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The Gas Station Attendant The Gas Station Attendant
The Gas Station Attendant and Cuba & Alaska
Cuba & Alaska (Country: Ukraine; Year: 2025; Director: Yegor Troyanovsky)
Documentary following the friendship of two paramedics on the frontline in Ukraine.
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Factory (Gong Chang) (Country: Macao; Year: 2025; Director: Hao Zhou)
A journey into one of China’s vast factories around the time of the pandemic to detail the impact of global supply chains and coercive business practices on workers’ lives.
The Gas Station Attendant (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Karla Murthy)
A daughter reflects on her South Asian father’s life, his never-ending pursuit of the American dream, and the human capacity to love and survive.
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North South Man Woman (Country: Norway, Latvia, South Korea; Year: 2025; Director: Sun Kim, Morten Traavik; Writer: Sun Kim, Morten Traavik)
North Korean women meet South Korean men in a look at love, business and geopolitics.
Shards Of Light (Country: Ukraine; Year: 2025; Director: Mila Teshaieva, Marcus Lenz)
Documentary about the people living in war-ravaged Bucha.
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Still Pushing Pineapples Still Pushing Pineapples
Still Pushing Pineapples and Welded Together
Still Pushing Pineapples (Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Kim Hopkins; Writer: Kim Hopkins; Stars: Dene Michael Betteridge, Anne Betteridge)
The story of the former singer of pop band Black Lace and his journey on the road with his ageing mother and his partner, as he aims for a comeback.
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Welded Together (Country: Belgium, Netherlands, France; Year: 2025; Director: Anastasiya Miroshnichenko)
A young welder confronts her fractured past to protect her sister.
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Yanuni (Country: Austria, Brazil, United States, Canada, Germany; Year: 2025; Director: Richard Ladkani)
Follows the fearless Indigenous chief Juma Xipaia, who has survived six assassination attempts as she leads a relentless fight to defend her people's land alongside her husband, Hugo Loss, a steely Special Forces Unit ranger.
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