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Europe's racial make-up is quickly changing. French-Algerian filmmaker Yamina Benguigui is hoping to start a conversation about affirmative action - a policy that does not exist in France today. Benguigui's Le Plafond de Verre (Glass Ceiling) presents a series of sometimes very emotional first-hand accounts of discrimination against mostly black and North African Arab who are trying to find jobs.
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Bridge Between Two Worlds charts the remarkable journey of three newly arrived refugee children Filimon, Martin and Mujtaba through the last six months of an intensive English course at Highgate Primary School. Their stories, told from the children's own perspective, allow an audience unique access into their emotional world. Bridge Between Two Worlds a beautifully intimate portrait of their struggles and their triumphs marked by laughter, tantrums...
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In Chicago, Zaynab (Fawzia Mirza) is a thirty-something American-Pakistani lawyer who lives with and cares for her recently widowed, TV-obsessed mother (legendary Indian actress Shabana Azmi). Alma (Sari Sanchez) is a free-spirited Mexican-American bookshop owner. After meeting in a bar, the two quickly fall into bed with each other and embark on a romance ... but problems aren't far behind. Zaynab's traditional mother still expects her daughter to...
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Unnatural causes sounds the alarm about the extent of our glaring socio-economic and racial inequities in health and searches for their root causes. But those causes are not what we might expect. While we pour more and more money into drugs, dietary supplements and new medical technologies, Unnatural causes crisscrosses the country investigating the findings that are shaking up conventional understanding of what really makes us healthy or sick. This...
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At Patiala House lives the Kahlon family, ruled by Bauji. They follow his rules as he tries to hold onto his 'Indian values'. The younger generations at the house want to follow their dreams, but are held back by their respect and love for Bauji, and the shining example of Bauji's eldest son, Gattu. Gattu gave up his dream, and for the last 17 years he has been working in a corner store. Will Bauji loosen his hold and let the youngsters find their...
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Two twenty-something stoner roommates, one a Korean-American investment banker, Harold, and the other an Indian-American medical school candidate, Kumar, go through a life changing journey. They are on a quest to satisfy their cravings for burgers and spend the night roaming the state of New Jersey in search of White Castle hamburgers running into one screwy obstacle after another.
8) Towelhead
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English
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Jasira, a 13-year-old Lebanese-American girl, moves to suburban Houston to live with her extremely strict father.
9) You are life
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A lyrical poem that celebrates the wonderful and complex identity of children of immigrants and refugees, reminding them that who they are is always enough.
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"Come along on an epic road trip across America to all 50 states to meet a diverse group of brand new citizens from over a hundred different countries to find out why they chose America. Award winning documentary filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi takes an illuminating look at the naturalization process in Citizen U.S.A.: A 50 State Road Trip. Inspired by her Dutch born husband Michiel Vas's desire to become a U.S. citizen, Pelosi attends naturalization...
12) Ayar
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Ayar, a first-generation American Latina, returns home to reunite with her daughter. But when her mother, Renata, refuses to let her see her due to Covid, Ayar is confronted by the many roles she's been forced to play.
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Español
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A stranger in a strange land, Bolivar De La Cruz has just crossed the border from Mexico in search of a better life. In contrast, restless, club-hopping second-generation immigrant Lola has the American Dream at her fingertips but feels like a stranger in her own life, forever caught between appeasing her old-world mother and following her heart. On the surface, despite their shared ethnic heritage, Bolivar and Lola have little in common. But when...
14) Molly's pilgrim
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A Russian Jewish immigrant girl, teased by her American classmates for her ethnic mannerisms, is given a class assignment to create a doll based on a Thanksgiving character. She creates a Russian immigrant doll, because, to her mother, Russian Jews are Pilgrims too, having come to America for religious freedom.
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"Bronx princess follows headstrong 17-year-old teenager Rocky's journey as she leaves behind her mother in New York City to reunite with her father, a chief in Ghana, West Africa. Filmed over the tumultuous summer between high-school and college, Bronx princess tells Rocky's coming-of-age story. By confronting her immigrant parents' ideas of adulthood, Rocky reconciles her African heritage with her dream of independence."--http://www.bronxprincess.com/...
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