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The Taqwacores Movie Trailer

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taqwacores_movieOh, to be young, beautiful, Muslim—and punk rockers! Heres one story of disaffected American youth we havent seen before. Yusef, a straitlaced Pakistani American college student, moves into a house with an unlikely group of Muslim misfits—skaters, skinheads, queers, and a riot grrrl in a burqa—all of whom embrace Taqwacore, the hardcore Muslim punk-rock scene.

DoBuy: The Faith of Fabric

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the_fabric_of_faith2_copyThe film follows three Emirati designers, Zahra M, Rabia Z and Deeya Nanda as they start out to establish their own fashion lines locally and abroad. The film reveals the hardships that they must go through to get noticed amidst the multitude of international brands and established fashion houses. Protecting their work being affected by globalisation, seeking equal opportunities in the Western, male-dominated culture, the women use design as a vehicle to create change and their veils as cultural shield. The film has won Best Documentary Film at the Gulf Film Festival 2010.


Date Night

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ScreenShot032_copyClaire and Phil Foster (Tina Fey and Steve Carell) are a typical suburban couple whose lives including their weekly date nights of dinner and a movie have become routine. To reignite the marital spark, they visit a trendy Manhattan bistro where a case of mistaken identity turns their evening into the ultimate date night-gone-awry. But as Claire and Phil take their unexpected walk on the wild side, they begin to remember what made them so special together.


Letters To God

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ScreenShot031_copyA heartfelt tale of inspiration, hope and redemption, Letters to God is the story of what happens when one boys walk of faith crosses paths with one mans search for meaning—the resulting transformational journey touches the lives of everyone around them.


'Eat, Pray, Love'

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Capture_copyA woman who once made it her goal in life to marry and rear a family finds her priorities suddenly shifting in director Ryan Murphy's adaptation of author Elizabeth Gilbert's best-selling memoir. In the eyes of many, Gilbert was a woman who had it all - a loving husband, a great apartment, and a weekend home - but sometimes one realizes too little too late that they haven't gotten what they truly wanted from life...

The Runaways

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ScreenShot029_copyThe story of musicians Joan Jett, Cherie Currie and Sandy West and their all-female rock band The Runaways. The Runaways stars Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning, Michael Shannon, Scout Taylor-Compton, and Brett Cullen. The Runaways is directed by Floria Sigismondi and will be in theaters March 19, 2010.

From Paris With Love

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A personal aide to U.S. Ambassador in France, James Reece (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) has an enviable life in Paris and a beautiful French girlfriend, but his real passion is his side job as a low-level operative for the CIA.

The Last Airbender

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Air, Water, Earth, Fire. Four nations tied by destiny when the Fire Nation launches a brutal war against the others. A century has passed with no hope in sight to change the path of this destruction.

 

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