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In this benefit concert, presented at UNESCO in Paris, celebrated tenor Placido Domingo is joined on stage by Shirley Verrett and Simon Estes, among others, to perform a selection of arias from Verdi and Puccini. Highlights include "Non Sono Tuo Figlio" from "Il Trovatore"; "Quando le Sere al Placido" from "Luisa Miller"; "Credo" from "Otello"; "Senza Mamma o Bimbo" from "Suir Angelica"; and "Vissi D'arte" from "Tosca."

An Easterner wins his battles in the West by using his fists.

'The Placebo' is based on the theme of 'existentialism' and whether existence comes before essence. The film's central protagonist is a young author who has a recurring dream that the answer to his life's question lay at particular spot. In the dream, he arrives at The Reculver Towers at the break of dawn and locates the spot from his dreams. In the dream he digs a hole at the site. The dig is supposed to reveal the significance and purpose of his life. Does he find his purpose?

Eve has never felt comfortable in her skin, but now she has a plan: to leave Adam behind forever.

My Mother's Place is an experimental documentary focusing on the artist's mother, a third-generation Chinese-Trinidadian who at 80 still has vivid memories of a history lost or quickly disappearing. She conveys these with a storytelling style and a frankness that is distinctly West Indian. A tape about memory, oral history, and autobiography, My Mother's Place interweaves interviews, personal narrative, home movies, and verité footage of the Caribbean to explore the formation of race, class, and gender under colonialism.

With a father who reconstructs breasts and a mother who coordinates fine china with window treatments, McCabe creates an angst-ridden yet humorous essay about the many obstacles to being honest with her parents as she tries to come out to them as a lesbian.

A documentary taking its cues from children's imaginative flights of fancy.

Vanessa Place is a writer, artist, and criminal defense attorney. Her 2010 book "The Guilt Project: Rape, Morality, and Law" critically examined the laws and punitive measures currently employed in the US regarding sex crimes, in addition to proposing that we expand our conception of “rape culture” into an understanding of culture broadly. "If I Wanted Your Opinion, I’d Remove the Duct Tape" is a recording of a performance work of the same title that she toured in 2016 onward, in which she read a set of rape jokes.

The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey is a feature documentary about the life of Ryan Gainey. It was shot over the course of six years, from 2010 to 2016. Gainey has been the focus of numerous gardening television programs, but this film is the first project to examine the complexities of his life. As the film shows, he was a contradictory character, both off-putting and tender, self-absorbed and generous, artificial and authentic. Ryan Gainey was a lover of beauty, and his home garden in Decatur, Georgia was his masterpiece. It was, as he often said, a “garden of remembrance” where his old friends and family lived on in the overlapping blooms of heirloom plants.

Cats, mice, hippos and elephants take you out to the ball game.

A platypus mates with an opossum and wreaks havoc on local humanity.

"plant portals: breath" is an experimental meditation on the unspoken history many queer and trans people of colour carry daily, connecting bumblebees, colonial trauma, alternate universes and the complicated concept of "rest" to ask: Can nature heal us? Shot entirely on an iPhone, the film is intentional in imagining what is possible, and manifests a reality rooted in mindfulness.“

Through images from a personal archive and reflections on the ambivalences that are sometimes imprinted in relationships full of love, the film presents moments of affection between two lesbians and their mothers.

Killer surf and awesome performances once again marked the contest that's fast becoming the gold standard for surf competitions across the globe. Newcomers went head-to-head against big names, and upsets were the order of the day. Interisland rivalries on and off the beach brought a whole new crazy level of competition to this celebrated event that saw Damien Hobgood grab the ultimate glory.