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Araby (Portuguese)
Andre, a teenager, lives in an industrial town in Brazil near an old aluminum factory. One day, a factory worker, Cristiano, suffers an accident. Asked to go to Cristiano's house to pick up clothes and documents, Andre stumbles on a notebook. As Andre reads from the journal entries, the story plunges into Cristiano's life, into stories of his wanderings, adventures, and love.
Director: Joao Dumans, Affonso Uchoa
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Burning (Korean)
A searing romantic thriller about a young man whose suspicions spin out of control when the free-spirited woman he loves disappears.
Director: Chang-Dong Lee
Starring: Ah-In Yoo, Steven Yeun, Seong-Kun Mun, Jong-seo Jun
Quotes: "Is it a love triangle, a murder mystery or a comment on the human condition? Whatever you call this stunning, slow-build thriller from South Korean director Lee Chang-dong, it sizzles with a cumulative power that will knock the wind out of you." - Rolling Stone
"As it dips into murder-mystery territory, then something more quiet and philosophical, Chang-dong writes a story both expected and surprising." - Globe and Mail (UK)
"Burning" is a character study that morphs, with masterly patience, subtlety and nary a single wasted minute, into a teasing mystery and eventually a full-blown thriller." - Los Angeles Times
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Claire's Camera (Korean)
Huppert plays Claire, a school teacher with a camera (that might be magical) on her first visit to Cannes. She happens upon a film sales assistant, Manhee, recently laid off after a one-night stand with a film director. Together, this unlikely pair become detectives of sorts, as they wander around the seaside resort town, working to better understand the circumstances of Manhee's firing, and developing new outlooks on life in the process.
Director: Hong Sangsoo
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Kim Minhee, Chang Mihee, Jinyoung Jung
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Detective Chinatown 2 (Mandarin)
Qin comes to New York City to attend Tang and Xiang's wedding. Tang shows up with a flamboyant outfit. It turns out the so-called wedding is actually a world detective contest, with a huge cash prize. The contest is to search the missing grandson of Uncle Qi, the Chinatown godfather. Qin is pissed off for being deceived and decides to leave New York. Uncle Qi's grandson was murdered in a strange way. The contest has changed from searching a missing person to solving a murder case.
Director: Sicheng Chen
Starring: Haoran Liu, Baoqiang Wang, Yang Xiao, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Yuxian Shang, Xun Wang
Quotes: "...for anyone concerned about the case of the missing modern buddy cop comedy, Detective Chinatown 2 is a noteworthy placeholder." - Roger Ebert
"...making things accessible and intriguing to local and international audiences alike." - Variety
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Guilty (Danish)
Alarm dispatcher and former police officer Asger Holm answers an emergency call from a kidnapped woman. When the call is suddenly disconnected, the search for the woman and her kidnapper begins. With the phone as his only tool, Asger enters a race against time to save the endangered woman. But soon he realizes that he is dealing with a crime that is far bigger than he first thought.
Director: Gustav Moller
Starring: Jakob Cedergren, Jessica Dinnage, Omar Shargawi, Johan Olsen, Jacob Lohmann, Katinka Evers-Jahnsen, Jeanette Lindbaek
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Indivisble (Italian)
Dasy and Viola are conjoined twin sisters living in the suburbs of Naples. They are blessed with beautiful voices and, thanks to their performances at local weddings, communions and baptisms, have become the breadwinners for their entire family. Kept isolated from the world by their exploitative father, their lives are turned upside down when one of them falls in love for the first time, and they discover that it is possible for them to be separated.
Director: Edoardo De Angelis
Starring: Angela Fontana, Marianna Fontana, Antonia Truppo
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Boyita (Spanish)
A unique and powerful coming of age story. Her parents separated and her older sister at the cusp of adolescence, Jorgelina is facing a vacation at the beach where she knows she'll be painfully left aside. Instead, she decides to go to the country with her father and Mario, the son of the farmhands and her 'country' playmate. In this bucolic setting, a secret is accidentally revealed when Jorgelina notices on Mario's pants the bloodstains he can't explain.
Director: Julia Solomonoff
Starring: Guadalupe Alonso, Mirella Pascual, Nicolas Treise, Gabo Correa
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The Last Suit (Spanish)
Abraham Bursztein, an 88-year-old Jewish tailor, runs away from Buenos Aires to Poland, where he proposes to find a friend who saved him from certain death at the end of World War II. After seven decades without any contact, Abraham will try to find his old friend and keep his promise to return one day. Comedic and poignant in equal measure, it approaches its weighty themes with a light touch that illuminates a serious story.
Director: Pablo Solarz
Starring: Miguel Angel Sola, Angela Molina, Martin Piroyansky, Natalia Verbeke
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Longing (Hebrew)
Ariel, a well-off, childless man, gets a phone call from his college girlfriend. She needs to tell him a couple of very surprising things: first, when they broke up twenty years ago, she was pregnant and went on to have a lovely boy. The second thing will make Ariel explore the hidden aspects of parenthood and change his life forever.
Director: Savi Gabizon
Starring: Ella Armony, Shai Avivi, Shmil Ben Ari, Assi Levy, Neta Riskin, Yoram Toledano, Shimon Mimran
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Marie Curie: The Courage of Knowledge (French)
Physicist, chemist, and pioneer in the study of radioactivity, Marie Sklodowski Curie spent her life setting precedents. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize and the first person to win it twice. As the first female professor at the University of Paris, she had to overcome the condescension and antagonism of France's male-dominated academic establishment. She also courted controversy of the sort that still threatens to quash the careers of public figures today.
Director: Marie Noelle
Starring: Karolina Gruszka, Arieh Worthalter, Charles Berling, Izabela Kuna, Malik Zidi, Andre Wilms
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My Life with James Dean (French)
Invited to present his first film in Normandy, the young director Geraud Champreux has no idea this film tour is about to change his life. From wild stampedes to woeful screenings, from trawler trips to drunken evenings, Geraud ends up finding inspiration in this unlikely town at the end of the earth.
Director: Dominique Choisy
Starring: Johnny Rasse, Mickael Pelissier, Nathalie Richard, Marie Vernalde, Bertrand Belin
Quotes: "..A tribute to cinema...and the dreams and relations movies create." - Variety
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The Night is Short, Walk on Girl (Japanese)
As a group of teens go out for a night on the town, a sophomore known only as 'The Girl with Black Hair' experiences a series of surreal encounters with the local nightlife, all the while unaware of the romantic longings of Senpai, a fellow student who has been creating increasingly fantastic and contrived reasons to run into her, in an effort to win her heart.
Director: Masaaki Yuasa
Starring: Gen Hoshino, Kana Hanazawa, Hiroshi Kamiya, Kazuya Nakai
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The Poet and the Boy (Korean)
A struggling poet in his late '30s has spent all his life in a small town, living off his hard-working wife. One day, the poet meets a teenage boy working at a donut shop and helplessly develops feelings he has never felt before, leading to both dramatic and comedic consequences.
Director: Kim Yang-Hee
Starring: Yang Ik-June, Jeon Hye-Jin, Jung Ga-Ram
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Scarred Hearts (Romanian)
During the summer of 1937, Emanuel, a young man in his early twenties, is committed to a sanatorium on the Black Sea coast for treatment of his bone tuberculosis. The treatment consists of painful spine punctures that confine him to a body cast on a stretcher-bed.
Director: Radu Jude
Starring: Serban Pavlu, Gabriel Spahiu, Ivana Mladenovic, Dana Voicu, Dana Marineci
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Shoplifters (Japanese)
On the margins of Tokyo, a dysfunctional band of outsiders are united by fierce loyalty, a penchant for petty theft, and playful grifting. When the young son is arrested, secrets are exposed that upend their tenuous, below-the-radar existence.
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Starring: Lily Franky, Sakura Ando, Mayu Matsuoka, Kiki Kilin, Jyo Kairi
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Time Regained (French)
Raul Ruiz's most ambitious literary adaptation and considered his greatest cinematic achievement. The movie distills all of Marcel Proust's iconic In Search of Lost Time into a single epic feature.
Director: Raul Ruiz
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle Beart, Vincent Perez, John Malkovich, Marcello Mozzarella, Chiara Mastroianni
Quotes: "A triumph of classical cinematic values." - The New Yorker
"Ruiz succeeds because his movie is something of a search for Proust's own search." - New York Times
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The Wild Boys (French)
Five adolescent boys are enamored by the arts, but drawn to crime and transgression. After a brutal crime committed by the group and aided by Trevor - a deity of chaos they can't control - they're punished to board a boat with a captain hell-bent on taming their ferocious appetites. After arriving on a lush island where dangers and pleasures abound, the boys start to transform in both mind and body.
Director: Bertrand Mandico
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