"Democracy isn't a spectator sport." 24 January 2020 Factual 110 mins
This raucous journey into the heart of democracy captures an unusual rite of passage: 1,100 teenage boys from across Texas coming together to build a representative government from the ground up.
Watch the official Boys State 2020 trailer in HD below.
Ben Feinstein as Self
Steven Garza as Self
Robert MacDougall as Self
René Otero as Self
Eddy Proietti Conti as Self
Drake Roy Sound
Daniel Timmons Supervising Sound Editor
Laurene Powell Jobs Executive Producer
Michael T. Vollmann Co-Editor
Amanda McBaine Director
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20 November 2020
Das Capital is an envisioning of rural north India and sets the canvas for the protagonist – Purshottam Ram played by Yashpal Sharma who is torn between his duties toward his family, his corrupt employers and a corrupt political system.
23 February 2020
Routinely, but with dedication, Mare runs her small family’s modest household, even though a new washing machine is not the only thing that is missing.
12 May 2020
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06 September 2020
The Grolls, victimized minions of a dungeon, are relentlessly attacked by knights in search of adventure.
25 December 2020
Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child.
10 October 2020
The new film aims to show how the Bible and Judeo-Christian values were deeply influential to the formation of the United States of America and how that influence has steadily eroded in the public square.
12 February 2020
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16 April 2020
Linea 137 tries to make visible and spread the daily work of the Las Víctimas contra Las Violencias program, the only social service that intervenes directly in conflicts and complaints of gender, sexual and family violence.
06 November 2020
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05 February 2020
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