1 hr 43 mins | Arabic | Thurs, Oct 17, 2024 1:30 PM
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Starring The Intouchables Omar Sy, when tragedy strikes a Syrian family in Aleppo, a chain reaction of events is set off involving five different families in four different countries. A globe trotting mystery thriller, The Stranger’s Case takes us through war-torn homelands and characters who try hard to survive against all odds. Winner of multiple awards including the Berlin International Film Festival’s Amnesty International Film Prize.
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Brandt Andersen is an activist and artist. In November 2023, he joined the Jordanian Airforce on humanitarian aid drops over Gaza. In 2019, Andersen visited and filmed hospitals outside of Aleppo, Syria with CanDo. Andersen has organized film camps for refugees in Jordan and Turkey on behalf of CARE. He has visited and filmed the living conditions in refugee camps in Jordan, Greece, Italy, and Turkey with the UNHCR.Andersen has produced over 30 films. His directorial debut “Refugee” was shortlisted for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short in 2020.
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2 hrs 15 mins | Portuguese | Thurs, Oct 17, 2024 4:30 PM
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Rio de Janeiro, early 1970s. Brazil faces the tightening grip of a military dictatorship. We are introduced to the Paivas: a father, Rubens, a mother, Eunice, and their five children. They live by the beach, in a rented house with doors constantly open to friends. The levity, humor, and affection they share among themselves are their own subtle forms of resistance to the oppression that hangs over the country. One day, they suffer a violent and arbitrary act that will forever change their lives. Eunice is forced to reinvent herself and carve out a new destiny for herself and her children.
The gripping story of this family, based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva’s biographical book, helped to reconstruct an important part of Brazil’s hidden history. Directed by Academy Award-nominee Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries, Central Station), and starring Academy Award-nominee Fernanda Montenegro (Central Station) as Eunice, I’m Still Here premieres at this year’s Venice International Film Festival.
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Walter Salles is an independent Brazilian filmmaker. His first film, Foreign Land (Terra Estrangeira), co-directed by Daniela Thomas, was shown at the New Directors/New Films Festival in 1995. Central Station (Central do Brasil, 1998) won the Golden Bear and Best Actress at the Berlin Film Festival, won the Best Foreign Language Film at the Golden Globes and BAFTAs, and was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Actress for Fernanda Montenegro. The Motorcycle Diaries (Diarios de Motocicleta, 2005) received two Academy Award and seven BAFTA nominations, winning BAFTA’s Best Film Not in the English Language.
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1 hr 34 mins | Dutch | Thurs, Oct 17, 2024 7:45 PM
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17-year-old Michael dreams of a future as a pianist, but his music education is not going smoothly. In his search for inspiration, he receives help from an unexpected source: his brother Danny introduces him to the emerging Dutch “gabber” music scene. Michael is drawn into a world of hard beats, brotherhood and drugs. When Danny’s drug business reaches international proportions, the brothers must fight for their lives.
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Jim Taihuttu (screenwriter & director) made his debut in 2011 with the acclaimed film Rabat, followed two years later by the gritty crime drama Wolf, which won three Dutch Academy Awards and the Youth Award at San Sebastian Film Festival. He then wrote and directed De Oost, the first feature film about the Indonesian War of Independence. Additionally, since 2010, he has been part of the internationally successful DJ act Yellow Claw and is one of the co-founders of the New Ams Film Company.