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41) Un Traductor
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
In the wake of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Malin, a Russian literature professor at The University of Havana, is sent to translate between Cuban doctors and children sent from the USSR for medical treatment. Torn from the abstract world of academia and forced into the relentlessly real world of medicine, Malin becomes increasingly depressed. When he meets a child who tells him a story, Malin connects with the kids and finds his way through. Just...
42) 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"...
43) 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.
44) The Last Mentsch
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...
45) A Touch of Spice
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.
46) 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...
48) 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.**
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**.
50) 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...
51) We Are the Best!
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Swedish
Description
A joyous and sharply observant portrait of the rebellious spirit of youth. Despite having no instruments—or discernible musical talent—three young misfit girls growing up in early '80s Stockholm put all their energy into forming a punk band. Official Selection at the **Venice Film Festival** and **Toronto International Film Festival**.
52) Wild Men
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Danish
Description
In a desperate attempt to cure his midlife crisis, MARTIN has fled his family to live high up in the Norwegian mountains. Hunting and gathering like his ancestors did thousands of years ago.
53) The Restless One
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Portuguese
Description
Part one of Miguel Gomes' monumental and dazzlingly original three-part update of the Middle Eastern folk tale, *One Thousand and One Nights*. In which Scheherazade tells of the restlessness that befell the country: It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that in a sad country among all countries, where people dream of mermaids and whales, and unemployment is spreading. In certain places, forests burn into the night despite the falling rain; men and...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Français
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...
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Acclaimed Argentine auteur Ana Katz’s funny, adventurous, and bittersweet new film follows Sebastian, an ordinary man in his thirties devoted to his loyal dog and working in a slew of temporary jobs. As he moves fitfully through adulthood, he navigates love, loss, and fatherhood - until the world is rocked by a sudden catastrophe, upending his already turbulent life.
56) Burning Bush
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Czech
Description
Acclaimed director Agnieszka Holland (Europa, Europa) returns to a pivotal time in modern Czech history: the shocking act of a student of the Charles University's Faculty of Arts, who in protest of the Soviet occupation, set himself on fire in Prague's Wenceslas Square on the 16th of January 1969, and died four days later. 2014 **Palm Springs International Film Festival** nominee, Audience Award - Best Narrative Feature. *"GRIPPING, crisply acted....
57) Digger
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A thrilling psychological western set in the rich forests of Northern Greece. When his estranged son appears with a motorcycle and a grudge, an iconoclastic farmer at war with an encroaching industry must let nature decide the fate of this tumultuous relationship.
59) Powder Keg
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Danish
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.
60) 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....
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