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1. “The Secret Agent” (new)
Drama thriller. Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho
With: Wagner Moura, Tânia Maria
Four-time Oscar-nominated and enigmatic Brazilian story that evolves into a twisty retro thriller that appeals to all the senses.
2. “Hind Rajab. The Voice from Gaza”
Drama. Director: Kaouther Ben Hania
With: Motaz Malhees, Clara Khoury
Oscar-nominated, realistic docudrama about a little girl in Gaza who desperately seeks help through an emergency call center.
3. “Marty Supreme” (New)
Drama. Directed by Josh Safdie
Starring: Timothée Chalamet, Gwyneth Paltrow
Highly intense and entertaining story about a ping pong star in 1950s Jewish New York who crosses corpses to achieve success.
4. “Sentimental Value”
Drama. Director: Joachim Trier
With: Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgård and others.
Fascinating and finely tuned reconciliation drama from the “World’s Worst Man” director that revolves around hurtful family relationships.
5. “Pillion” (new)
Drama. Director: Harry Lighton
With: Alexander Skarsgård, Harry Melling
Bizarre romance between a submissive barbershop singer and a dominant BDSM biker, where love blossoms despite wearing a straitjacket.
6. “It was just an accident”
Drama. Director: Jafar Panahi
With: Vahid Mobasseri, Mariam Afshari
A wild, incendiary, satirical and dark depiction of contemporary Iran, mixing dark humor revenge plots with a serious moral drama.
7. “One Battle at a Time”
Action drama. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
With. Leonardo DiCaprio, Teyana Taylor etc.
A masterful, exuberant and subversive political stunt on American soil that calls for revolution and puts its trust in youth.
8. “Nouvelle vague. The new wave”
comedy drama. Director: Richard Linklater¨
With: Guillaume Marbeck, Zoey Deutch
The American director travels back in a time machine to Paris in the early 1960s and to the time when Jean-Luc Godard was filming “Until the Last Breath”.
9. “Die, my love”
Drama. Director: Lynne Ramsay
Actors: Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson
Wild and beautiful about a young mother and writer who loses her footing. Reality and hallucinations mix to create an impressive drama.
10. “Sound of Falling”
Drama. Director: Mascha Schilinski
With: Hanna Heckt, Lena Urzendowsky
The German Oscar entry describes the fate of women in four generations. Time is fluid and moves between dream and reality, between death and life.
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