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The Best of Youth

  Two close-knit brothers, Nicola (Luigi Lo Cascio) and Matteo (Alessio Boni), are buffeted by the social and political upheavals that rock their native Italy during the 1960s and ’70s Read More

The Bride

  The Bride is Paula Ortiz’s adaptation of Fedrico Garcia Lorca’s Blood Wedding, among the 20th century’s most famous and revered Spanish plays. Nominated for 12 Goya Awards (Spain’s Academy Read More

I, the Worst of All

  This fact-based film examines the life of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Assumpta Serna), a Roman Catholic nun from Mexico City who, in the midst of the Spanish Read More

Broken Wings

  The unexpected death of the family patriarch throws every member of the Ulman clan off course. Widow Dafna takes to bed for three months and when she finally returns Read More

Espace Détente

  Deep in the heart of the Veule, an imaginary French province, Geugène Electro Stim, a small business whose survival is based on manufacturing and selling C14, an old but Read More

Goya’s Ghosts

  The painter Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition when his muse, Ines, is arrested by the church for heresy. Her father, Thomas, comes to him hoping that his Read More

A Grin Without A Cat

  A Grin Without a Cat is a 1977 French essay film by Chris Marker. It focuses on global political turmoil in the 1960s and ’70s, including the rise of Read More

Innocents With Dirty Hands

  Louis, a rich man who lives quietly with his beautiful young wife, Julie, in St Tropez, has cardiac and alcohol problems. They sleep in separate rooms and, when she Read More

Exiles

  Exiles is a 2004 French film by Tony Gatlif. The film follows two young bohemians, Zano and Naima who, after having sex, spontaneously decide that they will travel to Read More

The Child

  Young, unmarried couple Sonia and Bruno have just had a son, who Sonia names Jimmy. Bruno, who did not visit her while she was in the hospital, scoffs at Read More