SIX DAYS IN ROSWELL

DescriptionDescription SIX DAYS IN ROSWELL documents the hilarious pilgrimage of UFO enthusiast Richard Kronfeld to Roswell, New Mexico for the 50th anniversary of the infamous (and alleged) Roswell UFO crash. Leaving Minneapolis for the first time in his life, Kronfeld undertakes his journey obsessed with finding answers - even hoping to pick up tips on...

NOT OF THIS WORLD (FUORI DAL MONDO)

DescriptionDescription Caterina is a young nun about to take her perpetual vows. Ernesto owns a launderette and suffers both loneliness and a racing heart. Teresa is a youngster wandering Milan, trying to decide where to stay the night. And Fausto is the new-born baby Caterina discovers in the park. Her attempts to locate the mother...

OSKAR AND LENI (OSKAR UND LENI)

DescriptionDescription Oskar, a gold-medalist swimmer at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, made headlines for almost fourteen years as Europe's most wanted jewel thief. But in 1987, his career was ended abruptly by a bullet to his head and for 15 years he served a prison sentence. After nine years he is released because of...

RIEN SUR ROBERT

DescriptionDescription In this wryly comic look at the tribulations of a mid-life crisis, magazine critic Didier finds his world turning upside down. He is haunted by his own actions - including a disastrous review in which he condemns a film without having seen it - and by the paranoid conviction that he is being followed...

THE SALESMAN

DescriptionDescription In this faithful homage to the silent screen comedy stars, a hardworking shoe salesman pursues romance with a beautiful woman he runs into on the street.

SCHPAAA

DescriptionDescription Thirteen-year-aid Jonas and his friend Mir, a ticking time bomb always ready to explode into violence, are part of a small gang in Oslo. Easy money calls when Mir's uncle gives them two assignments: deliver some heroin to one of his customers and beat up another one. Gradually, Mir comes to believe they may...

SET ME FREE (EMPORTE-MOI)

DescriptionDescription In a darkened movie theater in 1963 Montreal, thirteen-year-old Hanna first discovers Nana, played by Anna Karina in Jean-Luc Godard's VIVRE SA VIE. Fascinated by this character, Hanna finds a certain similarity between Nana and one of her teachers with whom she hopes to develop a special relationship. Hanna is at a difficult age,...

MUSIC OF THE HEART

DescriptionDescription From acclaimed director Wes Craven comes on extraordinary film for anyone who has ever been told their dreams ore out of reach. MUSIC OF THE HEART is the inspirational true story of a woman who proved to countless children that they could accomplish anything. Roberto Guospori's world collapses when her husband walks out on...

NAILBITER

DescriptionDescription An overbearing man causes his son to develop a worrying and nervous habit. After a violent act, the boy's mother takes matters into her own hands, with gruesome consequences.

PRINCESS MONONOKE

DescriptionDescription Directed by Japan's leading animator, the renowned Hayao Miyazaki, PRINCESS MONONOKE is mature in theme, operatic in scope and mystical in style. Set in ancient Japan and based loosely on Japanese folklore, the film takes place in a time of upheaval, of samurai warriors and isolated villages miles apart. In a remote mountain village...

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