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Icelandic
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Centuries ago, humans first arrived with their livestock on the isolated Icelandic coast — a remote land pushed up against the inhospitable Arctic Ocean that has been home to generations of farmers. Úlfar and Oddny (an aging Icelandic couple) are among this legacy, completely in rythym with the land and tuned in to the cyclical nature of farm work. As autumn approaches, and their children and grandchildren arrive from the cities to assist in the...
2) Moon Child
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Español
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Inspired by famed occultist Aleister Crowley’s 1923 novel of the same name, Agusti Villaronga’s film centers around an extraordinary 12-year-old who has been adopted by a treacherous scientific cult where extraordinary mental powers are common. He begins an archetypal journey across two continents to find his destiny as "Child of the Moon". Nominated for the Palme d'Or at the **Cannes Film Festival**. Winner of Best Original Screenplay and nominated...
3) Zoo
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English
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Based on a true story, 12 year old Tom (Art Parkinson) and his misfit friends fight to save Buster the baby elephant during the air raids on Belfast in 1941. Winner of the Films4Families Youth Jury Award at the **Seattle International Film Festival**. "*A thrilling adventure for all ages.*" - Justin Lowe, ***Hollywood Reporter***
4) Alfie
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English
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Alfie is the ultimate Ladykiller. He is wonderfully successful with women -- and rarely gets emotionally involved with them. But in this charming comedic drama, Alfie experiences a series of reversals that threaten his carefree lifestyle: his health is put into question, his child is adopted by another man, he gets a married woman pregnant, and when he finally does decide to settle down, he is rejected for a younger man. Capturing the changing attitudes...
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English
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Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel star in this dramatic film about two officers in Napoleon's army who violently confront each other in a series of duels. The duels begin as a reaction to a minor incident and escalate into a consuming passion that rules the lives of both men for a period of 30 years. Based on Joseph Conrad's story, THE DUELLISTS explores the themes of obsession, honor and violence. This visually breathtaking film weaves a compelling...
6) Vera Cruz
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English
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During the Mexican Revolution of 1866, two American adventurers sign up to escort a carriage from the palace of Emperor Maximilian I in Mexico City to the seaport of Vera Cruz. Aboard the carriage is a beautiful French countess and a treasure of three million dollars in gold coins. Includes original theatrical trailer.
8) The tenant
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Language
English
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Director Roman Polanski casts himself in the lead of the psychological thriller THE TENANT. Trelkovsky (Polanski) rents an apartment in a spooky old residential building, where his neighbors — mostly old recluses — eye him with suspicious contempt. Upon discovering that the apartment's previous tenant, a beautiful young woman, jumped from the window in a suicide attempt, Trelkovsky begins obsessing over the dead woman. Growing increasingly paranoid,...
9) Tyrannosaur
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English
Description
TYRANNOSAUR follows the story of two lonely, damaged people brought together by circumstance. Joseph (Peter Mullan) is an unemployed widower, drinker, and a man crippled by his own volatile temperament and furious anger. Hannah (Olivia Colman) is a Christian worker at a charity shop, a respectable woman who appears wholesome and happy. When the pair is brought together, Hannah appears as Joseph’s potential savior, someone who can temper his fury...
10) Second coming
Series
Film Movement volume 13, year 12
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English
Description
As busy, working parents, Jackie and Mark haven't been intimate in quite some time. However, Jackie abruptly discovers that she is pregnant. She knows it's not her husband Mark's, but claims she hasn't been with anyone else either. The unnerving side effects of her pregnancy begin to affect her mental state, creating turmoil within the family that is only made worse by Mark's fury. SECOND COMING follows the close knit family over the course of a year...
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English
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When an unexpected accident leaves a young boy motherless, he must travel from the United States to live with his estranged father in Scotland. There he finds himself teaming up with a scientifically enhanced soccer-playing dog, a dog who can even outplay Beckham. The dog has managed to escape from the evil scientists who designed him for more nefarious means. Father, son and the incredible soccer dog all band together to bring victory and pride to...
12) Child's pose
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Romanian
Description
Luminita Gheorghiu (*The Death of Mr. Lazarescu*) stars as a steely, well-to-do Bucharest architect determined to keep her 30-something deadbeat son out of jail after a deadly car crash. How far will she go to convince the police, eyewitnesses and even the victim’s family that her son was not recklessly speeding? A spellbinding drama of social commentary and psychological realism, this caustic look into the corrupt heart of the Eastern European...
13) Epicentro
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English
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EPICENTRO is an immersive and metaphorical portrait of post-colonial, "utopian" Cuba, where the 1898 explosion of the U.S.S. Maine still resonates. This Big Bang ended Spanish colonial dominance in the Americas and ushered in the era of the American Empire. At the same time and place, a powerful tool of conquest was born: cinema as propaganda. In his latest film, Academy Award nominee Hubert Sauper (Darwin's Nightmare) explores a century of interventionism...
14) 4 days in France
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Français
Description
On a seemingly ordinary night in Paris, Pierre takes one last look at his lover Paul and steals away, with his Grindr app as his only guide. Paul sets out after him, using his own phone to track Pierre’s movements in a strange and wonderful game of Grindr cat-and-mouse. Nominated for a Queer Lion at the **Venice Film Festival.** *"A sly, sexy and strangely disarming cruise along the queerer backroads of rural France that marks an intriguing debut...
15) Marie's story
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Language
Français
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At the turn of the 19th century, a humble artisan and his wife have a daughter, Marie, who is born deaf and blind and unable to communicate with the world around her. Desperate to find a connection to their daughter and avoid sending her to an asylum, the Heurtins send fourteen-year-old Marie to the Larnay Institute in central France, where an order of Catholic nuns manage a school for deaf girls. There, the idealistic Sister Marguerite sees in Marie...
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English
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In 1915 an estimated 1.5 million Armenians were killed by the Ottoman Turks. A Turkish woman, Maya, discovers that her great grandmother was a survivor of the Armenian Genocide. She decides to go to Armenia to take part in the 100 year commencement of the Genocide in an effort to come to terms with her conflicted identity. The Other Side of Home is a universal story of identity, denial and how the experience of genocide creates a ripple effect for...
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Finnish
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A funny and moving film about the power of imagination and the strength of a community, directed by **Oscar**-nominee Selma Vilhunen. The film follows three young girls, Aisku, Elsa and Alisa whose lives have been transformed by their new interest: hobbyhorses. Despite a lack of understanding by some, the girls bravely and spiritedly pursue their hobby. Official Selection at **Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival**. *"A refreshing...
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Français
Description
Veteran star Claude Brasseur plays the cantankerous Mr. Henri in this riotous comedy of bad manners and good intentions. Bitterly opposed to the relationship between his son Paul and the flighty Valérie, Henri strikes upon a devious plan. He offers free board to attractive student Constance, who, desperate to make her own way, agrees to use her charms to drive the couple apart. What ensues is classic farce material with a whirlwind of uproarious...
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English
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Spain was once home to Muslims, Christians, and Jews living together and flourishing. Their cultures and beliefs intertwined and the knowledge of the ancients was gathered and reborn, the very seeds of the Renaissance. Cities of Light explores the causes that destroyed the one civilization of pluralism and interfaith cooperation that for a few centuries lit the Dark Ages in Medieval Europe.
20) Rift
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Icelandic
Description
In this Hitchcockian Thriller, when Gunnar receives a distraught phone call from his ex, he drives up to a secluded cabin to see him. He discovers that there's more going on than he imagined. Someone is lurking outside and the two find that they are haunted by someone -- or something. Official Selection at **Fantastic Fest**. Winner of the Artistic Vision Award at **L.A. Outfest**. Winner of the Top Ten of the Year - Audience Award at the **CinEuphoria...
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