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Besieged Sarajevo, 1993. Haska is 28 years old. She is in love with Elvir, but her love for her eight-year-old son Denis is even stronger. Denis has held a key role in her life ever since the war started. Haska tries to make her everyday life seem normal, even in a context of madness: a besieged city, heavily shelled, with no water or electricity. Elvir's death on the front, where he was a brigade commander, will shatter this apparent normality. When...
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On May 23, 1954, as the battle of Dien Bien Phu is reaching its end, the 317th platoon of auxiliary Laotian soldiers receive the order to retreat. As they make their way through the jungle, the 41 Laotians and their four French officers are slowly annihilated in ambushes and ravaged by disease.
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During a time of peace, a deadly sword that bestows great power upon its wielder was divided and hidden. After the emperor dies, a deranged rebel seizes power and stages a massacre during his search for the blade, leaving only one survivor. Now, the young daughter of a great general is all that stands between a tyrant and his quest for domination.
8) Josep
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During the Spanish civil war, Republican fighters fleeing Franco's dictatorship are imprisoned in concentration camps once they arrive in France. Forced to live in appalling conditions, these refugees barely have access to hygiene, water, and food. Josep tells the story of how Josep Bartoli, an artist born in Barcelona, and Serge, a sympathetic French camp guard, become friends after Serge slips him some paper to use for his art. It is the first film...
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The Hungarian prime minister returns from Germany in a coffin, his dream of making Hungary into a fascist state snuffed out, for now. Crime reporter Zsigmond Gordon has other things on his mind. A cynic who thinks he has seen it all, a tip leads him to an unusual crime scene in a seedy part of the city. A beautiful, well-dressed young woman is dead, with only a Jewish prayer book in her purse.
10) 499
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To reflect on the 500th anniversary of the Spanish conquest of Mexico in 2021, director Reyes offers a bold hybrid cinema experience exploring the brutal legacy of colonialism in contemporary Mexico. Through the eyes of a ghostly conquistador, the film recreates Hernan Cortesb2s epic journey from the coasts of Veracruz to the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, the site of contemporary Mexico City. As the anachronistic fictional character interacts with...
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"A Jewish child deported to Kazakhstan is saved and adopted by Kasym, an old Kazakh railway-man. Kasym gives him a Kazakh name, Sabyr, that in Kazakh language means humble. The child grows up in the small Kazakh village along with other deportees: Vera, a traitor's wife, and Ezhik, a Polish doctor. As Sashka makes friends with the wild-eyed local kids who live to play pranks on others, he sees a newspaper story about a nationwide contest to find the...
16) A radiant girl
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Follows the story of a nineteen-year-old Jewish girl living in Paris during the German occupation in 1942, as she finds friendship and love and aspires to become an actress.
17) The wasted times
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Set in war-torn Shanghai during the 1930s and 1940s, follows events from separate times involving a local crime boss and his Japanese brother-in-law.
18) Munyurangabo
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After stealing a machete from a market in Kigali, Munyurangabo and his friend, Sangwa, leave the city on a journey tied to their pasts. Munyurangabo wants justice for his parents who were killed in the genocide, and Sangwa wants to visit the home he deserted years ago. From two separate ethnic groups, their friendship is tested when Sangwa's wary parents disapprove of Munyurangabo, warning that 'Hutus and Tutsis are supposed to be enemies.'
20) Hinterland
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Vienna, 1920. The Austro-Hungarian Empire has collapsed. Peter Perg returns home from the Great War, after years of captivity. But the Vienna he comes home to is nothing like the place he once knew. The new Austrian Republic thrives on artistic freedom, but anti-democratic movements loom overhead. A stranger in his hometown, his life takes a turn for the worse when one of his former comrades is murdered. Suddenly the mysterious killings of veterans...
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