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November 25, 2024 / Comedy

Felix Krull loves the women and the women love him. The charming and good looking young man from a respected but bankrupt family is not only using his charm to win the women’s heart. His acting talents allow him to cheat everyone. Thanks to his erotic affairs and his intelligent frauds he soon becomes a member of high society and climbs up the stairs to honor and wealth. As a wrong Marquis he starts on a journey around the world which bring s him back to the ground. But Felix Krull will start a new adventure right again.

November 25, 2024 / Documentary

When his mother is attacked and killed by a lion, infant boy Boru is adopted by a passing tribe and raised by the tribe’s chief. The young boy and the chief’s son Nikitu grow up to become close friends and skilled hunters. When a drought threatens the tribe’s existence, Boru and Nikitu traverse the countryside looking for a water source, only to get caught in the open when a lightning storm sets the tribe’s homeland on fire.

November 25, 2024 / Documentary
November 25, 2024 / Documentary

An excellent documentary made shortly after the release of Cronenberg’s The Fly which allows the director and his supporters and detractors full rein to discuss the many complex issues surrounding his films. Contains interviews with Stephen King, Martin Scorsese, Robin Wood and Cronenberg himself.

November 24, 2024 / Comedy
November 24, 2024 / Arthouse
November 24, 2024 / Arthouse

Summer in Vienna is the backdrop for intersecting anecdotes about six locals. Anna, a compulsive hitchhiker, travels to shopping malls with strangers. A widower asks a cleaning woman to strip for him. A divorced man and woman who still live together try to make each other miserable. A teacher suffers violence at the hands of her boyfriend. These different people live out unfulfilled existences, attempting to muffle their isolation.

November 24, 2024 / Arthouse

The first feature film by young fashion photographer Massimo Mazzucco is a charming and fragile work of atmosphere and sincerity. Made on a shoestring budget, the film takes us on a trip to New York City with Italian tourist Marco, who tries to find his way through the jungle of a giant foreign city.