Oct 18, 2015
OFFICE (HUA LI SHANG BAN ZU)
Director: Johnnie To;
Cast: Wang Ziyi, Lang Yueting, Sylvia Chang, Chow Yun-Fat, Eason Chan, Tang Wei
Hong Kong/China 2015, 117 min.
Johnnie To's stock in trade has been...
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Oct 17, 2015
WEDDING DOLL (CHATONA MENIYAR)
Dir.: Nitzan Gilady
Cast: Moran Rosenblatt, Asi Levi, Roy Assaf; Israel 2015, 82 min.
Niitzan Gilady made her name a documentary filmmaker. Her debut feature, WEDDING DOLL shows all the...
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Oct 16, 2015
Director.: Mai Masri
Cast: Maisa Abd Elhadi, Abeer Haddad, Laura Hawa, Radia Adon;
103min. | drama | Palestine/France/Jordan/Lebanon/UAE/Qatar
Mai Masri’s debut feature is an imagined drama based on "one story of many" to...
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Oct 16, 2015
Director/Writer: Betzabé García
83min | Mexico | Documentary |
The opening moments of KINGS OF NOWHERE—screening in the documentary competition at Warsaw Film Festival, and the first feature-length doc by 25-year-old Betzabé...
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Oct 16, 2015
Director: Niki Karimi | Writers: Niki Karimi, Ali Asghari
Cast: Leyla Zareh, Mohammad Reza, Amir Hossein Arman
96 mins | Drama | Iran
For middle-class Tehrani housewife Nahid (Leyla Zareh), nothing is what...
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Oct 15, 2015
Dir.: Andrei Konchalovsky
Cast: Jon Voight, Eric Roberts, Rebecca De Mornay, Kyle Heffner
USA 1985, 110 min.
Produced by the (in)famous Israeli Golan/Globus production duo and their distribution arm Cannon Films, RUNAWAY TRAIN is...
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Oct 15, 2015
Director: Biyi Bandele
Cast: Nse Ikpe-Etim, Omoni Oboli, Ireti Doyle, Dakore Akande
With music from Femi Kuti, King Sunny Ade, Nneka and Waje
101min | Drama | Nigeria
FIFTY is Biyi Bandele's follow-up to...
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Oct 14, 2015
Dir.: Naji Abu Nowar
Cast: Jacir Eid, Hassan Mutlag, HussainSalameh, Jack Fox, Marji Audeh
Jordan/UK/UAE/Quatar 2014, 100 min.
Set in Western Arabia in 1916 during the First World War, THEEB is the story...
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Oct 13, 2015
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Director: Sarah Gavron
Cast: Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham-Carter, Anne-Marie Duff, Natalie Press, Brendan Gleeson, Ben Whitshaw, Geoff Bell, Meryl Streep
UK/USA/ France 2015, 118 min.
All worthy themes deserve...
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