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Jacob the Liar

  Based on the lauded novel by Jurek Becker, this dark comedy focuses on Jakob Heym (Vlastimil Brodský), a Jew living in a Polish ghetto. When Jakob is temporarily detained Read More

Journey of Hope

  The movie tells of a family that leaves its secure life in a hill village of Turkey, and travels by rail, ship, car, truck, and finally on foot toward Read More

Sarahsarà

  A handicapped Sudanese girl (Kim Engelbrecht) becomes a champion swimmer with the help of a burnt-out sportswriter (Giulio Brogi). The film, inspired by the true story of Sarah Gadalla Read More

Underground Game

  To find the woman of his life, man makes a game up: he enters a subway train wagon, picks a woman he likes and waits to see whether she’s Read More

Black Orpheus

  In the heady atmosphere of Rio’s carnival, two people meet and fall in love. Eurydice, a country girl, has run away from home to avoid a man who arrived Read More

Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands

  In a small city of Brazil, a woman named Flor marries a man named Vadinho, but once married she finds that he is a good-for-nothing. She works teaching cooking Read More

Marianne & Juliane

  Sisters Marianne (Barbara Sukowa) and Juliane (Jutta Lampe) are as similar, and as different, as can be. Marianne is a journalist who believes the only way to enact meaningful Read More

Under the Same Moon

  Under The Same Moon (La Misma Luna) tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Read More

Suck Me Shakespeer

  A comedy that follows an ex-con who lands a position at a school that sits over the spot where money from one of his earlier robberies was stashed. Bank Read More

Triumph of the Will

  A legendary propaganda/documentary of the Third Reich’s 1934 Nuremberg Party Rally. Featuring a cast of thousands as well as, of course, Hitler, Himmler, Goebbels, Hess, Goering and other top Read More