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  • 1945 Image FINAL

    1945 (Reprise Screening)

    In August 1945, a rural town in Hungary is preparing for the wedding of the town…

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    20 Days in Mariupol

    Official Oscar© Selection—Ukraine Amidst the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a group of Ukrainian journalists from the Associated…

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    3 Faces

    Aspiring actress Marziyeh is distraught when her father forbids her from studying at the prestigious Tehran…

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    About Dry Grasses

    Official Oscar© Selection—Turkey 2023 Cannes Film Festival, Winner: Best Actress, Merve Dizdar A bored, prideful art teacher…

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    After Coal

    Preceded by the short film Through (5 min.) What happens after fossil fuels run out? After…

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    After Spring

    With the Syrian conflict now in its sixth year, millions of people have been displaced from…

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    After the Storm

    Ryota, a struggling novelist, spends too much time dwelling on his past glory as a prize-winning…

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    Alcarràs

    Official Oscar© Selection—Spain | Golden Bear Winner, 2022 Berlin Film Festival For as long as the…

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    Aleksi

    After returning home from college to live with her parents, 28-year-old Aleksi struggles to fight off…

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    All that Breathes

    As masses of birds fall from the smog-filled skies of New Delhi amid environmental distress and…

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    Aloners

    Preceded by the short film BJ's Mobile Gift Shop. Jin-ah prefers to be on her own. She…

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    Animalia

    World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award, Sundance Heavily pregnant Itto enjoys new affluence following her marriage…

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    Anselm

    A triumphant follow up to his 2011 tour-de-force Pina, Wim Wenders’ latest 3D documentary is another…

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    Apprentice

    Aiman, a 28-year-old Malay correctional officer, is a recent transfer to the territory's top prison. At…

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    Army of Lovers in the Holy Land

    Army of Lovers in the Holy Land begins thirty years after launching the queer disco-pop band Army…

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    Artemio

    Preceded by the short film Nichmal Son: Musica Que Florece Artemio was born in the United…

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    As I Open My Eyes

    On the eve of the Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia, young Farah must decide whether to accept…

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    Asog

    Jaya is a non-binary comedian whose life upends after a natural disaster devastates the Philippines and…

  • Atlantics: A Ghost Love Story

    Atlantics

    In a suburb of Dakar, Senegal, many souls have been lost to the sea in an…

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    Bacurau

    Teresa returns to her village of Bacurau, located in Brazil’s semi-arid sertão, following the death of…

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    Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths

    Official Oscar© Selection—Mexico The latest film from five-time Academy Award-winner Alejandro González Iñárritu (Babel, Birdman, Amores…

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    Beanpole

    In 1924 two women, Iya, a nurse, and Masha, a recently returned soldier, struggle to reassemble…

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    Beans

    In her debut feature, Tracey Deer recounts the 1990 Oka Crisis, a 78 day land dispute…

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    Beautiful Beings

    2023 Oscar® Selection, Iceland Addi, a teenage boy raised by a clairvoyant mother, is the nominal…

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    Being 17

    Preceded by the short film Reckless (9 min.) Being 17 is a moving exploration of adolescent…

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    Beuys

    Joseph Beuys was a revolutionary German painter, famous for his felt hat and unique performance pieces,…

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    Birds of Passage

    In 1970s Colombia, a narco-trafficking era known as “la Bonanza Marimbera” pulls an indigenous Wayuu family…

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    Black Kite

    When political turmoil in Afghanistan jeopardizes Arian’s love for kite flying, he is forced to let…

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    Blade of the Immortal

    Manji is a legendary samurai who has battled dozens of men throughout his life. After his…

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    Border

    Tina, ostracized for her unusual appearance, uses her unique sense of smell to sniff out contraband…

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    Bori

    Bori, an 11-year-old girl who lives in a sea village, is the only hearing family member.…

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    Bound: African vs African Americans

    The divide between Africans and African Americans is complex and seldom explored. Opening with personal testimonials…

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    Breath

    This directorial debut from Simon Baker (The Mentalist, The Devil Wears Prada) is based on the…

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    Broker

    2022 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor Winner, Song Kang-ho Hirokazu Kore-eda presents a humanistic, humorous, and philosophical…

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    Bugs

    Since the United Nations recommended edible insects as a resource to combat world hunger, insects as…

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    Café Daughter

    Yvette Wong, a young Chinese and Cree heritage girl, lives in a small 1960s Saskatchewan town.…

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    Capernaum

    Named after the town where Jesus was said to have healed the sick, Capernaum exposes the…

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    The Cave

    For the past eight years, the war in Syria has brought death and destruction to millions.…

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    Cemetery of Splendour

    Soldiers with a mysterious sleeping sickness are transferred to a temporary clinic where doctors explore ways…

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    The Charmer

    Esmail seems to be a successful, charming bachelor frequenting Copenhagen’s high-end nightlife establishments. In reality, however,…

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    La Chimera

    For a film chronicling a group of grave-robbers, La Chimera is markedly full of life and…

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    Close

    Official Oscar© Selection—Belgium | 2022 Cannes Film Festival, Grand Prize Winner Thirteen-year-old neighbors Léo and Rémi…

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    Cobweb

    In this film-within-a-film, Kim Yeol is a filmmaker haunted by the desire to reimagine the conclusion…

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    Concerned Citizen

    Things are going well for Ben and Raz, a well-to-do gay couple from Tel Aviv. After…

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    Corsage

    Official Oscar© Selection—Austria 2022 Cannes Film Festival, Winner: Un Certain Regard, Best Performance, Vicky Krieps Empress…

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    Counting

    In 15 linked chapters, Counting merges city symphony, diary film, and personal/political essay to create a…

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    Court

    An independent and multilingual film, Court examines the Indian legal system through the trial of an…

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    The Cow Who Sang a Song Into The Future

    Following the disappearance of thousands of fish in a river in southern Chile, a several decades-deceased…

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    Dachra

    Tunisia’s first horror movie, Dachra follows three young journalism students who venture to an isolated village…

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    Daughter of Mine

    Vittoria, a ten-year-old Sardinian girl, lives with her loving but overprotective adoptive mother Tina. At a…

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    Daydreaming

    Set in Prato, Tuscany, this episodic film is split into the parallel stories of two men…

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    Dead Slow Ahead

    Dead Slow Ahead follows the journey of an enormous shipping freighter, Fair Lady, transporting wheat across…

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    Default

    Default turns the fallout of the 1997 Asian financial crisis in Korea into riveting entertainment. The film follows three storylines: Si-hyun’s shows…

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    Django

    In 1940s Paris, Django Reinhardt electrified audiences with his distinctive style of “hot jazz”. Serving as…

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    Dogman

    Private, unassuming Marcello lives a quiet life of dog grooming in the small town of Magliana,…

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    Dolce Fine Giornata

    Maria Linde, a renowned poet and Nobel Prize winner, lives in her glorious Tuscan villa surrounded…

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    Don’t Call Me Son

    Pierre, a cross-dressing and eyeliner-wearing teenager, is stunned to discover that he was kidnapped from his…

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    Dough

    A curmudgeonly widower stubbornly clings to his livelihood as a kosher bakery shop owner in London.…

  • Eisenstein in Guanajuato

    Eisenstein in Guanajuato

    In 1931 Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein travels to Mexico to shoot a new film after being…

  • EK LADKI FINAL

    Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga (How I Felt When I Saw That Girl)

    Sweety Chaudhary, a young Punjabi woman, is constantly badgered by her overbearing family about her love…

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    El Angel

    Carlitos, a 17-year-old with a baby face and movie star swagger, discovers his true calling: to…

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    Elle

    Michèle seems indestructible. Played by Isabelle Huppert, she is the head of a leading video game…

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    Embrace of the Serpent

    This visionary adventure epic tracks two parallel odysseys as a lone shaman leads two European ethnographers…

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    The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

    A grown man, barely able to walk or talk, appears suddenly in the town square of…

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    EO

    Official Oscar© Selection—Poland At age 84, legendary director Jerzy Skolimowski (The Deep End, Moonlighting) has directed…

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    Eternal Spring

    Official Oscar© Selection—Canada In March 2002, the outlawed spiritual group Falun Gong hijacked a state TV…

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    Evil Does Not Exist

    Oscar-winning director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (Drive My Car) returns with Evil Does Not Exist, an unexpected and mysterious…

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    Exile

    A film about abandonment, Exile is an abstract telling of director Rithy Panh’s (The Missing Picture)…

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    Fallen Leaves

    Official Oscar© Selection—Finland | Jury Prize, Cannes Film Festival A chance meeting in Helsinki offers two lonely…

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    Family Romance, LLC

    Preceded by the short film Pilgrim Werner Herzog’s latest narrative focuses on Japan’s bizarre rent-a-family business, a…

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    A Fantastic Woman

    Young waitress and aspiring singer Marina is a trans woman who is planning for the future…

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    The Father

    Valentina’s death takes quite a toll on her husband, Vassil. When it’s discovered that a neighbor…

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    Faust

    Murnau’s iconic adaptation of Goethe’s Faust echoes the dreamlike surrealism of his silent films like Nosferatu.…

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    Fig Tree

    Set in 1989, director Aäläm-Wärqe Davidian’s feature debut follows 16-year-old Mina as she navigates coming of…

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    Fighter

    Fighter follows Jin-ah, a North Korean refugee who is struggling to earn enough money to bring…

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    Fire at Sea

    Each year hundreds of thousands of African immigrants journey to the Sicilian island of Lampedusa in…

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    Fishing Without Nets

    preceded by the short film The Exhibitor (8 min.) Abdi, a principled but struggling young Somali fisherman,…

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    The Five Devils

    Joanne and Jimmy live in a small, foggy village in the French alps with Vicky, their…

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    The Forbidden Room

    The Forbidden Room is Canadian auteur Guy Maddin’s epic phantasmagoria. Paying homage to the films and…

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    Four Daughters

    Official Oscar© Selection—Tunisia | Golden Eye Award for Best Documentary, Cannes Film Festival The life of Olfa,…

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