Inspired by the European Football cup, Cinobo puts together its very own Euro Collection with 24 films from the 24 competing countries (based on the films' production countries and directors' ethnicities) as well as a fun "match" at the Cinobo Journal where you can make sure your favourite film takes home the Euro Cup.

Cinobo Euro 2024

Normal

That’s how Apocalypse Now would look like if instead of the Vietnam jungle, Coppola had set it in hushed lounges, offices with giant doors and eclectic swimming pools. Made with enviable confidence, Azor is a fascinating directorial debut about the dark journey to corruption.

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In 1980 Argentina, in the midst of dictatorship, a Swiss private banker disappears under unspecified circumstances. When his partner takes over the investigation of the case himself, he immerses in a mystery set behind bourgeois offices' heavy doors and dense gardens of the regime's favoured parvenus.

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Official Selection - Encounters | Berlin Film Festival | 2021
Official Selection | San Sebastian Film Festival | 2021
First Feature International Competition | London Film Festival | 2021
Official Selection | Athens Film Festival | 2021

Azor

Before putting on the Joker mask, Joaquin Phoenix was the updated and stylized version of the Scorsese Taxi Driver, in Lynne Ramsay's hallucinatory film that hides a lot more behind the revenge story portrayed.

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A traumatized veteran unafraid of violence tracks down missing girls for a living, when a missing girl makes him realize he is on a rescue mission. Corruption and revenge in a vortex of violence that can lead to his redemption.

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Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 2017
Best Actor (Joaquin Phoenix) | Cannes Film Festival | 2017
Best Screenplay | Cannes Film Festival | 2017

You Were Never Really Here

A crime mystery and delightful satire about small conservative societies and the suspicion they have about all strangers, even if they have come to solve a crime. From poignant Kurdish director Huner Saleem, set against the beautiful backdrop of the Princes’ Islands.

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Lady Winsley, an American author, is murdered in a small Turkish island. Famed detective Fergan, distant yet methodical, arrives from Istanbul to head the investigation. Soon he will come to face the secrets hidden in this isolated part of the country.

Who Killed Lady Winsley?

The ghosts of the past return to haunt and extract revenge, in this skillfully constructed, full-of-twists drama. The film walks a fine line between satire and thriller and continuously torpedoes the concept of "holy matrimony".

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A young couple's wedding day begins auspiciously, but is gradually ruined by a strange visitor. The mysterious young man claims to be an old friend from the groom's school. He is warmly welcomed, yet everything changes when he confesses his true identity to the bride. The secrets that will be revealed will force the newlyweds to view their relationship in a new light, that's neither innocent nor magical.

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Best Director | Karlovy Vary International Film Festival | 2013

Honeymoon

Not very far from our part of the world, there are societies with deeply rooted conservative mindsets that only brave souls can change. An astounding true story of female empowerment from Kosovo, that triumphed at this year’s Sundance Festival, taking home three awards.

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Fahrije’s husband has been missing since the war broke out in Kosovo and his family has to deal with the financial burden along with their grief. In order to help, Fahrije starts a small farming business, but in the traditional patriarchal society where she lives, her ambitions and efforts for empowerment are treated negatively. She fights, not only for her family’s survival, but for her own as well, against a hostile community that’s rooting for her to fail.

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Audience Award | Sundance Film Festival | 2021
Grand Jury Pize | Sundance Film Festival | 2021
Directing Award | Sundance Film Festival | 2021
Audience Award | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 2021

Hive

Overturning all the clichés of period films, Marie Kreutzer makes a modern and unconventional film, where Vicky Krieps gives a masterful performance as Empress Sissi, disappearing inside the tight corset of self-restraint and social criticism of the intertemporal patriarchy.

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On Christmas 1877, Sissi celebrates her 40th birthday. As the First Lady of Austria and wife of the emperor, she is not allowed to express herself and must remain the beautiful young empress forever. To meet these expectations, she follows a strict program of fasting, exercise, combing her hair and measuring her waistline daily. Stifled by these conventions, hungry for knowledge and life, Sissi rebels more and more against this image.

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Best Performance - Un Certain Regard (Vicky Krieps) | Cannes Film Festival | 2022
Best Actress (Vicki Krieps) | Sarajevo Film Festival | 2022
Best Film | London Film Festival | 2022

Corsage

Golden Camera for Best Emerging Director at the Cannes Film Festival for an intoxicating and sun-drenched study of the passage to adulthood that plunges into the deep blue waters of the Adriatic and the abyss of desire.

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Tensions escalate between troubled teenager Julia and her repressive father Ante when an old family friend visits them at their home on an island in Croatia.

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Golden Camera - Best Debut Feature | Cannes Film Festival | 2021

Murina

After the worldwide success of "Loving Vincent" and the Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations, the same directing duo returns with another visually magnificent animated film. A dramatic story based on the book by the Nobel Prize-winner Wladyslaw Reymont.

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The tragic story of a peasant woman forced to marry a much older, wealthy farmer despite her love for his son. In time, Jagna becomes the object of envy and hatred of the villagers and must fight to maintain her independence. Set in the Polish countryside on the border of the 19th and 20th centuries, the story's dramatic transformation is linked to the changing seasons, hard work in the fields and traditional local customs.

The Peasants

The next father-daughter heartwarming hit after "Aftersun," comes with a Best Picture win at Sundance, the star aura of Harris Dickinson, and Lola Campbell's inexhaustible energy as a 12-year-old who does not seem to need adults.

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Georgie, a multi-talented 12-year-old, lives alone in an apartment in London after the death of her mother, constantly convincing social services that she has guardians. Her imaginative and adventurous life takes a drastic turn when her father, whom she has never met, shows up.

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Grand Jury Prize | Sundance Film Festival | 2023

Scrapper

Everyone has their own Chimera. Alice Rohrwacher creates an eerie, adventurous journey between the living and the dead, between the nature and the city, a search between ecstasy and solitude. Starring Josh O'Connor from "The Crown."

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Fresh out of prison, archaeologist Arthur continues to search for his lost love, Beniamina. Arthur will be reunited with the Tobaroli gang, grave robbers who together plunder Etruscan tombs and collect their ancient treasures. His ability is to track them, their ability is to plunder them. But their goal differs. They want the money - Arthur wants Beniamina. No matter what he has to do to reunite with her.

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Official Selection - International Competition | Cannes Film Festival | 2023

La Chimera

Hard and uncomfortable truths in an unconventional schoolroom drama, as well as a study of power relations and how they eventually erode. A riveting drama that stood out at the Berlin Festival’s Panorama thanks to its in-depth glance.

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A new math teacher gets off to a good start in her new job, idealistically believing that she can motivate teenagers. But a series of thefts on the school grounds quickly casts suspicions on one of her students. The teacher indignantly tries to get to the truth herself, but the case is more complicated than it seemed at first and causes a series of consequences.

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Europa Cinemas Award - Panorama | Berlin Film Festival | 2023
C.I.C.A.E. Award - Panorama | Berlin Film Festival | 2023

The Teachers' Lounge

A shocking film experience from Ukraine, a film shot entirely in Ukrainian sign language, but the more you immerse yourself in its world, the more you forget your own prejudices. Multi-award winning and monumental, a film unlike any other.

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Sergei enters a specialised boarding school for the deaf. In this new place, he must find his place in the school's hierarchy, namely the Tribe, an organized crime network involved in robbery and prostitution. By participating in many robberies, he is promoted higher up in the organization. But then he meets one of the Chief's wives, Anna, and unwittingly breaks all the unwritten rules of the Tribe.

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Grand Prize - Critics' Week | Cannes Film Festival | 2014
European Discovery Award | European Film Awards | 2014
Sutherland Award for Best First Feature | London Film Festival | 2014
Best Director Award | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 2024

The Tribe

In Louis Garrel's fourth feature behind the camera, always starring himself, the French star reveals his multifaceted talent with a well-tuned comedy that balances wonderfully between farcical humor and the finest irony.

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The son of a mature woman who works as a drama therapist in prisons, panics when he learns that his mother plans to marry a soon-to-be-released robber. He will do anything to protect her, but meeting his would-be stepfather will have unpredictable consequences.

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Official Selection - Out of Competition | Cannes Film Festival | 2022
11 Nominations | César Awards | 2023
Best Original Screenplay | César Awards | 2023
Best Supporting Actress (Noémie Merlant) | César Awards | 2023

The Innocent

The greatest chronicler of our time, sharper than ever. After "Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn" Radu Jude composes an uncategorized urban road movie satire of the age of the gig economy and social media, in a riveting film collage between absurdity and pure shock.

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A story about cinema, social media and the economy, in two parts: Depressed and underpaid, Angela drives all over Bucharest to film casting for a corporate "workplace safety video" commissioned by a multinational company. When one of the interviewees reveals the company's responsibility for his accident, a scandal erupts - in front of a still, unmoving camera.

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Special Jury Prize | Locarno Film Festival | 2023

Do not Expect too Much from the End of the World

A solid directorial debut from France that brings us in front of an extremely shocking case of child sexual abuse, in a tough and at the same time sensitive "reverse" coming of age story.

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12-year-old Dalva lives alone with her father. One night, the police break into the house and hand her over to a foster family, where she gradually realizes that the love they shared was not what she thought.

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FIPRESCI Prize - Un Certain Regard | Cannes Film Festival | 2022
Rising Star Award - Un Certain Regard (Zelda Samson) | Cannes Film Festival | 2022

Love According to Dalva

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