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The End We Start From and Concrete Utopia
Concrete Utopia
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2023; Director: Um Tae-hwa; Writer: Um Tae-hwa; Stars: Park Seo-joon, Lee Byung-hun, Park Bo-young, Kim Sun-young, Park Ji-hu, Na Chul)
Survivors from a massive earthquake struggle for a new life in Seoul.
Dumb Money
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Craig Gillespie; Writer: Lauren Schuker Blum, Rebecca Angelo, Ben Mezrich; Stars: America Ferrera, Dane DeHaan, Shailene Woodley, Seth Rogen, Anthony Ramos, Pete Davidson)
Based on a true story of everyday people who flipped the script on Wall Street and got rich by turning GameStop into the world's hottest company.
The End We Start From
(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Mahalia Belo; Writer: Alice Birch, Megan Hunter; Stars: Jodie Comer, Benedict Cumberbatch, Mark Strong. Nina Sosanya, Katherine Waterston)
A woman who along with her newborn try to find their way home as environmental crisis that submerges London in flood waters and sees a young family torn apart in the chaos.
Fair Play
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Chloe Domont; Writer: Chloe Domont; Stars: Dynevor, Alden Ehrenreich, Eddie Marsan)
An unexpected promotion at a cutthroat hedge fund pushes a young couple’s relationship to the brink, threatening to unravel far more than their recent engagement.
Flora And Son
(Country: Ireland, US; Year: 2023; Director: John Carney; Writer: John Carney; Stars: Eve Hewson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Orén Kinlan, Jack Reynor, Amy Huberman)
Flora, a single mother, is at war with her son, Max. Trying to find a hobby for him, she rescues a guitar from a dumpster and finds that one person's trash can be a family's salvation.
Dumb Money and Next Goal Wins
Hate To Love: Nickelback
(Country: Canada; Year: 2023; Director: Leigh Brooks; Stars: Chad Kroeger, Mike Kroeger, Ryan Peake, Daniel Adair)
An intimate portrait of the Canadian stadium rockers' roller-coaster career, from their rural roots in Alberta to becoming one of the most successful, yet divisive acts in music history.
Lee
(Country: US, UK; Year: 2023; Director: Ellen Kuras; Writer: Liz Hannah, Marion Hume, John Collee; Stars: Alexander Skarsgård, Kate Winslet, Andrea Riseborough, Marion Cotillard, Andy Samberg, Josh O'Connor)
The story of photographer Elizabeth 'Lee' Miller, a fashion model who became an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue magazine during the Second World War.
The Movie Emperor
(Country: China; Year: 2023; Director: Ning Hau; Writer: Wang Ang,Xiaodan Liu, Tianyou Zhao; Stars: Andy Lau)
A satire about a film star choosing a role with the deliberate aim of winning film festival awards and getting taken seriously.
The New Boy
(Country: Australia; Year: 2023; Director: Warwick Thornton; Writer: Warwick Thornton; Stars: Cate Blanchett, Mezi Atwood, Deborah Mailman)
The story of a nine-year-old Aboriginal orphan boy who arrives in the dead of night at a remote monastery, run by a renegade nun, where his presence disturbs the delicately balanced world.
Next Goal Wins
(Country: UK, US; Year: 2023; Director: Taika Waititi; Writer: Taika Waititi, Iain Morris; Stars: Michael Fassbender, Oscar Kightley, Kaimana, David Fane, Rachel House)
A story about the American Samoa soccer team, who suffered the worst loss in World Cup history, losing to Australia 31-0 in 2001. With the 2014 World Cup approaching, the team recruits a down on his luck, maverick coach in the hope that he can turns its fortunes around.
Lee and Solo
Nyad
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi; Writer: Julia Cox; Stars: Jodie Foster, Annette Bening, Rhys Ifans, Ethan Jones Romero, Johnny Solo)
The remarkable true story of marathon swimmer Diana Nyad, who, at the age of 60, set out to become the first person to complete the 'Everest of swims', a 53-hour, 110-mile swim from Cuba to Florida through dangerous open ocean without a shark cage.
Punjab ’95
(Country: India; Year: 2023; Director: Honey Trehan; Writer: Niren Bhatt, Utsav Maitra, Honey Trehan; Stars: Suvinder Vicky, Varun Badola, Arjun Rampal, Diljit Dosanjh, Geetika Vidva Ohlvan)
The story of prominent human rights activist Jaswant Singh Kalra.
The Royal Hotel
(Country: Australia, UK; Year: 2023; Director: Kitty Green; Writer: Kitty Green, Oscar Redding; Stars: Julia Garner, Jessica Henwick, Hugo Weaving, James Frecheville, Toby Wallace, Daniel Henshall, Herbert Nordrum, Ursula Yovich)
US backpackers Hanna and Liv take a job in a remote Australian pub for some extra cash and are confronted with a bunch of unruly locals and a situation that grows rapidly out of their control.
Solo
(Country: Canada; Year: 2023; Director: Sophie Dupuis; Writer: Sophie Dupuis; Stars: Théodore Pellerin, Félix Maritaud, Vlad Alexis)
The story of Simon, who must deal with the disappointment of two impossible loves: a passionate but destructive crush on Oliver and a distant and cold relationship with his mother Claire, who has just moved back in after a 15-year absence.
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