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1) Fremont
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Afghan refugee Donya lives in Fremont but works at a fortune cookie factory in San Francisco. Seeking connection, she decides to send a message out to the world through a cookie in this offbeat vision of the universal longing for home.
2) EO
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Polish
Description
Legendary director Jerzy Skolimowski created one of his freest and most visually inventive films yet with this story of a gray donkey named EO. After being removed from an itinerant circus, EO begins a trek across the countryside, experiencing cruelty and kindness from a cast of characters including an Italian countess and a Polish soccer team. Nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature, and featuring stunning cinematography by...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
This revelatory, award-winning debut feature from co-directors (and twin brothers) Arie and Chuko Esiri is a heartrending and hopeful portrait of everyday human endurance in Lagos, Nigeria. Shot on richly textured 16 mm film and infused with the spirit of neorealism, it traces the journeys of two distantly connected strangers Mofe, an electrician dealing with the fallout of a family tragedy, and Rosa, a hairdresser supporting her pregnant teenage...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Russian
Description
It is September 5, 1969, and Gitel Bargman is about to attend a party to celebrate her 33rd birthday, although for her it is hardly cause for celebration. She is racked with guilt for simply being alive. Attractive, intelligent, and witty, Gitel is a successful violinist who lives in a Kuybyshev (USSR) apartment. To the outsider, she has everything. But Gitel hides a secret. She is a haunted woman: haunted not only by painful memories of the past,...
7) Ride 4 glory
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Italiano
Description
The story of Valeriano Falsini, a man full of dreams and expectations who, in the post-war period, wants to get out of the flat provincial life and become someone thanks to his sporting talent. His many amateur victories led him to join Costante Girardengo's team in 1950. During a training session he meets Fausto Coppi, who wants him in Bianchi the following year. But fate holds something different for him, that dream touches him without being able...
10) A Day to Die
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A team of off-book law enforcement officers band together to tackle the city's biggest criminal and save the wife of one of their own.
11) Ice princess
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
17-year-old physics whiz Casey Carlyle is urged by her physics teacher to work on a physics project over the summer for presentation to Harvard. Since Casey is an ice skater she decides on a project that will show the elements of physics applied in competitive figure skating. To better understand the principles she's using, she will have to become her own test subject. She decides that she wants to skate on the Nationals circuit, but has some very...
12) Gold
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In the not too distant future, two drifters traveling through the desert stumble across the biggest gold nugget ever found and the dream of immense wealth and greed takes hold. They hatch a plan to excavate their bounty with one man leaving to secure the necessary tools. The other man remains and must endure harsh desert elements, ravenous wild dogs, and mysterious intruders while battling the sinking suspicion that he has been abandoned to his fate....
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Beautifully filmed in and around Oxford this engaging biopic follows the creator of The Chronicles of Narnia from the tragic death of his mother when he was just nine years old, through his strained relationship with his father, to the nightmare of the trenches of World War I to Oxford University, where friends like J.R.R. Tolkien challenge his unbelief.
17) Viva
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
"Viva cuenta la historia de Jesús, un joven peluquero que vive en la Habana Cuba y que trabaja en un club nocturno de show travesti."--Container
Viva tells the story of Jesus, a young hairdresser who lives in Havana, Cuba, and who works in a nightclub for a transvestite show. He dreams of becoming an artist and, encouraged by his mentor, Mama, Jesus finally receives the opportunity to take the stage. But when his estranged father returns he is...
19) The Good Mother
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Starring Academy Awardʼ-winner Hilary Swank, the film follows a journalist grieving the murder of her son who forms an unlikely alliance with his pregnant girlfriend to track down the killers in the seedy world of drugs and corruption.
20) Scream
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Twenty-five years after the original series of murders in Woodsboro, a new killer emerges, and Sidney Prescott must return to uncover the truth.
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