Summary: What happens when an Afrikaans guy and a Zulu girl fall in love and have to navigate their way through the complicated process of lobola? A contemporary romantic comedy about love and tradition in a rapidly evolving society. Funny yet hard-hitting, the film tackles the thorny subject of cross-cultural relationships with humor and honesty.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF FANSummary: Director Robert J. Flaherty journeyed with his wife, Frances, and their children to the South Seas island of Savai'i to capture on film the exotic lifestyles of the Samoan people. In doing so, they resurrected and dramatized the recently vanished customs and struggles of the people just before modernization permanently altered the cultural landscape of the island. In 1975, nearly 50 years after...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MOASummary: For the first time in years the entire Rodriguez clan comes home to Chicago to celebrate Christmas where traditions will be celebrated. During the course of this eventful week they will celebrate one member's safe return from Iraq, secrets will be revealed, old resentments forgotten, each family member will learn something about themselves and each other, and the healing power of laughter will...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY NOTSummary: Divided into two chapters, director Bogdan George Apetri's Miracle begins with the young, beautiful Cristina Tofan sneaking away from an isolated convent. Working in the style of the Romanian New Wave, Apetri withholds key information about her motives as we follow her enigmatic journey, allowing tension to steadily build to a wavering precipice. The film's second part follows Marius Preda, a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MIRSummary: This clandestine documentary, shot partially on an iPhone and smuggled into France on a usb drive hidden in a cake for a last-minute submission to Cannes, depicts the day-to-day life of acclaimed director Jafar Panahi (Offside, The Circle) during his house arrest in his Tehran apartment. While appealing his 2010 sentence (six years in prison and a 20-year ban from filmmaking, interviews or...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC THISummary: The honorable citizen Nils plows snow in the wild winter mountains of Norway, but when his son is mistakenly murdered, Nils takes action, which ignites a war between the vegan gangster "the Count" and the Serbian mafia boss Papa.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN INSummary: Wadjda, a fun-loving 10-year-old girl living in Saudi Arabia, has her heart set on a beautiful new bicycle. However, her mother won't allow it, fearing repercussions from a society that sees bicycles as dangerous to a girl's virtue. Determined to turn her dreams into reality and buy the bike on her own, Wadjda uncovers the contradictions and opportunities ingrained in her world. Hilarious,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WAD1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WAD
Summary: It's Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend hasn't been faithful during the 28 days she was locked up, the working girl and her best friend, Alexandra, embark on a mission to get to the bottom of the scandalous rumor. Their rip-roaring odyssey leads them through various subcultures of Los Angeles.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TANSummary: Police inspector Carl Mørck and his assistant Assad investigate a cold case about a disappeared woman; when the murder of young twins implicates a group of students as the killers, Carl Mørck investigates; Department Q must catch a serial killer before time runs out.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DEPSummary: Nels Coxman is a family man whose quiet life with his wife is upended following the mysterious death of their son. Nels's search for justice turns into a vengeful hunt for Viking, a drug lord he believes is connected to the death. As one by one Viking's associates 'disappear,' Nels goes from upstanding citizen to ice-cold vigilante, letting nothing, and no one, get in his way.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE COLCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD COLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE COLSummary: Fleeing from despair after losing those dearest to him, the hero hides in a safe land of memories, where time stands still and those dear to him are alive. Over the years, a city grown in his imagination. One day, literary heroes and cartoon childhood idols, who in the consciousness of the successive generations are forever young and wearing short pants, come to live there, uninvited. When our...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN KILSummary: Security cameras capture the torment as a demonic presence terrorizes new parents Dan and Kristi, tearing apart their seemingly perfect world and turning it into an inescapable nightmare.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PARSummary: When the population of Los Angeles is vacuumed off the face of the Earth, Detective Mark Corley storms his way onto an alien ship to rescue his estranged son. But after crashing the ship in Southeast Asia, he must forge an alliance with a band of survivors to discover the key to saving his son and taking back the planet once and for all.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BEYSummary: An overview of the worldwide political upheavals during the Sixties and Seventies. Interweaves footage from the Vietnam War and the antiwar protests in the U.S., May '68 in Paris, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Salvador Allende and the coup in Chile, Che Guevara and Regis Debray in Bolivia, the Shah of Iran, Fidel Castro, et alia. Contains official images, film clips, news coverage...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Icarus Films Home Video 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GRISummary: A feisty, Bangladeshi teen-aged painter sets out on a quest to save her ailing father. Her artistic gift has blossomed with his encouragement but hasn't yet proven financially rewarding. Naima's mother dashes such childish dreams, which sends the frustrated teen off to the big city, determined to earn money for the family's survival. And she does, by disguising herself as a boy to get a job as...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RICSummary: Set in 1901. After a heated misunderstanding due to poor translation leads to the death of a lawman, Mexican American farmer Gregorio Cortez sets off in desperate flight from the Texas Rangers, evading a massive manhunt on horseback for days.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2018
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN BALSummary: A young boy rediscovers the magic of friendship when his pony gives birth to Nico, a unicorn. Based on the young adult novel by Frank Sacks.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2010
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD NICSummary: Raimunda lives in Madrid with her daughter Paula and her drunk husband Paco. Her sister, Sole, is separated and works clandestinely as a hairstylist for women. Years ago, in the sisters birth village, they lost their parents in a fire in La Mancha. Their aunt, Paula, still lives in the village and continues to speak about her sister Irene, mother of the two sisters, as if she were still alive....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VOLSummary: The apocalypse proves a blessing in disguise for one lucky recluse, until a second survivor arrives with the threat of companionship.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Momentum Pictures 2018
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ISummary: The story of two mothers who give birth the same day.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures 2022
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PARSummary: In the impoverished town of Las Piedras, desperate men and women scrape out a living under the watchful eye of the ruling Southern Oil Company. When a well explodes, four workers must go on a suicide mission that is their only way out.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WAGSummary: A snowstorm traps town residents together inside the local inn, where newly arrived forest ranger Finn and postal worker Cecily must try to keep the peace and uncover the truth behind a mysterious creature that has begun terrorizing the community.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021