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El Bulli: Cooking in Progress

Culture · Documentary · Art Documentaries

For six months of the year, renowned Spanish chef Ferran Adria closes his restaurant El Bulli and works with his culinary team to prepare the menu for the next season. An elegant, detailed study of food as avant-garde art, EL BULLI: COOKING IN PROGRESS is a tasty peek at some of the world's most inn…

Café de Flore

World Cinema · Drama

Cafe de Flore is a love story about people separated by time and place, but connected in profound and mysterious ways. Atmospheric, fantastical, tragic and hopeful, the film chronicles the parallel fates of Jacqueline, a young mother with a disabled son in 1960s Paris, and Antoine, a recently divorc…

Deadly Virtues: Love. Honor. Obey.

Drama · Thriller

A stranger breaks into the house of a couple, ties up the husband and, having a whole weekend at his hand, plays a slow game with the woman, a game of threats, fear, obedience - and intimacy.

Elles

Culture · Sexuality · Drama

Academy Award- winner Juliette Binoche as Anne, a well-off Parisian journalist investigating the lives of two student prostitutes for a magazine article. What begins as a routine assignment, though, quickly turns personal, as Anne is drawn into the lives of these fiercely independent young women and…

Fanny's Journey

Based on True Story · Drama

In 1943, 13-year old Fanny and her younger sisters were sent from their home in France to an Italian foster home for Jewish children. When the Nazis arrive in Italy, their caretakers desperately organize the departure of the children to Switzerland. When they are suddenly left on their own, these 11…

Guest of Honour

Drama

David Thewlis, Laysla De Oliveira, and Luke Wilson star in this story of a father and daughter attempting to unravel their complicated histories and intertwined secrets from Academy Award nominee Atom Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter).

Indivisible

Drama

Dasy and Viola (Angela and Marianna Fontana) are conjoined twin sisters living in the suburbs of Naples. They are blessed with beautiful voices and, thanks to their performances at local weddings, communions and baptisms, have become the breadwinners for their entire family. 

La Maison de la Radio

Documentary · Art Documentaries

LA MAISON DE LA RADIO is a vibrant portrait of Radio France, that nation's equivalent of NPR or the BBC. Directed by Nicolas Philibert (To Be and To Have), a master of the documentary genre, LA MAISON shows the day-to-day of a beloved cultural institution, as radio hosts, producers and journalists p…

Monk With a Camera

Culture · Documentary · Buddhism

Nicholas Vreeland walked away from a worldly life of privilege to become a Tibetan Buddhist monk in 1972.

Nuit #1

World Cinema · Erotic · Drama

Anne Émond's striking feature film debut is a daring examination of a one-night stand. Clara and Nikolaï meet at a rave. They return to Nikolaï's apartment and frantically make love. Afterwards, instead of parting, the two lovers divulge their deepest secrets to one another.

Paul Verhoeven's Tricked

Documentary · Drama · Tribeca Film Festival

Part behind-the-scenes documentary, part narrative feature, PAUL VERHOEVEN'S TRICKED is the result of an ambitious experiment in filmmaking. Director Paul Verhoeven (Basic Instinct, Total Recall) shoots four minutes of the film Tricked, and crowd-sources the remainder of the script. With a brisk pac…

Unit 7

World Cinema · Action & Adventure · Drama

In the gritty thriller UNIT 7 (Grupo 7 ), a group of renegade cops decides to take the law into their own hands. The drug problem in Seville, Spain is spiraling out of control as the city prepares to host the 1992 World Exposition. With pressure from the government mounting to clean up the city, an …

A Woman's Life

World Cinema · Based on Literature · Period Drama

Adapted from the novel Une vie by Guy de Maupassant, Stéphane Brizé’s follow-up to his Cannes and César Award winner The Measure of a Man explores the restrictive social dictates and moral codes of marriage and family in 19th century Normandy.