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The Goldman Case and Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry
100 Yards (Men Qian Bao Di)
(Country: China; Year: 2023; Director: Xu Haofeng, Xu Junfeng; Writer: Xu Haofeng; Stars: Xu Changchu, Jacky Heung, Bea Hayden Kuo, Kevin Lee)
Two bitter rivals duel for stewardship of a wushu academy.
20,000 Species Of Bees (20.000 especies de abejas)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2023; Director: Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren; Writer: Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren; Stars: Sofía Otero, Patricia López Arnaiz, Ane Gabarain, Itziar Lazkano, Sara Cózar)
An eight-year-old explores her identity over a summer in the Basque country.
All About The Lefkoviches (All About The Levkoviches)
(Country: Hungary; Year: 2024; Director: Ádám Breier; Writer: Ádám Breier, Bálint Csaba; Stars: Ferenc Elek, Tamás Szabó Kimmel, Zoltán Bezerédy)
A generous and stubborn elderly boxing coach who gets along with everyone except his own son. They're reunited after the death of the old man's wife and forced to face old grievances.
Amal
(Country: Belgium, France; Year: 2023; Director: Jawad Rhalib; Writer: Jawad Rhalib, David Lambert, Chloé Leonil; Stars: Lubna Azabal, Fabrizio Rongione, Catherine Salée, Kenza Benbouchta, Ethelle Gonzalez-Lardued, Johan Heldenberg, Babetida Sadjo, Medhy Khachachi)
Amal, a teacher in a Brussels school, encourages her pupils to cultivate a love of reading and freedom of expression, even if it means putting herself in danger.
Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry
(Country: Georgia; Year: 2023; Director: Elene Naveriani; Writer: Elene Naveriani, Nikoloz Mdivani based on the novel by Tamta Melashvili; Stars: Eka Chavleishvili, Temiko Chinchinadze, Anka Khurtsidze)
The story of a 40something in a dead-end town who discovers love for the first time.
Chicken For Linda! and 20,000 Species Of Bees
Bonjour Switzerland
(Country: Switzerland, Italy; Year: 2024; Director: Peter Luisi)
In this wacky comedy poking fun at the multilingual Swiss, a referendum leaves the country with French as the only national language, catalysing a crisis among the German and Italian speakers.
Chicken For Linda!
(Country: France; Year: 2023; Director: Chiara Malta, Sebastien Laudenbach; Writer: Chiara Malta, Sebastien Laudenbach; Stars: Voiced by, Laetitia Dosch, Clotilde Hesme, Estéban)
When a mum makes a promise to her daughter after unfairly punishing her, she finds herself having to go the extra mile to make it come true.
Day Off (Ben Ri Gong Xiu)
(Country: Taiwan; Year: 2023; Director: Fu Tien-yu; Stars: Lu Hsiao-fen, Fu Meng-po, Shih Ming-shuai, Annie Chen, Beatrice Fang, Chen Bo-lin)
For 40 years A-rui has been running a barbershop. One day she receives a phone call from the family of an old client who moved away, asking if she would be willing to travel to give the bedridden old man a haircut.
Empire (Viften)
(Country: Denmark, Spain, Sweden; Year: 2023; Director: Frederikke Aspöck; Writer: Anna Neye; Stars: Anna Neye, Sara Fanta Traore, Claus Riis Østergaard, Jesper Groth, Tyler Errol Murray)
St. Croix, the Danish West Indies, 1848. Anna and Petrine are close friends. Both are women of colour, but Anna is free and owns her housekeeper, the enslaved Petrine. Things are seemingly fine until rumors of a rebellion begin to swirl.
The Extortion (La Extorsión)
(Country: Argentina; Year: 2023; Director: Martino Zaidelis; Writer: Emanuel Diez; Stars: Guillermo Francella, Pablo Rago, Andrea Frigerio, Alberto Ajaka, Guillermo Arengo, Carlos Portaluppi)
A commercial aeroplane pilot is blackmailed by his country's intelligence services to carry mysterious suitcases on his trips to Spain.
Ezra
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Tony Goldwyn; Writer: Tony Spiridakis; Stars: Rose Byrne, Vera Farmiga, Robert De Niro, Rainn Wilson, Bobby Cannavale, Whoopi Goldberg)
The story of a man who destroys his successful career and marriage to become a somewhat less successful stand-up comic.
The Fishbowl (La Pecera)
(Country: Puerto Rico; Year: 2023; Director: Glorimar Marrero; Writer: Glorimar Marrero; Stars: Isel Rodriguez, Modesto Lacen, Magali Carrasquillo, Maximiliano Rivas, Georgina Borri)
As cancer spreads, Noelia decides to return to her native Puerto Rico to claim freedom . She reunites with her friends and family, who are still dealing with the contamination left by the US Navy after 60 years of military practices.
Freud's Last Session
(Country: US, UK; Year: 2023; Director: Matt Brown; Writer: Matt Brown, Mark St. Germain; Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Matthew Goode, Jodi Balfour, Orla Brady, Rhys Mannion)
Freud invite and CS Lewis discuss the possible existence of God in a film which also explores Freud's unique relationship with his daughter, and Lewis' unconventional relationship with his best friend's mother.
The Goldman Case (Le Procès Goldman)
(Country: France; Year: 2023; Director: Cédric Kahn; Writer: Nathalie Hertzberg, Cédric Kahn; Stars: Ariel Worthalter, Arthur Harari, Jeremy Lewin, Nicolas Briancon, Stephan Guerin-Tilie)
A chronicle of the trial of Goldman, a French left-wing revolutionary who was convicted of several robberies and was mysteriously murdered.
Guardians Of The Formula (Čuvari formule)
(Country: Serbia, Slovenia, Montenegro, North Macedonia; Year: 2023; Director: Dragan Bjelogrlić; Writer: Vuk Ršumović, Ognjen Sviličić, Dragan Bjelogrlić, based on the novel by Goran Milašinovićm; Stars: Alexis Manenti, Radivoje Raša Bukvić, Lionel Abelanski, Ognjen Mićović, Anne Serra, Jérémie Laheurte)
October 1958. A group of young communist scientists get irradiated with a lethal dose of uranium. They are sent to Paris for medical treatment by Prof Mathé. Certain that they were making a nuclear weapon, Mathé proposes the first bone marrow transplant. Is it an experiment with living humans or does he truly want to help them?
Richelieu
(Country: Canada, France, Guatemala; Year: 2023; Director: Pier-Philippe Chevigny; Writer: Pier-Philippe Chevigny; Stars: Ariane Castellanos, Marc-André Grondin, Nelson Coronado, Marvin Coroy, Maria Mercedes Coroy)
After a bad breakup, Ariane moves home and gets a job as an interpreter for seasonal migrant workers. Witnessing workplace abuses, Ariane must decide how far she is willing to go to speak out against injustice.
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