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October 20, 2021 / TV Movie

A woman settles down to a fresh start with her new husband, but their future happiness is shattered when the policeman who raped her 13 years earlier turns up in the same town. Based on a true story.

October 20, 2021 / Eurospy
October 20, 2021 / Documentary

In one of the first postwar films in Yiddish, director Samy Szlingerbaum retells the story of his childhood through his parents’ immigration to Belgium after WW2 and their subsequent failure to adjust. Stunningly photographed, Brussels Transit weaves together haunting footage of postwar Brussels with astounding black and white photography, offering an emotional journey into one family’s poignant longing for a sense of home alongside European Jewry’s overwhelming isolation after the War. 

October 20, 2021 / TV Movie

A romantic comedy which takes Alec Guinness’ “The Captain’s Paradise” and changes the gender, with an airline stewardess juggling a crammed romantic life that includes one husband in Los Angeles and another in London.

October 20, 2021 / Comedy

A retired businessman in Scotland, who is also a golf fanatic, will not let his daughter marry an Irish-American boy, Terry O’Reilly. Then one day O’Reilly’s father shows up for a “visit”–which, as it turns out, is because he’s on the run from the police in New York.

October 20, 2021 / Drama

Prohibition-era nightclub crooner Joe E. Lewis has his career and nearly his life cut short when his throat is slashed as payback for leaving the employ of Chicago mob boss Georgie Parker. A broken alcoholic, Joe is brought back from the abyss by his faithful piano player, Austin Mack, who helps turn the former singer into a successful stand-up comedian. But Joe’s demons plague his romantic life even as he reaches new heights of success.

October 20, 2021 / Comedy

In London, the lawyer Kate Beckenham is near to her wedding day with her fiancé Graham, when she is invited to defend a heritage case against the brilliant lawyer Jack Sullivan, who has never lost a case in court.

October 20, 2021 / Animation

Jellyfish employs a variety of experimental approaches, combining stop-motion and pixilation techniques, freely mixing black and white photography of beach landscapes, objects and people – along with some drawings – to build a poetic, very textured montage, eliding the real and the surreal, the beautiful and the eerie, the spirited and the deadly. Figures and objects are isolated, linked together only by their presence on a beach, all exposed to direct or indirect threats. The different jellyfish are as much at threat – washing up dead, stranded in the desolate landscape – as they are a threat – appearing suddenly and making people vanish.