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Iceland

“THE DEEP” (2012 feature film directed by Baltasar Kormákur)
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The Deep [2012]
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… 
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CastÓlafur Darri Ólafsson, Jóhann G. Jóhannsson …
LanguageIcelandic   CountryIceland
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India

“BORN TO HATE, DESTINED TO LOVE” (2012 feature film directed by Habib Faisal)
Reviews ***
Born to Hate, Destined to Love [2012]
Habib Faisal
A love story set amidst political violence in northern India, this romance follows Hindu Parma (Arjun Kapoor) and Muslim Zoya (Parineeti Chopra)… 
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CastMeeta Bandhu, Akash Bathija, Pravin Chandra
LanguageHindi   CountryIndia
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“THE BRIGHT DAY” (2012 feature film directed by Mohit Takalkar)
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The Bright Day [2012]
Mohit Takalkar
Yearning for meaning in his life, a coddled young man abandons his girlfriend and family to set out on a spiritual quest across India. Shot with… 
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CastSarang Sathaye, Shernaz Patel, Rajit Kapur, …
LanguageHindi   CountryIndia
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“THE CLOUD CAPPED STAR” (1960 feature film directed by Ritwik Ghatak)
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The Cloud Capped Star [1960]
Ritwik Ghatak
A young woman desperately struggles to keep her family out of poverty in this fiercely moving masterpiece by the great, perennially under-recogn… 
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CastSupriya Choudhury, Anil Chatterjee and Niran…
LanguageBengali   CountryIndia
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“ENGLISH VINGLISH” (2012 feature film directed by Gauri Shinde)
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English Vinglish [2012]
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 … 
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CastSridevi, Adil Hussain and Mehdi Nebbou, Priy…
LanguageEnglish | Tamil | Hi…   CountryIndia
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“GANGS OF WASSEYPUR” (2012 feature film directed by Anurag Kashyap)
Reviews ***½
Gangs of Wasseypur [2012]
Anurag Kashyap
Part One of Anurag Kashyap’s decade-spanning gangster epic chronicles the bloody turf war between two competing criminal families during the tum… 
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CastManoj Bajpai, Richa Chadda, Nawazuddin Siddi…
LanguageHindi   CountryIndia
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“GANGS OF WASSEYPUR II” (2012 feature film directed by Anurag Kashyap)
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Gangs of Wasseypur II [2012]
Anurag Kashyap
Wasseypur careen towards their bloody date with destiny. Wasseypur is no more the town that was once consumed by the raging war between Sardar … 
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CastRaj Kumar Yadav, Tigmanshu Dhulia, Nawazuddi…
LanguageHindi   CountryIndia
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“MISS LOVELY” (2012 feature film directed by Ashim Ahluwalia)
Reviews ***½
Miss Lovely [2012]
Ashim Ahluwalia
A delightfully lurid ride through the lower depths of the Bombay film industry, Miss Lovely follows two brothers who hit it big producing sex-ho… 
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CastNawazuddin Siddiqui, Niharika Singh, Anil Ge…
LanguageHindi   CountryIndia
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“MUMBAI’S KING” (2012 feature film directed by Manjeet Singh)
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Mumbai’s King [2012]
Manjeet Singh
Rahul roams the streets with his balloon-seller friend Arbaaz. These two kids escape the grim realities of their lives by gambling, roasting sto… 
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CastRahul Bairagi, Dhanshree Jain,Salman Khan, A…
LanguageHindi   CountryIndia
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“PEDDLERS” (2012 feature film directed by Vasan Bala)
Reviews ****½
Peddlers [2012]
Vasan Bala
The lives of a rookie cop, a streetwise orphan and a beautiful young ex-teacher collide explosively in the drug underworld of Mumbai in this edg… 
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CastMukesh Chhabra, Zachary Coffin, Gulshan Deva…
LanguageHindi   CountryIndia
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“SHAHID” (2012 feature film directed by Hansal Mehta)
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Shahid [2012]
Hansal Mehta
The film is the true story of slain lawyer Shahid Azmi, who fought several pro-bono cases in India. This compelling drama tells the remarkable … 
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CastRaj Kumar, Prabhleen Sandhu, Baljinder Kaur,…
LanguageHindi   CountryIndia
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“SHANGHAI” (2012 feature film directed by Dibakar Banerjee)
Reviews ***½
Shanghai [2012]
Dibakar Banerjee
Prime leader of a campaign against a big government project is killed in what appears to be a road accident. An IAS officer is ordered to probe … 
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CastEmraan Hashmi, Abhay Deol, Prasenjit Chatter…
LanguageHindi   CountryIndia
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“SHIP OF THESEUS” (2012 feature film directed by Anand Gandhi)
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Ship of Theseus [2012]
Anand Gandhi
In the first feature film from acclaimed Indian playwright Anand Gandhi, three disparate people — a devout monk stricken by illness, a blind wom… 
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CastAida El-Kashef, Sohum Shah, Neeraj Kabi
LanguageHindi   CountryIndia
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“THE TORTOISE, AN INCARNATION” (2012 feature film directed by Girish Kasaravalli)
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The Tortoise, An Incarnation [2012]
Girish Kasaravalli
In Girish Kasaravalli's gently philosophical character piece, a humble, low-level civil servant cast as the lead in a popular TV serial chronicl… 
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CastKrishna murthy Shikeripura, Jayanthi
LanguageKannada   CountryIndia
CWC$PG
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Iraq

“RHINO SEASON” (2012 feature film directed by Bahman Ghobadi)
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Rhino Season [2012]
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… 
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CastBehrouz Vossoughi, Monica Bellucci, Belçim B…
LanguageFarsi   CountryIraq
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Ireland

“JUMP” (2012 feature film directed by Kieron J. Walsh)
Reviews ***½
Jump [2012]
Kieron J. Walsh
Jump follows the lives of four 20-somethings whose lives collide one fateful New Year's Eve in a night of fast talk, accidents and intrigue. At … 
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CastMartin McCann, Nichola Burley
LanguageEnglish   CountryIreland
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“MEN AT LUNCH” (2012 feature documentary film directed by Seán Ó Cualáin)
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Men At Lunch [2012]
Seán Ó Cualáin
As construction of the GE Building, centrepiece of New York's Rockerfeller Centre, neared completion in the autumn of 1932, a black and white ph… 
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CastFionnula Flanagan
LanguageEnglish   CountryIreland
DOC$PG Video
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“WHAT RICHARD DID” (2012 feature film directed by Lenny Abrahamson)
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What Richard Did [2012]
Lenny Abrahamson
A high school rugby star's life is irrevocably changed when a senseless act of violence leads to a sudden, shocking tragedy. 
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CastJack Reynor, Róisín Murphy, Sam Keeley, Lars…
LanguageEnglish   CountryIreland
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Israel

“EAGLES” (2012 feature film directed by Dror Sabo)
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Eagles [2012]
Dror Sabo
Alienated from a society that no longer seems to have a place for them, two elderly ex-soldiers undertake a vigilante campaign against injustice… 
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CastYossi Polak, Yehoram Gaon, Noa Barkai
LanguageHebrew   CountryIsrael
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“FILL THE VOID” (2012 feature film directed by Rama Burshtein)
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Fill the Void [2012]
Rama Burshtein
Fill the Void tells the story of an Orthodox Hassidic family from Tel Aviv. Eighteen-year-old Shira is the youngest daughter of the family. She … 
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CastHadas Yaron, Yiftach Klein, Irit Sheleg, Cha…
LanguageHebrew   CountryIsrael
DISC$PG
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“THE GATEKEEPERS” (2012 feature documentary film directed by Dror Moreh)
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The Gatekeepers [2012]
Dror Moreh
Charged with overseeing Israel’s war on terror, the head of the Shin Bet — Israel’s secret service agency — is present at the crossroad of every… 
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CastAmi Ayalon, Yaakov Peri, Avraham Shalom, Car…
LanguageEnglish, Hebrew   CountryIsrael
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“IGOR & THE CRANES' JOURNEY” (2012 feature film directed by Evgeny Ruman)
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Igor & the Cranes' Journey [2012]
Evgeny Ruman
An estranged father and son are brought together by a young crane named Karl as they trace a family of the birds on their migratory journey from… 
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CastItai Shcherback, Tomasz Sobczak, Ola Schur S…
LanguageHebrew | Russian   CountryIsrael
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“OUT IN THE DARK” (2012 feature film directed by Michael Mayer)
Reviews ***½
Out in the Dark [2012]
Michael Mayer
A drama centered on the love affair between two men on opposite sites of the Mid-East conflict: Palestinian student Nimer and Roy, an Israeli la… 
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CastNicholas Jacob and Michael Aloni
LanguageArabic/Hebrew   CountryIsrael
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“STATE 194” (2012 feature documentary film directed by Dan Setton)
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State 194 [2012]
Dan Setton
In 2009, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad launched a plan to demonstrate that his people were deserving of statehood, inspiring them to c… 
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CastSalam Fayaad
LanguageEnglish, Arabic, Heb…   CountryIsrael
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“ZAYTOUN” (2012 feature film directed by Eran Riklis)
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Zaytoun [2012]
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 … 
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CastStephen Dorff, Abdallah El Akal, Alice Tagli…
LanguageArabic   CountryIsrael
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Italy

“DORMANT BEAUTY” (2012 feature film directed by Marco Bellocchio)
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Dormant Beauty [2012]
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… 
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CastIsabelle Huppert, Toni Servillo, Alba Rohrwa…
LanguageItalian   CountryItaly
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“THE INTERVAL” (2012 feature film directed by Leonardo Di Costanzo)
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The Interval [2012]
Leonardo Di Costanzo
A boy and a girl have been locked up in an enormous abandoned building in Naples. The boy has been forced by a Camorra gang to act as her jail-k… 
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CastFrancesca Riso, Alessio Gallo, Carmine Pater…
LanguageItalian   CountryItaly
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“ME AND YOU” (2012 feature film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci)
Reviews ***½
Me and You [2012]
Bernardo Bertolucci
Italian master Bernardo Bertolucci's first feature in ten years is an intimate, moving and beautifully realized study of two troubled siblings g… 
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CastTea Falco, Jacopo Olmo Antinori and Sonia Be…
LanguageItalian   CountryItaly
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“REALITY” (2012 feature film directed by Matteo Garrone)
Reviews ***½
Reality [2012]
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… 
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CastAniello Arena, Loredana Simioli, Nando Paone…
LanguageItalian   CountryItaly
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“THE SON DID IT” (2012 feature film directed by Daniele Ciprì)
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The Son Did It [2012]
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… 
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CastToni Servillo, Giselda Volodi, Alfredo Castr…
LanguageItalian   CountryItaly
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“STROMBOLI” (1950 feature film directed by Roberto Rossellini)
Reviews ***
Stromboli [1950]
Roberto Rossellini
Long circulated in severely truncated or re-edited versions, Roberto Rossellini's once reviled, now revered masterpiece — the first of an epocha… 
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CastIngrid Bergman, Mario Vitale and Renzo Cesan…
LanguageItalian, English   CountryItaly
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“TWICE BORN” (2012 feature film directed by Sergio Castellitto)
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Twice Born [2012]
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 … 
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CastPenélope Cruz, Emile Hirsch and Mira Furlan
LanguageItalian   CountryItaly
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“THE WAR OF THE VOLCANOES” (2012 short documentary film directed by Francesco Patierno)
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The War of the Volcanoes [2012]
Francesco Patierno
“The War of the Volcanoes” tells a part of Italian and world cinema history, an intense and timeless story like the island where it takes place.… 
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CastRoberto Rossellini, Ingrid Bergman, Anna Mag…
LanguageItalian   CountryItaly
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Ivory Coast

“BURN IT UP DJASSA” (2012 feature film directed by Lonesome Solo, Bamba Souleymane)
Reviews ***
Burn It Up Djassa [2012]
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… 
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CastAbdoul Karim Konaté, Adélaïde Ouattara, Mama…
LanguageFrench / Nouchi   CountryIvory Coast
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