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How did the human race appear? In Kromdraai, South Africa, the French paleoanthropologist José Braga discovered the remains of two children dating back 2.5 million years. These are the oldest bones ever found. One is human, the other paranthrop, a hominid that is our closest cousin. This archaeological investigation is the starting point of an unprecedented scientific adventure, which could finally lift the veil on the origins of humanity.
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Footwear company Togo was a family business that thrived reaching the point of owning more than 30 stores in the wider Turin area. All that is left today is a couple of struggling stores, enormous suffocating debt, and the desperation of uncertainty as bankruptcy is looming in. Director Gianluca Mattarese has been living in Paris for the last 18 years meticulously fencing himself off from the harsh reality of a family breakdown. Like a prodigal son, he eventually returns to his roots with the task of recording a routine of malaise framed by financial collapse. A bittersweet tale of family bonds, reuniting, and atonement.
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Sarajevo lived through the longest siege in modern history. The Siege is a film about those who lived through it, about the human experience of the besieged. Through Sarajevo to beyond Sarajevo, it is the story of a surrounded city, of a battle and resistance. It is also the universal story of civilization facing a terrible challenge to its existence, of a struggle for its survival. Sarajevo resisted and survived. The Siege describes a vertiginous descent into war.
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Viajando en el norte de Benin en busca de su ex, Cécile cruza el camino de una madre africana joven angustiada con un bebé en sus brazos. Cecile adoptará este niño africano que llamará Lancelot, y que crecerá en Francia. Con el tiempo, preocupada por el extraño comportamiento de Lancelot, decide ir con él a su país de origen en un intento de penetrar en el secreto que rodea su abandono.
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Lyon, France in 1970s, Sibylle, Corinne, and Georgette are sisters who share everything, as they live with their Italian mother. Sibylle is the only blonde in the family, except for their father who abandoned them, and she feels isolated. She dreams of meeting her French father one day.
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Marius y Jeannette, dos cuarentones que malviven en un miserable barrio de Marsella, comparten un pesimista escepticismo ante la vida, que los ha tratado muy duramente. Él pasea su cojera por la abandonada cementera de la que es vigilante. Ella lucha por sacar adelante a sus dos hijos, de distintos padres, con su miserable trabajo de cajera de supermercado. El inesperado encuentro y romance de estos dos perdedores hará que recuperen la alegría de vivir y las ganas de luchar, que contagiarán a su singulares vecinos. (FILMAFFINITY)
