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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

It’s Cinobo’ birthday and the time has come for its true colors to shine. The team took over the Guest Picks chair and - shamelessly- spoke. Which movie should you watch first when you subscribe? And which one should you avoid? Which series is meant for binge-watch? But also, does everything work seamlessly in their office? And last, is it safe to ring Cinobo's bell?

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. — 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. — 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

Aki Kaurismäki, the great poet of minimalism and melancholy, returns with his twentieth feature film, creating another unforgettable anthem for all those forgotten by the society. This film rightfully received the Jury Prize at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. — Two lonely people meet by chance one night in Helsinki and try to find the first, unique and absolute love of their lives. Their path to this goal is hindered by the man's alcoholism, lost phone numbers, not knowing each other's name or address, and life's general tendency to put obstacles in the way of those seeking happiness. — Jury Prize | Cannes Film Festival | 2023 FIPRESCI Prize | San Sebastian Film Festival | 2023

Two people, always together, always apart. The most sweeping romantic drama of recent years, based on the book of the same name by Sally Rooney, became the first major television phenomenon of the '00s, lured viewers into its emotional maelstrom and made stars of its protagonists overnight.

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.

In the spirit of small modern marvels of fantasy cinema such as "Let Me In" and "The Babadook", a surprise from Finland mixes coming-of-age films with body horror, in a "hatching" that gives birth to an exciting new directorial voice, that of Hanna Bergholm. — A young gymnast that desperately tries to please her demanding mother, discovers a strange egg. She hides it and keeps it warm, but when the egg hatches, what emerges shocks everyone. — 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

The most beautiful film Jarmusch made during the 10s, seeks poetry through the images of an everyday life without exhausting rhythms, rhapsodizing the repetitiveness, indolence and kindness of its heroes that are no other than the wonderful couple interpreted by Adam Driver and Golshifteh Farahani. — Paterson is a bus driver in the eponymous city of Paterson, New Jersey. Every day, he follows a routine: he performs his daily itinerary, observing the city and eavesdropping on the conversations around him. He writes verses in a notebook. He walks his dog. He stops at a bar and drinks only one beer. And then he goes home to his wife, Laura. Instead, Laura's world is constantly changing. She has new dreams almost daily. He applauds her newfound ambitions and she supports his talent for poetry. — Palm Dog Award | Cannes Film Festival | 2016 Official Selection | San Sebastián International Film Festival | 2016

A lot of people swear to this day that this is the most beautiful film ever created and 4K restoration catapults this beauty to the moon. A hallmark of Wong Kar Wai's career, with shots, colours, music and slow motion coming together in a celebration of the senses. — Chow, editor-in-chief of a newspaper, moves with his wife to a new house. There he meets Li-zhen, the beautiful woman living next door, wife of a commercial agent, who is usually on business trips. Chow's wife is also often away from home. One day they will realize that their spouses are lovers and will find themselves in the footsteps of an erotic desire that neither of them admits is their own. — 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

"At our closest point, we were just 0.01 centimeters away from each other." Wong Kar Wai delivers a filmic nuclear bomb of emotion about lost love, memory, loss, and the places where we move in our cities. With Tony Leung, Faye Wong and "California Dreaming". — Every day, officer 223 buys a can of pineapple with the expiration date May 1st, symbolizing the day he will finally get over his lost love. At the same time he cannot take his eyes off a mysterious woman with a blonde wig, not knowing that she is a drug dealer. Officer 663 is consumed by grief because of a break up. But when his ex leaves a set of keys for his apartment in a neighbouring café, a waitress will use them to enter his house and brighten up his life. — 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

The eclectic Korean director Chang-dong Lee takes an older short story by Haruki Murakami and creates a slow-moving masterpiece that almost magically drifts between drama and thriller, reaching an unforgettable climax. Awarded the FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes. — Jong-su just lost his job. He will accidentally meet Hae-mi, a girl who once lived in his neighborhood. She will ask him to look after her cat while she’s away on a trip. On her return, she introduces Jong-su to a mysterious young man named Ben, whom she met while she was away. — 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

Palme d’Or at Cannes was the symbolic and well-deserved reward for Hirokazu Koreeda's deeply human-centered cinema, which in this movie is portrayed in its most lucid and subtly shocking moment. — Following another petty theft, a man and his son come across a young girl in the cold. His wife, who was initially reluctant to letting the girl stay with them, finally agrees to take care of her as she understands that she has been through great difficulties. Although the family is poor, barely surviving with the couple's jobs and petty thefts, they seem to live happily together. However, an unexpected event will reveal hidden secrets and put the family's bonds in danger. — Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film | Oscars | 2019 Palme d'Or | Cannes Film Festival | 2018

Is there a more powerful force in the world than one's first love? A beautiful debut overflowing with humanity and emotion, awarded at the Festival of Venice. With Eliza Scanlen ("Little Ladies") and Ben Mendelsohn ("Bloodline", "Rogue One") in sensational performances. — When Milla, a seriously ill teenager, falls madly in love with Moses, a drug dealer, her parents' worst nightmare comes true. But while Milla's unexpected first love experience brings a new yearning for life, every conventional morality in their surroundings is demolished. — 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