Based on real events, “A Hidden Life” is the story of an unsung hero, Franz Jägerstätter, who refused to fight for the Nazis in World War II. When the Austrian peasant farmer is faced with the threat of execution for treason, it is his unwavering faith and his love for his wife, Fani, and his [...]
Song Without a Name
Jan Smacka2020-06-22T16:31:05+00:00Peru, at the height of the political crisis of the 1980’s. Georgina is a young woman from the Andes whose newborn daughter is stolen at a fake health clinic. Her desperate search for the child leads her to the headquarters of a major newspaper, where she meets Pedro Campos, a lonely journalist who takes on [...]
Papicha
Jan Smacka2020-06-22T16:33:06+00:00The first feature from Mounia Meddour stars Algerian-born French actress Lyna Khoudri (Wes Anderson's upcoming "The French Dispatch") in a harrowing tale set during the Algerian Civil War of the 1990s, also referred to as the "Black Decade", and was inspired by real events. It tells the story of a young woman obsessed with fashion [...]
Deerskin
Jan Smacka2020-06-22T16:36:59+00:00Georges, 44 years old, and his jacket, 100% deerskin, have a plan. “The odd twist of Quentin Dupieux’s ‘Deerskin’ is its deceptive simplicity. Anyone familiar with the French director’s loopy, surrealist comedies — the killer tire saga ‘Rubber’ and Kafkaesque noir ‘Wrong’ among them — knows that his zany, paranoid characters speak in baffling monologues [...]
Fire Will Come
Jan Smacka2020-06-22T16:38:16+00:00Amador Coro has been convicted and condemned for having set a fire. When he gets out of prison, nobody is waiting for him. He returns to his hometown, a small village hidden in the mountains of rural Galicia, to live with his mother, Benedicta, and their three cows. Life goes by slowly, following the rhythm [...]
La Gomera
Jan Smacka2020-06-24T12:20:20+00:00Not everything is as it seems for Cristi, a police inspector in Bucharest who plays both sides of the law. Embarking with the beautiful Gilda on a high-stakes heist, both will have to navigate the twists and turns of treachery and deception. A secret whistling language spoken on the Spanish island of LaGomera might just [...]
Beanpole
Jan Smacka2020-06-24T12:20:15+00:001945, Leningrad. World War II has devastated the city, demolishing its buildings and leaving its citizens in tatters, physically and mentally. Although the siege – one of the worst in history – is finally over, life and death continue their battle in the wreckage that remains. Two young women, Iya and Masha, search for meaning [...]
It Must Be Heaven
Jan Smacka2020-06-24T12:21:14+00:00ES escapes from Palestine seeking an alternative homeland, only to find that Palestine is trailing behind him. The promise of a new life turns into a comedy of errors: however far he travels, from Paris to New York, something always reminds him of home. From award-winning director Elia Suleiman, a comic saga exploring identity, nationality [...]
The Wild Goose Lake
Jan Smacka2020-06-24T12:22:43+00:00A gang leader on the run seeking redemption... A girl in trouble risking everything to gain her freedom... Both hunted on the hidden shores of The Wild Goose Lake. They set a deadly gamble for what may be their last day. "Diao Yinan delivers a definitive Chinese crime noir, in which the ravishing style and [...]
Bacurau
Jan Smacka2020-06-24T12:28:25+00:00A few years from now… Bacurau, a small village in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their community has vanished from most maps. "This disquieting horror-style western about a town under siege from a mysterious threat is executed with ruthless [...]