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7th Day (Spanish)
Set in the Spanish village of Extremadura, and based on a true account, the story is a tale of warring families and bloodshed that would stain the region. The festering hatred between the Jimenez and Fuentes households, born out of a broken marriage vow, will unleash a vengeful wrath that engulfs an entire village, leaving no one unscathed.
Director: Carlos Saura
Starring: Juan Diego, Victoria Abril, Jose Luis Gomez, Jose Garcia, Yohana Cobo
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Bad Genius (Thai)
Welcome to an exam-cheating business run by Lynn, a straight-A student who gets the idea for her business after helping Grace and Pat. Grace is a prominent school activist who can't get the grades she needs. Pat is a filthy-rich boy who believes money can buy anything. Lynn's business skyrockets and the money starts to flood in as scores of students offer her cold hard cash in exchange for exam answers. One day, Lynn is offered the opportunity to make millions of Baht.
Director: Nattawut Poonpiriya
Starring: Chutimon Chuengcharoensukying, Eisaya Hosuwan, Teeradon Supapunpinyo
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Birds of Passage (Spanish)
The origins of the Colombian drug trade, as seen through eyes of an indigenous Wayuu family that becomes involved in the booming business of selling marijuana to American youth in the 1970s. When greed, passion and honor collide, a fratricidal war breaks out and puts their lives, culture and ancestral traditions at stake.
Director: Cristina Gallego
Starring: Natalia Reyes, Carmina Martinez, Jose Acosta, Jhon Narvaez, Greider Meza
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The Border (Swedish)
Tina is a border guard who has the ability to smell human emotions, and catch smugglers. When she comes across a mysterious man with a smell that confounds her detection, she uncovers a dark secret about her own past.
Director: Ali Abbasi
Starring: Eva Melander, Eero Milonoff, Jorgen Thorsson
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Everybody Knows (Spanish)
Laura and her children travel from Buenos Aires to the small Spanish village where she was born to attend her sister's wedding. Unexpected events soon lead to a crisis that exposes the family's hidden past. Suspicions mount, loved ones begin to turn on one another, and dark secrets long hidden threaten to come to light, revealing shocking truths.
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Starring: Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Ricardo Darin, Eduard Fernandez, Barbara Lennie, Inma Cuesta, Elvira Minguez
Quotes: "The acting's uniformly strong, always at the service of a knotty story." - Chicago Tribune
"It's a look in philosophical harmony with Farhadi's intense but humane gaze. And the actors are superb..." - San Francisco Chronicle
"Few filmmakers have ever been as gifted at affirming the degree to which we are more alike than we may ever have thought possible." - Roger Ebert
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Illang: The Wolf Brigade (Korean)
Based on real events that occurred in 2007 dubbed the 'Heuksapa Incident', the story follows a turf war that grows between a local gang that runs Garibong-dong in Guro District, Seoul and the Heuksapa gang from Yanbian.
Director: Kim Jee-woon
Starring: Johnny Yong Bosch, Woo-Sung Jung, Hyo-Ju Han
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Let the Sunshine In (French)
Two luminaries of French cinema, Claire Denis and Juliette Binoche, unite for the first time in this piercing look at the elusive nature of true love, and the extent to which we are willing to betray ourselves in its pursuit. The film finds bleak humor in a cutting truth: everyone is, no matter the age, a fool for love.
Director: Claire Denis
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Gerard Depardieu, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Xavier Beauvois, Philippe Katerine, Josiane Balasko, Sandrine Dumas, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Alex Descas
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Pendular (Portuguese)
A young couple settles down in a large abandoned industrial warehouse. An orange strip, glued to the floor, partitions the area into two equal portions: to the right, his sculpture atelier; to the left, her dance studio. The film takes place in this setting, where art, performances, and intimacy mingle together, and where the characters slowly lose their capacity to distinguish between their artistic projects, their past, and their romantic relationship.
Director: Julia Murat
Starring: Raquel Karro, Rodrigo Bolzan
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Permanent Green Light (French)
In Northern France, a young man is obsessed with the idea of making himself explode in public. He's not suicidal. He's not driven by ideology. He's just interested in the effect on people.
Director: Dennis Cooper, Zac Farley
Starring: Benjamin Sulpice, Theo Cholbi, Sylvain Decloitre
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School of Life (French)
Trapped behind the high walls of an austere orphanage in suburban Paris, Paul has only ever known one home. His chance to discover the great wide world comes when a bohemian couple, Celestine and Borel, take him back to their countryside home. Borel is the gamekeeper for a vast estate in the untamed French countryside of Sologne. Under the poacher's tutelage, Paul will learn about life and growing up, and also about the forest and its secrets.
Director: Nicolas Vanier
Starring: Jean Scandel, Eric Elmosnino, Valerie Karsenti, Francois Cluzet
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Snowflake (German)
Hunting down the murderer of their families in a near-future Berlin, a gang of lowlife characters all want revenge on each other, but along the way they must contend with a myriad of wicked fairytale types: assassins, madmen, a blood-covered angel, and an electric-powered superhero, all apparently come to life through a screenplay written by a demented but clueless dentist.
Director: Adolfo Kolmerer, William James
Starring: Reza i Brojerdi, Erkan Acar, Xenia Assenza, David Masterson, Alexander Schubert, Adrian Topol
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The Spy Gone North (Korean)
In 1993 Korea, the only country where the Cold War continues, tensions surrounding the development of nuclear weapons escalate. Seok-young Park, an arm major in the South Korea military intelligence infiltrates the North Korean nuclear facility, disguising as a South Korean businessman. While the North Koreans' trust, Seok-young learns of secret deals between the two Koreas.
Director: Yoon Jong-bin
Starring: Jung-Min Hwang, Sung-Min Lee, Jin-Woong Cho
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Transit (German)
In Christian Petzold's brilliant and haunting modern-day adaptation of Anna Seghers's 1942 novel, Georg, a German refugee, flees to Marseille assuming the identity of a recently deceased writer whose papers he is carrying. There he delves into the delicate and complex culture of the refugee community, becoming enmeshed in the lives of a young mother and son and falling for a mysterious woman named Marie.
Director: Christian Petzold
Starring: Franz Rogowski, Paula Beer, Godehard Giese, Lilien Batman, Maryam Zaree, Barbara Auer, Matthias Brandt
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Zizou and the Arab Spring (French)
With two years of university under his belt, but very little common sense, Zizou leaves his Saharan village and finds work in the city of Tunis, installing satellite dishes alongside a colorful cast of characters. The job takes him to every part of the city, introducing him to residents ranging from supporters of the regime and underground rebels to a ravishing beauty being held captive by the mafia. When Zizou decides to attempt a rescue of his beloved, he gets much more than he bargained for.
Director: Ferid Boughedir
Starring: Zied Ayadi, Sarra Hannachi, Fatima Ben Saidane
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