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The Teacher
A compelling satire set in Bratislava during the final decade of the Iron Curtain, The Teacher examines the abuse of power at a middle school, where a ranking Communist teacher extorts favors from pupils and parents alike in return for dispensing good grades. Winner: Best Actress, Karlovy Vary.
The Tenth Man
Visiting his father in Buenos Aires, New Yorker Ariel is pulled into his dad’s life as the head of a charitable organization located in the vibrant Jewish quarter. In this mid-life comedy, his journey turns into an engaging ode to the importance of family and community. Winner: Best Actor, Tribeca.
Very Big Shot
Three brothers decide to bankroll an art movie as a pretext to smuggle a cache of drugs out of Lebanon in film canisters in this satirical thriller from debut writer/director Mir-Jean Bou Chaaya. Comparisons to Argo and Bullets Over Broadway should not gloss over the film’s tangy local flavor. Winner: Best Film, Marrakech.
White Sun
A dark comedy about two brothers from each side of the Nepalese civil war brought together after 10 years for their father’s funeral. A trenchant, eye-catching parable, this is the best film to come out of Nepal in years. Winner: Interfilm Award, Venice.
Youth In Oregon
Frank Langella leads a tremendous cast in this seriocomic road movie about a difficult, dying man on a cross-country journey to commit legally assisted suicide, against the wishes of his dysfunctional family.
Lady Bird
THIS EVENT HAS PASSED | Greta Gerwig reveals herself to be a bold new cinematic voice with her directorial debut, excavating both the humor and pathos in the turbulent bond between a mother and her teenage daughter. Christine “Lady Bird” McPherson (Saoirse Ronan) fights against but is exactly like her wildly loving, deeply opinionated and strong-willed mom (Laurie Metcalf), a nurse working tirelessly to keep her family afloat after Lady Bird's father (Tracy Letts) loses his job. Set in Sacramento, California in 2002, amidst a rapidly shifting American economic landscape, LADY BIRD is an affecting look at the relationships that shape us, the beliefs that define us, and the unmatched beauty of a place called home.
A Korean in Paris
A Korean man scours the lower depths of the city in a poignant search for the wife who went missing on their honeymoon two years earlier. “Steadily absorbing… increasingly blurring the line between tragic reality and surreal fantasy.” Variety Warning: contains scenes of a graphic nature.
A War
A tense investigation of how people react under extreme pressure. The stakes are high as a Danish company commander is forced to choose between his responsibility for his troops, the Afghan locals, his family back in Denmark and the written and unwritten rules of war.
Agnes
Bright, strange Agnes has a proposition for middle-aged writer Walter: why doesn’t he write a book about her? Digging into those elusive and deceptive areas where fiction and reality, attraction and illusion entwine, Schmid’s smart, seductive love story cuts between different stages of the couple’s relationship, some of them entirely fictional.
Atomic Heart
Pitched somewhere between dream and reality, this surreal tale follows two party girls and their close encounter with… the devil? “An exciting example of Iranian independent filmmaking, one that gives hope for the future.” Alissa Simon, Variety