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<p>A near-future Tokyo awaits destruction as the city is rocked by a series of foreshocks that predict a larger, more disastrous quake on the horizon. With the anxiety looming over them, a group of teenage best friends and musicians get into typical teenager trouble that tests the strength of their relationships.</p>
<p>In Laura Piani’s charming and witty debut, an aspiring author looking to get more out of life takes up a writing residency and finds herself in the sort of romantic entanglements that could come from the pages of a Jane Austen novel.</p>
<p><span data-sheets-root="1">In 2022, Yangon is in the midst of a civil war following the military coup of February 1, 2021. Mi-Thet, a young Burmese woman, works in a garment factory in the city, far from her native village. Wages have not been paid for two months, and a group of workers is organizing a strike. But soon, the strikers are attacked by the henchmen of the military regime, leaving Mi-Thet terrified by her past trauma.</span></p>
<p>Every day we are saved from a hundred different deaths. And yet we are saved from the possibility of killing someone. As we are absorbed in our own stories, a man walks past us, about to kill someone.</p>
<p>In this stirring elegy for a desolate Cairo from Emmy-winning cinematographer-turned-director Muhammed Hamdy, mint is sprouting from the bodies of a tormented generation of dreamers, attracting moving shadows that chase people through the streets.c</p>
<p><span data-sheets-root="1">Strange storms of yellow dust fall on a town. Nacer, a forty-five-year-old journalist, is covering the phenomenon. As he observes the occurrence of supernatural events, his dead wife Fajar comes back as though nothing has happened to her. Faced with increasingly threatening storms, Nacer must uncover a haunting past from the dark years everyone wanted to forget.</span></p>
<p>In spring 2019, filmmaker Hind Meddeb captures a jubilant moment of defiance among young Sudanese activists in Khartoum after the overthrow of a long dictatorship, and then chronicles the military crackdown that followed.</p>
<p>A Ukrainian family of four on vacation in the Canary Islands become refugees overnight when Russia’s ongoing occupation of Ukraine turns into a full-scale invasion, in Damien Kocur’s tense and timely sophomore feature.</p>
<p>A newly formed family confronts challenges while pursuing individual goals and facing the intricacies of modern life, relying on love, trust, and resilience to guide them.</p>
<p>After a devastating storm wrought by climate change forces them from their home in the Mongolian countryside to the city, a young couple are forced to adapt to a new way of life in this breathtaking and heartbreaking hybrid film.</p>
<p><span data-sheets-root="1">Lebanon, 1982. To keep a promise made to an old friend, Georges, an idealistic theater director, travels to Beirut for a project as utopian as it is risky: staging the play Antigone on the front line in order to steal a moment of peace from the raging civil war. The characters are to be played by actors from various political and religious camps. Lost in a city and a conflict he knows nothing about, Georges is guided by Marwan. As fighting resumes, everything is called into question, and Georges has to face up to the reality of war.</span></p>
<p>Based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva's best-selling memoir in which his mother is forced into activism when her husband was captured by a military regime in Brazil, 1964.</p>
<p>Touda is a Sheikha, a traditional Moroccan singer. Performing in the bars of her provincial town under the gaze of men, she plans to leave for the lights of Casablanca, to gain recognition and ensure a better future for her son.</p>
<p>Karsh, an innovative businessman and grieving widower, builds a device to connect with the dead inside a burial shroud.</p>
<p>Sandra, a fiercely independent fifty-something, suddenly and in spite of herself, shares the intimacy of her neighbor and his two children. Against all expectations, she gradually becomes attached to this adopted family. But who is she to them? Who are they to her?</p>
<p>In Mumbai, Nurse Prabha's routine is troubled when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend. In Mumbai, Nurse Prabha's routine is troubled when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend. A trip to a beach town allows them to find a space for their desires to manifest.</p>
<p>Remo's self-destructive behavior overshadows his talent. Abril, an upcoming jockey is pregnant by Remo and has to decide between child or continuing to race. They both race for Sirena, an businessman who saved Remo's life in the past .</p>
<p><span data-sheets-root="1">Frantz Fanon has just been appointed chief medical officer at the Blida psychiatric hospital in Algeria. Soon after, the innovative methods and humanistic treatment he provides to Algerian patients attracts the wrath of his colleagues and the director of the institution. Fanon, however, is not a man to be stepped on. His determination and ideas generate appeal to the FLN and its leader, Abane Ramdane, who offers to join the cause. In a context in which tensions between the French army and FLN are becoming increasingly apparent, Fanon sounds like a traitor. With his wife Josie, he is caught in a vortex of violence that leads him to take up the cause of Algerian independence.</span></p>
<p>Oscar nominees Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci lead a brilliant ensemble cast in All Quiet on the Western Front director Edward Berger’s stunning adaption of Robert Harris’ high-stakes drama, in which Cardinals gather at the Vatican to elect a new Pope.</p>
<p>Aicha lives in the isolated north of Tunisia with her husband and youngest son. The family lives in anguish after the departure of the eldest sons Mehdi and Amine to the violent embrace of war. When Mehdi unexpectedly returns home with a mysterious pregnant wife, a darkness emerges, threatening to consume the entire village. Aicha is caught between her maternal love and her search for the truth.</p>
<p>Luciana is an Italian astrologer, she believes that life is affected by the position of the constellations at the moment of our birth. If we want to change our life, it is enough to visit a place with a favorable constellation on our birthday: the day on which we get the opportunity to be “born again” every year. Many people contact Luciana about their problems, the film follows their stories and birthday trips. Beneath the humorous mood, this film is an empathetic search for meaning in a chaos-filled cosmos.</p>
<p>Two women find frozen cash, try to retrieve it. A tour guide leads confused tourists around Winnipeg sites. A man quits his job, visits his mother. Storylines intertwine surreally as identities blur in a disorienting comedy.</p>
<p>A passionate love story inspired in the music and life of Robert Wyatt. Bob and Alif, a young couple of artists, experience the hippie culture of the 70s in Deià. Drugs turn a dream summer into a nightmare, exploring the euphoria and anguish of artistic creation, the fascination for drugs, the falling out with routine, the physical and mental breakdown. A universal tale of the transformative power of art and music.</p>
<p>Darkness falls over Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and its 17 million inhabitants. It is just before Christmas and people are struggling to gain access to electric light. Kudi is mobilising the residents of his Kisenso neighbourhood to collect money for a new power cable. On Mount Mangengenge, a holy place overlooking the city, Pastor Gédéon delivers a sermon about the light of Christ as the path to life and truth. Davido is searching for a place to stay after his house was flooded by the Congo River. Together with other young men, he kills time by working out and dreams of a better future.<br /> <em>Tongo Saa</em> is a sensitive portrait of the residents of Kinshasa as they face the challenges of life in an environment plagued by violence and coloured by the uncertainty of tomorrow.</p>
<p><span data-sheets-root="1">A former communist leader and activist for Moroccan independence, Edmond Amran Elmaleh left behind a vast body of literary work that masterfully articulates personal and collective memory. This cinematic letter, addressed to Elmaleh by director Simone Bitton, weaves together excerpts from the writer’s texts, testimonies, and archival images, and the filmmaker’s own words to illustrate the memory of a captivating and erudite man haunted by the parallel tragedies of the departure of Jews from Morocco and the exodus of Palestinians uprooted from their land.</span></p>
<p><span data-sheets-root="1">A solitary young poet finds solace in wandering the city streets at dusk, gazing at the houses and the lives of passersby. One evening, he saves a young woman from suicide. Drawn together by this chance encounter, the two get to know each other and share their life stories with heartfelt sincerity. For the past year, she has been waiting for her lover, who has promised to marry her. Despite this, the poet falls in love with her. However, fate has different plans.</span></p>
<p><span data-sheets-root="1">Youssef is a twelve-year-old blind orphan. He lives with his grandfather Allal, a taxi driver, and grandmother Ouardia, in a village lost in the desert. One day, Allal surprises him by buying him a camera. Youssef begins to photograph everything around him. After he hears about a trip blind people from abroad make to the blue lake in the desert, Youssef cares about nothing other than making this trip himself.</span></p>
<p><span data-sheets-root="1">As the youngest of five sisters, director Samira El Mouzghibati is aware she inherited a painful legacy from the past. In response to a tragic incident that was kept quiet, her sisters formed a clan—a tightly knit bond from which their mother was excluded. Thus, when they spoke of her to Samira, they always referred to her as “your mother,” as though she were no longer theirs. For the very first time, we hear what the mother has to say.</span></p>
<p>In this vivid animated feast for viewers young and old, two children pick up their babysitter’s book and magically fall into the story’s fanciful world. There, they must make their way through the Kingdom of the Winds and find a way out before they are trapped forever.</p>
<p>Helped by the Princess of Aleppo, and with a few nigella seeds tucked in the palm of her hand, six-year-old Dounia leaves the city of Aleppo and travels towards a new world.</p>