Mermaid

In a rundown area of Buenos Aires, at the dawn of the 1980s, Adrian LeDuc owns both a struggling movie theater and a shabby apartment building filled with eccentric, squabbling tenants. To make ends meet, Adrian takes in a roommate, Jack Carney, but soon begins to suspect that the quiet American is responsible for a series of political...

Runtime

2h 5m

Director

Martin Donovan

Cast

Colin Firth, Hart Bochner, Dora Bryan

When Ruth's husband dies in New York, in 2000, she imposes strict Jewish mourning, which puzzles her children. A stranger comes to the house - Ruth's cousin - with a picture of Ruth, age 8, in Berlin, with a woman the cousin says helped Ruth escape. Hannah, Ruth's daughter engaged to a gentile, goes to Berlin to find the woman, Lena Fi...

Runtime

2h 16m

Director

Margarethe von Trotta

Cast

Katja Riemann, Maria Schrader, Doris Schade

Marcelline is an actress. Forty, single and childless, she begins rehearsals for Turgenev’s A Month in the Country. Denis, the director, admires her greatly and promises he’ll make her happy on stage — she will shine. But things don’t go to plan.

Runtime

1h 47m

Director

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi

Cast

Noémie Lvovsky, Mathieu Amalric, Louis Garrel

The story of Washington D.C. radio personality Ralph "Petey" Greene, an ex-con who became a popular talk show host and community activist in the 1960s.

Runtime

1h 58m

Director

Kasi Lemmons

Cast

Don Cheadle, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Bruce McFee

Two friends from Odesa try to compose a video message to their pals, emigrants to the United States. One of them rents his apartment to a tricky girl who invents various excuses not to pay the rent. An exceptional story about people on the verge of despair who nonetheless manage to enjoy life, even if these joys are beyond good and evil.

Runtime

20m

Director

Kira Muratova

Cast

Sergei Chetvertkov, Sergei Chetvyortkov, Uta Kilter