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Anahí Berneri
The long-time marriage between a seemingly happy Buenos Aires couple begins to disintegrate just as they are on the verge of realizing their dre… 
CastLeonardo Sbaraglia, Celeste Cid, Fabiana Can…
LanguageSpanish   CountryArgentina
CWC$14A

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Jungbum Park
A simple labourer in a remote mountain village is driven to desperate measures to provide for the women in his life in this wrenching yet beauti… 
CastJungbum Park, Seungyeon Lee, Myeonghoon Park…
LanguageKorean   CountrySouth Korea
CTC$14A

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Jessica Hausner
Austrian auteur Jessica Hausner crafts an exquisitely beautiful, disarmingly humorous and darkly romantic vision of the last days of nineteenth-… 
CastChristian Friedel, Sandra Hüller, Birte Schn…
LanguageGerman   CountryAustria/Luxembourg/G…
CWC$18

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René Frölke
Taking its title from a short text by Michel Foucault, this innovative portrait of internationally acclaimed Romanian author Norman Manea provoc… 
CastUnknown
LanguageRomanian   CountryGermany
WL$PG

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Ernesto Daranas
Chala is an 11-year-old with an attitude problem and a difficult life. When his teacher Carmela, the only person who Chala respects, takes a sho… 
CastArmando Valdés Freire, Alina Rodríguez, Silv…
LanguageSpanish   CountryCuba
CWC$PG

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Gina Prince-Bythewood
A rising young musician (Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Belle) falls into a passionate love affair with the cop assigned to protect her (Nate Parker), in this… 
CastGugu Mbatha-Raw, Nate Parker, Minnie Driver,…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$18

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Pascale Ferran
Director Pascale Ferran’s (Lady Chatterley) whimsical fable about the magically crossing paths of a disgruntled American businessman and a daydr… 
CastJosh Charles, Anaïs Demoustier
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance
CWC$14A

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Francesco Munzi
The story of a criminal family from the Southern region of Calabria plays out like a contemporary western, where the call to blood law and an em… 
CastMarco Leonardi, Peppino Mazzotta, Fabrizio F…
LanguageItalian   CountryItaly
CWC$14A

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Shaun Gladwell
Australian contemporary artist Shaun Gladwell’s work is linked to his interest in street and subculture, and his early participation in extreme … 
CastVarious
LanguageEnglish   CountryAustralia
FUTFree18

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François Girard
An orphaned 12-year-old boy is sent to prestigious music school where he struggles to join an elite group of world-class singers. No one expects… 
CastDustin Hoffman, Kathy Bates, Josh Lucas, Kev…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
GALA$$18

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Mélanie Laurent
Acclaimed actress Mélanie Laurent (Inglourious Basterds, Enemy) takes the director’s chair for this high-school tale of two teenage girls who de… 
CastLou de Laâge, Joséphine Japy, Isabelle Carré…
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance
CWC$18

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Boo Ji-Young
The employees of a big-box discount retail store band together when contract workers are summarily laid off. 
CastYum Jung-Ah, Moon Jeong-Hee, Kim Young-Ae, K…
LanguageKorean   CountrySouth Korea
CTC$PG

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Rolf de Heer
The great Australian actor David Gulpilil won the Best Actor prize in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival for his engaging… 
CastPeter Djigirr, David Gulpilil, Luke Ford
LanguageEnglish/Yolngu   CountryAustralia
CWS$14A

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Thomas McCarthy
Max Simkin repairs shoes in the same New York shop that has been in his family for generations. Disenchanted with the grind of daily life, Max s… 
CastAdam Sandler, Cliff “Method Man” Smith, Elle…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$$PG

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Sergei Parajanov
A painstaking restoration of Sergei Parajanov's 1968 masterpiece, a highly unconventional biopic of the 19th-century Armenian poet Sayat Nova re… 
CastSofiko Chiaureli, Melkon Alekian, Vilen Galu…
LanguageArmenian   CountryArmenia
CTQFree14A

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Lee Do-yun
When a faked robbery ends in tragedy, three long-time friends have their fierce loyalty to one another put to the test in this noir-ish action t… 
CastJi Sung, Ju Ji-hoon, Lee Kwang-soo
LanguageKorean   CountrySouth Korea
CTC$18A

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Cédric Jimenez
Academy Award winner Jean Dujardin (The Artist) stars as French police magistrate Pierre Michel, who waged an obsessive six-year battle to bring… 
CastJean Dujardin, Gilles Lellouche, Céline Sall…
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance
GALA$$18

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Nagisa Ôshima
Master director Nagisa Oshima’s seminal second feature — a brutal and beautiful portrait of two doomed, rebellious young lovers living fast and … 
CastMiyuki Kuwano, Yûsuke Kawazu
LanguageJapanese   CountryJapan
CTQFree14A

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Tony Ayres
Set in Melbourne in the mid-1970s, Cut Snake tells the story of Sparra Farrell (Alex Russell), a very private young man who is trying to make a … 
CastSullivan Stapleton, Alex Russell, Jessica De…
LanguageEnglish   CountryAustralia
CWC$18A

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James Napier Robertson
A former speed-chess champion struggling with bipolar disorder (Cliff Curtis) takes over as coach of a chess team for at-risk youth, in the insp… 
CastCliff Curtis, James Rolleston, Kirk Torrance…
LanguageEnglish   CountryNew Zealand
CWC$PG

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Nino Kirtadze
This subtly comic blend of fact and fiction follows a middle-aged married couple in Tbilisi, Georgia, as they deal with the fallout from an uncl… 
CastLevan Murtazashvili, Irma Inaridze
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance
CWC$PG

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Johnnie To
After losing his girl in a love triangle, Shen Ran falls in love with another woman, only to find himself still attached to his old flame. Meanw… 
CastLouis Koo, Miriam Yeung, Gao Yuanyuan, Vic C…
LanguageCantonese   CountryHong Kong
SP$PG

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King Hu
A heroic trio of outlaw warriors square off against sinister assassins at an isolated desert inn, in this dazzlingly restored presentation of le… 
CastLingfeng Shangguan, Chun Shih, Ying Bai, Jun…
LanguageMandarin   CountryTaiwan
CTQFreeR

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Kelvin Kyung Kun Park
Multi-media artist Kelvin Kyung Kun Park looks back to the “heroic age” of heavy industry in 1960s South Korea and the contemporary ruins of tho… 
CastUnknown
LanguageKorean   CountrySouth Korea
CTC$PG

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Lonnie van Brummelen, Siebre…
Dutch duo Lonnie van Brummelen and Siebren de Hann (View from the Acropolis) echo such formidable fishing films as Visconti's La Terra Trema and… 
CastFemmy Brands, Hennie De Bruijne, Tinie De Bo…
LanguageUrkish   CountryNetherlands
WL$PG

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Andrea Di Stefano
An American surfer (Josh Hutcherson, The Hunger Games) meets the girl of his dreams — but gets a brutal (sur)reality check when he meets her unc… 
CastBenicio del Toro, Josh Hutcherson, Claudia T…
LanguageSpanish   CountryFrance
GALA$$18

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Sharon Maymon, Tal Granit
A devoted elderly couple living in a Jerusalem retirement home is faced with a pair of devastating challenges that threaten to divide them after… 
CastZe'ev Revach, Levana Finkelshtein, Aliza Ros…
LanguageHebrew   CountryIsrael
CWC$14A

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Shinya Tsukamoto
Tetsuo director Shinya Tsukamoto creates a gritty and graphic version of the classic war novel about a dazed, wounded soldier who wanders throug… 
CastShinya Tsukamoto
LanguageJapanese/Filipino   CountryJapan
WL$18A

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Philip Martin
A former art prodigy and second generation petty thief buys his way out of prison to spend time with his ailing son. To do so, he must team up w… 
CastJohn Travolta, Christopher Plummer, Tye Sher…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
GALA$$18

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Mijke de Jong
A woman diagnosed with terminal lung cancer gathers her three dearest friends together to make the most of the time she has left. 
CastLeonoor Pauw, Adelheid Roosen, Lieneke Le Ro…
LanguageDutch   CountryNetherlands
CWC$18

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Lav Diaz
On the eve of Ferdinand Marcos’ proclamation of martial law, a small village is visited by a series of strange, perhaps supernatural occurrences… 
CastPerry Dizon, Roeder Camañag, Hazel Orencio, …
LanguageFilipino   CountryPhilippines
WL$14A

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Anne Fontaine
Gemma Arterton glows as the title character — a passionate young Englishwoman whose dull married life in a provincial Norman town steers her tow… 
CastGemma Arterton, Fabrice Luchini, Jason Flemy…
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance
SP$14A

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Mikael Marcimain
Beaten, bruised and afraid, young author Klas Östergren hides out in a Stockholm apartment, writing the story of its vanished inhabitants: the f… 
CastDavid Dencik, Ruth Vega Fernandez, David Fuk…
LanguageSwedish   CountrySweden
SP$18

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Ronit Elkabetz, Shlomi Elkab…
An Israeli woman seeking to finalize her divorce from her cruel and manipulative husband finds herself effectively put on trial by her country’s… 
CastRonit Elkabetz, Menashe Noy, Simon Abkarian,…
LanguageHebrew   CountryIsrael
CWS$PG

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July Jung
Banished to provincial purgatory after a censure for misconduct, a former star of the Seoul police force finds her maternal instincts unexpected… 
CastDoona Bae, Sae-ron Kim, Sae-Byeok Song, Hie-…
LanguageKorean   CountrySouth Korea
CTC$14A

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Céline Sciamma
Céline Sciamma (Water Lilies, Tomboy) returns to the Festival with this raw, raucous but tender look at a group of black high school students li… 
CastKaridja Touré, Assa Sylla, Lindsay Karamoh, …
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance
CWC$18

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Wu Yonggang
Silent screen legend Ruan Ling-yu gives a fierce and tragic performance in her signature role as a wronged prostitute in Wu Yonggang's early cla… 
CastRuan Lingyu, Keng Li, Zhang Zhizhi, Li Junpa…
LanguageMandarin   CountryChina
CTQFreePG

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Stefano Sollima
This is the inside story of the Camorra, the fierce Neapolitan crime organization, told through the eyes of 30-year-old Ciro, the right hand of … 
CastWalter Lippa, Salvatore Esposito, Fortunato …
LanguageItalian   CountryItaly
SP$18

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Dome Karukoski
A stubbornly traditional 80-year-old farmer whose social attitudes verge on the prehistoric raises hell when he is forced to move in with his sa… 
CastAntti Litja, Petra Frey, Mari Perankoski, Ii…
LanguageFinnish   CountryFinland
CWC$PG

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Lu Zhang
In this charmingly off-kilter romantic comedy, a Beijing university professor visits the ancient Korean capital of Gyeongju on a nostalgic quest… 
CastHae-il Park, Min-a Shin, Jin-seo Yoon, Tae-H…
LanguageKorean   CountrySouth Korea
CTC$14A

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Seong-hoon Kim
A luckless police detective becomes the target of blackmail after trying to cover up a hit-and-run in this wild neo-noir thriller. Detective Go… 
CastSeon-gyun Lee, Jin-woong Jo, Man-shik Jeong
LanguageKorean   CountrySouth Korea
CTC$PG

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Benny Safdie, Joshua Safdie
The latest from acclaimed sibling directors Josh and Benny Safdie (Daddy Longlegs) blends fiction, formalism and raw documentary as it follows a… 
CastArielle Holmes, Caleb Landry Jones, Buddy Du…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
WL$18A

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Julie Lopes-Curval
Class barriers threaten the budding romance of two young lovers striving to realize their artistic ambitions. Twenty-year-old Alice lives in No… 
CastAna Girardot, Bastien Bouillon, Baptiste Lec…
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance
CWC$R

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Pedro Costa
The highly anticipated new film by Portuguese auteur Pedro Costa, Cavalo Dinheiro is the follow-up to Costa’s landmark Fontainhas trilogy (Ossos… 
CastVentura, Vitalina Varela, Tito Furtado
LanguagePortuguese   CountryPortugal/Creole
WL$14A

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Neil Young, Dean Stockwell
The director's cut version of Neil Young's mind-bending 1982 post-apocalyptic musical comedy, in which the rock legend writes, directs and stars… 
CastNeil Young, Dean Stockwell, Devo, Russ Tambl…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$18

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Jyoti Mistry
Investigating the gruesome murder of a cabinet minister's daughter, a special investigator and a local police detective find themselves knee-dee… 
CastAlex McGregor, Bjorn Steinbach, Desmond Dube…
LanguageAfrikaans/Zulu   CountrySouth Africa
CWC$18A

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Harun Farocki
This contemplative documentary by the late, great filmmaker Harun Farocki compares different methods of brick production in cultures around the … 
CastUnknown
LanguageGerman   CountryGermany
CTQFree18

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Martti Helde
In 1941, an Estonian woman and her young daughter struggle to find their way home after being deported to Siberia by the Soviet occupiers, in th… 
CastLaura Peterson, Mirt Preegel, Tarmo Song, In…
LanguageEstonian   CountryEstonia
CWC$14A

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Maya Forbes
Set in the late ’70s, a manic-depressive mess of a father tries to win back his wife by taking responsibility of their two young daughters. The … 
CastMark Ruffalo, Zoe Saldana, Imogene Wolodarsk…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
GALA$$18

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Ole Christian Madsen
Leading Danish filmmaker Ole Christian Madsen (Flame & Citron) directs this epic, continent-crossing countercultural romance based on events tha… 
CastJoachim Fjelstrup, Marie Tourell Søderberg, …
LanguageDanish   CountryDenmark
CWC$18A

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Lisandro Alonso
In the dazzlingly ambitious new film from Argentinian auteur Lisandro Alonso (Los Muertos, Liverpool), a 19th-century Danish general (Viggo Mort… 
CastViggo Mortensen, Viilbjork Malling Agger, Gh…
LanguageSpanish/Danish   CountryDenmark/Argentina/Me…
WL$14A

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Tsai Ming-liang, Margaret Ho…
Journey to the West Taiwanese auteur Tsai Ming-liang returns with this entrancing latest entry in his Walker series, in which his slowly locomo… 
CastVarious
LanguageVarious   CountryVarious
WL$G

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Joel Lamangan
A middle-aged domestic worker remains fiercely loyal to her employer even as it draws her ever deeper into the dirty world of human trafficking,… 
CastNora Aunor, Romnick Sarmenta, Rosanna Roces,…
LanguageTagalog   CountryPhilippines
CWC$14A

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Ryuichi Hiroki
This erotically charged drama from Japanese director Ryuichi Hiroki (Vibrator) traces the intersecting stories of a group of employees and visit… 
CastKaho Minami, Atsuko Maeda, Jun Murakami, Sho…
LanguageJapanese   CountryJapan
CWC$18A

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Kriv Stenders
A mercurial assassin (Simon Pegg) discovers he isn’t the only person trying to kill the siren (Alice Braga) of a sun-drenched surfing town. In t… 
CastSimon Pegg, Sullivan Stapleton, Alice Braga,…
LanguageEnglish   CountryAustralia
CWC$14A

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Giulio Ricciarelli
A young prosecutor in postwar West Germany investigates a massive conspiracy to cover up the Nazi pasts of prominent public figures. Frankfurt … 
CastAlexander Fehling, André Szymanski, Friederi…
LanguageGerman   CountryGermany
CWC$14A

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Lynn Shelton
Following a dismal high school reunion and a disastrous proposal of marriage, a going-nowhere twentysomething (Keira Knightley) falls in with a … 
CastKeira Knightley, Sam Rockwell, Chloë Grace M…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
GALA$$18

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Mario Martone
A luminously beautiful biopic of the celebrated eighteenth-century Italian poet, essayist and philosopher Giacomo Leopardi, who created immortal… 
CastElio Germano, Michele Riondino, Massimo Popo…
LanguageItalian   CountryItaly
CWC$PG

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Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valc…
An honest, hard-working schoolteacher in a small Bulgarian town is driven to desperate measures to avoid financial ruin. In a small Bulgarian t… 
CastMargita Gosheva, Ivan Burnev, Ivanka Bratoev…
LanguageBulgarian   CountryBulgaria
CWC$14A

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Eric Baudelaire
A record of the epistolary encounter between French artist and filmmaker Eric Baudelaire and Maxim Gvinjia, former Foreign Minister of the break… 
CastEric Baudelaire, Maxim Gvinjia
LanguageRussian/Abkhaze   CountryRussia/Abkhazia
WL$PG

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Bruno Dumont
A clueless police inspector stumbles his way through a provincial murder investigation, in this shocking — and shockingly funny — change of pace… 
CastAlane Delhaye, Lucy Caron, Bernard Pruvost, …
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance
CWC$18A

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Luis Ortega
Two young urchins turn the streets of Buenos Aires into their own magical playground, in this vibrant portrait of young love from director Luis … 
CastDaniel Melingo, Ailín Salas, Nahuel Pérez Bi…
LanguageSpanish   CountryArgentina
CWC$18

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Sophie Barthes
Mia Wasikowska stars as the disgruntled provincial wife yearning to breathe free in this gorgeously shot adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's classi… 
CastMia Wasikowska, Laura Carmichael, Ezra Mille…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
SP$14A

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Henry Hobson
[Lionsgate has scooped up North American rights to Maggie. Maggie will no longer make an appearance at the Toronto Film Festival since Lionsgate… 
CastArnold Schwarzenegger, Abigail Breslin, Joel…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$$18

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Sergei Loznitsa
Celebrated Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa (In the Fog) creates one of the essential cinematic experiences of our time with this epic, formal… 
CastUnknown
LanguageUkrainian   CountryUkraine
WL$14A

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Shonali Bose
In this inspirational love story, a Delhi university student and aspiring writer afflicted with cerebral palsy (Kalki Koechlin, Dev.D, That Girl… 
CastKalki Koechlin, Revathy, Sayani Gupta, Willi…
LanguageHindi   CountryIndia
CWC$14A

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Alex Holdridge, Linnea Saase…
His life and career at a crossroads, an independent filmmaker is reinvigorated when he accidentally runs into an old flame while in Berlin — but… 
CastAlex Holdridge, Rupert Friend, Jennifer Ulri…
LanguageEnglish   CountryGermany
CWC$18

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Liew Seng Tat
The superstitious inhabitants of a small Malaysian village go to ever sillier extremes to exorcize the "ghost" they believe is haunting a dilapi… 
CastWan Hanafi Su, Soffi Jikan, Harun Salim Bach…
LanguageMalay   CountryMalaysia
CWC$PG

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Szabolcs Hajdu
A mysterious wanderer (Isaach De Bankolé) settles into a strange homestead on the parched Hungarian plains populated by an odd assortment of out… 
CastIsaach De Bankole, Razvan Vasilescu, Orsolya…
LanguageRomanian   CountryHungary | Slovakia
CWC$18

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Juris Kursietis
In this tough but compassionate coming-of-age drama, a Latvian teenager with a serious gambling addiction sets out to find his long-lost father.… 
CastKristers Piksa, Rezija Kalnina
LanguageLatvian   CountryLatvia
CWC$14A

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John Ford
John Ford’s classic western — the mythic tale of Wyatt Earp’s gunfight with the corrupt, cattle-rustling Clanton clan at the O.K. Corral — is re… 
CastHenry Fonda, Victor Mature, Walter Brennan, …
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
CTQFreePG

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Laurent Montaron
Laurent Montaron's film Nature of the Self considers the changeable nature of representations of the self, both physical and psychological, the … 
CastUnknown
LanguageUnknown   CountryFrance
FUTFree18

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Lucas Belvaux
A Parisian philosophy professor transferred to a dull provincial town (Loïc Corbery) learns to cut loose and live a little after he meets a bras… 
CastEmilie Dequenne, Loïc Corbery
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance
CWC$14A

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Ole Giæver
A put-upon salary man seeks spiritual renewal in the Great Outdoors, in this sharp comic drama from Norwegian director Ole Giæver. Out of Natur… 
CastOle Giæver, Marte Magnusdotter Solem, Sivert…
LanguageNorwegian   CountryNorway
CWC$14A

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Adilkhan Yerzhanov
Three orphaned siblings find themselves battling with a corrupt local police chief over ownership of their mother’s ancestral home, in this play… 
CastYerbolat Yerzhan, Aidyn Sakhaman, Aliya Zain…
LanguageKazakh   CountryKazakhstan
CWC$18A

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Chang Jung-Chi
Three high school boys discover that there may be more than meets the eye in the apparent suicide of a pretty classmate, in this engrossing myst… 
CastWu Chien-ho, Deng Yu-kai, Cheng Kai-yuan, Ya…
LanguageMandarin   CountryTaiwan
CWC$18A

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Joana Pimenta, Manoel de Oli…
The Figures Carved into the Knife by the Sap of the Banana Trees, Joana Pimenta, 16 minutes Replete with indelible images and suffused with an … 
CastDiogo Dória, Luis Miguel Cintra, Ricardo Trê…
LanguagePortuguese/Spanish/S…   CountryPortugal/Sri Lanka
WL$14A

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Matthew Warchus
In 1984 Britain, a ragtag band of activists from London’s queer community form an unlikely, anti-Thatcherite alliance with striking Welsh miners… 
CastBill Nighy, Imelda Staunton, Dominic West, P…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
SP$$14A

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Matías Piñeiro
Young Argentine auteur Matías Piñeiro follows up his international sensation Viola with the latest of his revisionist takes on the Shakespearean… 
CastJulián Larquier, Agustina Muñoz, María Villa…
LanguageSpanish   CountryArgentina
WL$PG

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Amie Siegel
The latest film from American artist Amie Siegel is part of a constellation of works exploring an emblem of mid-century modernism: furniture des… 
CastUnknown
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
FUTFree18

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Zvonimir Juric
Haunted by his dark past, a labourer in a small Croatian village has a series of fateful encounters over the course of a single night. Three fa… 
CastIvo Gregurevic, Mirjana Karanovic, Igor Kova…
LanguageCroatian   CountryCroatia
CWC$14A

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Sepideh Farsi
A politically complacent middle-aged man and a young pro-democracy activist debate about the future of their country while hiding from the polic… 
CastMina Kavani, Vassilis Koukalani
LanguageFarsi   CountryIran
CWS$14A

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Andrew Lau, Andrew Loo
Executive produced by Martin Scorsese, this dizzying, decade-spanning crime saga from Hong Kong directors Andrew Lau (Infernal Affairs) and Andr… 
CastRay Liotta, Justin Chon, Kevin Wu, Harry Shu…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$18

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Richard Loncraine
A long-married couple (Morgan Freeman and Diane Keaton) have an eventful weekend after they are forced to contemplate selling their beloved Broo… 
CastMichael Cristofer, Cynthia Nixon, Diane Keat…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
GALA$$18

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Laura Amelia Guzmán, Israel …
In an idyllic seaside city in the Dominican Republic, the long-time relationship between a beautiful and impoverished young local girl and her w… 
CastGeraldine Chaplin, Yanet Mojica, Ricardo Ari…
LanguageSpanish   CountryDominican Republic
CWC$14A

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Eugène Green
In the long-awaited new film from French auteur Eugène Green, a brilliant architect seeks spiritual and artistic renewal during a life-changing … 
CastFabrizio Rongione, Christelle Prot Landmann,…
LanguageFrench/Italian   CountryFrance/Italy
WL$14A

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Yim Pil-sung
A university professor gradually succumbing to blindness is entranced by an obsessive love in this modern-day adaptation of a classic Korean fai… 
CastJung Woo-sung, Esom
LanguageKorean   CountrySouth Korea
CTC$14A

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Michel Hazanavicius
A nine-year-old Chechen orphan and a teenaged Russian soldier encounter the many terrible faces of war during the 1999 Russian invasion of the b… 
CastBérénice Bejo, Annette Bening, Maxim Emelian…
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance
SP$18

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Paul Bettany
Hannah and Tahir come from two different worlds. But when their lives intersect, they’re at the same place: homeless on the streets of New York.… 
CastJennifer Connelly, Anthony Mackie
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$PG

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Theo Anthony, Christophe M. …
An accident at the supermarket turns into an international event; a day on the job has life-altering repercussions; an unexpected connection lea… 
CastVarious
LanguageVarious   CountryVarious
SCI$18

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Kaveh Ebrahimpour, Tor Fruer…
From the simple pleasures of an ice cream to the realization of our deepest and darkest wishes, desire has many names and faces in this shorts p… 
CastVarious
LanguageVarious   CountryVarious
SCI$18

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Shahad Ameen, Josh Koury, My…
As these six cautionary tales illustrate, the words we use and the actions we take in our daily lives can have profound consequences. Eye & Mer… 
CastVarious
LanguageVarious   CountryVarious
SCI$18

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David Gesslbauer, Michael La…
Resilience, faith and humour prove to be powerful weapons in these stories of systemic injustice, retribution, and social and cultural isolation… 
CastVarious
LanguageVarious   CountryVarious
SCI$18

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Matthu Placek, Nils Bergenda…
Innovative animations, creative uses of 3D and stunning cinematography distinguish this programme, offering a snapshot of some of the best cinem… 
CastVarious
LanguageVarious   CountryVarious
SCI$18

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Mariama Sylla, Khady Sylla
In this meditative and elegiac portrait, Senegalese filmmakers Khady and Mariama Sylla record the tales of their grandmother, a griot (storytell… 
CastPenda Diogo Sarr, Doudou Dieye, Anta Sarr
LanguageFrench/Wolof   CountrySenegal
WL$PG

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Young-hae Chang, Marc Voge
Seoul-based art collaborative Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries (composed of Young-hae Chang/Korea and Marc Voge/USA) is known for its innovative… 
CastVarious
LanguageKorean/English   CountrySouth Korea/USA
FUTFreeG

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Soon-Mi Yoo
Multi-disciplinary artist and filmmaker Soon-Mi Yoo (Far from Afghanistan) makes her solo feature-film debut with this sharp and sensitive essay… 
CastUnknown
LanguageKorean   CountrySouth Korea
WL$PG

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Naomi Kawase
Facing both family tragedy and the unpredictable rhythms of nature, two teenagers on a subtropical Japanese island find solace in each other, in… 
CastNijiro Murakami, Jun Yoshinaga, Miyuki Matsu…
LanguageJapanese   CountryJapan
CWC$14A

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Rakhshan Bani-Etemad
Award-winning Iranian filmmaker Rakshan Banietemad ends her eight-year hiatus from feature filmmaking with this ingenious, mosaic-like narrative… 
CastGolab Adineh, Farhad Aslani, Mohammadreza Fo…
LanguagePersian   CountryIran
CWS$PG

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Benoît Jacquot
A twist of fate leaves a hapless accountant (Benoît Poelvoorde) romantically torn between two sisters (Charlotte Gainsbourg and Chiara Mastroian… 
CastBenoît Poelvoorde, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Chi…
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance
SP$18

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Seyyed Reza Mir-Karimi
In this delicate, deceptively small-scale drama from award-winning Iranian director Reza Mirkarimi, Youness, an ageing taxi driver, takes a youn… 
CastParviz Parastui, Soheila Golestani, Shabnam …
LanguagePersian   CountryIran
CWC$PG

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Stefan Liberski
A Japanophile young Belgian woman in Tokyo falls into a whirlwind romance with a Francophile Japanese student, in this charming and tender tale … 
CastPauline Etienne, Taichi Inoue, Julie Lebreto…
LanguageFrench/Japanese   CountryBelgium
CWC$PG

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Christian Zübert
While on a cycling tour of Belgium, a close-knit group of friends must deal with one of their members’ decision to end his life with dignity, in… 
CastFlorian David Fitz, Julia Koschitz, Jürgen V…
LanguageGerman   CountryGermany
CWS$PG

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Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Da…
A working-class mother (Marion Cotillard) fights to hold onto her job, in the new film from master filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. San… 
CastMarion Cotillard, Fabrizio Rongione, Pili Gr…
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance
SP$18

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Martin Rejtman
A teenager finds his life considerably hampered after he impulsively attempts to shoot himself, in this dark, absurdist comedy from Argentine wr… 
CastSusana Pampín, Rafael Federman, Benjamín Coe…
LanguageSpanish   CountryArgentina/Chile
CWC$14A

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Ghassan Salhab
Following a car accident on a lone mountain road, a middle-aged man loses his memory. Drenched in blood, he continues to walk along the deserted… 
CastCarlos Chahine, Carole Abboud, Fadi Abi Samr…
LanguageArabic   CountryLebanon/Qatar
CWC$14A

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Kiki Álvarez
A rare independent film from Cuba, this charming and tender portrait of female friendship follows three hair-salon employees as they hit the tow… 
CastClaudia Muñiz, Marianela Pupo, Maribel Garcí…
LanguageSpanish   CountryCuba
CWC$14A

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Cristián Jiménez
In this wise and witty comedy-drama from Chilean director Cristián Jiménez, a married woman — seeking to purify herself through a "disconnection… 
CastIngrid Isensee, Maria Siebald, Paulina Garcí…
LanguageSpanish   CountryChile
CWC$14A

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Alexandre Larose, Josh Gen S…
Inspired by the radical, uncompromising and vital work of KwieKulik — a Polish art collective active in the seventies and eighties led by and na… 
CastVarious
LanguageVarious   CountryVarious
WL$18

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Antoinette Zwirchmayr, Jean-…
There’s something in the atmosphere, slightly amiss, uncomfortable, and, in some cases, surprisingly alluring. The pimp and his trophies / Anto… 
CastVarious
LanguageVarious   CountryVarious
WL$18

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Johann Lurf, Yuri Ancarani, …
A programme of tales told, but also delayed, reconfigured, substituted, perhaps even falsified ones, which arouse the imagination and speak to t… 
CastVarious
LanguageVarious   CountryVarious
WL$18

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Malena Szlam, Basma Alsharif…
With guiding lunar intensity, this programme draws from the dichotomous, exploring bi-location, interstitial states and an array of personal, ge… 
CastVarious
LanguageVarious   CountryVarious
WL$18

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Shira Piven
A woman suffering from Borderline Personality Disorder (Kristen Wiig) becomes an overnight celebrity after a huge lottery jackpot allows her to … 
CastKristen Wiig, James Marsden, Jennifer Jason …
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$18

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Carlos Siguion-Reyna
When his fortune is wiped out, an arrogant, self-made tycoon is forced to return to the slum tenement where he grew up, in this vibrant, sociall… 
CastRobert Arevalo, Liza Lorena, Rez Cortez, Aiz…
LanguageFilipino   CountryPhilippines
CWC$14A

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Baran bo Odar
Benjamin, a young German computer whiz, is invited to join a subversive hacker group that wants to be noticed on the world’s stage. This enterta… 
CastTom Schilling, Elyas M´Barek, Wotan Wilke Mo…
LanguageGerman   CountryGermany
CWC$18A

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Panos H. Koutras
Following the death of their mother, two brothers undertake an odyssey from Athens to Thessaloniki in search of the father they have never met, … 
CastKostas Nikouli, Nikos Gelia, Aggelos Papadim…
LanguageGreek   CountryGreece
CWC$14A