The movie premieres of the week

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Civil War | Civil War

2024 | 109′ | USA, UK | Drama thriller

A team of four war correspondents follow an adrenaline-fuelled journey through a fragmented near-future America that is teetering on the brink.

Director-Screenplay: Alex Garland

Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Sonoya Mizuno, Nick Offerman, Jesse Plemons

Last summer | L’été dernier

2023 | 104′ | France | Romantic drama

A successful lawyer who lives with her husband and two daughters begins a passionate affair with her husband’s 17-year-old son from a previous marriage when he moves in, jeopardizing her career and family life.

Director-Screenplay: Catherine Breillat

Starring: Léa Drucker, Samuel Kircher, Olivier Rabourdin, Clotilde Courau, Lila-Rose Gilberti

Nominated for Palme d’Or at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival

4 nominations for Best Film, Best Actor (Lit isa Drucker), Best Promising Actor (Samuel Kircher) and Adapted Screenplay in the Awards Cit issir

The rapture | Le ravissement

2023 | 97′ | France | Drama

How did the life of Lydia, a young midwife devoted to her work, derail? Is it her recent breakup, her best friend’s pregnancy, a chance encounter with a potential new love? Lydia gets caught up in a string of lies and everyone’s lives are turned upside down.

Director-Screenplay: Iris Kaltenback

Starring: Hafsia Herzi, Alexis Manenti, Nina Meurisse, Younes Boucif

The Rapture (2023)

Prize SACD at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival Critics’ Week

2 nominations for Best Film and Best Actor at the Awards Cit issir

Spark In The Sea | Sea Sparkle

2023 | 98′ | Belgium, Netherlands | Drama

A fisherman is mysteriously killed in a shipwreck in the North Sea and the world blames him as two other people were on the boat, but his teenage daughter is determined to prove that the shipwreck was caused by a huge unknown creature whose shadow only she has seen.

Directed by Domien Huyghe

Starring: Saar Rogiers, Dunia Elwaleed, Sverre Rous, Valentijn Dhaenens

Spark in the Sea (2023)

Nomination for Best Film in the Department Generation Kplus at the Berlin Film Festival 2023

Do not lie to me | Lie with Me

2022 | 98′ | France | Romantic drama

A writer returns to his hometown after decades as a representative of a famous brand of cognac that turns 100 years old. There he will come into contact with the son of his first love and the memories take him back, when the love attraction and passion he experienced remained hidden because his love’s name was Thomas and the two were only 17 years old.

Director-Screenplay: Olivier Peyon

Starring: Guillaume de Tonquedec, Victor Belmondo, Jeremy Gillet, Julien De Saint Jean

Don't Lie To Me (2022)

One Cup Coffee And New Shoes | A Cup of Coffee and New Shoes On

2022 | 99′ | Albania | Drama

Two deaf and mute twin brothers discover that they will gradually and inevitably go blind due to a genetic condition and engage in an emotional race of speed and endurance to give a different twist to their unbearable existential dead ends.

Director-Screenplay: Gentian Koci

Starring: Edgar Morais, Rafael Morais, Drita Kabashi

A CUP OF COFFEE AND NEW SHOES ON International Trailer

Audience Award of the Open Horizons section at the Thessaloniki Festival 2023

Abigail | Abigail

2024 | 109′ | USA | Horror thriller

A gang of would-be criminals kidnap the 12-year-old ballerina and daughter of a powerful underworld figure. All they have to do to collect the ransom is watch over the girl in a secluded mansion. But during the night they discover that they are trapped with a far from normal little girl.

Directed by: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett

Starring: Dan Stevens, Alisha Weir, Kathryn Newton, Melissa Barrera, Kevin Durand, Giancarlo Esposito, William Catlett, Angus Cloud, Matthew Goode

Abigail (2024)

Christos, The Last Child

2022 | 90′ | Greece, Italy | Documentary

Of the thirty inhabitants of Arkia, a windswept island in the Dodecanese, Christos is the last child left. He is ten years old and the only student of his teacher, Maria. Christos will soon start his last year of elementary school. But to continue in high school, he has to leave the island and his family.

Directed by: Giulia Amati

Christos, The Last Child (2022)

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