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The Duke
Available on VOD September 11, 2022
In 1961, Kempton Bunton, a taxi driver in his sixties, stole Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. He then sends ransom notes, threatening to return the painting only if the government makes television free for the elderly. This true story tells how a harmless pensioner was wanted by all the police in Great Britain, carrying out the first (and only) theft in the history of the museum.
tom
Available on VOD September 11, 2022
Tom, 11, lives with his mother Joss in a mobile home on the edge of the forest. When he’s not at school, Tom is his mother’s little man and takes care of her as much as she takes care of him. The arrival of Samy, a disturbing young man, will upset their fragile balance…
Anatolia
Available on VOD September 14, 2022
Yusuf and his best friend Memo are students at a boarding school for Kurdish boys, isolated in the mountains of eastern Anatolia. When Memo becomes mysteriously ill, Yusuf is forced to overcome bureaucratic obstacles set up by the authoritarian and repressive school management in an attempt to help his friend. But, by the time the adults finally realize the seriousness of Memo’s condition and try to get him to the hospital, the school has been buried in a snowstorm. Stuck, unable to get help, teachers and students throw the ball at each other. Grudges, feelings of guilt and hidden secrets emerge as time inexorably passes and threatens to take Memo away.
Valiant Hearts
Available on VOD September 14, 2022
COEURS VAILLANTS retraces the odyssey of 6 Jewish children hidden during the war, who left to find refuge where no one thought to go looking for them… in the castle and the park of the Chambord estate, in the middle of the hidden works of art of the Louvre. At valiant heart nothing impossible…
Dinner in America
Available on VOD September 15, 2022
A punk rocker and a young woman obsessed with her favorite band unexpectedly fall in love. They set off together on an epic journey through the neglected suburbs of the American Midwest.
Are You Lonesome Tonight?
Available on VOD September 15, 2022
A young man convinced of having caused an accidental death develops an ambiguous relationship with the widow of the victim, while a policeman tries to solve this investigation which will turn his life upside down.
The Way to Happiness
Available on VOD September 15, 2022
As a child, Saul escaped the Shoah thanks to the kindertransport allowing him to go from Vienna to Brussels. Forty years later, he is the owner of a delicatessen restaurant dedicated to the 7th art where characters with unique and joyful stories meet. While he thinks he has overcome his traumas, he meets Hannah and gets involved in the film project of one of his friends; two events that plunge him back into his past as a hidden child and confront him with deeply buried memories.
Vortex
Available for digital purchase September 15, 2022
Life is a short party that will soon be forgotten.
Anatomy of Time
Available on VOD September 16, 2022
Two fragments of a woman’s life. Maem is a young woman in rural Thailand in the 1960s. Her watchmaker father passed on his passion to his daughter, as tensions between the military dictatorship and communist rebels grew. She is wooed by two very different young men – a weak rickshaw driver who is literally pushed aside by an ambitious and ruthless army leader. Fifty years later, the army chief has become a disgraced general. Maem nurses her abusive husband through his final days and reminisces about his past filled with loss, pain, and joy.
Only the Earth is eternal
Available on VOD September 16, 2022
A man returns home to the heart of the great outdoors. He recounts his life, which he burned at both ends and which reveals another History of America. Through this spiritual and joyful testament, he invites us to get back to basics and live in harmony with nature. This man is one of the greatest American writers. His name is Jim Harrison.