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Browse 12 movies from Red Balloon Film
In a quiet fishing village on northern France's Opal Coast, the birth of a peculiar child sparks a hidden war between extraterrestrial forces of good and evil.
Feb 2024
A celebrity journalist, juggling her busy career and personal life, has her life over-turned by a freak car accident.
Aug 2021
Munir travels to a remote island to contemplate a drastic action. He is haunted by a cryptic parable passed down to him by his mother. In the silence of his isolated island sanctuary, he encounters the enigmatic Valeska and her rough-hewn but loyal son, Karl. Although few words are spoken, simple acts of kindness begin to overcome their mutual distrust. Munir’s heavy burden is gradually eased and his desire for life reignited
Nov 2025
After losing part of her memory, Maret, 44, sets out to find out who she used to be. She learns about the many different life paths she followed, in none of which anything was ever really achieved. A profoundly unhappy person in a never-ending, headlong rush. A doctor on the island of Lanzarote offers to put this restlessness to an end through brain surgery. A promise of peace and satisfaction. Will Maret proceed with the surgery that would take away part of her being - or not?
Mar 2023
Forced to leave the comfort of his middle class lifestyle at his father's behest, fourteen-year-old Ahmet is sent to an all-boys religious dormitory where he must navigate familial expectations, his religious obligations, and the childhood to which he so desperately clings.
Apr 2024
In a small village in the occupied Golan Heights, the life of a desperate unlicensed doctor, who is going through an existential crisis, takes another unlucky turn when he encounters a man wounded in the war in Syria. Overturning all community expectations in times of war and national crisis, he ventures forth to meet his newly found destiny.
Sep 2021
Rami deals with his Jewish girlfriend’s opposition to abortion. His mother complicates things while seeking compensation for her daughter Fifi accident. Miri plans to terminate her sister’s pregnancy with Rami, who’s Arab. Fifi struggles to hide her non-virginity to save her family’s reputation.
Jul 2025
Mourning her mother’s death and struggling to adjust to her new life in Israel, a young girl bonds with the lonely spirit of a Palestinian child.
Jul 2023
Based on the true story of Yvonne, a cow, who on the way to the abattoir in the summer of 2011, escaped, spending 92 days evading capture, finally gaining her freedom and reuniting with her son. This is her story, told from her point of view in a live action / animated feature film.
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In Karachi, three women from a shelter home — an orderly, a nurse, and a guard — venture into the outside world for a day to confront their families and a society that has failed them.
November 11, 1989. The day the Berlin Wall fell: Nineteen year old Hansi (Hasan) decides to leave Istanbul and live in Berlin after years of commuting between the two cities with his family. His life is about to change as drastically as the recent re-united city.
Rabia, a ten-year-old Pakistani girl sets out to find why her only school in the village is closed. This fable is a ghost story with a tinge of magical-realism that explores corruption from a child's perspective.
Sep 2025