In the 2010s, cinema opens up. More personal, more global, more daring. New creators rise and small films find big audiences.

Normal

A sweet embrace to an unknown world, the one that every young person must discover when coming out of their shell. A supernatural growth of the need for emancipation in one of the most beautiful European films of recent times.

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A shy young girl leaves her religious parents behind, in a small west coast town in Norway, in order to study at one of Oslo's universities. One day, while she is in the university library, she experiences an intense and unexpected seizure, which resembles those caused by epilepsy. Equally unexpected is the attraction she feels for a beautiful fellow student, which seems to respond to the magnetic presence of the lonely, strange provincial girl.

Thelma

The always heretical Oliver Stone tackles yet another controversial figure in modern American history and writes a riveting and foreseeably divisive thriller, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley and Melissa Leo.

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American Edward Snowden leaves his job as a high-ranking technician in the National Security Service (N.S.A.) and the C.I.A. without notice, and visits Hong Kong to secretly meet with two journalists. His revelations will be stormy.

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Nomination for Best Song | Grammy Awards | 2017

Snowden

In his third feature film, the hitherto enfant terrible of French-language cinema Xavier Dolan delivers a baroque melodrama of epic proportions about the entropic power of love and the complex journey of transition, full of color, music and emotion.

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A young philologist suddenly announces to his partner that he wants to dress in women's clothes, but he does not want to divorce her under any circumstances. Against all social norms, the two will fight to stay together.

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Best Actress (Suzanne Clément) - Un Certain Regard | Cannes Film Festival | 2012
Queer Palm | Cannes Film Festival | 2012
Best Canadian Feature | Toronto Film Festival | 2012

Laurence Anyways

Toying with the boundaries of atmospheric horror, Shults and his brilliant director of photography create a world of immersive imagery; a world in which true fear originates from within and not from the outside.

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Imagine the end of the world. Now imagine something even worse. Skillful director Trey Edward Schults returns with a psychological thriller that follows a young boy in the wake of an unspeakable disaster.

It Comes at Night

Inspired by his own family history, director Edouard Bergeon delivers a powerful biographical drama of resilience, set in a dramatic and beautiful countryside, starring Guillaume Canet.

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The Jarjeaus are farmers, father and son. Pierre was 25 when he returned from Wyoming to his fiancée Claire and the family farm. Twenty years later, both the business and the family have grown. Emma and Thomas enjoy country living while helping their parents. Happy days, at least on the surface… But Pierre is exhausted, his debts are piling up and his father isn’t making things easier. Despite the love of his wife and children, Pierre is sinking…

In the Name of the Land

The Russian director Kantemir Balagov fully justifies the expectations he created with "Closeness" and gets inspired by Nobel prize author Svetlana Alexievich for a masterful and heartbreaking cinematic experience that touches levels of ancient tragedy.

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1945, Leningrad; two young women, who were found on the battlefield together, try to get back on their feet and rebuild their lives amongst the ruins that the war has left behind. They will meet again at the hospital where one of them works as a nurse, after a tragedy and the unspoken trauma that they both carry, they will try to survive and redefine a relationship powered by secrets, mistakes and guilt.

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FIPRESCI Prize - Un Certain Regard | Cannes Film Festival | 2019
Best Director Award - Un Certain Regard | Cannes Film Festival | 2019

Beanpole

Gaspar Noé presents the film that taught us in the most shocking way that "Time destroys everything" tests its endurance in straight storytelling. Does its sweeping impact change at all?

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The infamous film of the evergreen provocateur Gaspar Noé, which went down in history, among other things, for the reverse narration from the end to the beginning, is presented here in reverse, i.e... normally.

Irreversible: The Straight Cut

Turn up the volume for a nostalgic rave party. Mia Hansen-Løve, inspired by her brother’s life, traces the birth of Daft Punk and the deep cuts that defined an era, capturing a generation that refuses to stop dancing - even when the music suddenly cuts out.

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Paris, the 1990s. French electronic music is on a rapid rise. In the heart of the city’s vibrant nightlife, Paul takes his first steps as a DJ. Together with his best friend, they form the duo “Cheers” and quickly find their audience. But it doesn’t take long before they’re swept up in a euphoric ascent to fame, plunged into a world of sex, drugs, and endless music.

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Official Selection | San Sebastián Film Festival | 2014

Eden

Magic realism, melodrama, an ode to all things female: just some of the dimensions of this multi-faceted film by Julio Medem, who masterfully directs Penelope Cruz in an emotional, powerful role that feels like it was created just for her.

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Already heartbroken by her husband's decision to leave her, a woman discovers she has breast cancer. Her doctor is hopeful, but she will have to undergo surgery and painful, time-consuming treatments. The day her diagnosis is revealed to her, she meets a man who is going through his own personal drama. The tragic events in both their lives forge a unique bond between them, which will endure the test of time and great difficulties.

Ma Ma

The labyrinthine world of Cold War espionage is exemplarily captured in Thomas Alfredson's already classic adaptation of John Le Carré's book of the same name. BAFTA Award for Best British Film and three Oscar nominations

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At the height of the Cold War, a veteran agent returns to active duty to expose a Soviet spy operating within British intelligence.

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Nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay | Oscars | 2012
Nomination for Best Leading Actor (Gary Oldman) | Oscars | 2012
Best Adapted Screenplay | BAFTA | 2012
Best British Film | BAFTA | 2012

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

The crime thriller is transformed through its socially-minded attentiveness, and the two stellar protagonists, Cassel and Duris, give it their all in a story of many implications and even more twists.

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Α teenage boy disappears and his family is frantic. An experienced but overworked police detective takes over the case and starts investigating the missing young man, but seems reluctant to deal with his own 16-year-old son. When the boy's teacher finds out about the disappearance, he shows a keen interest and offers to help the police with their investigation. The case comes closer to a solution, yet things are not what they seem to be.

Black Tide

An icon of popular modern Italian comedy, Antonio Albanese, stars, writes and directs with humor and irony about the contradictions and fears of modern times, in a crazy road movie that changes the life and beliefs of its hero.

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Mario Cavallaro wakes up every morning in the same way, in the same house, neighborhood and city, Milan. He has just turned fifty and loves punctuality, preciseness, respect, manners and order in general. Every change scares him, especially when that has to do with the sale of his favorite bar to an Egyptian, and with the arrival of Oba, a Senegalese street vendor who is stealing his clients. Believing he needs to restore order, Mario comes up with a simple, albeit unorthodox, solution.

Back Home

Noémie Merlant ("Portrait of a Lady on Fire") and Niels Schneider ("An Impossible Love") revive a stormy passion that made history in the literary circles of France.

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The tempestuous relationship of writers Pierre Louÿs and Marie de Régnier, who broke the sexual taboos of Parisian society of the late 19th century.

Curiosa

Harmony Corinne's explosive film that pulled Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens away from their Disney roots and sparked conversation like few others in the past decade with its wild mix of Florida parties, gangsters, Britney Spears songs and The Scarface.

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Four young girls set their sights on Florida for spring break. Quickly, fun collides with illegality, they crash parties and fall in with dangerous mobsters as their trip spirals into the wildest, most reckless extracurricular adventure of their lives.

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Official Selection - Main Competition | Venice Film Festival | 2012

Spring Breakers

The production company of "The triplets of Belleville" presents a story of youthful love in Taliban-ruled Kabul, portrayed through an impressive handmade animation technique based on the movements of real actors. Nominated for the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Festival.

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Summer of 1998, Kabul is under Taliban rule. Zunaira and Mohsen are young and in love. Despite the daily violence and misery, they hope for a better future. One day, a senseless gesture makes their lives take an irrevocable turn.

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Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 2017

The Swallows of Kabul

The blurry dividing line between life and art, reality and creation, is masterly traced by the experienced French director Arnaud Desplechin with the help of the brilliant and charismatic quartet of Mathieu Amalric, Marion Cotillard, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Louis Garrel.

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The life of a director who is in the middle of producing a movie is turned upside down when his ex-wife who everyone thought was dead reappears in his life. His world is falling apart and he is left alone haunted by the ghosts of the past.

Ismael's Ghosts

A perfect example of entertaining and, at the same time, political cinema, that highlights issues of solidarity and activism, in the footsteps of "The Full Monty", a proud example of the proverbial ability of the British to manage bittersweet stories.

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A group of London activists made up of gay men and women arrives in a small Welsh town where they will be joined by a handful of striking miners and their families, who stubbornly resist the neoliberal Thatcher policy of that time.

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Queer Palm | Cannes Film Festival | 2014
Nominated for Golden Globe | Golden Globes | 2015
Outstanding British Film | BAFTA Awards | 2015

Pride

In a deeply oppressive society God loves the sinner, but not the sin itself. The rising and unpredictable Jayro Bustamante in a deeply personal, shocking family drama about religion, family acceptance, sexuality and the sense of belonging.

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When Pablo arrives at his family home outside Guatemala, everyone is waiting for their beloved brother, son and husband. But they are horrified: Pablo fell in love with another man named Francisco. In doing so, he challenges all the values this deeply religious family lives by. Despite resistance from his relatives, Pablo goes out with Francisco. With the help of their deeply religious community, the family is doing everything they can to bring back their prodigal son, no matter the cost.

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Best Latin American Film | San Sebastián International Film Festival | 2019
Official Selection | Athens International Film Festival | 2019
Official Selection | Berlin International Film Festival | 2019

Tremors

The greatest love stories have yet to be told. An elderly woman embarks on a long journey and thus unleashes a grand, tender, peculiar, unique second part in a film for which just one time is not enough.

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A woman spends her retirement years taking care of the people around her. Most of all, she's troubled by her lonely neighbor, an eccentric 80-year-old who believes her maid is using voodoo on her. The old woman wants to meet a man from her past, so the retiree and the maid join forces to help her find him. The man has a story to tell. A story that unfolded 50 years ago, before the Portuguese colonial war, and begins as follows: "He had a farm in Africa, at the base of mount Tabu..."

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Alfred Bauer Award | Berlin International Film Festival | 2012
FIPRESCI Prize | Berlin International Film Festival | 2012
Audience Award | Las Palmas Film Festival | 2012

Tabu

How a dinner can turn into a war of words or a war of classes. Salma Hayek versus John Lithgow ("The Crown") in a recital of performances in Miguel Arteta's delightful black comedy, director of the series "Six Feet Under" and "American Horror Story".

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Beatrice is a hollistic medicine practitioner in Los Angeles who drives to the seaside mansion of one of her clients. When her old Volkswagen breaks down, she receives a friendly invitation from Cathy, the client, to stay for a seemingly innocent business dinner. As guests arrive and wine begins to flow plentifully, Beatrice suddenly finds herself at the centre of a verbal war with a ruthless real estate agent who cares more about money than people.

Beatriz at Dinner

The most beautiful film Jarmusch made during the 10s, seeks poetry through the images of an everyday life without exhausting rhythms, rhapsodizing the repetitiveness, indolence and kindness of its heroes that are no other than the wonderful couple interpreted by Adam Driver and Golshifteh Farahani.

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Paterson is a bus driver in the eponymous city of Paterson, New Jersey. Every day, he follows a routine: he performs his daily itinerary, observing the city and eavesdropping on the conversations around him. He writes verses in a notebook. He walks his dog. He stops at a bar and drinks only one beer. And then he goes home to his wife, Laura. Instead, Laura's world is constantly changing. She has new dreams almost daily. He applauds her newfound ambitions and she supports his talent for poetry.

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Palm Dog Award | Cannes Film Festival | 2016
Official Selection | San Sebastián International Film Festival | 2016

Paterson

There are times when a movie can be like a warm hug and in this indie gem, Bree Larson's warm performance reminds us of that compellingly. A film about children called upon to care for other children, it lovingly and honestly tackles the issue of foster care.

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Grace, a compassionate young supervisor at a foster care facility, helps at-risk teens. But when a new charge dredges up memories of her own troubled past, Grace’s tough exterior begins eroding.

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Best Actress (Brie Larson) | Locarno Film Festival | 2013
Audience Award | Athens Film Festival | 2013
Best Narrative Feature | SXSW Film Festival | 2013

Short Term 12

A story about a cursed love, vengeance and the redeeming power of a song. Golshifteh Farahani ("Paterson") and the wonderful Irrfan Khan ("The Lunchbox") star in a captivating film from the Locarno Film Festival.

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Nooran is a beautiful, carefree and independent young woman who learns the ancient art of healing from her – respected by everyone – grandmother, who knows how to sing to save someone from the sting of scorpions. When Aadam, who trades camels in the Rajasthan desert, hears Nooran sing, he falls desperately in love with her. But before they can get to know each other, Nooran is poisoned by a shameless betrayal. A betrayal that leads her on a dangerous journey of vengeance and discovery of her song.

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Official Selection | Locarno International Film Festival | 2017

The Song of Scorpions

Linking the exploration of Nature and History, the natural landscape, historical memory and the open wound of the Pinochet dictatorship, Chilean Patricio Guzmán completes his great trilogy by turning his attention to the Andes mountain range.

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After the masterpiece "Nostalgia for the Light" and the Silver Bear award-winning "Pearl Button", Patricio Guzman now turns his gaze to the Chilean Andes mountain range. Taking as his point of reference another characteristic natural feature of a homeland that he now barely recognizes, the leading exponent of poetic and political documentary cinema continues a unique exploration of this delicate frontier where man and the eternity of Nature meet.

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Best Documentary | Cannes Film Festival | 2019
Official Selection | San Sebastian Film Festival | 2019

The Cordillera of Dreams

In his first English-speaking film, “The Broken Circle Breakdown” director Felix van Groeningen builds a robust family drama charting the multifaceted, complex dynamics between family members, with two stellar performances by Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet.

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The tumultuous relationship between a father and son due to the nightmare of the latter’s drug addiction, multiple failed rehab attempts, and relapses that derailed his brilliant academic prospects and nearly cost him his life.

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Official Selection | San Sebastián International Film Festival | 2018
Founder's Award Best Feature | Chicago International Film Festival | 2018
Spotlight Award (Timothée Chalamet) | Palm Springs International Film Festival | 2019