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Atiq Rahimi
In a country torn apart by a war, a beautiful woman watches over her husband in a decrepit room. He is reduced to a vegetative state because of … 
CastGolshifteh Farahani, Hamid Djavadan, Massi M…
LanguageFarsi   CountryAfghanistan
CWC$14A

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Bahman Ghobadi
After thirty years spent in prisons of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Kurdish-Iranian poet Sahel finally walks free. Now the one thing keeping hi… 
CastBehrouz Vossoughi, Monica Bellucci, Belçim B…
LanguageFarsi   CountryIraq/Turkey
SP$PG

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Jun Lana
An ornery old retiree — who only came to terms with his homosexuality tragically late in life — leads an isolated existence with only his faithf… 
CastEddie Garcia, Rez Cortez, Armida Siguion-Rey…
LanguageFilipino   CountryPhilippines
CWC$14A

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Brillante Mendoza
Shaleha Sarail is a barren woman who believes that to fulfill her husband’s greatest wish of having a son is tangible proof of Allah’s grace. Sh… 
CastNora Aunor, Mercedes Cabral, Lovi Poe, Bembo…
LanguageFilipino   CountryPhilippines
CWC$18A

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Mika Kaurismäki
Timo is an esteemed concert pianist whose personal life is on the rocks. One day Timo finds an older, shabby-looking man at his door. The man, L… 
CastVesa-Matti Loiri, Samuli Edelmann, Mari Pera…
LanguageFinnish   CountryFinland
CWC$14A

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Peter Brosens, Jessica Hope …
In their follow-up to the remarkable Altiplano, co-directors Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth create a mystifying, surrealistic tale of a mou… 
CastAurélia Poirier, Django Schrevens, Sam Louwy…
LanguageFlemish   CountryBelgium / Netherland…
WL$PG

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Bernard Émond
A disgruntled academic refuses a substantial inheritance because the fortune was amassed dishonestly. Soon after, he is reunited with his teenag… 
CastGilles Renaud, Isabelle Vincent, Patrick Dro…
LanguageFrench   CountryCanada
MAST$14A

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Michael Haneke
Screen legends Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva are ineffably moving as an elderly couple facing their own mortality in the Palme d'Or… 
CastJean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isa…
LanguageFrench   CountryAustria/France/Germa…
MAST$14A

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Alice Winocour
Paris, winter 1885. At the Pitié-Salpêtriere Hospital, Professor Charcot is studying a mysterious illness: hysteria. Augustine, 19 years old, be… 
CastSoko, Chiara Mastroianni, Olivier Rabourdin …
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance
DISC$14A

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Lonesome Solo, Bamba Souleym…
In the busy streets of Abidjan, Tony, an out-of-school youth, scrapes together a living by hawking cigarettes but he soon turns to violence. Sho… 
CastAbdoul Karim Konaté, Adélaïde Ouattara, Mama…
LanguageFrench   CountryIvory Coast
DISC$14A

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Rafaël Ouellet
After being involved in a road accident causing the death of a woman, truck driver Germain’s world collapses as he feels an overwhelming sense o… 
CastJulien Poulin, Patrice Dubois, Maude Giguère…
LanguageFrench   CountryCanada
CWC$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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Nicolas Rey
autrement, la Molussie is an award-winning philosophical fable that draws on Günthers Anders’ amazingly prescient anti-fascist novel The Molussi… 
CastPeter Hoffmann
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance
WL$14A

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Yvan Attal
Jeff unexpectedly shows up on Ben's doorstep at 2am. Since their college days, they've taken very different paths. Jeff is still the wild man, a… 
CastFrançois Cluzet, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Asia …
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance
SP$14A

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Benjamin Renner, Vincent Pat…
Giant bears and tiny mice don’t tend to mingle much, but when Ernest and Célestine cross paths, the two become inseparable friends and embark on… 
CastAnne-Marie Loop, Dominique Maurin, Lambert W…
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance/Belgium/Luxem…
KIDYouthPG

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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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Damien Ounouri
An exceedingly timely tribute of unsung everyday heroes of revolutions draws the intimate portrait of El Hadi, a seventy-year-old veteran of the… 
CastMohamed El Hadi Benadouda
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance/Algeria/Qatar…
DOC$14A

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Peter Brosens, Jessica Hope …
In their follow-up to the remarkable Altiplano, co-directors Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth create a mystifying, surrealistic tale of a mou… 
CastAurélia Poirier, Django Schrevens, Sam Louwy…
LanguageFrench   CountryBelgium / Netherland…
WL$PG

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Manoel de Oliveira
Cinematic legends Jeanne Moreau, Claudia Cardinale and Michael Lonsdale star in the new film from legendary Portuguese master Manoel de Oliveira… 
CastMichael Lonsdale, Claudia Cardinale, Ricardo…
LanguageFrench   CountryPortugal/France
MAST$14A

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Yannis Smaragdis
This majestic epic tells the true-life, stranger-than-fiction tale of 18th-century Greek pirate turned merchant Ioannis Varvakis, who rose from … 
CastSebastian Koch, Evgeny Stychkin, Juan Diego …
LanguageFrench   CountryGreece
CWC$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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Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette
A Quebec doctor discovers the heartbreaking absurdity of life in Israel's divided West Bank, in this intense, politically-charged drama from the… 
CastEvelyne Brochu, Sabrina Ouazani, Sivan Levy,…
LanguageFrench   CountryCanada
SP$18A

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Marc-Henri Wajnberg
Kinshasa, Congo. About 30,000 children are accused of witchcraft and expelled from home. Living on the street, little José and his fellow friend… 
CastJosé Mawanda, Rachel Mwanza, Emmanuel Fakoko…
LanguageFrench   CountryBelgium
CWC$PG

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Xavier Dolan
In the 1990s, Laurence tells his girlfriend Fred that he wants to become a woman. In spite of the odds — and in spite of each other — they confr… 
CastSuzanne Clément, Melvil Poupaud, Nathalie Ba…
LanguageFrench   CountryCanada / France
SP$14A

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Manon Briand
A coat check attendant in a bar decides to take an unclaimed coat back to its owner, but soon finds herself in the middle of criminal intrigue. … 
CastStéphanie Lapointe, Charles-Alexandre Dubé, …
LanguageFrench   CountryCanada
SP$18A

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Joris Ivens, William Klein, …
The legendary, rarely-seen 1967 agit-prop classic from celebrated filmmakers mixes fact and fiction in an angry rebuke to the U.S. war in Vietna… 
CastAnne Bellec, Karen Blanguernon and Bernard F…
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance
CTQFreePG

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Vincent Bal
The son of the world's greatest detective embarks on a high-stakes adventure in this action-packed adaptation of the beloved book by Israeli wri… 
CastIsabella Rossellini, Thomas Simon, Burghart …
LanguageFrench   CountryNetherlands, Beligum…
KIDYouthPG

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Sébastien Betbeder
A party in a Parisian flat. Theodore meets Anna. Later in the night, while walking through Paris, they decide to climb the fence of Buttes-Chaum… 
CastPio Marmaï and Agathe Bonitzer
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance
DISC$PG

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Kim Nguyen
Komona, a 14-year-old girl, tells her unborn child the story of how she became a child soldier. A tale set in Sub-Saharan Africa, Rebelle is als… 
CastRachel Mwanza, Alain Bastien, Serge Kanyinda…
LanguageFrench   CountryCanada
SP$14A

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Marina Zenovich
A follow-up to the 2008 documentary "Roman Polanski: Wanted And Desired", focusing on the filmmaker's successful battle to avoid extradition in … 
CastRoman Polanski
LanguageFrench   CountryUSA
DOC$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…
LanguageFrench   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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Chris Marker
Sans Soleil is a meditation on the nature of human memory, showing the inability to recall the context and nuances of memory and how, as a resul… 
CastArielle Dombasle, Florence Delay, Riyoko Ike…
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance
CTQFree18

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Olivier Assayas
Celebrated French filmmaker Olivier Assayas (Summer Hours, Carlos) returns with this lovely, loosely autobiographical tale about a young aspirin… 
CastLola Créton, Dolores Chaplin and Victoria Le…
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance
MAST$14A

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Patrice Leconte
Imagine a shop that for generations has sold all the accoutrements for the perfect suicide. This family business prospers in all its bleak miser… 
CastBernard Alane, Isabelle Spade, Kacey Mottet …
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance/Canada
SP$14A

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Claude Miller
The unhappily married woman struggles to break free from social pressures and her boring suburban setting. In the Landes region of France, nea… 
CastAudrey Tautou, Gilles Lellouche, Anaïs Demou…
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance
SP$14A

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Jonas d'Adesky
Three young friends struggle to survive on the streets of Port-au-Prince in the aftermath of the 2010 Haitian earthquake. Best friends Vitaleme… 
CastJules Vitaleme, Sima Mickenson, Pierre Jean …
LanguageFrench   CountryHaiti, Belgium
CWC$14A

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Catherine Corsini
Al, a young man from a modest background is about to marry his boss’s daughter and succeed him as the head of a car dealership. One night, he is… 
CastRaphaël Personnaz, Clotilde Hesme, Arta Dobr…
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance
CWC$14A

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Licinio Azevedo
Veteran filmmaker Licinio Azevedo drew on the stories of real women who endured the Mozambican "re-education camps" for this dramatic and inspir… 
CastIva Mugalela, Sumeia Maculuva, Ermelinda Cim…
LanguageFrench   CountryMozambique/Portugal/…
CWC$14A

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Abdoul Aziz Cissé
This captivating documentary explores the contemporary graffiti culture of Dakar, where painters, rappers and taggers have created a language of… 
CastUnknown
LanguageFrench   CountrySénégal
DOC$PG

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Saïd Ould-Khelifa
Zabana! is an impassioned, meticulously researched account of the short life of Algerian freedom fighter Ahmed Zabana, whose execution in 1956 b… 
CastImad Benchenni, Nicolas Pignon, Khaled Benaï…
LanguageFrench   CountryAlgeria
CWC$PG