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Poster for Argonauts at the End of History

2026 · ★ 0.0 (0)

In 1989, with the world on the brink of a massive upheaval, a group of Soviet sailors built their own boat and entered a perilous around-the-world race. Told through their own words and layers of haunting archival footage, we follow as they navigate wild seas, political turmoil, and personal tragedy.

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Poster for Landet som icke är

1977 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A poem about the poetic pursuit that in a harmonious way longs for death to occur. Life's desires and worries have done much harm to the poetic self and the person sees death as a help to loosen a large weight from their shoulders.

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Poster for Zara

2009 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A film about the state of people who are forced to live their exile as an outer event, but also as an inner destiny. That condition involves several time levels: a lost past, a disturbed present and a future rimmed with hope. In the village of Zara wandering souls are searching for things lost: letters, childhood, parents… Zara lies at the heart of an eternal search for a place of consolation and respite a search, during which memories and dreams gradually merge into an imagined present. (swissfilms.ch)

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2004 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A comedy short film.

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Poster for Cries and Whispers: On-Set Footage

1972 · ★ 0.0 (0)

The behind-the-scenes documentary for Ingmar Bergman's 1972 masterpiece Cries and Whispersdirected by Bergman’s long-time collaborator, script girl Katinka Farago, it was shot on the set at Taxinge-Näsby Castle in Sweden. The documentary features a narration by Bergman scholar Peter Cowie

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A small-town teenager preparing to leave for a summer culinary program learns that the father she believed was dead is actually alive and living in New York City, exactly where she’s headed. That same night, her struggling musician dad receives news he never could have predicted.

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Poster for Nocturne

2020 · ★ 5.9 (507)

Inside the halls of an elite arts academy, a timid music student begins to outshine her more accomplished and outgoing twin sister when she discovers a mysterious notebook belonging to a recently deceased classmate.

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Poster for Pretextos

2008 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Marriage of Vienna, theater director, and Daniel, a geriatric physician, is in crisis. Both cling to their professional activity to fill the void in their lives agonizing. Their worlds seem antagonistic, their needs, different. Account of the worst loneliness: loneliness in the company, and on promises unfulfilled desires can not be met, but it becomes a good excuse to continue living despite everything.

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A spy disrupts a farming collective in France only to develop second thoughts about her life.

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Poster for Silas and the Polar Bear on Table Mountain

2026 · ★ 0.0 (0)

Eight-year-old Silas lives with his mother and beloved grandmother at the foot of Table Mountain, where stories of Dreamland capture his imagination. After Grandma’s sudden death, Silas refuses to accept this loss and believes she simply got lost in Dreamland. He goes to Dreamland to look for her, but it doesn’t seem like he remembers it anymore. It feels like he’s just walking in circles. Meanwhile, the neighbors’ fearless daughter, Willemien, and a strange creature named Brommel unexpectedly appear at his side, and a terrifying polar bear begins to hunt them.

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Poster for Sejuta Rasa Buat Adelia

— · ★ 0.0 (0)

Adelia Naurah's career as a chef at Malay Kitchen, Hotel Green Cove is tarnished when her caramel pudding is criticized by Chef Syed Idlan, a bachelor from the pastry kitchen who recently transferred to the hotel. They are bound to clash whenever they meet. Their disputes continue, alongside unexpected stirrings in their hearts. Adelia is anxious because she has fallen in love with this egotistical man! Syed Idlan is troubled because his intention to annoy the girl has turned into an intention to court her! It's a mess! Suddenly, Chef Joanna appears, a beautiful pastry chef who has long been Adelia's culinary idol. While Adelia and Syed Idlan are torn by their feelings for each other, Joanna intervenes to separate them. Adelia's heart burns when Joanna gives her a piece of her mind! My goodness... this half-westernized woman really deserves it! While Adelia is dealing with disappointment, Hafidz arrives to help ease her troubles.

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Poster for My Foreign Land

2025 · ★ 0.0 (0)

For the Suruí, an indigenous people in western Brazil, there was a lot at stake in the 2022 presidential elections. Under incumbent President Bolsonaro, logging and mining companies were given free rein in their territory. His opponent Lula, on the other hand, pledged to protect the Amazon and uphold Indigenous rights. Tribal leader Almir and his daughter, the young activist Txai Suruí, are each followed during their campaign in the final month before the elections. While Txai travels abroad to raise awareness about the destruction of the rainforest, Almir campaigns across the state of Rondônia, seeking support for his congressional bid.

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Poster for Princesse

2022 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for Some Like It Veiled

2017 · ★ 6.1 (215)

Armand and Leila, students at Science Po, are a young couple. They plan to go to New York to do their internship at the United Nations. But when Mahmoud, Leila's big brother, returns from a long stay in Yemen, which radically transformed him, he is opposed to his sister's love relationship and decides to remove him at any cost from Armand. To enter Mahmoud and see again Leila, Armand has no choice: he must slip the integral veil! The next day, a certain Scheherazade with a veiled face rings at the door of Leila, and she will not leave Mahmoud indifferent ...

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Poster for Elevate

2018 · ★ 9.0 (1)

Trina's job gets the best of her as she tries to complete just one day of healthy eating. Harassed by her cruel boss and overwhelmed by the trapped elevator occupants that reach out to her for help, her only escape is Lola, a fitness guru who she desperately tries to emulate. In this slow building drama of intertwining stories about people trapped in elevators, our heroes and villains must fight to overcome their struggles with homophobia, food addiction and racism.

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Poster for Roller Wings

1990 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for The Beijing Chick

1991 · ★ 0.0 (0)

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Poster for (Des)controle

2026 · ★ 0.0 (0)

At a turbulent time in her life and career, an overwhelmed writer seeking relief returns to drinking after 15 years of sobriety, but goes from a simple glass of wine to total loss of control.

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Poster for Sylphvania Grove

2018 · ★ 10.0 (1)

A troubled girl follows a magical being into the woods where her fears take on fantastic forms.

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Poster for The Collective

2019 · ★ 0.0 (0)

A group of actors who have gotten tired of the patriarchal theatre institutions, are rehearsing an ”unconventional” version of Euripides Medea. When they get interrupted by a group of teenage girls they need to realize that they might not be as progressive as they think.

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