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With Lixin Fan
A family embarks on an annual journey, along with 200 other million peasant workers, to reunite with their distant family.
- 4.17 / 5.0
With Joaquin Phoenix • Casey Affleck
A year in Phoenix's life after he publicly gave up acting and tried to establish himself as a hip hop musician.
- 3.75 / 5.0
With Michele Hozer • Peter Raymont
Documentary about the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould.
- 5 / 5.0
With Jordan Brady
Through candid interviews and backstage access, this documentary on Stand-Up explores the world of the working comedian and reveals a funny psychological profile of its practitioners.
- 2.67 / 5.0
Sixteen French pastry chefs gathered in Lyon for three intense days of mixing, piping and sculpting everything from delicate chocolates to six-foot sugar sculptures in hopes of being declared by President Nicolas Sarkozy one of the best.
- 2.6 / 5.0
With Ole Schell • Sara Ziff
A personal video diary charting model Sara Ziff’s rise from fresh face to one that adorns billboards. The film considers the demand for adolescent models, the pressure to stay thin, the abuse of drugs and the persistence of sexual harassment.
- 3.33 / 5.0
With Werner Herzog
Documentary about the Chauvet caves in Southern France that contain the oldest known cave paintings.
- 4.17 / 5.0
Sixteen French pastry chefs gathered in Lyon for three intense days of mixing, piping and sculpting everything from delicate chocolates to six-foot sugar sculptures in hopes of being declared by President Nicolas Sarkozy one of the best.
- 2.6 / 5.0
With Davis Guggenheim • Lesley Chilcott • Billy Kimball
"Waiting for Superman" examines the crisis of public education in the United States through multiple interlocking stories—from a handful of students and their families whose futures hang in the balance, to the educators and reformers trying to find real and lasting solutions within a dysfunctional system.
- 4.43 / 5.0
With Ngawang Choephel
Director Ngawang Choephel, traveled to Tibet in 1995 to make a documentary about Tibetan folk music threatened by the Chinese occupation. While there, he was accused of being a spy by the Chinese and imprisoned for an 18-year sentence, of which he served seven years before he was released under international pressure.
- 4 / 5.0
