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Yaron Shani & Scandar Copti • Israel • 2009

Ajami is a bustling multi-ethnic neighborhood in Yaffa, a place where Palestinian immigrants, Israeli Arabs, Christians and Jews live alongside each other. They share the same streets, the same sorrows. Omar has been targeted in reveng...

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Leyla Bouzid • 2015 • Tunisia

Farah struggles to pursue her singing career during a revolution.

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Yuval Adler • Israel • 2013 • A complexly human portrait of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Sanfur is seventeen years old, the younger brother of Ibrahim, a prominent Palestinian militia leader. Living with his domineering father and taciturn mother, it is clear that Sanfur's life...

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Rodd Rathjen • Australia • 2019

Fourteen year old Chakra lives in Cambodia with his family, where he labors each day in the rice fields his older brother stands to inherit. Yearning for freedom, Chakra secretly works with a local broker to make the passage to Thailand, where he is ...

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Cãlin Peter Netzer • Romania • 2013

Cornelia has earned a living. A successful architect in Bucharest, she is also estranged from her son Barbu, a state of affairs she ascribes to Barbu's girlfriend. Despite all the luxuries her success has afforded him, Barbu seemingly wants nothi...

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Chaitanya Tamhane • 2014 • India

A folk singer must navigate contemporary India's labyrinthine legal system.

By day, Narayan Kamble teaches young children poetry at a local school; in the evenings he performs folk songs at political protests, lamenting the lack of social mobility av...

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Yorgos Lanthimos • Greece • 2005 • An astonishing portrait of one of cinema's strangest families.

A handsome estate in the Greek countryside.  A wealthy businessman lives here with his wife and three grown children, all in their twenties.  They are ostensibly an ordinary family, exce...

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Afia Nathaniel • Pakistan • 2014 • A thrilling journey focalizing the social issue of child brides.

Allah Rakhi lives in the Hunza Valley with her husband, a local tribal leader, and their ten-year-old daughter Zainab. Violence has plagued their community for some time, due to a riv...

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Pen-Ek Ratanaruang • Thailand-France • 2011

Tul used to be a good man. Before he was blackmailed by a powerful politician, Tul was earnest and scrupulous; now he’s just a corrupt cop hell-bent on revenge. Soon he is recruited as a hitman, leading to an accident in which his vision ...

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Attila Hun • 2017 • Hungary • A sleeper hit comedy performed by differently-abled actors.

Two residents in an assisted-living facility outside of Budapest find themselves recruited as accomplices for a Serbian crime lord.

A sleeper hit at the Hungarian box office, and performed by ...

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Małgorzata Szumowska & Michał Englert • Poland • 2020

Zhenia arrives from the East with barely a suitcase, a folding massage bed draped over his shoulder. Navigating a series of highway underpasses to the Polish immigration office, he declares his intention to stay. Zhenia may or m...

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Annemarie Jacir • Palestine • 2008 • A portrait of a woman's determination to reclaim her birthright.

Sixty years after her grandparents' exile from Jaffa, Soraya feels something is not right. Departing Brooklyn for a homeland she has never known, she is greeted instead with suspici...

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Byambasuren Davaa • Mongolia-Germany • 2005

Nansal is the eldest daughter of a nomadic family. One the way home from school one day, she happens upon a black and white puppy, naming him Zochor (Spot). Her father immediately refuses to allow the dog to stay, however, fearing that it...

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Cristi Puiu • 2015 • Romania

An old man is shuttled across Bucharest from one clinic to another.

Dante Remus Lazarescu is feeling dreadfully ill. In the search for medical attention, his lone ally is Mioara, a Virgil-like paramedic ushering him toward certain twilight.

Bone-dry a...

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Paolo Virzì • Italy • 2010 • A gentle comedy of life, love, and family.

Bruno, a middle-aged teacher, sits stoned out of his mind on a park bench. He’s forgotten his own birthday, much to the chagrin of his girlfriend, Sandra, who organized the party. Before he can say no, Bruno’s ...

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Hany Abu-Assad • Palestine • 2016 • A teen smuggles himself across borders to audition for Arab Idol

Gaza, 2005. Despite the despair of their suroundings, ten-year-old Mohammed and his sister, Nour, spend their days immersed in childhood games and music, playing in a band with two f...

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Philippe Muyl • China-France • 2013 • A journey of family, nature, and tradition in modern China.

Renxing, an only child, lives with her parents in Beijing. Between their demanding professions, they have little time for her, which they compensate for with gifts and pampering. On t...

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Akan Satayev • Kazakhstan • 2016

1922. A boy, Ilyas, is born to a nomadic family in the Kazakh steps. Some years later, soldiers arrive to enforce Soviet the policy of collective farming, polarizing the community among those who welcome change, and those who don't. Ilyas's family ...

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Kim Mourdant • Australia • 2013

Since the time he was born, Ahlo has been told he’s bad luck. Twins are inauspicious in Laotian culture, and Ahlo’s brother perished during childbirth. To the objection of some in her family, Ahlo’s mother raised the small boy anyway, showering him w...

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Tran Anh Hung • 1993 • Vietnam

A society's slow decline tracks with a woman's romantic blossoming.

In 1950s Saigon, ten-year-old Mui obtains a job working as a servant for an affluent Vietnamese family. Ten years later, the family has fallen on hard times, leading Mui to change hou...