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Eulália and Iremar, two women in their later years, share a life divided between neighborhood novenas and motel rooms, freely exploring desire and passion. However, as Eulália turns 60, a question begins to linger between them: at their age, is it still possible to love freely and start over?
An elderly shepherd takes on big business when he becomes the only holdout against property developers building a luxury resort in his tiny Sardinian village.
As part of his wedding plans, Dudu needs to go back to Israel from America for a ritual Hina ceremony with his fiance's American family.
After her father passed away, Summer stopped taking photos. One day, she falls for Yeonwoo, the school's soccer star, and takes her picture with her late father's camera. When she develops the film, she finds mysterious photos of her father's high school lover. In these photos, Summer uncovers a secret about her father. Will she be able to pursue her first love and uncover her father's hidden truth?
An investigator travels to a remote Moldavian village to examine a supposed hunting accident. As he talks to locals and reviews the events, inconsistencies emerge, leading him to question whether the death was truly accidental.
The Sunrise File is a geopolitical thriller in which a Mossad agent seeks to determine the fate of former Nazi executioners. The film takes us on a breathtaking tale of espionage from the end of the Second World War to the trial of Klaus Barbie, between Paris, Berlin, La Paz and Tel Aviv.
Katie flies to Paris but gets caught up in her anxieties of air travel - what movie to watch? How is that girl still on TikTok? What if the plane blows up? Sacré bleu!
Raised in inland China, the protagonist Yangqing Lamu meets Baima, a young local guide, during an accidental trip to the plateau. The two travel deep into pastoral grasslands, embarking on a spiritual exploration of marriage, life and death, and morality amid the conflicts between dreams and reality, tradition and individuality. In the end, she achieves a profound reconciliation with both her homeland and her inner self in the vast wilderness.
Utae and Aiko attend an all-girl private school where the devoutly religious principal seems to be raping some of the students, including Utae.
With 200 days left before college entrance exams, In-hye, who cares for the school's animal pen, spends her time lecturing a duck instead of studying. Seo-hee, punished for carrying a knife, joins her, and they discover an abandoned meadow where they lose the duck, Hee-seon. Meanwhile, teacher Kim Ah-tae forms a college interview prep group for four neglected students. On interview day, In-hye and Seo-hee ditch school to find Hee-seon, camping in the meadow and gradually learning to survive in the wild.
On her final day working in a greenhouse, Romanian migrant worker Ana is followed by a documentary crew manipulating her story. Under pressure from her father and boss, tensions escalate. As she realizes she’s losing control, a turning point at work forces her to attempt an escape.
A soul-stirring tale of Ajanta, a girl next door with great aspirations to become a musician (Veena player) and hoping for a joyful future filled with abundant happiness. Unexpectedly, her life turns upside down, caused by an ugly gossip
A brilliant teenager destined for greatness loses everything to drug addiction after one wrong friendship. When he gets a final chance to rebuild his life, he must confront the consequences of his past before they consume his future.
Tormented by a mysterious malaise, a woman tries to go on with her daily tasks. Meanwhile, her son becomes involved with another young man as all the spaces around them seem to point towards the end.
The story follows Dawood's family in a quiet village, living a simple life working on their farm with their clever donkey "Marzouq," who helps them earn their daily bread. When Dawood faces life-changing circumstances, the whole family is affected, and their relationship with their home and with Marzouq gradually unfolds in a deeply human way.
Special feature from Criterion’s release of Desperate Living, where writer-director John Waters tours the Baltimore location that served as the site of Mortville, the twisted penal colony inhabited by fugitives, outcasts, and deviants – including hysterical housewife Peggy Gravel and her fed-up housekeeper – and presided over by the despotic Queen Carlotta.
In a time without space, a group of actors desperately try to stage a play under the supervision of a computer.
A woman visits her childhood home one last time and accidentally discovers an old answering machine. It still works. On the tape, she hears a message from the past, her own childhood voice and her father's: "We are not home right now. Please leave a message after the tone..." A glitch from another time. But when the message ends, there is suddenly another one.
