Anti-war

Chaplin had kept silent on screen for years, and the voice he finally found in 1940 was aimed squarely at Hitler. He made the most humane film of his career as a satire of a world with five more tragic years still ahead, and it ends by reminding us that we think too much and feel too little. — Adenoid Hynkel rules Tomania and means to rule a great deal more. A Jewish barber, meanwhile, comes back to the ghetto after twenty years in a military hospital, unaware that anything has changed, and when he reopens his shop he gets in the way of stormtroopers who have come to smash its window. Chaplin wrote, directed and plays both men, because the dictator and the barber have exactly the same face. — 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

Music is banned in the Kabul of 1998 and executions take place in the square, but love strikes regardless, and a young couple still believe they have a future. The studio behind “The Triplets of Belleville” brings their story to life in watercolour. — Zunaira and Mohsen are young and in love in the summer of 1998, in a Kabul ruled by the Taliban. Women must hide their faces and bodies, and public executions draw crowds. Still, the two of them believe they can build a future in this city. — Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 2017

More political than ever, Richard Linklater uses his film's incredible emotional intimacy and three excellent leading men (Steve Carell, Bryan Cranston and Laurence Fishburne) to talk about America’s gaping wounds. — Thirty years after they served together in the Vietnam War, a former Navy Hospital Corpsman reunites with his ex-marine buddies in order to ask for their help and support to bury his only son who died at the Iraq War. — Audience Award | Virginia Film Festival | 2017

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? — 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. — Official Selection | Venice Film Festival | 2014 Vittorio Veneto Film Festival Award | Special Mention | Venice Film Festival | 2014 Audience Award | Sofia International Film Festival | 2015