Cambridge Film Festival 2019

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Family Romance LLC Family Romance LLC
Family Romance LLC and Portrait Of A Lady On Fire
Domestique (Domestik) (Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia; Year: 2018; Director: Adam Sedlák; Writer: Adam Sedlák; Stars: Tereza Hofová, Jirí Konvalinka, Miroslav Hanus, Tomás Bambusek, Tereza Hofová, Jirí Konvalinka, Miroslav Hanus, Tomás Bambusek)
Top cyclist Roman has had enough of serving as a domestique, a bicycle racer who sacrifices for the team. But his obsession with his performance begins to take its toll on his marriage.
Family Romance LLC (Director: Werner Herzog)
Docudrama about a company which hires out people to pretend to be family members.
Fire Will Come (O Que Arde) (Country: Spain, France, Luxembourg; Year: 2019; Director: Oliver Laxe; Writer: Santiago Fillol, Oliver Laxe; Stars: Santiago Fillol, Oliver Laxe)
A convicted arsonist returns to his rural home.
Kabul, City In The Wind (Country: Netherlands, Germany, Japan, Afghanistan; Year: 2018; Director: Aboozar Amini)
The city Kabul, seen through the daily details of two kids and a bus driver.
Portrait Of A Lady On Fire (Portrait De La Jeune Fille En Feu) (Country: France; Year: 2019; Director: Céline Sciamma; Writer: Céline Sciamma; Stars: Valeria Golino, Adèle Haenel, Noémie Merlant, Luàna Bajrami, Cécile Morel)
On an isolated island in Bretagne at the end of the 18th century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.
The Souvenir The Souvenir
The Souvenir and Fire Will Come
The Souvenir (Country: UK; Year: 2019; Director: Joanna Hogg; Writer: Joanna Hogg; Stars: Honor Swinton Byrne, Tom Burke, Tilda Swinton, Richard Ayoade, Ariane Labed, Jack McMullen)
A quiet film student begins finding her voice as an artist while navigating a turbulent courtship with a charismatic but untrustworthy man.
Stitches (Country: Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Year: 2019; Director: Miroslav Terzić; Stars: Snezana Bogdanovic, Marko Bacovic, Jovana Stojiljkovic, Vesna Trivalic, Dragana Varagic)
Ana believes that she and other Serbian women have had their newborn babies stolen from them to be given up for illegal adoption for money. She sets out on a quest.
Why Don't You Just Die (Papa, sdokhni) (Country: Russia; Year: 2018; Director: Kirill Sokolov; Writer: Kirill Sokolov; Stars: Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Vitaliy Khaev, Evgeniya Kregzhde, Michael Gor, Elena Shevchenko, Igor Grabuzov, Aleksandr Domogarov, Ilya Gavrilenkov, Vasiliy Kopeikin, Ilya Kostyukov, Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Vitaliy Khaev, Evgeniya Kregzhde, Michael Gor, Elena Shevchenko)
A dark action comedy about a group of people brought together in the apartment of police detective Andrei: his resentful daughter, an angry thug and a cheated cop. Each one of them have a reason to want revenge.
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