Directed by Michael Schwartz and Tyler Nilson, Los Frikis is a coming-of-age drama set in 1990s Cuba.
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Directed by Michael Schwartz and Tyler Nilson, Los Frikis is a coming-of-age drama set in 1990s Cuba.
After her husband’s death, an elderly widow tries to discover herself with the help of her children in Aurélie Saada’s award winning drama Rose.
Movies released in theaters on December 6, 2024 – The Return, The Order, Unstoppable, Y2K, Breakup Season, Get Away, Lake George, Nightbitch, The End, Power Alley, Sabbath Queen, The Girl With the Needle.
Fang Li’s documentary (and China’s Oscar entry) The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru chronicles the search for the wreckage of the Japanese freighter carrying British POWs that was unknowingly torpedoed by a U.S. submarine in 1942.
After a sicario is murdered, his son, surrounded by violence, grapples with his fate as he grows into manhood, in the Mexican Oscar submission Sujo directed by Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez.
22 Palestinian filmmakers living through war capture their lives in Gaza over the past year in Above Ground Zero, Palestine’s entry for Best International Feature at the 97th Academy Awards.
Dekanalog will release Drowning Dry (Sesės), Laurynas Bareiša haunting family drama selected as Lithuania’s Oscar entry for Best International Feature Film.
Celeste Dalla Porta, Stefania Sandrelli, and Gary Oldman star in Paolo Sorrentino’s Parthenope, a coming-of-age drama exploring the love life of a young woman set against the picturesque backdrop of Naples.
Movies released in cinemas on Friday November 15 – All We Imagine as Light, Dream Team, Elton John: Never Too Late, The Salmon’s Call, Life is Beautiful: A Letter to Gaza, The World According to Allee Willis.
Iranian filmmaker Kaveh Daneshmand’s Endless Summer Syndrome follows a mother of two adoptees who is tipped off about the possible affair her husband may be having with one of their children.
Magnus von Horn’s gothic thriller The Girl With the Needle follows a wet nurse working for an underground adoption agency in post-WWI Copenhagen.
A young Zambian woman stumbles upon her uncle’s body, uncovering family secrets and lies as funeral preparations unfold in the Rungano Nyoni’s surreal dramedy film On Becoming a Guinea Fowl.