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Atomic People (Japanese)
The dropping of atomic bombs on two Japanese cities Hiroshima, on August 6, 1945, and Nagasaki, three days later, was one of the most momentous and destructive moments in world history. The bomb known as 'Little Boy' that decimated Hiroshima was 2,000 times more powerful than any bomb before, instantly killing approximately 80,000 of the city's 350,000 residents. By the end of the year, the death toll would rise to 140,000 as initial survivors succumbed to illnesses connected to radiation exposure. In Nagasaki, where approximately 40,000 were killed instantly, the number would rise to 74,000 by the end of the year. Now, eighty years later, this unique award-winning film gathers the testimony of some of the last 'Hibakusha' survivors of the two atomic bombs before their voices are lost forever. With an average age of 85, most Hibakusha were children when the bombs were dropped. Combining their personal accounts with archive footage, Atomic People feature a significant number of voices from this shrinking group, the only people left on Earth to have survived a nuclear bomb while exploring how their experiences continue to affect them to this day.
Director: Benedict Sanderson, Megumi Inman
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Cairo Station - Criterion Collection (Arabic)
A newspaper salesman at the train station in Cairo develops an unhealthy obsession with a woman who sells refreshments.
Director: Youssef Chahine
Starring: Farid Shawqi, Hind Rostom, Youssef Chahine, Hassan el Baroudi, Abdel Aziz Khalil, Safia Sarwat
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A Confucian Confusion / Mahjong: Two Films By Edward Yang - Criterion Collection (Mandarin)
A Confucian Confusion - A Confucian Confusion (1994) After firing a colleague, the head of a PR company begins to question her lifestyle and values. Mahjong - When a well known businessman goes missing, owing $100m to Taipei's underworld, two hoods decide to follow his son, the leader of a youth gang. A small group of trendy foreigners gets caught up in the action. Both features are in Mandarin, Taiwanese and English with optional English subtitles.
Director: Edward Yang
Starring: Li-Mei Chen, Shiang-Chyi Chen, Danny Deng, Chi-tsan Wang, Kuei-Ying Hsu, Tsung Sheng Tang, Chang Chen, Hung Hung, Virginie Ledoyen, Elaine Jin, Kuo-Chu Chang, Lawrence Ko, Joyce Ni, Carrie Ng, Shu-Chun Ni, Andrew Tsao, Chen Yiwen, Richie Li
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Deep Crimson - Criterion Collection (Spanish)
One of the peaks of subversive Mexican director Arturo Ripstein's cinema of outsiders, this deliriously perverse portrait of obsessive love dares audiences to see the humanity in the most sordid of antiheroes. A lonely-hearts advertisement leads lusty nurse Coral to Nicolás, a con man with whom she forges an increasingly intense, twisted bond as they crisscross 1940s Mexico, robbing and murdering the women he seduces. Blending sweeping melodrama with macabre humor and eruptions of berserk violence, Ripstein transforms one of the most infamous true-crime stories of the twentieth century into a haunting vision of how love can give way to madness.
Director: Arturo Ripstein
Starring: Regina Orozco, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Marisa Paredes, Sherlyn, Giovani Florido
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Ghost Killer (Japanese)
After a drunken night out, a college student stumbles upon the bullet that ended a hitman's life, and his vengeful spirit takes hold of her body. Now possessed by a ruthless assassin's rage and skills, she becomes an unstoppable force while hunting down those responsible for his death.
Director: Kensuke Sonomura
Starring: Akari Takaishi, Mario Kuroba, Masanori Mimoto, Sora Inoue, Ayaka Higashino, Naohiro Kawamoto
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Il Dono (The Gift) (Italian)
It is a portrait of depopulation, as Caulonia saw a dramatic decrease in inhabitants from roughly 15,000 in the 1950s to just a few hundred people at the time of the film's making. In painterly, dialogue-free long takes Frammartino pieces together the fragments of a place guided by slow rhythms, capturing the traditions, rituals, charms, and ruins of this beautiful village that has endured the relentless ravages of time.
Director: Michelangelo Frammartino
Starring: Michelangelo Frammartino, Gabriella Maiolo
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Those Who Remained (Hungarian)
A lyrical story of the healing power of love in the midst of national conflict, loss and trauma, Those Who Remained reveals the healing process of Holocaust survivors through the eyes of a young girl in post-World War II Hungary.
Director: Barnabas Toth
Starring: Karoly Hajduk, Abigel Szoke, Mari Nagy
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Wolf & Dog (Portuguese)
Ana lives in Sao Miguel, an island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean ruled by religion and tradition. But through her close friendship with Luis, a boy who likes to wear dresses as much as pants, Ana begins to question the world around her. When her friend Cloe arrives from Canada, she embarks on a journey that enables her to discover new possibilities while exploring the local queer community.
Director: Claudia Varejao
Starring: Marlene Cordeiro, Joao Tavares, Nuno Ferreira, Ruben Pimenta, Cristiana Branquinho, Ana Cabral, Mario Jorge Oliveira, Luisa Alves
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