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Young and recently separated couple meet in a modern house and start discussing their past relationship.Read More »

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An actress playing herself visits the Azores for a theater role, finding locals who mirror Shakespeare’s characters. Reality and fantasy merge as the film explores connections between life, art and imagination.Read More »

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In a sedate Massachusetts suburb circa 1970, unemployed family man and amateur art thief J.B. Mooney sets out on his first heist. With the museum cased and accomplices recruited, he has an airtight plan. Or so he thinks.

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Reichardt’s quietist, observational style is unexpectedly successful at creating a super-naturalistic depiction of an art gallery robbery.Read More »

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Sandrine Bonnaire plays a European researcher who is abducted by some ill-educated rebels in a North African country. They have no clear reason for holding her hostage, and after a considerable period of time (and an escape attempt by their captive), they simply let her go. The story is based on a similar situation that the director Raymond Depardon covered when he was a reporter.Read More »

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Directed by Farida Belyazid. Cast: Zaki-yah Tahiri, Eva Saint Paul, Shuaybiyah Adhrawi, Bashir Sukayrij, Ahmad al-Buanani. Nadia, a young Moroccan emigre, returns from Paris to Fez to visit her dying father. At his funeral, she is moved by the voice of Karina chanting the Koran. A powerful friendship develops between the two women as Nadia decides to turn her father’s place into a Muslim women’s shelter. A Sufi tale told in a metaphoric lanaguage, A door to the sky was one of the first films from North Africa that addressed the social and economic changes as proposed by a spiritual Muslim woman on a quest to preserve her cultural and religious identity.Read More »

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Pantheon filmmaker Carlos Saura bounced back from a handful of failures with 1989’s La Noche Oscura (The Dark Night). Juan Diego stars as San Juan de la Cruz (St. John of the Cross), the legendary 16th-century poet-prophet. Galvanized into action by the spirit of Santa Teresa de Jesus, San Juan fought to install reforms in the Carmelite Order. Like many another visionary, he was regarded as a heretic, and promptly subjected to the most appalling of tortures. Writer-director Saura manages to draw several parallels between the religious persecution of the 1700s and the political despotism of Fascist SpainRead More »

Musa, a law student seeks out Davud, a man imprisoned for kidnapping four women. He soon discovers that all of his victims have no wish to press charges. On the contrary, they have the feeling of a new truth in themselves. Musa’s encounter with the purported criminal becomes a journey into someone else’s inner world. Are the questions he asks the correct ones? Is the law a genuine form of justice? What is the meaning of humans imposing punishment on others? Is Musa being enlightened by a superior man, or is he being lured into a world of illusion?Read More »

Jan‘s (23) greatest passion is his animals. The reclusive biology student‘s apartment is filled with aquariums, terrariums, and cages. His fellow student Alice (23), an environmental activist, is attracted to his eccentric sensitivity. Jan gets involved in the group‘s actions when he tries to prevent Alice from getting arrested. When the two finally fall in love, Jan is elated. But the strong emotions, social life, and Alice‘s proximity seem to be too much for him. In his exaggerated perception, he sees signs of a threat that he must actively fight against. Jan increasingly falls into a delusional, sometimes manic, state that leads to a dramatic breakdown and his admittance to a psychiatric hospital.Read More »

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Now Showing captures the joyful and carefree ways of a young Filipina in the time of That’s Entertainment, a popular talent-variety show hosted by German Moreno.Read More »