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Invited to a rest home to explore their sexual issues, three women spend their days and nights trying to tame their inner demons. Under the detached supervision of a German therapist and a considerate social worker, the group attempts to maintain a delicate balance. For the young Geisha, somber Ľonie and unpredictable Euǧnie, it's a chance to get away from the noise, to engage with the present, and think about the future.
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Annie frantically flees Montreal for the US with her young son, Felix and teenage daughter, Sarah, fearing the repercussions after Sarah severely injures her school bully. When their car breaks down just outside a small town in the Adirondacks, the family is stranded. Paul, a single father and the town's lone mechanic, isn't able to fix the car until he gets the part that's needed. Annie's stubborn insistence to leave town at all costs comes head-to-head...
3) Revoir paris
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Three months after surviving a mass shooting at a Parisian bistro, Mia is determined to reconstruct the sequence of events by bonding with fellow survivors, and piecing together their stories to rediscover her own.
4) Coco ferme
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Max, a 12-year-old entrepreneur, is forced to close his garage business and move with his father to a remote village in the countryside. When Max discovers chickens in his cousin Charles' old abandoned barn, he sees an opportunity to go into business. The two acolytes join forces with Alice, a young YouTuber known for her market gardening videos, and embark on the creation of a farm of 500 laying hens.
5) Full time
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Single mother Julie needs reliable transit to get to work. When a national strike breaks out, her daily routine becomes a gauntlet in this kinetic thriller about the insecurity of modern life in a ruthless society.
6) Pacifiction
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On the French Polynesian island of Tahiti, the High Commissioner of the Republic and French government official De Roller is a calculating man with flawless manners. His somewhat broad perception of his role brings him to navigate the high-end' establishment' as well as shady venues where he mingles with the locals. Especially since a persistent rumor has been going around: the sighting of a submarine whose ghostly presence could herald the return...
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Set in the suburbs of Boulogne-Sur-Mer in northern France, this captures a film within a film as it follows the production of a feature whose director turns to the local Cité Picasso housing project for casting. Eager to capture performances of gritty authenticity, the director selects four working class teenagers to act in the film to the surprise and consternation of the local community, who question the director's choice of "the worst ones." As...
8) Niagara
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Three brothers in their fifties will have to reconnect on the death of their father, who died prematurely from an unfortunate Ice Bucket Challenge. French closed captioning available.
10) Respire
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Fouad, a young Moroccan teenager, and Max, a 27-year-old native Quebecer, each come to terms with the many frustrations of their reality and their daily life in a working-class neighborhood of Montreal. One is a big soccer fan, and the other recently lost his job. One day, against all odds, their destinies intersect. And this meeting has dramatic consequences for the two parties involved.
12) Hélas pour moi
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Jean-Luc Godard's film is a provocative film about faith and desire starring Gerard Depardieu. Inspired by the Greek myth of Alcmene and Amphitryon, it investigates the story of a god inhabiting the body of a man to experience the pleasures of the flesh. The incident is told through the eyes of a publisher, Abraham Klimt, who is interviewing the inhabitants of a Swiss village regarding the strange story of Rachel and Simon Donnadieu.
13) Petite maman
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Céline Sciamma's follow-up to Portrait of a Lady on Fire transcends time and space to weave a delicately emotional fable about grief, family, and connection across generations. In the wake of her grandmother's death, eight-year-old Nelly accompanies her distraught mother to her childhood home. There, Nelly's encounter with another young girl brings mother and daughter together in a way neither could have ever imagined. Evoking childhood's perpetual...
14) Bilatena
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"Abi, a dynamic and resourceful twelve-year-old boy, lives with his mother Degua and his 26-year-old brother Zelalem. Abi, who is a hard-working boy with two jobs, supports his poor mother and his older unemployed brother through their day-to-day lives. But when their mother dies of hepatitus B and Abi is also infected with the virus, Zele must face the big challenge of supporting his own life and keeping his younger brother alive ..."--Container
15) India song
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Within the insular walls of a lavish, decaying embassy in 1930's India, the French ambassador's wife staves off ennui through affairs with multiple men- with the overpowering torpor broken only by a startling eruption of madness. Setting her evocatively decadent visuals to a desynchronized chorus of disembodied voices that comment on and counterpoint the action, Duras creates a haunted-house movie unlike any other.
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After working for EcoClean, an industrial cleaning supplies company, for nearly seventeen years, model employee Ines believes it's time for a raise. Despite daily jibes from her incompetent and misogynistic co-workers (including Patrick, EcoClean's ineffectual owner), she remains professional and dedicated to the company's brand. When Ines confronts Patrick about her salary, he not only disparages her request but makes a lecherous pass at her. New...
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The high-profile case of serial killer Ludovic Chevalier has just gone to trial, and Kelly-Anne is obsessed. When reality blurs with her morbid fantasies, she goes down a dark path to seek the final piece of the puzzle: the missing video of a murdered 13-year-old girl, to whom Kelly-Anne bears a disturbing resemblance.
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"Cantal, France, 1905. In the forest surrounding his native village, the young seminarian Bruno Reidal murders a boy before surrendering immediately to authorities. In prison, under interrogation for weeks, he faces a panel of three doctors attempting to understand his lethal impulse. They order Bruno to retrace his past by writing his life story, as they try to identify the events or the anomaly that could have led to such an atrocity."
19) La chinoise
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Paris, 1967. Disillusioned by their suburban lifestyles, a group of middle-class students, led by Guillaume and Véronique, form a small Maoist cell and plan to change the world by any means necessary. After studying the growth of communism in China, the students decide they must use terrorism and violence to ignite their own revolution.
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On a cold winter's day in 1940, Jules and his family move in with his uncle, mayor of a settler's village in northern Quebec. When his dog Spark runs into the forest, Jules follows and meets a mysterious young Indigenous girl named Asha. Together, they venture to the other side of the forest, where nature reveals itself full of life and secrets.
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