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The Apparition (French)
Jacques, a journalist with a reputation as an impartial investigator, is recruited by the Vatican to determine the legitimacy of a saintly apparition in a small French village. Upon his arrival, he meets the young and sensitive Anna, who claims to have witnessed an apparition of the Virgin Mary. Confronted with opposing views from all sides, Jacques gradually uncovers the truth and finds his belief system profoundly shaken.
Director: Xavier Giannoli
Starring: Vincent Lindon, Galatea Bellugi, Patrick D'Assumcao, Anatole Taubman, Elina Lowensohn
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Capernaum (Arabic)
After fleeing his negligent and abusive parents, a hardened, streetwise twelve-year-old boy sues them to protest the life they've given him.
Director: Nadine Labaki
Starring: Zain Al Rafeea, Yordanos Shiferaw, Boluwatife Treasure Bankole
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Confession of Murder (Japanese)
In 1995, five serial murder cases took place. Wataru Makimura took charge of the murder cases and tried to catch the serial killer. Due to the killer's trap, Wataru Makimura's superior was killed. The serial murder case has been unsolved to this date. Twenty-two years later, a murder memoir, 'Watashi ga Satsujinhan desu' ('I am a Murderer') is published. The author describes himself as the killer responsible for the five unsolved serial murder cases.
Starring: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Hideaki Ito, Kaho, Shuhei Nomura
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The Day After (Korean)
Book publisher Bongwan's marriage is on the rocks after his wife discovers the affair he's been having with his assistant. Now that relationship is ending too and Bongwan's new assistant, the sharp and sensitive Areum, on her first day in the office, is left to navigate the fallout of all the turnover in Bongwan's life.
Director: Sang-Soo Hong
Starring: Yunhee Cho, Ki Joabang, Min-Hee Kim, Sae-Byeok Kim, Hae-Hyo Kwon
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Gabriel and the Mountain (Portuguese)
Before entering a prestigious American university, Gabriel decides to travel the world for one year, his backpack full of dreams. After ten months on the road, he arrives in Kenya where he is joined by his girlfriend. But discovering Africa as a tourist is not enough for Gabriel. He decides to go deeper, leaving on his own for a journey across countries, new friendships and raw emotions.
Director: Fellipe Barbosa
Starring: Joao Pedro Zappa, Caroline Abras, Alex Alembe
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The Great Battle (Korean)
Told with epic scale and breathtaking action, the story of the Siege of Ansi, where Goguryeo forces held their fortress against 200,000 invading Tang soldiers in a battle that raged for eighty-eight days.
Director: Kwang-Shik Kim
Starring: In-Sung Jo, Hoo-Hyuk Nam, Sung-Woong Park
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I Miss You When I See You (Cantonese)
Best friends in high school, Kevin and Jamie's emotional attachment and feelings for each other are abruptly cut short by Kevin's departure to Australia with his mother. Fast-forward a dozen years later, Jamie tracks down Kevin in Australia. The reunion with his best friend reminds Kevin, suffering from depression, of his youthful ambitions, so he decides to return to Hong Kong. Jamie, however, enjoying a steady relationship with his girlfriend, finds his feelings for Kevin reawakened.
Director: Simon Chung
Starring: Brenda Chan, Candy Cheung, Jun LI, Bryant Ji-Lok Mak
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The Invisibles (German)
While Nazi propaganda minister Josef Goebbels infamously declared Berlin 'free of Jews' in 1943, 1,700 Jewish Berliners managed to survive in the Nazi capital. Claus Rafle's gripping docudrama traces the stories of four real-life survivors who learned to hide in plain sight.
Director: Claus Rafle
Starring: Max Mauff, Alice Dwyer, Ruby O. Fee, Aaron Altaras, Victoria Schulz, Florian Lukas
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Martyr (Arabic)
For Hassane, a young man from an impoverished neighborhood, life has stopped making sense. All he has left is a close group of friends, brought together by a shared sense of marginalization and hopelessness. Hassane's strange sudden drowning at Beirut's rocky shore sparks a mob procession and strips apart the bond of youth and friendship, forcing his friends to grapple with loss and powerlessness, and with cold heavy truth of their friend's dead body.
Director: Mazen Khaled
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My Big Gay Italian Wedding (Italian)
Antonio and Paolo live happily together in Berlin and are finally getting married. They decide to celebrate in the small village in Italy where Antonio grew up. While his mother immediately supports his intentions, her husband Roberto, the town mayor, is much more reluctant. Paulo, who has not spoken to his conservative mother in a long time, must get her to the wedding as a condition of the marriage.
Starring: Salvatore Esposito, Monica Guerritore, Diego Abatantuono, Beatrice Arnera, Cristiano Caccamo, Antonio Catania
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My Brilliant Friend (Italian)
A tale of best friends Lila and Elena, which started at the school in the 1950s. As an elderly woman, Elena tries to unravel the mystery of her brilliant friend, who also became her worst enemy.
Starring: Alba Rohrwacher, Margherita Mazzucco, Gaia Girace, Elisabetta De Palo
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No Date, No Signature (Farsi)
Forensic pathologist Dr. Nariman's car accidentally injures a motorcyclist's eight-year-old son. He offers to take the child to a clinic, but the father refuses his help and his money. A few days later, in the hospital where he works, Dr. Nariman learns that the boy has died under suspicious circumstances. His existential dilemma: is he responsible for the death, or did the child die of another cause, as the autopsy suggests? It's a study in ethical nuance, filtered through class consciousness.
Director: Vahid Jalilvand
Starring: Amir Aghaee, Zakieh Behbahani, Saeed Dakh, Navid Mohammadzadeh, Alireza Ostadi, Hediyeh Tehrani
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Of Fathers and Sons (Arabic)
Talal Derki returned to his Syrian homeland where he gained the trust of a radical Islamist family, sharing their daily life for over two years. His camera focuses primarily on the children, providing an extremely rare insight into what it means to grow up with a father whose only dream is to establish an Islamic caliphate. Osama and his brother Ayman both love and admire their father and obey his words, but while Osama seems content to follow the path of Jihad, Ayman wants to go back to school.
Director: Talal Derki
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Scaffolding (Hebrew)
A charismatic literature teacher and a strict, working-class father vie for influence over an Israeli teenager, who finds himself torn between the two very different role models.
Director: Matan Yair
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Sicilian Ghost Story (Italian)
It is the haunting, hypnotic tale of a mysterious disappearance set in a little Sicilian village on the edge of a forest. Thirteen-year-old Luna, always dreaming, has a crush on her handsome classmate Giuseppe; they begin a tentative romance. But one day Giuseppe fails to show up at school. As the days pass with no sign of him, Luna tries to raise concern with family and friends.
Director: Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza
Starring: Julia Jedlikowska, Gaetano Fernandez, Corinne Musallari
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Un Traductor (Spanish)
Malin, a Russian literature professor, is sent to translate between Cuban doctors and children sent from the USSR for medical treatment. Torn from the abstract world of academia and forced into the relentlessly real world of medicine, Malin becomes increasingly depressed. When he meets a child who tells him a story, Malin connects with the kids and finds his way through. Just as he adapts to his new job, the Berlin Wall falls and Cuba enters the deepest economic crisis the island has ever known.
Director: Sebastian Barriuso Gonzalez-Mora, Rodrigo Barriuso Gonzalez-Mora
Starring: Rodrigo Santoro, Maricel Alvarez, Milda Gecaite, Nataliya Rodina
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Unknown Soldier (Finnish)
Based on the classic novel by Väinö Linna, it tells the story of an infantry unit's three-year tour of duty during the Finnish Continuation War. The film follows the story of Rokka, Kariluoto, Koskela, Hietanen, and their brothers-in-arms. It shows how friendship, humor, and the will to live unite these men on their way to the battlefront and back. The war changes the lives of each of the soldiers as well as the lives of those on the home front and leaves its mark on the entire nation.
Director: Aku Louhimies
Starring: Eero Aho, Johannes Holopainen, Jussi Vatanen
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What Will People Say (Norwegian)
Sixteen-year-old Nisha lives a double life. When out with her friends, she's a regular Norwegian teenager. At home with her family, she is the perfect Pakistani daughter. But when her father catches her alone with her boyfriend, Nisha's two worlds brutally collide. To set an example and escape the judgment of their peers, Nisha's parents send her to live with extended family in a small town in Pakistan. There, Nisha must adapt to a rigid culture that denies her the freedoms she once enjoyed.
Director: Iram Haq
Starring: Maria Mozhdah, Adil Hussain, Ekavali Khanna
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