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Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Français
Description
From beyond the grave, celebrated playwright Antoine d'Anthac gathers together all his friends who have appeared over the years in his play "Eurydice." These actors watch a recording of the work performed by a young acting company, La Compagnie de la Colombe. Do love, life, death and love after death still have any place on a theater stage? It's up to them to decide. And the surprises have only just begun...
2) Rise
Publisher
Blue Fox Entertainment
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Français
Description
An uplifting story of resilience set in the dance world, RISE tells the story of a young ballet dancer whose life is upended when she suffers a career threatening injury and catches her boyfriend cheating on her. As she begins her physical and emotional rehabilitation, she finds solace in friends, a new love, and a new contemporary dance troupe.
Publisher
Arrow Films
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
日本語
Description
An extended farming family faces the cultural tradition of abandoning their aged mother on a mountain as she reaches her seventieth year. Imamura's documentary-style filmmaking delves into the complex dynamics of Japanese society and its timeless traditions.
4) Saint Omer
Publisher
Neon
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Français
Description
A young novelist Rama attends the trial of a woman accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter. As the trial continues, the words of the accused and witness testimonies will shake Rama and call into question our own judgement.
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.
7) Cloclo
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Français
Description
A biopic of French pop star Claude François, most famous for co-writing the song "My Way". Tracing his life from childhood in Egypt through success in France to his untimely death in Paris in 1978.
8) Quake
Publisher
Juno Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Icelandic
Description
After being hit by a fierce epilepsy seizure Saga's life changes forever. Long forgotten repressed memories suddenly start to come back, forcing her to face a disturbing truth about her past, and present, and her role in life as a daughter, sister, partner and mother.
9) Sisters
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Français
Description
For thirty years, French-Algerian sisters Zorah, Nohra and Djamila have been living in the hope of finding their brother Rheda, abducted by their father, and hidden in newly decolonised Algeria. Their relationship is shaken when Zorah, the eldest sister, decides to write a play based on the traumatising events of their childhood that haunted them their whole life. But when they learn that their father is dying, the three sisters decide to go to Algeria...
10) Non-Fiction
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Français
Description
Alain is in his 40s and runs a famous publishing house which publishes novels by his friend Léonard, a bohemian writer. Alain's wife, Selena, is the star of a popular TV series and Léonard's companion, Valérie, is the devoted assistant of a political figure. Although they are longtime friends, Alain is about to turn down Léonard's new manuscript, complicating the relationship between the two couples.
11) Illusions
Publisher
Stage Russia
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Russian
Description
Nikolai Gostiukhin’s reimagining of Ivan Vyrypaev’s ILLUSIONS is presented as a teleplay, with Vyrypaev’s series of separate monologues transformed into a couples therapy session, allowing the protagonists to talk about the anxieties and worries they have accumulated during their marriage through the metaphorical account of the lives of two elderly married couples. This conceit adds a new dimension to Vyrypaev's masterful text, with the viewer...
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Korean
Description
After years of living abroad in America, former actress Sangok is back in Seoul, staying with her sister. Over the course of a day, it becomes clear that there are many things she’s not revealing, and this may be to do with her decision to meet with a film director to discuss her return to acting.
13) Chile '76
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Set during the early days of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship, CHILE ‘76 builds from quiet character study to gripping suspense thriller as it explores one woman’s precarious flirtation with political engagement. Carmen (Aline Kuppenheim) leads a sheltered upper middle class existence. She heads to her summer house in the off-season to supervise its renovation, while also performing local charitable works through her church. Her husband, children,...
Publisher
Distrib Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Français
Description
Maintaining a household and stoically submitting to conjugal duty are the skills Paulette Van Der Beck teaches with fervor in her homemakers institute. Her certainties are shaken when she finds herself widowed and ruined. Is she rattled by the return of her first love or the wind of freedom in May ’68? What if the good wife finally became a free woman?
15) Betty
Publisher
Arrow Films
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
Français
Description
Adapted from the novel of the same name by Maigret author Georges Simenon, BETTY is a scathing attack on the upper-middle classes, featuring an extraordinary performance by Marie Trintignant as a woman spiraling into alcoholism, but fighting to redefine herself.
16) Beautiful Beings
Publisher
Altered Innocence
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Icelandic
Description
Iceland's official submission to the Academy Awards® for Best International Feature Film! Addi, a boy raised by a clairvoyant mother, decides to adopt a bullied misfit into his gang of outsiders. Left to their own devices, the boys explore aggression and violence but also learn about loyalty and love. As the group’s behavior escalates towards life-threatening situations, Addi begins to experience a series of dreamlike visions. Can his newfound...
17) Rock'n Roll
Publisher
Under the Milky Way
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Français
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.
Publisher
Dekanalog
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Türkçe
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.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In Taipei, a movie theater is closing, but not before one final film is shown -- "Dragon Inn," a 1967 actioner and the source of nostalgia for the moviegoers and employees in the old, decrepit and possibly haunted building. The workers include eccentric projectionist Hsiao-Kang and a crippled cashier. The patrons include a Japanese tourist and two ghostly actors from the original film who have come to mourn the passing of an era.
20) Godland
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Icelandic
Description
The struggle between the strictures of religion and our own brute animal nature plays out amid the beautifully forbidding landscapes of remote Iceland in this stunning psychological epic from director Hlynur Pálmason. In the late nineteenth century, Danish priest Lucas (Elliott Crosset Hove) makes the perilous trek to Iceland’s southeastern coast with the intention of establishing a church. There, the arrogant man of God finds his resolve tested...
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