World Cinema

• Italy,France
• 2016
• 107min

Taking her son Valerio with her, Anna runs from her abusive husband and hides at her long-time friend Carla’s home. Theater actress Carla is unceremonious and liberal, and though not rich, warmly welcomes her friend in peril. Anna...

World Cinema

• Germany
• 2016
• 102min

Helene is suffering both from her failed marriage and from the absence of God in her life. She meets psychologist Eduard to sort out the emptiness in her heart. They become inexplicably close and end up sharing their troubles and ...

World Cinema

• Chile,France
• 2016
• 128min

Twenty-year-old Alejandrito travels to Santiago against his parents’ wishes. Full of energy for life and desire for creativity, he joins a group of young intellectual artists who are experimenting with avant-garde fashion. Here, h...

• Cannes Film Festival (Directors′ Fortnight)

World Cinema

• UK
• 2016
• 100min

59 year old Daniel Blake has worked as a joiner most of his life in Newcastle, England. He has been independent all his life. But he needs help from the State for the first time ever after he falls ill with heart disease. He appli...

• Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival

World Cinema

• Australia
• 2016
• 112min

It’s Halloween 1997 - the last night of high school for Corey, Jango and their skater gang, The Gromits. Childhood is over and adult life beckons. But for Corey, his past has some unfinished business. When he encounters Jonah, a f...

• Venice Film Festival (Orizzonti)

World Cinema

• Hungary
• 2016
• 81min

Eszter, Farkas, and their five-year-old son Bruno are an ordinary middle-class family. On one night, Esther’s sister Ernella, her husband Albert, and their daughter Laura return home after having left to start a new life in Scotla...

World Cinema

• Egypt
• 2016
• 115min

Yehia, a famous chef of the village, owns a catering business with his two sons, Galal and Refaat. The two sons are completely different. Galal is a troublemaker and an ex-con who loves women (even married ones), while Refaat is a...

World Cinema

• United States
• 2016
• 97min

A struggling comedy writer David, fresh from breaking up with his boyfriend, goes back home to help his sick mother with cancer. Living with his conservative father and younger sisters, David feels like a stranger in his childhood...

World Cinema

• Canada,France
• 2016
• 95min

After 12 years of absence, Louis, a terminally ill writer goes back to his hometown, planning on announcing his upcoming death to his family. As resentment rewrites the course of the afternoon, feuds among his family including his...

• Grand Prix at Cannes Film Festival

World Cinema

• France
• 2016
• 120min

Gabrielle dreams of true love in a small village in the South of France. But in the conservative climate of the times, her carefree ideas and actions are deemed scandalous and insane. Her concerned parents decide to marry her off ...