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Jep Gambardella turns sixty-five on a terrace overlooking the Colosseum, where the wild partying keeps running into an existential void. Sorrentino’s most Felliniesque tribute to Rome won him the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, and it’s all painful revelry and, well, great beauty. — In summertime Rome, Jep Gambardella is sixty-five and still the most wanted guest at every dinner and party in town, and the best of them are the ones he throws himself on his terrace overlooking the Colosseum. Back when he was a young journalist, he wrote one novel, which won a prize and earned him a name as an artist. He hasn’t written a word since. — Oscar Best Foreign Language Film | Oscars | 2014

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Harris Dickinson and Lola Campbell make an unconventional father and daughter in this Sundance winner, and they’ll win you over. Twelve-year-old Georgie lives alone, tells social services someone is looking after her and is sure she doesn’t need grown-ups, until her father appears at the door. — Georgie is twelve and lives completely alone in a house in London. Her mother has died, but the authorities don’t know it, because whenever they check, she produces an adult who’ll swear she’s being looked after. The arrangement works perfectly until somebody knocks at the door: the father she has never met. — Grand Jury Prize | Sundance Film Festival | 2023

Yorgos Lanthimos' favourite film, shot just before the rise of the dictatorship, spoke through its history and frames about exactly how Greece at the time was a society that favoured the rise of dictatorship. A unique film for Greek cinema of the era, unmissable to this day. — A poor shepherd, Thanos, falls in love with a beautiful noblewoman, Despina, who is the daughter of Vlachopoulos, the lord of the region. Her father, naturally, categorically refuses to give his daughter to a side-child and tries to marry her off to Yago, the son of a big landowner. Thanos and Despina elope and flee to the mountains, pursued by a detachment of gendarmes and by Yago who, deeply offended, seeks revenge. — Official Selection | Venice Film Festival | 1967

Six years after announcing his retirement, Aki Kaurismäki came back with the fourth part of his trilogy and won the Jury Prize at Cannes. It’s a love story for people the world usually forgets: she can’t escape news of the war on the radio, he drinks on a building site, and they meet at karaoke. — Ansa stacks shelves in a supermarket in present-day Helsinki until she’s sacked over a sandwich past its sell-by date. Holappa works on a building site and drinks. They meet one night in a karaoke bar, but before they’ve had a chance to swap names, he’s lost her phone number. — Jury Prize | Cannes Film Festival | 2023 FIPRESCI Prize | San Sebastian Film Festival | 2023

Sally Rooney’s novel became a pop-culture phenomenon on screen and made stars of Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones as Connell and Marianne, forever drawn together and pushed apart like magnets. One sentence could put things right between them, and neither can bring themselves to say it. — In a small town in the west of Ireland, Connell is the popular boy who plays football, while Marianne, in his year at school, has no friends and doesn’t seem to want any. When something sparks between them, they agree that nobody at school will ever know. The arrangement survives for years, through Dublin and through other relationships, and in all that time they never quite manage to say what it is.

Gripping and topical crime thriller about modern cities. Police violence, corruption, gentrification, in a puzzle of violence and dark interests that will keep you at the end of your seat. From the super-successful creative duo Rodrigo Sorogoyen and Isabel Peña ("The Candidate", "Mother"). — During a violent eviction in a historic neighborhood of Madrid, an immigrant from Africa falls to the ground and is killed, in the presence of 6 special forces police officers. The internal affairs department begins a complex investigation to find out: are the men of the Riot Police to blame or is there something deeper to this shadowy case? Research will soon show that not everything is as it seems.

An instant classic of the 21st century, a stylized encounter between Vertigo and In the Mood for Love. Detective mystery, mind games, guilt and obsession in a noir emotional melodrama by the one and only Park Chan-wook (The Handmaiden) who was awarded Best Director at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. — A detective investigating a man's death meets the victim's wife during his persistent investigations. Soon he will be confronted with his suspicions, while falling for her at the same time. — Best Director | Cannes Films Festival | 2022

The second feature film by director Stelios Kammitsis is an extremely sweet and emotionally disarming queer road movie, a film totally essential for the here and now of modern Greek cinema. — After the death of his grandmother, Victor, a young former diving champion, travels by ship to Italy. On the way, he meets a German of his age. Both head to Bavaria, each for their own reasons. Both seek answers, each to their own questions.

Bergholm’s bold debut deserves its place alongside “The Babadook”, and its animatronic creature was built by Gustav Hoegen, who worked on effects for the recent “Star Wars” films. It’s a Finnish coming-of-age story told as body horror, and the hatching in the title is entirely literal. — Tinja is working towards a place on the national gymnastics team, but her mother, who presents them as the perfect family on her blog, is never satisfied with anything she does. Then Tinja finds an egg in the woods and brings it home, where she hides it under her duvet and keeps it warm. Something hatches. — Official Selection | Miami Film Festival | 2022 Official Selection | Cleveland International Film Festival | 2022

In the spirit of Linklater's Before trilogy and with DIY attitude, the Greek film of the year follows two people on a magically melancholic journey. Awards in Thessaloniki and a triumph at the Hellenic Film Academy Awards for the directorial debut of comic book creator Giorgos Goussis. — Elena is traveling with no destination and unexpectedly boards the ship to Kefalonia. Antonis, who is on the same ship, is heading to the island's cemetery to bury his aunt's ossuary. When his car breaks down, Elena offers to take him to a hotel and then again the next day to the cemetery, where they are told they can't keep the box for bureaucratic reasons. Having enjoyed each other's company, they decide to continue roaming around the island looking for a good place to bury the box. — Golden Alexander | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 2021 FIPRESCI Award | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 2021 Greek National Television Award | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 2021 Best Film | Hellenic Film Academy Awards | 2022 Best Actress (Elena Topalidou) | Hellenic Film Academy Awards | 2022

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. — 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? — 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

The Palm d’Or that sent shockwaves through Cannes. After the triumph of Raw, Ducournau returns to become only the second woman in the festibal's history to have won its highest honor. She did it with a story that’s hard to stomach, where nothing is as it seems and nothing is out of limits. — After a series of unexplained crimes, a father rediscovers his son, who has been missing for 10 years. Titane: A metal highly resistant to heat and corrosion, with high tensile strength alloys. — Palme d'Or | Cannes Film Festival | 2021

The cinematic triumph of Cinobo-favourite Bong Joon-ho. A stylistic apotheosis filled with suspense and a piercing social commentary that defies genre. Rightful winner of the Palm d’ Or and the Best Picture Oscar that made Academy history. — The Kims are a loving family, but they are all unemployed and their future seems gloom. The son of the family finds a job as a private tutor and can finally hope for a steady income. Carrying the whole family’s expectations, he goes to interview at the Park household – owners of an international tech company – where he will meet the lady of the house. After that first meeting, a cascade of unfortunate events begins. — Best Film | Oscars | 2020 Best Director | Oscars | 2020 Best Original Screenplay | Oscars | 2020 Best International Feature Film | Oscars | 2020 Palme d'Or | Cannes Film Festival | 2019

Cesc Gay ("Truman") adapts his delightful play for the big screen and sets the table of a civilised dinner party with all the neuroses and agonies of modern couples, in a funny and sexy way. — Julio and Ana are a couple that mostly just fights. One night, Ana decides to invite their upstairs neighbours, Salva and Lora, despite the fact Julio doesn't like them for multiple reasons, one of them being the fact they are often very loud when they have sex. As the night progresses, many secrets for the two couples will come to surface. — Best Supporting Actor Award (Alberto San Juan) | Goya Awards | 2021

Many still call it the most beautiful film ever made. When two neighbours discover that his wife and her husband are having an affair, the camera never once shows the cheating couple’s faces, and what grows between the two left behind is a love that never happens, yet you feel it with every sense. — Chow, a newspaper editor, rents a new flat with his wife, and on the other side of the wall lives Li-zhen, whose husband is a salesman who’s nearly always away. Chow’s wife is hardly ever home either, and one evening the two neighbours work out that their spouses are having an affair with each other. Left alone together, they share something neither of them wants to name. — Best Actor (Tony Leung) | Cannes Film Festival | 2000 Best Foreign Language Film | César Awards | 2001 Best Actor (Tony Leung) | Hong Kong Film Awards | 2001 Best Actress (Maggie Cheung) | Hong Kong Film Awards | 2001 Best Film Editing | Hong Kong Film Awards | 2001

Even at their closest, they’re still a millimetre apart. Wong Kar-Wai (“In the Mood for Love”) wrote each scene in the morning and shot it that night, all in two weeks, and his cult film became the first release from Tarantino’s label. A cop, a wig, and “California Dreamin’” playing again next door. — Every day Cop 223 buys a tin of pineapple with a 1 May expiry date, because that’s the day he has promised himself he’ll stop pining. He can’t take his eyes off a woman in a blonde wig, never guessing that she deals drugs. Cop 663 has just been dumped as well, and his ex-girlfriend leaves the keys with the snack bar next door. — Official Selection | Locarno International Film Festival | 1994 Best Picture | Hong Kong Film Awards | 1995 Best Director | Hong Kong Film Awards | 1995 Best Actor (Tony Leung) | Hong Kong Film Awards | 1995 Best Actress (Faye Wong) | Stockholm Film Festival | 1994

Lee Chang-dong (“Poetry”) hadn’t made a film in eight years when he adapted a Murakami short story and won the critics’ prize at Cannes with it. What begins as a drama turns, without a jolt, into a thriller, and people are still arguing about the ending. — By chance, Jong-su bumps into Hae-mi, a girl who used to live nearby, and agrees to look after her cat while she’s away travelling. She comes back with Ben, a mysterious young man she met on the way, who has no job but never seems short of money. Soon the three of them are spending time together, and Jong-su can’t figure Ben out. — FIPRESCI Prize | Cannes Film Festival | 2018 Vulcain Prize for the Technical Artist | Cannes Film Festival | 2018

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. — 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. — Queer Palm | Cannes Film Festival | 2014 Nominated for Golden Globe | Golden Globes | 2015 Outstanding British Film | BAFTA Awards | 2015

It took the Palme d’Or at Cannes, even as its director was accused back home in Japan of bringing shame on his country. A family who shoplift to survive take in a child who isn’t theirs, and ending up with them is the best thing that has ever happened to her. — Fresh from another petty theft, a man and his son find a little girl out in the freezing cold, clearly chilled to the bone. His wife isn’t keen at first, but she ends up agreeing to take the girl in and look after her. Money is short and they scrape by from day to day, yet theirs is a happy home, until the day something goes wrong. — Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film | Oscars | 2019 Palme d'Or | Cannes Film Festival | 2018

Its director had never seen the play she adapted and chose not to read it, yet her debut won a prize in Venice. Eliza Scanlen (“Little Women”) plays a sick teenager who brings home a 23-year-old drug dealer, and her father, despite everything, lets it happen. What could be stronger than first love? — Sixteen-year-old Milla is seriously ill and falling in love for the first time, with Moses, a twenty-three-year-old drug dealer. Her parents watch their worst nightmare walk through the door, but as they begin to see Milla’s appetite for life coming back, they let one rule after another slide. — Official Selection | Venice Film Festival | 2019 Fanheart3 Award | Venice Film Festival | 2019 Marcello Mastroianni Award (Toby Wallace) | Venice Film Festival | 2019

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

A natural disaster during a ski holiday triggers an avalanche of strain in a couple's marriage. Before the Palme d’Or, Ruben Östlund explores modern relationships, stunningly balancing between evocative drama and hilarious comedy. — A cheerful Swedish family goes skiing at the French Alps. During a meal at a restaurant on a slope, an avalanche turns everything upside down. While plates fly away in all directions, the woman is looking for her husband as she tries to shield their children; but he ran away to save himself. After the avalanche stops, they burst into awkward laughter but the family balance has been completely overturned. His unexpected reaction causes the reassessment of family roles and relationships. — Un Certain Regard Jury Prize | Cannes Film Festival | 2014 Best Film | Seville European Film Festival | 2014 Best Screenplay | Seville European Film Festival | 2014

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