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"It’s beautiful and it’s a real little movie. I loved it” – The Hollywood Reporter
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A note from the writer:
"Deafness is a silent disability, you can’t see it, and it’s not life-threatening, so it’s easy for it to slip under your radar. "
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When you have grown up in the exact same environment, it cuts very deep. Brilliant.

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"Emboldened by alcohol and steeped in despair, the characters in Sugisball lunge for love but would settle for understanding." Jeannette Catsoulis

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‘Sylvia’ is for everyone; it’s moving, poignant and a heart-touching tale of a family and the trials and tribulations it undergoes; all seen through the prism of its lead character.

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The final credit: 'The movie is inspired by novel by Mati Unt and is dedicated to all men with fragile soul and weak liver who stand alone in night, in pants.'

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Autumn Ball is a 2007 Estonian drama film directed by Veiko Õunpuu, adapted from Mati Unt's 1979 novel of the same name. The film depicts six desolate people of different yet similar fates in characteristically Soviet pre-fabricated housing units.

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Watch Sylvia on #BirdBoxFilms 🎬

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"Cool It resonates, and gives one pause not just to consider the merits of the global warming question, but to consider the merits of all that we've decided to do about it, impending doom notwithstanding." Tim Cogshell

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The film focuses on Lomborg lecturing and brainstorming ideas to make the environmental movement less propagandistic and more realistic, which includes de-emphasizing efforts to stop global warming.

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“'Boogaloo and Graham', by the Northern Irish director Michael Lennox, is a delightful and funny short film that contains, as a kind of hidden surprise, a meditation on fear." -Joshua Rothman from @newyorkermag

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"Instead of getting wrapped up in fads and jumping on bandwagon, Lomborg offers solutions to the problems facing the world." Kevin Carr

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Cool It is a 2010 documentary film based on the book Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming by Danish political scientist Bjørn Lomborg.

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Opens with a quote describing the UK's 1994 'Criminal Justice and Public Order Act' which, essentially, banned gatherings of more than twenty people listening to music "predominantly characterized by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats."

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Jamesy and Malachy are over the moon when their soft-hearted Dad presents them with two baby chicks to care for, but the two boys are in for a shock when their parents announce that big changes are coming to the family.

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"The film does a terrific job of replicating the rave scene adjacent to the cultural kerfuffle of Cool Britannia." Tara Brady

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"Welsh's frequently funny and moving Beats accomplishes a lot in its seemingly simple story of a fragile friendship." Collin Souter

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In the "motorway" scene, immediately after D-Man is put in the boot of the Volvo, a Mk7 Ford Transit minibus drives past - a vehicle which didn't exist until 2006.

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Two best friends in a small Scottish town in the summer of '94 who head out for one last night together. Going to an illegal rave, the boys journey into an underworld of anarchy with the law as they share a night that they will never forget.

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"It’s hardly a hidden gem, given that it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short, but it’s a film that I’ve returned to again and again for its atmosphere; its sparse, haunting script; and its wonderful editing." Aoife Kelleher