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“AFTER THE STORM” (2016 feature film directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda)
Reviews ****½
After the Storm [2016]
Hirokazu Kore-eda
A divorced man struggles to regain his estranged family’s trust while sheltering with them during a typhoon, in the latest film from celebrated … 
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CastHiroshi Abe, Yoko Maki, Taiyo Yoshizawa, Kir…
LanguageJapanese   CountryJapan
MAST$PG Video
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“AFTERIMAGE” (2016 feature film directed by Andrzej Wajda)
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Afterimage [2016]
Andrzej Wajda
The great Polish director Andrzej Wajda returns with this passionate biopic about avant-garde artist Wladyslaw Strzeminski (brilliantly played b… 
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CastBoguslaw Linda, Bronislawa Zamachowska, Zofi…
LanguagePolish   CountryPoland
MAST$PG Video
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“ANATOMY OF VIOLENCE” (2016 feature film directed by Deepa Mehta)
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Anatomy of Violence [2016]
Deepa Mehta
In 2012, a young woman was gang raped by six men inside a moving bus in New Delhi. She was beaten senseless and thrown naked out onto the street… 
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CastJanki Bisht, Vansh Bhardwaj, Davinder Singh,…
LanguageHindi   CountryCanada/India
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“THE BAIT” (2016 feature film directed by Buddhadeb Dasgupta)
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The Bait [2016]
Buddhadeb Dasgupta
The latest film from Buddhadeb Dasgupta, one of India’s most-celebrated directors, is a lyrical and at times comedic three-part portrait of rura… 
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CastSudipto Chatterjee, Kajal Kumari, Ananya Cha…
LanguageBengali, Hindi   CountryIndia
MAST$PG
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“THE BEAUTIFUL DAYS OF ARANJUEZ” (2016 feature film directed by Wim Wenders)
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The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez [2016]
Wim Wenders
Wim Wenders adapts long-time collaborator Peter Handke’s play for this engrossing two-handed (and 3D) conversation piece, in which a dialogue be… 
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CastReda Kateb, Sophie Semin, Jens Harzer, Nick …
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance / Germany
MAST$14A
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“CERTAIN WOMEN” (2015 feature film directed by Kelly Reichardt)
Reviews ****½
Certain Women [2015]
Kelly Reichardt
Kelly Reichardt (Wendy and Lucy, Night Moves) directs Laura Dern, Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart and Lily Gladstone in this tripartite portr… 
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CastLaura Dern, Kristen Stewart, Michelle Willia…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
MAST$18 Video
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“FIRE AT SEA” (2016 feature film directed by Gianfranco Rosi)
Reviews ****
Fire at Sea [2016]
Gianfranco Rosi
Winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, the new documentary from Gianfranco Rosi (El Sicario, Room 164) is a startling, on-the-sp… 
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CastSamuele Pucillo, Mattias Cucina, Samuele Car…
LanguageItalian   CountryItaly
MAST$PG Video
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“GRADUATION” (2016 feature film directed by Cristian Mungiu)
Reviews ****½
Graduation [2016]
Cristian Mungiu
Cristian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days) won the Best Director prize at Cannes for this terse, percolating drama about a Cluj physician wh… 
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CastVlad Ivanov, Maria-Victoria Dragus, Adrian …
LanguageRomanian   CountryRomania
MAST$18 Video
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“HISSEIN HABRE, A CHADIAN TRAGEDY” (2015 feature film directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun)
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Hissein Habre, A Chadian Tragedy [2015]
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
One of the most important contemporary African filmmakers, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (A Screaming Man) makes his debut non-fiction feature with this … 
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CastClément Abaïfouta
LanguageFrench | Arabic   CountryFrance / Chad
MAST$14A Video
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“J: BEYOND FLAMENCO” (2016 feature film directed by Carlos Saura)
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J: Beyond Flamenco [2016]
Carlos Saura
The new film from legendary Spanish filmmaker Carlos Saura (Carmen, Tango) captures the vivacity and charisma of the jota, a waltz-like castanet… 
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CastSara Baras, Miguel Ángel Berna, Carlos Núñez…
LanguageSpanish   CountrySpain
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“JULIETA” (2015 feature film directed by Pedro Almodóvar)
Reviews ***½
Julieta [2015]
Pedro Almodóvar
Spanish maestro Pedro Almodóvar adapts three stories from Canadian Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro for this time-tripping tale about the relation… 
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CastDario Grandinetti, Daniel Grao, Inma Cuesta,…
LanguageSpanish   CountrySpain
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“LAND OF THE GODS” (2016 feature film directed by Goran Paskaljevic)
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Land of the Gods [2016]
Goran Paskaljevic
The latest from Serbian director Goran Paskaljevic (Cabaret Balkan) is a visually stunning fable set in a remote Himalayan village, where the re… 
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CastVictor Banerjee, Geetanjali Thapa, Uttara Ba…
LanguageHindi   CountryIndia / Serbia
MAST$18 Video
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“MA' ROSA” (2016 feature film directed by Brillante Mendoza)
Reviews ***½
Ma' Rosa [2016]
Brillante Mendoza
Filipino firebrand Brillante Mendoza (Slingshot, Kinatay) incisively explores the street-level corruption of the Duterte-era Philippines with th… 
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CastJaclyn Jose, Julio Diaz, Andi Eigenmann, Fel…
LanguageFilipino   CountryPhilippines
MAST$14A Video
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“THE NET” (2016 feature film directed by Ki-duk KIM)
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The Net [2016]
Ki-duk KIM
In the new film from provocative Korean auteur Kim Ki-duk (Pieta), a poor North Korean fisherman finds himself an accidental defector, and is gr… 
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CastSeung-bum RYOO, Lee Won GUN, Young-min KIM, …
LanguageKorean   CountrySouth Korea
MAST$14A
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“NEVER EVER” (2016 feature film directed by Benoit Jacquot)
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Never Ever [2016]
Benoit Jacquot
Benoît Jacquot (The School of Flesh, L’Intouchable) adapts a novella by Don DeLillo for this tale of amour fou between a self-centred filmmaker … 
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CastMathieu Amalric, Julia Roy, Jeanne Balibar, …
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance / Portugal
MAST$14A
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“ONCE AGAIN” (2016 feature film directed by Adoor Gopalakrishnan)
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Once Again [2016]
Adoor Gopalakrishnan
After years spent living off the modest wealth of his in-laws, a man hatches a desperate plan that draws his respectable middle-class family int… 
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CastDileep, Kavya Madhavan, Subodh Bhave
LanguageMalayalam   CountryIndia
MAST$PG Video
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“PERSONAL SHOPPER” (2016 feature film directed by Olivier Assayas)
Reviews ***½
Personal Shopper [2016]
Olivier Assayas
Kristen Stewart reunites with director Olivier Assayas (Clouds of Sils Maria) for this artful ghost story about a young woman trying to reconnec… 
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CastKristen Stewart, Lars Eidinger, Sigrid Bouaz…
LanguageEnglish   CountryFrance
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“A QUIET PASSION” (2016 feature film directed by Terence Davies)
Reviews ****
A Quiet Passion [2016]
Terence Davies
Cynthia Nixon stars as the legendary poet Emily Dickinson in this luminous biopic from director Terence Davies (The Deep Blue Sea, Sunset Song). 
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CastCynthia Nixon, Jennifer Ehle, Keith Carradin…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
MAST$PG Video
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“SAFARI” (2016 feature film directed by Ulrich Seidl)
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Safari [2016]
Ulrich Seidl
Austrian provocateur Ulrich Seidl (Dog Days) returns to Africa for this raw, grimly humourous portrait of European tourists hunting animals for … 
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CastGerald Eichinger, Eva Hofmann, Manuel Eichin…
LanguageGerman   CountryAustria
MAST$18 Video
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“SIERANEVADA” (2016 feature film directed by Cristi Puiu)
Reviews ****
Sieranevada [2016]
Cristi Puiu
A patriarch’s wake turns into a full-on familial tempest, in the brilliant new film from uncompromising Romanian auteur Cristi Puiu (The Death o… 
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CastMimi Branescu, Judith State, Bogdan Dumitrac…
LanguageRomanian   CountryRomania
MAST$18 Video
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“SWEET DREAMS” (2016 feature film directed by Marco Bellocchio)
Reviews ***½
Sweet Dreams [2016]
Marco Bellocchio
Italian master Marco Bellocchio (Vincere, Blood of My Blood) adapts the popular biographical novel by Massimo Gramellini, about a journalist who… 
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CastBérénice Bejo, Emmanuelle Devos, Valerio Mas…
LanguageItalian   CountryItaly
MAST$PG Video
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“THE UNKNOWN GIRL” (2015 feature film directed by Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne)
Reviews ***
The Unknown Girl [2015]
Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre D…
After refusing to answer a late-night knock on her clinic door, a doctor seeks to uncover the truth behind the mysterious death of her unidentif… 
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CastAdèle Haenel, Olivier Bonnaud, Jérémie Renie…
LanguageFrench   CountryBelgium / France
MAST$18 Video
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“WE CAN'T MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE TWICE” (2016 feature film directed by Alanis Obomsawin)
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We Can't Make the Same Mistake Twice [2016]
Alanis Obomsawin
In 2007, the Child and Family Caring Society of Canada and the Assembly of First Nations filed a landmark discrimination complaint against India… 
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CastUnknown
LanguageEnglish   CountryCanada
MAST$PG Video
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“YOURSELF AND YOURS” (2016 feature film directed by Sang-soo Hong)
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Yourself and Yours [2016]
Sang-soo Hong
Korean maestro and Festival favourite Hong Sang-soo (Right Now, Wrong Then) embarks on an intriguing foray into the uncanny with this ingenious … 
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CastJoo-hyuck Kim, Youyoung Lee
LanguageKorean   CountrySouth Korea
MAST$14A Video
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