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Publisher
Stray Dogs
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Four twenty-somethings from Quebec reject the world in which they live. Three years after the collapse of the "Maple Spring" protest movement, they resort to a form of vandalism that gradually leads them closer to terrorism. Best Canadian Feature Film winner at the **Toronto International Film Festival**. Official Selection at the **Berlin International Film Festival**. *"[A] sprawling, vibrant, thought-provoking and thoroughly engaging film." - Pat...
82) Golden Kingdom
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
GOLDEN KINGDOM is the first international feature film produced in Myanmar since its recent reopening. GOLDEN KINGDOM is a narrative feature film about four orphan boys, novice monks living in a Buddhist monastery in a remote part of Northeast Burma. The head monk departs on a long journey from which he may never return, leaving the boys alone in the middle of the forest. Once the boys are on their own, strange, magical occurrences begin to pass....
83) Mediterranea
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Français
Description
Two men make the dangerous journey from Africa to Italy for a better life, but then face hostility & violence in this shocking look at the life-and-death struggle of refugees.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Winner of awards at Tribeca and Vancouver, MY WONDERFUL WANDA is a delightful satire of the haves and the have-nots set against the backdrop of a gorgeous lakeside villa in Switzerland. At the story’s center is Wanda (Agnieszka Grochowska) a Polish caretaker who has left her own small children in Poland to look after Josef (André Jung) the stroke-ridden patriarch of the wealthy Wegmeister-Gloor dynasty. Wanda is adept in navigating the tricky family...
86) Horses Of God
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Français
Description
Ten-year-old Yachine and his thirteen-year-old brother Hamid live in Sidi Moumen, an impoverished slum on the outskirts of Casablanca. Hamid, though just a child, works hard to sustain his family by any means, but eventually get involved with the "wrong crowd" and becomes one of the local neighborhood bosses. He continues to fiercely protect his brother - until the day he is thrown into prison. After years in jail, Hamid returns home a changed man:...
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Arabic
Description
Sam seeks to escape the Syrian War, but in order to travel to Europe and be reunited with the love of his life, he accepts to have his back tattooed by one of the world’s most prominent contemporary artist. Turning his own body into a prestigious piece of art, Sam will however come to realize that his decision might actually mean anything but freedom.
Publisher
h264
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
A group of actors putting on an interpretive Passion Play in Montreal begin to experience a meshing of their characters and their private lives as the production takes form against the growing opposition of the Catholic church. The Passion Play becomes interlaced with philosophical considerations on the consumer society, the creation of the universe and the meaning of life.
Publisher
El Dorado Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Based on an award-winning graphic novel, this is the powerful yet little-known story of story of Abina Mansah. Enslaved by a wealthy planter in Africa's Gold Coast (modern day Ghana), she successfully fought for justice and freedom in the region's colonial legal system. Winner of Best Feature at the **Montreal International Animation Film Festival ANIMAZE**.
90) Icarus
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1975.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Mathias is eight and lives with his divorced mother in East Berlin. One day, he pays his father a surprise visit. When he opens the door, his father is confused—and Mathias notices that a strange woman is there. When he sees Mathias looking at a picture of ICARUS, he distracts the boy from the situation and tells him the legend of ICARUS. When his father promises him a sightseeing flight on his upcoming birthday, Mathias is excited; but it breaks...
91) Gloria
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
A story set in Santiago and centered on GLORIA, a free-spirited older woman, and the realities of her whirlwind relationship with a former naval officer whom she meets out in the clubs. Official Selection at the **Berlin International Film Festival**, and the **Toronto International Film Festival**.
92) Longing
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
עברית
Description
Ariel, a well-off, childless man gets a phone call from his college girlfriend. She needs to tell him a couple of very surprising things: first, when they broke up twenty years ago, she was pregnant and went on to have a lovely boy. The second thing will make Ariel explore the hidden aspects of parenthood and change his life forever. Nominated for multiple prizes and winner of Best Screenplay at the **Awards of the Israeli Film Academy.** Winner of...
93) Love Street
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Français
Description
A handyman in a 1940s Paris brothel tries to help the prostitute he loves with her singing career and romantic life.
Publisher
Wolfe Video
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Italiano
Description
Two very different families spend their holidays in the same house at the seaside: the aristocratic Castelvecchios, open-minded, eccentric, but quite selfish, and the working-class Petagnas, very tight-knit, and united around solid conservative values. What brought such distant worlds together? Only Tony and Carlo, the two middle-aged heads of the families, know! The unexpected announcement of their engagement will disrupt an apparently ordinary summer,...
96) Scandal Makers
Publisher
Cineverse
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Korean
Description
Mid 30's Nam Hyun-Soo is a popular radio DJ and entertainer. When he was younger, he was even more popular as a teen idol. One day, his apartment doorbell rings and a young lady named Hwang Jung-Nam appears and a young boy appear on his doorstep. The young lady tells Hyun-Soo that he is her father and he is also a grandfather to her son Ki-Dong. Hyun-Soo not believing any of this, attempts to close the door, but when Jung-Nam threatens to go to the...
97) Les Nôtres
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Français
Description
To the tight-knit community of Sainte-Adeline, Quebec, Magalie appears as a normal suburban high school sophomore surrounded by friends. But this popular teenage girl is harboring a shocking secret: she’s pregnant. When Magalie refuses to identify the father, suspicions among the townsfolk come to a boiling point and the layers of a carefully maintained social varnish eventually crack.
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Italiano
Description
Naples, 1904: Eduardo Scarpetta risked everything by staging a parody of the great Italian poet, Gabriele D’Annunzio. Despite legal troubles and familial strife, Scarpetta fought for his legacy as one of the greats of Italian theater.
100) The Clay Bird
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Bengali
Description
Set against a 1960's backdrop leading up to Bangladesh's independence from Pakistan, THE CLAY BIRD tells the story of Anu, a boy sent away by his father to an Islamic school. Far from his family and the warmth of his region's Hindu festivities, Anu struggles to break out of his shell and adapt to the school's harsh monastic life. As the political divisions in the country intensify, an increasing split develops between the school's students, just as...
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