""I think life is quick, isn't it? Life rushes by and then... it's all gone.""01 July 2011Comedy, Factual24 mins
Serif, the manager of a launderette in London’s Bethnal Green, dedicates her time to her regulars. Serving cups of tea and listening to their stories, Serif enriches their lives by helping the local elderly community.
Laundriness is a simple and sensitive observational documentary about the meaning of life, fate, hope and regrets.
Fanny meets her high school friends at home for the annual Switch & Bitch. A ton of clothes, girls, alcohol and old grudges are at stake during this reunion.
As daylight breaks between the border cities of El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico, undocumented migrants and their relatives, divided by a wall, prepare to participate in an activist event.
Now aged 17, Antoine Doinel works in a factory which makes records. At a music concert, he meets a girl his own age, Colette, and falls in love with her.
Working men and women leave through the main gate of the Lumière factory in Lyon, France. Filmed on 22 March 1895, it is often referred to as the first real motion picture ever made, although Louis Le Prince's 1888 Roundhay Garden Scene pre-dated it by seven years.
In a 2014 artist statement, Kevin Jerome Everson wrote, "The main thing I like doing is filming people of African descent, black folks, who are really good at what they do.
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Gautami is an Indian Odissi Dancer whose passion in life is dance. Jai Leang is a rising Chinese painter whose paintings are highly influenced by Chinese culture.
The fat knight Sir John Falstaff imagines that Mistress Ford and Mistress Page are both taken with him and so, attracted as much by their husbands’ money as their personal charms, he decides to woo them both.
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