Synergetic
Author
Language
English
Description
We know them as the young men in suits who knock on our doors, young missionaries whose job is to convert us to their particular brand of Christianity. With unprecedented access, Meet The Mormons follows a young British Mormon as he gives up two years of his life and goes off to convert the people of Leeds in a rite of passage expected since birth. For 20 year old Josh Field from Sussex, it's an emotional journey full of sacrifice. For two whole years...
Author
Language
English
Description
North Koreans are breaking down the barriers of the gulag state. Following covert filmmakers, this doc shows real life under the new leader Kim Jong Un, highlighting the contrasting ox-drawn farms to the glittering life of the elite in Pyongyang. The starving children on the streets are of artificial food shortages engendered by corruption. See how USBs, cell phones and DVDs from the South are transforming North Koreans' views of their world.
Publisher
Synergetic Distribution
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (59 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Given exclusive access to one of America's most secret law enforcement agencies, this film follows the agents of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) as they track down, arrest and extradite American pedophile sex tourists.. In Cambodia, ex cop Chris Matarelli works alongside former Khmer Rouge boy soldier Vansak Suos, investigating Americans who have abused children as young as four - sometimes sold to them by their own parents. As in extraordinary...
Publisher
Synergetic Distribution
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (45 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A fascinating documentary portrait of this nascent musical revolution, UNDERGROUND CHINESE HIP-HOP follows pioneering rapper MC Weber as he spearheads the creation of rap music in China. This form of creative self-expression has spread like wildfire amongst those struggling the most: young working class students and migrants left out of the country's meteoric rise.. Through rap, these post-Mao millennials have found a voice and vehicle for expressing...
Publisher
Synergetic Distribution
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (78 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Joy, a young woman living in Tel Aviv, has a love-hate relationship with the city's casual sex scene. As it stands, she lives in the same neighborhood as her ex, making it nearly impossible for her to move on. And when her new hook-up buddy tells her flatly not to fall in love with him, she's stuck suspended, just out of reach of something meaningful. This is a story about young people who yearn for intimacy but are scared to get too close.. Winner...
Publisher
Synergetic Distribution
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (69 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Werner Herzog returns to the South American jungle with Juliane Koepcke, who survived a fall from a plane to live another 12 days in the Amazon before being found. Juliane and Werner recreate her journey out of the jungle.
7) Junk head
Publisher
Synergetic Distribution
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mankind can no longer reproduce because of gene manipulation aimed at making life longer. The clones ruling the bottomless underworld may have become fertile. Parton is selected to go on a mission through a subterranean labyrinth crawling with monsters to secure humanity's future.
8) Junk Head
Publisher
Synergetic Distribution
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (100 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Seven years in the making, this animation masterpiece is set in the distant future where most of people live miles below the surface. JUNK HEAD is revived to explore what's left of humanity.
Publisher
Synergetic Distribution
Pub. Date
1974.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (102 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Italiano
Description
After a tied first place in a local stunt race, two drivers start a contest to decide which of them will own the prize, a dune buggy. But when a mobster destroys the car, they are determined to get it back.
10) Iria
Publisher
Synergetic Distribution
Pub. Date
1994.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (0 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A monster hunter goes after a beast that could be her brother.
11) Love Simple
Publisher
Synergetic Distribution
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (86 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Adam and Seta fall madly in love after meeting in a Brooklyn laundromat. She suffers from Lupus. He's stuck at home caring for his chronically ill father. Both lie through their teeth to avoid having to reveal they are anything but perfect. How long can this fabled romance last?
12) Carmen & Lola
Publisher
Synergetic Distribution
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (103 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Español
Description
Carmen is a gypsy teenager, destined to live a life that is repeated every generation: getting married and raising as many children as possible. But one day she meets Lola, an uncommon gypsy who dreams about going to university, does graffiti and is very different. Carmen quickly develops a complicity with Lola and discovers a world that, inevitably, leads them to be rejected by their families.
13) More
Publisher
Synergetic Distribution
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (107 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Türkçe
Description
Gaza is a 14-year-old boy who lives on the Aegean coast of Turkey. Together with his domineering father, he helps smuggle refugees from war-torn countries to Europe, giving them temporary lodgings and scant food until they attempt the crossing. Gaza dreams of escaping this life, but can't help being drawn into a dark world of immorality, exploitation and human suffering. Winner of Best Film at the **Valladolid International Film Festival**. *"An impressively...
14) The Announcement
Publisher
Synergetic Distribution
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (95 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Türkçe
Description
During a tumultuous revolution, a group of military officers plan a coup to take down the government, by taking over the National Radio station and making a formal announcement. But nothing goes to plan. Faced with countless obstacles, the conspirators scramble to keep their plan on track. A wry commentary on Turkey's uneasy political past and present. Biting political satire meets subtle comedy in a film that highlights absurdity without ever being...
15) Sibel
Publisher
Synergetic Distribution
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (95 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Türkçe
Description
SIBEL lives with her dad and sister in a mountain village. She's mute, but can "talk" by whistling. Estranged, she tries to gain respect by capturing a feared wolf no one has seen. Then she runs into a fugitive, the first who sees her as an equal.
16) The Swan
Publisher
Synergetic Distribution
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (92 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Icelandic
Description
In contemporary rural Iceland, a wayward 9-year old girl, Sól, is sent to distant countryside relatives for a summer to work and to mature. Nature seems endless there, the animals soulful but the people harsh. All except the mysterious farmhand Jón, who - as Sól herself - likes words better than people. But the farmers' daughter Ásta has a claim on Jón as well, and soon Sól becomes entangled in a drama she hardly can grasp. This summer...
Publisher
Synergetic Distribution
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (105 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Russian
Description
When a Siberian state forest guard discovers he has cancer and only two months left to live he chooses to take the identity of a woman as a way of fighting the disease.
Publisher
Synergetic Distribution
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (109 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This acclaimed film follows 14-year-old Sami girl Elle Marja ("Powerful newcomer Lene Cecilia Sparrok." - New York Times), who, along with her sister, is torn from her indigenous reindeer-herding family and placed in a government-run boarding school in 1930s Sweden. There Elle dreams of education and a future, but these dreams are hindered when she is met with racial expectations that class her people as inferior. What follows is a girl's attempt...
19) Amateur Teens
Publisher
Synergetic Distribution
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (92 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Swiss German
Description
A group of average students at a secondary school in Zürich wrestle with the average teenager's needs: love and acceptance. But when the growing influence of social media tosses them into the grown-up world of sexuality and aggression, their needs turn dangerous. What follows is a tragedy that blurs the lines between perpetrator and victim, guilt and innocence.
20) Radio Dreams
Publisher
Synergetic Distribution
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (94 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A brilliant, misunderstood Iranian writer (played by the "Iranian Bob Dylan" Mohsen Namjoo) - prepares for a triumphant broadcast - a live performance pairing Metallica and Kabul Dreams, Afghanistan's first rock band. RADIO DREAMS brings to life the sometimes bizarre experience of immigrants pursuing dreams in the U.S. A perfect mixture of honesty, art, and socio-political topicality served up as an ingenious, offbeat transmission. Winner of the Tiger...