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The Ascent (Russian)
The crowning triumph of a career cut tragically short, Larisa Shepitko’s final film won the Golden Bear at the 1977 Berlin Film Festival and went on to be hailed as one of the finest works of late-Soviet cinema. In the darkest days of World War II, two partisans set out for supplies to sustain their beleaguered outfit, braving the blizzard-swept landscape of Nazi-occupied Belarus.
Director: Larisa Shepitko
Starring: Vladimir Gostyukhin, Boris Plotnikov, Lyudmila Polyakova, Sergei Yakovlev
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Crazy Romance (Korean)
Jae-hoon, whose heart is broken by his ex-girlfriend, wakes up in the morning hungover as always, to find that he talked on the phone with someone unknown last night for more than two hours. Soon, he figures out that someone was Sun-young, his colleague from work, who just joined his team and introduced herself to him before less than 24 hours! Meanwhile, Sun-young is undergoing a messy breakup.
Director: Kim Han-Kyul
Starring: Rae-Won Kim, Hyo-Jin Kong, Ki-Young Kang
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Didi's Dreams (Mandarin)
In this one-of-a-kind fantasy comedy, Didi is an aspiring actress trying to prove herself to her superstar sister. This film is in Mandarin with English subtitles.
Director: Kevin Tsai
Starring: Dee Hsu, Kim Scar, Chi-ling Lin, Li Zifeng
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Madre (Spanish)
Ten years have gone by since Elena's six-year-old son disappeared. The last thing she heard from him was a phone call he gave her, saying that he was lost on a beach in France and couldn't find his father. Now Elena lives on the same beach and manages a restaurant. She is finally beginning to emerge from this tragic episode when she meets a French teenager who strongly reminds her of her lost son. The two will embark on a relationship which will sow chaos and distrust.
Director: Rodrigo Sorogoyen
Starring: Marta Nieto, Blanca Apilanez, Alvaro Balas
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My Prince Edward (Cantonese)
Serving countless newlyweds in Hong Kong's go-to one-stop-shop of cheap wedding supplies doesn't exempt Fong from social pressure to marry. Since nodding to Edward's proposal, she has been pushed beyond limits by unaffordable housing, archaic customs, and intrusive in-laws. What befuddles her further is the reappearance of Shuwei, a mainlander she's supposed to be divorced from out of a sham marriage that solved her coming-of-age hardship.
Director: Yee-Lam Wong
Starring: Stephy Tang, Hee Ching Paw, Pak Hon Chu
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Song Without a Name (Spanish)
Based on harrowing true events, it tells the story of Georgina, an indigenous Andean woman whose newborn baby is whisked away moments after its birth in a downtown Lima clinic, and never returned. Stonewalled by a byzantine and indifferent legal system, Georgina approaches journalist Pedro Campas, who uncovers a web of fake clinics and abductions, suggesting a rotting corruption deep within Peruvian society. Set in 1988, in a Peru wracked by political violence and turmoil.
Director: Melina Leon
Starring: Pamela Mendoza, Tommy Parraga, Lucio Rojas
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Soulmate (Mandarin)
Two women who have been friends for decades must now determine how their real selves fit into the modern world. This film is in Mandarin with forced English subtitles.
Director: Derek Tsang
Starring: Dongyu Zhou, Sichun Ma, Toby Lee
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The Strong Ones (Spanish)
Lucas travels to visit his sister, who lives in a remote town in Southern Chil. Beside the ocean shrouded in the wintry mist, he meets Antonio, a boatswain on a local fishing boat. When an intense romance blossoms between them, their strength, their independence, and their adulthood become immovable, just like the ebb and flow of the tide.
Director: Omar Zuniga Hidalgo
Starring: Samuel Gonzalez, Antonio Altamirano, Marcela Salinas, Rafael Contreras, Nicolas Corales
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