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Anamaria Vartolomei, Matt Dillon, Yvan Attal, and Giuseppe Maggio

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French

Maria Schneider is a promising, young French actress. When she gets the lead in a feature film directed by an acclaimed Italian filmmaker and starring one of America's most beloved actors, it seems like the opportunity of a lifetime. Her collaborators, director Bernardo Bertolucci and star Marlon Brando seem to be bringing out the best in Maria, sharing a warm rapport and mentorship with the 19-year-old girl. Until one day, when the two men conspire to shoot a crucial sex scene as a harrowing assault without letting Maria in on the plan. The film goes on to be lauded as a fearless artistic breakthrough, but for Maria, it's the beginning of a living hell.

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Pierluigi Gigante, Teresa Saponangelo, Barbora Bobulova, Alessandro Piavani, and Antonia Truppo

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Italian

Based on the true story of Luca, a gay social worker looking to start a family, and Alba, a little girl with Down's Syndrome, who was left in the hospital shortly after being born. After thirty heterosexual couples rejected her, the court finally decided to entrust the child to him. A beautiful heart-warming story of the first gay, single man in Italy who was able to adopt a child.

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Sofia Helin, Hedda Stiernstedt, Hakan Bengtsson, Kajsa Ernst, Peter Gardiner, and Inez Micaella Andersson

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Swedish

Veteran Stockholm inspector Iris Broman's life is shattered when her husband is gunned down in front of her. To escape the tragedy and rebuild her life, Iris moves to the southern Swedish town of Ystad, living in her half-sister's seaside cottage and taking up a new position as head of the cold case team in nearby Malmö. On the same day Iris starts her new job, a skull is found in a local forest and the cold case unit becomes the focus of attention. Life is turned upside down for the locals, lives are intertwined, and truths are confused. A distraught father desperate for answers is convinced the skull is that of his 16-year-old son Benjamin, missing for 18 years. His pain is deep, and Iris can identify with him, but is this really Benjamin? And as it stirs her own feelings of desperation for answers, she struggles to stay away from the investigation of her husband's murder.

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Alexander Sano, Julian Vergov, Igor Angelov, Hristo Petkov, Hristo Shopov

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Bulgarian

August 1978. What begins as a typical workday for a crew of maximum security inmates doing forced labor in a steel plant will prove to be fateful for all of them. After finding something extraordinary inside one of the machines, violence sparks and the prisoners begin taking hostages and blocking the entrance to the workshop. The men risk their lives, because sometimes the desire to be human is stronger than the instinct to survive, and the dream of salvation often blurs common sense.

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Lakshya, Tanya Maniktala, and Raghav Juyal

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Hindi

When army commando Amrit finds out his true love Tulika is engaged against her will, he boards a New Delhi-bound train in a daring quest to derail the arranged marriage. But when a gang of knife-wielding thieves led by the ruthless Fani begin to terrorize innocent passengers on his train, Amrit takes them on himself in a death-defying kill-spree to save those around him turning what should have been a typical commute into an adrenaline-fueled thrill ride.

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Lyna Khoudri, Anamaria Vartolomei, Camille Cottin, Fabrice Luchini, and Brandon Vlieghe

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French

In a quiet and picturesque fishing village in Northern France, something finally happens: a special baby is born. A child so unique and peculiar that it unleashes a secret war between extraterrestrial forces of good and evil. To restore their empires, two opposing forces from the depths of outer space, One and Zero, unleash an apocalyptic conflict on Earth.

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Asmae El Moudir, Mohamed El Moudir, and Zahra Jeddaoui

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Arabic

Young Moroccan filmmaker Asmae El Moudir wants to know why she only has one photograph from her childhood, and why the girl in the picture isn't even her. She decides to explore the past and its mysteries by creating a handmade replica of the Casablanca neighborhood where she grew up. There, she begins to interrogate the tales her mother, father, and grandmother talk about their home and their country. Slowly, she starts to unravel the layers of deception and intentional forgetting that have shaped her life. The truth is hard to face, but in this sometimes-surreal nonfiction film, El Moudir begins to draw what is real to the surface.

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Donnie Yen, Julian Cheung, Michael Hui, Francis Ng, Cheung Tin Fu, and Liza Wang

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Cantonese

A man falsely pleads guilty to drug trafficking after being framed. Despite the confession, the veteran policeman-turned-prosecutor handling the case is convinced of his innocence and pursues his own investigation, risking both his career and his life to bring the real perpetrator to justice.

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Thanh Hai Pham, Duy Bao Dinh Dao, and Thi Nga Nguyen

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Vietnamese

Viet and Nam, a visually stunning journey chronicles the passionate love affair of two miners. Desire and their undying commitment to one another unfurl in this romantic and erotic tale of choices they must make to stay together.

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Lou Goossens, Marius De Saeger, Geert Van Rampelberg, Emilie De Roo, Dirk van Dijck, Jul Goossens, and Ezra Van Dongen

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Dutch

Elias (14) feels attracted to his new neighbor, Alexander (14). Soon he realizes that he's truly in love for the first time. The interactions with his friends and family bring more questions than answers. Confused by his burgeoning feelings, Elias tries to sort out his inner chaos to prove that he is worth Alexander's heart.

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