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My Armenian Phantoms
Movie
Filmmaker Tamara Stepanyan embarks on an evocative journey through the forgotten world of Armenian cinema, reflecting on her late father's acting career and her own creative path. Blending personal memories with a celebration of profound cultural and artistic legacy, the film was selected as Arme...
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Trio
Movie
Han is a suicidal saxophonist, Mun is a violent simpleton with an IQ of 80, and Maria is a single mother with dreams of becoming a nun. Han has tried numerous times to kill himself, but nothing ever works. When he witnesses his wife's infidelity, it's the last straw. He gets a call from Mun and t...
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Milk
Movie
Days after giving birth to a stillborn baby, Robin (Frieda Barnhard) starts to produce milk. Unable to throw it away, she looks to donate it instead. But as the challenge to find someone who will accept her milk becomes increasingly difficult, the growing number of bottles start to overtake her f...
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Malizia
Movie
In 1950s Sicily, Ignazio (Turi Ferro), a recently widowed father of three, hires the beautiful young Angela (Laura Antonelli) to maintain the household and look after his sons. But as Angela settles into her duties, all of the men grow increasingly infatuated and obsessed with her, each attemptin...
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The Major Tones
Movie
It’s winter break in Buenos Aires, and fourteen-year-old Ana makes an odd discovery. The metal plate that she has had in her arm since suffering an accident as a child is all of a sudden acting as an antenna and receiving strange Morse code messages. She teams up with a young soldier to decipher ...
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El Paraiso
Movie
Nearly forty years old, Julio Cesar (Edoardo Pesce) still lives with his mother (Margarita Rosa de Francisco Baquero) in a house by the river in the seaside town of Fiumicino, near Rome. Through salsa dance nights and limited earnings working for a local drug dealer, the two struggle to maintain ...
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Paris Prestige
Movie
Just released from prison and determined to make a name for himself once again, Nasser (Reda Kateb) returns to the streets of Paris. His probation officer, Margot (Mélanie Laurent), urges him to work at Le Prestige, the bar run by his older brother, Arezki (Slimane Dazi), that is located next to ...
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February
Movie
There is nothing ordinary about Petar, an unconventional man living a humble existence in rural eastern Bulgaria. His days are filled with sun, work, land, sheep and birds. Throughout the various chapters of his life – from ages eight and eighteen to eighty-two – he follows his own poetic path wh...
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Until Tomorrow
Movie
Fereshteh, a university student and single mother living in Tehran, finds her courage tested when she resorts to desperate measures to hide her illegitimate child from her parents who arrive for an unannounced visit. Her friend Atefeh vows to helps her. Together, they embark on an odyssey through...
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Jailbird
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For Giacinto (Adriano Tardiolo), prison was always home. As the son of two inmates, he was born behind bars, and there he learned how to walk and discovered his skill for running. Despite not having a criminal record of his own, Giacinto does everything he can to go back to jail as an adult, and ...
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The Old Man and the Land
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An old man works alone to maintain his ancestral farmland, season after season. As his strength fades, his children must confront the harsh realities of inheritance. His daughter understands farming but struggles with commitment. His son only views the land as a financial asset. While they bicker...
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Sudden Outbursts of Emotions
Movie
Jane (Iina Kuustonen) works at a travel agency, selling adventures to others while stuck in her own safe and predictable everyday life. Her boyfriend, Mikki (Riku Nieminen), is a struggling actor, and even though the passion between them has cooled, she is shocked when he suggests that they open ...
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Betania
Movie
Betania, a 65-year-old matriarch, is on a turbulent ride on the ever-shifting sands of time. In the wake of her husband’s death, she leaves behind a lifetime of memories and a simple, agrarian existence to move back to the village where she was born. Pushed by the ancestral sound of Maranhao, Bet...
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The Hyperboreans
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Actress and psychologist Antonia Giesen decides to film a script revealed by a voice within the mind of one of her patients. Seeking collaboration with the filmmaking duo León & Cociña, they craft a crossroads of theatre, science fiction, animation and fabulated biopic, populated by parallel worl...
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Europa
Movie
Kamal (Adam Ali) has fled Iraq to try to enter “Fortress Europe.” At the Turkish-Bulgarian border, local mercenaries are ruthlessly hunting down migrants. Alone in the forest, Kamal has only three days to escape.
Based on actual events taking place on the so-called “Balkan Route” into Europe, Ha...
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Eami
Movie
There has been an invasion. Eami lost her own kind, and so she started flying. The Asoja, the bird-god-woman of the native Ayoreo Totobiegosode culture, brings the memories of the past, present and future. She was a tiger, a plant, a jaguar. Today, she is Eami, a five-year-old girl whose name mea...
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The Antique
Movie
Medea (Salome Demuria), a young Georgian immigrant who works in a St. Petersburg antique workshop, goes to view an apartment in the city's historic center. The prime piece of real estate is available for a low price because its cantankerous owner, Vadim (Sergey Dreyden), comes as part of the deal...
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A Spoiling Rain
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In exchange for his overdue rent, Kutani, an out-of-work director in Japan’s declining adult film industry, is recruited by his landlord to evict Iseki, a struggling screenwriter. When a rain-drenched Kutani arrives at his door, Iseki invites him in to dry off. Over drinks, the men recount their ...
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Love Nonetheless
Movie
Secondhand bookstore owner Tada (Seto Koji) can’t forget Ikka (Sato Honami), a former colleague at his old job, despite the fact that one of his regular customers, Misaki (Kawai Yumi), persistently asks him to marry her. Meanwhile, Ikka feels overwhelmed by preparations for her wedding to Ryosuke...
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The Girls Are Alright
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A writer summons four actresses to rehearse her play in the country. Over the course of a week, the girls begin to measure each other through the material. As the creative process gains momentum, they share their yearnings and personal stories. Soon a summer story unfolds about princesses, horses...
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Rude to Love
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Momoko (Noriko Eguchi) is a 41-year-old housewife who has been married to her husband, Mamoru, for eight years. She meticulously maintains their home and devotedly attends to his every needs, but all her care and attention masks the emotional rift that has developed between them. Mamoru has grown...
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Waterdrop
Movie
Aida (Gresa Pallaska), a tough business woman living in a small Albanian town on the shores of Lake Ohrid, works a lucrative job as city planner until her comfortable life is unexpectedly shattered when her son is accused of sexual assaulting a classmate. Convinced of his innocence, Aida begins h...
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Kristina
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Transgender sex worker Kristina lives alone in Belgrade with her cats and antiques collection while undergoing non-hypnotic regression sessions. She accidentally meets Marko, a former theology student, and despite their different backgrounds, the two begin a relationship. In her search for antiqu...
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Tiny Lights
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One morning, six-year-old Amalka wakes up and hears her family arguing behind closed doors. Something about being unhappy, fairy tales, and doing everything wrong. Upon getting the adults' attention, she is told her grandparents will be taking her on a day trip. After an idyllic afternoon spent a...