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The Wild Robot and The Marching Band
All We Imagine As Light
(Country: France, India, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Italy; Year: 2024; Director: Payal Kapadia; Writer: Payal Kapadia; Stars: Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha, Chhaya Kadam, Hridhu Haroon, Azees Nedumangad, Anand Sami, Lovleen Mishra, Madhu Raja, Shweta Prajapati, Tintumol Joseph, Ardra K.S., Sisira Anil CK, Aparna Ram, Kashish Singh, Nikhil Mathew)
Triptych explores the lives of three women in Mumbai.
Anora
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Sean Baker; Writer: Sean Baker; Stars: Mikey Madison, Yura Borisov, Ivy Wolk, Lindsey Normington, Karren Karagulian, Ross Brodar, Mark Eydelshteyn, Emily Weider, Alena Gurevich, Paul Weissman, Luna Sofía Miranda, Masha Zhak, Vache Tovmasyan, Charlton Lamar)
Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch.
Apocalypse In The Tropics
(Country: Brazil, US, Denmark; Year: 2024; Director: Petra Costa, Moara Passoni; Writer: Petra Costa, Alessandra Orofino, David Barker, Nels Bangerter, Tina Baz, Moara Passoni; Stars: Petra Costa, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Jair Bolsonaro, Silas Malafaia, Michelle Bolsonaro, Elizete Malafaia, Oscar Niemeyer)
Examination of the rise of the far right in Brazil.
Bird
(Country: UK, US, France, Germany; Year: 2024; Director: Andrea Arnold; Writer: Andrea Arnold; Stars: Barry Keoghan, Franz Rogowski, Nykiya Adams, James Nelson-Joyce, Jasmine Jobson, Rhys Yates, Joanne Matthews, Frankie Box, Dave)
12-year-old Bailey lives with her single dad Bug and brother Hunter in a squat in North Kent. Bug doesn’t have much time for his kids and Bailey who is approaching puberty seeks attention and adventure elsewhere.
Emilia Perez
(Country: US, Mexico; Year: 2024; Director: Jacques Audiard; Writer: Jacques Audiard; Stars: Zoe Saldana, Selena Gomez, Edgar Ramírez, Karla Sofía Gascón, Adriana Paz, James Gerard, Shiraz Tzarfati, Agathe Bokja, Marie-Elisabeth Robert, Stéphane Ly-Cuong, Eric Geynes, Anabel Lopez, Eduardo Aladro, Line Phé, Cyrus Khodaveisi)
A lawyer gets an offer to help a cartel boss start a new life.
Megalopolis and I'm Still Here
I'm Still Here (Ainda estou aqui)
(Country: Brazil, France, Spain; Year: 2024; Director: Walter Salles; Writer: Murilo Hauser, Heitor Lorega, Marcelo Rubens Paiva; Stars: Brazil, 1971: a country in the tightening grip of a military dictatorship. A mother is forced to reinvent herself when her family’s life is shattered by an act of arbitrary violence.)
Brazil, 1971: a country in the tightening grip of a military dictatorship. A mother is forced to reinvent herself when her family’s life is shattered by an act of arbitrary violence.
The Marching Band (En Fanfare)
(Country: France; Year: 2024; Director: Emmanuel Courcol; Writer: Emmanuel Courcol, Irène Muscari; Stars: Benjamin Lavernhe, Pierre Lottin, Ludmila Mikaël, Jacques Bonnaffé, Sarah Suco, Nathalie Desrumaux)
A conductor discovers he was adopted and has a younger sibling.
Marco (Marco, The Invented Truth)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2024; Director: Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño; Writer: Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño, Jorge Gil Munarriz, Jose Mari Goenaga; Stars: Eduard Fernández, Nathalie Poza, Sonia Almarcha, Chani Martín, Fermí Reixach, Daniela Brown, Vicente Vergara, Jordi Rico)
Based on true events, the film explores the story of a concentration camp deportee from Spain who turned out to be fictitious.
Maria Callas: Letters And Memoirs (Maria Callas: Lettere e memorie)
(Country: France, Italy, Greece; Year: 2023; Director: Tom Volf, Yannis Dimolitsas; Writer: Tom Volf; Stars: Monica Bellucci)
Consideration of the opera star.
Megalopolis
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Francis Ford Coppola; Writer: Francis Ford Coppola; Stars: Giancarlo Esposito, Aubrey Plaza, Nathalie Emmanuel, Shia LaBeouf, Adam Driver, Kathryn Hunter, Laurence Fishburne, Dustin Hoffman, James Remar, Jason Schwartzman, Forest Whitaker, Jon Voight, Chloe Fineman, D.B. Sweeney, Talia Shire)
Power play and corruption unfold in a futuristic city.
Oh Canada and Bird
Memoir Of A Snail
(Country: Australia; Year: 2024; Director: Adam Elliot; Writer: Adam Eliot; Stars: Voiced by, Sarah Snook, Jacki Weaver, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Tony Armstrong, Dominique Pinon, Eric Bana, Nick Cave)
A woman recalls the series of unfortunate events that have made up her life so far.
Oh Canada
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Paul Schrader; Writer: Paul Schrader; Stars: Jacob Elordi, Uma Thurman, Richard Gere, Michael Imperioli, Kristine Froseth, Penelope Mitchell, Victoria Hill, Aaron Roman Weiner, Cornelia Guest, Dylan Flashner, Gregory Connors, Ryan Woodle, John Way, Jean Brassard, Gary Hilborn)
A documentary filmmaker, who is terminally ill, reflects on his life.
Parthenope
(Country: Italy, France; Year: 2024; Director: Paolo Sorrentino; Writer: Umberto Contarello, Paolo Sorrentino; Stars: Gary Oldman, Stefania Sandrelli, Luisa Ranieri, Isabella Ferrari, Silvio Orlando, Dario Aita, Alessandro Cucca, Brando Improta, Paola Calliari, Celeste Dalla Porta, Peppe Lanzetta, Giampiero De Concilio, Biagio Izzo, Nello Mascia, Lorenzo Gleijeses)
Drama charts a woman's life in Naples from the Fifties onwards.
The Seed Of The Sacred Fig
(Year: 2024; Director: Mohammad Rasoulof)
Investigating judge Iman grapples with paranoia amid political unrest in Tehran. When his gun vanishes, he suspects his wife and daughters, imposing draconian measures that strain family ties as societal rules crumble.
The Substance
(Country: UK, US; Year: 2024; Director: Coralie Fargeat; Writer: Coralie Fargeat; Stars: Margaret Qualley, Dennis Quaid, Demi Moore, Hugo Diego Garcia, Joseph Balderrama, Oscar Lesage, Gore Abrams, Olivier Raynal, Vincent Colombe, Tiffany Hofstetter, Matthew Géczy, Tom Morton, Philip Schurer, Matthew Luret, Alexandra Papoulias Barton)
A fading television star tries to restore her fame with the help of a suspicious drug.
Emilia Perez and All We Imagine As Light
A Traveler's Needs (Yeohaengjaui pilyo)
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2024; Director: Hong Sang-soo; Writer: Hong Sang-soo; Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Kwon Hae-hyo, Hye-young Lee, Ha Seong-guk, Yunhee Cho)
Iris, a wandering woman teaching French to Koreans, navigates her life with few concerns.
The Wild Robot
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Chris Sanders; Writer: Chris Sanders; Stars: Lupita Nyong'o, Pedro Pasca, Catherine O'Hara, Kit Connor, Bill Nighy, Stephanie Hsu, Matt Berry, Ving Rhames, Mark Hamill)
A robot designed to assist humans finds herself stranded on an island populated only by animals.
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