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Director: Koji Fukada
Ichiko is a nurse whose years-long work with the Oisho family has made her feel very much as though she is one of their own flesh and blood. That is, until the family’s youngest daughter is abducted, and the prime suspect is Ichiko’s own nephew.

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Director: Belén Funes
With a 6-month-old baby whose father works abroad, 22-year-old Sara is doing all she can to keep her head above water, but remains eager and confident. Enter Manuel, her father, fresh out of prison, seeking to re-enter his daughter’s life. Anchored by Greta Fernandez as Sara (whose performance won her Best Actress at the San Sebastian Film Festival) and Belen Funes’ razor-sharp direction and script (with Marçal Cebrian), A Thief’s Daughter is not to be missed.

Watch May 15 - May 23
Director: Maryam Touzani
In Morocco, a pregnant woman is found sleeping on the streets by a lonely widow in this generous and empathetic debut feature. The prize-winning Adam launched in the “Un Certain Regard” section of 2019 Cannes and is “an unabashed love letter to motherhood as well as to the skills of her two leads.” --Variety

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Director: Louise Archambault
Three elderly men, living in deliberate isolation in the woods by a remote lake in Canada find their lives becoming increasingly threatened by society, by nature, and by time itself. When two women suddenly arrive, a photographer and a runaway octogenarian, their way of life will never be the same. Based on the acclaimed novel of the same name by Jocelyne Saucier.

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Director: Manele Labidi
Back home after having lived in Paris since she was 10, psychoanalyst Selma opens a counseling practice in Tunis only to find her clients are as challenging to her as she is to them. With its cast of rich characters, Manele Labidi’s wonderful comedy is at once moving and hilarious.

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Director: Miia Tervo
When Aurora meets Iranian immigrant Darien, he immediately proposes marriage in order to stay in Finland with his daughter. When she counters by telling him to give her €3,000 and she’ll find him a wife, little does she realize that she’s going to fall for the man.

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Director: Delphine Lehericey
It’s the summer of 1976, and Gus’s farm family is feeling the effects--physically and financially--of a summers-long drought. When his mother’s divorced friend Cecile arrives, it piques the boy's curiosity and strains the family to its breaking point in this gorgeous coming-of-age film.

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Director: Frederike Migom
12-year-old Binti has thousands of followers on social media, but on paper she ‘doesn’t exist’. Living as asylum seekers in Belgium, Binti and her Congolese father flee deportation and encounter a lonely boy and his mum who invite them in. Recommended for Age 10+

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Director: Gitanjali Rao
Six years in the making, this lush animated feature debut from Gitanjali Rao is a fascinating mixture of stark realism, a satire of Bollywood films, and the fantastic elements of Indian mythology. Fans of the old school animation found in the best of Disney classics should not miss Bombay Rose, a hand-painted animated film that has won acclaim at festivals around the world.

Live Q&A on Friday, May 22 at 7:00pm
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Director: Spencer Patzman
On August 1st, 2007, the sudden collapse of the I-35W bridge in downtown Minneapolis shaped a community. Spencer Patzman’s debut documentary follows the many personal stories of one tragedy and the countless ways it is felt more than 12 years later.

Watch May 17 - May 23
Director: Oliver Laxe
Released from prison, Amador returns to his mother’s mountainous home in Galicia. There, in almost total isolation, he wonders if his worst impulses will return. Oliver Laxe’s spare and haunting third film won the 2019 Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard Jury Prize and is a sympathetic portrait of a man at odds with himself and the world around him--one which he cannot escape.

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Director: Robert Guédiguian
A family struggles with life in Marseilles’s gig economy in Robert Guédiguian’s moving drama, his 19th film in collaboration with his wife Ariane Ascaride, who stars. A brilliant entry in Guédiguian’s lifelong study of French leftist ideology and its effects on the working class in Marseilles, Gloria Mundi is a heartfelt and gorgeous film.

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Director: John Sheedy
In a quirky Australian romantic dramedy, a peculiar 12-year-old, Candice Phee, meets a kindred spirit, Douglas Benson From Another Dimension. In spite of her family’s struggles, Candice marches to a different drummer in a heartwarming tale of the power of love. Recommended for Age 11+

Live Q&A on Wednesday, May 20 at 7:00pm
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Director: Garin Hovannisian
In this stirring documentary, Nikol Pashinyan, journalist and politician, stands up against Armenia’s Republican Party as they try to keep their leader, Serzh Sargsyan in power through whatever means possible by trying to subvert term limits.

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Directors: Diana Neille, Richard Poplak
A look at Bell Pottinger (BP), a reputation-management firm founded by Lord Tim Bell, and famous (or infamous) for helping to spin the truth about some of the worst dictators, companies, and leaders in the world. Directors Diana Neille and Richard Poplak peel back all the layers in this complex case, which shows the dangers of fake news by one of its most effective pioneers.

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Director: Zoé Wittock
Jeanne is a misfit to say the least. Introverted, she stays in her room, ignoring her outgoing mother’s pleas to go on dates with men, and fiddles instead with her scale models of the rides at the amusement park where she works. Then one day, she finds her true love: Jumbo, the park’s newest thrill ride. Starring an outstanding Noémie Merlant (Portrait of a Lady on Fire).

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Director: Frank Beauvais
Ruminating on a self-imposed seclusion in an Alsatian village, renowned short film director and curator Frank Beauvais lovingly assembled footage from 400 films he watched while avoiding the world. The result is a stunning film essay about grief, anger, and loneliness.

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Director: Myriam Verreault
In this beautiful coming-of-age story, Shaniss and Mikuan, two young women, both from Quebec’s Innu community, are inseparable. That is, until Mikuan falls in love, not only with writing but with a white man, and nothing will ever be the same. Based on the acclaimed novel by Naomi Fontaine, Kuessipan is “is a beautiful, un-sensationalized look at young womanhood, friendship and community.” --NOW Toronto