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Richie Bravo, once upon a time a successful pop star, chases after his faded fame in wintry Rimini. He funds his dissolute lifestyle and addiction to gambling with concerts for busloads of tourists and sexual favours for his female fans. His world starts to collapse when his adult daughter suddenly breaks into his life and demands money from him that he never gave her. Meanwhile his elderly father, who suffers from dementia, goes round and round in circles in an Austrian nursing home..
1h 54min | Comedy, Drama | Language: German, Italian | Subtitles: English
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A young man, Elder, and his friends arrive in La Paz, Bolivia, and seek work at the local mine. Elder's health starts to deteriorate, and a woman brings him to a mysterious witch doctor to cure him.
1h 25min | Drama | Language: Spanish (Bolivia) | Subtitles: English
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Emi, a school teacher, finds her career and reputation under threat after a personal sex tape is leaked on the Internet. Forced to meet the parents demanding her dismissal, Emi refuses to surrender to their pressure.
1h 46min | Comedy, Drama | Language: Romanian | Subtitles: English
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After an explosion at his mine, Maxime, a miner with a troubled past, attempts to find redemption by risking his life to save his fellow miners.
1h 37min | Drama | Language: French | Subtitles: English
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Jan, mysterious and marked by a profound sense of guilt, tries to win back the love of his ex Violeta, who is now a psychiatrist, with a family of her own. Jan’s complex and perverse plan to reunite him with Violeta, 20 years after the events that led to their separation, will have severe consequences.
1h 51min | Drama, Thriller | Language: Spanish | Subtitles: English
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Dropped into a web of family, sexual, political and romantic relationships where nothing is quite what it seems. One event leads to something else, people appear in one situation and reappear in another and by the end the lives of 22 people intersect in unpredictable ways during a 90-minute period on one magical night in the city they share.
1h 32min | Drama | Language: Hungarian | Subtitles: English
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When Effie Gray becomes the wife of distinguished writer John Ruskin, it soon becomes apparent that Ruskin regards her as a muse rather than a wife, and the stifling atmosphere of their home soon takes a toll on Effie's health.
1h 44min | Biography, Drama, Romance | Language: English
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Cecilia is a sociology teacher. One night the son of her maid desperately knocks on the door of her house. She doesn't open. The next day, Kevin's body shows up murdered by the police. Cecilia begins to be haunted by the young man's ghost.
1h 36min | Thriller | Language: Spanish | Subtitles: English
'A Common Crime' screened at both the Berlin Film Festival and London Film Festival in 2020, and received a nomination for Best Argentinean Film at the Mar del Plata Film Festival in 2020.
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The guests who come to the mansion of aristocratic landowner and man of the world Nikolai over the Christmas holidays are
hand-picked. Among them is a politician, a young countess and a general with his wife. They converse and dine – what a wonderful, much-missed way of life – indulge in parlour games and discuss the right form of authority in the face of political impotence as well as progress and morality, death and the Antichrist. As the debate becomes more heated, cultural differences become increasingly apparent and the mood grows tense.
3h 21min | Drama, History | Language: Hungarian, French, Russian, German | Subtitles: English
'Malmkrog' won the Encounters Award for Best Director (Cristi Puiu) at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2020, and was also the recipient of Best Screenplay and the Golden Giraldillo for Best Film at the Seville European Film Festival in 2020.
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Joy and her six-year-old daughter Angel live in Manila, Philippines, with her husband, Dante, a small-time criminal. As so often in the past, Dante comes home drunk at night and beats Joy brutally. This time, he also hurts Angel. Joy grabs her daughter and flees to the local police post to finally get him sent to jail. Joy learns that justice takes time at best and is impossible to get at worst. Not without reason, she feels that she and her daughter are increasingly under threat.
2h 6min | Drama | Language: Tagalog, Filipino, English | Subtitles: English
'Verdict' was selected as the Philippine entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards.
Other festivals and awards include;
- 76th Venice Film Festival, Orizzonti Jury Special Prize, 2019
- 13th Asia Pacific Screen Awards, Best Actress (Max Eigenmann)
- 44th Toronto International Film Festival, Official Selection, 2019
- 46th Telluride Film Festival, Official Selection, 2019
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Peru, at the height of the political crisis of the 1980s. Georgina is expecting her first child. Without resources, she responds to the announcement of a clinic offering free care to pregnant women. But after giving birth, they refuse to tell her where her baby is. Determined to find her daughter, she seeks the help of journalist Pedro Campos who agrees to lead the investigation.
Rating: 12A | 1h 37min | Drama | Language: Spanish | Subtitles: English
'Song Without a Name' ('Canción sin nombre') is a critically acclaimed, award-winning drama directed by Melina León, and has been announced as Peru’s International Feature Film entry for the 93rd Academy Awards®.
'Song Without a Name' also won the Cinevision Award for Best Film by an Emerging Director at the 2019 Munich Film Festival, the Grand Jury Prize at the 2020 Palm Springs International Film Festival, Best Cinematography by Inti Briones and Best Film at the 2019 Stockholm Film Festival.
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