Fantasy

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That's how the world ends. John Hillcoat ("Lawless" with Tom Hardy) adapts Cormac McCarthy's classic with Vigo Mortensen and Cody Schmidt-McPhee in a fight for survival against the backdrop of the end of civilization.

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America is a bleak, grey shadow of itself after a disaster. A man and his young son wander this post-apocalyptic world, trying to keep the dream of civilization alive. They travel to the sea, survive as best they can with whatever they can concoct, and try to avoid roving bands of wild men who will turn them into slaves, or worse.

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Official Selection - International Competition | Venice Film Festival | 2009
Nomination for Best Cinematography | BAFTA | 2010

The Road

The Film Foundation sends us on a journey into the depths of Kerala, restoring the mystical film by Aravindan Govindan, who glorified the local tradition of India's southern region, but remained largely unknown outside of his homeland.

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A magician called Kummatty comes to entertain a group of village children with dancing, singing and magic tricks. In one such game, he changes the children into animals. One boy, changed into a dog, is chased away and misses the moment when the magician breaks the spell restoring the children to their human form. The dog-boy has to wait until Kummatty returns.

Kummatty

In his third collaboration with his muse, Catherine Deneuve, following the emblematic Umbrellas of Cherbourg and The Young Girls of Rochefort, Jacques Demy brings to screen a gorgeous, colorful and dark under its dazzlingly bright surface fairy tale by Charles Perrault.

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Once upon a time, in a magical and fairytale land, the King decides to marry his daughter, but she, with the help of a fairy godmother, will try to flee and escape the kingdom and the wedding.

Donkey Skin

A fascinating “what-if” story, coming out of an almost childish revenge plan in one of the most beloved European films of the ‘90s. A Golden Camera Award at Cannes, for Jaco Van Dormael’s (The Brand New Testament) debut film.

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Thomas and Alfred were born at exactly the same moment. A fire at the maternity ward had nurses run to save them. Growing up, Thomas believes he should have had Alfred’s luck to be raised by a rich family, and obsesses over the idea that they were switched at birth. His own misery must belong to Alfred, whether that is the death of his sister as well as his failure to date madame Evelyn. So, he comes up with a plan to get revenge.

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Golden Camera | Cannes Film Festival | 1991
Best Foreign Film | César Awards | 1992

Toto the Hero

Suddenly, everyone starts seeing Nicolas Cage in their dreams. Relatable! The great Cage stars in a delightfully nightmarish and constantly unpredictable satire, delivering one of the finest performances of his career.

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The life of Paul Matthews (Nicolas Cage), a dull academic and family man, is turned upside down when millions of strangers suddenly begin seeing him in their dreams. But when these nightly encounters take a nightmarish turn, Paul is forced to deal with his unexpected fame.

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Nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture (Nicolas Cage) | Golden Globes | 2024

Dream Scenario

Roy Anderson's unique directorial vision crystallizes in another creation of unique aesthetic beauty and bittersweet surrealism, which rightly earned the great Swedish director the Silver Lion for Best Director at the 2019 Venice Film Festival.

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In a dreamy atmosphere and guided by a narrator reminiscent of Scheherazade from "A Thousand and One Nights", a series of vignettes compose a cinematic meditation on endings and mortality.

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Best Director | Venice Film Festival | 2019

About Endlessness

The always unpredictable Christian Petzold proves why he is the most interesting German director of his generation with a charming adaptation of a relatively unknown myth of his country in the ever-changing Berlin cityscape. Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.

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Undine is a historian specialising in the urban development of Berlin. When the man she loves leaves her, the ancient myth that gave her her name awakens and commands her to kill the man who betrayed her, then return to the water.

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Golden Bear | Berlin Film Festival | 2020
Best Actress (Paula Beer) | Berlin Film Festival | 2020
FIPRESCI Prize | Berlin Film Festival | 2020
Best Actress (Paula Beer) | European Film Awards | 2020

Undine

Noe’s magnum opus, a kaleidoscopical LSD aesthetics’ journey of a lost soul. The viewer watches through the protagonist’s eyes, the camera is always on the move, while the great provocateur delivers a directorial tour de force for an audience with a strong stomach and a pure spirit of adventure.

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Oscar is an American dealer living in Tokyo. After his best friend's betrayal, he is murdered during a transaction. His soul, watching the consequences of his death, wanders in search of resurrection.

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Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 2009
Jury Prize | Sitges Film Festival | 2009

Enter the Void

Αward-winning and globally beloved, bearing the stamp of an instant classic, Thomas Alfredson's masterpiece holds a prominent position among the most original and tender interpretations of the vampire myth.

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Oscar, a neglected boy, finds love and redemption through Eli, a beautiful yet peculiar girl.

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Jury Prize | Tribeca Film Festival | 2008
Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film | BAFTA | 2010

Let the Right One In

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Is there something that shapes our lives more than the stories we tell and hear? A visually imposing sample of cinema somewhere between tradition and fantasy, that triumphantly emphasizes the fact that storytelling is the backbone of our existence itself - even under the toughest circumstances.

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A young man is sent to "La Maca", a prison in the middle of the Ivorian forest ruled by its inmates. As tradition goes with the rising of the red moon, he is designated by the Boss to be the new "Roman" and must tell a story to the other prisoners. Learning what fate awaits him, he begins to narrate the mystical life of the legendary outlaw named “Zama King” and has no choice but to make his story last until dawn.

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Youth Jury Award | Rotterdam Film Festival | 2021
Best Film - Orizzonti | Venice Film Festival | 2020
Artistic Achievement Award | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 2020
Amplify Voices Award | Toronto Film Festival | 2020

Night of the Kings

The greatest Oscar triumph of the last 15 years. A multiverse martial arts comedy that speaks to the present: Relentless, delightfully absurd, deeply emotional, full of humor, action, and imagination. With Oscar-worthy performances from the legendary Michelle Yeoh, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Ke Huy Quan.

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Evelyn, a marginalized Chinese-American, not only struggles to communicate with her father, husband, and daughter but also can't afford to pay her taxes. When she is given the opportunity to leap into alternate universes, she finds a chance to set things right and experience everything she never lived. However, she certainly didn't expect that she would be the one to save all of existence from a massive threat looming ahead.

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Best Film | Oscars | 2023
Best Original Screenplay | Oscars | 2023
Best Director | Oscars | 2023
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (Michelle Yeoh) | Oscars | 2023
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role (Jamie Lee Curtis) | Oscars | 2023
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role (Ke Huy Quan) | Oscars | 2023

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Leos Carax’s cult triumph, 13 years after his previous film. An impressive cast (from Eva Mendes to Kylie Minogue), with the protagonist, Denis Lavant, giving one of the best performances of the decade, accompanies us to a dreamy journey in life, night and cinema.

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Mr. Oscar's enigmatic figure lives more than one life simultaneously. A criminal, beggar, father, manager of a multinational company and a monstrous creature co-exist and conflict within one man. But where does each "role" begin and end and where does his truth lie?

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Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 2012
Award of the Youth | Cannes Film Festival | 2012

Holy Motors

Reminiscent of early Guillermo Del Torro, Issa Lopez unravels a dark tale about the scars of childhood trauma, through an aesthetic of fantasy and magical realism. After the success of this film, Lopez actually now works with Del Torro and mega-producer Jason Blum for her next film.

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A haunting horror fairytale set amidst Mexico’s drug war. A group of orphans, armed with three magic wishes, run to escape the ghosts that haunt them and the cartel that killed their parents.

Tigers Are Not Afraid

A boring job can send someone's imagination running wild - and if that someone is an artist, they might discover a whole new world in the supermarket aisles. One of the coolest films of the 2000s, this is an unconventional love story wrapped in a youth comedy.

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A Fine Arts student breaks up with his girlfriend and suffers from relentless insomnia. He takes a job on the supermarket night shift, where he develops a peculiar ability: to freeze time. Using this power, he can pause and reflect on the moments as they happen, reconsidering the choices he makes.

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C.I.C.A.E. Award | San Sebastián Film Festival | 2006

Cashback

Right after Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Michel Gondry continued to walk the thin line between dream and reality, crafting a sweet and touching comedy about people whose dreams are so big that even the thought of pursuing them gives them a panic attack.

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A shy and insecure young man leaves Mexico after his father’s death and settles in Paris. There he meets his charming neighbour, with whom he instantly falls in love. But how can he win her heart, the one he conquers in his dreams but loses in real life? There is only one solution: to erase the boundaries between reality and dreams.

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UCMF Film Music Award | Cannes Film Festival | 2007
Audience Award | Sitges - Catalonian Film Festival | 2006

The Science of Sleep

In Los Angeles, even the highway signs have strong opinions about your love life. Steve Martin writes and stars in a delightful satire of the absurdities of modern living, relationships and the alienation of the metropolis.

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With the help of a talking highway sign, an eccentric TV meteorologist sets out to win the heart of an English newspaper reporter, who is herself struggling to make sense of the peculiar world of early-’90s Los Angeles.

L.A. Story

What would you do if you could step into the shoes of a heroine and live in the world of novels? The present collides Jane Austen's universe when a woman is suddenly swept into the literary world. Who hasn’t wondered what they'd do if they could suddenly take the lead in their most beloved story?
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Amanda Price is a modern woman dissatisfied with her life, who discovers a portal in her bathroom that leads straight into the world of Jane Austen’s iconic novel Pride and Prejudice. Amanda ends up switching places with Elizabeth Bennet, who suddenly finds herself transported to present-day London.

Lost in Austen

Jerome Bixby's last screenplay after his legendary work on Star Trek and The Twilight Zone is an incredible science fiction story that manages to transcend the boundaries of space-time, even though it takes place in a single room.

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An impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues he has a longer and stranger past than they can imagine.

The Man from Earth

Finding optimism and humanism in the wreckage of World War II, Powell and Pressburger's endlessly inventive and beautiful masterpiece travels through space and time, across the earth and the skies, following a love that knows no boundaries.

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British air force pilot Peter Carter returns to England from a World War II bombing mission in a badly damaged aircraft. Before he abandons the plane and crashes into the ocean, he communicates with June, an Allied radio operator. Peter survives, finds June and they fall in love. The problem? A messenger of the gods comes to Earth to take Peter to heaven - as he accidentally survived the afterlife!

A Matter of Life and Death

The fear of middle age is turned on its head to create a sense of freedom. Jane Birkin once confessed to Agnes Varda that turning 40 terrified her, so the director decided to create her portrait. A playful and original film and an exploration of the sacred bond between director and actor.

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A kaleidoscopic examination and study of the actress as a woman, mother, muse, idol. The scenes of the "real" Jane Birkin, makeup-free and expressing a desire to be seen "as if I were as transparent, as anonymous as everyone else", are edited with cinematic fantasies of both the actress and director, in the form of renaissance portraits, comedies, thrillers.

Jane B. for Agnes V.

Kinky appetites, terror, fashion, death. All the obsessions of Peter Strickland’s unique cinema ("Duke of Burgundy", "Berberian Sound Studio") are put into the blender resulting in a climax of fetish horror unlike anything else.

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In a busy clothing store, 50-year-old Sheila is persuaded to buy the red dress that the eccentric saleswoman insists fits her perfectly. Only the garment turns out to be cursed, and no matter how hard she tries to get rid of it, the horrific consequences of her ill-fated purchase haunt her, as well as anyone else she meets in her path.

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Special Jury Prize | Sarasota Film Festival | 2019
Best Cinematography | Les Arcs European Film Festival | 2018

In Fabric

One of the most iconic cult horror films of the early 21st century, a fierce and wickedly entertaining allegory about the violence of girlhood, reinventing the werewolf myth with bold imagination.

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Teenage sisters Ginger and Brigitte Fitzgerald live on the fringes, morbidly obsessed with death. When Ginger is bitten by a werewolf on the night of her first period, she undergoes a horrifying transformation that mirrors adolescence and its uncontrollable, destructive hormonal surges, putting their pact to the test: “Forever together.”

Ginger Snaps

The recently Oscar-winning Jessie Buckley wanders the streets of Athens, encountering the gaze of Charlie Kaufman and together they converse with the city’s artistic legacy. An existential journey, dedicated to those who, in truth, never truly left, and to the quiet beauty of a life now long past.

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Two newly dead young people meet in the streets of Athens, amid the pulsing cityscape and the ghosts of history. One a translator, the other a photographer, they were outsiders in life; in death they struggle with the residue of their longings and mistakes.

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Official Selection | Venice Film Festival | 2025

How to Shoot a Ghost

Who among us hasn’t been lost in endless doomscrolling, where reality begins to slip? In the debut preceding the striking I Saw the TV Glow, Jane Schoenbrun transforms this sensation into a melancholic, avant-garde horror about the near-metaphysical power of the screen.

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Reality and fantasy begin to merge when a withdrawn teenager immerses herself in an online horror role-playing game. As she sinks deeper into its world, her experiences grow increasingly ambiguous - until it becomes impossible to tell what belongs to the digital realm, and what to her own.

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Official Selection - NEXT | Sundance Film Festival | 2021
Nomination for Free Spirit Award | Warsaw International Film Festival | 2021

We're All Going to the World's Fair

Kevin Smith’s blasphemous comedy - one that sparked waves of outrage even before its theatrical release - fearlessly mines religion for laughs, bringing an all-star cast to the screen including Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Salma Hayek, and Alan Rickman.

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Two fallen angels, cast out of Heaven, find themselves stranded and hunted in Wisconsin. Their journey leads them to New Jersey, where they discover a loophole that could allow them to re-enter Paradise. There’s just one catch: it would wipe out humanity. As the end of the world looms, an unlikely band of misfits joins forces to stop them.