The Act of Learning

Italy, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous with power for decades. He has survived everything: electoral battles, terrorist massacres, loss of friends, slanderous accusations; but now certain repentant mobsters implicate him in the crimes of Cosa Nostra.

Runtime

1h 53m

Director

Paolo Sorrentino

Cast

Toni Servillo, Anna Bonaiuto, Giulio Bosetti

Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.

Runtime

2h 8m

Director

Laurent Cantet

Cast

François Bégaudeau, Franck Keïta, Arthur Fogel

Steven Russell leads a seemingly average life – an organ player in the local church, happily married to Debbie, and a member of the local police force. That is until he has a severe car accident that leads him to the ultimate epiphany: he’s gay and he’s going to live life to the fullest – even if he has to break the law to do it. Takin...

Runtime

1h 38m

Director

Glenn Ficarra, John Requa

Cast

Jim Carrey, Ewan McGregor, Leslie Mann

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.

Runtime

2h 20m

Director

Lars von Trier, Barbara Albert

Cast

Alan Rees, Safia Aggoune, Abel Alves

The old man’s daughter married the foreigner and moved abroad. Only his neighbor Gienyk remembers his name. Others call him “Beard”. “Beard” feeds hens, smokes cheap cigarettes, goes fishing as an ordinary villager. But nobody, even Gienyk knows what’s on his mind. His daughter visits him while passing by. He’s not at home at that mome...

Runtime

25m

Director

Dmytro Sukholytkuy-Sobchuk

Cast

Zinoviy Symych, Mykola Homeniuk, Mariya Romanova