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

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Fatih Akin is in the mood for epic adventure and history, courageously focusing on the Armenian genocide. This imposing and affecting quest of one man gives us a chance to contemplate: how far would we go to be reunited with our loved ones?

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Mardin, 1915. A young blacksmith is violently separated from his family. Years later, having survived the genocide, he discovers that his daughters are still alive, and his life's mission becomes to find them again. He travels from the deserts of Mesopotamia to Havana and the pastures of North Dakota. During his journey, he will experience people’s capacity for kindness, but also disdain and brutality.

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Official Selection | Venice Film Festival | 2014
Vittorio Veneto Film Festival Award | Special Mention | Venice Film Festival | 2014
Audience Award | Sofia International Film Festival | 2015

The Cut

With a Golden Lion nomination at the Venice Film Festival and with the dazzling Gong Li in the lead role, Ye Lou's Saturday Fiction ends up being a powerful spying thriller, reminiscent of those of the good old days.

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In 1941, the Allied forces hire a Chinese actress to work as a secret agent in Shanghai. She collects information successfully, until she discovers that a group of Japanese people are planning a secret attack upon Pearl Harbor.

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Official Selection | Venice Film Festival | 2019

Saturday Fiction

How would you manage your life if someone told you it had to stand still for 2 years? Nobel-winning author Harry Martinson’s poem is turned into a modern and impressively timely (although filmed before the pandemic) existential science fiction film.

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A spaceship transporting people from Earth to Mars, full of amenities for its voracious consumer passengers, goes off course causing a temporary disruption in everyone's lives. Managing the disruption will force them to reflect on their existence and their place in the universe.

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Official Selection | Toronto Film Festival | 2018
Cineuropa Award | Les Arcs European Film Festival | 2018
Best Actress (Emelie Garbers) | Les Arcs European Film Festival | 2018

Aniara

One of the most influential auteurs of modern Asian cinema, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, looks at history through the eyes of a silent assassin, intermixing wuxia tradition with historical epic. A gorgeous film that won the directing award at Cannes.

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In 9th century China, a nun kidnaps a 10-year-old girl in order to train her in martial arts and turn her into a cold-blooded assassin. Her ultimate goal is to eradicate corruption. When the girl fails in one of her missions, she will be sent back home in order to kill the man she was destined to marry. After 13 years in exile, she must face her family, her memories and her repressed feelings. She will have to choose between the man she loves and the holy purpose she now serves.

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Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 2015
Best Director | Cannes Film Festival | 2015
Cannes Soundtrack Award | Cannes Film Festival | 2015
FIPRESCI Prize Best Foreign Language Film | 2016
Palm Springs International Film Festival | 2016

The Assassin

Vincent Cassel portrays the emblematic artist of the title with great passion and drive, in a biography that explores the mechanisms of artistic creation and the relationship between civilization and nature, paganism and religion.

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Prior to becoming famous, French painter Paul Gauguin travels to Tahiti. His stay at the exotic island shapes his personality and drastically influences his artistic identity, gifting him everlasting fame.

Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti

The great Andrey Zvyagintsev stages the disappearance of a young boy and gradually and masterfully orchestrates a cinematic requiem about the dissolution of family ties, the absence of love and the deathly apathy of a slowly dying Russia.

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A couple splits up and their divorce is full of disappointment, bitterness and insults. Having already found new partners, the ex-spouses cannot wait to turn the page and start their new lives. Even if that means abandoning their 12-year-old son.

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Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film | Oscars | 2018
Jury Prize | Cannes Film Festival | 2017
Best Foreign Film | César Awards | 2018
Best Film | London Film Festival | 2017

Loveless

Following in Twilight’s footsteps around young adult literature and its adaptations for the big screen, vampires and werewolves trade places with fallen angels in a love story that transcends time and space.

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Based on the best-selling novel by the same name, the movie follows the story of 17-year-old Lucinda when she gets sent to a reform school for troubled teens. While there, she struggles to find her place and does not know who to trust. Soon her attention is drawn to Daniel and Cam. In a constant search for the past, shy Luce discovers that the two men are fallen angels who have been fighting for her love for centuries.

Fallen

What is the cost of absolute happiness? Cannes award-winning science fiction film of impressive color shades and existential extensions with a riveting leading performance by Emily Beecham.

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A divorced mother and dedicated scientist, specializes in the development of new species of plants on behalf of a company. She has designed a special kind of flower with therapeutic properties. If kept at an ideal temperature, fed with the right ingredients, and people often talk to it, this plant will make its owner happy. But at what cost? Everything gets complicated when, against the company’s policy, the scientist takes a flower home with her…

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Best Actress Award (Emily Beecham) | Cannes Film Festival | 2019

Little Joe

The fearsome child of modern festivals, Xavier Dolan returns with an explosive domino of revelations and family passions. French cinema all-star cast and a well deserved Cannes award.

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After 12 years of absence, a writer returns home to make an important announcement to his family. A quiet afternoon is destroyed by confrontations and feuds, triggered by feelings of loneliness and doubt. The family members' attempts for reconciliation fail due to their inability to listen and love.

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Grand Prize of the Jury | Cannes Film Festival | 2016
Best Director | César Awards | 2017
Award Best Actor (Gaspard Ulliel) | César Awards | 2017

It's Only the End of the World

Different worlds intersect here, separated by geographical, ideological, agonizing chasms. Romance can’t survive the monster of racism and kindness is distorted through the lens of daily suffering, in one of the strongest Greek films of recent years.

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Four people unexpectedly meet at Amerikis Square in Athens. Two childhood friends have diametrically opposed personalities. One hates the immigrants in his neighborhood. The second, a rock n’ roll 40-year-old, merely observes the changes until a love story shakes his world. An African singer, indebted to the mob, wants to cover up a tattoo; the chemistry between them is instantaneous. Meanwhile, a desperate Syrian refugee is trying to leave the country with his young daughter.

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FIPRESCI Prize - Greek Section | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 2016

Amerika Square

Those who love music more than gossip will appreciate Jim Jarmusch's simple and clear look back to the years of rock ‘n’ roll mythology, with Iggy Pop and his Stooges truthfully describing the inner workings of the industry, deconstructing an entire era.

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The story of The Stooges, one of the greatest rock ‘n’ roll bands of all time, through a cultural, political, historical and musical prism. A story about their adventures, relationships, "exploits", reasons behind their success, musical inspirations, as well as the legacy they left in the music scene.

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Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 2016
Official Selection | San Sebastian International Film Festival | 2016

Gimme Danger

A mobster on an agonizing escape-run leaves a trail of blood all over modern-day China. An impressive neon noir thriller from the award-winning director of “Black Coal, Thin Ice”, that immerses us in a colorful darkness full of twists and riveting action scenes shot with intense precision.

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When Zhou Zenong, the leader of a small local mafia, accidentally kills a police officer, he becomes an outlaw overnight. He is thus forced to escape from both the police and the dangerous gangsters who hunt him for the reward. He hides in China's densely populated (and deeply divided) province of Wuhan, where he becomes entangled with a beautiful, enigmatic woman, who has mysterious intentions.

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Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 2019
Official Selection | San Sebastian International Film Festival | 2019

The Wild Goose Lake

Based on Christine Angot's best seller, the experienced Catherine Corsini ("Summertime") signs her most mature work, with the seductive presence of the new star of the French cinema, Virginie Efira.

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In the French province of the '50s, a young woman will meet a bohemian aristocrat and love at first sight will turn into a toxic relationship that will last over four decades with dire consequences.

An Impossible Love

Set in divided Nicosia, a full-blooded comedy that satirizes the absurdity that has become part of the daily life of its residents, without attempting to resolve the Cyprus dispute. Adam Bousdoukos (“Soul Kitchen”), in the lead role, oozes cool and is a delight to watch.

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The film’s protagonist is 43-year-old Yannis, a washed-up musician, whose life isn’t exactly going as planned. His girlfriend has left him and his “lenders” are becoming increasingly aggressive. He plans to leave as soon as possible, with his beloved dog, Jimi. But, when Jimi runs away to the “Turkish” side of the island, Yannis has to deal with European legislation that prohibits animal crossing between the two areas.

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Best International Film | Tribeca Film Festival | 2018
Special Mention - International Competition | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 2018
Best Screenplay | Hellenic Film Academy Awards | 2019

Smuggling Hendrix

Live every day like it is your last, as people say. But what does that mean for Claire Darling? An outstanding portrait of a deeply flawed, compelling heroine, featuring Catherine Deneuve in one of her greatest contemporary performances, set in the beautiful French countryside.

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In a small village in Northern France, on the first day of summer, Claire Darling wakes up determined to live her final day. She decides to empty out her house as each object resonates something from her tragic, yet passionate life. Until the return of Mary, her daughter whom she has not seen in 20 years.

Claire Darling

La Belle Époque meets “Westworld” and the spirit of Charlie Kaufman. When and where would you travel if you could? Would you spend a night in the palace as Marie Antoinette? Would you go for a drink with Ernest Hemingway? Daniel Auteuil travels to the past to relive the moment that changed his life.

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The quiet life of 60-year-old Victor is turned upside down the day young Antoine offers him a unique, innovative form of entertainment. Thanks to a combination of theatrical tricks and historical reenactment, Antoine’s company offers its clients the opportunity to travel back to any time period they choose. Victor chooses to go back to Lyon in 1974 and relive the most unforgettable week of his life: when he met his one true love 40 years in the past… Can he still feel the same way?

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Best Production Design | César Awards | 2020
Best Supporting Actress (Fanny Ardant) | César Awards | 2020
Best Original Screenplay | César Awards | 2020
Directors to Watch | Palm Springs International Film Festival | 2020

La Belle Époque

The "difficult second film" for Laszlo Nemes after the triumph of his debut, "Son of Saul", is equally masterful. It’s a superbly orchestrated, suffocating descent into existential hell through the entropic streets of Budapest in 1910, just before World War I.

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Budapest, 1913. A young girl arrives in town, hoping to work as a milliner in the legendary hat shop that once belonged to her parents, but the new owner won’t hire her. Meanwhile, preparations are being made in the store to welcome some prominent visitors. A man approaches the girl, looking for someone who has her last name, but she doesn't know him. Refusing to leave town, she starts looking for the stranger who might be the only link to her lost past.

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Official Selection | Venice Film Festival | 2018
FIPRESCI Prize | Venice Film Festival | 2018

Sunset

The great Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta plays himself in a unique biographical film by the director of “The Olive Tree”, about the talent and stubbornness of a young child that allow him to travel from Havana to the Royal Ballet in London. Written by Paul Laverty, Ken Loach's permanent screenwriter.

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Inspired by the life of the great Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta and based on his autobiography, Icíar Bollaín's film (“The Olive Tree,” “Even the Rain”) is a chronicle of his sensational life. From the streets of Havana, to the Royal Ballet in London, the leading dancer of his generation, had to overcome huge difficulties and break terrible taboos, to become the legend he is today.

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Best Screenplay | San Sebastian FIlm Festival | 2018

Yuli: The Carlos Acosta Story

A romantic comedy unlike any other you’ve ever seen. The great Claire Denis directs Juliette Binoche in a one-woman-show, in the role of a divorced artist decisively looking for true love.

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A divorced Parisian artist hasn’t given up on the idea of finding true love. Even though the gap between what she wants and the actual men who show up in her life keeps growing, they all have something unique, even if it's not what she's looking for. Hope, expectations and disappointment come and go, but despite various misfortunes, her efforts continue.

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SACD Prize- Directors' Fortnight | Cannes Film Festival | 2017

Let the Sunshine in

Leos Carax’s cult triumph, 13 years after his previous film. An impressive cast (from Eva Mendes to Kylie Minogue), with the protagonist, Denis Lavant, giving one of the best performances of the decade, accompanies us to a dreamy journey in life, night and cinema.

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Mr. Oscar's enigmatic figure lives more than one life simultaneously. A criminal, beggar, father, manager of a multinational company and a monstrous creature co-exist and conflict within one man. But where does each "role" begin and end and where does his truth lie?

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Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 2012
Award of the Youth | Cannes Film Festival | 2012

Holy Motors

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 great revelation of the 2018 Cannes Film Festival came from Belgium with a wonderful and tender debut that had no traces of didacticism and trailed the internal physical conflict that determines the coming of age of a young child.

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15-year-old Lara is determined to become a professional ballerina. With the support of her father, she is thrown into the ultimate battle. Her indignation and impatience grow as she realizes that her body does not meet the requirements of classical dance, because she was born a boy.

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Golden Camera | Cannes Film Festival | 2018
Queer Palm | Cannes Film Festival | 2018
Un Certain Regard Award for Best Actor (Victor Polster) | Cannes Film Festival | 2018
Audience Award | San Sebastián International Film Festival | 2018
International Competition | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 2018
Nominated for Best Motion Picture | Foreign Language | Golden Globes | 2019

Girl

Andy Serkis’ first feature film is a touching and bigger than life romance, with the photogenic presence of Andrew Garfield and Claire Foy as the leading roles. Get your handkerchiefs ready.

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When young Robin Cavendish (Andrew Garfield) is paralyzed by polio, his wife Diana (Claire Foy) will do everything possible to restore his zest for life, in the directorial debut of Andy Serkis.

Breathe

Man and beast are two sides of the same coin in this bold, magical realism film that mixes thriller and romance and spares no one in the end. Neither the man, nor the beast. Winner of the Un Certain Regard Award at the 71st Cannes Film Festival.

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A strange-looking airport security guard with the unique ability to smell fear, develops an unusual attraction to a strange traveler, a mysterious man who will call into question her entire existence and true nature.

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Best Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling Nominee | Oscars | 2019
Un Certain Regard Award | Cannes Film Festival | 2018

Border

With a career that had already taken off thanks to Iron Man, Jon Favreau briefly left Marvel superheroes for street food in a sweet reimagining of the life of a chef who stops worrying about Michelin stars in search of simple and earthy pleasures.

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A chef who loses his restaurant in Los Angeles returns to Miami and creates a fast food restaurant in a trailer. In an attempt to regain his creativity he crosses the country while trying to reconnect with his ex-wife.

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Audience Award | Tribeca Film Festival | 2014