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A Sudden Glimpse To Deeper Things and Timestalker
Arthur's Whisky
(Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Stephen Cookson; Stars: Diane Keaton, Patricia Hodge, Lulu)
A widow and her friends discover the elixir of youth that her husband had invented just before his shed was struck by lightning, but will using it make them any happier?
Auction (Le tableau volé)
(Country: France; Year: 2024; Director: Pascal Bonitzer; Writer: Pascal Bonitzer; Stars: Alex Lutz, Léa Drucker, Alain Chamfort, Louise Chevillotte, Laurence Côte, Nora Hamzawi, Matthieu Lucci, Vincent Nemeth, Christophe Paou, Olivier Rabourdin, Arcadi Radeff, Alexandre Steiger, Jesse Guttridge)
A modern art appraiser's routine is unexpectedly disrupted by the discovery of a long-lost painting.
Blind At Heart (Die Mittagsfrau)
(Country: Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg; Year: 2023; Director: Barbara Albert; Writer: Meike Hauck, Barbara Albert, basedon the novel by, Julia Franck; Stars: Mala Emde, Max von der Groeben, Thomas Prenn, Liliane Amuat, Fabienne Elaine Hollwege, Laura Louisa Garde, Elisabeth Wasserscheid, Helena Pieske, Maria Matschke-Engel, Finjen Kiefer, Lilia Herrmann, Laurids Schürmann, Steve Karier, Monique Reuter, Karin Pfammatter)
Adaptation of Julia Franck's bestseller about female empowerment.
Cottontail
(Country: UK, Japan; Year: 2023; Director: Patrick Dickinson; Stars: Lily Franky, Ryo Nishikido, Ciarán Hinds, Aoife Hinds, Tae Kimura, Rin Takanash)
A widower has a life-changing experience when he and his estranged so travel to Lake Windemere to spread his wife's ashes in accordance with her will.
The Crime Is Mine
(Country: France; Year: 2023; Director: François Ozon; Writer: François Ozon, Philippe Piazzo, based on the play by Georges Berr and Louis Verneuil; Stars: Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Madeleine Verdier, Rebecca Marder, Pauline Mauléon, Isabelle Huppert, Danny Boon, Andre Dussollier)
When a glamorous but talentless young actress is accused of murdering a sleazy producer, her aspiring lawyer friend spies a money-making opportunity.
Memories Of Murder and The Crime Is Mine
Dormitory (Yurt)
(Country: Turkey; Director: Nehir Tuna; Writer: Nehir Tuna; Stars: Doga Karakas, Can Bartu Aslan, Ozan Çelik, Tansu Biçer, Didem Ellialti, Orhan Güner, Isilti Su Alyanak, Fatih Berk Sahin, Ozan Bilen, Emrullah Erbay, Nazli Benan Özkaya, Erdi Kökerer, Miraç Kaya, Ercan Erdil, Tolga T. Talay)
A boy finds things tough after he is sent to an all-boys religious school.
The Dreamer (L'Homme D'Argile)
(Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2023; Director: Anaïs Tellenne; Writer: Anaïs Tellenne; Stars: Raphaël Thiéry, Emmanuelle Devos, Marie-Christine Orry, Mireille Pitot, Alexis Louis Lucas, Vincent Thomas, Cesare Capitani, Zoran Boukherma, Ludovic Boukherma, Natasha Cashman)
SYNOPSIS - Raphaël, a one-eyed man, is the caretaker of a mansion where no one lives anymore. Soon to turn 60, he lives with his mother in a small house located at the entrance to the grounds of the stately manor. Between mole hunting, bagpipe practice and the occasional ride in the postwoman’s Kangoo van, the days resemble one another. But one stormy night Garance, the estate’s heiress, comes back to the family’s abode and now nothing will ever be the same again.
Dr. Cheon And The Lost Talisman
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2023; Director: Kim Seong-sik; Writer: Kim Seong-sik; Stars: Gang Dong-won, Joon-ho Huh, Esom, Lee Dong-hwi)
The story of a fake exorcist, Dr. Cheon, who is commissioned to look into the case of a girl who is strongly possessed.
Everybody Loves Touda
(Country: Morocco; Year: 2024; Director: Nabil Ayouch; Writer: Nabil Ayouch, Maryam Touzani; Stars: Nisrin Erradi, Jalila Talemsi)
A singer plans to build a better future for her son.
Flowers Of Mold
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2023; Director: Shim Hye-jung; Stars: Kim Jae-kyung, Hyun Woo, Kim Ryul-ha, Kim Shin-young)
A young woman falls for her neighbour after going through his bins.
Dr. Cheon And The Lost Talisman and Poetry
Girls Will Be Girls
(Country: India; Year: 2024; Director: Shuchi Talati; Writer: Shuchi Talati; Stars: Kani Kusruti, Jitin Gulati, Kesav Binoy Kiron, Preeti Panigrahi)
In a strict boarding school nestled in the Himalayas, 16-year-old Mira discovers desire and romance. But her sexual, rebellious awakening is disrupted by her mother who never got to come of age herself.
The Golden Harvest
(Country: Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Spain, Greece, Italy; Year: 2019; Director: Alia Yunis; Writer: Alia Yunis)
Consideration of the history of olives and olive oil manufacture.
The Good Teacher
(Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2024; Director: Teddy Lussi-Modeste; Stars: Francois Civil, Shain Boumedine, Toscane Duquesne)
After being wrongfully accused of sexual misconduct by a teenage girl from his class, a young teacher struggles to clear his name.
A Hard Day's Night
(Country: UK; Year: 1964; Director: Richard Lester; Stars: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Star)
A typical day in the life of the Beatles, as they travel from their hometown of Liverpool to London to perform in a television broadcast.
Holst: In The Bleak Midwinter
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Tony Palmer; Stars: Imogen Holst, Katherine Jenkins, Kiri Te Kanawa, Russell Watson, Barbara Dickson & Troy Donockley, Máiréad Nesbit, Yeo Yat-soon)
A documentary about the composer Gustav Holst.
The Outrun and My Old Ass
A House On Fire
(Country: Spain, Italy; Year: 2024; Director: Dani de la Orden; Stars: Emma Vilarasau, Enric Auquer, Maria Rodriguez, Alberto San Juan, Clara Segura, Jose Perez Ocana, Macarena Garcia)
Smouldering resentments flare into blazing rows at a dysfunctional family reunion.
Juliette Au Printemps
(Country: France; Year: 2024; Director: Blandine Lenoir; Stars: Izïa Higelin, Sophie Guillemin, Jean-Pierre Darroussin)
Juliette is a children’s book illustrator who is going through a crisis and cannot find an explanation for her depressive state. Returning to her hometown broadens her perspective.
Leonard Cohen: Bird On A Wire
(Country: UK; Year: 1972; Director: Tony Palmer; Stars: Leonard Cohen, Jennifer Warnes, David O’Connor, Ron Cornelius, Donna Washburn, Tony Palmer, Bob Johnston, Peter Marshal)
Capturing him on tour and ‘off-duty’, this almost lost and forgotten documentary showcases one of the world’s most respected singer-songwriters.
Making Of
(Country: France; Year: 2023; Director: Cédric Kahn; Stars: Jonathan Cohen, Emmanuelle Bercot, Denis Podalydès, Stefan Crepon, Emilia Derou-Bernal, Riad Gahmi, Matilda Kime)
A director tries to shoot a movie about factory workers rights.
Maria Montessori
(Country: France, Italy; Year: 2023; Director: Léa Todorov; Stars: Jasmine Trinca, Leïla Bekhti)
French Courtesan Lili d’Alengy travels to Rome to bring her learning-disabled daughter to an institute for special needs children.
The Golden Harvest and Girls Will Be Girls
Memories Of Murder (Salinui Chueok)
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2003; Director: Bong Joon Ho; Writer: Bong Joon Ho, Kim kwang-rim; Stars: Song kang-ho, Kim sang-kyung,
Kim roe-ha, Song jae-ho, Byeon
hie-bong, Ko seo-hie)
Foolish cops investigate South
Korean serial killer.
Missing, Presumed
(Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Edward Samuel Woolford; Stars: Paul Cooper, Deirdre Forrest, Tom E Saxon, Maureen Casey, Mufrida Hayes, Iona Young, Richard Simpson)
A middle-aged couple find themselves committing a series of grisly murders as they try to cover up the accidental killing of the gas man.
The Monk And The Gun
(Country: Bhutan, Taiwan, France, US; Year: 2023; Director: Pawo Choyning Dorji; Writer: Pawo Choyning Dorji; Stars: Tandin Wangchuk, Harry Einhorn, Tandin Phubz, Tandin Sonam, Pema Zangmo Sherpa)
The story of an American who travels into Bhutan in search of a treasure and crosses path with a young monk who wanders through the serene mountains, instructed by his teacher to make things right again.
My Old Ass
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Megan Park; Writer: Megan Park; Stars: Aubrey Plaza, Maddie Ziegler, Percy Hynes White, Maisy Stella, Seth Isaac Johnson, Kerrice Brooks, Carter Trozzolo, Remington Schneider)
The summer before college, bright-yet-irreverent Elliott comes face-to-face with her older self during a mushroom trip. The encounter spurs a funny and heartfelt journey of self-discovery and first love as Elliott prepares to leave her childhood home.
My Wonderful Stranger
(Country: Norway, France, Sweden; Year: 2024; Director: Johanna Pyykkö; Stars: Camilla Godø Krohn, Hristo Petkov, Laila Goody, Christian Skolmen)
A delusional 18-year-old convinces a handsome amnesic stranger, whom she finds beside Oslo harbour, that he is her boyfriend. Then he starts to remember things.
Reawakening and Porcelain War
A Normal Family
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2023; Director: Hur Jin-ho; Writer: Herman Koch; Stars: Sol Kyung-gu, Jang Dong-Gun, Kim Hee-ae, Claudia Kim)
Two wealthy families meet for dinner to discuss and decide how to handle a violent crime committed by their sons.
The Outrun
(Country: UK, Germany; Year: 2024; Director: Nora Fingscheidt; Writer: Nora Fingscheidt, Amy Liptrot, Daisy Lewis; Stars: Saskia Reeves, Saoirse Ronan, Paapa Essiedu, Stephen Dillane, Lauren Lyle, Izuka Hoyle, Naomi Wirthner, Nabil Elouahabi, Posy Sterling, Tony Hamilton-Croft, Seamus Dillane, Danyal Ismail, Scott Miller, Paul Kulik)
After living life on the edge in London, Rona attempts to come to terms with her troubled past. She returns to the wild beauty of Scotland’s Orkney Islands - where she grew up - hoping to heal.
The Phantom
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2023; Director: Lee Hae-young; Stars: Sol Kyung-gu, Lee Hanee, Park So-dam, Pak Hae-soo, Kim Dong-hee)
After a failed assassination attempt on the newly-appointed Governor General, security chief Kaito leads an investigation to hunt down an expert spy known only as the Phantom, narrowing down his suspects to just five people who are then interrogated in an isolated hotel.
Poetry (Shi)
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2010; Director: Lee Chang-dong; Writer: Lee Chang-dong; Stars: Yoon Jeong-hee, Ahn Nae-sang, Lee Da-wit, Kim Yong-taek)
A grandmother discovers poetry and begins to reassess the world around her.
Porcelain War
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Brendan Bellomo, Slava Leontyev; Writer: Aniela Sidorska, Brendan Bellomo, Paula DuPré Pesmen, Slava Leontyev)
Under roaring fighter jets and missile strikes, Ukrainian artists Slava, Anya, and Andrey choose to stay behind and fight, contending with the soldiers they have become. Defiantly finding beauty amid destruction, they show that although it’s easy to make people afraid, it’s hard to destroy their passion for living.
Reawakening
(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Virginia Gilbert; Writer: Virginia Gilbert; Stars: Jared Harris, Juliet Stevenson, Erin Doherty, Niamh Cusack)
Tension mounts for a couple when a woman claiming to be their daughter, who went missing 10 years before, arrives back in their lives.
Scorched Earth (Verbrannte Erde)
(Country: Germany; Year: 2024; Director: Thomas Arslan; Stars: Misel Maticevic, Marie Leuenberger, Alexander Fehling, Till Wonka)
Twelve years after he fled, career criminal Trojan returns to Berlin. A valuable painting is set to be stolen in the city. But the meticulously planned heist soon runs out of control.
The Solent
(Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Oliver Henry Cubbage; Stars: Oliver Derham, Bethan Eleri, Jack Sutherland, Jack Parr, Lucas Aurelio)
A woman is held captive by a mysterious man whose motives are unknown, as her brother searches for her, uncovering a web of strange and unsettling clues.
A Sudden Glimpse To Deeper Things
(Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Mark Cousins)
Consideration of the painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham.
This Is My Mother
(Country: France; Year: 2023; Director: Julien Carpentier; Stars: Agnes Jaoui, William Lebghil, Salif Cisse)
A successful 33-year-old florist, sees his life upended when his flamboyant and unpredictable mother suddenly reappears after a two-year absence.
Timestalker
(Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Alice Lowe; Writer: Alice Lowe; Stars: Alice Lowe, Jacob Anderson, Aneurin Barnard, Nick Frost, Kate Dickie, Tanya Reynolds, Boyd Clack)
A woman continuously seeks out the presumed love of her life across time, in one incarnation after another.
The Universal Theory (Die Theorie von Allem)
(Country: Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Year: 2023; Director: Timm Kröger; Writer: Roderick Warich, Timm Kröger; Stars: Jan Bülow, Olivia Ross, Hanns Zischler, Gottfried Breitfuss, David Bennent, Philippe Graber, Imogen Kogge, Emanuel Waldburg-Zeil, Vivienne Bayley, Ladina von Frisching, Dirk Böhling, Marie Goyette, Paul Wolff-Plottegg, Peter Hottinger, Dana Herfurth)
1962. A physics congress in the Alps. An Iranian guest. A mysterious pianist. A bizarre cloud formation in the sky and a booming mystery under the mountain.
We Have Never Been Modern (Úsvit)
(Country: Czech Republic, Slovak Republic; Year: 2023; Director: Matěj Chlupáček; Writer: Miro Šifra; Stars: Eliška Křenková, Miloslav König, Milan Ondrík, Richard Langdon, Martha Issová, Luboš Veselý, Ladislav Hampl, Marián Mitaš)
A pregnant doctor turns detective after the discovery of a dead newborn.
Who Am I Smiling For?
(Country: Estonia; Year: 2023; Director: Eeva Mägi; Stars: Oliver Cypriano, Mari Minn, Urmas Minn, Maie Minn, Martin Minn)
Mari, a young woman facing last stage cancer, is fighting fiercely over the custody rights of her children, trying to prove that in spite of her condition, she is still a fully capable mother. I
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