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Jasper Billerbeck, Laura Tonke, Lisa Hagmeister, and Diane Kruger

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German

In 1945 Amrum Island, 12-year-old Nanning hunts seals, fishes at night, and farms to help feed his family. Life feels idyllic on this windswept isle until peace reveals an unexpected danger closer to home.

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Documentary

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Croatian

In September 1919, Italian poet Gabriele D'Annunzio led a force of irregulars in an invasion of the town of Fiume, in what is today Croatia. Was he an egotist with dreams of heading his own state? A utopian with a strong nationalist bent? Or a fascist who cared little for the locals and helped pave the way for Mussolini's rule? In Fiume O Morte! ('Fiume or Death!'), Croatian filmmaker Igor Bezinović tells the story of D'Annunzio's escapade in the most entertaining way possible, using brashly anachronistic re-enactments featuring residents of modern-day Rijeka the city which includes what used to be Fiume. Meticulously researched, Fiume O Morte! brilliantly blends archival footage and photography with a rotating cast of informal re-enactors, drawing the past into the present. It also captures the essential puffery and absurdity of the fascist project at a time when authoritarianism is on the rise around the world.

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Ahmed Ali Akbar, Resham, Amna Ilyas, Syed Muhammad Ali, Ahmad Ali Butt, Razia Malik, and Arham Khan

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Urdu

When the killer of a young labor activist is acquitted, journalist Shahbaz Bhatti investigates. Each lead exposes contradictions and the brutal truth of child labor in 1990s Pakistan.

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Documentary

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Polish

A street in central Warsaw becomes the focus of this witty and personal portrait of Poland. Filmmaker Arjun Talwar immigrated to the country over a decade ago, but still feels like an outsider. Through encounters with neighbors, immigrants, workers, and longtime residents, he explores the contradictions of contemporary Polish society and the challenges of belonging in an increasingly divided Europe. Blending humor, observation, and personal reflection, the film transforms Wolf Street into a microcosm of modern Poland.

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Keitatsu Koshiyama, Kiara Nakanishi, and Sôsuke Ikematsu

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Japanese

One winter on the Japanese island of Hokkaido, a young boy named Takuya has resigned himself to the fact that he's the worst player on his ice hockey team. While practicing, he becomes transfixed by the figure skaters who share the ice rink, particularly Sakura, a rising star from Tokyo. Her coach, Arakawa, takes an interest in Takuya, seeing himself in the young boy. He pairs the two up and trains them as a competitive ice-dancing duo. Although tentative with each other at first, the kids eventually grow closer and form a deep bond with their supportive coach. But as the winter continues, unspoken feelings begin to surface and the harmony the trio once knew begins to falter.

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Yoon Ga-yi, Choi Hee-jin, Heo Jung-do, and Park Soo-Young

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Korean

High school student Sohee starts training for a job at a call center but the greed of her company leads to her death. Detective Oh Yu-jin, who has something in common with Sohee, starts to probe her demise and finds an unsettling truth.

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Mira Sorvino, Amr Saad, Maya Talem, Sayed Ragab, John Savage, Jessica Hosameldin, and Nelly Karim

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Arabic and English

Hadiya, a 12-year-old girl who, after being forced into marriage, becomes the target of a Western corporation that seeks to control the only water source in her village. She goes on a harrowing journey to find her father and bring justice to all.

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Saga Garðarsdóttir, Sverrir Gudnason, and Ida Mekkin Hlynsdottir

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Icelandic

Captures a year in the life of a family as the parents navigate their separation. Through intimate vignettes and strange occurrences, the film explores the complexities of family, love, and the impact of shared memories.

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Dominique Blanc, Gregory Gadebois, and Denis Podalydes

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French

Once upon a time, a poor woodcutter and his wife lived in a great forest. Cold, hunger, poverty and a war raging all around them meant their lives were very hard. One day, the woodcutter's wife rescues a baby. A baby girl, thrown from one of the many trains that constantly pass through the forest. This baby, this 'most precious of cargoes will transform the lives of the poor woodcutter's wife and her husband, as well as those whose paths the child will cross, including the man who threw her from the train. And some will try to protect her, whatever the cost. Their story will reveal the worst and the best in the hearts of men.

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Benjamin Voisin, Rebecca Marder, Pierre Lottin, Denis Lavant, and Swann Arlaud

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French

Meursault works as a clerk at an office in Algiers during the French colonial occupation. A modest man who keeps to himself, Meursault finds his routine upended by the sudden death of his mother. At her funeral, he faces scrutiny from all corners for his failure to perform his grief. Meursault's reputation for otherworldly detachment carries over to all aspects of his life, from his tentative romance with Marie to his indifference to professional advancement. As Meursault gets swept up in a cycle of escalating reprisals among his neighbors, tensions come to a head when he murders an Arab man on the beach. A Frenchman may offer many defenses for shooting an Arab in Algeria, but Meursault's refusal of excuse or remorse shakes colonial society to its core.

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