France

A French waiter living in New York City witnesses a murder and must go on the run from the police and the mob.Read More »

Cassandra, 26, is a flight attendant for a low-cost airline. Based in Lanzarote, she’s always willing to take on extra hours and carries out her duties with robotic efficiency. On the side, she just goes with the flow and floats between Tinder, parties and lazy days. When she suddenly gets dismissed, she is forced to return home.Read More »

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In 1990, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the France 2 news show Envoyé spécial sent Chris Marker to East Berlin in the lead-up to the first free elections in decades. BERLINER BALLADE is the film Marker made, but the program which commissioned it never aired it in its entirety.

Marker takes us onto the streets of Berlin—showing crowds of pedestrians, sausage vendors, even people creating fake Berlin Wall souvenirs to sell. He juxtaposes these images with archival footage of the wall and its surroundings, Hitler in a triumphant motorcade, and a stark row of crosses bearing the names (when known) and date of death of those killed trying to cross over into East Germany.Read More »

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Young Danny, better known as Tomb, is the toughest in a street gang in Paris. She dresses as a boy and fights like a man.Read More »

‘One day, on the Moroccan shores, one hundred and fifty years ago, thousands of antelopes together threw themselves into the sea.’ – Marguerite DurasRead More »

The young teacher Camille becomes rommmates with the fun-loving Émilie. Although the two have no romantic feelings for each other, they live out their mutual physical attraction – with regular and uncomplicated abandon. When Camille meets the 30-year-old student Nora, his interest in her is also piqued. Everyone wants non-commitment – but how long can you keep your feelings out? Master director Jacques Audiard uses dynamic black-and-white imagery to bring to life the inner world of a young and volatile generation living in France’s multicultural big city.Read More »

Adapts the Basque legend of Atarrabi and Mikelats, the tragic story of the sons of goddess Mari-Mother Earth- who are given to the devil for him to raise them.Read More »

The touching portrait of eight-year-old Sasha, who questions her gender and in doing so, evokes the sometimes disturbing reactions of a society that is still invested in a biological boy-girl system of thought.Read More »

A young woman’s return home brings up troubles from the past, while her teenage sister is anxious for the future.Read More »