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Adam (Arabic)
Abla runs a modest local bakery from her home in Casablanca where she lives alone with her eight-year-old daughter Warda. Their routine of housework and homework is interrupted one day by a knock on the door. It is Samia, a young woman looking for a job and a roof over her head. The little girls immediately taken with the newcomer, but her mother initially refuses to allow a pregnant stranger into their home. Gradually, however, Abla's resolve softens and Samia's arrival begins to offer all of them the prospect of a new life.
Director: Maryam Touzani
Starring: Lubna Azabal, Nisrin Erradi, Douae Belkhaouda
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Atlantis (Ukrainian)
In 2025, Eastern Ukraine is a desert unsuitable for human habitation, water a dear commodity brought by trucks. A wall is being built on the border. Sergiy, a former soldier having trouble adapting to his new reality, meets Katya while she's on a humanitarian mission dedicated to exhuming the past. Together, they try to return to some sort of normal life in which they are also allowed to fall in love again.
Director: Valentyn Vasyanovych
Starring: Andriy Rymaruk, Liudmyla Bileka
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Cock & Bull (Mandarin)
A murder occurs in a small town in Southeast China and a local mechanic, known for his honesty, comes under suspicion. When the police target him to take the fall, he's forced to try to exonerate himself, uncovering a number of disturbing facts that are much bigger than the initial crime.
Director: Baoping Cao
Starring: Ye Liu, Yi Zhang, Bowen Duan
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Everybody's Famous! (Dutch)
Jean is an ordinary man and factory worker who has high hopes for his daughter Marva's singing career. When he loses his job, he goes to unexpected and hilarious lengths to make her a star.
Director: Dominique Deruddere
Starring: Josse De Pauw, Eva Van Der Gucht, Werner De Smedt
Reviews
"A good-hearted crowd-pleaser." - Reeling Reviews
"An original and inventive farce." - New Times Los Angeles
"Knows the price of success and the value of family." - Philadelphia Inquirer
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La Piscine (French)
Lovers Marianne and Jean-Paul spend their vacation in a villa on the French Riviera near St-Tropez. Marianne invites her former lover, Harry, and his teenage daughter to stay. Tension rises between them, especially when Jean-Paul seduces Penelope.
Director: Jacques Deray
Starring: Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet, Jane Birkin
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Mirror (Russian)
A dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments and things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian nation.
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Starring: Ignat Daniltsev, Margarita Terekhova, Filipp Yankovsky, Oleg Yankovsky, Larisa Tarkovskaya
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The Night (Farsi)
A couple becomes trapped inside a hotel with their demons, real and imagined, until they can confront the secrets of their marriage.
Director: Kourosh Ahari
Starring: Shahab Hosseini, Elester Latham, George Maguire
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The Perfect Candidate (Arabic)
It follows Maryam, a determined young doctor who runs for city council after the make incumbent repeatedly ignores her request to fix the muddy road leading to her clinic. Despite her father and her community's struggle to accept her as their town's first female candidate, Maryam's creative and ambitious campaign builds momentum, becoming a symbol for a larger movement.
Director: Haifaa Al-Mansour
Starring: Mila Al Zahrani, Dae Al Hilali, Nora Al Awad, Khalid Abdulraheem
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Riders of Justice (Danish)
Markus has to go home to his teenage daughter, Mathilde, when his wife dies in a tragic train accident. It seems like an accident until a mathematics geek, a fellow passenger on the train, and his two colleagues show up.
Director: Anders Thomas Jensen
Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Andrea Heick Gadeberg, Lars Brygmann, Nicolas Bro, Gustav Lindh, Roland Moller, Albert Rudbeck Lindhardt, Anne Birgitte Lind
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Sicilia! / Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie? (Italian)
Something as simple as a herring roasting on a hearth, or a meal of bread, wine and winter melon, takes on the humble aura of a Caravaggio painting in this masterful film. A tragicomedy involving an orange peddler, an Italian recently returned from America, two 'stinky' police officers, a guilt-stricken landowner, a traveling knife sharpener and, perhaps most unforgettably, an indomitable peasant mother who reminisces about meals of snails and wild chicory, her husband’s philandering and cowardice, and her own father’s belief in an honest day’s labor, socialism, and St. Joseph.
Director: Jean-Marie Straub, Daniele Huillet
Starring: Gianni Buscarino, Angela Nugara, Vittorio Vigneri
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Spring Tide (Mandarin)
When a mother lives with her mother and her daughter, inevitable conflicts arise, including the revelation of a dark past. These conflicts come to a boil during a family emergency and the three generations must decide how to move on with their lives in the face of the past influencing the future.
Director: Tian-yi Yang
Starring: Lei Hao, Elaine Jin, Junxi Qu
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There is No Evil (Persian)
Mohammad Rasoulof delivers a piercing drama about a subject he knows well: the costs of living under a repressive, brutal government. Winner of the Golden Bear, the top prize at the Berlin Film Festival, There Is No Evil is a film in four chapters, each telling a different story related to the death penalty in contemporary Iran. The first story concerns a family man who, as we come to see, pays a grave moral price for his comfortable middle-class life. The second and third chapters focus on conscripted soldiers, in Iran, it is often these men who are forced to perform executions, and both segments explore the tension and turmoil that can come with such harsh coercion. The final section involves a family secret, which brings the film to its powerful conclusion. Suspenseful, mysterious, and shot through with a sense of urgency, Rasoulof’s work bears the mark of an artist who sets his own terms, and who knows just how to captivate an audience.
Director: Mohammad Rasoulof
Starring: Baran Rasoulof, Zhila Shahi, Mohammad Seddighimehr, Ehsan Mirhosseini, Shaghayegh Shourian, Kaveh Ahangar, Salar Khamse
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Undercover Punch & Gun (Mandarin)
While an elite cop is working undercover to infiltrate a notorious drug ring, his plan is blown when a rival agency with a grudge attacks during a trade, killing the gang's leader. Their cover compromised, both teams are forced to unite in order to take to the high seas and attempt to overthrow the ruthless smuggler behind it all.
Director: Koon-Nam Lui
Starring: Nicholas Tse, Philip Ng, Andy On, Carrie Ng, Van Ness Wu, Joyce Wenjuan Feng, Luxia
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The Unthinkable (Swedish)
Sweden faces a mysterious attack while Alex tries to reunite with his youth love, Anna.
Director: Victor Danell
Starring: Christoffer Nordenrot, Lisa Henni, Jesper Barkselius, Pia Halvorsen, Magnus Sundberg, Krister Kern
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Wet Season (Chinese)
A teacher and student at a Singapore high school form a special, self-affirming bond.
Director: Anthony Chen
Starring: Jia Ler Koh, Christopher Ming-Shun Lee, Shi Bin Yang, Yann Yann Yeo
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When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (German)
The story of a Jewish family's escape from 1933 Berlin to Europe tackles prejudice, exile, displacement and adaptation, as told from the perspective of the author’s alter ego, nine year-old Anna Kemper. Anna is toobusy with schoolwork and friends to notice Hitler’s face glaring from posters plastered all over 1933 Berlin. But when her father suddenly vanishes, the family is secretly hurried out of Germany. Anna begins to understand life will never be the same as she and her family navigate unfamiliar lands and cope with the challenges of being refugees.
Director: Caroline Link
Starring: Riva Krymalowski, Marinus Hohmann, Carla Juri, Ursula Werner, Oliver Masucci
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