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Mehdia, an Ethiopian migrant domestic worker in Beirut, loves Ahmed, a Syrian refugee who struggles to survive dealing in second-hand metal scraps, while affected by a mysterious physical condition related to shrapnel wounds exposure during the war. Their love story seems to have no future, but since they have nothing, they can lose nothing. When the opportunity presents itself, they leave Beirut in a hopeful and desperate get-away while Ahmed’s physical condition gets worse and worse.
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París,1981. Soplan vientos de cambio la noche de las elecciones y los franceses toman las calles, eufóricos. Pero a Élisabeth (Charlotte Gainsbourg) le cuesta compartir el ambiente general de optimismo. Su matrimonio está llegando a su fin y ahora tendrá que mantener a su familia. Está angustiada, y su padre y sus hijos adolescentes están preocupados de que sus lágrimas simplemente no se sequen. Pero, ¿y si escuchar sus emociones pudiera ayudarla a comenzar a llenar la página en blanco de su futuro? ¿Y si por capricho le escribiera una carta al presentador de su programa de radio favorito? ¿O invitar a una niña sin hogar a su casa? ¿Qué pasaría si hiciera el tipo de gestos que realmente cambian vidas?
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Cassandre, de 26 años, es azafata de una aerolínea de bajo coste. Con base en Lanzarote, siempre está dispuesta a trabajar horas extras y lleva a cabo sus funciones con eficiencia robótica. Por otro lado, simplemente se deja llevar y flota entre Tinder, fiestas y días de descanso. Cuando de repente la despiden, se ve obligada a regresar a casa.
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As winter sets in and P.A. sees the world shifting around him, he starts to observe strange phenomena in the environment. The changes are imperceptible at first, but gradually his whole world seems to be on the brink.
Screenplay
In Liban, Chadi, a thirteen-year-old boy, the top of his class, discovers that he can make money from his talent. But money is not really the target. Instead, he wants to attract the interest of pretty Raya, whom he dares not speak to.
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At a small seaside resort that is at risk of being submerged by the ocean, the inhabitants have been ordered to leave. Among those resigned to their fate are a reality TV candidate, a porn movie actress and a gay couple roaming the pine forest in search of themselves.
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Short version of Charaf's feature debut.
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Hani returns to his village in Lebanon, which he finds deserted and hostile. In this country, the end of the road for lost souls, Hani must learn to live again.
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In 2020, the greatest minds in France gather at the President’s home in order to save the country from catastrophe.
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A mitad de verano, Sasha, treintañera, muere repentinamente. Aunque apenas se conocen, su novio Lawrence y su hermana Zoé se acercan el uno al otro. Comparten como pueden la pena y el peso de su ausencia, entre Berlín, París y Nueva York. Tres veranos, tres ciudades y el tiempo de regreso a la luz, impulsados por el recuerdo de aquella a la que han amado. (FILMAFFINITY)
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This story takes place in a far distant time, a time of violence. All throughout Europe, a war was spreading. In a city there lived two sisters...
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Suzanne y Maria viven una infancia feliz a pesar de la ausencia de su madre, muerta cuando ellas eran muy pequeñas. Nicolas, su padre las cría con ternura y determinación, hasta el día en que Suzanne queda embarazada. Con la llegada del pequeño Charly la familia crece. Los años pasan y Suzanne encuentra a Julien cayendo enamorados perdidamente. Ella se irá con él, dejando todo atrás... (FILMAFFINITY)
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August in Paris' suburbs, seven friends are gathered to spend a week in the city where they grew up. The city is empty and the days pass by under a deep blue sky. Each of them has a reason to be there: some still live there, some come back to see their family, some are searching their childhood, some want to escape boredom or eventually searching for love. They are all bearing the fact that these moments they are sharing are maybe the last ones.
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Narra la historia de un adolescente de 14 años que deja su internado durante las vacaciones para ir a su pueblo y hacer la confirmación. Pero descubre que su padre acaba de abandonar su hogar... (FILMAFFINITY)
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A man with nothing to do all day decides to take guitar lessons. He falls for his music teacher’s flatmate who flirts with him slightly and even has the same name as the Serge Gainsbourg chanson he’s struggling to learn “Laetitia”. Not so much a passionate love story as a finely woven, laconic film about what it’s like to be just that little bit in love.
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