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Billy Elliot

September 2000 •English

County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering. Caught in the middle of the conflict is 11-year old Billy Elliot, who, after leaving his boxing club for the day, stumbles upon a ballet class and finds out that he's naturally talented. He practices with his teacher Mrs. Wilkinson for an upcoming audition in Newcastle-upon Tyne for the royal Ballet school in London.

Railway Station

January 1980 •Polish

Warsaw's Central Railway Station. 'Someone has fallen asleep, someone's waiting for somebody else. Maybe they'll come, maybe they won't. The film is about people looking for something.

Pani's Box

September 2013 •English

A 10 year old girl escapes the grim reality of her situation by creating a world where all of her hopes and dreams come true.

It's Winter

February 2006 •Persian

Unemotional, restrained cinematographic poem, situated in a wintry and poor suburb of Tehran. A man is dismissed and his lack of prospects for the future make him decide to seek his happiness abroad. He leaves his wife and child behind and for a long time nothing is heard of him. Then a stranger turns up, a car mechanic looking for a job. The attractive single mother can’t resist his attentions. Very subtly, a struggle ensues that reflects that of a whole generation of young doubting Iranians who may want to leave the country, but hardly know how to start.

The Brave One

September 2007 •English

A woman struggles to recover from a brutal attack by setting out on a mission for revenge.

Une Odeur de Géranium

January 1997 •English

To make her meeting with her lover Bernard, Françoise needs Julien's help. Julien is 11, Françoise, 14. They're brother and sister.

Still Life

November 2006 •Chinese

A town in Fengjie county is gradually being demolished and flooded to make way for the Three Gorges Dam. A man and woman visit the town to locate their estranged spouses, and become witness to the societal changes.

Kafka

November 1991 •English

After a colleague is murdered, insurance worker Kafka gets embroiled in an underground group who are attempting to thwart a secret organization that controls the major events in society.

Lavender

September 2015 •

A portrait of a depressed mother and her child.

Take Care

November 2024 •Portuguese

Filomena lives alone in a rural village in the interior of Portugal and has just found out that she doesn't have much time left to live. Her granddaughter Laura, a young woman in her early twenties, raised by her, shows up out of nowhere at her house. They share memories of childhood and youth, up to the moment when the granddaughter left home to attend University in Lisbon. But something strange happens when the two have a heated argument about the possible return of Laura's mother to their lives. Is Filomena's illness playing tricks on her? Or is something else going on here?

Iron Moon

November 2016 •Chinese

Few of us have stopped to consider the lives of the workers who manufacture the objects that make up our daily lives. We use these objects without knowing anything about the Foxconn plants in which they are made, or even where these factories are located, let alone who works in them. One such worker was the young Chinese poet Xu Lizhi, who, at the age of 24, jumped out of a building not far from where he worked at the Foxconn factory in Shenzhen.

The Gold Rush

July 1925 •English

A gold prospector in Alaska struggles to survive the elements and win the heart of a dance hall girl.

God's Ways

November 2006 •Ukrainian

A dual portrait of young drifters on the streets of Odessa, where every day seems the same and the future keeps getting further away.

The Pursuit of Happyness

December 2006 •English

A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career.

Urbem

September 2025 •Italian

The Little Prince's Rap Against The Wicked Souls

August 2000 •Portuguese

A documentary that focuses on two young male inhabitants of Recife (statistically, the fourth worst city in the world to live in) who have both reacted strongly to their situation. One has become a drummer in a rap/rock band. The other has killed forty-four people and is now in jail. Both use the term "Wicked Souls" to describe their enemies.

Atharintiki Daaredi

September 2013 •Telugu

Goutham promises his grandfather that he will reunite him with his estranged daughter, Sunanda. Posing as a driver, Goutham enters Sunanda's house but trouble soon follows.

A Different Tree

June 2013 •English

An eight-year-old girl tries to build a relationship with her absent father through a class-assigned family tree.

Boy of the Streets

January 1938 •English

Cocky young street kid worships his father, a sleazy political operative.

Le Liechi

October 2023 •French