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Dilili In Paris (Dilili A Paris) (Country: France, Germany, Belgium; Year: 2018; Director: Michel Ocelot; Writer: Michel Ocelot; Stars: Prunelle Charles-Ambron, Enzo Ratsito, Natalie Dessay)
With the help of her friend, a delivery boy, young Dilili from New Caledonia investigates a spate of mysterious kidnappings of young girls that is plaguing the Paris of the Belle Epoque.
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I Lost My Body (J’ai perdu mon corps) (Country: France; Year: 2019; Director: Jérémy Clapin; Writer: Jérémy Clapin, Guillaume Laurant; Stars: Voices of, Victoire Du Bois, Patrick d'Assumçao, Hakim Faris)
A cut-off hand escapes from a dissection lab with one crucial goal: to get back to its body. As it scrambles through the pitfalls of Paris, it remembers its life with the young man it was once attached to… until they met Gabrielle.
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The Swallows Of Kabul (Les Hirondelles De Kaboul) (Country: France; Year: 2019; Director: Zabou Breitman, Eléa Gobbé-Mévellec; Writer: Zabou Breitman, based on the book by Yasmina Khadra; Stars: Hiam Abbass, Zita Hanrot, Swann Arlaud, Simon Abkarian)
Summer 1998 - Kabul under Taliban rule. Zunaira and Mohsen are young and in love. Despite the daily violence and misery, they hope for a better future. One day, a foolish gesture causes life to take an irrevocable turn.
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Yellowbird (Country: France; Year: 2014; Director: Christian De Vita; Writer: Antoine Barraud, Cory Edwards, Guilhem Lesaffre; Stars: Dakota Fanning, Seth Green, Christine Baranski, Danny Glover, Elliott Gould, Jim Rash, Richard Kind, Yvette Nicole Brown, Christopher L. Parson)
A ladybird hatches a plan to help a frightened bird.
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