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In a city in ruins, a woman looks for her missing brother. Adaptation to the big screen of the Paul Auster sci-fi novel "In the Country of Last Things".

Quito, 2023. Ponce, a military dictator, walled the city. A group of young revolutionaries want to gain control and are ready to strike, but one of their leaders is unsure they understand what they are doing.

Ana, disheartened by Enrique's unfaithfulness and hurtful words, meets a friend who opens the door to a world where she gains control over her destiny. In this newfound realm, she becomes the sole architect of her own life, liberated from the confines of a tumultuous relationship and ready to explore a brighter future.

Riley Stevenson accepts an invitation to visit Mandla, her boyfriend's, family in South Africa. When she arrives, she is shocked to learn that Mandla is not only extremely wealthy but also the prince of Chacula! The news puts Riley's trust in Mandla in jeopardy and now is up to him to win her love back. Riley must decide if she will give Mandla a second chance while also winning the approval of his royal family.

Television Event is an archive-based feature documentary that views the dramatic climax of the Cold War through the lens of a commercial television network, as it narrowly succeeds in producing the most watched, most controversial made-for-TV movie, The Day After (1983). With irreverent humor and sobering apocalyptic vision, this film reveals how a commercial broadcaster seized a moment of unprecedented television viewership, made an emotional connection...

"In a society where female beauty stereotypes are unattainable, a fourteen-year-old adolescent must walk a lonely path in search of self-acceptance, in which anorexia and bulimia promises dangerous solutions"--

A seemingly simple taxi ride across Paris evolves into a profound meditation on the realities of the driver and his fare, a 92-year-old woman whose warmth belies her shocking past. Charles is a taxi driver in Paris, and he is having a very bad day. Enter Madeleine, an immaculately groomed nonagenarian, who informs Charles that the trip today will not be a direct one. She is moving into a nursing home and would like to make some stops along the way...

When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a gentle best friend. Through Priscilla's eyes, Sofia Coppola tells the unseen side of a great American myth in Elvis and Priscilla's long courtship and turbulent marriage, from a German army base to his dream-world estate at Graceland,...

A financially struggling married couple starts filming themselves for a podcast when a gunshot rings out and they find their next-door neighbor is murdered. To find the killer, they invite the other residents over to probe for clues over cocktails. It gets more complicated when another body is found. No one is safe, and no one can be trusted as they try to unravel the mystery.

The intimate encounter between two lonely people seeking to settle accounts with the past. It2s a dark nightmare between the two. Ana, a mysterious nurse, is hired to take care of Oli, an old sick man in his last days. The relationship becomes uncomfortable when she reveals a past that they had apparently shared.