Films distributed by KinoSmith

5 Broken Cameras

5 Broken Cameras

When his fourth son, Gibreel, is born, Emad, a Palestinian villager, gets his first camera. In his village, Bil'in, a separation barrier is being built and the villagers start to...
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Town of Runners

Town of Runners

Town of Runners is a feature documentary about young runners from Bekoji - an Ethiopian highland town which has produced some of the world's greatest distance athletes, including...
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Herman's House

Herman's House

Herman Wallace has spent 40 years imprisoned in solitary confinement in a six-foot-by-nine-foot cell for a crime many believe he never committed. The injustice of solitary...
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Big Boys Gone Bananas!*

Big Boys Gone Bananas!*

First there was a film about banana workers saying the Dole Food Company had made them infertile. Then Dole attacked the filmmakers. Now it's time for a new film!The true story...
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Buzkashi!

Buzkashi!

Buzkashi! is a story of three fascinating characters who are at the top of their sport of Buzkashi in Tajikistan, a former Soviet republic nestled in the Pamir mountains...
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Bob and the Monster

Bob and the Monster

Six years in the making, this award winning documentary follows outspoken indie-rock hero Bob Forrest, through his life-threatening struggle with addiction, to his transformation...
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Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance

Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance

The full story of this groundbreaking dance company, from their founding in 1956 to the present. The Joffrey is considered the first truly 'American' ballet company and was the...
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My Perestroika

My Perestroika

My Perestroika follows five ordinary Russians living in extraordinary times - from their sheltered Soviet childhood, to the collapse of the Soviet Union during their teenage years...
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Racing Dreams

Racing Dreams

Racing Dreams is the award winning coming-of-age story about three kids who dream of one day racing in NASCAR.Academy Award® nominated documentary filmmaker, Marshall Curry...
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Cave of Forgotten Dreams

Cave of Forgotten Dreams

Following his previous documentary Encounters at the End of the World, iconic director Werner Herzog once again takes us deep behind the frontier of an extraordinary place...
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China Heavyweight

China Heavyweight

In central China, a master coach recruits poor rural teenagers and turns them into Western-style boxing champions. The top students face dramatic choices as they graduate...
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Girl Model

Girl Model

Despite a lack of obvious similarities between Siberia and Tokyo, a thriving model industry connects these distant regions. Girl Model follows two protagonists involved in this...
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Highway Gospel

Highway Gospel

A coward dies a thousand deaths, a brave man dies but once. B.C. renegades race down mountain highways on customized longboards, while a middle-aged skateboarder fights to keep...
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In My Mother's Arms

In My Mother's Arms

Husham works tirelessly to build the hopes, dreams and prospects of the 32 damaged children of war under his care at a small orphanage in Sadr City, Baghdad's most dangerous...
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Irving Welsh's Ecstacy

Irving Welsh's Ecstacy

A dark romantic comedy, based on the controversial book, Ecstasy, by Irvine Welsh. Ecstasy was translated into 20 languages and was a number one bestseller in more than 20...
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Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

Life in a small town is akin to journeying in the middle of the steppes: the sense that "something new and different" will spring up behind every hill, but always...
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Replicas

Replicas

Following a tragic incident, the Hughes family escape their busy upscale suburban life in order to spend some quality family time at their isolated country home. An evening with...
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Sound It Out

Sound It Out

Over the last five years an independent record shop has closed in the UK every three days. Sound It Out is a documentary portrait of the very last surviving vinyl record shop in...
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The Carbon Rush

The Carbon Rush

Incinerators burning garbage in India. Hundreds of hydroelectric dams in Panama. Biogas extracted from palm oil in Honduras. Eucalyptus forests harvested for charcoal in Brazil...
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Work in Progress

Work in Progress

As fascinating as it is meditative as it is hilarious. Work in Progress is a documentary film that begins as a chronicle of the construction of a 1000-foot dry-stone wall by a...
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The Redemption of General Butt Naked

The Redemption of General Butt Naked

Joshua Milton Blahyi – aka General Butt Naked – was a ruthless and feared warlord during Liberia's 14-year civil war. Today, he has renounced his violent past and...
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The Story of Film: An Odyssey

The Story of Film: An Odyssey

At the end of the 1800s, a new art form flickered into life. It looked like our dreams. It showed us foreign lands. It changed what we long for. Movies are now a multi-billion...
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If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front

If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front

* Nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the Academy Awards® 2012 *On December 7th, 2005, federal agents conducted a nationwide sweep of radical environmentalists involved...
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