War

Or what happens when bombs fall outside the house. Audience awards at the Thessaloniki and Berlin Festivals for an anguished and claustrophobic war drama, with an exemplary performance by Hiam Abbas. — Damascus. The war is on the street. In Syria's war zone, a woman attempts to keep her family and neighbors safe inside her apartment, while war rages and a sniper lies in wait outside her home. — Panorama Audience Award | Berlin Film Festival | 2017 Europa Cinemas Award | Berlin Film Festival | 2017 Audience Award | Thessaloniki Film Festival | 2017

With surgical precision and caustic humor, Danis Tanović lays bare the absurdity of war and exposes the hypocrisy of international politics in one of the most important films about the Yugoslav civil war, winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. — During the Bosnian War, two soldiers from opposing sides find themselves trapped in a trench in the middle of the combat zone. Alongside them lies a third soldier, wounded and immobilized atop a landmine. When the media and peacekeeping forces become entangled in the negotiations, time begins to run out for everyone. — Best Foreign Language Film | Oscars | 2002 Best Foreign Language Film | Golden Globes | 2002 Best Screenplay | Cannes Film Festival | 2001 European Screenwriter | European Film Awards | 2001 Audience Award | San Sebastian Film Festival | 2001

In one of his least known works for Austrian television, Michael Haneke asks what it means to live for duty in an increasingly technocratic world that recognizes nothing in anyone. Literary adaptation-must for fans of the great director. — In post-war Vienna, soldier Andreas Poom has lost a leg for his emperor, but recognition from his country never comes. As a reward, he receives a leave of absence and a musical instrument so he can make a living playing it in the courtyards of Vienna. Throughout his life he will always be honest, always obedient - but to what end? When his realization and revolution comes, will there still be time for him?

The production company of "The triplets of Belleville" presents a story of youthful love in Taliban-ruled Kabul, portrayed through an impressive handmade animation technique based on the movements of real actors. Nominated for the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Festival. — Summer of 1998, Kabul is under Taliban rule. Zunaira and Mohsen are young and in love. Despite the daily violence and misery, they hope for a better future. One day, a senseless gesture makes their lives take an irrevocable turn. — Official Selection | Cannes Film Festival | 2017

One of the darkest chapters in modern European history takes the form of a suffocating political thriller full of dilemmas, suspense and – literal – dead ends. Jasmila Zbanic weaves personal tragedies into the canvas of history in an Oscar-nominated masterpiece. — Based on true events, the film takes place in the summer of 1995 in Bosnia, during the siege of Srebrenica by the Serbian army. Aida works as an interpreter for the United Nations peacekeeping forces in the area. As the siege of the city tightens, Aida must make life and death decisions for herself and her family. — Nomination for Best International Feature | Oscars | 2021 Audience Award | Rotterdam Film Festival | 2021

Inspired by Shakespeare's King Lear and a 16th-century Japanese myth, Ran is Kurosawa's last major cinematic epic, for which he received his only nomination for the Best Director Oscar. It is considered one of the greatest films of all time. — At the age of seventy, after years of consolidating his empire, the Grand Lord decides to abdicate and divide his realm among his three sons. Taro, the eldest, will rule. Jiro, his second son, and Saburo will take over the command of the Second and Third Castles, but given their obedience and support to their older brother. Saburo breaks his promise of obedience and is exiled. — Best Costume Design | Oscars | 1986 Nomination for Best Director | Oscars | 1986 Best Foreign Language Film | BAFTA | 1987 OCIC Award for Best Director | San Sebastian Film Festival | 1985

Underrated in its day and nowhere to be seen for years, the great Jean-Pierre Melville's most personal film about the French Resistance, in which he also participated, is now recognized as the masterpiece of his filmography. — France, 1942. A civil engineer, member of the Resistance against the Nazis who have taken over the country, is arrested and sent to a concentration camp. When he manages to escape, he will look for the informant who turned him in to take revenge, while continuing his resistance action.

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

Twenty-five years after the legendary "Evdokia", Alexis Damianos returned with an epic fresco that spans half a century of Greek history. — A Greek student is held captive by the Italians in 1941. He later joins the resistance and lives through the upheavals of the Civil War and post-Civil War Greece, maintaining a guarded, wary stance throughout.

After the success of "Little England", Pantelis Voulgaris continues to record modern Greek society and history, with one of its most famous pages. A tragic, deeply political historical drama, with a script by Ioanna Karystiani and starring Andreas Konstantinou. — Greece, Haidari concentration camp, before May Day '44. 34-year-old Napoleon Soukatzidis acts as an interpreter for the German camp commander, Karl Fischer. Napoleon is one of the 200 people selected to be executed on May 1 at Caesarian in retaliation for the deaths of four Germans from the Greek resistance. On the day of the execution he will be faced with a dilemma of life when Fisher gives him the opportunity to opt out and put someone else in his place. — Best Actor (Andreas Konstantinou) | Hellenic Film Academy Award | 2018 Best Makeup | Hellenic Film Academy Award | 2018 Best Sound | Hellenic Film Academy Award | 2018 Best Costume Design | Hellenic Film Academy Award | 2018

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

Doug Liman (Bourne Identity, Edge of Tomorrow) takes nightmarish legends from the battlefront and delivers a suspenseful war-zone thriller about two soldiers trapped behind a wall that’s about to collapse. Starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Nocturnal Animals) and John Cena (Trainwreck). — A psychological thriller following two soldiers trapped behind a collapsing wall by an Iraqi sniper. Their strength and spirit are tested as they struggle to stay alive and locate the threat.