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The Battle For Sevastopol (Russian)
The war catches young Lyudmila Pavlichenko off-guard. She volunteers in the army and is moved to the front line after a brief stint in the sniper school. Her natural skills make her a true sharpshooter. But Lyudmila is severely shot, and her lover is killed in one of the battles. The girl is sent to USA as part of the government mission. In the White House her speech to the press makes her a household name in the states. Two months after her famous speech, the Allies open the Second Front.
Directors: Sergiy Mokrytsky, Egor Olesov
Starring: Yuliia Peresild, Yevhen Tsyhanov, Mykyta Tarasov, Dzhoan Blekkhem, Vitalii Linetskyi, Stanislav Boklan, Dmytro Lalienkov, Mykola Boklan, Oleksandr Yarema, Oleh Drach
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Breathing (German)
Portrait of an incarcerated teenager attempting to win parole by working at a local morgue. Raised from birth in institutions, he is initially impassive and self-sabotaging in his behavior; soon, though, he begins to respect the solemn work of handling the dead, and starts to come to terms with his own youthful crime.
Director: Karl Markovics
Starring: Georg Friedrich, Gerhard Liebmann, Karin Lischka, Stefan Matousch, Thomas Schubert
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Big Shot$ (Hebrew)
Four men whose combined intellect doesn't reach the triple digits successfully steal a safe full of foreign currency from a police station. Now can these bumblers keep greed and bad decisions from bringing their crime to light? Based on a real-life incident and co-written by police officer and playwright Haim Marin.
Director: Jacob Goldwasser
Starring: Uri Gavriel, Moshe Ivgy, Zadok Zarum, Jocko Arkin, Yehudit Millo, Makram Khoury, Shmuel Umani, Reuven Dayan, Shoshana Doar, Adam Tson
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Chef Challenge (French)
Victor is 65, somewhat crazy, and one of the best chefs in France. When he finds out he has a serious heart disease, he looks for a successor to take control of his restaurant.
Directors: Sandrine Cohen, Catherine Cohen
Starring: Bernard Le Coq, Annelise Hesme, Paul Granier, Boris Rehlinger, Morgane Cabot, Valérie Decobert
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Circo (Spanish)
Gorgeously filmed along the back roads of rural Mexico and set to the music of Calexico, "Circo" follows the Ponce family's hardscrabble circus as it struggles to stay together. Tino, the ringmaster, is driven by his dream to lead his parents' circus to success. But his wife Ivonne is determined to make a change.
Director: Aaron Schock
Starring: Juventino (Tino) Ponce Ledezma, Ivonne Galindo Valenzuela
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Dearest (Chinese)
When their child is suddenly kidnapped in the streets, a husband and wife whose marriage is strained work together to to track down the sinister kidnapper.
Director: Peter Ho-Sun Chan
Starring: Zhao Wei, Huang Bo, Tong Dawei, Hao Lei
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Found Memories (Portuguese)
In a forgotten Brazilian village where no one has died since 1976, elderly residents go on with their daily routines until a young female photographer arrives and decides to capture these moments.
Director: Julia Murat
Starring: Lisa Fávero, Sonia Guedes, Ricardo Merkin, Luiz Serra
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Halima's Path (Croation)
In the aftermath of the Bosnian War, Halima, a strong-willed Muslim, unsuccessfully searches for the remains of her son. When she asks her estranged niece for help, they uncover horrifying facts that disrupt everyone's lives. Official selection of the prestigious Global Lens Collection presented by the Global Film Initiative.
Director: Arsen A. Ostojic
Starring: Miraj Grbic, Marija Omaljev, Emina Muftic
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Quill (Japanese)
The documentary-like story of a yellow Labrador Retriever guide dog for the blind named Quill. We follow Quill from the litter, his selection to become a guide, his life with a foster family until his first birthday, followed by highly specialized schooling in guiding the sightless. He is then paired with a blind man named Watanabe Mitsuru who is at first reluctant to rely on Quill. But Quill’s great patience, gentleness and skill eventually wins him over and they become inseparable friends.
Director: Yoichi Sai
Starring: Kaoru Kobayashi, Teruyuki Kagawa, Kippei Shiina
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Wedding Banquet (Mandarian)
A comedy about a Chinese Yuppie living in New York who decides that a marriage of convenience is the perfect way to prevent his parents back in Taiwan from discovering he is gay. But his plan backfires hilariously when his parents insist on coming to New York for the wedding.
Director: Ang Lee
Starring: Winston Chao, May Chin, Sihung Lung
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