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Online documentary hub MiniMovies is dedicated to exploring unfamiliar subjects through its series of short and compelling episodes.
The bite-sized highlights include Dream City, a catalog of patrons at a Northern Iraq theme park; Small Nations, Big Games, featuring a spotlight on Basque national sport Pilota; Wild Scenes, a look at Pakistan’s alternative "Lollywood" porn industry; and Ig Nobel Prizes, showcasing the alt-laurel for scientists whose research makes people "laugh and then think" — like an appetite study involving bottomless soup bowls and in-depth research on the side effects of sword swallowing.
Explore the site, watch the first and most successful MiniMovie, Molotov Alva and His Search for the Creator: A Second Life Odyssey, and browse MiniMovies producer the Submarine Channel’s online riches.
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‘Small Nations, Big Games’ gives a rather simplistic and partial vision of the Basque Country. It doesn’t mention what Basque nationalists have written about non-Basque people or immigrant workers (“degenerated people”, as Sabino Arana said). It remarks that the Basque Country has become an obsession for Spain, but ‘forgets’ about the reason of that obsession: there’s a terrorist group who keeps killing people. And it doesn’t mention that lots of Basque people just don’t want independence because they feel both Basque and Spanish. The funniest thing comes when the narrator says that he doesn’t want to talk about politics: so what are you talking about?