Gifted
Seven-year-old Mary lives with her bum of an uncle. When it is discovered that she is gifted, a confrontation explodes around her future. Mark Webb presents a successful drama that manages to play on the heartstrings.
Seven-year-old Mary lives with her bum of an uncle. When it is discovered that she is gifted, a confrontation explodes around her future. Mark Webb presents a successful drama that manages to play on the heartstrings.
While being interrogated by the Americans for collaborating with the Nazis, a Holocaust survivor enlists a group of Jews to set up a door-to-door linens sales business. The film combines the dramatic with the humorous to presents a different and ironic look at the memory of the Holocaust in Germany.
A young doctor has to cope with the death of an African woman who knocked on the door of her clinic the night before. Guilt leads her to search for the woman’s identity. The Dardenne brothers present a detective tale in their signature realist style
A young getaway driver falls in love just before the last heist. From there on his life becomes a tangled web of thrills. One of the most entertaining films of the year, Baby Driver turns the heist film into a musical.
A heartfelt adaptation of Nicole Krauss’s novel. The plot travels between Poland at the brink of WWII and 2006 New York, bringing forth the story of two young girls named Alma. Mihaileanu maneuvers these complex plotlines, exposing the emotional worlds of his heroines
In contemporary Finland, a chance meeting between a salesman and a Syrian refugee provides them with abundant hope. Director Aki Kaurismäki combines his social views with unique humor in an affective and amusing film – one of this past year’s best.
Michael Gifford, an elderly Shakespearian actor, becomes ill and alienates everyone around him. When a caretaker from Hungry is assigned his case, a special bond forms between the two over their shared love of Hamlet. An entertaining and humorous drama starring Brian Cox.
An American pilot, who acts as a smuggler for the American intelligence, becomes entangled with the drug cartel. Now he will have to take even seedier actions to survive. American Made is a sleek and entertaining thriller.
Through three love stories between Greeks and foreigners, Worlds Apart explores the power of love and offers a different look at a country in crisis. “It’s an often tender, affecting film that slowly creeps up on you — then completely takes hold” (Los Angeles Times).