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My Favourite Cake

V.O.: Keyke mahboobe man
Iran. 2024. Drama by Maryam Moghaddam, Behtash Sanaeeha with Lili Farhadpour, Esmaeel Mehrabi, Mansoureh Ilkhani. Tired of her lonely life, a 70-year-old widow gives love another chance.
Runtime: 97 min.

About Dry Grasses

V.O.: Kuru Otlar Üstüne
Turq. 2023. Drama by Nuri Bilge Ceylan with Deniz Celiloglu, Merve Dizdar, Musab Ekici. In a village in Anatolia, a young unmarried teacher is the subject of a complaint for inappropriate behavior towards a female student.
Runtime: 197 min.

Si seulement je pouvais hiberner

V.O.: Baavgai Bolohson
Mong. 2023. Drama by Zoljargal Purevdash with Battsooj Uurtsaikh, Nominjiguur Tsend, Tuguldur Batsaikhan. In Mongolia, a teenager must choose between raising his brother and sister, abandoned by their mother, or winning a science contest to earn a scholarship.
Runtime: 96 min.
Runtime: 86 min.
Esp. 2022. Drama by Albert Serra with Benoît Magimel, Pahoa Mahagafanau, Matahi Pambrun. In Tahiti, the High Commissioner, who administers the island on behalf of the French government, senses a wind of revolt as rumors of new nuclear tests spread.
Runtime: 163 min.

Playground

V.O.: Un Monde
Bel. 2021. Drama by Laura Wandel with Maya Vanderbeque, Günter Duret, Karim Leklou. A little girl makes things worse by standing up for her older brother who is being bullied at their elementary school.
Runtime: 72 min.
Can. 2019. Drama by Sophie Deraspe with Nahéma Ricci, Nour Belkhiria, Antoine Desrochers. By organizing the escape of her younger brother threatened with deportation, a young North African immigrant woman provokes a great movement of solidarity.
Runtime: 109 min.
Fr. 2018. Sentimental drama by Emmanuel Mouret with Cécile de France, Édouard Baer, Alice Isaaz. Hurt at discovering her partner no longer loves her, a marquise undertakes to compromise him by making him fall in love with a prostitute whom she presents as a devout woman.
Runtime: 110 min.

The Wild Pear Tree

V.O.: Ahlat Agaci
Turq. 2018. Psychological drama by Nuri Bilge Ceylan with Aydin Dogu Demirkol, Murat Cemcir, Bennu Yildirimlar. Back in his hometown, an aspiring writer dreads becoming a schoolteacher like his father, a dreamer and a gambler who plunged his family into debt and shame.
Runtime: 188 min.
Can. 2018. Drama by Maxime Giroux with Martin Dubreuil, Reda Kateb, Sarah Gadon. Returning to Quebec after an exile in the American West to avoid the draft, a Charlie Chaplin impersonator confronts the disturbing residents of a ghost town.
Runtime: 95 min.
G.-B. 2017. Animation by Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman with Douglas Booth, Saoirse Ronan, Robert Gulaczyk. In 1891, a year after the death of painter Vincent Van Gogh, the son of his letter carrier conducts a personal investigation that leads him to question the official ruling of suicide.
Runtime: 95 min.

The Innocents

V.O.: Les Innocentes
Fr. 2015. History by Anne Fontaine with Lou de Laâge, Agata Buzek, Agata Kulesza. In 1945 Poland, a young intern of the French Red Cross secretly helps nuns who have become pregnant after being raped by Soviet soldiers.
Runtime: 115 min.
Fr. 2014. Biography by Bertrand Bonello with Gaspard Ulliel, Jérémie Renier, Louis Garrel. From 1967 to 1976, the professional and personal life of the great French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent.
Runtime: 150 min.
Can. 2012. Social drama by Nathalie Saint-Pierre with Émilie Bierre, Joyce-Tamara Hall, Rosine Chouinard-Chauveau. The experience of four girls of different ages under the care of the Youth Protection Branch.
Runtime: 111 min.

Wild Grass

V.O.: Les Herbes folles
Fr. 2009. Comedy by Alain Resnais with André Dussollier, Sabine Azéma, Anne Consigny. After handing over the stolen wallet of an unmarried dentist to the police, a married pensioner with a tendency to lie takes offense that she doesn't want to meet him.
Runtime: 104 min.

The Class

V.O.: Entre les murs
Fr. 2008. Social drama by Laurent Cantet with François Bégaudeau, Rachel Régulier, Esméralda Ouertani. A year in the classroom of a French teacher, in a multi-ethnic high school in Paris.
Runtime: 128 min.

The Witnesses

V.O.: Les Témoins
Fr. 2006. Mores drama by André Téchiné with Emmanuelle Béart, Sami Bouajila, Michel Blanc. In 1984, the life of a policeman married to a writer is turned upside down by a young woman from the country.
Runtime: 115 min.

Confidentially Yours

V.O.: Vivement dimanche
Fr. 1983. Police comedy by François Truffaut with Fanny Ardant, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Philippe Laudenbach. A sassy secretary embarks on an investigation to save her boss who is accused of a double murder.
Runtime: 111 min.
Can. 1992. Chronicle by Jean-Claude Lauzon with Maxime Collin, Ginette Reno, Julien Guiomar. A young boy living in a working-class neighbourhood of Montreal tries to forget his tough family life by cultivating his taste for dreams.
Runtime: 107 min.

Wings of Desire

V.O.: Der Himmel über Berlin
All. 1987. Poetic drama by Wim Wenders with Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Peter Falk. In Berlin, an angel fascinated by the beauty of a trapeze artist decides to incarnate himself in order to enjoy the pleasures of the human condition.
Runtime: 126 min.
All. 1984. Drama by Wim Wenders with Harry Dean Stanton, Hunter Carson, Nastassja Kinski. After wandering for a long time, a man regains the affection of his young son, raised by his brother, and then sets out to find his wife.
Runtime: 145 min.

Circle of Deceit

V.O.: Die Fälschung
Runtime: 108 min.

The Soft Skin

V.O.: La Peau douce
Fr. 1964. Psychological drama by François Truffaut with Jean Desailly, Françoise Dorléac, Nelly Benedetti. A married man's affair with a stewardess has tragic consequences.
Runtime: 108 min.

The Trial

V.O.: Le Procès
Fr. 1962. Drama by Orson Welles with Orson Welles, Anthony Perkins, Jeanne Moreau. A man under arrest can?t figure out what crime he is being accused of.
Runtime: 115 min.
U.S. 1960. Horror by Alfred Hitchcock with Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles. Successive murders occur in a motel run by a strange young man, who lives in the neighboiring house with his crazy mother.
Runtime: 105 min.

Gates of Paris

V.O.: Porte des lilas
Fr. 1957. Dramatic comedy by René Clair with Pierre Brasseur, Georges Brassens, Henri Vidal. For a few days, a poor man shelters a bandit being hunted by the police.
Runtime: 98 min.

The Wages of Fear

V.O.: Le Salaire de la peur
Fr. 1952. Adventures by Henri-Georges Clouzot with Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter Van Eyck. In Central America, four fallen men agree to convoy two truckloads of nitroglycerin.
Runtime: 140 min.
Mex. 1952. Psychological drama by Luis Bunuel with Arturo de Cordova, Delia Garces, Luis Beristain. A man who suffers from morbid jealousy makes life difficult for his new wife.
Runtime: 92 min.

Miracle in Milan

V.O.: Miracolo a Milano
It. 1950. Fantasy comedy by Vittorio De Sica with Francesco Golisano, Brunella Bovo, Paolo Stoppa. An orphan with magical powers wants to help poor people out of poverty.
Runtime: 96 min.
U.S. 1941. Mores drama by Orson Welles with Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore. A journalist investigates the private life of a deceased millionaire.
Runtime: 116 min.
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