An Oscar-nominated animation of astonishing beauty for both kids and adults. This visual poem of allegorical wisdom about the magnificence of nature and our uniqueness within it, is the first co-production of Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli with France. — A man gets shipwrecked on a beautiful desert island, where turtles, crabs and birds are the only inhabitants. Every time he tries to leave by building rafts, a red turtle stops him. When the turtle is transformed into a woman, a love story beyond words begins. — Nominated for Best Animated Feature | Oscars | 2017 Audience Award | Athens International Film Festival | 2016 Special Mention | Athens International Film Festival | 2016 Special Jury Prize - Un Certain Regard | Cannes Film Festival | 2016

Irresistibly humane and emotionally disarming, hilarious and heartbreaking at the same time, this is the film that firmly placed Maren Ade among the elite of world cinema. A cinematic experience that feels like a hearty embrace. — A father who delights in pranks tries to get close to his daughter by sneaking into her life, business meetings and nights out. Annoyed, she asks him to stop, but then Toni Erdmann shows up. Her father's alter ego, a peculiar guy in an ugly suit, a terrible wig and an even worse pair of teeth. Oddly enough, the more eccentric he becomes, the more his daughter seems to respond. — Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film | Oscars | 2017 FIPRESCI Prize | Cannes Film Festival | 2016 FIPRESCI Prize | San Sebastián Film Festival | 2016

An Oscar triumph that will be remembered as one of the most eventful wins in history. A black boy grows up and discovers his sexuality through three decisive stages of his life. Academy Awards for Best Picture and Supporting Actor for Mahershala Ali and a watershed moment for American indie cinema. — A timeless story of human connection and reconciliation with oneself, "Moonlight" tells the story of a man's life, beginning in childhood and through adulthood, as he struggles to find his place in the world. A vital portrait of the life of a contemporary African American man and a poetic reflection on identity, family, friendship and love, full of deep compassion and universal truths. — Best Film | Oscars | 2017 Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role (Mahershala Ali) | Oscars | 2017 Best Adapted Screenplay | Oscars | 2017

What's the flip side of the Disney dream? Next to the dreamy Florida Disneyworld, children build their own dominions and struggle to survive. Little chunks of life, sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking, in a colorful paradigm of contemporary neorealist cinema. — This is the story of a wild 6-year-old and her fearless friends. Their summer is full of wonders, bewilderment and exciting adventures, while the adults around them have to face a harsh reality. — Nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role (Willem Dafoe) | Oscars | 2018

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. — 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. — 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

Romeo and Juliette in Oceania. Τhe first film entirely shot in the Pacific island Vanuatu was awarded in the Venice Film Festival and nominated for a Best Foreign Language Oscar. A vibrant, wonderful crowd-pleaser from Australia. — Somewhere in the South Pacific, a young girl from one of the last traditional tribes in Tanna falls in love with the leader's grandson. While an interracial war begins and escalates, the couple attempts to escape in order to live in peace. Yet, they must choose between their powerful emotions and the future of their tribes. — Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film | Oscars | 2017 Special Jury Prize | London Film Festival | 2015 Best Cinematography | Venice Film Festival | 2015 International Critics' Week Award | Venice Film Festival | 2015

"Stolen Kisses" is one of Antoine Doinel's chapters in adultness. Unbelievably charming, full of inspired cinematic references, tender and funny, this movie is a hymn to the love affairs that elate and destroy us. — 1968. Antoine has been discharged from the army and lives in Paris. He tries to get used to adulthood but is not managing very well, neither in his professional life nor in his romantic relationships. He is hired as a private detective. He attempts to reconnect with his former girlfriend Christine, yet at the same time falls in love with the older wife of a shoe dealer. — Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film | Oscars | 1969

Artists against Nazism, or in other words, Truffault’s idealistic approach to occupied France during World War II. A juicy role for Deneuve and a cheerful tone to accompany her dangerous romance, reminiscent of "Casablanca". — Paris, 1942. A young man is chosen as the lead in a play at the Montmartre Theater. In fact, he is not just an actor, but also a member of the resistance. His gorgeous, unfriendly co-star, who is also the theater owner, hides her Jewish husband in the basement below the stage. The premiere of the show is extremely successful, but the triumph is tarnished by the criticism of an anti-Semitic theatrical reviewer. Things are becoming dangerous for everyone in the theater. — Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film | Oscars | 1981 Best Film | César Awards | 1981 Best Cinematography | César Awards | 1981

In one of the most touching and emotionally rich films of the decade, time goes back and forth, mixing passion, misfortunes, love at first sight and unbearable sorrow, under the rousing sounds of bluegrass music. — Elise and Didier have shared 7 loving years, yet they miss their passionate beginnings, their early marriage and the happy days when Mabel first came into their lives. A complete cycle of happiness ends when Mabel is diagnosed with a serious illness. The sadness and fear for their young daughter inevitably takes them towards different directions. — Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film | Oscars | 2014 Audience Award | Panorama Berlin International Film Festival | 2013 Lux Prize | European Audience Awards | 2013 Best Screenplay | Tribeca Film Festival | 2013

Paolo Sorrentino won the Oscar fair and square for his Felliniesque tribute to the Eternal City, a dionysian cinematic ride concealing grief and emptiness behind its gorgeous imagery, transforming existential pain into a never-ending party. — Rome in the summer. Tourists flock to Janiculum Hill. A charming -despite first signs of aging- man, enjoys the city’s social life. He attends dinners and parties, where his dazzling presence is always welcomed. As a young journalist, he wrote a novel that procured him a literary prize and the reputation of a repressed artist. He throws a roof party at his apartment, which has a view of the Colosseum, where "The Human System" (his novel’s title), is exposed and an empty farce is taking place. — Oscar Best Foreign Language Film | Oscars | 2014

Doubly awarded at the Oscars for Best Screenplay and Best Actor (a brilliant Casey Affleck), "Manchester by the sea" is one of the most unforgettable family dramas of the last decade. Michelle Williams is also superb, in a heart-wrenching and soulful part. — A man returns to his small hometown. His brother has died and he has been awarded custody of his orphaned teenage nephew, something he is not sure he can handle. There, he will have to encounter his ex-wife after many years and relive the trauma of the horrifying events of his past. — Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role (Casey Affleck) | Oscars | 2017 Best Original Screenplay | Oscars | 2017

The real story of Ramon Sampedro is truly heartbreaking, yet this film succeeds in celebrating life. Director Amenabar was rewarded with an Oscar for Best Foreign Film, but the real winner here is Bardem, whose performance is nothing short of extraordinary. — A tetraplegic man has been bedridden for 30 years. His only window to the world is the one in his room. Every day, he dreams about the beach, where he used to go as a kid, until a terrible accident immobilized him. His only wish is to end his life with dignity. A lawyer supports him in his struggle, while a peasant girl tries to convince him that life is worth living. The true story of the Spanish writer Ramon Sampedro, who legally claimed the right to euthanasia. — Best Foreign Language Film | Oscars | 2005 Grand Jury Prize | Venice Film Festival | 2004 Best Actor (Javier Bardem) | Venice Film Festival | 2004

Golden Globe and the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film for the movie that made the Iranian Asghar Farhadi internationally famous and reflected the painful process of a divorce as a race of self-determination and survival in an authoritarian and fundamentalistic state. — A man is bound by his sick father and does not want to abandon him. His wife leaves him and their daughter, hoping her mother will soon come back, stays with him temporarily. Unable to take care of his old father alone, he hires a woman to take care of him. What he doesn't know is that this woman works without her husband's permission while being pregnant. Without realizing it, he's captured in a web of lies and social disputes. — Best Foreign Language Film | Oscars | 2012 Golden Bear | Berlin International Film Festival | 2011 Prize of the Ecumenical Jury | Berlin International Film Festival | 2011 Best Actress | Berlin International Film Festival | 2011 Best Actor | Berlin International Film Festival | 2011

2019's documentary, a surprisingly photographed ode to Mother Nature and a way of life that's centuries old and gradually disappearing. It stood out among the other entries in its genre, being the only documentary to be nominated for an Oscar for Best International Film in history. — In a secluded mountainous region deep within the Balkans, Hatidze Muratova lives with her elderly mother, in a village without roads, electricity or running water. Last in a series of generations of beekeepers of wild honey, Hatidze produces small batches of pure product, which she sells to the nearest town, a four-hour walk away. — Nominated for Best Documentary | Oscars | 2020 Nominated for Best International Feature Film | Oscars | 2020 Best Documentary | Athens International Film Festival | 2019 Grand Jury Prize | Sundance Film Festival | 2019 Cinematography Award | Sundance Film Festival | 2019

Taking their deeply humane and political movies one step further, the Dardenne brothers cooperate with Marion Cotillard in this shocking travelogue of a woman who is trying to maintain her job and especially her dignity in the years of the economic crisis. — A young wife and mother works in a factory in a small Belgian town. In her absence, her colleagues realize that they can cover her shift with small overtimes and monetary bonuses. Her fate lies in the hands of 16 workers, whom she must convince to refuse monetary bonuses in order to keep her job. She enters a battle to save her seat, two days and one night, before the final vote. — Nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (Marion Cotillard) | Oscars | 2015 Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 2014 Best Film | Sydney Film Festival | 2014

Meryl Streep wins the 20th (!) Oscar nomination for the role of the discordant soprano singer, Florence Foster Jenkins, in a feelgood biographical comedy by the film director of “High Fidelity”, “The Queen” and “Dangerous Liaisons”. Starring with her, Hugh Grant. — The cosmic New Yorker Florence Foster Jenkins thinks she's the nightingale of the opera, when in fact she cannot sing at all. Her husband and agent, St. Claire Bayfield, a fallen English aristocrat and actor, sustains this illusion. When Florence decides to give a concert to the legendary Carnegie Hall in 1944, St. Claire realizes that he has to face the greatest challenge of his life. — Nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (Meryl Streep) | Oscars | 2017 Nominated for Best Achievement in Costume Design | Oscars | 2017

Poetry in motion; the triumph of choreographed kinesiology that shaped the anarchic rules of the silent cinema in the best and purest full-length comedy of Chaplin's silent period. — An adventurer embarks on the great journey to Alaska, where he hopes to discover gold. There he will end up fighting for survival, getting involved in hilarious adventures and falling in love. — Nominated for Best Sound Recording | Oscars | 1943 Nominated for Best Music | Oscars | 1943

When Chaplin decided to introduce the idea of dialogue to the cinema for the first time, he made a timeless and humanitarian satire on the horrors of war and the monster called fascism, thus prejudging the following five terrible years. "We think too much but feel too little". — Charlie Chaplin writes, directs and stars in The Great Dictator. The story of Dictator Adenoid Hinkel who tries to expand his empire, while a poor Jewish barber struggles to escape capture by the former's soldiers. — Nominated for Best Picture | Oscars | 1941 Nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Charles Chaplin) | Oscars | 1941 Nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Jack Oakie) | Oscars | 1941 Nominated for Best Original Screenplay | Oscars | 1941 Nominated for Best Original Score | Oscars | 1941

The film for which Charlie Chaplin won his only competitive Oscar, 20 years after it was produced! He was the victim of intense reactions and boycotts during its initial release but was discussed and reassessed as one of his masterpieces. Buster Keaton takes part. — Depressed due to her seemingly failed dance career, a dancer tries to commit suicide but a bankrupt, once-famous clown will save her life. He will not only help her improve her health, but he will also redeem his own self-esteem. When the dancer proposes to him, their age difference will scare him and he will have an important decision to make. — Best Original Music | Oscars | 1973

Innocence’s epilogue was brought upon by the war and the transformation of the once funny jester into a delightfully cynical figure was something that the world was not yet ready to digest. Although unfavourably acclaimed in its time, it’s now regarded, not unfairly, as his black masterpiece. — Inspired by notorious French serial killer Landru, Henri Verdoux lures wealthy women by promising them sweet happy-everafters. After the wedding bells chime, however, he murders them for their fortunes. In this particularly dark comedy, Chaplin questions our perception of evil: isn’t this refined criminal a mere amateur compared to weapons suppliers and dictators? We stand ready to condemn a murderer, but when war victims are counted in millions, we celebrate a hero! — Nominated for Best Original Screenplay | Oscars | 1948

Delirium made at a time when silent cinema was perfected, just before its inglorious finale foreseen by Chaplin, who honors the genre along with all the kinds of physical comedy that had entertained generations of audiences and were about to give way to something new. — The Little Tramp is hired by a circus and soon becomes the main attraction when his comedic blunders drive the crowd wild. Having fallen in love with the ringmaster’s daughter, he doesn’t even realize he is the show’s main feature. In this high-flying comedy, we are quickly caught up in Chaplin’s whirlwind of gags, where even the acrobats and clowns watch his show-stopping stunts from the sidelines. — Honorary Award | Oscars | 1929

Another honest drama from the talented director Asghar Farhadi, awarded by the Academy with the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. A story so powerful that it touches your soul. — A couple is forced to leave their Tehran apartment, which is falling to pieces, and move into another one. While working together on the production of the play "Death of a Salesman", their relationship begins to change. — Best Foreign Language Film | Oscars | 2017 Best Actor (Shahab Hosseini) | Cannes Film Festival | 2016 Best Screenplay | Cannes Film Festival | 2016

Does this actually happen in the Figure Skating world? An unlikely true story turns into an almost Scorsese narrative with white trash heroes due to the riveting performances of Margot Robbie and Allison Janney. — The true (or maybe not) story of American champion Tonya Harding who was accused of the biggest conspiracy in the history of figure skating and an incident that shocked its fanatical viewers. — Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role (Allison Janney) | Oscars | 2018 Nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (Margot Robbie) | Oscars | 2018

The film that was destined to be the culmination of Kieslowski's worldview, as well as his swan song, is a hymn to friendship and to anything that inexplicably and almost magically can unite lives and destinies. — A photo model in Zurich meets a lonely retired judge who spends his hours eavesdropping on his neighbors' phone calls in the last of the 3 films in Krzysztof Kieslowski's Color Trilogy. — Nominated for Best Director | Oscars | 1995 Nominated for Best Original Screenplay | Oscars | 1995 Nominated for Best Cinematography | Oscars | 1995 Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 1994