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The second Oscar for the best foreign film was brought to Switzerland by this poignant, ultimately tragic drama by Xavier Koller about the journey of a family from a Turkish province to a better life …

  ONva typical British kitchen sink drama is also the first full-length film made by one of the greatest English filmmakers of all time, Ken Loach. It was a time when he still signed as …

At the festival in Locarno, Switzerland, Russian actress Natalija Kudryašova presented herself in the role of screenwriter and director of this social coming-of-age drama with minimal elements of fantasy. And thematically, “Gerda” almost completely continues …

  Zach Cregger is another in a series of relatively anonymous American actors who decided to try his hand at both writing and directing, and the result is more than a pleasant surprise. A shocking …

  This dark rural Irish drama was one of those unexpected pleasant surprises. In large part thanks to the great performance of the already somewhat forgotten English actress Emily Watson, who would have gone down …

In recent years, we have literally had a real infestation of biographical films about more or less famous musicians. Almost all of these films seem to be shot in the same mold, as if they …

  Yarmouk is a district of the capital of Syria, Damascus, some eight kilometers from the center, which was established in the mid-fifties as a refugee camp for Palestinians. In the next half century, Yarmouk …

Probably the most successful Swedish filmmaker since Ingmar Bergman and favorite of European critics, Ruben Östlund won the second Palme d’Or in Cannes after “Square”. He thus entered the narrow circle of authors who succeeded …

Szabolcs Hajdu is a Hungarian actor and director who is still best remembered for “White Palms” (Feher tenyer) from 2006, an exceptional drama about a Hungarian gymnast who defected to the West during communism. This …

After her Oscar-winning career in “Silver Linings Playbook” didn’t quite take off, Jennifer Lawrence decided to return to her somewhat indie roots where she started. Before “The Hunger Games”, Lawrence presented herself as a teenager …