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May 16, 2013
Plain Dealer Reports on the Groundbreaking of the New Gund Building
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See what's screening this week at the Cinematheque at the Cleveland Institute of Art: http://ow.ly/lhzoE5/21-25: Lore, Leviathan, Ozu & more! | Cleveland Institute of Artwww.cia.eduGerman children flee through devastated homeland at end of WWII in potent LOREWhen their Nazi parents are arrested at the chaotic close of WWII, five German siblings set off on a difficult journey through a devastated landscape to their grandmother’s house in distant Hamburg. Stunned by Hitler’s def...
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May 09, 2013
Four High School Students Awarded in CIA's National 2D3D Art + Design Contest
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May 31, 2013
Cinematheque to Present Two Parallel Comedy Film Series
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