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Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
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) In the Fade
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Deutsch
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.
Publisher
Filmination
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
日本語
Description
This is a story about a married couple,”Mr. & Mrs. Hikita” who have been having difficulty with fertility treatments for several years.The couple had enjoyed their life like an adventure, so they have never thought about having a baby (like an ordinary life). One day, the young wife just said, “I want to meet Hikita-san’s baby!” Then they started trying to have a baby. However, it’s not easy to become pregnant. Mr. Hikita is 49 years old...
4) Jaber
Publisher
Les Blank Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Français
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.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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...
6) Museum Hours
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A mesmerizing tale of two adrift strangers who find refuge in Vienna's grand Kunsthistorisches Art Museum. A chance meeting sparks a deepening connection that draws them through the halls of the museum and the streets of the city. Nominated for Best Editing and the John Cassavetes Award at the **Film Independent Spirit Awards**. Nominated for a SXGlobal Award at the **SXSW Film Festival**. *"Sommer is perfect. So is O'Hara. This is the "Before Sunrise"...
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Having spent a lifetime concealing his heritage, an aging German Holocaust survivor tries to come to terms with his past. Born Menachem Teitelbaum, Marcus Schwarz (German Academy Award winner Mario Adorf) escaped Auschwitz with his life only to exterminate his Jewishness. Without family, a synagogue or a single Jewish friend, the hardened old man has so effectively created a new identity that, when faced with his own mortality, the rabbis refuse his...
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Fanis, a forty year old astrophysics professor, journeys back to his childhood home. In affectionate, uplifting scenes, A TOUCH OF SPICE portrays Fanis’ relationship with his beloved grandfather, the pain he suffered from being thrown out of Turkey at an early age, and the difficulties his family faced as they adjusted to life in Greece.
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Arabic
Description
A moving meditation on what it means to live in the present, YOU WILL DIE AT TWENTY is an auspicious debut and Sudan’s first Oscar submission, Shortly after his birth, the holy man of the village predicts that Muzamil will die at age 20. His father, unable to stand the curse, leaves home forcing Sakina to raise her son as an overly protective single mother. One day, Muzamil turns 19....
Publisher
Visit Films
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
Deep in the summer heat of Buenos Aires, Marcela is faced with the task of purging the apartment of her recently deceased sister, all while being drawn into an illicit affair with a younger man. Nominated for a Golden Lion at the **Locarno International Film Festival**.
12) Oblivion Verses
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures*
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
When the elderly caretaker of a remote morgue discovers the body of a young woman killed during a protest, he embarks on a magical odyssey to give her a proper burial before the militia returns. Winner of four awards, including Best Screenplay and the FIPRESCI Prize at the **Venice International Film Festival.** Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival.** *"Haunting and perplexing." - Jordan Mintzer, **Hollywood Reporter***
Publisher
GKIDS Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Paris, 1930. The infamous surrealist filmmaker Luis Buñuel is left penniless after the scandalous release of L’Age d’Or leads to a falling out with collaborator Salvador Dalí. On a whim, Buñuel’s good friend, sculptor Ramón Acín, buys a lottery ticket and promises to devote his winnings to fund Buñuel’s next film. Incredibly, Ramón wins the jackpot, sending the two friends to the remote mountains of their native Spain to film the documentary...
14) My Prince Edward
Publisher
Cheng Cheng Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Serving countless newlyweds in Hong Kong’s go-to one-stop-shop of cheap wedding supplies doesn’t exempt Fong from social pressure to marry. Since nodding to Edward’s proposal, she has been pushed beyond limits by unaffordable housing, archaic customs, and intrusive in-laws. What befuddles her further is the reappearance of Shuwei, a mainlander she’s supposed to be divorced from out of a sham marriage that solved her coming-of-age hardship....
15) Son of Sofia
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures*
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Russian
Description
11-year-old Misha arrives from Russia to live with his mother, Sofia. What he doesn’t know is that there is a father waiting for him there. While Greece is living the Olympic dream, Misha is violently catapulted into the adult world, transforming difficult situations into dark fairy tales. Winner of the Best International Narrative Feature Award at the **Tribeca Film Festival.**
16) Young Ahmed
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Français
Description
The Dardenne Brothers won this year's Best Director award at the **Cannes Film Festival** for this brave new work, another intimate portrayal-in-furious-motion of a protagonist in crisis. The filmmakers' radical empathy alights on a Muslim teenager (extraordinary first-time actor Idir Ben Addi) in a small Belgian town who has been radicalized by his Imam despite the desperate protestations of his single mother (Claire Bodson), and who winds up hatching...
17) Captain Abu Raed
Publisher
Under the Milky Way
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Arabic
Description
When an old airport janitor finds a captain's hat in the trash, he gets pulled into the lives of children in his poor neighborhood. He weaves imaginary stories of his world adventures to offer hope in the face of their harsh reality.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Swedish
Description
Essayist, novelist, critic, cinephile, and all-around intellectual dynamo Sontag made her directorial debut with this definition-defying, dryly funny psychological serio-comedy, the result of a Swedish studio’s invitation to her to make a film in Stockholm. The result, revolving around the quadrangular relationship between an arrogant ex-revolutionist German intellectual exile, his elegant wife, their Swedish student secretary, and the earnest secretary’s...
19) You Resemble Me
Publisher
Aspect Ratio Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
Cultural and intergenerational trauma erupt in this story about two sisters on the outskirts of Paris. After the siblings are torn apart, the eldest, Hasna, struggles to find her identity, leading to a choice that shocks the world. Director Dina Amer takes on one of the darkest issues of our time and deconstructs it in an intimate story about family, love, sisterhood, and belonging.
20) Boomba Ride
Publisher
Deaf Crocodile Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Assamese
Description
A scathing comic satire of corruption in India’s rural education system – and one 8-year old boy (newcomer Indrajit Pegu, in a remarkable performance) who knows how to rig the game for himself. Inspired by a true story, the film was shot in the state of Assam on the banks of the Brahmaputra River with a mostly nonprofessional cast.
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