A vast, timely, and often chilling investigation into the idea and practice of democracy, ranging from Ancient Greece and Renaissance Europe to civil rights, fears of voter fraud, and the spectre of authoritarianism.
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Astra Taylor Director
Canada 09 June 2018
Denmark 09 June 2018
United Kingdom 09 June 2018
Sweden 09 June 2018
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27 March 2018
The party was supposed to start at 7:02 pm. It was election night 2008. The first African- American President of the United Stated was to be elected.
29 October 2018
A young man, Stevie, awakes on a wasteland overlooking Bradford, still bleeding from a brutal attack that has left him with severe memory loss.
25 May 2018
Increased level of fear, six colliding stories, one roller coaster ride of emotions and terror. What would you do if you caught your significant other in the act or was face to face with your abductors? With twists and turns at every corner you will have the ride of your life on this journey.
16 April 2018
KING OF NEWARK 2 (2018) continues the trials and tribulations of the Malcolm Graves character (Alonzo Herran Jr.
21 July 2018
Julio, a young man with few social skills, meets Mara, a girl with whom he shares a weakness for robbing other people's houses.
25 October 2018
A man attempts to exit an underground car park. Something doesn't want him to.
28 March 2018
Created over 75 years and three generations, Les Quatre Vents stands as an enchanted place of beauty and surprise, a horticultural masterpiece of the 21st century.
07 June 2018
During a long hot summer in the 1970s, four boys roam free through a neglected rural paradise, until a tragedy strikes that sets them against the adult world and changes their lives forever.
27 February 2018
An American stand-up comedy special starring Marlon Wayans who jokes about racism, hip-hop, gay rights, and raising kids.
05 December 2018
Spain, June 2014. King Juan Carlos I abdicates after forty years on the throne. The historical cycle that began in 1978 has ended.
01 May 2018
Set on a cobblestone street bathed in moonlight, a young girl leads her grandmother towards her final journey.
07 December 2018
First staged at the Teatro La Fenice in 1846, Verdi’s ninth opera, Attila, returns to the stage of La Scala on December 7th.
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