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The Beat That My Heart Skipped - Criterion Collection (French)
In this remake of Fingers, Tom, a ne'er-do-well, works with two scheming real estate men who have little or no morals. He decides to return to the piano, practicing Bachs' Toccata in E Minor for an important audition that could be a life-changing event.
Director: Jacques Audiard
Starring: Romain Duris, Aure Atika, Emmanuelle Devos
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Born for You (Italian)
Based on the true story of Luca, a gay social worker looking to start a family, and Alba, a little girl with Down's Syndrome, who was left in the hospital shortly after being born. After thirty heterosexual couples rejected her, the court finally decided to entrust the child to him. A beautiful heart-warming story of the first gay, single man in Italy who was able to adopt a child.
Director: Fabio Mollo
Starring: Pierluigi Gigante, Teresa Saponangelo, Barbora Bobulova, Alessandro Piavani, Antonia Truppo
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Hard Paint (Portuguese)
Set in Brazil's southern city of Porto Alegre, the film focuses on a socially repressed young man who only comes out of his shell during chatroom performances, when he strips and smears neon paints on his lithe body.
Director: Marcio Reolon, Filipe Matzembacher
Starring: Shico Menegat, Bruno Fernandes, Guega Peixoto
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Just the Two of Us (French)
When Blanche meets the charismatic Gregoire, she thinks she has found the one. Their passionate affair develops quickly, and they soon marry and relocate far from Blanche's family. As her new life begins, Blanche finds herself caught in the grip of a deeply possessive and dangerous man, desperate to escape.
Director: Valérie Donzelli
Starring: Virginie Efira, Melvil Poupaud, Dominique Reymond, Romane Bohringer, Virginie Ledoyen
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Meeting With Pol Pot (French)
AnnDemocratic Kampuchea (Cambodia) - 1978. Three journalists are invited by the Khmer Rouge to conduct an exclusive interview of the regime's leader, Pol Pot. The country seems ideal. But behind the Potemkin village, the Khmer Rouge regime is declining and the war with Vietnam threatens to invade the country. The regime is looking for culprits, secretly carrying out a large scale genocide. Under the eyes of the journalists, the beautiful picture cracks, revealing the horror. Their journey progressively turns into a nightmare. In French and Cambodian with optional English SDH subtitles.
Director: Rithy Panh
Starring: Irène Jacob, Grégoire Colin, Cyril Gueï, Bun-Hok Lim, Somaline Maootation
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Misericordia (French)
A web of secrets, suspicions, and desires ensnares the inhabitants of an insular French village in this tantalizing comic thriller from ever-audacious auteur Alain Guiraudie. Returning to his rural hometown to attend the funeral of the mentor he loved, enigmatic, sexually fluid drifter Jérémie stirs up long-simmering feelings of lust, jealousy, and rage among those he left behind including the dead man's widow, her hot-tempered son, and a curiously protective local priest with whom Jérémie forges a twisted bond. Amid the evocatively earthy milieu, Guiraudie constructs a slippery, continuously surprising moral universe where love and hatred, eroticism and violence, spiritual grace and mortal sin, are intimately entwined.
Director: Alain Guiraudie
Starring: Felix Kysyl, Catherine Frot, Jean-Baptiste Durand, Jacques Develay
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Nine-Ring Golden Dagger (Mandarin)
During the Song Dynasty, the commander of the army, General Yang Ye, heroically sacrifices himself. A decade later, his daughters set out to reclaim his lost nine-ring golden dagger and restore honor to their homeland. Facing enemy attacks, they unite with an old ally to outwit foes and ensure the dagger's safe return.
Director: Feng Xiaojun
Starring: Song Tianshuo, Zhang Xintong, Yu Kang, Wu Yue
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Queens of Drama (French)
An outrageous lesbian pop musical satire inspired by the pop frenzy of the early 2000s, Queens Of Drama charts the rise and fall of new star Mimi Madamour and her passionate, rage-fueled love affair with punk icon Billie Kohler. Director Alexis Langlois brings their trademark glittercore pop-punk aesthetic to create a vibrant, unforgettable spectacle of music and passion.
Director: Alexis Langlois
Starring: Nana Benamer, Alma Jodorowsky, Asia Argento, Bilal Hassani, Gio Ventura, Louiza Aura
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Read My Lips - Criterion Collection (French)
Carla is a 35-year-old secretary with nowhere to go in her job, so she hires a good-looking young thief as a diversion.
Director: Jacques Audiard
Starring: Emmanuelle Devos, Vincent Cassel, Olivier Gourmet
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Ride Above (French)
Growing up among horses at her parents' stud farm, Zoé dreams of becoming a jockey and forms a deep bond with a young horse. A terrible accident threatens to end their racing careers, but they fight to reach victory together.
Director: Christian Duguay
Starring: Mélanie Laurent, Pio Marmai, Carmen Kassovitz, Danny Huston
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Shoeshine - Criterion Collection (Italian)
It depicts the lives of two boys entrenched in a world of poverty and violence. Hoping to escape the harsh reality of life on the streets of Rome, Giuseppe and Pasquale spend their days shining the shoes of American troops for tips. But after the boys are sent to a brutal state juvenile detention center for a crime they didn't commit, their lives are changed forever.
Director: Vittorio Sica
Starring: Franco Interlenghi, Rinaldo Smordoni, Annielo Mele, Bruno Ortenzi
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The Beast To Die (Japanese)
Deeply scared by what he witnessed on battlefields across Asia, a young war photographer returns to the bustling streets of Tokyo, plotting a series of brutal murders and robberies that are mere warmups for an unprecedented bank heist. Searching for an accomplice, he finds the short-fused and equally disenfranchised Tetsuo.
Director: Toru Murakawa
Starring: Yusaku Matsuda, Mako Midori, Akemi Mari, Toshio Kurosawa, Hosei Komatsu, Kunio Murai, Kazuo Kato
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The Burmese Harp - Criterion Collection (Japanese)
An Imperial Japanese Army regiment surrenders to British forces in Burma at the close of World War II and finds harmony through song. A private, thought to be dead, disguises himself as a Buddhist monk and stumbles upon spiritual enlightenment. Magnificently shot in hushed black and white, Kon Ichikawa's The Burmese Harp is an eloquent meditation on beauty coexisting with death and remains one of Japanese cinema's most overwhelming antiwar sentiments, both tender and brutal in its grappling with Japan's wartime legacy. Includes Burmese and Japanese dialogue.
Director: Kon Ichikawa
Starring: Rentaro Mikuni, Shoji Yasui, Tatsuya Mihashi
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The Tundra within Me (Norwegian)
After living for many years in Oslo, Lena moves back to Sapmi in Northern Norway with her young son to explore her native Sami culture in an art project. While researching in the tundra, she falls in love with reindeer herder Mahtte, whose mother disapproves of their relationship. As decisions from the past come to haunt her, Lena struggles to find out whether their lifestyles are compatible.
Director: Sara Margrethe Oskal
Starring: Anders Isak Oskal, Elias Ante Pilutaq Gaup Lennert, Nils Ailu Kemi, Berit Anne Oskal Kemi, Risten Anine Gaup, Anitta Suikkari
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The Universal Theory (German)
Physicist congress in Alps encounters Iranian guest, mysterious pianist. Bizarre cloud, underground booming. Quantum mechanical thriller unravels amidst enigmatic events. Black and white setting.
Director: Timm Kröger
Starring: Jan Bülow, Olivia Ross, Hanns Zischler, Gottfried Breitfuss, Philippe Graber, David Bennent, Imogen Kogge, Emanuel Waldburg-Zeil, Ladina von Frisching, Eva Maria Jost
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Vermiglio - Criterion Collection (Italian)
Secrets swirl beneath the surface of a remote Italian community in Maura Delpero's exquisite wartime drama. In a majestic Alpine village touched only faintly by the upheavals of modern life, a strict schoolteacher's family undergoes a profound shift when a mysterious Sicilian soldier arrives fleeing the front lines of World War II. As the seasons change, the family's three very different daughters will each find their lives transformed. Blending historically grounded realism with painterly grace, Delpero draws from her own family's history for an at once intimate and momentous vision of a world suspended between the patriarchal past and the stirrings of a new future.
Director: Maura Delpero
Starring: Tommaso Ragno, Roberta Rovelli, Martina Scrinzi, Giuseppe De Domenico, Carlotta Gamba, Santiago Fondevila
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Wild Diamond (French)
Liane, 19, lives with her mother and sister in Fréjus in the south of France. Consumed by aspirations of beauty and stardom, she auditions for a reality show called "Miracle Island."
Director: Agathe Riedinger
Starring: Malou Khebizi, Idir Azougli, Andréa Bescond, Antonia Buresi
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