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Titles credited to Nina Menkes
Magdalena Viraga
Story of A Red Sea Crossing. Shot in the bars and seedy hotels of East LA, this film is about the inner life of a prostitute imprisoned for killing her pimp.
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Queen of Diamonds
Set amid the glittering casino lights and deteriorating desert landscapes of the oasis city Las Vegas, QUEEN OF DIAMONDS revolves around the disaffected existence of of Firdaus (Tinka Menkes), a black...
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Dissolution
Hitparkut (Dissolution) combines an almost surreal fairy-tale energy with brutal black and white realism to explore the condition of violence which permeates contemporary Israeli society. Shot is Yafo...
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Phantom Love
A surreal drama about an alienated family set in Koreatown, Los Angeles and Rishikesh, India.
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Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power
Investigates the politics of cinematic shot design, and how this meta-level of filmmaking intersects with the twin epidemics of sexual abuse/assault and employment discrimination against women, with o...
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The Great Sadness of Zohara
A young, orthodox Jewish woman is alienated from her Jerusalem community and drawn into the world of spirit.
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The Bloody Child
This film was inspired by a real event—a young US Marine, recently back from the Gulf War, was found digging a grave for his murdered wife in the middle of the California Mojave.
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