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In this thread you can share movies which highlight and made you feel about injuries and emotions that are common to specific cultures.

Title: Free Fall (2013)

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2617828/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Contributed By: Julie Bennion

"A truthfully depicted German film that deals with issues of sexual identity, what it means to be a man... expectations, deceit, cultural & familial norms & fears, self-denial & how one's denial & deceit causes pain for others too... This is a deeply moving film on all these topics, and more."

Title: Doll Test (2012)

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkpUyB2xgTM

Contributed By: Anita

"This is not a film just a short clip of where children are to choose between a white doll and a darker coloured doll. Which one is nice? ugly? bad? Really saddening."

Title: Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0252444/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Contributed By: Thalia

"A true story about 3 Aboriginal girls who were taken from their family by the Australian government and placed in a mission as a plan to eradicate and breed out Aboriginal people and culture. It is a story of how they ran away from the mission and made their journey home."

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Title: Once Were Warriors (1994)

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110729/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Contributed By: Thalia

"Story of a Maori family dominated by a violent father and who struggle with being treated as outcasts. Also explores rape and the effects of rape, addictions, identity."

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Title: Whale Rider (2002)

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298228/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Contributed By: Thalia

"Explores sacred traditions in Maori culture, gender conditioning and expectations."

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Title: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0914798/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Contributed By: Thalia

"Set in WWII about an eight yr old son of a German commandment officer of a concentration camp who becomes friends with a Jewish boy from the camp."

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Title: The Color Purple (1985)

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088939/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Contributed By: Thalia

"Life and trials of young African women."

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Title: 12 Years a Slave (2013)

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2024544/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Contributed By: Thalia

"A free African man sold into slavery."

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Title: Crash (2004)

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0375679/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Contributed By: Thalia

"Explores, race, loss, redemption."

Title: Misery Harbour (1999)

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0174640/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Contributed By: Anita

"Jante is a small town in Denmark. A young man - a boy really - around 1920's runs off and signs on a ship, he is trying to escape a future of a bleak life of hard work, he wants something else. But it seems like the dark shadow is haunting him, no escape for him. "