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All Your Faces

V.O.: Je verrai toujours vos visages
Fr. 2023. Drama by Jeanne Herry with Élodie Bouchez, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Leïla Bekhti. To overcome the trauma that turned their lives upside down, a rape victim and three victims of violent crime embark on a restorative justice process.
Runtime: 118 min.
Fr. 2023. Drama by Ira Sachs with Franz Rogowski, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Ben Whishaw. In Paris, a gay filmmaker puts his relationship to the test by starting an affair with a young teacher.
Runtime: 91 min.
Bel. 2022. Drama by Lukas Dhont with Eden Dambrine, Gustave De Waele, Émilie Dequenne. Disturbed that a girl at his school believes he is in a relationship with his best friend, a 13-year-old boy distances himself from the boy, with dramatic consequences.
Runtime: 105 min.

Love Life

V.O.: Rabu raifu
Jap. 2022. Drama by Koji Fukada with Atom Sunada, Kento Nagayama, Fumino Kimura. After the accidental death of her son, a woman sees the resurgence of his biological father, a deaf homeless man who clashes with the boy's stepfather.
Runtime: 123 min.

The Five Devils

V.O.: Les Cinq diables
Fr. 2022. Drama by Léa Mysius with Sally Dramé, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Swala Emati. A mixed-race girl, who has the gift of reproducing and cataloguing smells, wonders about her origins when her aunt comes to spend a few days with her parents.
Runtime: 97 min.
Aust. 2022. Biography by Marie Kreutzer with Vicky Krieps, Florian Teichtmeister, Katharina Lorenz. In 1878, on the days after her 40th birthday, Empress Elisabeth of Austria rebelled against her status as a powerless woman, forced to watch her weight, her figure and her conduct.
Runtime: 113 min.

The Beasts

V.O.: As bestas
Esp. 2022. Thriller by Rodrigo Sorogoyen with Denis Ménochet, Marina Foïs, Luis Zahera. A couple of French farmers who have been living in a small Spanish village for a long time suddenly attract the wrath of two local brothers who are determined to drive them out of the area.
Runtime: 137 min.
Jap. 2021. Drama by Ryusuke Hamaguchi with Hidetoshi Nishijima, Toko Miura, Masaki Okada. During car journeys, conversations between a bereaved theater director and his assigned driver become more intimate.
Runtime: 179 min.
Fr. 2021. Sentimental comedy by Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet with Anaïs Demoustier, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Denis Podalydès. A confused student falls in love with the wife of the publisher with whom she had a brief affair.
Runtime: 98 min.

Shoplifters

V.O.: Manbiki Kazoku
Jap. 2018. Mores drama by Hirokazu Kore-eda with Lily Franky, Sakura Ando, Kairi Jyo. A strange family of shoplifters takes into their miserable a little girl abused by her parents.
Runtime: 121 min.

Loveless

V.O.: Nelyubov
Rus. 2017. Drama by Andrei Zviaguintsev with Maryana Spivak, Alexei Rozin, Marina Vasilyeva. On the verge of divorce, a couple ignores their troubled 12-year-old son, who disappears without a trace.
Runtime: 127 min.

Dark Diamond

V.O.: Diamant noir
Fr. 2016. Mores drama by Arthur Harari with Niels Schneider, August Diehl, Hans Peter Cloos. After the death of his father, who had been banished from his diamond-dealer family, a Parisian swindler moves to Antwerp, where he plots his revenge against the members of the clan.
Runtime: 115 min.

Son of Saul

V.O.: Saul Fia
Hongr. 2015. Drama by Laszlo Nemes with Géza Rohrig, Levente Molnar, Urs Rechn. In order to provide a funeral service for a boy before his autopsy, a Jewish member of the Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau defies all odds to find a rabbi.
Runtime: 107 min.
Pol. 2013. Drama by Pawel Pawlikowski with Agata Trzebuchowska, Agata Kulesza, Dawid Ogrodnik. In Poland in the early 1960s, a novice about to take her vows discovers her true origins and tragic family secrets.
Runtime: 83 min.

A Separation

V.O.: Jodaeiye Nader az Simin
Iran. 2011. Drama by Asghar Farhadi with Payman Maadi, Leila Hatami, Sareh Bayat. After his wife leaves him, a man comes into conflict with the young mother he hired to take care of his father who has Alzheimer's disease.
Runtime: 123 min.
U.S. 2008. Psychological drama by James Gray with Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow, Vinessa Shaw. A dyer's son who is manic-depressive tries to escape his fate by falling in love with a wild and excessive neighbor.
Runtime: 109 min.

The Chaser

V.O.: Chugyeogja
Cor.S. 2008. Thriller by Na Hong-jin with Kim Yun-seok, Ha Jung-woo, Seo Yeong-hie. An ex-detective turned pimp follows the trail of a serial killer who preys on the prostitutes in his employ.
Runtime: 125 min.

4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days

V.O.: 4 luni, 3 saptamini si 2 zile
Roum. 2007. Social drama by Cristian Mungiu with Anamaria Marinca, Laura Vasiliu, Vlad Ivanov. In 1987 in Romania, the trying day of a student who helps her friend get a clandestine abortion.
Runtime: 113 min.

All About My Mother

V.O.: Todo sobre mi madre
Esp. 1999. Mores drama by Pedro Almodovar with Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Penélope Cruz. The mother of a teenager killed in an accident tries to find his father, whom she had left eighteen years earlier.
Runtime: 101 min.
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