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Anora and Emilia Perez
All We Imagine As Light
(Country: France, India, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Italy; Year: 2024; Director: Payal Kapadia; Writer: Payal Kapadia; Stars: Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha, Chhaya Kadam, Hridhu Haroon, Azees Nedumangad, Anand Sami, Lovleen Mishra, Madhu Raja, Shweta Prajapati, Tintumol Joseph, Ardra K.S., Sisira Anil CK, Aparna Ram, Kashish Singh, Nikhil Mathew)
Triptych explores the lives of three women in Mumbai.
Anora
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Sean Baker; Writer: Sean Baker; Stars: Mikey Madison, Yura Borisov, Ivy Wolk, Lindsey Normington, Karren Karagulian, Ross Brodar, Mark Eydelshteyn, Emily Weider, Alena Gurevich, Paul Weissman, Luna Sofía Miranda, Masha Zhak, Vache Tovmasyan, Charlton Lamar)
Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch.
The Apprentice
(Country: US, Denmark, Ireland, Canada; Year: 2024; Director: Ali Abbasi; Writer: Gabriel Sherman; Stars: Sebastian Stan, Maria Bakalova, Jeremy Strong, Martin Donovan, Emily Mitchell, Patch Darragh, Stuart Hughes, Michael Hough, Joe Pingue, Eoin Duffy, Randy Thomas, Chloe Madison, Ben Sullivan, James Downing, Joel Labelle)
A dive into the underbelly of the American empire. It charts a young Donald Trump’s ascent to power through a Faustian deal with the influential right-wing lawyer and political fixer Roy Cohn.
Armand
(Country: Norway; Year: 2024; Director: Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel; Writer: Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel; Stars: Renate Reinsve, Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Øystein Røger, Endre Hellestveit, Thea Lambrechts Vaulen, Vera Veljovic-Jovanovic, Loke Nikolaisen)
A mother is called into her child's infant school after he faces an accusation.
Beating Hearts (L’Amour Ouf)
(Country: France; Year: 2024; Director: Gilles Lellouche; Writer: Audrey Diwan, Ahmed Hamidi, Julien Lambroschini, Gilles Lellouche, Neville Thompson; Stars: Adèle Exarchopoulos, François Civil, Raphaël Quenard, Élodie Bouchez, Alain Chabat, Benoît Poelvoorde, Nicolas Wanczycki, Vincent Lacoste, Anthony Bajon, Jean-Pascal Zadi, Mallory Wanecque, Malik Frikah, Bastien Trouvé, Emmanuel Dehaene, Manon Jacquart)
A crime romance spanning 15 years.
Bird and Kinds Of Kindness
Bird
(Country: UK, US, France, Germany; Year: 2024; Director: Andrea Arnold; Writer: Andrea Arnold; Stars: Barry Keoghan, Franz Rogowski, Nykiya Adams, James Nelson-Joyce, Jasmine Jobson, Rhys Yates, Joanne Matthews, Frankie Box, Dave)
12-year-old Bailey lives with her single dad Bug and brother Hunter in a squat in North Kent. Bug doesn’t have much time for his kids and Bailey who is approaching puberty seeks attention and adventure elsewhere.
Caught By The Tides (Feng Liu Yi Dai)
(Country: China; Year: 2024; Director: Jia Zhang-Ke)
An elusive, decades-spanning love story impacted by life in modern China.
Emilia Perez
(Country: US, Mexico; Year: 2024; Director: Jacques Audiard; Writer: Jacques Audiard; Stars: Zoe Saldana, Selena Gomez, Edgar Ramírez, Karla Sofía Gascón, Adriana Paz, James Gerard, Shiraz Tzarfati, Agathe Bokja, Marie-Elisabeth Robert, Stéphane Ly-Cuong, Eric Geynes, Anabel Lopez, Eduardo Aladro, Line Phé, Cyrus Khodaveisi)
A lawyer gets an offer to help a cartel boss start a new life.
The Girl With The Needle (Pigen med nålen)
(Country: Denmark; Year: 2024; Director: Magnus von Horn; Writer: Line Langebek Knudsen, Magnus von Horn; Stars: Vic Carmen Sonne, Trine Dyrholm, Besir Zeciri, Ava Knox Martin, Joachim Fjelstrup, Tessa Hoder, Søren Sætter-Lassen, Thomas Kirk, Dan Jakobsen, Anna Tulestedt, Ari Alexander, Benedikte Hansen, Per Thiim Thim, Peter Secher Schmidt, Agnieszka Przyborowska-Mitrosz)
In Copenhagen in the aftermath of World War one, a young woman in desperate circumstances takes on a job which will lead her to still greater depths of despair.
Grand Tour
(Country: Portugal, Italy, France, Germany, Japan, China; Year: 2024; Director: Miguel Gomes; Writer: Telmo Churro, Maureen Fazendeiro, Miguel Gomes, Mariana Ricardo, Babu Targino; Stars: Jani Zhao, Gonçalo Waddington, João Pedro Vaz, Teresa Madruga, Manuela Couto, Crista Alfaiate, Lang Khê Tran, Diogo Dória, Cláudio da Silva, Américo Silva, João Pedro Bénard, Jorge Andrade, Joana Bárcia, André Lourido, Giacomo Leone)
The travels of a civil servant after he runs away from his finacee.
Megalopolis and Armand
Kinds Of Kindness
(Country: Ireland, UK; Year: 2024; Director: Yorgos Lanthimos; Writer: Efthimis Filippou, Yorgos Lanthimos; Stars: Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, Joe Alwyn, Mamoudou Athie, Hunter Schafer, Krystal Alayne Chambers, Abi Beaux, Susan Elle, Merah Benoit, Jess Weiss, Victoria Harris, Tessa Bourgeois)
A triptych fable, following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who is destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader.
Limonov: The Ballad
(Country: Italy, France, Spain; Year: 2024; Director: Kirill Serebrennikov; Writer: Emmanuel Carrère, Pawel Pawlikowski, Ben Hopkins, Kirill Serebrennikov; Stars: Ben Whishaw, Masha Mashkova, Tomas Arana, Sandrine Bonnaire, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Corrado Invernizzi, Viktoria Miroshnichenko, Ivan Ivashkin, Odin Lund Biron, Daria Zueva, Alexander Prince Osei, Victor Solé, Derwayne Mcbayne)
Story of the revolutionary as he travelled the world.
The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent
(Country: Croatia; Year: 2024; Director: Nebojša Slijepčević; Writer: Nebojša Slijepčević; Stars: Goran Bogdan, Alexis Manenti, Dragan Mićanović, Silvio Mumelaš, Lara Nekić, Nebojša Pop Tasić)
Tension mounts on a passenger train after it is stopped by paramilitaries.
Short film
Marcello Mio
(Year: 2024; Director: Christophe Honoré)
Chiara Mastroianni plays a version of herself as she interrogates the legacy of her father Marcello Mastroianni.
Megalopolis
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Francis Ford Coppola; Writer: Francis Ford Coppola; Stars: Giancarlo Esposito, Aubrey Plaza, Nathalie Emmanuel, Shia LaBeouf, Adam Driver, Kathryn Hunter, Laurence Fishburne, Dustin Hoffman, James Remar, Jason Schwartzman, Forest Whitaker, Jon Voight, Chloe Fineman, D.B. Sweeney, Talia Shire)
Power play and corruption unfold in a futuristic city.
Oh Canada and The Girl With The Needle
The Most Precious Of Cargoes
(Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2024; Director: Michel Hazanavicius; Writer: Jean-Claude Grumberg, Michel Hazanavicius; Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Grégory Gadebois, Denis Podalydès, Dominique Blanc)
Animation about a woodcutter and his wife whose lives are transformed after they rescue a baby thrown from a train that passes near their home.
Motel Destino
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2024; Director: Karim Aïnouz; Writer: Wislan Esmeraldo, Mauricio Zacharias; Stars: Fábio Assunção, Nataly Rocha, Iago Xavier)
Thriller about a young man battling a system that wants him dead.
Oh Canada
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Paul Schrader; Writer: Paul Schrader; Stars: Jacob Elordi, Uma Thurman, Richard Gere, Michael Imperioli, Kristine Froseth, Penelope Mitchell, Victoria Hill, Aaron Roman Weiner, Cornelia Guest, Dylan Flashner, Gregory Connors, Ryan Woodle, John Way, Jean Brassard, Gary Hilborn)
A documentary filmmaker, who is terminally ill, reflects on his life.
Parthenope
(Country: Italy, France; Year: 2024; Director: Paolo Sorrentino; Writer: Umberto Contarello, Paolo Sorrentino; Stars: Gary Oldman, Stefania Sandrelli, Luisa Ranieri, Isabella Ferrari, Silvio Orlando, Dario Aita, Alessandro Cucca, Brando Improta, Paola Calliari, Celeste Dalla Porta, Peppe Lanzetta, Giampiero De Concilio, Biagio Izzo, Nello Mascia, Lorenzo Gleijeses)
Drama charts a woman's life in Naples from the Fifties onwards.
The Seed Of The Sacred Fig
(Year: 2024; Director: Mohammad Rasoulof)
Investigating judge Iman grapples with paranoia amid political unrest in Tehran. When his gun vanishes, he suspects his wife and daughters, imposing draconian measures that strain family ties as societal rules crumble.
The Substance and All We Imagine As Light
The Shrouds
(Country: France, Canada; Year: 2024; Director: David Cronenberg; Writer: David Cronenberg; Stars: Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, Guy Pearce, Sandrine Holt, Al Sapienza, Elizabeth Saunders, Jennifer Dale, Ingvar Sigurdsson, Jeff Yung, Matt Willis, Eric Weinthal, Steve Switzman, Paddington)
A widower invents a gadget that lets the bereaved connect with their loved ones inside a burial shroud... as they decompose.
The Substance
(Country: UK, US; Year: 2024; Director: Coralie Fargeat; Writer: Coralie Fargeat; Stars: Margaret Qualley, Dennis Quaid, Demi Moore, Hugo Diego Garcia, Joseph Balderrama, Oscar Lesage, Gore Abrams, Olivier Raynal, Vincent Colombe, Tiffany Hofstetter, Matthew Géczy, Tom Morton, Philip Schurer, Matthew Luret, Alexandra Papoulias Barton)
A fading television star tries to restore her fame with the help of a suspicious drug.
Three Kilometres To The End Of The World
(Country: Romania; Year: 2024; Director: Emanuel Parvu; Writer: Miruna Berescu; Stars: Laura Vasiliu, Bogdan Dumitrache, Adrian Titieni, Valeriu Andriuta, Ciprian Chiujdea)
A gay teenager's journey of self-discovery sees him clash with his parents.
Wild Diamond (Diamant Brut)
(Country: France; Year: 2024; Director: Agathe Riedinger; Writer: Agathe Riedinger; Stars: Malou Khebizi, Idir Azougli, Andréa Bescond, Ashley Romano, Alexis Manenti, Kilia Fernane, Léa Gorla, Alexandra Noisier, Antonia Buresi, Sandra Bijou, Francesca Giromella, Guillaume Verdier, Gaëtan Thomas, Jean-Jacques Rouvière, Mohamed Mallek)
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