From the director of Run, Lola, Run and The International comes a sexy romantic drama with a nod to classic Hollywood's screwball comedies. Hanna and Simon, a couple in their early forties, live together in Berlin.

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After twenty-five years, Cinemateca Uruguaya’s most devoted employee, Jorge (real-life Uruguayan critic Jorge Jellinek), still finds his inspiration in caring for the films and audiences that grace the seats and screen of his beloved art house cinema.

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Convinced that it’s completely inefficient to cross the U.S. border to become one of millions of Mexican illegals, Silverio Palacios transforms an old abandoned taxi into a raft to sail to Miami in search of the American Dream.

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Combining stunning special effects with potent family drama, this heartrending depiction of the impact of the massive 1976 earthquake that killed more than 240,000 in Tangshan, China uses the disaster to set up the story of a family torn apart--and the 40 years it takes them to reconnect.

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AMIGO, the 17th feature film from writer-director John Sayles, stars Joel Torre as Rafael Dacanay, a village mayor caught in a murderous cross-fire during the Philippine-American War in 1900.

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Ernst and Cecilia seem to be a perfect pair, but when an accident blindsides the couple, their relationship begins to unravel. Ernst is a logical insurance claims investigator; she is a more emotionally driven, kind-hearted art teacher.

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AMONG US – (ÄNGLAVAKT)

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Running in the streets of Rome in 1960, an unknown, barefoot Ethiopian man stunned the world by winning the marathon Olympic gold medal. Overnight, Abebe Bikila became a sports legend. A hero in his own country and on the continent, Bikila was the first African to win....

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THE ATHLETE - (ATLETU)                 

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BELVEDERE

Ruveyda is like most residents of the Belvedere refugee camp: a widow yearning to forget the tragedy of war, fifteen years after the ethnic cleansing of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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The final years in the life of legendary bandit Butch Cassidy are shrouded in mystery, from his rumored death in a Bolivian military standoff, to his escape from South America.

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BLACKTHORN

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Writer-director Zhang Lu’s fascinating window into a rarely seen corner of rural China revolves around 12-year-old Chang-ho, living with his grandfather and mute sister along the frozen river-border with North Korea.

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DOOMAN RIVER

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ECSTASY

To avoid getting caught with an illegal drug shipment at the Edinburgh airport, Lloyd, a burned out smuggler, swallows the lot, but accidentally ruins the shipment. Lloyd’s gangster boss, Solo, makes him responsible for the losses by adding the value to his debt. Lloyd seeks help from his working class buddies.
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In a Havana shaken by Fidel Castro's retirement, Eva, a young seamstress stuck working in a factory with an adorable but lazy boyfriend, dreams of becoming a fashion designer. Her life changes when she meets a dazzling, very capitalistic former patriot, who fans her hopes but is on a greedy personal mission.
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HABANA EVA

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Raised as brothers, intense teammates, and competitors on the soccer field – the gregarious, swaggering Julio (Eliu Armas) and the more wiry and focused Daniel “Gato” (Fernando Moreno) have remained virtually inseparable ever since the newborn Daniel was found abandoned in a trash heap in their La Ceniza slum.
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HERMANO

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THE INVISIBLE EYE –
(LA MIRADA INVISIBLE)

Set against the backdrop of Argentina’s military regime of the 1980s, Diego Lerman’s engrossing and beautifully acted exploration of the totalitarian urge opens with a portrait of María Teresa, a lonely and deeply repressed assistant teacher at an elite Buenos Aires private school.
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A faded rock star is forced to take responsibility for the daughter he never knew he had, in JANIE JONES, a funny and touching road trip through the world of rock ‘n’ roll. From writer-director David M. Rosenthal (Falling Up), inspired by his own experiences.

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JANIE JONES

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Although their high school days are long past, nothing much has changed for Jackie and Lucy. Jackie's social anxiety disorder is still not under control and she’s incapable of having a mature relationship with a man; Lucy is overweight, still lives with her mother and hasn’t finished either of the university degrees she started.
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LA RAFLE – (THE ROUNDUP)

In picturesque Montmartre, three children wearing the yellow Star of David play in the streets, oblivious to the darkness spreading over Nazi-occupied France. Their parents do not seem very concerned either, somehow putting their trust in the Vichy Government. But beyond this naïve view, much is going on. More info....

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In this colorful modern-day parable of good and evil, a humble village electrician devotes his compassion and ingenuity to helping his destitute neighbors in a wind-swept valley of Kyrgyzstan.

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THE LIGHT THIEF – (SVET-AKE)                                                                            

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A love story is both a physical and emotional tale, one that can be deeply personal and heartbreaking for an audience to experience. Director Drake Doremus’ film Like Crazy beautifully illustrates how your first real love is as thrilling and blissful as it is devastating.

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LIKE CRAZY

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MAMMA GÓGÓ                                                                                                         

A tribute to the director's mother, MAMMA GÓGÓ is a heavily fictionalized, yet boldly honest self-portrait, as well as a sharp satire about the film industry and contemporary Icelandic society. Suffused with a love of movies and packed with allusions to other films.

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A speculative account of Maria Anna “Nannerl” Mozart (Marie Feret), five years older than her brother Wolfgang, and a musical prodigy in her own right. Originally the featured performer, she must let Wolfgang become the main attraction, as their strict but loving father, Leopold, exhibits his talented offspring before the royal courts of pre-French revolution Europe. More info....

MOZART’S SISTER

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NEANDER-JIN is a screwball comedy about the media buzz surrounding the homecoming of Germany's most prominent citizen, a 50,000 year old Neanderthal Man, to his native town near Düsseldorf. After an explosion at a pumping station in the Neanderthal Valley, technician Martin Arnold discovers the troglodyte, but no one believes Arnold. More info....

NEANDER-JIN: THE RETURN OF THE NEANDERTHAL MAN

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OXYGEN – (ADEM)

Tom and his brother Lucas are young men who suffer from cystic fibrosis, a genetic disease that slowly destroys their lungs. Tom is struggling to cope with his short life expectancy and hangs around with a gang of hoodlums. In the hospital, he meets Xavier, a young man suffering from the same illness but behaving like a top athlete. More info....

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Katarina is 20 years old. With a troubled past in a dreary suburb, the course of her life already seems to be set in stone – until she discovers music. Everything changes when she hears a performance of Mozart’s Requiem at the Gothenburg Concert Hall. The music sends her reeling and promises a beautiful new world.
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PURE – (TILL DET SOM ÄR VACKERT)

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A watchman and his wife living at an abandoned mine find themselves trapped in the brutal schemes of their tyrannical landlord in this suspenseful, visually striking drama set in the urban outskirts of Delhi. When the landlord offers his daughter to a wealthy potential buyer of the mine, she and her lower-caste lover run away.
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SOUL OF SAND -
(PAIRON TALLE)

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SILENT SOULS

Volga region of Russia—form the backbone of this lyrical, sensual, and dreamlike film about love and loss. After beloved wife Tanja dies, pulp factory CEO, Miron, calls on his best friend, the photographer (and the film’s narrator) Aist, to help him with his final goodbye.
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In his warm and witty follow-up to the 2010 sleeper hit (and 2009 Festival fave, Mid-August Lunch) writer-director-actor Gianni Di Gregorio has created another sparkling comedic ode to the ladies in his life—but this time he plays a middle-aged retiree who has become invisible to all distaff Romans, regardless of age or relationship.
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THE SALT OF LIFE -
(GIANNI E LE DONNE)

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Despite a recent wave of violent crime in the city, manual laborer and night student, Valter, lives a relatively contented life with his family in working-class São Paulo. But when three young criminals move in next door, a bunker mentality sets in.

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THE TENANTS - (OS INQUILINOS)

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TAKE SHELTER

Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself. Curtis LaForche lives in a small Ohio town with his wife Samantha and six-year-old daughter Hannah, who is deaf. Curtis makes a modest living as a crew chief for a sand-mining company. More info....

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A middle-aged, unemployed heroin-addict, Checkie, loiters on the Tbilisi street outside his son’s school, where he himself was once a promising student. His wife, meanwhile, struggles to pay the tuition and understand her husband’s lack of interest in the family’s survival—even as the bank repossesses their furniture.
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STREET DAYS -
(QUCHIS DGEEBI)                                                                        

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Futuristic capitalism meets old-fashioned colonialism in this crisp, cerebral science fiction morality tale, in which an elderly white German industrialist and his wife of 50 years swap bodies with a couple of young, healthy, and breathtakingly beautiful African strangers.
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TRANSFER

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THE WAY

Martin Sheen plays Tom, an American doctor who comes to St. Jean Pied de Port, France to collect the remains of his adult son, killed in the Pyrenees by a storm while walking El Camino de Santiago, also known as The Way of Saint James.
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A suspenseful and psychologically-gripping exploration of a parent dealing with her child doing the unthinkable, WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN is told from the perspective of Eva, played by Swinton in a tour-de-force performance. Always an ambivalent mother, Eva and Kevin have had a contentious relationship literally from Kevin's birth. More info....

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN

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Germany 1772 – The young and tumultuous Johann Goethe aspires to be a poet, but after failing his law exams, is sent by his father to a sleepy provincial court to mend his ways. At first, he tries to do his best and even wins the praise and friendship of his superior, Kestner.

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YOUNG GOETHE IN LOVE

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THE WOMEN ON THE 6TH FLOOR

Paris 1960 -- Jean-Louis lives a bourgeois existence absorbed in his work, cohabitating peacefully with his neurotic socialite wife, Suzanne, while their children are away at boarding school. The couple’s world is turned upside-down when they hire a Spanish maid, Maria.

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In this dreamlike, yet earthbound film, Rahmat the boatman navigates the increasingly brackish waters of a coastal land, collecting the heartaches and tears of its inhabitants. But he remains powerless against their misguided attempts to appease the gods and make the land green again.

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THE WHITE MEADOWS -
(KESHTZAR HAYE SEPID)

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