Country: France Language: FrenchPresented at the Film Center and in our Virtual Screening Room as part of Young French Cinema 2022.The beauty of filmmaker Maxime Roy’s stirring debut resides in the way it dispels this notion of losers and winners without pulling any punches about the difficulties of life on the fringes. The extraordinary performance by lead actor and co-screenwriter François Créton, whose own struggles with addiction inspired the character of Michel, doesn’t leave us any choice but to love him. Premiered at Cannes Film Festival 2021.
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Country: France Language: FrenchPresented at the Film Center and in our Virtual Screening Room as part of Young French Cinema 2022.While writer-director Emilie Carpentier captures our attention—and emotions—with a charming tale of first love between two young people from different backgrounds, her real subject here is the dawning of political and social awareness at the cusp of maturity. In capturing Adja’s gradual decision to step up and fight for her future, she pays tribute to the courage of a generation for whom the fight for environmental justice is an urgent matter of survival.
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Country: Belgium Language: FrenchPresented at the Film Center and in our Virtual Screening RoomAs her older brother Abel is bullied by other kids, 7-year-old Nora struggles to fit in and find her place on the schoolyard. Laura Wandel’s Cannes prize winner was Belgium’s entry for Best International Feature at the 94th Academy Awards.
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Country: Norway Language: NorwegianAn oil platform dramatically goes down on the Norwegian coast, and researchers try to find out what happened when they realize this is just the start of something even more serious.
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Country: Estonia, Poland, Netherlands Language: Estonian, German, ItalianIn a poor Estonian village, a group of peasants use magic and folk remedies to survive the winter, and a young woman tries to get a young man to love her. Tribeca 2017 prize winnerBefore the screening, join us for a happy hour followed by a live recording of the Fright Club podcast hosted by George Wolf and Hope Madden.
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Country: Panama Language: SpanishAbner Benaim has produced gripping, award-winning stories in a country with no real film industry. In his latest, a grieving mother (a formidable Ilse Salas) helps a teen boy from the city’s dangerous streets, a story made more poignant by the tragic loss of young actor Fernando Xavier de Casta. Panama’s official selection for the 94th Academy Awards
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Country: United States Language: EnglishIn a family-friendly follow-up to his impressive debut Columbus (2017), Kogonada tells us the story of a family reconnecting after the robot they bought as a caregiver breaks down. Cannes 2021 selection and Sundance 2022 prize winner
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Country: Georgia, Russia, Bulgaria, United States, MonacoLanguage: Georgian, Russian, Kazakh, English
Follows a Georgian ex-wrestler’s journey to Brooklyn, New York, to help his son with a gambling debt. Tribeca 2021 multi-prize winner
Country: United States Language: EnglishIn the woods no one can hear you think. Berlin 2021
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Country: Finland, Russia, Estonia, Germany Language: Russian, FinnishSharing a train car through the Arctic, a young Finnish woman and a larger-than-life Russian miner form an unlikely bond in Juho Kuosmanen’s uplifting tale of human connection. Cannes 2021 Grand Prix winner and Shortlisted at the 94th Academy Awards.
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