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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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The North General Hospital in the Tondo district of Manila was as busy as a battlefield. Hideyuki Harada, an intern on duty at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, worked without having time to breathe. It was six years ago that Harada decided to become a doctor. Harada, who worked at the Manila branch of a Japanese trading company, was supposed to marry a junior at the university, Masami, when she returned to Japan, but she told her that she was married to Harada’s best friend, Isomura, a sergeant at a large hospital.
Ten-year-old Palkó has just moved home to Budapest from Berlin and observes the daily life of an ordinary Hungarian elementary school with confused amazement. Juci, the young teacher just started working there. She is the only one who understands Palkó, as in their own way, they are both suffering from the same, sometimes grotesque educational system.Read More »
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Set in Mexico City, Carlos Reygadas’s sexually explicit drama centers on a man in turmoil over his past actions. Chauffer Marcos feels compelled to reveal a dark secret to his boss’s daughter, Ana, a wealthy woman who works as a prostitute just for the thrill of it. Marcos confesses that he and his wife committed a crime that ended in horrible tragedy. Haunted by his past, Marcos searches for redemption.Read More »
Ten years ago, David Cunio starred in Tom Shoval’s debut feature film Youth. On October 7, 2023, Cunio was taken from the Nir Oz kibbutz and has been held hostage ever since. The filmmaker sends him a heartfelt video message.Read More »
COEXISTENCE, MY ASS! follows Israeli activist-comedian Noam Shuster Eliassi as she creates a comedy show by the same name. Shot over five tumultuous years, the film traces Noam’s personal, professional, and political journey in tandem with the region’s steady deterioration.Read More »
Based on a true story, Palme d’Or-winning director, Laurent Cantent (Entre les murs/THE CLASS, 2008) depicts the fall of a rising star, carried away by the turbulence of Twitter. Witness the rise and the fall of Karim D., the new wunderkind of French literature adored by critics and audiences alike, whose hate messages formerly posted on social networks by his digital alter-ego Arthur Rambo have been exhumed. Will Karim live with the consequences, or narrowly escape cancellation? “I am sharp and wise. I know poetry and politics. I rose from a social underworld to an exposed position as a provocative Parisian author. I published a novel. But I also write in 140 characters. And when I do, I hit my target. That’s why they all want me out!” -Arthur Rambo.Read More »
Vienna, 1995. Jasmin, Tamara, Valentin, Senad and Roman live near the northern border of Austria. Their lives repeatedly intersect and drift apart. The characters involved are young migrants from the former Yugoslavia, Romania, Poland and Austria itself. Strangers in a strange land, they feel a sense of loss in their new, temporary environment. The five-some meet and get close to each other, hopelessly clinging to friendships and relationships with no future. They frequent cafés and train stations dreaming of a better tomorrow. Often, they just fall back on the prospect of short-term affection in yet another doomed romantic or sexual encounter. Trying hard to suppress the memories of war and alienation, they try to find moral strength and warmth through one another.Read More »
A father and son try to freeze time through cinema, but the father’s illness threatens to cut their quest short.Read More »