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A response to Virginia Woolf's "Orlando" re-created into a new fairy tale encompassing the ideas of the novel mixed with personal experience, traditional folk stories, and snippets from art and literature.

Three college students start a social experiment to prove that reality changes according to the words we use to describe it. Through research, activist actions, and artistic interventions, they analyze the importance of language in the way we understand the world. The documentary includes analysis from more than 20 international experts and leaders in the fields of political communication and information.

A political biography of I.F. Stone that details his approach to the news, his working habits and some of his exposés of government treachery that made his one-man newspaper, I.F. Stone's Weekly, important.

Can the deep wounds of Apartheid be healed through reconciliation? Anna Malan (Binoche) and Langston Whitfield (Jackson) must both question their sense of identity, where they belong and their personal responsibility. From renowned director John Boorman (Excalibur, Deliverance).

Based on the manga by Jiro Taniguchi, "The Summit of the Gods" is a visually stunning animation film that follows the obsession of a young japanese reporter to find the truth about one of the first possible expeditions to Mt. Everest. His quest leads him to search for a respected climber who disappeared and left a path deep in meaning and mystery.

Federico is a child-killer running from the law. Wounded, he is taken in by a 12 year old girl named Simona. Their strange love affair is interrupted by Simona's depressed, oversexed mother Vera, who concocts a plan with Federico to kill her wheelchair-bound, reclusive husband. Simona does not take kindly to this new relationship between Federico and Vera.

An old version of humorist Douglas Kenney tells the story of how he and Henry Beard parleyed their success in their campus magazine, Harvard Lampoon, into the commercial magazine, National Lampoon. Drawing upon their checkered lives and an aggressively puckish sense of humor, the pair created a publication that would redefine American comedy with outrageous drollery that grabbed the zeitgeist of the decade that expanded across various media. Unfortunately, for all his success, Doug Kenney with his overhanging insecurities, ego and irresponsible appetites began to consume him until he alienates everyone who ever cared and supported him even as they imitated him. In the end, this iconoclastic funnyman would come to a tragedy that comes when your comedy doesn't have enough distance.

Yuko volunteered to be an aid worker in Iraq and was taken hostage there. When freed she returned to Japan, but after being home six months she is still the ongoing object of harassment from her own countrymen. A co-worker finds many angry postings on the Internet denouncing her and spreads them very vocally, causing her boss let her go. He tells her that the atmosphere at the hotel where she works as a chambermaid has changed negatively as a result. Several anonymous phones are made daily to her at home where she lives with her father and stepmother, saying that she is an embarrassment and disgrace to Japan. She is even harassed by strangers on the street after buying soup at a local convenience store, ruining her dinner. Her boyfriend dumps her, calling her actions as a volunteer in a foreign country selfish, that she should have stayed in Japan and only helped her own community. Yuko's father supported her decision to go to the Middle East, and he defends her actions after her return, but his company is also receiving threatening phone calls over his daughter's actions. At the loss of her father, she dreams of returning to the only place where she felt her life had meaning, where children greeted her warmly as she gave them Japanese treats. She realizes that staying in Japan might cause her to become as cold as those around her, simply to survive.

"Scoop" is a 52-episode (45-minutes, in four seasons) Quebec television series created by Fabienne Larouche and Réjean Tremblay and aired from January 8, 1992 to April 6, 1995 on Télévision de Radio-Canada. "Scoop" is set in the universe of a major daily newspaper in Montreal (Canada), 'L'Express'. It follows the activities of the various people involved in news production, including journalists and personalities of the moment: ambitious journalist Stéphanie Rousseau (Macha Grenon); daughter of the newspaper's owner (Claude Léveillée); bureau chief Lionel Rivard (Rémi Girard); ambitious journalist Michel Gagné (Roy Dupuis), clumsy journalist Richard Fortin (Martin Drainville); and labour-union president Léonne Vigneault (Francine Ruel).

Gertrude Lowthian Bell, sometimes called the "female" Lawrence of Arabia, was a British adventurer, archaeologist, and political powerhouse who helped shape the modern Middle East after World War I. Voiced and executive-produced by Tilda Swinton, the film chronicles Bell's journey into the uncharted Arabian desert and the all-male halls of colonial power with never-seen-before archival footage of the region shot a century ago that transports the viewer into a past that is eerily current.

Directed by Wes Anderson, this quirky and touching story follows a team of journalists who work for a French newspaper. While juggling their own problems and relationships, they learn fascinating tales about the town's weird citizens. The movie has a beautiful soundtrack and a unique photography that pleases the eye. In conclusion, It is a must-see for anyone who enjoys heartwarming, unconventional storytelling.

A new feature film documentary about legendary NYTimes photographer Bill Cunningham.

An ambitious TV reporter uses risky and ethically questionable methods to report on gang wars and police corruption in the Amazon port of Belém, Brazil.

This absorbing film directed by Steven Spielberg is based on true events about the cover-up of secrets by various US governments. The film focuses on the role of the press, The New York Times and its competitor, The Washington Post: its editor and publisher, Katharine Graham and Ben Bradlee, take the decision to support the Times against attempts to restrict free speech. An intense dramatic portrait, with strong performances by Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks.

Lou Bloom can't get a job until after witnessing an accident, he plunges into the world of freelance crime journalism. His task involves recording video at crime scenes, but Lou, who notices the sensationalist thirst on TV, goes beyond that and begins to intervene by altering the facts. Without trying to be preachy, the film shows the lack of limits in the world of television news, and Jake Gyllenhaal's intense performance is terrifying.

Brian Kessler, a journalist researching serial killers, and his photographer girlfriend Carrie set out on a cross-country tour of the sites of the killings. Sharing the ride and their expenses are Early Grayce, a paroled white trash criminal, and his girlfriend Adele. As the trip progresses, Early begins to appear more and more unstable, and Brian and Carrie begin to fear that they may have a real-life killer in the back seat of their car.