Case 137
Dominik Moll - France - 115 mins
Stéphanie (two-time César winner Léa Drucker), an investigator with France's National Police Inspectorate (IGPN), is assigned to Case 137, which involves Guillaume Girard, a young man left in critical condition after a tense Paris demonstration. Initially, there are no clear signs of police misconduct, but the investigation takes a personal turn when Stéphanie ... more
Diya
Achille Ronaimou - Chad, France, Germany, Ivory Coast - 96 mins
Achille Ronaimou's electrifying debut feature tells the story of Dane, a driver for a humanitarian NGO, and the whirlwind moment when he runs over a young schoolboy. Accused of killing the boy, he is forced to pay a blood debt, the payment of an unthinkable sum he doesn't have. Cleverly orchestrated, Diya puts us right at the heart of Dane's torment: repaying ... more
Maigret And The Dead Lover
Pascal Bonitzer - France, Belgium - 80 mins
Denis Podalydès is a fine addition to the many Detective Maigrets who have appeared onscreen and in novels since 1930. His Maigret is a man of precision. Director Pascal Bonitzer has set this latest adventure in early 2000s Paris, where the ever-cautious Chief Inspector (André Marcon) summons Maigret to investigate the murder of a renowned former ambassador. ... more
The Negotiator
Alessandro Tonda - Italy, Belgium - 108 mins
The Negotiator creates such an edge-of-your-seat feeling that when you realize the film is based on actual people and events, the story hits even harder. Amid the bleak chaos of the Iraq war in 2005, an Italian journalist (Sonia Bergamasco) has just been kidnapped. Among other consequences, this interrupts veteran Italian secret service agent Nicola Calipari's ... more
The Residence
Yann Gozlan - France, Belgium - 110 mins
Real threat or a strange delusion? With an impressive world premiere at the Cannes International Film Festival, Yann Gozlan's psychological drama explores the colliding worlds of rigid artificial intelligence and vibrant human creation. Set in the near future, the film follows novelist Clarissa (César winner Cécile de France), a novelist suffering from writer's ... more
Winter of the Crow
Kasia Adamik - Poland - 112 mins
Based on a short story by Nobel Prize–winner Olga Tokarczuk, Winter of the Crow is a chilling cat-and-mouse drama. Starring multi-award winning Lesley Manville as Dr. Joan Andrews, the film follows a British psychology professor who travels to Poland to deliver a lecture in late 1981, only to find herself targeted as a fugitive in the chaos of a country on ... more
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