In 1948, after a civil war, Costa Rica dismantled their military establishment and intentionally cultivated security relationships with other nations through treaties, international laws, and international organizations. Free of the burden of military spending, Costa Rica created free healthcare, free university tuition, and a wide middle class. For nearly 70 years, Costa Rica has proven the viability of a different way the world might live--the way of demilitarization, solidarity, diplomacy and international law. The Costa Rican model has survived several serious crises, but the current threats may be the most formidable of all.
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While companies spent $31 billion on leadership-training programs in just one recent year, more than 60 percent of respondents to the Global Human Capital Survey reported that such programs yielded only "some" value at best. Learn how EQ skills training is helping many business leaders better accomplish their long-term goals.
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Flying in the face of this culture's extreme ageism, Still doing it explores the lives of older women. Partnered, single, straight, gay, Black, and White, nine extraordinary women, 67-87, express with startling honesty and humor how they feel about themselves, sex, and love in later life and the poignant realities of aging. Outspoken for their generation, these women mark a sea change. Women over 65 are already the fastest growing segment of the population. Still doing it reveals the wonderful truth that many older women are actually beginning intense romantic relationships after 65.
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In the fall of 1985, a small group of Haida people stood on a muddy logging road on Lyell Island and refused to move. What followed was a landmark act of peaceful resistance that helped spark a nationwide reckoning around land, sovereignty and environmental justice. Drawing from over a hundred hours of electrifying archival footage, The stand immerses us in the tension, courage, and quiet humanity of that moment. Directed by Christopher Auchter, the film honours the Elders, activists, and supernatural spirits who helped shape a new future for the Haida Nation--and for all of Canada.
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Fambul tok explores a culture that believes true justice lies in redemption and healing for individuals, and that forgiveness is the surest path to restoring dignity and building strong communities. Seven years after the last bullet was fired, a decade of brutal fighting in Sierra Leone finds resolution as people come together to talk around traditional village bonfires. Some had perpetrated terrible crimes against friends or family. Some had faced horrible losses: loved ones murdered, limbs severed. But as they tell their stories, admit their wrongs, forgive, dance, and sing together, true reconciliation begins. This is the story of Fambul tok (Krio for "family talk"), and it is a story the world needs to hear. Our guide is human rights activist John Caulker, a Sierra Leonean with a vision of peace for his country.
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"We've met before, haven't we?" A mesmerizing meditation on the mysterious nature of identity, Lost highway is one of David Lynch's most potent cinematic dreamscapes. Fred Madison is a saxophonist who finds a videotape on his doorstep that shows the interior of his house. He becomes convinced that someone has broken in and calls the police. He finds another videotape showing him killing his wife, and he is arrested. In prison, he inexplicably morphs into a young man named Pete Dayton and begins living a completely different life. When Pete is released, his path begins to cross with Fred's in a surreal, suspenseful web of intrigue. Lost highway expands the horizons of the medium, taking its audience on a journey through the unknown and the unknowable. As this postmodern noir detours into the realm of science fiction, it becomes apparent that the only certainty is uncertainty.
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Los Angeles, 2019: Rick Deckard of the LAPD's Blade Runner unit prowls the steel & microchip jungle of the 21st century. His job is to track down and eliminate assumed humanoids known as "replicants." Replicants were declared illegal after a bloody mutiny on an Off-World Colony, and are to be terminated upon detection. He wants to get out of the force, but is drawn back in when 6 "skin jobs," the slang for replicants, hijack a ship back to Earth. The city that Deckard must search for his prey is a huge, sprawling, bleak vision of the future. The director's cut differs in that the voiceover narration has been almost totally removed; screen-lengths and the ending have been changed.
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Meet young Muslim kids as they transition from private, Islamic elementary school to public high school, capturing what it means to be young, Muslim and growing up in the West at this unsettling time in modern history. Through their wide eyes, we begin to understand the dilemmas facing them. As they take us on their journey revealing fears, anxieties, hopes, and dreams, their story moves from the familiar to the strange, and unfolds against a larger backdrop, that of a western world that seems to be increasingly turning against them.
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The twelve tells the story of twelve spiritual Elders from around the globe who gather at the United Nations in New York to create a unique ritual for humankind and planet Earth. By interviewing each one of them in their home environments, the film is told exclusively through the voices of these Elders. They give an unprecedented insight into their knowledge, traditions, and rituals. Each of the twelve share a long forgotten wisdom and knowing of our eternal and complex connection with nature and all of humanity, reminding us what it means to be human and how to live in harmony with each other and with nature. We follow the Elders as they travel for the first time to New York, and witness the powerful energy of their three day reunion in New York. Their messages are unified in what needs to be done to change the course our planet is taking. The twelve are from Australia, Alaska, Brazil, Botswana, Colombia, Gabon, Japan, Nepal, Mexico, and Siberia.
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The pervert's guide to cinema takes the viewer on an exhilarating ride through some of the greatest movies ever made. Serving as presenter and guide is the charismatic Slavoj Zizek, the Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst. With his engaging and passionate approach to thinking, Zizek delves into the hidden language of cinema, uncovering what movies can tell us about ourselves.
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