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41) Sátántangó
Publisher
Arbelos Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Hungarian
Description
One of the greatest achievements in recent art house cinema and a seminal work of “slow cinema,” SÁTÁNTANGÓ (SATAN'S TANGO) , based on the book by László Krasznahorkai, follows members of a small, defunct agricultural collective living in a post-apocalyptic landscape after the fall of Communism who, on the heels of a large financial windfall, set out to leave their village. As a few of the villagers secretly conspire to take off with all...
42) 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**.
43) Corpus Christi
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Polish
Description
After spending years in a Warsaw prison for a violent crime, 20-year-old Daniel is released and sent to a remote village to work as a manual laborer. The job is designed to keep the ex-con busy, but Daniel has a higher calling. Over the course of his incarceration he has found Christ, and aspires to join the clergy - but his criminal record means no seminary will accept him. When Daniel arrives in town, one quick lie allows him to be mistaken for...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Français
Description
A remarkable true story about the awesome power of imagination starring Mathieu Amalric as renowned editor Jean-Dominique Bauby. He is a man whose love of life, and soaring vision, shaped his will to write an inspiring memoir, despite a post-stroke condition that renders him paralyzed and unable to speak.
45) Confidence
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
Hungarian
Description
1980's CONFIDENCE was nominated for the Academy Award and Szabó won Berlin's Silver Bear for Best Director. In World War II-era Hungary, the resistance pairs two unrelated members to act as husband and wife in an effort to stay hidden in plain sight. Will they be able to maintain the illusion without giving in to their growing feelings for each other?
46) My Little Sister
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Lisa (Nina Hoss), once a brilliant playwright, has grown apart from her twin brother Sven since putting aside her writing and moving with her family to Switzerland. Sven was once himself a famous stage actor, and when he is diagnosed with aggressive leukemia in Berlin, Lisa is determined to help. Doing everything in her power to help Sven recover, as well as to bring him back to the stage, she puts aside her own life, even risking her relationship...
47) 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
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**.
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
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...
51) Utama
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
In the arid Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple has been living a tranquil life for years. While he takes their small herd of llamas out to graze, she keeps house and walks for miles with the other local women to fetch precious water. When an uncommonly long drought threatens everything they know, Virginio and Sisa must decide whether to stay and maintain their traditional way of life or admit defeat and move in with family members in the...
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Buenos Aires, 1982. Matías (19) has recently finished his military service and dreams of going to Spain to study music far from a dictatorship. His problems come down to convincing his girlfriend to meet him there at a later date and to get around his father’s opposition. But the playing board changes completely when the Falklands War breaks out and he is drafted along with his friends. At first, Matías will agree to the call-up, but he will realize...
53) Heavy Trip
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Norwegian
Description
In this offbeat comedy from Finland, Turo is stuck in a small village where the best thing in his life is being the lead vocalist for the amateur metal band Impaled Rektum. The only problem? He and his bandmates have practiced for 12 years without playing a single gig. The guys get a surprise visitor from Norway—the promoter for a huge heavy metal music festival—and decide it’s now or never. They steal a van, a corpse, and even a new drummer...
54) Clara Sola
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
In a remote village in Costa Rica, forty-year-old Clara endures a repressively religious and withdrawn life under the command of her mother. Her uncanny affinity for creatures large and small allows Clara to find solace in the natural world around her. Tension builds within the family as Clara’s younger niece approaches her quinceañera, igniting a sexual and mystical awakening in Clara, and a journey to free herself from the conventions that have...
55) 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....
56) 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...
57) Nora’s Will
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Before dying, Nora schemes a plan to make José, her ex-husband, take care of her corpse although a mysterious photograph forgotten under the bed will lead to an unexpected outcome reminding us that the biggest love stories are sometimes hidden in the smallest places. *"In her feature film debut, Mexican writer/director Mariana Chenillo has woven a genuine charmer, tartly funny and irreverent yet warm and poignant, a testament to enduring love." -...
58) Adam
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Arabic
Description
The Official Oscar entry for Morocco, Abla runs a modest local bakery from her home in Casablanca where she lives alone with her 8-year-old daughter Warda. Their routine of housework and homework is interrupted one day by a knock on the door. It is Samia, a young woman looking for a job and a roof over her head. The little girl is immediately taken with the newcomer, but her mother initially refuses to allow a pregnant stranger into their home. Gradually,...
59) Magic Alps
Publisher
Salaud Morisset
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
An Afghan refugee arriving in Italy to seek asylum brings the immigration system to a grinding halt when he includes his beloved goat in the application. Based on a true story.
60) 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:...
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