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A Tale Of Sorrow & Sadness (Japanese)
The editor of a sports magazine grooms fashion model Reiko to become a pro golfer, while retaining exclusive rights to her likeness. Reiko's popularity soars after she wins her first tournament and she becomes a media sensation, but when she and her manager cause a hit-and-run accident, the victim begins to blackmail Reiko, intruding further and further into her personal life.
Director: Seijun Suzuki
Starring: Kyoko Enami, Chieko Harada, Yoshio Harada, Yoko Shiraki
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Art College 1994 (Chinese)
Students at the Chinese Academy of Arts begin a new life, where love and friendship confront great ideals and personal ambition. A freshman is taken to the security department after a conflict with his roommate, and something unexpected happens.
Director: Jian Liu
Starring: Zijian Dong, Dongyu Zhou, Changchu Xu
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Endless Summer Syndrome (French)
The mother of two adopted children's sense of duty takes a macabre turn when she learns that her husband may be having an affair with one of their kids. Before leaping to conclusions she decides to quietly observe her family for a shred of evidence; anything to subside her fear and erase doubt.
Director: Kaveh Daneshmand
Starring: Sophie Colon, Matheo Capelli, Gem Deger, Frederika Milano
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Fallen (Swedish)
Veteran Stockholm inspector Iris Broman's life is shattered when her husband is gunned down in front of her. To escape the tragedy and rebuild her life, Iris moves to the southern Swedish town of Ystad, living in her half-sister's seaside cottage and taking up a new position as head of the cold case team in nearby Malmö. On the same day Iris starts her new job, a skull is found in a local forest and the cold case unit becomes the focus of attention. Life is turned upside down for the locals, lives are intertwined, and truths are confused. A distraught father desperate for answers is convinced the skull is that of his 16-year-old son Benjamin, missing for 18 years. His pain is deep, and Iris can identify with him, but is this really Benjamin? And as it stirs her own feelings of desperation for answers, she struggles to stay away from the investigation of her husband's murder. Disc 1: episodes 1-3; Disc 2: episodes 4-6.
Director: Olof Spaak
Starring: Sofia Helin, Hedda Stiernstedt, Hakan Bengtsson, Kajsa Ernst, Peter Gardiner, Inez Micaella Andersson
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Girl With A Suitcase (Italian)
Aida has fallen for a rich playboy and arrives at his door to find it firmly shut and herself ignored. His younger, more sensitive brother, Lorenzo helps her and finds himself quickly besotted.
Director: Valerio Zurlini
Starring: Claudia Cardinale, Jacques Perrin, Luciana Angiolillo, Renato Baldini
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Master Crimes (French)
Master Crimes is the latest hit series from prolific television writer and showrunner Elsa Marpeau. This six-episode light and frothy police procedural follows two very different Parisian women as they come together to solve a series of six different, violent and perplexing crimes. Louise Arbus, an eccentric, exasperating, brilliant and immaculately groomed psycho-criminology professor at the Sorbonne. Robin's real-life wife, Anne Le Nen is Captain Barbara Delandre, a hyperactive yet practical law enforcement professional who always plays it by the book. Louise's skills are first called upon when a line from one of her books is found printed across a victim's back. She quickly assembles her investigative dream team made up of herself and four of her students, each with their own special skills that they bring to the table to help find the killer. Their eccentric approach to the investigation frustrates Captain Delandre and they quickly become her worst nightmare.
Director: Marwen Abdallah
Starring: Muriel Robin, Anne Le Nen, Nicolas Briançon, Oliver Claverie, Victor Meutelet, Astrid Roos, Nordine Ganso, Thaïs Vauquières, Michaël Cohen
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Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus (Japanese)
A celebration of an artist's life in the purest sense, Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus is the swan song of one of the world's greatest musicians. As a parting gift, just months before his death in 2023, Sakamoto mustered all of his energy to leave us with one final performance: a concert film featuring just him and a piano, directed by his son, Neo Sora. Curated and sequenced by Sakamoto himself, the twenty of his pieces played in the film wordlessly tell the story of his life and his wide-ranging oeuvre. The selection spans his entire career, from his pop-star period with Yellow Magic Orchestra and his magnificent scores for filmmakers Bernardo Bertolucci and Nagisa Oshima to his meditative final album, 12. Captured in intimate black and white, and surrounded by trusted collaborators, Sakamoto bares his soul through his exquisitely haunting melodies, knowing that this was the last time he would be able to present his art.
Director: Neo Sora
Starring: Ryuichi Sakamoto
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The Eel (Japanese)
After serving time in prison for murdering his unfaithful wife, Yamashita is released on parole, accompanied only by his pet eel. Hoping to stay out of trouble, he takes over a rural barber shop that quickly becomes a gathering point for the eccentric locals. Includes both the theatrical and director's cuts of the film.
Director: Shohei Imamura
Starring: Koji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu, Mitsuko Baisho, Akira Emoto, Fujio Tokita, Sho Aikawa
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The Wind Will Carry Us (Persian)
The mysteries of everyday life come into astonishing focus in one of Abbas Kiarostami's greatest cinematic achievements. A slyly self-reflexive commentary on the director's own artistic practice, The Wind Will Carry Us unfolds with unhurried majesty as it follows an undercover documentarian whose assignment to cover a small village's funeral rites is continually frustrated by an elderly woman's refusal to die. Along the way, though, he forges surprise, unsettling, and enlightening connections with those he meets. Suffused with Kiarostami's love for people, poetry, and the arid beauty of rural Iran, this meditative masterpiece reflects upon the boundaries between intimacy and alienation, tradition and modernity, with the utmost grace.
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Starring: Behzad Dorani, Noghre Asadi, Roushan Karam Elmi
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Young Hearts (Dutch)
Elias (14) feels attracted to his new neighbor, Alexandder (14). Soon he realizes that he's truly in love for the first time. The interactions with his friends and family bring more questions than answers. Confused by his burgeoning feelings, Elias tries to sort out his inner chaos to prove that he is worth Alexander's heart. Includes Dutch and French dialogue.
Director: Anthony Schatteman
Starring: Lou Goossens, Marius De Saeger, Geert Van Rampelberg, Emilie De Roo, Dirk van Dijck, Jul Goossens, Ezra Van Dongen
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