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If you prefer to play it safe, this is your section, Careers, with the most recent of the new classics, master filmmakers who have already gone a long way down the road, remain true to themselves and show no signs of wearing off.
The multiple stories that take place and connect in modern Warsaw prove all the things that can happen in a small period of time that is yet long enough to provide a fascinating frenzy to a young and risky film.
Avi Mograbi decides to start a theater workshop in a detention center located in the Israeli desert near the Egyptian border, which holds people from Eritrea and Sudan, immigrants who aren’t able to return to their countries and don’t have a future in Israel.
A businessman starts an extramarital relationship with the young woman who takes care of her wife, a Canada minister who is bedridden due to depression.
A small film crew moves through Asturias in search of the places where the main ambushes against the Republican Guerrilla (1937-1952) took place. In that trip, they meet several people willing to share with them their memories of that time.
Reinaldo is a teenage boy who recently escaped from a penitentiary unit and sets on a journey back home to Havana. Nostalgia, rum, and his sense of humor are the only travel mates he has, until he meets Marga.
After being the sole witness to a domestic fight that ended up with a murder, Patrascu decides to keep quiet and move on with his life, until the possible killer starts to get close to his wife and son.
Sokurov inquires into the connection between art and power by focusing on the Louvre –a place Nazi authorities decided to protect during their occupation in World War II– and through the testimonies of Jacques Jaujard and Count Franz Wolff-Metternich.
The Brazilian filmmaker tells the love story of two youngsters who meet and have a love affair in an enchanted place. But everything will change when one of them commits a felony.
Elle breaks up with her girlfriend Olivia when her granddaughter Sage appears unexpectedly and asks her for money. They end up spending the day visiting old friends, which will make some secrets from the past come to light.
The latest film by Pere Portabella deals with the political, financial, social, and cultural dimensions of the current crisis in the country’s parliamentary democracy and social movements emerged after 15-M.
An adaptation of the homonymous novel by Octave Mirabeau. Set in a town in Normandy in the late 19th century. The young and beautiful Celestine writes down on her journal the details of her arrival to a big mansion to serve a bourgeois family.
Nathalie teaches philosophy in a Paris high school. She’s married with two kids, and divides her time between her family, her former students, and her mother. One day, her husband announces he’s leaving her for another woman, and she must carry on alone.
A philosophy professor finds himself interrogated by his wife, since she doesn’t trust the pedagogical approach of an educational project in which the man discusses literature with his female students. The professor’s theory will progressively turn practical, to the point it turns into a...
Inspired in the real events that grabbed headlines in 2009, the mythical Mexican director tells the story of two unlucky prostitutes who accidentally murdered two midget wrestlers on a night when nothing went right.
For many, the forest as an escape place is a synonym of shelter and comfort. In that location, the director observes the urban tension of those who find a dream-like mirage and allow themselves to silent anything that appeared to stand as an obstacle.