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We Own This City
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We Need New Names
Carries a strong pull into film through memory and identity.

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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Carries a strong pull into television through power and Western Europe.
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When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Stories We Tell
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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The runway until we die
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and migration.
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We the Animals
2010s
Trois garçons tentent de grandir au milieu du chaos, entre crises conjugales et manque d'argent. De père portoricain et de mère blanche, ils sont soumis aux colères comme aux moments de tendresse de leurs parents.
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When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
2010s
When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? is a 2019 album associated with Billie Eilish and Darkroom. It keeps the music field anchored in recognizable listening lines rather than anonymous album slots.
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Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day
2010s
Jinta Yadomi is peacefully living as a recluse, spending his days away from school and playing video games at home instead. One hot summer day, his childhood friend, Meiko "Menma" Honma, appears and pesters him to grant a forgotten wish. He pays her no mind, which annoys her, but he doesn't really care. After all, M...
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What We Do in the Shadows
2010s
What We Do in the Shadows is a 2014 film from New Zealand, associated with Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.
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Essays 2010s
The runway until we die
The runway until we die is a 2019 essay or critical text by Kemio, linked to a wider international field and Japanese. It keeps the thought field readable as criticism, argument, and editorial context.
Television 2020s
We Are Who We Are
We Are Who We Are is a 2020 coming-of-age drama television miniseries co-created and directed by Luca Guadagnino for HBO and Sky Atlantic. A coming-of-age story set on a fictional U.S. military base in Chioggia, Italy, in 2016, the series follows two American teenagers, Fraser Wilson and Caitlin "Harper" Poythress....

Books 2010s
All the Light We Cannot See
A blind French girl and a German boy's paths converge during WWII. Radio, light, and connection.
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Music 2010s
Stories We Tell
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Film 2010s
Stories We Tell
A documentary that becomes a hall of mirrors. Family memory, unreliable narrators, and the stories that shape identity.

Books 2010s
We Need New Names
A girl grows up in a Zimbabwean shantytown and emigrates to America. Displacement and reinvention.