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Dancing Arabs and The Hundred-Foot Journey
The Beaches Of Agnes (Les Plages d'Agnès)
(Country: France; Year: 2008; Director: Agnès Varda; Writer: Agnès Varda; Stars: Mathieu Demy, Agnès Varda, Rosalie Varda)
The grandmother of the French New Wave documents her own life story.
Clouds Of Sils Maria
(Country: France, Switzerland, Germany; Year: 2014; Director: Olivier Assayas; Writer: Olivier Assayas; Stars: Chloë Grace Moretz, Kristen Stewart, Juliette Binoche, Brady Corbet, Claire Tran, Johnny Flynn), Trailer
A reclusive actress on the brink of divorce is asked to take on a challenging role - that of a doomed woman whose betrayer she made her name as.
Dancing Arabs (A Borrowed Identity)
(Country: Israel; Year: 2014; Director: Eran Riklis; Writer: Sayed Kashua; Stars: Tawfeek Barhom, Ali Suliman, Yaël Abecassis, Marlene Bajali, Laëtitia Eïdo, Razi Gabareen, Norman Issa, Daniel Kitsis, Michael Moshonov, Loai Nofi)
A boy from an Arab Israeli city is sent to a prestigious Jerusalem boarding school.
Geronimo
(Country: France; Year: 2014; Director: Tony Gatlif; Stars: Céline Sallette, Rachid Yous, David Murgia)
In the sultry August heat, Geronimo, a young social educator, tries to ease tensions between the youngsters of the St Pierre neighborhood in the south of France.
Hin Und Weg (Tour De Force)
(Country: Germany; Year: 2014; Director: Christian Zübert; Writer: Ariane Schröder, Christian Zübert; Stars: Florian David Fitz, Julia Koschitz, Jürgen Vogel, Miriam Stein, Volker Bruch, Johannes Allmayer, Victoria Mayer, Hannelore Elsner, Halina Reijn, Daniel Roesner, Simon Böer, Lena Dörrie, Ina Geerts, Janina Fautz, Jan Messutat)
Friends who make a yearly bike trip are shocked when one of their number tells them the reason he has picked this year's route.
Land Ho! and To Life
A Hitman's Solitude Before The Shot (Die Einsamkeit des Killers vor dem Schuss)
(Country: Germany; Year: 2014; Director: Florian Mischa Böder; Writer: Clemente Fernandez-Gil, Florian Mischa Böder; Stars: Benno Fürmann, Mavie Hörbiger, Wolf Roth, Erik Madsen)
The over-ambitious Koralnik has a dream job: he is a contract killer for a secret EU programme. But even eight years after his training he still hasn‘t had a single hit... then a woman crashes into his life.
The Hundred-Foot Journey
(Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Lasse Hallström; Writer: Steven Knight, based on the book by Richard C Morais; Stars: Helen Mirren, Om Puri, Manish Dayal, Charlotte Le Bon, Amit Shah, Farzana Dua Elahe, Dillon Mitra, Aria Pandya, Michel Blanc)
An Indian family move to France and open a curry house across the road from a Michelin-starred restaurant.
Land Ho!
(Country: Iceland, US; Year: 2014; Director: Aaron Katz, Martha Stephens; Writer: Aaron Katz, Martha Stephens; Stars: Paul Eenhoorn, Earl Lynn Nelson, Alice Olivia Clarke, Karrie Crouse, Elizabeth McKee, Emmsjé Gauti, Magnús Kr. Guðmundsson, Þrúður Kristjánsdóttir)
Two old friends take a trip to Iceland.
The Leopard (Il gattopardo)
(Country: Italy, France; Year: 1963; Director: Luchino Visconti; Writer: Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa, Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Enrico Medioli, Massimo Franciosa, Luchino Visconti; Stars: Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon, Paolo Stoppa, Rina Morelli, Romolo Valli, Terence Hill, Pierre Clémenti, Lucilla Morlacchi, Giuliano Gemma, Ida Galli, Ottavia Piccolo, Carlo Valenzano, Brook Fuller, Anna Maria Bottini)
An aristocrat tries to cling to the past in the turmoil of 1860s Sicily.
Lucy
(Country: France; Year: 2014; Director: Luc Besson; Writer: Luc Besson; Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman, Choi Min-sik, Amr Waked, Julian Rhind-Tutt)
A woman transforms into a super-warrior.
Marie's Story and The Leopard
Love Island
(Country: Croatia, Germany, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Switzerland; Year: 2014; Director: Jasmila Zbanic; Writer: Aleksandar Hemon, Jasmila Zbanic; Stars: Franco Nero, Ariane Labed, Ada Condeescu, Leon Lucev, Branka Petric, Bojana Gregoric, Ermin Bravo, Jelena Lopatic, Vanja Joncic)
A Bosnian family take their much-needed summer break at a coastal resort in Croatia. The karaoke-singing husband can’t take his eyes off the beautiful scuba diving instructor there, but neither can the long-suffering wife who recognizes the woman as her long-lost love.
Marie's Story (Marie Heurtin)
(Country: France; Year: 2014; Director: Jean-Pierre Améris; Writer: Jean-Pierre Améris, Philippe Blasband; Stars: Isabelle Carré, Brigitte Catillon, Laure Duthilleul, Martine Gautier, Sonia Laroze, Patricia Legrand, Christophe Tourrette, Gilles Treton, Ariana Rivoire)
Biopic about a woman who was born deaf and blind.
Pause
(Country: Switzerland; Year: 2014; Director: Mathieu Urfer; Writer: Joanne Giger, Joanne Giger, Matthieu Reynaert, Mathieu Urfer; Stars: Baptiste Gilliéron, Julia Faure, André Wilms, Nils Althaus, Nicole Letuppe, Roland Vouilloz, Baptiste Coustenoble, Hélène Barbry, Margherita Coldesina, Jean-Michel Distexhe, Olivier Yglesias)
A musician finds his romantic relationship in trouble.
Schweizer Helden
(Director: Peter Luisi; Stars: Esther Gemsch, Karim Rahoma, Komi Mizrajim Togbonou, Newroz Baz, Elvis Clausen, Klaus Wildbolz )
A woman left alone at Christmas, tries to stage a production of William Tell with asylum seekers.
To Life (Hélène et ses soeurs, À la vie)
(Country: France; Year: 2014; Director: Jean-Jacques Zilbermann; Writer: Odile Barski, Danièle D'Antoni, Jean-Jacques Zilbermann; Stars: Julie Depardieu, Hippolyte Girardot, Anne-Marie Pisani, Mathias Mlekuz, Patrick Ligardes, Maria Pitarresi, Béatrice Michel, Benjamin Wangermee, Maxime Le Garrec, Matthieu Le Garrec, Chelssy Bottier, Audrey Quoturi)
Loosely based on the story of the director's mother who, years after being in Auschwitz decided to track down two women she had befriended in the camp.
Venus In Fur and Clouds Of Sils Maria
Venus In Fur (La Venua À La Fourrure)
(Country: France, Poland; Year: 2013; Director: Roman Polanski; Writer: Roman Polanski, based on the play by David Ives; Stars: Emmanuelle Seigner, Mathieu Amalric)
An actress endeavours to convince a director of her talents so she can win a part in the play based on Sacher-Masoch's novel.
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