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  American Teacher

  USA , 2011 , 81 min. Coproduced by Dave Eggers and narrated by Matt Damon, American Teacher chronicles the lives of four teachers living and working in disparate communities today, detailing their proud accomplishments and frustrating sacrifices.... more
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  Andrew Bird: Fever Year

  USA , 2011 , 80 min. In Milwaukee in 2009, documentary filmmaker Xan Aranda caught up with Chicago-based musical prodigy Andrew Bird to capture him onstage over the course of two nights. A classically trained violinist, Bird also sings, plays glockenspiel, and whistles operatically.... more
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  Arirang

  South Korea , 2011 , 100 min. In 2008, the once-prolific Korean director Kim Ki-duk watched as his leading actress suffered a near-fatal on-set injury. Traumatized, the devout Buddhist went into hiding and has not re-emerged—except in the form of this raw, corrosive, self-critical video diary.... more
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  The Bengali Detective

  United Kingdom , 2011 , 110 min. Rajesh is a private investigator in Kolkata who’s passionate about his family, his job—and fancy footwork. This one-of-a-kind documentary follows the chubby detective as he tries to crack murder, counterfeiting, and adultery cases as well as win a national TV dance contest.... more
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  Beyond Iconic

  USA , 2011 , 75 min. The works of late photographer Dennis Stock may be better known than he ever was, but in Hanna Sawka Hamaguchi’s documentary he holds forth with the same eloquence, clarity, and confidence that characterizes his images (including the iconic portrait of James Dean in Times Square).... more
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  A Bitter Taste of Freedom

  Russia , 2011 , 86 min. Russian documentarian Marina Goldkovskaya pays homage to her old friend Anya Politkovskaya, the crusading Moscow journalist who told the truth about her country's dirty war in Chechnya—and paid the price for it in 2006, when she was shot to death at her apartment door.... more
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  Bob and the Monster

  USA , 2011 , 87 min. Documentarian Keirda Bahruth spent six years tracing the rise, fall, and near-miraculous return of Thelonious Monster frontman Bob Forrest—from arrogant young singer-songwriter poised for megastardom to heroin-addled wreck to compassionate addiction counselor.... more
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  Burma: A Human Tragedy

  USA , 2011 , 85 min. Ongoing yet largely ignored, the horrific genocide of ethnic minorities throughout Burma is brought under close and grisly scrutiny in this secretly filmed documentary, which also exposes the rulers who live in luxury as their people suffer.... more
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  Cinema Q presents: Chely Wright - Wish Me Away

  USA , 2011 , 96 min. Must end Thursday, June 21st at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax Digital presentation - Chely Wright: Wish Me Away is the story of Chely Wright, the first country music star to come out as gay. Over three years, the filmmakers were given extraordinary access to Chely's struggle and her un... more
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  The Dancer

  USA , 2010 , 12 min. In a remote village in India, an 11-year-old orphan boy finds a family and discovers that life is indeed a dance.... more
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  DocNight: Still

  USA , 2011 , 60 min. Special DocNight presentation Thursday, January 12th at 7pm Followed by a post film discussion with the filmmakers and a reception afterwards Digital presentation - Still tells the story of Clyfford Still’s remarkable life and his indelible contribution to American art. Though... more
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  Eco-Pirate: The Story of Paul Watson

  Canada , 2011 , 118 min. Paul Watson is on a mission to save the earth’s sea creatures from slaughter—one that pits him, undeterred, against entire nations. This unflinching documentary traces his passionate life’s work, from the founding of Greenpeace to violent confrontations with whaling fleets.... more
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  El Sicario, Room 164

  USA , 2010 , 80 min. In Gianfranco Rosi's chilling documentary, a nameless former Mexican hitman (or sicario) sits, black-hooded and cold-blooded, in a Juárez hotel room, describing his 20-year career as an executioner and torturer for notorious drug cartels—and revealing the vast corruption in Mexican politics... more
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  Give Up Tomorrow

  USA , 2011 , 95 min. Seven years in the making, Give Up Tomorrow chronicles the nightmarishly bizarre case of a young man wrongfully convicted yet still serving time for rape and murder in the Philippines, exposing a major miscarriage of justice that resonates here and now.... more
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  The Green Wave

  Iran , 2011 , 80 min. MUST END Thursday, August 30th at the DenverFilmCenter/Colfax Digital presentation - Green is the color of hope. Green is the color of Islam. And green was the symbol of recognition among the supporters of presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi, who became the symbolic figure of t... more
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  Holy Rollers: The True Story of Card Counting Christians

  USA , 2011 , 93 min. Holy Rollers chronicles the ups and downs of Churchteam, a group of card-counting Christians trained to beat the casinos at blackjack. The obvious moral conflict becomes the focus of this amusingly revealing documentary.... more
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  Jean Lewis

  USA , 2011 , 10 min. An offbeat yet surprisingly sensitive look at a trail-blazing entertainment reporter whose life ends in a very L.A. kind of way.... more
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  kART Across America

  USA , 2011 , 83 min. In 2008, two childhood friends from Colorado embarked on a 100-day, 6,000-mile journey around the United States to answer a single question: "What's your art?" And they did it all by golf cart. Going 30 miles per hour, Jeremy Make and Andy Raney explore what it means to be an artist... more
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  Klitschko

  Germany , 2011 , 117 min. German director Sebastian Dehnhardt's lively documentary follows Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko, who may be the most unlikely heavyweight champions in history—intelligent, big-boned brothers who play chess, read books, and acknowledge the blunt violence of the sport they love.... more
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  Kumare

  USA , 2011 , 84 min. MUST END Thursday, July 19th at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax Digital presentation - Kumaré is a wise guru from the East who indoctrinated a group of followers in the West. Kumaré, however, is not real – he is the alter ego of American filmmaker Vikram Gandhi who impersonated a spiritu... more
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  Library of Dust

  USA , 2011 , 16 min. The discovery of thousands of abandoned, corroded urns at a state mental hospital inspires an unusual photo exhibit that reveals secrets, influences political decisions, and reunites families.... more
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  Living Tiny

  USA , 2011 , 7 min. A new vision of home is explored by three Californians who seek an alternative to traditional construction.... more
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  Low Definition Control—Malfunctions #0

  Austria , 2011 , 95 min. We are all potential criminals, according to the experts who analyze the modern surveillance state over the voyeuristic footage of random street activity that make up most of Michael Palm’s documentary. Low Definition Control forces us to consider the implications of relinquishing our privacy... more
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  Missed Connections

  USA , 2010 , 9 min. A charming documentary that traces what happens to the romantics who place entries on Craigslist’s Missed Connections board.... more
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  More to Live For

  USA , 2011 , 83 min. In More to Live For, Noah Hutton follows three cancer patients in a desperate search for the one bone-marrow donor that could save them. Connected in their fight for survival, they’re on a singular mission—to bring awareness about bone marrow donation.... more
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  The Movement: One Man Joins an Uprising

  USA , 2011 , 40 min. Rick Finkelstein was paralyzed in a ski accident on Aspen Mountain. With a severed spine and internal trauma, he wasn't expected to live. Six years, nine surgeries, and a seeming lifetime of rehab later, he returned to Aspen. This stunning documentary follows Finkelstein and other champions.... more
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  Ms. G's Class

  USA , 2011 , 10 min. Ms. G’s Class highlights the gap between the promise and the reality of education in the minority community.... more
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  Neve & Sons

  USA , 2011 , 8 min. Four generations after their great grandfather arrived from Italy and opened a flower shop, a family struggles to save the business—and his legacy.... more
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  Never Make It Home

  USA , 2011 , 76 min. Split Lip Rayfield toured the heartland for 10 years playing “acoustic, scorched-earth slamgrass.” Then passionate frontman Kirk Rundstrom was diagnosed with fatal esophageal cancer—but he knew exactly what to do.... more
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  No Wine Left Behind

  USA , 15 min. An Iraq War hero leads a ragtag group of veterans as they try to conquer the wine industry.... more
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  Patriocracy

  USA , 2011 , 90 min. The latest documentary from Denver-based director-producer Brian Malone explores the Divided States of America. Although primarily devoted to unearthing the causes of the current political climate, Patriocracy is not bent on placing blame; its gripping message is a call to action.... more
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  A People Uncounted

  Canada , 2011 , 99 min. Aaron Yeger’s heart-wrenching documentary chronicles the genocide of the Roma people, also known as Gypsies, during the Holocaust. Although an estimated 500,000 Roma perished, their story is rarely told; A People Uncounted aims to change all that by highlighting Roma music, art, and poetry... more
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  Play Like a Lion

  USA , 2011 , 72 min. “Emperor of Melody” Ali Akbar Khan brought Indian classical music to the United States in 1955; his son Alam has dedicated his life to keeping Khan’s legend alive. This documentary tribute explores their loving relationship and extraordinary musical influence.... more
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  The Price of Sex

  USA , 2011 , 73 min. Emmy-nominated photojournalist Mimi Chakarova goes undercover to document the trafficking of Eastern European women after the fall of Communism. Poverty makes them targets; forced into prostitution, the women endure harrowing experiences in a network that reaches far beyond their squalid hometowns.... more
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  The Pruitt-Igoe Myth: An Urban History

  USA , 2010 , 83 min. Friday, Sept. 21 @ 4:30pm When it was built in the 1950s, the Pruitt-Igoe housing project in St. Louis was a model example of affordable urban housing, providing an alternative to the slums and a home for low-income families in exodus from rural blight. But by 1972, the area had declined and... more
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  The Real American—Joe McCarthy

  Germany , 2011 , 95 min. Combining archival footage, first-person accounts, and an original screenplay, this engrossing docudrama from first-time filmmaker Lutz Hachmeister depicts Joe McCarthy’s rise and fall from Wisconsin farm boy to shooting Senate star to disgraced Cold War witch hunter.... more
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  Rocky Flats: Legacy

  USA , 2011 , 22 min. This Colorado documentary is about former Rocky Flats nuclear workers who are fighting for their lives against the government, as well as those who have died waiting for help.... more
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  The Sacred Science

  USA , 2011 , 77 min. Documentarians Nick Polizzi and Dan Bailey accompany eight people suffering from cancer, depression, diabetes, and other ailments to the Amazonian rain forest, where shamans employ centuries-old traditions of medicinal and spiritual healing—traditions under modernist siege—to help them get well.... more
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  Scars: Ben LaMarca

  USA , 2011 , 7 min. In this segment of an ongoing interview project, which investigates the origins of scars, a shooting victim recalls a life-changing moment in vivid detail.... more
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  Semper Fi: Always Faithful

  USA , 2011 , 76 min. For 30 years, over a million soldiers lived at North Carolina’s Camp Lejeune, unaware of their exposure to toxic water—or its role in their illnesses. This searing documentary chronicles one Marine’s fight for justice after losing his nine-year–old daughter to leukemia.... more
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  Sodankylä Forever: The Century of Cinema

  Finland , 2010 , 90 min. Peter von Bagh, the director of the 24-hour movie marathon that is Finland's Sodankylä Film Festival, has compiled a fascinating documentary from the annual panel discussions he hosts: here are Coppola, Forman, Scola, Fuller, and others on the effects of World War II and the Soviet era on world film... more
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  Solar Eclipse

  Czech Republic , 2011 , 81 min. Martin Maracek's documentary charts the absurdist collision of European goodwill and Third World improvisation as a pair of frustrated electricians from the Czech Republic try to repair the damage done by locals to a solar-panel system they’d installed a few years earlier in a remote village... more
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  Solo, Piano—NYC

  USA , 2011 , 5 min. On a cold winter's day, a lone, once-loved piano awaits its fate on a New York City street.... more
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  Staging Hope: Acts of Peace in Northern Uganda

  USA , 2010 , 98 min. This documentary follows a group of American actors to war-torn northern Uganda, where they lead teenagers from an internal displacement camp in a drama workshop.... more
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  Still

  USA , 2011 , 60 min. Still tells the story of Clyfford Still’s remarkable life and indelible contribution to American art. Along with his contemporaries Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, Still was one of the leaders of the Abstract Expressionist movement—yet he deliberately turned his back on the art establishment... more
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  Susan's Horses

  USA , 2010 , 6 min.
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  Tales of the Waria

  USA , 2010 , 56 min. Chinese-American documentarian Kathy Huang takes a fascinating look at Indonesia's waria—men living as women—that plays havoc with the usual Western notions of Muslim intolerance and gender identity. In the city of Makassar, at least, the waria are clearly accepted as equals... more
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  The Vacuum Kid

  USA , 2011 , 12 min. Being a local celebrity isn't easy, especially for a 12-year-old kid with a curious obsession.... more
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  Two's a Crowd

  USA , 2011 , 19 min. This affectionate documentary profiles quintessential New Yorkers Allen and Collette, who, after four years of marriage, decide to move in together.... more
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  Undefeated

  USA , 2011 , 113 min. The Manassas High School Tigers haven’t won a playoff game in more than a century; its teammates are just as likely to end up in jail as college. Part Hoop Dreams, part Friday Night Lights, this documentary is as ultimately hopeful as it is largely unsparing.... more