Atropia
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Hailey Gates; Writer: Hailey Gates; Stars: Alia Shawkat, Callum Turner, Chloë Sevigny, Tim Heidecker, Jane Levy)
When an aspiring actress in a military role-playing facility falls in love with a soldier cast as an insurgent, their unsimulated emotions threaten to derail the performance.
Bouchra
(Country: Italy, Morocco, US; Year: 2025; Director: Orian Barki, Meriem Bennani)
A New York-based filmmaker writes an autobiographical script about a fictional double, while also appearing in animated form as a coyote moving through a city of furry creatures.
Close-Up
(Country: Iran; Year: 1990; Director: Abbas Kiarostami; Writer: Abbas Kiarostami; Stars: Hossain Sabzian, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Abolfazl Ahankhah, Mehrdad Ahankhah, Monoochehr Ahankhah, Mahrokh Ahankhah, Nayer Mohseni Zonoozi, Ahmad Reza Moayed Mohseni, Hossain Farazmand, Hooshang Shamaei, Mohammad Ali Barrati, Davood Goodarzi, Haj Ali Reza Ahmadi, Hassan Komaili, Davood Mohabbat)
Story of a printer who posed as a director. Restored.
Goodbye, Dragon Inn
(Country: Taiwan; Year: 2003; Director: Tsai Ming-Liang)
On a dark, wet night a historic and regal Chinese cinema sees its final film.
Kinetta
(Year: 2005; Director: Yorgos Lanthimos; Writer: Yorgos Kakanakis, Yorgos Lanthimos; Stars: Evangelia Randou, Aris Servetalis, Costas Xikominos)
At a Greek hotel in the off-season, a chamber maid, a man obsessed with BMWs, and a photo-store clerk attempt to film and photograph various badly reenacted struggles between a man and a woman.
The Photograph
(Country: Greece; Year: 1987; Director: Nikos Papatakis; Writer: Nikos Papatakis; Stars: Hristos Tsagas, Aris Retsos, Zozo Zarpa)
A young furrier leaves Castoria in 1971 to emigrate to France to live with a relative. He finds a photograph, leading to a confrontation with his relative.
Rififi
(Du rififi chez les hommes)
(Country: France; Year: 1955; Director: Jules Dassin; Writer: Auguste Le Breton, Jules Dassin, René Wheeler, Auguste Le Breton, Auguste Le Breton; Stars: Jean Servais, Carl Möhner, Robert Manuel, Janine Darcey, Pierre Grasset, Robert Hossein, Marcel Lupovici, Dominique Maurin, Magali Noël, Marie Sabouret, Claude Sylvain, Jules Dassin, Armandel, Alain Bouvette, Alice Garan)
Film noir about a jewel heist.
The Time That Remains
(Country: UK, Italy, Belgium, France; Year: 2009; Director: Elia Suleiman; Writer: Elia Suleiman; Stars: Ali Suliman, Elia Suleiman, Saleh Bakri, Menashe Noy, Nati Ravitz, Avi Kleinberger, Amer Hlehel, Samar Tanus, George Khleifi, Ziyad Bakri, Nina Jarjoura, Isabelle Ramadan, Leila Muammar, Lotuf Neusser, Yasmine Haj)
Third part of the director's loose trilogy (featuring Chronicle of a Disappearance (1996) and
Divine Intervention about 60 years in the life of a Palestinian family.
VHS - Kahloucha
(Country: Tunisia; Year: 2006; Director: Néjib Belkadhi; Stars: Moncef Kahloucha)
In a poor district of Tunisia, self-made auteur, Moncef Kahloucha, a guerilla filmmaker in the purest sense, demonstrates that it takes a village to make fun movies as he brings the power of cinema to the people.
