Away from the Sun

A Palestinian seeks Israeli permission to waive curfew to give his son a fine wedding. The military governor's condition is that he and his officers attend. The groom berates his father for agreeing. Women ritually prepare the bride; men prepare the groom. Guests gather. The Arab youths plot violence. One Israeli officer swoons in the ...

Runtime

1h 52m

Director

Michel Khleifi

Cast

Mohamad Ali El Akili, Bushra Karaman, Makram J. Khoury

A tale of friendship between two men, one Jewish and the other Arab, as the state of Israel is being created.

Runtime

1h 40m

Director

Élie Chouraqui

Cast

JJ Feild, Saïd Taghmaoui, Maria Papas

When Gleb, a successful company director, finds himself under siege from mounting corporate pressures, an increasingly unstable world, and the discovery of his wife's affair, the collapse of his carefully ordered life accelerates toward violence.

Runtime

2h 15m

Director

Andrey Zvyagintsev

Cast

Dmitriy Mazurov, Iris Lebedeva, Varvara Shmykova

Orsolya is a bailiff in Cluj, the main city in Transylvania. One day she has to evict a homeless man from a cellar, an action with tragic consequences that triggers a moral crisis which Orsolya must weather as best she can.

Runtime

1h 49m

Director

Radu Jude

Cast

Eszter Tompa, Gabriel Spahiu, Adonis Tanța

The adventures of Oliver Tressilian, who goes from English gentry to galley slave to captain of a Moorish fighting ship.

Runtime

2h 3m

Director

Frank Lloyd

Cast

Lloyd Hughes, Wallace Beery, Milton Sills