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A man from the West Bank finds himself taking the smuggling route to Israel to be with his family.

A man caught up in an amnesia pandemic tries to construct a new life for himself.

On a very ordinary day, four ordinary people decide to set fire to a cinema packed with people.
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A devout communist witnesses a government shooting during a strike - which changes her life forever.

Chaitanya Tamhane's masterfully composed second feature examines a lifetime journey devoted to the art of Indian classical music.

The story of a taxi driver who stole a Goya from London's National Gallery and began to send ransom notes.

A war-weary general oversees his troops close to home.

Gaza, today. Sixty-year-old sherman Issa is secretly in love with Siham, a woman who works as a dressmaker at the market. Finally determined to propose, he discovers an ancient statue of Apollo in his fishing net, which he decides to hide at home. When Hamas discovers the existence of this mysterious treasure, troubles start for Issa... Will he succeed in declaring his love to Siham?

Four lives intersect on day in Istanbul.

Drama about a woman traumatised by the end of a relationship.
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A man goes on a journey of discovery sparked by a series of accidents.

The interwoven stories of five women are told over the course of a fateful night in a Haifa club.

An inseparable couple are forced apart following a crime... and meet again by chance three years later.
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Sam Ali, a young sensitive and impulsive Syrian, left his country for Lebanon to escape the war. He finds himself turned into a work of art by a tattoo artist...but at what cost.

August 2007. Isolated in his austere penthouse overlooking Central Park, obsessive Wall Street data analyst Richard Boca sees ominous patterns. His computer models are behaving erratically, as are the swarms of mosquitos breeding in his apartment, an infestation that attends his psychological meltdown.

A masseur from the East enters the lives of the rich residents of a bland, walled off community.

Hybrid documentary about the life of Jesus and the current struggles of migrant workers in Italy.

A young man is sent to La Maca, a prison of Ivory Coast in the middle of the forest ruled by its prisoners. With the red moon rising, he is designated by the Boss to be the new Roman and must tell a story to the other prisoners.

A woman in her sixties who, after losing everything following the Great Recession, embarks on a journey through the American West, lives as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.

Documentary about the everyday life in the Middle East that lies behind the continuing tragedy of civil wars, ferocious dictatorships, foreign invasions and interference, up to the murderous apocalypse of ISIS.

John, a 35-year-old window cleaner, devotes his life to raising his young son Michael as a single dad, but after he's given only a few months to live, he tries to find the perfect set of adoptive parents.

In the aftermath of Cassius Clay’s defeat of Sonny Liston in 1964, the young boxer meets with friends Malcolm X, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown to decide the course of his life, and possibly that of civil rights history.

Martha and Sean Carson are a Boston couple on the verge of parenthood whose lives change irrevocably during a home birth at the hands of a flustered midwife.

A lonely neurosurgeon falls in love but when she moves to Budapest to be with him, the love of her life says they've never met before.

A UN translator in Srebrenica when the Serbian army takes over the town faces a difficult choice.
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A documentary recounting the lives of Roberto Rossellini's children from the perspective of Alessandro Rossellini, the first grandson of the director.

A teenager facing grief after the death of her mum is caught up in a school shooting and siege.

Naples, early 1980s: Aldo and Vanda’s marriage finds itself on the rocks when Aldo falls in love with the young Lidia. Thirty years later, Aldo and Vanda are still married.

Deep in the Mayan jungle, a lawless territory where myths abound, a group of Mexican gum workers cross paths with Agnes, a mysterious young Belizean woman.
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A hard-working brick factory worker faces the closure of his workplace and the fading of his dreams

A teenager embarks on an unexpected journey after becoming obsessed with an erotic webcam girl.

In upstate New York in the 1850s, Abigail begins a new year on the rural farm where she lives with her husband Dyer. But a friendship with the wife of a new neighbour leads to trouble.

An ex-con goes on the run with his new-found love, while chasing his dream of opening a cinema.

In hellish Casablanca, a car-crash sets ablaze a burning, passionate love story between has-been rocker Larsen and the streetwise Rajae.

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