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Poster for Remembering Every Night

2024 · ★ 6.7 (3)

A visit to the employment office, practicing dance steps, making music with friends: several women’s everyday lives are captured in long shots and with a superb sense of place. A film like a summer's day, bright, friendly, with the occasional chill.

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Poster for SEAT 20D

2019 · ★ 9.0 (1)

A woman who lost her son in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing channels her grief through the creation of a sculpture garden.

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1993 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Memory

2025 · ★ 7.6 (8)

After her parents’ divorce, six-year-old Vladlena moves from Crimea to Grozny, not yet aware of the changes that lie ahead. When war breaks out in Chechnya, it deeply affects her city and family. Years later, filmmaker Sandu reflects on her childhood in this poetic, autobiographical hybrid film, exploring how cycles of violence shape children—and how healing and change are possible.

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Poster for Owning it

2021 · ★ 6.4 (21)

Sanou, a bright 15-year-old, enrolls in the famous Henri IV school in Paris. In this prestigious institution, the young girl from the Saint-Denis outer suburbs finds herself dropped into a world a million miles from everything she knows.

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Poster for A House With No Exit

1988 · ★ 3.0 (1)

An artist and his lover get trapped in their summer house by a gang of convicts.

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Poster for Pharmacy of Happiness

2020 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In the future, all diseases have disappeared, and people don't need medicines. They come to the pharmacy for spiritual joys: a languid look, an anti-scandalous vaccine and vitamins against lies.

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Poster for Splinters

2020 · ★ 7.6 (14)

On 3 November 1995, the Rio Tercero Military Factory exploded in Cordoba, prompting thousands of projectiles to fire and spread in the surrounding villages, in a tragedy that would leave seven dead and hundreds injured and affected. At the time, Natalia Garayalde was a twelve-year-old girl who lived with her family near the place, and he was still playing filming with the video camera her father had bought, when she recorded the immediate moments of the burst, while her family escaped the explosions, as well as the daily activities of the village in the days and weeks that follow. Twenty-five years later, that material captured from a girl's candid and surprised gaze it becomes a thoughtful and painful testimony about the family, the destruction of a city, the traces of horror, the sinister truth about the case.

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Poster for Capitaine Casta : Amélie a disparu

2007 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for In the Country of My Parents

1981 · ★ 0.0 (0)

"Had it not been for Hitler, I would have been born a German-Jewish child, more German than Jewish, in a small village in the South of Germany. But as it happened, I was born in Argentina, my mothertongue is Spanish. I came to Germany 17 years ago." It is here, where author and director Jeanine Meerapfel starts searching for her own Jewish identity, being confronted time and time again with Federal Republic reality.

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Poster for Good Morning

2017 · ★ 6.0 (1)

A young woman and her father adapt to terrifying changes they never expected.

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Poster for Noblemen

2019 · ★ 4.6 (7)

A secretly gay 15-year-old boy, struggling with his adolescent years, is terrorized by a gang of bullies in a posh boarding school. This sets forth a chain of events that leads to a loss of life and innocence.

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1981 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Based on a fairy tale by D. Nagishkin, written on the basis of Far Eastern folklore.

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2011 · ★ 0.0 (0)

16min, 2011, shooting format: 16mm film, screening format: HD, col

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Poster for Losing Ground

1982 · ★ 6.1 (21)

Sara, a cold college professor, and her husband, an ecstatic painter, spend a summer away from the city, straining their rocky relationship.

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Poster for God Is Great and I'm Not

2001 · ★ 4.4 (29)

Michèle, 20 years old, feels terrible after having broken up with her boy-friend. She meets Francois, who's a veterinarian and jewish. Michèle decides to convert into Judaism because she has to believe in something, if not in someone.

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2007 · ★ 5.0 (1)

A young pair from Stuttgart fly to Shanghai to hop aboard the textile business of his father while she prepares for the birth of their son. A story about the ever more common movement of Germans into the East for professional gain.

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Poster for Tafers Code

2026 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Tafers Code follows five teenagers at the T.A.F. language school in Itaquaquecetuba, guided by the charismatic Teacher Gilmar. Each episode explores the unique challenges and strengths of the students as they discover how learning English can transform their lives. With humor, emotion, and a touch of documentary style, the series culminates in a final project that inspires not only the characters but everyone to take the first step toward a brighter future through language learning.

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Poster for Neon Dreaming

2024 · ★ 0.0 (0)

8-year-old Billie leans on her vivid imagination, and her loyal best friend Sherry, to unravel the web of secrets shrouding her mother’s true identity. Believing that her mother is a ballerina icon, Billie stops at nothing to try to find her. As Billie delves deeper into the mysteries of her family’s past, she begins to question the true intentions of the ones closest to her — her grandma and dad. Billie must decide whether to embrace her imperfect family or continue living in the comfort of their secrets.

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Poster for The Buenoromeros

1979 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Three sisters living together are tied to the memory of their father. They welcome their suitors into their home and then repeat a ritual that seems to come from times past.

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