2011-2020

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An unprecedented look inside the private world of J.D. Salinger, the reclusive author of The Catcher in the Rye.Read More »

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A mystical teen noir that follows a young girl’s disappearance in the rural Midwest and its effect on teens and parents.
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– 2018 THESSALONIKI — FIPRESCI Prize
– 2018 CARTHAGE — Special Mention, Best First Work
– 2018 BRATISLAVA — Best Director
– 2018 CANNES — Un Certain Regard-Best Screenplay

Sofia, who is in denial of her pregnancy, gets labor pains during a family meal with guests. Thanks to her med student cousin Lena’s vigilance, they go to a hospital without alerting anyone and she delivers her baby. However, her family aside, bureaucracy and laws get involved as well: if she won’t reveal the identity of the father, the hospital will need to inform the authorities. In her feature-length debut, Meryem Benm’barek delivers a thorough and striking analysis of class differences, gender inequality, matriarchal traditions, and taboos that form the fabric of Moroccan society starting off from article 490 of the country’s penal code which sanctions prison sentences for sexual relations out of wedlock.Read More »

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When lust strikes in a summery, sun-drenched, but somehow darkened Greek countryside farm: a group of young unemployed women are killing their time there. Love affairs, friendships and passions are subtly stimulated by soil, sun, booze, afternoon raunchiness and a secret from the past…Read More »

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A propaganda documentary about North Korea that reveals a few hidden facts because the director continues filming between the scripted scenes.Read More »

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Spanning the fifties to the seventies, the film follows Humberto as he gets increasingly in over his head with multiple shady book-cooking schemes throughout South America, leading to an ultimate life-or-death decision.Read More »

An eccentric suburban woman and a Walmart door greeter navigate their evolving relationship in this unconventional love story.Read More »

L’Inconsolable (The Inconsolable One).1st version. 2010. France. Written and directed by Jean-Marie Straub. Based on Dialogues with Leucò, by Cesare Pavese. With Andrea Bacci, Giovanna Daddi. In Italian. 14 min.

Returning from the forest of shades, a quietly defiant Orpheus tells a Bacchante it was free will, not destiny, which compelled him to cast the fatal gaze on his wife Eurydice, recognizing their love as a thing of the past and his own proper place in the world of living souls. A masterful series of camera shots reveals the Bacchante looking away in incredulity, horror, and betrayal. (Joshua Siegel – MoMA)Read More »

A solitary philosophy student steers his directionless life toward a violent crime, spurred on by a post-Soviet order characterized by growing inequality, institutional corruption and a ruthless ethic. Inspired by Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. Official selection of the prestigious Global Lens Collection presented by the Global Film Initiative.Read More »