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New Films

Disco Boy

Dir.: Giacomo Abbruzzese
| 91 minutes

After a long journey, Aleksei arrives in Paris and decides to join the Foreign Legion. Meanwhile, on the Niger River Delta, Jomo fights oil multinationals threatening his village. Heading an armed group, Jomo kidnaps French citizens. A command of the Foreign Legion intervenes, led by Aleksei.

Past Lives

Dir.: Celine Song
| 106 minutes

Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are torn apart after Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life, in this heartrending modern romance.

How to Have Sex

Dir.: Molly Manning Walker
| 98 minutes

Molly Maning Walker casts a witty, nuanced, and ultimately devastating look at three British teenage girls on a rite-of-passage holiday – drinking, clubbing and hooking up, in what should be the best summer of their lives. 

Riceboy Sleeps

Dir.: Anthony Shim
| 117 minutes

Set in the 1990s, a Korean single mother raises her young son in the suburbs of Canada, determined to provide a better life for him than the one she left behind. The film, an emotional and gentle family drama, received accolades thanks to captivating performances.

Maestro

Dir.: Bradley Cooper
| 129 minutes

Maestro, depicting the relationship between composer Leonard Bernstein and his actress wife Felicia Montealegre, is a portrait of a lifelong, strong, and painful relationship. Bradley Cooper's second directorial work is a masterpiece of acting, camera, and design, marking him as one of the greatest directors in Hollywood today.

Dream Scenario

Dir.: Kristoffer Borgli
| 102 minutes

Paul Matthews is an unimportant professor working in an insignificant university when, for whatever reason, he begins to appear in people's dreams. He quickly becomes famous, but then the dreams turn to nightmares, and so does the attitude towards him. Dream Scenario is wild, satirical, and thought-provoking.

All of Us Strangers

Dir.: Andrew Haigh
| 105 minutes

When Adam visits his parents, they are happy to meet him but seem to be frozen in time since they died in a car accident. This is not a horror or mystery film but a drama that is "an exquisitely melancholy fantasy-infused meditation on loss and isolation" (Screen), full of painful, poignant, and tender moments.

Ennio

Dir.: Guiseppe Tornatore
| 157 minutes

Ennio Morricone had a superb ability to create memorable and influential soundtracks. Guiseppe Tornatore interviewed over 70 renowned filmmakers and musicians, including Wong Kar-wai, Quentin Tarantino, Clint Eastwood, and Bruce Springsteen, about Morricone's life and work. The result is a vivid and detailed portrait.

La Chimera

Dir.: Alice Rohrwacher
| 130 minutes

A young British archeologist becomes involved in an international network of stolen Etruscan artifacts. As in Alice Rohrwacher's previous works, La Chimera also boasts a melancholic charm, wild humor, and an unexpected plot.

Ferrari

Dir.: Michael Mann
| 130 minutes

Summer 1957. Enzo Ferrari, the owner of the car company bearing his name, is facing a crisis: the company is on the verge of bankruptcy, and his wife is threatening to end their marriage. Michael Mann compresses this drama into an immersive and unsentimental cinematic biography.