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Gregory Mann

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Movie Review: Fremont

Afghan refugee Donya (Anaita Wali Zada) lives in Fremont but works at a fortune cookie factory in San Francisco. Seeking connection, she decides to send a message out to the world through a cookie in this offbeat vision of the universal longing for home.Each morning Donya eaves her tight-knit…
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Movie Review: "Canary"

Witness the extraordinary life of Dr. Lonnie Thompson, an explorer who went where no scientist had gone before and transformed our idea of what's possible. Daring to seek Earth’s history contained in glaciers atop the tallest mountains in the world, we see the front lines of climate change, to…
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Movie Review: Passages

A gay couple’s marriage is thrown into crisis when one of them begins a passionate affair with a younger woman.After completing his latest project, filmmaker Tomas (Franz Rogowski) impulsively begins a heated love affair with a young schoolteacher, Agathe (Adèle Exarchopoulos). For Tomas, the…
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"Lakota Nation vs United States"

Opens August 11https://gatewayfilmcenter.org/movies/lakota-nation-vs-united-states-2023/It's the most sacred place on earth, the birthplace of the Lakota that has shaped thought, identity and philosophy for the Očéti Šakówiŋ since time immemorial, the life-giving land known as the Black Hills. Yet…