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Birds of Passage

A new masterpiece by Ciro Guerra & Cristina Gallego

Submitted for the Oscars 2019
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Ultimos días en la Habana

Fernando Pérez, Kuba

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Banshun

Yasujiro OZU Japan 109′

Twenty-seven-year-old Noriko lives with her widowed father, a university professor, in a small house in the tranquil surroundings of northern Kamakura. He is completing a scientific manuscript, aided by his assistant, Hattori. Professor Sonomiya is concerned for his daughter s welfare, and one day suggests she marry Hattori. Noriko only laughs at his suggestion because she is quite happy with her life and knows that Hattori is already engaged.
Music Room

Satyajit Ray India 100′

The Music Room shows the end times of a decadent landlord in Bengal and his efforts to maintain his family's reputation even in economically difficult times. The landlord, Biswambhar Roy (Chhabi Biswas), is a just but unworldly man who likes to spend time listening to music and setting up spectacles instead of managing his lands devastated by floods and the Indian government's abolition of the Zamindari system.
Ulysses' Gaze

Theo Angelopoulos Greece 170′

A Greek-American filmmaker, known simply as «A», returns to his hometown in northern Greece for a screening of his latest controversial film. His real reason for coming back, however, is to track down three long-missing reels of film by Greece's pioneering Manakia brothers who in the early years of cinema traveled through the Balkans, ignoring national and ethnic strife and recording ordinary people, especially craftsmen, on film.
L'exilé

Oumarou Ganda Niger 78′

Based on a traditional African tale.A king has the habit of listening to the wishes of his people whilst walking in disguise on the streets of his kingdom. One day he overhears two brothers daydreaming of marrying the king’s daughters, even if it meant being beheaded one year later. The weddings take place and one of the brothers is decapitated one year later. The other one escapes at his wife’s insistence.
Soul Power

Jeffrey Levy-Hinte Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa) 89′

Jeffrey Levy-Hinte has brought the disparate and unedited film of Zaire '74 together into one coherent form for the first time. The rainchild of South African musician Hugh Masekela and American record producer Stewart Levine, Zaire '74 was a three-day music festival that took place in Kinshasa in 1974. The event assembled America's biggest rhythm and blues talents – including James Brown and the Mighty JBs, Bill Withers, B.B.
Chevalier

Athina Rachel Tsangari Greece 105′

In the middle of the Aegean Sea, on a luxury yacht, six men on a fishing trip decide to play a game. During this game, things will be compared, measured and blood will be tested. Friends will become rivals, but at the end of the voyage, when the game is over, the winner will wear the victorious signet ring: the “Chevalier”.

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Last days in Havana

A declaration of love to the Cuban capital and its inhabitants
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Timgad

No shirts, no boots, but dribble with talent. The story of a junior soccer team in Algeria.
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Wajib

A road-movie across Nazareth
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Worlds Apart

Three touching love stories set in modern day Greece
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Durak

A hero in modern times
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Tangos, the Exile of Gardel

Exile in Paris - Digitally restored version
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Sankofa

The recuperation of one's past in order to comprehend the present and find one's future
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Russian Avant-garde

The Russian cinema of the 1920s - 3 silent movies in restored version
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Fish & Cat

All is not as it seems
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The Ballad of Narayama

Becoming old - Golden Palm of Cannes - Restored Version
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Fredi M. Murer

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