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Decision To Leave and Holy Spider
Armageddon Time
(Country: Brazil, US; Year: 2022; Director: James Gray; Writer: James Gray; Stars: Anne Hathaway, Anthony Hopkins, Jeremy Strong, Domenick Lombardozzi, Tovah Feldshuh, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Teddy Coluca, Michael Banks Repeta, Andrew Polk, Dane West, Lauren Yaffe, Dupree Francois Porter, Griffin Wallace Henkel, Marcia Haufrecht, Ryan Sell)
Coming-of-age drama set against the backdrop of the Reagan era.
Boy From Heaven
(Country: Sweden; Year: 2022; Director: Tarik Saleh; Writer: Tarik Saleh; Stars: Tawfeek Barhom, Fares Fares, Mehdi Dehbi, Mohammad Bakri, Makram Khoury, Yunus Albayrak, Sherwan Haji, Mouloud Ayad, Amr Mosad, Youssef Salama Zeki, Ayman Fathy)
When a grand imam dies, a ruthless battle begins to be his successor.
Broker
(Country: Korea; Year: 2022; Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda; Writer: Hirokazu Kore-eda; Stars: Song Kang-ho, Gang Dong-won, Bae Doona, Lee Ji-eun, Lee Joo-young)
Drama following a group of people brought together by "baby post boxes" used to help abandoned babies.
Brother And Sister (Frère et soeur)
(Country: France; Year: 2022; Director: Arnaud Desplechin; Writer: Arnaud Desplechin; Stars: Marion Cotillard, Golshifteh Farahani, Melvil Poupaud, Cosmina Stratan, Max Baissette de Malglaive, Benjamin Siksou, Saverio Maligno)
The death of a pair of siblings' parents forces them to cross paths after 20 years of avoiding one another.
Close
(Country: Belgium, Netherlands, France; Year: 2022; Director: Lukas Dhont; Writer: Lukas Dhont, Angelo Tijssens; Stars: Émilie Dequenne, Léa Drucker, Kevin Janssens, Igor van Dessel, Marc Weiss, Eden Dambrine, Gustav De Waele)
Two best friends find their bond upset by schoolmates.
Crimes Of The Future and Broker
Crimes Of The Future
(Country: Canada, Greece, France; Year: 2022; Director: David Cronenberg; Writer: David Cronenberg; Stars: Kristen Stewart, Léa Seydoux, Viggo Mortensen, Scott Speedman, Tanaya Beatty, Denise Capezza, Lihi Kornowski, Yorgos Karamihos, Don McKellar, Nadia Litz, Ephie Kantza, Yorgos Pirpassopoulos, Welket Bungué, Jason Bitter)
In a near-future human evolution has accelerated, a situation embraced by a performance artist.
Decision To Leave
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2022; Director: Park Chan-wook; Writer: Park Chan-wook, Seo-kyeong Jeong; Stars: Tang Wei, Park Hae-il, Go Kyung-Pyo, Lee Jung-Hyun, Park Yong-woo)
A detective investigates a man's death in the mountains.
The Eight Mountains
(Country: Italy, Belgium, France; Year: 2022; Director: Felix van Groeningen, Charlotte Vandermeersch; Writer: Paolo Cognetti, Charlotte Vandermeersch, Felix van Groeningen; Stars: Alessandro Borghi, Luca Marinelli, Filippo Timi, Elena Lietti)
The Eight Mountains is the story of a friendship. Of children becoming men who try to erase the footprints of their fathers, but who, through the twists and turns they take, always end up returning home.
EO
(Country: Poland; Year: 2022; Director: Jerzy Skolimowski; Writer: Ewa Piaskowska, Jerzy Skolimowski; Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Lorenzo Zurzolo, Mateusz Kosciukiewicz, Sandra Drzymalska, Tomasz Organek)
Tale revolving around an unassuming grey donkey.
Forever Young (Les Amandiers, The Almond Tree)
(Country: France, Italy; Year: 2022; Director: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi; Stars: Sofiane Bennacer, Clara Bretheau, Baptiste Carrion-Weiss, Alexia Chardard, Louis Garrel, Léna Garrel, Liv Henneguier, Sarah Henochsberg, Oscar Lesage, Micha Lescot, Farida Rahouadj, Vassili Schneider, Nadia Tereszkiewicz)
A group of young people find themselves at a turning point... and facing their first tragedy.
Triangle Of Sadness and Tori And Lokita
Holy Spider (Ankabut-e moqaddas)
(Country: Denmark, Germany, Sweden, France; Year: 2022; Director: Ali Abbasi; Writer: Ali Abbasi, Afshin Kamran Bahrami; Stars: Zar Amir-Ebrahimi, Mehdi Bajestani, Arash Ashtiani, Forouzan Jamshidnejad, Sina Parvaneh, Nima Akbarpour, Sara Fazilat, Alice Rahimi, M. Ali Nazarian, Sima Seyed, Firouz Ageli, Farhad Faghih Habibi)
A journalist tries to track down a serial killer who is murdering sex workers.
Leila’s Brothers
(Country: Iran; Year: 2022; Director: Saeed Roustayi; Writer: Saeed Roustayi; Stars: Taraneh Alidoosti, Saeed Poursamimi, Navid Mohammadzadeh, Payman Maadi, Mohammad Ali Mohammadi, Farhad Aslani)
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Mother And Son (Un Petit Frere)
(Country: France; Year: 2022; Director: Léonor Serraille; Writer: Léonor Serraille; Stars: Stéphane Bak, Ahmed Sylla, Annabelle Lengronne, Kenzo Sambin)
In the late 1980s, Rose moves from the Ivory Coast to the Paris suburbs with her two young sons, Ernest and Jean. Spanning 20 years from their arrival in France to the present day, the film is the chronicle of the construction and deconstruction of a family.
Nostalgia
(Country: Italy; Year: 2022; Director: Mario Martone; Writer: Mario Martone, Ippolita Di Majo, based on the novel by Ermanno Rea; Stars: Pierfrancesco Favino, Sofia Essaïdi, Tommaso Ragno, Daniela Ioia, Salvatore Striano, Aurora Quattrocchi, Francesco Di Leva, Nello Mascia, Artem, Emanuele Palumbo, Virginia Apicella)
A man returns home after 40 years away.
Pacifiction (Tourment sur les îles)
(Country: Spain, France, Germany, Portugal; Year: 2022; Director: Albert Serra; Writer: Albert Serra; Stars: Benoît Magimel, Sergi López, Montse Triola, Lluís Serrat, Marc Susini, Pahoa Mahagafanau, Matahi Pambrun, Alexandre Mello, Mareva Wong, Baptiste Pinteaux, Michael Vautor, Cyrus Arai, Laurent Brissonnaud, Mike Landscape, Cécile Guilbert)
On the French Polynesian island of Tahiti, the High Commissioner of the Republic and French government navigates the high end "establishment" as well as shady venues as a rumour abounds about the sighting of a submarine whose presence could herald the return of French nuclear testing.
Pacifiction and Mother And Son
R.M.N
(Year: 2022; Director: Cristian Mungiu; Writer: Cristian Mungiu; Stars: Judith State, Marin Grigore, Orsolya Moldován, András Hatházi, Macrina Barladeanu, Zoltán Deák)
When a man returns to his village after working away he finds resentments brewing.
Showing Up
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Kelly Reichardt; Writer: Jonathan Raymond, Kelly Reichardt; Stars: Michelle Williams, Hong Chau, Maryann Plunkett, John Magaro, André 3000, Judd Hirsch, Amanda Plummer, Matt Malloy, Heather Lawless, James Le Gros, Denzel Rodriguez, Eudora Peterson, Ted Rooney, Rowan Vik, Orianna Milne)
Drama about an artist on the verge of an exhibition.
Stars At Noon
(Country: France; Year: 2022; Director: Claire Denis; Writer: Claire Denis, Denis Johnson, Andrew Litvack; Stars: Margaret Qualley, Joe Alwyn, Danny Ramirez, Nick Romano, Carlos Serrano)
An encounter between a mysterious businessman and a journalist committed to following developments of the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua, in 1984.
Tchaikovsky's Wife (Zhena Chaikovskogo)
(Country: Russia, France; Year: 2022; Director: Kirill Serebrennikov; Writer: Kirill Serebrennikov; Stars: Filipp Avdeev, Odin Lund Biron, Nikita Elenev, Ekaterina Ermishina, Miron Fedorov)
Drama following the turbulent relationship between the composer and his wife.
Tori And Lokita
(Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2022; Director: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne; Writer: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne; Stars: Marc Zinga, Claire Bodson, Baptiste Sornin, Schils Pablo, Mbundu Joely)
In Belgium today, a young boy and an adolescent girl who have travelled alone from Africa pit their invincible friendship against the difficult conditions of their exile.
Armageddon Time and Close
Triangle Of Sadness
(Country: Sweden, UK, US, France, Greece; Year: 2022; Director: Ruben Östlund; Writer: Ruben Östlund; Stars: Woody Harrelson, Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean, Hanna Oldenburg, Zlatko Buric, Oliver Ford Davies, Linda Anborg, Iris Berben, Carolina Gynning, Sunnyi Melles, Malte Gårdinger, Vicki Berlin, Arvin Kananian, Beata Borelius, Shaniaz Hama Ali)
A yacht for the super-rich sinks, leaving its passengers marooned on an island.
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