OSCAR CONTENDER & SPOTLIGHT ON LATIN AMERICA - A USEFUL LIFE - (LA VIDA ÚTIL)                             

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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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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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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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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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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OSCAR CONTENDER - 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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OSCAR CONTENDER - STREET DAYS - (QUCHIS DGEEBI)  

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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SPOTLIGHT ON LATIN AMERICA - HERMANO                                                                                                 

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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SPOTLIGHT ON LATIN AMERICA - HABANA EVA                                                                                                    

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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SPOTLIGHT ON LATIN AMERICA - ACORAZADO - (BATTLESHIP)

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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SPOTLIGHT ON LATIN AMERICA & OSCAR CONTENDER - A USEFUL LIFE - (LA VIDA ÚTIL)

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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SPOTLIGHT ON LATIN AMERICA - 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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SPOTLIGHT ON GERMANY - YOUNG GOETHE IN LOVE

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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SPOTLIGHT ON GERMANY - TRANSFER

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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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....

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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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SPOTLIGHT ON LATIN AMERICA - THE TENANTS

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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