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Broker (2022)Beurokeo / Baby Broker
On a rainy night in Busan, So-young (Lee 'IU' Ji-eun) leaves her baby outside a 'baby box', a safe place set up in Korean churches for new mothers to leave unwanted infants. Instead, he's picked up by Sang-hyun (Song Kang-ho) who runs an unofficial adoption brokerage and plans to find him a new home. So-young tracks down both Sang-hyun and his business partner (Gang Dong-won) and decides to join their pursuit - unaware they're being tailed by two detectives (Doona Bae, Lee Joo-young) who are determined to stop them. - Director:
- Hirokazu Koreeda
- Cast:
- Kang-ho Song, Dong-won Kang, Doona Bae
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Close (2022)We Two Boys, Together Clinging
"Close" is an elegant, poetic and empathetic study of youth from acclaimed writer-director Lukas Dhont. Thirteen-year-olds Léo (Eden Dambrine) and Rémi (Gustav De Waele) are inseparable; best friends, as close as brothers. However as they start a new school year, the pressures of burgeoning adolescence challenge their bond with unexpected and far-reaching consequences. - Director:
- Lukas Dhont
- Cast:
- Eden Dambrine, Gustav De Waele, Émilie Dequenne
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Fallen Leaves (2023)Kuolleet Lehdet / Dead Leaves
Fallen Leaves is a timeless, hopeful and ultimately satisfying love story about two lonely souls' path to happiness - and the numerous hurdles they encounter along the way. Set in contemporary Helsinki, and shot through with Kaurismaki's typically playful, idiosyncratic style and deadpan humor, this tender romantic tragicomedy is a timely reminder of the potency of movie-going from one of cinema's living legends. - Director:
- Aki Kaurismäki
- Cast:
- Alma Pöysti, Jussi Vatanen, Janne Hyytiäinen
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In this wild and incredible tale, young Bella Baxter (Emma Stone) is brought back to live by a brilliant and unorthodox scientist. Eager to learn and hungry for the worldliness she lacks, Bella runs off on an adventure that inspires in her a fantastical evolution leading to a fierce dedication to equality and liberation. - Director:
- Yorgos Lanthimos
- Cast:
- Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe
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Executive produced by Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader's (writer of Taxi Driver and Raging Bull) The Card Counter is told with Schrader's trademark cinematic intensity. An ex-military interrogator turned gambler is haunted by the ghosts of his past decisions. Redemption is the long game in this revenge thriller featuring riveting performances from stars Oscar Isaac, Tiffany Haddish, and Tye Sheridan. - Director:
- Paul Schrader
- Cast:
- Oscar Isaac, Tiffany Haddish, Tye Sheridan
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American activists Paul Sullivan (Brad Dourif) and his fiancee Ingrid Jessner (Frances McDormand) journey to Belfast to probe allegations of brutal human rights abuses by British security forces. When Paul is killed under mysterious circumstances, the official reports list him as an IRA accomplice. But Ingrid and British policeman Paul Kerrigan (Brian Cox) question the findings and begin to uncover a shocking high-level conspiracy. Now, with their safety in jeopardy, they must decide whether to risk everything to reveal the truth. - Director:
- Ken Loach
- Cast:
- Frances McDormand, Brian Cox, Brad Dourif
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il buco (2021)The Hole / Il Buco
During the economic boom of the 1960s, Europe's highest building is being built in Italy's prosperous North. At the other end of the country, young cavers explore Europe's deepest cave in the untouched Calabrian hinterland. The bottom of the Bifurto Abyss, 700 metres below Earth, is reached for the first time. The intruders' venture goes unnoticed by the inhabitants of a small neighbouring village, but not by the old shepherd of the Pollino plateau whose solitary life begins to interweave with the group's journey. 'il Buco' chronicles a visit to the depths of life and nature and parallels two great voyages to the interior. - Director:
- Michelangelo Frammartino
- Cast:
- Claudia Candusso, Paolo Cossi, Mila Costi
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'Typist Artist Pirate King' is a magical, empathetic, hopeful journey through England and the mind. When Audrey Amiss (Monica Dolan) and her psychiatric nurse Sandra Panza (Kelly Macdonald) take to the road in an electric car, searching for an art exhibition, they meet all manner of people along the way, and as a friendship develops between them, there is reconciliation with the past. - Director:
- Carol Morley
- Cast:
- Monica Dolan, Kelly MacDonald, Gina McKee
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Scrapper (2023)Nan / Yet To Be
It's said that it takes a village to raise a child but 12-year-old Georgie (Lola Campbell) has other ideas. Living alone since her beloved mum died, Georgie fills the flat they shared with her own special magic. But when her absent father Jason (Harris Dickinson) turns up out of the blue, she's forced to confront reality. A dreamy, witty and unmissable tale of family and fresh starts, "Scrapper" is a film that believes life's not so much about chasing rainbows but snatching fistfuls in both hands. - Director:
- Charlotte Regan
- Cast:
- Lola Campbell, Alin Uzun, Cary Crankson
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From the 1870s to the modem era, Radioactive is a journey through Marie Curie's enduring legacies - her passionate relationships, scientific breakthroughs, and the consequences that followed for her and for the world. After meeting fellow scientist Pierre Curie, the pair marry and change the face o science forever by their discovery of two new elements. The ensuing Nobel Prize propels the couple into the international limelight, but after a tragic accident Marie continues to advance her work, resulting in revolutionary discoveries that have dramatic consequences. - Director:
- Marjane Satrapi
- Cast:
- Rosamund Pike, Yvette Feuer, Mirjam Novak
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Anatomy of a Fall (2023)Anatomie d'une chute
When her husband Samuel (Samuel Theis) is mysteriously found dead in the snow below their secluded chalet, Sandra (Sandra Hüller) becomes the main suspect when the police begin to question whether he fell or was pushed. The trial soon becomes not just an investigation, but a gripping psychological journey into the depths of Sandra and Samuel's complicated marriage. With conflicting evidence and inconsistent testimony, words are wielded like weapons and shocking truths come to light... - Director:
- Justine Triet
- Cast:
- Sandra Hüller, Swann Arlaud, Milo Machado Graner
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In a remote Transylvanian town where tradition binds the community, historic resentments start to bubble to the surface with the arrival of new immigrant workers who have been hired by the local factory. Gripping, breathtaking and powerful, 'R.M.N. ' is the new work from Cristian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days), one of the masters of European cinema. - Director:
- Cristian Mungiu
- Cast:
- Marin Grigore, Judith State, Macrina Barladeanu
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In Front of Your Face (2021)Dangsin-eolgul-apeseo
After years living abroad, former actress Sangok (Lee Hyeyoung) is back in Seoul, staying with her sister Jeongok (Cho Yunhee) in her high-rise apartment. Whilst Sangok becomes re-accustomed to life in Korea, the sisters have a lie-in, enjoy breakfast in a cafe and visit a restaurant owned by Jeongok's son. But as the detail of Sangok's day accrue (a spill on her blouse, an encounter at her childhood home), it becomes clear that there is much she is not revealing. These mysterious circumstances may have something to do with her decision to meet with film director Jaewon (Kwon Haehyo) to discuss her return to acting. - Director:
- Sang-soo Hong
- Cast:
- Yunhee Cho, Lee Hye-yeong, Hae-hyo Kwon
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The Man Who Sold His Skin (2020)L'homme qui a vendu sa peau
Sam Ali (Yahya Mahayni), a sensitive but impulsive young Syrian man, is forced to leave his country for Lebanon to escape the war. In order to travel to Europe to be with the love of his life, he agrees to have his back tattooed by one of the world's most sulphurous contemporary artists. By turning his body into a prestigious piece of art, Sam finds himself held captive to the whims of the artist and the art world, proving his decision might mean anything but the freedom he so fiercely sought. - Director:
- Kaouther Ben Hania
- Cast:
- Yahya Mahayni, Dea Liane, Koen De Bouw
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In the small village of Alcarras in Catalonia, the peach farmers of the Sole family spend every summer together picking fruit from their orchard. But when new plans arise to install solar panels and cut down trees, the members of this tight-knit group suddenly face eviction - and the loss of far more than their home. Winner of the Golden Bear at Berlinale, the sophomore film from Carla Simon (Summer 1993) is a sun-dappled, deeply moving ensemble portrait of the countryside and a community's unbreakable bonds. - Director:
- Carla Simón
- Cast:
- Josep Abad, Jordi Pujol Dolcet, Anna Otin
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