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Starring Vincent Lindon and Sandrine Kiberlain, Mademoiselle Chambon is an elegant and moving tale of an unexpected romance between a married man, Jean (Vincent Lindon), and his son's school teacher. Veronique Chambon (Sandrine Kiberlain).

As their feelings for each other slowly take hold, Jean and Veronique, who come from vastly different worlds, reach a painful turning point that will affect their lives forever.

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Seventeen-year-old Naseema (Samina Awan) is a young Muslim woman keen to make something of her life. Taking a job in a local decorating shop, she is attracted to Adam (Tom Hudson), whose blinkered racism is encouraged by his family and friends.

Naseema's older brother Yousef (Wasim Zakir) is sick of putting up with bigots in the town, confronting the violence he is met with, and is insistent that his sister conform to his idea of what a good Muslim girl should be. But his attitude toward race, religion and women is revealed as questionable when he embarks on a relationship with the feisty Michelle (Nichola Burley).

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On February 5th 2004 twenty three Chinese drowned in Morcombe Bay. Their families in China are still paying off their debts.

When a young girl, Ai Qin, pays £25,000 to be smuggled into the UK in order to support her family back in China, she becomes another one of 3 million migrant workers that have become the bedrock of our economy. Forced to live with eleven other Chinese in a two bedroom house, they work in factories preparing food for British supermarkets. Risking their lives for pennies, these unprotected workers end up cockling in Morcombe Bay at night. With an extraordinary debut performance from Ai Qin Lin in a film whose principal characters are played by Chinese former illegal immigrants, Ghosts offers a unique insight into a secret world that surrounds us.

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It's the height of the holiday season at an idyllic lakeside campsite in Wester France. Seventeen-year-old Camille is bored with both her family and barman Fred, her summertime boyfriend.

Enter Blaise, an enigmatic forty-something, who has been hired as a sailing instructor by his brother-in-law Eddie, the campsite director. Driven by the same profound sense of discontent, which brings them closer and closer together, their passions erupt as they begin a dangerous love affair. Their complicity feeds the rumours that exasperates their immediate circle and leads them further and further away from their responsibilities.

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Florent (Jordan Goldnadel), 23, is an upper class Parisian who dreams of going back to America, where he attended college. One summer he meets Alessia (Isabelle Ryan), an American girl, lost in the streets of Paris.

Together and with random encounters while on a journey from Paris to Normandy, they explore their passions, which draws them closer as well as brings up their clashing differences. As they face a crucial crossroad in their lives, they will uncover new sides of themselves, while struggling to determine who they are personally, professionally and sexually and trying to break free from their upbringings.

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Nathalie (Audrey Tautou) is living her dream life until her husband dies in an accident. To cope with her loss, she focuses on work and leaves little room for another romance. She is brought out of mourning three years later when she suddenly kisses her funny and dorky co-worker Markus.

Nathalie discovers that even though she lost "the one", if she keeps her heart open there may just be room for one more.

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When Miri Matteson (Daisy Haggard) returns home after a decade in prison following a terrible crime, can she integrate back into her old life? Now in her late thirties, with no job, no friends and no choice but to move back in with her parents.

Miri is desperate to move on, put the past behind her and get back to her life; but, in a small town where her crime is the most dramatic thing that has ever happened, will anyone let her?

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'Camp 14: Total Control Zone' is the award winning, powerful story of Shin Dong-Hyuk who was born as a political prisoner in a death camp in North-Korea. From the age of six, he was subjected to forced labour, hunger beatings and torture.

He was always at the mercy of the wardens, and knew nothing of the world outside the barbed wire fences. He thought everybody lived that way. With the help of an older prisoner, he succeeded in escaping at the age of 23 and encountered a world completely strange to him. The film offers a unique insight into this incredible story, from one of the few people ever who can talk first-hand about the ordeal of being raised in a North Korean prison camp. With CGI animation to bring Shin's memories to life and the testimony of two former high-ranking North-Korean officers involved in the prison-camp system, 'Camp 14: Total Control Zone' portrays shocking stories and perspectives in a film that is difficult to believe is real.

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Abbas (Eriq Ebouaney), a college professor and father of two, seeks political asylum in France after fleeing the civil war that has raged in the Central African Republic since 2013.

Widowed when his wife died in attempting to escape the country with him, he has since met Carole (Sandrine Bonnaire), who consoles him in his anguish at the French immigration system. Two years of waiting finally elicit a response from the authorities. Everything he holds dear, including his hopes for both his future and those of his children, lie in their decision.

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When a British secret service agent is captured behind enemy lines in North Korea, his wife turns to Gabriel, an elite bounty hunter whose martial arts expertise and special ops skills make him the scourge of pedophiles and fugitives in Hong Kong's violent underworld.

Promised his freedom in exchange for one last mission, Gabriel agrees to cross the border into North Korea to track down and rescue his former partner. With only a local agent and a resourceful young woman by his side, Gabriel must draw on all his experience to infiltrate the heavily-guarded base, where a corrupt general and his evil army lie in wait. Braving brutal torture, and facing hordes of lethal soldiers, Gabriel is able to free the hostage, only to stumble upon the horrific truth behind the general's plans. With his loyalty stretched to breaking point, Gabriel finds himself in a race against time to escape a hostile country and expose an international human trafficking conspiracy. Not for the first time, he will have to cross the line to save his friend, dozens of captured women, and himself.

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'Eternal Summer' tells the story of Jonathan (Bryant Chang), a young man who finds himself in an enviable romantic predicament. On one hand, he has pretty Hong Kong university classmate Carrie (Kate Yeung) after him.

The two share an idyllic day away from academic study to and spend a day in the big city, after which they check into a love hotel. Jonathan calls it off when Carrie tries to get intimate with him. It turns out that he's in love with someone else, namely his childhood friend Shane (Joseph Chang), a roguish and handsome troublemaker who excels at basketball and seems to be headed nowhere in particular after high school.
Carrie understands Jonathan's problem, and even accepts it. However, that isn't going to solve things for these conflicted youth. The revelation of Jonathan's sexuality creates tension between Carrie and Jonathan. Shane is oblivious to his best friend's issues and begins to fall for Carrie. However, there is a conflict of emotions over their mutual friendship with Jonathan. The days and nights pass, but the big secret of Jonathan's desires hangs over the three friends continuing to create conflict. Eventually their fragile triangle of mutual affection and painful attraction is tested to the limit of their friendship when it becomes clear to Carrie that Shane has also harboured the same desire and love for Jonathan all along.

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Set at the height of 1950s glamour, this audience award-winning drama recounts the extraordinary relationship between Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Elizabeth Bishop (Miranda Otto) and Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares (Gloria Pires).

In search of inspiration, Bishop leaves America having accepted the invitation of an old college friend to stay with her on her sprawling country estate in Brazil. But she never counted on meeting the love of her life - her friend's partner. At first, the fiery personalities of the two women collide and lead to passion-fuelled debates, but animosity quickly turns to attraction, then desire. Film is an intimate portrait of two remarkable artists as they discover the most incredible love.

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Gloria is a young at heart 50-something. Moving from one party to another on the look for love, her loneliness acting only as an incentive. This fragile happiness changes the day she meets Rodolfo (Sergio Hernandez).

Their intense passion, to which Gloria gives everything, leaves her dancing between hope and despair. Gloria is an individual story that takes place over the backdrop of a city thrown into upheaval. The leading characters quest to be loved and valued is set over the clamours of a Chilean society that wants its rights to be recognised. This sensitive and sharply humorous fourth feature from Chilean director Sebastian Lelio is exclusively and radically told from a single viewpoint. While playing a supporting role in the lives of all those around her, Gloria is at the very centre of the film - forcing us to observe events through the eyes of a woman searching for her place in a hardened world that seems to have neither time nor space for her, yet defending her individual freedom with heart and pride. Winner of multiple awards worldwide, it features an evocative, vibrant soundtrack ranging from global classics to Latin American hits. Gloria is a paean to the tenacity and courage of a generation of Chilean women who are determined to keep on feeling, dancing and living.

In this tense thriller an everyday Joe, laid off from his job, finds a freelance gig that involves nothing in the way of pay but plenty in the way of murderous pleasure! A tense and twisted tale of life and death in modern South Korea...

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Fired from her job, broke and with her judgement clouded by too many vodka shots, Julia hits rock bottom and hatches a reckless plan to kidnap the 8 year-old grandson of a wealthy businessman and hold the boy to ransom.

But she finds herself totally unprepared for life as a fugitive with a terrified child in tow, and events soon spiral wildly out of control. With both the authorities and a brutal criminal gang on her tail, a desperate Julia finds herself locked in a deadly fight for survival.