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Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue

By Sabina Dana Plasse | October 2021

One of the powers of cinema is to learn about people, places, and cultures unbeknownst to us. Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns…

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One of the powers of cinema is to learn about people, places, and cultures unbeknownst to us. Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue is a documentary for...

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Embedding herself into the impoverished fishing village of Wukan in southern China, first-time filmmaker Jill Li's documentary, Lost Course, gains...

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It amazes me that there are still stories to be told from World War II (haven’t we covered it all yet?). I really shouldn’t be that surprised, but...

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