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Me & The Beasts
Movie
Andrés Bravo (Jesus Nunes), the frontman of the fledgling alternative rock band Los Pijamistas, looks to start a solo career, seeking inspiration with the help of “The Beasts,” two mysterious masked beings. Combining hazy pop dreams and crisp indie realism, this fantasy-tinged musical drama mirro...
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La Palisiada
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Ukraine, 1996. Five months before the moratorium on the death penalty, two old friends – a police detective and a forensic psychiatrist – investigate the murder of a colleague whose widow both of them loved when they were young. Immersed in memories of the past, they unconsciously create a future...
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Any Day Now
Movie
Thirteen-year-old Iranian Ramin Mehdipour (Aran-Sina Keshvari) and his family have been living in a refugee center in Finland. While enjoying a perfect summer, his parents receive the terrible news that their asylum application has been denied. The Mehdipours file an appeal and try to carry on wi...
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Other People
Movie
Still living off his mother, Kamil (Jacek Beler), a 32-year-old wannabe-rapper from Warsaw, dreams of recording his first hip-hop album, but even his social media-addicted girlfriend Anecia (Magdalena Kolesnik) has no faith in his prospects. Instead of getting his life together, Kamil gets high, ...
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Retreat
Movie
On a holiday excursion to the mountains, an estranged father and son get to know each other better. Far away from civilization and sheltered by the rocky landscape, Michael (Peter Hottinger) believes that he and his son, Benny (Dorian Heiniger), are safe from the outside world, which is crumbling...
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Libertad
Movie
Nora is not sure how she is going to survive another summer in her family's coastal mansion in Spain. Her grandmother is ill, and her little sister is such a baby. Hopefully, Libertad will show up. She’s from Colombia and knows how to handle boys. But she's also the maid's daughter, and their fri...
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Matria
Movie
For Ramona (María Vazquez), life in a Galician fishing village is a constant hustle. Always sacrificing everything for her daughter’s future, she will be pushed to look inwards and to think that, maybe, there is something new to live for.
“Anxiety drips from every frame straight onto your lap. A...
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A Piece of Sky
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In a remote Alpine town isolated from the outside world, young love is put to the test. Anna comes from the village and has a daughter from an earlier relationship, while Marco is an outsider from the flatlands hired by the mountain farmers to work the rugged land. Together they experience the jo...
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The Uncle
Movie
Yugoslavia, late 1980s, or so it seems. A family welcomes their beloved uncle who has returned home from Germany. The reunited family enjoys their Christmas meal until a smartphone starts ringing. The illusion is shattered. It is not the 80s, and it is not Christmas either. Suddenly it's not just...
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Runner
Movie
After her boyfriend experiences a psychotic episode and disappears, Maria (Zygimante Jakstaite) decides to let nothing stop her from helping him. Chasing every clue about his whereabouts, she embarks on a fast-paced odyssey through the city. Always one step behind and against all odds, she fights...
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Silent Land
Movie
After arriving at an Italian villa, vacationing couple Adam (Dobromir Dymecki) and Anna (Agnieszka Żulewska) discover that the swimming pool is empty. Ignorant to the fact that the island is facing a water shortage, they call for it to be repaired. But when the migrant worker sent to fix the prob...
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Banu
Movie
Amidst the chaos surrounding the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War, Banu has four days to mount a defense against her influential soon-to-be ex-husband, Javid. He wants to get full custody of their son and is claiming that Banu is an unfit mother who suffers from psychiatric issues. With no time to spa...
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Red Moon Tide
Movie
Time seems to stand still in a village in the Galician coast. Everybody there is paralyzed although we can still hear their voices: they talk about ghosts, about witches, about monsters. Three women show up - they are trying to find Rubio, a sailor who has recently disappeared at sea.
The evoca...
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The Penultimate
Movie
An insignificant Water Inspector (Joen Højerslev) arrives at a giant remote building in order to register the residents’ water meters. Before he knows of it, he finds himself trapped inside facing an “Alice in NO-Wonderland”-like maze of obstacles. While trying to escape, his perception of realit...
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Californie
Movie
Jamila (Khadija Jaafari) is a Moroccan girl from southern Italy who is figuring out life without guidance, friends, or money. She is intelligent and resourceful and, at times, it seems she is blazing her own path. But her pride and restlessness cause her to slip through the cracks. Filmed across ...
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100 Yen Love
Movie
32-year-old Ichiko (Sakura Ando, Shoplifters) lives at home in self-indulgent grunginess with her parents and recently divorced younger sister. One morning, after a particularly heated argument, Ichiko decides to leave for good. With few options to support herself, she finds a job at a 100 yen sh...
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A Balance
Movie
Investigative filmmaker Yuko (Kumi Takiuchi) is putting together a piece about the bereaved families connected with a bullied schoolgirlʼs suicide. Determined to shed light on the truth, Yukoʼs uncompromising nature brings her in conflict with the conservative-minded management at her television ...
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Afterlov
Movie
Nikos, a broke 30-year-old musician, is looking after his friend’s luxurious villa in the suburbs of Athens. In between poolside cocktails and dog sitting duties, Nikos concocts a plan. Still reeling from his recent break-up with Sofia, he invites her over for a week-long getaway. Sofia delightfu...
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All of a Sudden
Movie
After the party in his apartment breaks up, Karsten (Sebastian Hülke) admiringly approaches Anna, the mysterious young woman who remains. How could he have known that, in this moment of weakness, his life would spiral out of control? Now Anna is dead, and his conduct is under suspicion. Inside th...
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Alpha: The Right to Kill
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Set against the backdrop of the Philippines government's crackdown on illegal drugs, a SWAT-led police force launches an operation to arrest Abel, one of the biggest drug lords in Manila. Police Officer Espino and Elijah, a small-time pusher turned informant, provide the intelligence for the oper...
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A Perfectly Normal Family
Movie
Eleven-year-old Emma had a perfectly normal family until her dad reveals he is transitioning to become a woman. As Thomas becomes Agnete, both father and daughter struggle to hold on to the relationship they once had, while accepting the reality that everything has forever changed.
The feature d...
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Babai (Father)
Movie
Ten-year-old Nori (Val Maloku) and his father Gezim (Astrit Kabashi) roam the streets of Kosovo selling cigarettes, barely earning enough for their survival. Only a few years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Gezim is lured west to Germany in search of a new life and leaves his son behind. Alone...
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Behind the Haystacks
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A middle-aged fisherman living with his wife and daughter on Greece’s northern border, who is drowning in debt, starts to smuggle migrants across the border lake in exchange for a hefty fee. A tragic incident strikes the family, pushing the three to face their own personal impasses and weaknesses...
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Body
Movie
Janusz (Janusz Gajos) is a crime scene investigator who is not easily fazed and has seen it all. But when dealing with his anorexic daughter, Olga (Justyna Suwala), who is still grieving the loss of her recently deceased mother, he feels helpless. Fearing that she might harm herself, Janusz commi...