THE NIGHT OF THE 12TH / La Nuit du 12 (France/Belgium)
Just won six 2023 César Awards, including France’s ‘Best Picture’ & ‘Best Actors’ In nearly every police precinct, detectives are inevitably confronted with a case that, for one reason or another, goes unsolved. The more...
ON THE EDGE / Entre la vie et la mort (Belgium/France)
Brussels. Leo, a Spanish metro driver, while conducting his train and arriving at a station, sees a young man in distress on the edge of the platform. He recognizes his son Hugo right before he falls onto the rails and then dies at the hospital. Leo, who had...
PEACEFUL / DE SON VIVANT (France/Belgium)
A son in denial of a serious illness. A mother facing the unbearable. And between them a doctor and a nurse fighting to do their job and bring them to acceptance. They have one year and four seasons to come together and understand what it means to die while...
MADELEINE COLLINS – France (Southern CA Premiere)
Genre: Psychological Thriller Run Time: 102 minutes Country: France/Belgium/Switzerland Language: French with English subtitles Premiere: Southern California Director: Antoine Barraud Principal Cast: Virginie Efira, Quim Gutierrez, Bruno Salomone &...
PLAYGROUND / UN MONDE (Belgium)
Won prizes in seven categories at Belgium’s MAGRITTE AWARDS (focused on French language Belgium films) on Saturday, February 12, 2022. PLAYGROUND was Belgium’s Oscar best international film entry this year, making it into the long-list but not the final...
BEYOND THE HORIZON / Le Milieu de l’horizon
It’s 1976. A summer of blazing heat and drought has hit the whole of Europe. On his family’s modest farm, Gus – a young, 13-year-old boy – knows only too well that the temperature isn’t only impacting the animals or the crops; it’s also affecting the behaviour...
CONVICTION (France | Belgium)
Une intime conviction is based on a real-life case. This French courtroom thriller brings together law professor Jacques Viguier (Laurent Lucas) a man accused of killing his wife and Nora, obsessed with proving his innocence. As a juror at Jacques Viguier’s trial,...
RAFAËL (Netherlands, Belgium, Croatia)
RAFAËL USA Premiere The Arab Spring forces Tunisian Nazir, married to the pregnant Dutch hairdresser Kimmy, to escape to Europe, but he ends up in Lampedusa, imprisoned as an illegal refugee. RAFAËL is a romantic drama about two lovers giving everything they have,...
EMMA PEETERS (Belgium)
Southern California Premiere Emma Peeters will soon be 35 and has yet to accomplish something. After years of hardship in Paris in trying to become an actress, an idea strikes her fancy: bringing her days to an end in a week’s time, on her birthday. In the process...
SINK OR SWIM (France/Belgium)
With buoyant energy, Gilles Lellouche choreographs and directs a stellar ensemble in pursuit of grace and discarded dreams—that is, a group of varyingly coordinated middle-aged men who find an outlet in synchronized swimming. Bertrand (Mathieu Amalric, soulful yet...
GASPARD AT THE WEDDING (France/Belgium)
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PREMIERE Shortly after their chance meeting, Gaspard asks Laura if she will accompany him to his family home and pose as his girlfriend at his father’s second wedding. At this point, viewers will probably assume they’re dealing with a familiar and...
RETURN OF THE HERO/LE RETOUR DU HEROS (France/Belgium)
France, 1809 and the dashing Capitaine Charles-Grégoire Neuville has just become engaged to the young Pauline when he is called away to the front. He promises that he will write every day, but he does not. The impressionable Pauline hysterically falls ill with...
ZAGROS (Belgium)
Kurdish shepherd Zagros is stunned to learn that his family has accused his wife of infidelity and that she has fled with their daughter. Convinced of her innocence, Zagros leaves his family and joins his wife in the west. While trying to adjust to a new life in a...
ALL CATS ARE GREY (Belgium)
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PREMIERE Paul is a detective in his forties. Dorothy, almost 16, is going through a serious identity crisis. Paul lives on the fringe of Brussels’ self-righteous society, while Dorothy has grown up in its heart. They probably never would have...
THE FINISHERS (Belgium/France)
WEST COAST PREMIERE In a bid to bond with his father, Julien challenges him to participate with him in the Ironman race in Nice. The catch? Seventeen-year-old Paul (Fabien Héraud) has congenital palsy. His distant father is a former Ironman competitor, now unemployed...
BRASSERIE ROMANTIEK (Belgium)
COACHELLA VALLEY PREMIERE Forty-something Pascaline runs a brasserie and her stylish dining room is fully booked for Valentine’s Day. She thinks she’s prepared everything. But how could she expect that an old flame from 20 years ago would suddenly...Donate Today!
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