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We recently added “This Is Not a Film” to the DBRL collection. The film has won several awards and currently has a rating of 99% from critics at Rotten Tomatoes. Here’s a synopsis from our catalog:

This clandestine documentary, shot partially on an iPhone and smuggled into France on a usb drive hidden in a cake for a last-minute submission to Cannes, depicts the day-to-day life of acclaimed director Jafar Panahi (Offside, The Circle) during his house arrest in his Tehran apartment. While appealing his 2010 sentence (six years in prison and a 20-year ban from filmmaking, interviews or leaving the country) Panahi is seen talking to his family and lawyer on the phone, and discussing his plight with his friend and collaborator, Mirtahmasb.

Check out the film trailer or the official film site for more info.

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We recently added Cleanflix to the DBRL collection. The film has played at various film festivals and currently has a rating of 95% from audiences at Rotten Tomatoes. Here’s a synopsis from our catalog:

Dozens of Utah DVD retailers attracted unwanted attention from Hollywood heavyweights when, in the name of conservative family values, they began sanitizing films of sex, nudity, profanity, and violence. Outraged over the unauthorized editing of their work, prominent filmmakers began to speak out, thrusting the two groups into an intense legal, theoretical, and moral battle that would last six years before coming to a shocking conclusion.

Check out the film trailer or the official film site for more info.

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