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Once
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Once Were Warriors
Carries a strong pull into film through power and South Asia.
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Hospice
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Once Were Warriors
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Once
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
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Yuri!!! on Ice
Carries a strong pull into music through longing and identity.
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Once Were Warriors
1990s
Violence, poverty, and Māori displacement in South Auckland. A brutal domestic portrait that became a national reckoning.
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Hospice
2000s
Hospice is the third studio album by American indie rock band The Antlers, and their first concept album. It was initially self-distributed by the band in March 2009, and was eventually remastered and re-released once they signed to Frenchkiss Records in August of the same year.
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Monster
2000s
A neurosurgeon hunts the psychopath he once saved. 74 episodes of psychological thriller perfection.
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Yuri!!! on Ice
2010s
Reeling from his crushing defeat at the Grand Prix Finale, Yuuri Katsuki, once Japan's most promising figure skater, returns to his family home to assess his options for the future. At age 23, Yuuri's window for success in skating is closing rapidly, and his love of pork cutlets and aptitude for gaining weight are n...
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Film 1990s
Once Were Warriors
A Māori family struggles with poverty and violence in South Auckland. Raw urban realism.
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Film 2010s
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Officials search for a buried body at night across the Anatolian steppe. Landscape as existential inquiry.
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Music 1990s
Once Were Warriors
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Music 2020s
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