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Looking for inspiration for your next film night? These upcoming titles are ones you won’t want to miss.
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Renoir
Hayakawa ChieThu 5 Feb-Wed 11 FebTokyo, 1987. With a terminally ill father and an overworked mother, 11-year-old Fuki is often left to her own devices. She frequently finds herself home alone with her vivid imagination. When she becomes fascinated by telepathy, she disappears deeper and deeper into her own fantasy world...
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Kabul, Between Prayers
Aboozar AminiThu 5 Feb-Tue 10 FebRevealing film about the life of a Taliban fighter and the tensions between his beliefs and his human desires.
Aboozar Amini, whose first feature-length documentary Kabul, City of the Wind opened IDFA in 2018, delves into the life of 23-year-old Samim—brother, husband, Taliban soldier—in Kabul, Between Prayers. The film paints a humanistic and complex portrait of a man who adheres to a fundamentalist ideology while struggling with human dilemmas and earthly desires.
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No Other Choice
Park Chan-WookThu 5 Feb-Wed 11 FebNo Other Choice is Park Chan-wook's new film. The latest box office hit from South Korea combines black comedy and cinematic mastery in a socially critical thriller. After 25 years of loyal service, Man-su loses his good job as supervisor of the paper factory when it falls into foreign hands.
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Is This Thing On?
Bradley CooperThu 5 Feb-Wed 11 FebAs their marriage quietly falls apart, Alex (Will Arnett) is confronted with middle age and impending divorce. He seeks a new purpose in the New York comedy scene, while Tess (Laura Dern) is confronted with the sacrifices she has made for their family. This forces them to learn how to deal with co-parenting, identity, and the question of whether love can take on a new form.
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Mother's Baby
Johanna ModerThu 5 Feb-Wed 11 Feb
After undergoing special treatment, forty-year-old Julia becomes pregnant, but she doubts whether the baby she has brought home is really hers. -
The Shining | 45th Anniversary
Stanley KubrickFri 6 Feb-Mon 9 MarStanley Kubrick's masterpiece The Shining is 45 years old, and to celebrate, the film is temporarily returning to Dutch cinemas. Academy Award® winner Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall star in Kubrick's adaptation of Stephen King's terrifying horror bestseller.
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Preview | Wuthering Heights
Emerald FennellWed 11 Feb-Sat 14 FebWuthering Heights is a new film from Warner Bros. Pictures by Oscar and BAFTA-winning filmmaker Emerald Fennell. It stars Oscar and BAFTA nominee Margot Robbie and BAFTA nominee Jacob Elordi.
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The Man Who Fell to Earth
Nicolas RoegSat 14 MarIn The Man Who Fell To Earth, starman David Bowie plays the extraterrestrial role he was born to play. Searching for water for a drying planet, an alien is shipwrecked on Earth. To finance his return, he uses his advanced knowledge to set up a technological business empire. Deception and seduction lurk around every corner.
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Brokeback Mountain | 20th Anniversary
Ang LeeThu 12 FebRELEASETwo shepherds fall for each other, but their relationship becomes complicated when they both get married to their respective girlfriends.
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The Lions by the River Tigris
Zaradasht AhmedThu 12 FebRELEASEMosul, an Iraqi city that was severely damaged during the liberation from Islamic State, faces a new battle. Not one fought with weapons, but one of restoration. While the scars of the past are still visible, determined efforts are being made to reclaim the city's identity, culture, and soul.
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The Secret Agent
Kleber Mendonça FilhoThu 12 FebRELEASEBrazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert and widower, is on the run. As the military dictatorship imposes increasingly cruel measures on the population, he arrives in Recife, where he hopes to reunite with his young son. There, during carnival week, he finds shelter with a group of like-minded people and assumes a false identity. But Marcelo's situation is more precarious than he realizes: he soon realizes that the city is far from the peaceful refuge he is looking for.
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Where the Wind Comes From
Amel GuellatyThu 12 FebRELEASE19-year-old Alyssa lives in a remote town in Tunisia, where little happens and her days seem to repeat themselves endlessly. She is hopelessly bored and longs for more. The mundanity of her life crushes her fiery spirit, and her restlessness is palpable to everyone around her.
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Beginnings
Jeanette NordahlThu 19 FebRELEASEAne and Thomas are about to split up when Ane has a stroke. They postpone their planned divorce and don't tell their two daughters anything yet. An unexpected turn of events that puts their relationship to the test once again and unleashes both old tensions and hidden feelings.
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Ella McCay
James L. BrooksThu 19 FebRELEASE20th Century Studios Ella McCay is a new comedy written and directed by Oscar® and Emmy Award® winner James L. Brooks (As Good as It Gets, Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News, The Simpsons). The film explores the complex dynamics that arise when a young woman's stressful career collides with her chaotic family life.
The film features an all-star cast, including Emma Mackey, Woody Harrelson, Kumail Nanjiani, Spike Fearn, Ayo Edebiri, Jack Lowden, Rebecca Hall, Julie Kavner, Becky Ann Baker, Joey Brooks, with Albert Brooks and Jamie Lee Curtis. The film is produced by James L. Brooks, Richard Sakai, Julie Ansell, and Jennifer Simchowitz. -
Marty Supreme
Ronald Bronstein, Josh SafdieThu 19 FebRELEASEMarty Mauser (Timothée Chalamet) is a smart but stubborn boy with a dream that no one believes in. In his quest for success, he goes to extremes and ends up in a world full of temptation, risks, and challenges. As he does everything he can to make his dream come true, he discovers how high the price of success really is.
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Meer dan Babi Pangang
Julie NgThu 19 FebRELEASEWhat begins as a search for the origins of the famous dish babi pangang develops into a personal and emotional exploration of Julie's own cultural and culinary identity as a Chinese Dutch person. The film raises provocative questions. Why do Chinese-Indonesian restaurants serve dishes that Chinese people don't eat at home? What does that say about adaptation, perception, and the way cultures relate to each other?
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Sirāt
Oliver LaxeThu 19 FebRELEASESirāt is a spectacular cinematic journey, in which a missing daughter, desert sand, and the electronic beats of Kangding Ray create a unique film experience. The Moroccan desert forms the impressive backdrop to this dangerous quest, with a number of memorable moments that definitively put Spanish director Oliver Laxe (Mimosas) on the map.
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The Making of De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig
Jan Hulst, Tomas KaanThu 19 FebRELEASEThis cheerful, energetic documentary celebrates twenty years of De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig, relives legendary moments, and takes you on a chaotic, funny, and typically musical Jeugd adventure.
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Timestamp
Kateryna GornostaiThu 19 FebRELEASEKeeping schools open in Ukraine is an attempt to preserve some semblance of normal pre-war life. Without interviews or reconstructions, Timestamp offers an intimate and direct insight into the daily lives of students and teachers, both on the front lines and in safer areas. The film observes how schools function, physically and online, and how teaching continues amid air raid sirens, shelters, and uncertainty.
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20 days in Mariupol
Mstyslav ChernovThu 26 FebRELEASEThe unimaginably cruel and bloody images of the countless dead and wounded by bombing and shelling in the Russian-besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol spread around the world in March 2022—thanks in part to the work of Ukrainian AP journalist Mstyslav Chernov. With great difficulty, he managed to send shocking and disturbing images, such as a pregnant woman on a stretcher from a bombed maternity hospital, out of the city, which had been cut off from the internet and electricity.
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EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert
Baz LuhrmannThu 26 FebRELEASEThe story of Elvis is told like never before in a new cinematic experience from visionary filmmaker Baz Luhrmann (Elvis, The Great Gatsby).
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Gioia mia
Margherita SpampinatoThu 26 FebRELEASEA boy and his traditional aunt clash during a summer in Sicily, but gradually a touching bond develops between them.
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The History of Sound
Oliver HermanusThu 26 FebRELEASEIn 1917, the young, talented music student Lionel (Paul Mescal) meets his fellow student David (Josh O'Connor) at the Boston Conservatory, where a strong bond develops between them due to their great love of folk music. Years later, when Lionel receives a letter from David, it leads to an impromptu trip through the wilderness of Maine to collect folk songs. Their unexpected reunion, the ensuing love affair, and the music they collect and record will have a defining influence on the course of Lionel's life.
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The Testament of Ann Lee
Mona FastvoldThu 26 FebRELEASEAward-winning director and screenwriter Mona Fastvold (The World to Come, The Brutalist) brings the compelling true story of Ann Lee, the visionary founder of the Shakers sect. Oscar nominee Amanda Seyfried shines as the unyielding leader who preached gender and social equality and was revered by her followers.
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I was a Stranger
Brandt AndersenThu 5 MarRELEASEA doctor, a soldier, a human trafficker, a father, and a captain. Each with their own story, each on their own journey. Their paths cross when they are forced to leave everything behind due to the Syrian civil war, in a desperate search for safety and a place where they can belong.
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Mohammed & Paul: Once Upon a Time in Tangier
Nordin LasfarThu 5 MarRELEASEMohammed & Paul: Once Upon a Time in Tangier offers an unorthodox portrait of Mohammed Mrabet, the only author who cannot read or write. The documentary follows his extraordinary friendship with writer Paul Bowles, paints a critical picture of the American artist colony in Tangier, and explores the borderland between the imaginary and the real. Excerpts from Mrabet's stories, recorded on dozens of cassette tapes, are complemented by magical-realistic AI images: a giant fish, a melon that houses a palace, and other poetic visual scenes.
