Oscars

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

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

Clint Eastwood’s award-winning masterpiece about the relationship between a veteran coach and a young boxer who won’t stop fighting. The movie won 4 Oscars: Best Movie, Directing, Actress in a Leading Role (Hilary Swank) and Actor in a Supporting Role (Morgan Freeman) — Frankie Dunn is a veteran boxing coach in Los Angeles. He keeps everyone at arm’s length except for his old-time friend and partner, Eddie. When Maggie, a young woman from a working-class Missouri background, comes to Frankie’s gym in search of his expertise, he is reluctant to become her trainer. Eventually, he gives in and the two of them form a tight bond that will irrevocably change both. — Best Film | Oscars | 2005 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (Hilary Swank) | Oscars | 2005 Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role (Morgan Freeman) | Oscars | 2005 Best Director | Oscars | 2005 Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture Drama (Hilary Swank) | Golden Globes | 2005 Best Director | Golden Globes | 2005 Best Foreign Film | César Awards | 2006

Master of biopics, Pablo Larraín, closes the cycle of his Grand Dames (“Jackie”, “Spencer”) with an unconventional, mesmerizing and deeply cinematic look at the last days of the ultimate diva. Filming in Greece and the role of a lifetime for Angelina Jolie. — 1977: Maria Callas, once the world's greatest opera diva, lives in isolation in Paris with her staff and her two poodles. Her health is getting worse and worse. Then she receives a request to go back on tour. Will the Divina sing again? And if so, for whom? — Official Selection - International Competition | Venice Film Festival | 2024 Nomination for Best Cinematography | Oscars | 2025 Nomination for Actress in a Leading Role (Angelina Jolie) | Golden Globes | 2025

What's the flip side of the Disney dream? Next to the dreamy Florida Disneyworld, children build their own dominions and struggle to survive. Little chunks of life, sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking, in a colorful paradigm of contemporary neorealist cinema. — This is the story of a wild 6-year-old and her fearless friends. Their summer is full of wonders, bewilderment and exciting adventures, while the adults around them have to face a harsh reality. — Nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role (Willem Dafoe) | Oscars | 2018

Another honest drama from the talented director Asghar Farhadi, awarded by the Academy with the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. A story so powerful that it touches your soul. — A couple is forced to leave their Tehran apartment, which is falling to pieces, and move into another one. While working together on the production of the play "Death of a Salesman", their relationship begins to change. — Best Foreign Language Film | Oscars | 2017 Best Actor (Shahab Hosseini) | Cannes Film Festival | 2016 Best Screenplay | Cannes Film Festival | 2016

The great Andrey Zvyagintsev stages the disappearance of a young boy and gradually and masterfully orchestrates a cinematic requiem about the dissolution of family ties, the absence of love and the deathly apathy of a slowly dying Russia. — A couple splits up and their divorce is full of disappointment, bitterness and insults. Having already found new partners, the ex-spouses cannot wait to turn the page and start their new lives. Even if that means abandoning their 12-year-old son. — Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film | Oscars | 2018 Jury Prize | Cannes Film Festival | 2017 Best Foreign Film | César Awards | 2018 Best Film | London Film Festival | 2017

An Oscar-nominated animation of astonishing beauty for both kids and adults. This visual poem of allegorical wisdom about the magnificence of nature and our uniqueness within it, is the first co-production of Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli with France. — A man gets shipwrecked on a beautiful desert island, where turtles, crabs and birds are the only inhabitants. Every time he tries to leave by building rafts, a red turtle stops him. When the turtle is transformed into a woman, a love story beyond words begins. — Nominated for Best Animated Feature | Oscars | 2017 Audience Award | Athens International Film Festival | 2016 Special Mention | Athens International Film Festival | 2016 Special Jury Prize - Un Certain Regard | Cannes Film Festival | 2016

Irresistibly humane and emotionally disarming, hilarious and heartbreaking at the same time, this is the film that firmly placed Maren Ade among the elite of world cinema. A cinematic experience that feels like a hearty embrace. — A father who delights in pranks tries to get close to his daughter by sneaking into her life, business meetings and nights out. Annoyed, she asks him to stop, but then Toni Erdmann shows up. Her father's alter ego, a peculiar guy in an ugly suit, a terrible wig and an even worse pair of teeth. Oddly enough, the more eccentric he becomes, the more his daughter seems to respond. — Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film | Oscars | 2017 FIPRESCI Prize | Cannes Film Festival | 2016 FIPRESCI Prize | San Sebastián Film Festival | 2016

Romeo and Juliette in Oceania. Τhe first film entirely shot in the Pacific island Vanuatu was awarded in the Venice Film Festival and nominated for a Best Foreign Language Oscar. A vibrant, wonderful crowd-pleaser from Australia. — Somewhere in the South Pacific, a young girl from one of the last traditional tribes in Tanna falls in love with the leader's grandson. While an interracial war begins and escalates, the couple attempts to escape in order to live in peace. Yet, they must choose between their powerful emotions and the future of their tribes. — Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film | Oscars | 2017 Special Jury Prize | London Film Festival | 2015 Best Cinematography | Venice Film Festival | 2015 International Critics' Week Award | Venice Film Festival | 2015

A striking and emotionally complex animation written by award-winning director Céline Sciamma. This Oscar-nominated stop-motion animation following a young boy after a tragic loss, tugs at the heartstrings deeply and honestly. — "Courgette" is the unique nickname of a 9-year-old boy. He is being transferred to an orphanage by a kind policeman. He struggles to find his place in this strange and often hostile environment. However, with the help of the policeman and his new friends, he will learn to trust and will find a new family to call his own. — Nominated for Best Animated Feature | Oscars | 2017 Best Adapted Screenplay | César Awards | 2017 Best Animated Film | César Awards | 2017 Audience Award European Film | San Sebastián Film Festival | 2016

In one of the most touching and emotionally rich films of the decade, time goes back and forth, mixing passion, misfortunes, love at first sight and unbearable sorrow, under the rousing sounds of bluegrass music. — Elise and Didier have shared 7 loving years, yet they miss their passionate beginnings, their early marriage and the happy days when Mabel first came into their lives. A complete cycle of happiness ends when Mabel is diagnosed with a serious illness. The sadness and fear for their young daughter inevitably takes them towards different directions. — Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film | Oscars | 2014 Audience Award | Panorama Berlin International Film Festival | 2013 Lux Prize | European Audience Awards | 2013 Best Screenplay | Tribeca Film Festival | 2013

Taking their deeply humane and political movies one step further, the Dardenne brothers cooperate with Marion Cotillard in this shocking travelogue of a woman who is trying to maintain her job and especially her dignity in the years of the economic crisis. — A young wife and mother works in a factory in a small Belgian town. In her absence, her colleagues realize that they can cover her shift with small overtimes and monetary bonuses. Her fate lies in the hands of 16 workers, whom she must convince to refuse monetary bonuses in order to keep her job. She enters a battle to save her seat, two days and one night, before the final vote. — Nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (Marion Cotillard) | Oscars | 2015 Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 2014 Best Film | Sydney Film Festival | 2014

Free will? What is that? A cynical deconstruction of life’s unpredictability owing to an innovative combination of fiction and documentary by Alain Resnais, which dissociates us from fairy tales and encourages us to look at ourselves in the face - along with a few mice. — The intersecting stories of three people and the important decisions they have to take at some point in their lives, are used to develop Henri Laborit's theories about human behavior and the relationship between individuals and society. — Nominated for Best Screenplay | Oscars | 1981 FIPRESCI Prize | Cannes Film Festival | 1980 Grand Prize of the Jury | Cannes Film Festival | 1980 AGIS Award | Venice Film Festival | 1980

The film for which Charlie Chaplin won his only competitive Oscar, 20 years after it was produced! He was the victim of intense reactions and boycotts during its initial release but was discussed and reassessed as one of his masterpieces. Buster Keaton takes part. — Depressed due to her seemingly failed dance career, a dancer tries to commit suicide but a bankrupt, once-famous clown will save her life. He will not only help her improve her health, but he will also redeem his own self-esteem. When the dancer proposes to him, their age difference will scare him and he will have an important decision to make. — Best Original Music | Oscars | 1973

Innocence’s epilogue was brought upon by the war and the transformation of the once funny jester into a delightfully cynical figure was something that the world was not yet ready to digest. Although unfavourably acclaimed in its time, it’s now regarded, not unfairly, as his black masterpiece. — Inspired by notorious French serial killer Landru, Henri Verdoux lures wealthy women by promising them sweet happy-everafters. After the wedding bells chime, however, he murders them for their fortunes. In this particularly dark comedy, Chaplin questions our perception of evil: isn’t this refined criminal a mere amateur compared to weapons suppliers and dictators? We stand ready to condemn a murderer, but when war victims are counted in millions, we celebrate a hero! — Nominated for Best Original Screenplay | Oscars | 1948

Delirium made at a time when silent cinema was perfected, just before its inglorious finale foreseen by Chaplin, who honors the genre along with all the kinds of physical comedy that had entertained generations of audiences and were about to give way to something new. — The Little Tramp is hired by a circus and soon becomes the main attraction when his comedic blunders drive the crowd wild. Having fallen in love with the ringmaster’s daughter, he doesn’t even realize he is the show’s main feature. In this high-flying comedy, we are quickly caught up in Chaplin’s whirlwind of gags, where even the acrobats and clowns watch his show-stopping stunts from the sidelines. — Honorary Award | Oscars | 1929

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

When Chaplin decided to introduce the idea of dialogue to the cinema for the first time, he made a timeless and humanitarian satire on the horrors of war and the monster called fascism, thus prejudging the following five terrible years. "We think too much but feel too little". — Charlie Chaplin writes, directs and stars in The Great Dictator. The story of Dictator Adenoid Hinkel who tries to expand his empire, while a poor Jewish barber struggles to escape capture by the former's soldiers. — 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

"Stolen Kisses" is one of Antoine Doinel's chapters in adultness. Unbelievably charming, full of inspired cinematic references, tender and funny, this movie is a hymn to the love affairs that elate and destroy us. — 1968. Antoine has been discharged from the army and lives in Paris. He tries to get used to adulthood but is not managing very well, neither in his professional life nor in his romantic relationships. He is hired as a private detective. He attempts to reconnect with his former girlfriend Christine, yet at the same time falls in love with the older wife of a shoe dealer. — Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film | Oscars | 1969

Truffaut created a film that wasn’t just a breakthrough in the context of the Nouvelle Vague, but a real milestone in the history of cinema. It explores the cruelty of youth and administers “blows” of pure cinema exhilaration that leave you wanting more. — We meet Antoine Doinel for the first time, an unruly boy growing up in Paris in 1950, playing truant and stealing. His teacher torments him and his family doesn’t understand him. After getting arrested, he spends a night in a cell. The court decides to send him to a juvenile reformatory, where a psychologist assesses the reasons why he is unhappy. One day, during football practice, Antoine escapes by jumping over the fence; he runs to the ocean, a place he always wanted to visit. — Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 1959 Best Director | Cannes Film Festival | 1959 OCIC Award | Cannes Film Festival | 1959

Artists against Nazism, or in other words, Truffault’s idealistic approach to occupied France during World War II. A juicy role for Deneuve and a cheerful tone to accompany her dangerous romance, reminiscent of "Casablanca". — Paris, 1942. A young man is chosen as the lead in a play at the Montmartre Theater. In fact, he is not just an actor, but also a member of the resistance. His gorgeous, unfriendly co-star, who is also the theater owner, hides her Jewish husband in the basement below the stage. The premiere of the show is extremely successful, but the triumph is tarnished by the criticism of an anti-Semitic theatrical reviewer. Things are becoming dangerous for everyone in the theater. — Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film | Oscars | 1981 Best Film | César Awards | 1981 Best Cinematography | César Awards | 1981

Jacques Demy's tribute to the classic American Musical, three years after his triumphus "The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg", is an audiovisual rainbow, full of color, beauty and the enchanting presence of brothers Catherine Deneuve and Francoise Dorleac. — Two twin sisters who teach dance and music in the coastal town of Rochefort dream of romance and love in Paris. What they don’t know is that the upcoming summer festival taking place in their hometown will make their dreams come true. — Nominated for Best Music Score | Oscars | 1969

Awarded the Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival in 1963 for having an extraordinary moment in the history of cinema, a technicolor musical with Michel Legrand’s wonderful compositions, as magical as cinema and as bittersweet as life. — A young girl lives with her widowed mother, the owner of an umbrella shop in Cherbourg. She is in love with a twenty-year-old car mechanic with whom she plans to secretly get married. However, after announcing it to her mother, she forbids her to do so. When the young man decides to present himself in the army and departs for Algeria, the girl discovers that she is pregnant. After her mother’s insistence, she is forced to accept a precious stone dealer’s marriage proposal. — Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film | Oscars | 1965 Nominated for Best Original Song | Oscars | 1966 Palme d'Or | Cannes Film Festival | 1964 OCIC Award | Cannes Film Festival | 1964