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Joe Wright
Keira Knightley re-teams with director Joe Wright (Atonement) for this visionary adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's classic novel about a society woman… 
CastKeira Knightley, Jude Law, Aaron Johnson
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
SP$14A

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Ben Affleck
As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found sh… 
CastBen Affleck, John Goodman, Kyle Chandler, Ba…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
GALA$$14A

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Ramin Bahrani
A drama centered on an enterprising farmer whose plans cause problems within his family. Zac Efron, Dennis Quaid and Heather Graham star in thi… 
CastZac Efron, Dennis Quaid and Heather Graham
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$PG

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Ziad Doueiri
An Arab surgeon living in Tel Aviv discovers a dark secret about his wife in the aftermath of a suicide bombing. Based on a novel by Yasmina Kha… 
CastAli Suliman, Evgenia Dodena and Reymond Amsa…
LanguageArabic | Hebrew   CountryLebanon | France | Q…
SP$14A

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Neil Jordan
A mother and daughter vampire duo form a deadly pact. Two mysterious women seek refuge in a run-down coastal resort. Clara meets lonely Noel, w… 
CastGemma Arterton, Saoirse Ronan, Jonny Lee Mil…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
SP$14A

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Costa-Gavras
We are slaves to the Capital. We tremble when it trembles. We celebrate when it grows and triumphs. Who will set us free? Should we liberate our… 
CastGabriel Byrne, Jordana DePaula and Gad Elmal…
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance
SP$18A

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Kaige Chen
The story of three women whose worlds collide, Caught in the Web is a social commentary about the ‘sound bite’ society we are becoming, where pe… 
CastMark Chao, Chen Hong and Gao Yuanyuan
LanguageMandarin   CountryChina
SP$PG

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Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski ,…
Six stories set in a different time and place become intricately related to each other. An epic story of humankind in which the actions and con… 
CastTom Hanks, Halle Berry and Hugh Grant, Hugo …
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$14A

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Robert Redford
A thriller centered on a former Weather Underground activist who goes on the run from a journalist who has discovered his identity. Robert Redf… 
CastRobert Redford, Shia LaBeouf, Julie Christie…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
GALA$$PG

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Jin-ho Hur
Dangerous Liaisons is a drama film based upon Christopher Hampton's play, Les liaisons dangereuses, which in turn was a theatrical adaptation of… 
CastZiyi Zhang, Dong-gun Jang and Cecilia Cheung…
LanguageMandarin   CountryChina
GALA$$14A

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Baltasar Kormákur
On a cold night a few miles off the coast of Iceland in March 1984, a fishing boat sank with all of its men. Miraculously surviving after five h… 
CastÓlafur Darri Ólafsson, Jóhann G. Jóhannsson …
LanguageIcelandic   CountryIceland
SP$14A

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Marco Bellocchio
A drama set in different locations during the last six days of life of Eluana Englaro, a young woman who lived 17 years in a vegetative state. A… 
CastIsabelle Huppert, Toni Servillo, Alba Rohrwa…
LanguageItalian   CountryItaly, French
SP$14A

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Nishikawa Miwa
A black comedy about a newly broke couple, who decide to try marriage scams to raise cash. After losing their restaurant in a fire, a husband a… 
CastTakako Matsu, Sadao Abe, Rena Tanaka, Yûsuke…
LanguageJapanese   CountryJapan
SP$14A

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David Ayer
Two young officers are marked for death after confiscating a small cache of money and firearms from the members of a notorious cartel, during a … 
CastJake Gyllenhaal, Michael Peña and Anna Kendr…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$14A

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Gauri Shinde
Sridevi plays the central role of a housewife, who enrolls for an English speaking course in order to please her husband and family. Legendary … 
CastSridevi, Adil Hussain and Mehdi Nebbou, Priy…
LanguageEnglish | Tamil | Hi…   CountryIndia
GALA$$PG

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Ana Piterbarg
A man who assumes the identity of his deceased twin in Argentina. Everybody Has A Plan tells the story of Agustín (Viggo Mortensen), a man desp… 
CastViggo Mortensen, Soledad Villamil and Daniel…
LanguageSpanish   CountryArgentina | Spain
SP$14A

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Stéphane Brizé
Moving drama about a man just released from prison who is faced with a painful decision when his fatally ill mother determines that she wants to… 
CastVincent Lindon, Hélène Vincent and Emmanuell…
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance
SP$PG

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Laurent Cantet
The latest film from Palme d’Or winner Laurent Cantet (Entre les murs) is a vivid adaptation of the celebrated Joyce Carol Oates novel about a s… 
CastMichelle Nolden, Ali Liebert and Tamara Hope
LanguageEnglish   CountryFrance, Canada
SP$14A

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Noah Baumbach
An aspiring dancer (co-writer Greta Gerwig) moves to New York City and becomes caught up in a whirlwind of flighty fair-weather friends, diminis… 
CastGreta Gerwig, Mickey Sumner
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$14A

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Shola Lynch
Free Angela is a feature-length documentary about Angela Davis and the high stakes crime, political movement, and trial that catapults the 26 ye… 
CastAngela Davis
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA, France
GALA$$PG

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Sally Potter
London, 1962: Two teenage girls, Ginger and Rosa, are inseparable. They play truant together, discuss religion, politics and hairstyles, and dre… 
CastElle Fanning, Alice Englert, Christina Hendr…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
SP$14A

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Mike Newell
A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor. An outstanding roster of British acting talent — including… 
CastRalph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter, Robbie …
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
GALA$$PG

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Margarethe von Trotta
A look at the life of philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt, who reported for The New Yorker on the war crimes trial of the Nazi Adol… 
CastJanet McTeer, Barbara Sukowa, Julia Jentsch …
LanguageGerman   CountryGermany
SP$14A

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Thomas Vinterberg
A kindergarten teacher is falsely accused of child abuse. The Hunt is a disturbing depiction of how a lie becomes the truth when gossip, doubt … 
CastMads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen and Annika …
LanguageDanish   CountryDenmark
SP$14A

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Roger Mitchell
The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret Stuckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen o… 
CastBill Murray, Laura Linney and Olivia William…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
GALA$$PG

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Ariel Vromen
Story of real-life mob hit-man Richard "The Iceman" Kuklinski, who was reportedly responsible for over 200 murders. Based on Anthony Bruno's bo… 
CastWinona Ryder, Chris Evans, David Schwimmer, …
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$18A

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Shari Springer Berman, Rober…
A playwright stages a suicide in an attempt to win back her ex, only to wind up in the custody of her gambling-addict mother. 
CastKristen Wiig, Natasha Lyonne and Matt Dillon…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$14A

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Juan Antonio Bayona
Based on a true story, The Impossible is the unforgettable account of a family caught in the mayhem of one of the worst natural catastrophes of … 
CastNaomi Watts, Tom Holland, Samuel Joslin, Oak…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA, Spain
SP$14A

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François Ozon
A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his Fre… 
CastKristin Scott Thomas, Emmanuelle Seigner and…
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance
SP$14A

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Rubba Nadda
One afternoon, on a typical day at work, Adib is confronted with devastating news: His eldest daughter, Muna, has gone missing in Damascus. Now … 
CastAlexander Siddig, Joshua Jackson and Marisa …
LanguageEnglish   CountryCanada
GALA$$14A

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Billy Bob Thorton
A young man in the 1940s raises a family in Alabama after his wife leaves him for an Englishman and moves to England. When the wife dies, she le… 
CastRobert Duvall, John Hurt, Kevin Bacon, Billy…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA, Russia
GALA$$PG

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Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandb…
The true story about legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his epic crossing of the Pacific on a balsa wood raft in 1947. 
CastPål Sverre Valheim Hagen, Anders Baasmo Chri…
LanguageEnglish | Norwegian…   CountryUnited Kingdom, Norw…
SP$PG

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Chuan Lu
The story of two warring generals (Liu Bang and Xiang Yu) fighting for control of China at the end of the Qin Dynasty. From internationally acc… 
CastYe Liu, Daniel Wu and Chen Chang
LanguageMandarin   CountryChina
SP$PG

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Yaron Zilberman
Follows four members of a world-renowned string quartet who struggle to stay together in the face of death, competing egos and insuppressible lu… 
CastPhilip Seymour Hoffman, Christopher Walken a…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$PG

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Ben Timlett, Bill Jones, Jef…
Graham Chapman, probably best remembered as “the dead one from Monty Python,” writes and stars in the animated movie of his own life story, A Li… 
CastGraham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
SP$PG

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Rian Johnson
Opening night film. In Looper, time travel will be invented – but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants… 
CastBruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Emily…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
GALA$$14A

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Cate Shortland
After her Nazi parents are imprisoned, Lore leads her younger siblings across a war-torn Germany in 1945. Amidst the chaos, she encounters myste… 
CastSaskia Rosendahl, Kai Malina, Nele Trebs, Ur…
LanguageGerman   CountryGermany, Australia /…
SP$14A

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Susanne Bier
Romantic comedy from Academy Award winner Susanne Bier (Brothers, In a Better World), about two very different families brought together for a w… 
CastPierce Brosnan, Trine Dyrholm, Paprika Steen
LanguageDanish   CountryDenmark
SP$14A

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Liz Garbus
Using the book 'Fragments', which collects Marilyn Monroe's poems, notes and letters, and with participation from the Arthur Miller and Truman C… 
CastElizabeth Banks, Zoe Saldana, Lindsay Lohan,…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
GALA$$PG

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Andrew Adamson
As a war rages on in the province of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, a young girl becomes transfixed by the Charles Dickens novel Great Expect… 
CastXzannjah Matsi, Healesville Joel, Eka Darvil…
LanguageEnglish   CountryNew Zealand
SP$18A

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Joss Whedon
A modern retelling of Shakespeare's classic comedy about two pairs of lovers with different takes on romance and a way with words. 
CastNathan Fillion, Amy Acker and Clark Gregg, S…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$PG

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Pablo Larraín
An ad executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum. In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pino… 
CastGael García Bernal, Alfredo Castro and Anton…
LanguageSpanish   CountryChile
SP$14A

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Takeshi Kitano
Hard-boiled Japanese auteur Takeshi Kitano returns with the sequel to his 2010 yakuza thriller. As the police launch a full-scale crackdown on … 
CastTakeshi Kitano, Ryo Kase and Toshiyuki Nishi…
LanguageJapanese   CountryJapan
SP$18A

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Stephen Chbosky
Based on the novel written by Stephen Chbosky, this is about 15-year-old Charlie (Logan Lerman), an endearing and naive outsider, coping with fi… 
CastLogan Lerman, Kate Walsh, Ezra Miller, Emma …
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$14A

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Derek Cianfrance
A motorcycle stunt rider considers committing a crime in order to provide for his wife and child, an act that puts him on a collision course wit… 
CastRyan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, Eva Mendes, Ro…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$14A

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Dustin Hoffman
The directorial debut of Dustin Hoffman, Quartet is a high-drama comedy about temperamental divas and old grudges, passion and pride, romance an… 
CastMaggie Smith, Billy Connolly, Sheridan Smith…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
SP$PG

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Matteo Garrone
Luciano is a Neapolitan fishmonger who supplements his modest income by pulling off little scams with his wife Maria. A likeable, entertaining g… 
CastAniello Arena, Loredana Simioli, Nando Paone…
LanguageItalian   CountryItaly
SP$PG

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Mira Nair
A young Pakistani man is chasing corporate success on Wall Street. He finds himself embroiled in a conflict between his American Dream, a hostag… 
CastKate Hudson, Liev Schreiber and Kiefer Suthe…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
GALA$$PG

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Nikolaj Arcel
A young queen, who is married to an insane king, falls secretly in love with her physician - and together they start a revolution that changes a… 
CastMads Mikkelsen, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard and Ali…
LanguageDanish | English | G…   CountryDenmark | Sweden
GALA$$PG

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Jacques Audiard
Put in charge of his young son, Ali leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Ali's bond with Stephanie, a… 
CastMarion Cotillard, Matthias Schoenaerts and A…
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance | Belgium
SP$14A

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Wayne Blair
They’re sexy, black, young, talented, and have never set foot outside of Australia. Until, in the chaos of 1968, they're plucked from the obscur… 
CastChris O'Dowd, Deborah Mailman, Jessica Maubo…
LanguageEnglish   CountryAustralia
SP$PG

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Ben Lewin
Based on the poignantly optimistic autobiographical writings of California-based journalist and poet Mark O’Brien, The Sessions tells the story … 
CastJohn Hawkes, Helen Hunt and William H. Macy
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$14A

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David O. Russell
Life doesn't always go according to plan. Pat Solatano has lost everything - his house, his job, and his wife. He now finds himself living back … 
CastRobert De Niro, Jennifer Lawrence and Bradle…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
GALA$$14A

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Daniele Ciprì
È stato il figlio is an Italian drama film directed by Daniele Cipri. The Ciraulo family lives in the miserable district of Palermo called "Zen… 
CastToni Servillo, Giselda Volodi, Alfredo Castr…
LanguageItalian   CountryItaly
SP$18A

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Stephen Fung
Follows the struggle and adult life of founder of the Yang style Tai Chi, Yang Lu-chan. Young genius Yang Luchan travels to Chen Village to lea… 
CastQi Shu, Daniel Wu and Tony Leung Ka Fai
LanguageMandarin   CountryChina
SP$14A

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Stuart Blumberg
Three people undergo a 12-step treatment for sex addiction. Comedy-drama about a group of people who are brought together when they join a supp… 
CastMark Ruffalo, Tim Robbins, Gwyneth Paltrow, …
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$18A

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Hideki Takeuchi
Based on a Japanese manga series by Mari Yamazaki. An architect from ancient Rome is propelled into a modern-day Tokyo bath house in this kooky… 
CastAya Ueto, Hiroshi Abe and Riki Takeuchi
LanguageJapanese   CountryJapan
GALA$$PG

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Nenad Cicin-Sain
An artist meets a mysterious and wealthy benefactor and their relationship is not what it appears to be. In this suspenseful drama from first-t… 
CastWes Bentley, Frank Langella, Ahna O'Reilly, …
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$14A

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Terrence Malick
New film from Terrence Malick (The Tree of Life), about a man who reconnects with a woman from his hometown after his marriage to a European wom… 
CastOlga Kurylenko, Rachel McAdams, Rachel Weisz…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$14A

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Sergio Castellitto
A single mother brings her teenage son to Sarajevo, where his father died in the Bosnian conflict years ago. Actor-director Sergio Castellitto … 
CastPenélope Cruz, Emile Hirsch and Mira Furlan
LanguageItalian   CountryItaly, Croatia
GALA$$14A

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Maiken Baird
Venus & Serena takes an honest and unfiltered look into the remarkable lives of sisters and tennis legends Serena and Venus Williams. Through th… 
CastSerena Williams, Venus Williams, Bill Clinto…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$PG

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Josh Boone
The film will focus on the complicated relationships between a successful novelist, played by Kinnear, his ex-wife (Connelly) and their collegia… 
CastLiana Liberato, Jennifer Connelly, Greg Kinn…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$PG

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Eran Riklis
Beirut, 1982: a young Palestinian refugee and an Israeli fighter pilot form a tentative bond in their attempt to make their way across war-torn … 
CastStephen Dorff, Abdallah El Akal, Alice Tagli…
LanguageArabic   CountryIsrael
SP$18A

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