Powerful Stories
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Tales from the Gimli Hospital Redux
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Directed by Guy Maddin • Arthouse • 1988 • Canada • English
Starring Kyle McCulloch, Michael Gottli, Angela HeckGuy Maddin’s highly acclaimed first feature is regarded as one of the true cult hits on the midnight movie circuit. Set during a smallpox epidemic in the village of Gimli, Manitoba ne...
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Fanny
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Directed by Daniel Auteuil • Drama • 2013 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Daniel Auteuil, Victoire Bélézy, Raphaël PersonnazFaithfully adapted by Daniel Auteuil, the second part of Marcel Pagnol’s classic trilogy follows the loves and losses of a Marseille port community. Fann...
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Yom Yom
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Directed by Amos Gitai • Comedy • 1998 • Israel, France • Hebrew with English subtitles
Starring Moshe Ivgy, Hanna Maron, Juliano Mer-KhamisIn “Yom Yom”, Israel's preeminent writer-director Amos Gitai weaves a comic tale of characters driven by divided loyalties and inhibitions in the mixed nat...
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Tsili
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Directed by Amos Gitai • Arthouse • 2015 • Israel, France • Yiddish, Ukrainian, Russian with English subtitles
Starring Sarah Adler, Meshi Olinski, Leah KoenigTsili is a young girl caught in the middle of World War II. After her family is taken to a concentration camp,Tsili hides in the forest,...
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Eden
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Directed by Amos Gitai • Drama • 2001 • Israel, France • English
Starring Samantha Morton, Danny Huston, Arthur MillerSet in 1940s Palestine, Samantha and her husband Dov, both of American descent, have immigrated due to their Zionist convictions. Dov is a communist and architect. He dedicates ...
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Roses à crédit
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Directed by Amos Gitai • Drama • 2010 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Léa Seydoux, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Catherine JacobLéa Seydoux stars in Amos Gitai's adaptation of Elsa Triolet’s 1959 novel. A young couple marry in 1940s France and we follow the arc of their marriage ...
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Carmel
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Directed by Amos Gitai • Arthouse • 2009 • Israel, France • Hebrew, French, Arabic with English subtitles
Starring Jeanne Moreau, Amos Gitai, Rivka Gitai“Carmel” is Amos Gitai's deeply personal and resonant meditation on Jewish and Israeli identity. Using both fiction and documentary techniques...
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Kippur
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Directed by Amos Gitai • Drama • 2000 • Israel, France • Hebrew with English subtitles
Starring Juliano Mer, Uri Ran Klauzner, Tomer RusoAn Official Selection at the Cannes, New York, and Toronto Film Festivals, Amos Gitai's "Kippur" is a gut-wrenching journey through beautiful landscapes ravag...
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Disengagement
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Directed by Amos Gitai • Drama • 2007 • Israel, France • English, Hebrew, French, Arabic with English subtitles
Starring Juliette Binoche, Liron Levo, Jeanne MoreauAna (Juliette Binoche) is reunited with her estranged Israeli stepbrother Uli when he travels to France for the death of their fa...
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Esther
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Directed by Amos Gitai • Drama • 1986 • Austria, Israel, UK • Hebrew with English subtitles
Starring Simone Benyamin, Mohammed Bakri, Juliano MerrAmos Gitai’s debut feature, which draws upon his mother Efratia’s own Biblical scholarship, is filmed as a series of ritualized tableaux amid the rui...
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Ana Arabia
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Directed by Amos Gitai • Arthouse • 2013 • Israel, France • Hebrew with English subtitles
Starring Yuval Scharf, Yussuf Abu-Warda, Sarah AdlerFilmed in one sequence shot by acclaimed director Amos Gitai, “Ana Arabia” follows a young journalist who visits a small community of outcasts, Jews and ...
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Alila
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Directed by Amos Gitai • Arthouse • 2004 • Israel, France • Hebrew, English with English subtitles
Starring Yaël Abecassis, Hana Laszlo, Uri KlauznerAmos Gitai's ensemble film examines the lives of a half dozen residents of a run-down Tel-Aviv apartment building. For the apartment dwellers, eve...
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The Rocket
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Directed by Kim Mordaunt • Drama • 2013 • Australia, Laos, Thailand • Lao with English subtitles
Starring Sitthiphon Disamoe, Loungnam Kaosainam, Thep PhongamWinner of awards at the Berlin and Tribeca Film Festivals, this blazingly original drama tells the story of 10-year-old Ahlo, who is dec...
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Free Zone
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Directed by Amos Gitai • Drama • 2005 • Israel, France • English, Hebrew, Arabic, Spanish with English subtitles
Starring Natalie Portman, Hanna Laslo, Hiam AbbassRebecca, played by Natalie Portman, has just broken off her engagement. She gets into a cab driven by Hanna, an Israeli. But Hanna i...
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Sister
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Directed by Ursula Meier • Arthouse • 2012 • Switzerland, France • French with English subtitles
Starring Léa Seydoux, Kacey Mottet Klein, Martin CompstonWinner of the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, Ursula Meier's film follows a young boy who lives with his older sister (Léa Seydoux) ...
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Indivisible
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Directed by Edoardo De Angelis • Drama • 2018 • Italy • Italian with English subtitles
Starring Angela Fontana, Marianna Fontana, Antonia Truppo"Indivisible" is an award-winning Italian drama about the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood. Dasy and Viola are conjoined twin sisters living in the subu...
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Kadosh
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Directed by Amos Gitai • Drama • 1999 • Israel, France • Hebrew with English subtitles
Starring Uri Ran Klauzner, Yaël Abecassis, Yoram HattubAmos Gitai’s impassioned feminist polemic selected for the 1999 Cannes Film Festival is set in an ultra-Orthodox enclave of Jerusalem and follows a pious...
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Winter Sleep
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Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan • Drama • 2014 • Turkey • Turkish with English subtitles
Starring Haluk Bilginer, Melisa Sözen, Demet AkbagDirected by cinema master Nuri Bilge Ceylan, this enthralling, brilliantly photographed film won the Palme d'Or at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival and was Turke...
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Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
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Directed by Vittorio De Sica • Anthology • 1963 • Italy • Italian with English subtitles
Starring Sophia Loren, Marcello MastroianniWitty and unforgettable, this Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film from master neo-realist filmmaker Vittorio de Sica casts Marcello Mastroianni and...
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Princess Tam Tam
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Directed by Edmond T. Greville • Drama • 1935 • French • French with English subtitles
Starring Josephine Baker, Albert Préjean, Jean Gallande"Princess Tam Tam" is a 1935 French black-and-white film starring Josephine Baker as Alwina, a Tunisian girl who is introduced to Parisian high society a...
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The Scent of Green Papaya
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Directed by Anh Hung Tran • Drama • 1993 • Vietnam, France • Vietnamese with English subtitles
Starring Nu Yen Khe Tran, Thi Loc Truong, Anh Hoa NguyenAn Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, Cannes winner ”The Scent of Green Papaya” is set in 1951 Saigon, where 10-year-old Mui...
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Metropolis
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Directed by Fritz Lang • Silent • 1927 • Germany • German with English intertitles
Starring Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Gustav Froelich, Alfred AbelWith more than 25 minutes of rediscovered footage, this restoration of “Metropolis” is the definitive edition of Fritz Lang’s influential sci-fi masterpiec...
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Marius
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Directed by Daniel Auteuil • Arthouse • 2014 • France • French with English subtitles
Starring Daniel Auteuil, Raphaël Personnaz, Jean-Pierre DarroussinActor and director Daniel Auteuil’s sumptuous adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's classic trilogy following the loves and losses of a Marseille port ...
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Lovers and Lollipops
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Directed by Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin • Drama • 1956 • US • English
Starring Lori March, Gerald O'Loughlin, Cathy DunnA follow-up to the hugely successful "Little Fugitive", Morris Engel and Ruth Orkin's "Lovers and Lollipops" is the enchanting tale of a seven-year-old girl's reaction to her mom...