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Capernaum (2018)

January 20, 2019January 8, 2020

Capernaüm (“Chaos”) tells the story of Zain (Zain al-Rafeea), a Lebanese boy who sues his parents for the “crime” of giving him life. The film follows Zain as he journeys from gutsy, streetwise child to hardened 12-year-old “adult” fleeing his negligent parents, surviving through his wits on the streets, where he meets Ethiopian migrant worker Rahil, who provides him with shelter and food, as Zein takes care of her baby son Yonas in return. Zein later gets Jailed for committing a violent crime, and finally seeks justice in a courtroom.

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The Happy Prince (2018)

January 18, 2019January 8, 2020

In a cheap Parisian hotel room Oscar Wilde lies on his death bed. The past floods back, taking him to other times and places. Was he once the most famous man in London? The artist crucified by a society that once worshipped him? Under the microscope of death he reviews the failed attempt to reconcile with his long suffering wife Constance.

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The Wife (2018)

January 16, 2019January 8, 2020

Behind any great man, there’s always a greater woman – and you’re about to meet her. Joan Castleman (Glenn Close): a highly intelligent and still-striking beauty – the perfect devoted wife. Forty years spent sacrificing her own talent, dreams and ambitions to fan the flames of her charismatic husband Joe (Jonathan Pryce) and his skyrocketing literary career.

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Puzzle (2018)

January 16, 2019January 8, 2020

Agnes is a middle-class suburban mother of two grown sons, Ziggy and Gabe, and is stuck with her husband Louie in a monotonous routine. Day in and day out she serves everyone in her family, who take her existence for granted by leaving her little or no choice in family matters. She finds herself curious about a 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle among all other gifts she had received for her birthday. She soon discovers her passion for putting together all the pieces into the right places.

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Boundaries (2018)

January 14, 2019January 8, 2020

Single mom Laura (Vera Farmiga), along with her awkward 14 year-old son Henry (Lewis MacDougall) is forced to drive Jack (Christopher Plummer), her estranged, care-free pot dealing father across country after he’s kicked out of yet another nursing home. The road trip veers off course when Jack decides to make a couple ‘stops’ and Henry asks to see his ne’er-do-well dad Leonard (Bobby Cannavale), completely upending Laura’s attempt to hold her family together and ultimately forcing her to finally see her father for the man he really is.

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The Rider (2018)

February 11, 2018January 9, 2020

Brady lives in poverty with his father Wayne and his younger sister Lilly, who has autism. The people in the film, including Brady and his family, are Lakota Sioux of the Pine Ridge Reservation.[5] Once a rising star in the rodeo circuit, Brady suffered brain damage from an accident at a bronc riding competition, hindering motor functions in his right hand and leaving him prone to seizures. Doctors have told him he can no longer ride, or else his seizures will get worse.

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Final Portrait (2018)

February 10, 2018January 9, 2020

Paris in 1964. Alberto Giacometti is the one who decides when it is time for work, drink, doubt, destruction, flirtation or laughter in his studio. An established artist whose works fetch record prices, he hides his earnings in his studio. This is just one of the causes of many an argument with his wife Annette, another being the fact that his mistress Caroline receives all his attention.

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The Leisure Seeker (2018)

February 8, 2018January 9, 2020

John and Ella Robina have shared a wonderful life for more than fifty years. Now in their eighties, Ella suffers from cancer and has chosen to stop treatment. John has Alzheimer’s. Yearning for one last adventure, the self-proclaimed “down-on-their-luck geezers” kidnap themselves from the adult children and doctors who seem to run their lives to steal away from their home in suburban Detroit on a forbidden vacation of rediscovery.

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Foxtrot (2018)

February 8, 2018January 9, 2020

A troubled family must face the facts when something goes terribly wrong at their son’s desolate military post. The film opens with an affluent Tel Aviv couple learning that their son, a soldier, has died in the line of duty. The film initially follows the parents in the hours after they learn of his death. It then follows their son’s experiences during his military service as one of four soldiers manning a checkpoint. Finally, the film follows the parents six months after his death.

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Loveless (2018)

February 7, 2018January 9, 2020

Still living under the same roof, the Moscow couple of Boris and Zhenya is in the terrible final stages of a bitter divorce. Under those circumstances, as both have already found new partners, the insults pour down like rain in this toxic familial battle zone, always pivoting around the irresolvable and urgent matter of Alyosha’s custody, their 12-year-old only son.