New DVD List: Meru, Finders Keepers & More

Here is a new DVD list highlighting various titles recently added to the library’s collection.

“Meru”
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Playing last year at the True False Film Fest, this film follows three renowned climbers as they navigate nature’s harshest elements and their own complicated inner demons to ascend Mount Meru, the most technically complicated and dangerous peak in the Himalayas. Meru is the story of that journey – one of friendship, sacrifice, hope and obsession.

“Finders Keepers”
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Another True False Film Fest pick, this film finds recovering addict and amputee John Wood in a battle to reclaim his mummified leg from Southern entrepreneur Shannon Whisnant, who found it in a grill he bought at an auction. The stranger-than-fiction chain of events soon sets John heading to his certain demise.

“The Hunting Ground”
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Playing in 2015 at the Missouri Theatre, this film is a startling expose of sexual assault on US campuses, their institutional cover-ups and the devastating toll they take on students and their families. Weaving together footage and first person testimonies, the film follows the lives of several undergraduate assault survivors.

“Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck”
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Playing at the 2015 True False Film Fest, this film explores Kurt Cobain like never before in the only fully authorized portrait of the famed music icon. Directed by acclaimed film maker Brett Morgen, who blends Cobain’s personal archive of art, music, movies, animation and revelatory interviews from his family and closest friends.

“Twinsters”
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A remarkable true story of identity and journey into sisterhood. Raised on different continents, with no idea the other existed, and connected 25 years later through social media, Samantha and Anais discover that they are identical twin sisters separated at birth. The film explores the ideas of family, adoption, nature vs. nurture and the power of social media.