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ABU

9 curated works.

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9 works selected across all media.

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Skins

Featured · Television

Skins is a British teen drama television series that follows the lives of a group of teenagers in Bristol, England, through the two years of sixth form. Its controversial storylines have explored issues such as dysfunctional families, mental illness, adolescent sexuality, gender, substance abuse, death, and bullying.

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The Nickel Boys

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The Nickel Boys

Carries a strong pull into film through memory and South Asia.

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CALIGULA

Music

CALIGULA

Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.

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Abu Omar

Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.

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Skins

Television

Skins

Carries a strong pull into music through power and after-hours.

Paradise Now

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Paradise Now

Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.

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Books · Strong bridge

The Nickel Boys

Two boys at a Jim Crow-era reform school. Based on a true story of institutional abuse.

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Music · Strong bridge

Classical piano, industrial noise, and operatic vocals about abuse and divine wrath.

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Paradise Now

Film · Strong bridge

Paradise Now is a 2005 film from Occupied Palestinian territories, Netherlands, and Israel, associated with Hany Abu-Assad. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bar...

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Film · Strong bridge

A Palestinian baker is caught between resistance, collaboration, and love. The occupation as moral labyrinth.

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A Bedouin boy guides a British officer through the desert during WWI. Survival and the old ways.

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