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Peter Von Kant and Tori And Lokita
Argentina, 1985
(Country: Argentina, US; Year: 2022; Director: Santiago Mitre; Writer: Mariano Llinás, Santiago Mitre; Stars: Ricardo Darín, Peter Lanzani, Alejandra Flechner, Norman Briski)
A team of lawyers take on the heads of Argentina's bloody military dictatorship during the 1980s in a battle against odds and a race against time.
Bardo, False Chronicle Of A Handful Of Truths (Bardo, Falsa Crónica De Unas Cuantas Verdades)
(Country: Mexico; Year: 2022; Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu; Writer: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone; Stars: Daniel Giménez Cacho, Griselda Siciliani, Ximena Lamadrid, Iker Sanchez Solano, Andrés Almeida, Francisco Rubio)
An epic comedy about journalism.
The Beasts
(Country: Spain, France; Year: 2022; Director: Rodrigo Sorogoyen; Writer: Isabel Peña, Rodrigo Sorogoyen; Stars: Denis Ménochet, Marina Foïs, Luis Zahera, Diego Anido, Marie Colomb, Luisa Merelas, José Manuel Fernández y Blanco, Federico Pérez Rey, Javier Varela, David Menéndez, Xavier Estévez, Gonzalo García, Pepo Suevos, Machi Salgado, Emile Duthu)
French couple Antoine and Olga moved to a little village in the Galician countryside some time ago. There they live a quiet life, although their relations with the locals are not as idyllic as they would like them to be. A conflict with their neighbours, the Anta brothers, will see tension rise in the village to the point of no return.
Broker
(Country: Korea; Year: 2022; Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda; Writer: Hirokazu Kore-eda; Stars: Song Kang-ho, Gang Dong-won, Bae Doona, Lee Ji-eun, Lee Joo-young)
Drama following a group of people brought together by "baby post boxes" used to help abandoned babies.
Corsage
(Country: Austria, France, Germany, Luxembourg; Year: 2022; Director: Marie Kreutzer; Writer: Marie Kreutzer; Stars: Vicky Krieps, Florian Teichtmeister, Katharina Lorenz, Finnegan Oldfield, Jeanne Werner, Alma Hasun, Manuel Rubey, Colin Morgan, Rosa Hajjaj, Lilly Marie Tschörtner , Aaron Friesz, Ivana Urban, Raphael von Bargen, Alexander Pschill, Regina Fritsch, Raphael Nicholas)
A period drama about Empress Elisabeth of Austria, known as Sisi.
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Marie Kreutzer in conversation on Empress Elisabeth of Austria with King Ludwig II of Bavaria, Luchino Visconti, Finnegan Oldfield’s Louis Le Prince and the biographies of Sisi
, Marie Kreutzer in conversation on Corsage, Vicky Krieps as Sisi, singer/songwriter Camille, and the look of the film
, Vicky Krieps in conversation on Marie Kreutzer’s Corsage, Romy Schneider, and Margarethe von Trotta’s Bachmann & Frisch
, Marie Kreutzer in conversation on Corsage, Vicky Krieps as Sisi, singer/songwriter Camille, and the look of the film
, Vicky Krieps in conversation on Marie Kreutzer’s Corsage, Romy Schneider, and Margarethe von Trotta’s Bachmann & Frisch
Triangle Of Sadness and One Fine Morning
Don't Worry Darling
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Olivia Wilde; Writer: Katie Silberman, Carey Van Dyke, Shane Van Dyke; Stars: Florence Pugh, Olivia Wilde, Chris Pine, Kate Berlant, Harry Styles, Gemma Chan)
A 1950s housewife living with her husband in a utopian experimental community begins to worry that his glamorous company may be hiding disturbing secrets.
God's Crooked Lines (Los Renglones Torcidos de Dios)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2022; Director: Oriol Paulo; Writer: Guillem Clua, Torcuato Luca de Tena, Oriol Paulo; Stars: Bárbara Lennie, Pablo Derqui, Eduard Fernández, Loreto Mauleón, Javier Beltrán, Adelfa Calvo, Antonio Buíl, Francisco Javier Pastor, Federico Aguado, Rosa Rovira, Txell Aixendri, Sergi Sáez, Mathilde Eloy, Samuel Soler)
Alice, a private investigator, checks into a psychiatric hospital feigning paranoia with the goal of collecting evidence for the case she is working on: the death of an inmate in unclear circumstances.
Living
(Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Oliver Hermanus; Writer: Kazuo Ishiguro, based on the film by Akira Kurosawa; Stars: Bill Nighy, Tom Burke, Aimee Lou Wood, Alex Sharp, Colin Blyth, Daniel Eghan, Richard Cunningham, Ffion Jolly, Dan Robins, Grant Crookes, Oliver Smiles, Michael James, Stuart Whelan, Jamie Wilkes, Edward Wolstenholme)
In 1952 London, veteran civil servant Williams has become a small cog in the bureaucracy of rebuilding England post-WWII. As endless paperwork piles up on his desk, he learns he has a fatal illness. Thus begins his quest to find some meaning in his life before it slips away.
Moonage Daydream
(Year: 2022; Director: Brett Morgen; Writer: Brett Morgen; Stars: David Bowie)
Documentary featuring a wealth of David Bowie archive.
One Fine Morning
(Country: France; Year: 2022; Director: Mia Hansen-Løve; Writer: Mia Hansen-Løve; Stars: Léa Seydoux, Melvil Poupaud, Nicole Garcia, Pascal Greggory, Kester Lovelace, Ema Zampa)
A woman who is raising her daughter alone and looking after her dad, who has a degenerative disease, embarks on a passionate affair.
Argentina, 1985 and Living
One Year, One Night
(Country: Spain, France; Year: 2022; Director: Isaki Lacuesta; Writer: Fran Araújo, Isa Campo, Ramón González; Stars: Alba Guilera, Miko Jarry, Noémie Merlant, Quim Gutiérrez, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Natalia de Molina, Sophie Broustal, Enric Auquer, Bruno Todeschini, Mike F. Pamphile, José Javier Domínguez, Blanca Apilánez, C. Tangana, Jean-Louis Tilburg, Alex Moreu Garriga)
Céline and Ramón, a young couple who survived the Bataclan terrorist attack, struggle to regain a sense of normality.
On The Fringe (En Los Margenes)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2022; Director: Juan Diego Botto; Writer: Juan Diego Botto, Olga Rodriguez; Stars: Penélope Cruz, Luis Tosar, Adelfa Calvo, Aixa Villagrán, Christian Checa, Nur Al Levi, Javier Perdiguero, Fabrice Boutique, Irene Bueno Royo)
Social thriller relating the interweaving stories of three characters, told over the course of one day.
Peter Von Kant
(Country: France; Year: 2022; Director: François Ozon; Writer: François Ozon; Stars: Denis Ménochet, Isabelle Adjani, Khalil Ben Gharbia, Hanna Schygulla, Stefan Crepon, Aminthe Audiard)
The life of famous film director Peter von Kant is turned upside down when he meets the handsome young Amir.
R.M.N
(Year: 2022; Director: Cristian Mungiu; Writer: Cristian Mungiu; Stars: Judith State, Marin Grigore, Orsolya Moldován, András Hatházi, Macrina Barladeanu, Zoltán Deák)
When a man returns to his village after working away he finds resentments brewing.
Tori And Lokita
(Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2022; Director: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne; Writer: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne; Stars: Marc Zinga, Claire Bodson, Baptiste Sornin, Schils Pablo, Mbundu Joely)
In Belgium today, a young boy and an adolescent girl who have travelled alone from Africa pit their invincible friendship against the difficult conditions of their exile.
Broker and Corsage
Triangle Of Sadness
(Country: Sweden, UK, US, France, Greece; Year: 2022; Director: Ruben Östlund; Writer: Ruben Östlund; Stars: Woody Harrelson, Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean, Hanna Oldenburg, Zlatko Buric, Oliver Ford Davies, Linda Anborg, Iris Berben, Carolina Gynning, Sunnyi Melles, Malte Gårdinger, Vicki Berlin, Arvin Kananian, Beata Borelius, Shaniaz Hama Ali)
A yacht for the super-rich sinks, leaving its passengers marooned on an island.
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