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Here We Are (2020)Hine Anachnu
Aharon (Shai Avivi) has devoted his life to raising his son Uri (Noam Imber). They live together in a gentle routine, away from the real world. But Uri is autistic, and now as a young adult it might be time for him to live in a specialized home. While on their way to the institution, Aharon decides to run away with his son and hits the road, knowing that Uri is not ready for this separation. The journey of the two will change their lives. - Director:
- Nir Bergman
- Cast:
- Shai Avivi, Noam Imber, Smadi Wolfman
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A fast-living, cynical London music executive (Danny Mays) heads to a remote Cornish village on a stag weekend where he's pranked by his boss (Noel Clarke) into trying to sign a group of shanty singing fishermen (led by James Purefoy). He becomes the ultimate fish out of water as he struggles to gain the respect or enthusiasm of the unlikely boy band and their families (including Tuppence Middleton) who w value friendship and community over fame and A fortune. As he's drawn deeper into the traditional way of life he's forced to re-evaluate his own integrity and ultimately question what success really means. - Director:
- Chris Foggin
- Cast:
- Tuppence Middleton, James Purefoy, Daniel Mays
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4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile
The friendship between two girls is tested to its absolute limits in this utterly compelling drama set in the twilight years of Communist-era Romania. Gabita (Laura Vasiliu), young and naive, is pregnant. She turns to her more pragmatic room mate Otilia (Anamaria Marinca) for help and a meeting is arranged in a downtown hotel with the shady Mr. Bebe (Vlad Ivanov). Entering a dangerous and illegal underworld where the stakes are high and nothing is as it seems, the girls are set for a life-changing experience that neither will ever forget. - Director:
- Cristian Mungiu
- Cast:
- Anamaria Marinca, Vlad Ivanov, Laura Vasiliu
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On Body and Soul (2017)Teströl és lélekröl
Two introverted people, both workers in a meat-processing plant - one a world-weary financial director, the other a strict quality controller - find out by chance that they share the same dream every night. They are puzzled, incredulous and frightened. As they begin to accept this strange coincidence, they try to recreate in broad daylight what happens in their shared subconscious. - Director:
- Ildikó Enyedi
- Cast:
- Alexandra Borbély, Géza Morcsányi, Réka Tenki
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In the Donbass, war is called peace, propaganda is uttered as truth and hatred is declared to be love. In the Donbass, a region of Eastern Ukraine, a hybrid war takes place, involving an open armed conflict alongside killings and robberies on a mass scale perpetrated by separatist gangs. A journey through the Donbass unfolds as a chain of curious adventures, where the grotesque and drama are as intertwined as life and death. This is not a tale of one region, one country or one political system. It is about a world, lost in post-truth and fake identities. It is about each and every one of us. - Director:
- Sergey Loznitsa
- Cast:
- Tamara Yatsenko, Irina Zayarmiuk, Grigory Masliuk
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Based in vulnerable terrain just 14 mi,es from the Pakistani border, a small unit of U.S. soldiers must hold their base as a force of Taliban fighters launch a co-ordinated attack. Starring Scott Eastwood, Caleb Landry Jones and Orlando Bloom, 'The Outpost' is based on the true story of one of the United States' deadliest battles during the war in Afghanistan -The Battle of Kamdesh. - Director:
- Rod Lurie
- Cast:
- Scott Eastwood, Caleb Landry Jones, Orlando Bloom
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Petite Maman (2021)Little Mom
'Petite Maman' is a sublime modern fairytale about the quiet wonder of mother-daughter relationships. After the death of her beloved grandmother (Margot Abascal), eight-year-old Nelly (Joséphine Sanz) meets a mysterious friend in the woods. Together they embark on a fantastical journey of discovery which helps Nelly come to terms with this newfound loss. Celine Sciamma's new masterwork examines childhood, memory and loss with a typically delicate touch, elegantly weaved together into an enchanting and moving depiction of love and acceptance. - Director:
- Céline Sciamma
- Cast:
- Joséphine Sanz, Gabrielle Sanz, Nina Meurisse
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You Will Die at Twenty (2019)You Will Die at 20
Based on a Sudanese short story, 'You Will Die at Twenty' follows the life of Muzamil (Mustafa Shehata) from birth until his 20th birthday. At the boy's naming ceremony, a sheik prophesizes that Muzamil will meet an early death at the age of twenty. The villagers taunt him, referring to him as "son of death", and he becomes increasingly isolated, with only the opportunity to study the Koran. But when he meets Suliman (Mahmoud Maysara Elsaraj), an educated outsider, a conflict grows within Muzamil between his traditional values and newfound modern aspirations. Will he have the time to act out his desires? - Director:
- Amjad Abu Alala
- Cast:
- Mustafa Shehata, Islam Mubarak, Mahmoud Maysara Elsaraj
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There Is No Evil (2020)Sheytan vojud nadarad
Every society that enforces the death penalty needs people to kill other people. Four men are faced with an unthinkable but simple choice. Whatever they decide, it will directly or indirectly corrode themselves, their relationships, and their entire lives. In four thematically connected episodes, Mohammad Rasoulof tells their stories, which inevitably are also the stories of the people who surround them. - Director:
- Mohammad Rasoulof
- Cast:
- Baran Rasoulof, Zhila Shahi, Mahtab Servati
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Ruben (Riz Ahmed) and Lou (Olivia Cooke) live together, two nomads traveling gig to gig on an endless American tour. Their music is loud, frenzied and passionate, until one day Ruben is overwhelmed by a severe ringing in his ears, which quickly gives way to deafness. Ruben is suddenly overcome by anxiety, depression, and soon enough his past addictions begin to surface. Ruben checks himself into a home for deaf addicts run by an eccentric deaf veteran, Joe. In this world of silence and under Joe's tough, observant care, Ruben must confront himself more honestly than ever before. But the love and sound of his old life echoes in Ruben's mind, calling for him to return... - Director:
- Darius Marder
- Cast:
- Riz Ahmed, Olivia Cooke, Paul Raci
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Dune (2021)Dune: Part One
Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet), a brilliant, gifted young man born into a destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence, only those who can conquer their fear will survive. - Director:
- Denis Villeneuve
- Cast:
- Jean Gilpin, Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson
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Ben Sharrock's critically adored 'Limbo' is a wry, funny and poignant cross-cultural satire that subtly sews together the hardship and hope of the refugee experience. Set on a fictional remote Scottish island, it follows a group of new arrivals as they await the results of their asylum claims. Among them is Omar (Amir El-Masry), a young Syrian musician struggling with the guilt, regret and grief that comes with leaving his former life behind. This deadpan comedy-drama from a bold new voice in British cinema shines a light on the hearts and lives of those at the centre of a crisis that is mostly only experienced through the headlines. - Director:
- Ben Sharrock
- Cast:
- Sidse babett Knudsen, Bobby Paton, Kenneth Collard
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No Man's Land (2001)Nicija Zemlja
Against the sunny landscape of a Bosnian summer, two enemy soldiers are trapped in a trench in no man's land. The world's press watch as a French UN sergeant battles with a British colonel to negotiate their safety. And the only people who speak the same language are the men fighting each other for survival in the trench. Surprisingly funny, strikingly moving, No Man's Land is a portrait of the petty normality, not only of one particular war, but of all conflicts everywhere. - Director:
- Danis Tanovic
- Cast:
- Branko Djuric, Rene Bitorajac, Filip Sovagovic
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Based on the incredible true story of Dream Alliance, an unlikely race horse bred by Jan Vokes (Toni Collette). With little money and no experience, Jan convinces a motley crew of villagers to chip in their limited earnings to help raise a foal on her allotment and compete with the racing elites. 'Dream Horse' is a classic tale of triumph against adversity, as an ordinary woman makes her wildest dream come true and their horse becomes a beacon of hope in their struggling community. - Director:
- Euros Lyn
- Cast:
- Toni Collette, Richard Hoiles, Owen Teale
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Tom, (Timothy Spall) an elderly widower, uses his trusty free bus pass to take a series of local buses on a deeply nostalgic trip across the length of the U.K., from John O' Groats to Lands End. His mission is to fulfil a promise he made to his late wife, to take her back to the place where they first met and lived happily together. Unbeknownst to Tom, his journey, and his unlikely antics on it, begin to capture the imagination of the local people that he comes across and, ultimately, Tom and his trip become a nationwide news story. - Director:
- Gillies MacKinnon
- Cast:
- Phyllis Logan, Timothy Spall, Grace Calder
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