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 »
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 »
A father and son try to freeze time through cinema, but the father’s illness threatens to cut their quest short.Read More »
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When an auto mechanic encounters the man who may have been his torturer in prison, he kidnaps him to exact vengeance. But since the sole clue to Eghbal’s identity is the squeak of his prosthetic leg, Vahid turns to other now-freed victims for confirmation. And the danger only escalates.Read More »
Synopsis
Joseph Fulton, a famous director, wants to work at a cemetery.
Meanwhile, he has his last will and testament drawn up.
His girlfriend thinks he’s dying. Rumor spreads and soon everyone
he knows gathers to say their last farewells.Read More »
During the military intervention in Lebanon in the summer of 1982, the IDF seized the archive collection of photos and film from the Palestine Research Center in Beirut. Kamal Aljafari reclaims these images, which have been stored by the Israeli army and Ministry of Defense, thwarting this attempt to erase a people deprived of their visual memory.Read More »
Set in the coffee fields of Latin America, the movie unfolds through the eyes of Josefina Moreno, an 18 year-old coffee picker, with a rare and amazing sense of smell.Read More »