New Wave Films (15)

In the Ottoman province of Hijaz during World War I, a young Bedouin boy, Theeb (Jacir Eid), experiences a greatly hastened coming of age as he embarks, uninvited but eager for adventure, on a perilous desert journey with his elder brother Hussein (Hussei

Een open-ended verkenning van de energieën en rituelen van verschillende werkplekken. Van de ene arbeider tot de andere en van de ene machine tot de andere; handen, gezichten, pauzes, gezwoeg: wat voor absurdistische, abstracte dialoog kan men beginnen tu

Na het veelgeprezen Nostalgia for the Light (Nostalgia de la Luz, 2010), met zijn studie van de woestijn, de sterren, licht en tijd, maar ook de recente herinnering aan en de overblijfselen van verdwenen mensen in het noorden van Chili onder Pinochet, nee

In 1942, Belarus is in the hands of Nazis and the local militia. Sushenya is taken from his house in the middle of the night by Burov and his sidekick Voitik, two partisan fighters hiding out in the hills and forest. Sushenya is the only one of four captu

The mother through the daughter's eyes - a family portrait blending intimate conversations, agreements and disagreements, and shred ties of sounds and blood. This intimate portrait of two musical giants by Martha Argerich's daughter Stéphanie has been fil

Sokol and Lorna, two Albanian emigrants in Belgium, dream of leaving their dreary jobs to set up a snack bar. They need money, and a permanent resident status. Claudy is a junkie - he needs money to satisfy his addiction. Andrei, the cigarette smuggler, m

Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan's film tells the story of a family blown apart by lies and non-communication. When Servet (Ercan Kesal), a politician involved in a car accident, asks his driver Eyup (Yavoz Bingol) to take the rap - a short jail sentenc

Een 18 jarig meisje genaamd Joy is vermist. Een ander meisje, Helen, zou over een paar weken haar verzorgingstehuis verlaten. Helen is gevraagd om Joy te spelen in een politie reconstructie die Joy's laatst bekende bewegingen zal natrekken.Joy had alles.

In Atom Egoyan’s best film since The Sweet Hereafter, Sabine, a high school French teacher, gives her class a translation exercise based on a real news story about a terrorist who plants a bomb in the airline luggage of his pregnant girlfriend. A chain of

Nicole & Jasmine are two teenagers who bond over a mutual obsession for Premiership footballer, Lee Cassidy. Fuelled by their fantasy of meeting him, they track him down and before they know it their dream has become a nightmare. Starring Nichola Burley f

‘For many years, I have been looking for a missing picture: a photograph taken between 1975 and 1979 by the Khmer Rouge, when they ruled over Cambodia...On its own, of course, an image does not prove mass murder, but it prompts us to think, to meditate, t

1967. De wereld is levend en rijp voor mogelijkheden. Nieuwe muziek, stijl, hoop. Maar in Jordanië worden duizenden vluchtelingen uit Palestina vastgehouden in afwachting van hun recht om naar hun vaderland terug te keren. Te midden van dit alles, verlang

They are Irish, Senegalese, Brazilian, Moroccan, Chinese...They are between eleven and fifteen years old and have just arrived in France. For a year they will all be together in the same 'reception class' of a Parisian secondary school, under the supervis

A taxi driver is driving through the vibrant streets of Tehran. Diverse passengers enter the taxi, each candidly expressing their views while being interviewed by the driver who is no one else but the director Jafar Panahi himself. His camera placed on th

Niloofar, 35 years old, lives alone in Tehran with her aged mother, and stays busy with her tailoring shop. Tehran's air pollution has reached maximum levels because of thermal inversion, making it hard to breath. When doctors insist that her mother must