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Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Lynn is the most meticulous chambermaid in her hotel, leaving no shelf undusted, no sheet untucked. Crippled by shyness, she rummages through guests' belongings and even hides under their beds, vicariously experiencing their conversations, meals and discreet interludes. After clandestinely observing an S&M session, Lynn discovers the phone number of the call girl, Chiara. Bold and unrestrained, Chiara soon draws Lynn out of her shell, opening her...
2) Jaber
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
A peek into the creativity of Jaber al Mahjoub, a street artist, originally from Tunisia and now living in Paris, France. Encouraged at an early age by the French artist Jean Dubuffet, Jaber calls himself the “Happy Idiot,” obsessively making paintings, sculptures and songs that express the immediacy of life and experience. Jaber himself is Art Brut.
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Shot in secret and smuggled out of Iran, THERE IS NO EVIL is an anthology film comprising four moral tales about men faced with a simple yet unthinkable choice – to follow orders to enforce the death penalty, or resist and risk everything. Whatever they decide, it will directly or indirectly affect their lives, their relationships, and their consciences. Says director Mohammad Rasoulof: "As responsible citizens, do we have a choice when enforcing...
4) In the Fade
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Golden Globe® Winner for best foreign language film. Katja’s family is killed in a terrorist attack and her life falls apart. The killers are set free and Katja can do nothing else but seek justice.
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
From visionary director Yasuhiro Yoshiura (Time of Eve) comes PATEMA INVERTED, a perspective-twisting sci-fi adventure about two kids separated by opposite gravities. Patema lives in an underground world of tunnels, the long-abandoned ruins of a giant industrial complex. Though she is a princess, she is held back by the rules imposed by the elders of her clan. One day when she is exploring in a forbidden zone, she is startled by a strange bat-like...
6) Hurdle
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
In the shadow of a wall stands a new generation of Palestinian. With defiant creativity they prove that no matter the height of the obstacle, one can always climb. HURDLE reveals an important and intimate story emerging from the hearts and actions of Palestinian youth as the Israeli military occupation of the Palestinian territories reached its 50th year. Official Selection at **DOC NYC**.
7) Aelita
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
The largest-scale and biggest-budget production of the 1920s. Exhausted by the post-revolutionary life, engineer Los builds a spaceship to travel to Mars. A tragic accident forces him to urgently make use of his invention. On Mars he falls in love with Queen Aelita, while the Red Army man who came with him raises a proletarian uprising. The revolution destroys the Martian civilization.
8) Midaq Alley
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Heated tempers, frustrated desires and dashed hopes plague a diverse group of individuals whose lives cross paths in Mexico City. There is the bar-owner's son, Chava (Juan Manuel Bernal), who yearns to emigrate to America. A poor barber, Abel (Bruno Bichir), is madly in love with the gorgeous Alma (Salma Hayek), who eventually becomes a high-class prostitute. Finally, there is Susanita (Margarita Sanz), the desperate spinster who pursues many love...
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Set in Thessaloniki during the German occupation in 1943, the film tells the story of the forbidden love between Estrea, a young Jewish girl, and Giorgos, the brother in law of the famed composer Vassilis Tsitsanis. Much of the action takes place in and around the ouzeri owned by the then 28-year-old Tsitsanis at a time when he had reached his peak as a composer. In fact, the film's English title, CLOUDY SUNDAY, references Tsitsanis' beloved classic...
10) Powder Keg
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
In Copenhagen, criminal Omar, filmmaker Finn, Jewish watchman Dan, and the worn-out police officer Rico's destinies will intersect as they grapple with the consequences following the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo.
11) Rock'n Roll
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
At the age of 43, Guillaume Canet is fulfilled in life and has everything to make him happy. Yet his life with Marion, his son, his country house, and his horses all make him look like a has-been. He seems to have lost his sex appeal. Guillaume understands that he must change everything, and fast. And he'll have to go to great lengths to do so, while his nearest and dearest look on with amazement.
12) 1982
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
During the 1982 invasion of Lebanon at a Quaker school in the mountains above Beirut, 11-year-old Wissam tries to tell a classmate about his crush on her, while his teachers on different sides of the political divide, try to mask their fears.
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
At Turkey’s oldest zoo, a lonely zoo keeper and a neglected female staff member form an unlikely bond as they hide the death of the zoo’s oldest inhabitant, an Anatolian leopard, in order to stop the privatization process and fake its escape, they set in motion an absurd charade that spins out of control. In Turkey’s grey and quiet capital, the ghost of the leopard persists.
14) Blond Tango
Pub. Date
1986.
Description
Rogelio was forced into exile by the Chilean military Junta after being arrested and put into the Antofagasta prison camp. For five years, he has lived as a Chilean exile in the GDR, where he works as a lighting technician at a small local theater. Rogelio is lonely and isolated. He fantasizes about the opera singer Cornelia, and in his letters to his mother, he spins his dream into reality. He writes to her about his happy relationship and plans...
15) Isabella
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Mariel longs to play the role of Isabella in a local Shakespeare production, but money problems prevent her from preparing for the audition. She asks her brother’s girlfriend, Luciana, to convince her brother to give her money, who agrees on the condition that Mariel will not abandon her acting.
16) Full Time
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Single mother Julie (Laure Calamy) needs reliable transit to get to work–and it’s suddenly been severed during the latest transit strike. Out of desperation, Julie turns to neighbors and her own gutsy resourcefulness to stay afloat in a ruthless society as her responsibilities pile up. FULL TIME is an impossible race against time and a kinetic thriller about the insecurity of modern life.
17) Ushpizin
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
You see a lemon ...they see a Miracle! Moshe and Malli are the picture perfect models of a happy, loving, devoted, married Jewish couple. One problem, they are dead broke! Diving deep into their Orthodox faith, they pray for help. But instead of a miracle, they are sent two devious escaped convicts. Seeing this as a test, Moshe and Malli make it their task to turn these strangers from unwelcome visitors into honored guests. "Gentle and affecting,...
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
In Bruno Dumont’s farcical follow-up, Li’l Quinquin is all grown up and goes by the nickname CoinCoin. He hangs out on the Côte D’Opale and attends meetings of the Nationalist Party with his childhood friend Fatso. His old love, Eve, has abandoned him for Corinne. When a strange magma is found near the town, the inhabitants suddenly start to behave very weirdly. Our beloved heroes Captain Van Der Weyden and his loyal assistant Carpentier...
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Handsome Luc (Logann Antuofermo), following in his aging father’s footsteps to study the craft of furniture joining, doesn’t appear to have any trouble meeting and dating women; as the film opens he’s aggressively courting Djemila (Oulaya Amamra) at a Paris bus stop. Skeptical yet ultimately trusting, Djemila will not be Luc’s one and only.
20) The Rose Maker
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Eve is one of France’s greatest artisanal horticulturalists, but her rose business is facing imminent bankruptcy. When her secretary hires three inexperienced ex-convicts, they must team up to rescue the business in this verdant comedy.
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