, in an age in which xenophobia, nationalism and intolerance are a daily occurrence.

Genres

Animation

Production Companies

Dansk Tegnefilm

The Animation Workshop

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5.1

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6.1

Coonskin

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0.0

Lautaro

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The Mapuche tribe asks their Gods for help in difficult situations, including illness and drought. When the Spanish conquerers on their horses invade their country, the indigenous people think that they are aliens. The Spaniards capture and enslave many of the Mapuche tribe. Lautaro, a young captured native, realizes that these aliens are human beings without any divine power. He learns to use their weapons and organizes a resistance movement against the intruders.

5.6

Hey Good Lookin'

Oct 1, 1982

An outrageous, affectionate look at coming of age in the Eisenhower era in Brooklyn.

6.0

Hisashi Eguchi's It Will All Work Out!

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6.4

Soup's On

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6.5

The Flintstones: On the Rocks

Jan 2, 2002

With their marriage on the rocks, Fred and Wilma take a holiday together to rekindle the fire in their relationship.

7.0

The Rabbi's Cat

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The story of a rabbi and his talking cat, a sharp-tongued feline philosopher brimming with scathing humor and a less than pure love for the rabbi's teenage daughter.

0.0

Satan Kingdom Babylon

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Experimental documentary examining the interaction of hate, religion, and the apocalypse in the United States.

6.4

Stamped from the Beginning

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4.9

Mister Twister

Jan 1, 1963

Adaptation of the satirical poem by Samuil Marshak, ridiculed racism. Mister Twister with his family went to the USSR on the boat, previously agreed with the Cook Travel Company to any boat or in the hotel was not "blacks, Malays and other riff-raff." Arriving in Leningrad, Twister and his family stayed at the hotel "Engleterre", and everything went smoothly until they saw on one of the floors the guest from Africa.

6.7

Free to Be… You and Me

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8.0

No Fish Where to Go

Jan 1, 2014

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5.6

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6.0

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