Movies

Daichi Kaneko, Yuumi Kawaii, Kanichiro

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Japanese

Kana works a disaffected job at a beauty salon, where she bristles against the beauty expectations placed on women her age. Her erratic mood and default to self-destruct impacts all of her relationships, as moments of levity erupt into violence and optimism simmers to despair. Bored with her slavish boyfriend, she finds another; the novel excitement of it all soon devolving into a volatile predicament. Uncommitted and trapped in her own life, Kana slowly makes her way towards the inner desert of her emotions.

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Mark Williams, John Burton, Claudie Blakely, Tom Chambers, and Ruby-May Martinwood

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Father Brown finds his own position under threat when he ruffles the feathers of Canon Fox. With his own consecration to Bishop looming, Canon Fox plots his revenge, leaving village life changed forever. Meanwhile, the new Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan settle into married life. Brenda covers the Parish Secretary role, beginning a journey of self-empowerment. And in a Father Brown first, the group take a trip to the seaside.

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So Ji Sub, Huh Joon Ho, Cha Seung Won, Choo Young Woo, and Gong Myung

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Korean

Nam Gi Jun was once a key member of the Bongsan Gang, led by Koo Bong San. He fought through bloody turf wars, helping the gang rise to power. But everything changed when his younger brother, Nam Gi Seok, joined their rival gang, Joowoon, under Lee Ju Un. To protect his brother, Nam Gi Jun made a brutal choice - he left Bongsan for good, severing his left Achilles tendon as proof that he would never return. Eleven years later, he lives a quiet life, running a small drink supply business serving Bongsan-owned establishments. He has no intention of going back. But when Nam Gi Seok, now the second-in-command of Joowoon, is found dead under suspicious circumstances, Nam Gi Jun knows he can't stay away. To find the truth and take revenge, he steps back into the underworld he swore to leave behind - where old grudges still burn, power has shifted, and nothing is as it seems.

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Pavel Talankin and Vladimir Putin

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Russian

Pavel "Pasha" Talankin is a beloved Russian primary school teacher, known as a mentor and prankster who offers students a safe haven in his office. After Russia invades Ukraine, Pasha's role in the school changes dramatically as he is reluctantly drawn into Putin's propaganda machine. Forced to promote state-sanctioned messages and horrified by the transformation of his school and community, he struggles with guilt and a sense of powerlessness, leading him to become an international whistleblower. As the school's videographer, Pasha documents intimate and revealing footage of Putin's regime, capturing the rise of militarized children's groups, repressive laws, fervent nationalism, and the recruitment of graduating students to fight in the war. When he learns his own life may be at risk, Pasha is forced to plan a dangerous escape from Russia.

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Andriy Lidahovskyi and Irma Vitovska

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Ukrainian

Twenty something Vadim is a sound engineer and a downer who is moving from Ukraine to Canada in three months. However, before his departure from the country he is assigned to record the voice of a very rare bird, which dwells only in the Transcarpathian mountains of Ukraine.

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Albrecht Schuch, Anton Noori, Julia Franz Richter, Theresa Frostad Eggesbø, and Maria Hofstätter

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German

Matthias masters impersonating roles for hire: cultured boyfriend, perfect son, sparring partner. Professionally adept at pretending daily, his true challenge lies in being himself.

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Jackson Yee, Shu Qi, Mark Chao, Gengxi Li, Jue Huang, Yongzhong Chen, Zhijian Zhang, and Chloe Maayan

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Mandarin

In a world where humans have forsaken dreams in exchange for immortality, a dreaming monster embarks on a shape-shifting odyssey through illusion, beauty, and terror that takes him across a century of cinema and to the end of time.

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Vincent Macaigne, Micha Lescot, Nine d'Urso, Nora Hamzawi, Maud Wyler, and Dominique Reymond

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French

As society recedes in the spring of 2020, film director Paul Berger returns to his childhood home in the provincial Chevreuse Valley. Still processing the legacy of his parents and feeling out the uncertain shape of the world to come, Paul hunkers down with his documentary filmmaker girlfriend Morgane, his music journalist brother Etienne, and Etienne's new girlfriend Carole. Squabbling over the minutiae of health protocols and the morality of a hermetic lifestyle mediated by ubiquitous online shopping, the makeshift household finds new ways to lacerate familiar wounds. Yet Paul also finds a surprising refuge in the compulsory quietude of pandemic life, an opportunity to reconnect with the books and art and enchanted forests of his youth.

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Romana Maggiora Vergano, Fabrizio Gifuni, Anna Mangiocavallo, and Daniele Monterosi

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Italian

A deeply felt narrative of the filmmaker's time with her father. A story that's both personal and told with the necessary distance. Like a passion, a life choice and a way of being in the world.

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