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Marcelino lives alone in his parents'' farm, set deep in the beautiful but impoverished countrysi...

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The village of Praeknamdang, nestled in the Thai jungle, has fallen under the spell of Song Waad,...

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In a small seaside town on the French coast lives Uncle. He shares his house with his niece and n...

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A girl is struck down by polio during the terrifying epidemic of the early 1950s. Paralysed and u...

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