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Freedom

A few fugitives... And a very, very long way to freedom.

Girl$

Four young women are tempted by the money that can be earned in prostitution. They have to learn in their own way that nothing comes without a price.

Man

A worn-out, aging shearer who once rained king of the high country, gets on the gear to keep up his numbers. But when the drugs take over he must learn what it really means to be a man, before he loses so much more than his country pride -- MAN.

Scorpion: Double Venom

Nami Matsushima, a former doctor, is put in prison for murdering one of the men who raped and killed her sister. Now, faced with violent and lecherous prison gangs, an aggressively amorous warden, and with a friend on death row, Nami must steel herself for a ten year stay in one of Japan's toughest women's prisons.

The Sea

Several little boys run along a pier, then jump into the ocean.

Martian

A little boy pulls out one Martian toy from a vending machine and it turns into a real alien who takes him to his planet, where he is surronded by the toys from the vending machine, but much bigger.

Flow

Mark Twain

Largely considered to be the greatest American author, Mark Twain is celebrated in this exhaustive documentary by filmmaker Ken Burns.

Resurrection

Katusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Nekludov finds himself, years later, on a jury trying the same Katusha for a crime he now realizes his actions drove her to. He follows her to imprisonment in Siberia, intent on redeeming her and himself as well.

The Proposal

The Proposal is a romantic comedy about a couple finding truth, courage and love where they least expected it, underneath their dinner table.

Daddy

A father comes home for Christmas in the basement where he is keeping his wife and children captive. Inspired by the Josef Fritzl case.

Beautifully Maintained and Well Located

A mansion, a lawn, some trees: an unmoved frontal view, 9 minutes long. We hear an off-screen voice. It si the co-director, who commands what goes on in the image. He calls up participants while the other co-director climbs a ladder and holds up a cornet that emits smoke and sparks.

Beehive

A woman's blunt testimony as she narrates her experience of violence and trauma before and after her time in prison clashes against the landscape behind her, which epitomizes the many other layers of violence that she endured. While looking at the camera, the woman plays tarot cards for humanity (and to ourselves, who watch her as if her counter-plan, as if were asking the cards) and reveals news of the end of the world. Of this world. "If the sky falls on our heads, that's where we shall live."

A Gentleman of France

A gentleman of France

Madeleine McCann: An ID Murder Mystery

Ten years later, the mystery of what happened to UK toddler Madeleine McCann endures. Her parents are convinced she was kidnapped while on vacation at a Portuguese resort, but the weight of suspicion soon crashes down on their shoulders.

Bolero Inmortal

Young singer becomes famous, has an affair with a married man.

Tchernobyl, La Vie Contaminée, Vivre Avec Tchernobyl

Lead Me Home

Poignant stories of homelessness on the West Coast of the US frame this cinematic portrait of a surging humanitarian crisis.