"A film about the joy of life"01 January 2015Factual25 mins
In 2004, Olav and Heidi Aabrekk had a severely brain-damaged son. Despite poor forecasts, the parents refused to give up hope of a positive development for the boy Simen. With the help of a self-composed method for comprehensive sensory stimulation, intensive motor training and optimal nutrition, Simen learned to read, write and communicate already as a 3-year-old.
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The story of the modern Los Angeles film industry as a series of monologues. The monologues are delivered by various characters, including a writer, a director, a producer, an actress, and a soccer mom.
The octogenarian Angono Mba recalls the expedition in which he worked as porter for the Spanish filmmaker Manuel Hernández Sanjuán who, between 1944 and 1946, traveled through Spanish Guinea documenting life in the colony as he obsessively searched for a mysterious lake.
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