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How Deep Is Your Love Review: A Resonant Dive into Undersea Mining

by Susan G. Cole
April 27, 2025
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How Deep Is Your Love tracks an exploration designed to determine the impact of resource extraction from the ocean floor.

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Always Review: Meetings with a Young Poet

by Pat Mullen
April 26, 2025
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Always is a years in the making documentary that observes the life of Chinese poet and child prodigy Youbin Gong as he faces his fate.

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Making The Gardener and the Dictator: Love, Guilt, and Family

by Liam Lacey
April 25, 2025
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An interview with The Gardener and the Dictator director Jane Hui Wang about bringing a family story to screen in her documentary.

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Marriage Cops Dials-Up India’s Women’s Helpline

by Susan G. Cole
April 24, 2025
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In Marriage Cops, filmmakers Shashwati Talukdar and Cheryl Hess observe police officers in action at India's Women's Hotline.

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All-In Review: Identity at a Crossroads

by Liam Lacey
April 29, 2021
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At the beginning of the Turkish tourist season, Ismael and Hakan, two young men from small villages are taken on as apprentices at a Mediterranean all-inclusive hotel. In their first Human Resources

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