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My Father's Secrets
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Academy Award nominee Elliott Gould stars in this animated adaptation of the acclaimed graphic novel by Michel Kichka. In 1960’s Belgium, Michel and Charly enjoy a happy childhood - but their mysterious father refuses to speak about his past. The two brothers imagine him as a great adventurer, pi...
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Farewell Mr. Haffmann
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Paris, 1941. When the Nazis invade France, a Jewish jeweler (Daniel Auteuil, Caché) is forced to make a false agreement to sell his shop and home to his assistant to save his business. Unable to escape with the rest of his family, he is forced to hide in the basement of his own house, with dire c...
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Valiant Hearts
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Acclaimed French actress Camille Cottin (Call My Agent, House of Gucci, Stillwater) stars in this odyssey of six Jewish children in August 1942 who are forced to take refuge where no one will ever think to look for them: amidst the Louvre Museum artworks hidden in the Château de Chambord.
Camill...
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Where Life Begins
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Celebrate Sukkot with WHERE LIFE BEGINS, a stunning and emotional romantic drama set against the lush backdrop of the annual Etrog (Citron) harvest in southern Italy, featuring Italian star Riccardo Scamarcio (John Wick 2, A Haunting in Venice) and rising French actress Lou de Laâge (Coup de Chan...
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Francofonia
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Set against the backdrop of the Louvre Museum’s history and artworks, master director Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark) applies his uniquely personal vision onto staged re-enactments and archives for this fascinating portrait of real-life characters Jacques Jaujard and Count Franziskus Wolff-Metter...
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The Names of Love
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Baya Benmahmoud, a young, extroverted liberal, lives by the old hippie slogan: “Make love, not war” to convert right-wing men to her left-wing political causes by sleeping with them. She seduces many and so far has received exceptional results – until she meets Arthur Martin, a Jewish middle aged...
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Memoir of War
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In Emmanuel Finkiel’s haunting adaptation of Marguerite Duras’s semi- autobiographical novel, The War: A Memoir, the famed author (Mélanie Thierry) recounts an emotionally complex story of love, loss, and perseverance against a backdrop of wartime intrigue. It’s 1944 Nazi-occupied France, and Mar...
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Transit
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In acclaimed filmmaker Christian Petzold’s brilliant and haunting modern-day adaptation of Anna Seghers’s 1942 novel, Transit Visa, Georg, a German refugee (Franz Rogowski, Happy End), flees to Marseille assuming the identity of a recently deceased writer whose papers he is carrying. There he del...
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Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life
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Taking the best from La Vie En Rose and Amelie, renowned comic book artist Joann Sfar’s Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life is a completely original take on one of France’s greatest mavericks, the illustrious and infamous Jewish singer-songwriter, Serge Gainsbourg (Eric Elmosnino).
Born Lucien Ginsburg t...
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Free Men
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This Cannes Film Festival favorite tells the story of an Algerian black marketeer (played by Tahar Rahim, breakout star of Academy Award-nominated film A PROPHET ) in Nazi-occupied France is arrested and agrees to spy on a local mosque, but he joins the Resistance after finding his loyalties torn...
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Aliyah
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Parisian drug dealer Alex finds hope for a new start when his cousin offers him a job in Israel. Now he must make the final score, while balancing a new romance with Jeanne (Adèle Haenel, "Portrait of a Lady on Fire") a past lover, a lifelong friendship and the addiction of his brother (actor/fil...
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The Jewish Cardinal
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The Jewish Cardinal tells the amazing true story of Jean-Marie Lustiger, the son of Polish-Jewish immigrants, who maintained his cultural identity as a Jew even after converting to Catholicism at a young age, and later joining the priesthood. Quickly rising within the ranks of the Church, Lustige...
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The Mad Adventures of "Rabbi" Jacob
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In this hilarious comedy of hair-brained disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert (Louis de Funès), a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by Slimane, an Arab revolutionary. The two dress up as Hasidic Jews in order to evade the police and a band of assass...
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A Bag of Marbles
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Patrick Bruel (Sabrina, Paris-Manhattan) stars in this heartwarming adaptation of Joseph Joffo’s enduring memoir which tells the story of the Nazi occupation through the eyes of two young Jewish brothers in German occupied France who, with a mind-boggling mix of mischievousness, courage and inge...
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An Impossible Love
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At the end of the 1950s, Rachel (Virginie Efira, "Other People's Children", "Benedetta"), a young office clerk living in a provincial town, meets Philippe (Niels Schneider), a well-educated man from a wealthy family. They share an intense but short-lived romance, from which a daughter is born. Ov...
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Promise at Dawn
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Charlotte Gainsbourg ("Melancholia,” “Norman") stars in Promise at Dawn, the epic film adaptation of Romain Gary’s best-selling autobiographical novel.
From his difficult childhood in Poland to his adolescence under Nice’s sun, to his career in the air force in Africa during World War II... Roma...
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Paris-Manhattan
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Idealistic pharmacist Alice (Alice Taglioni) is totally obsessed with the movies of Woody Allen. She continually quotes lines from his films, engages in imaginary conversations, and even prescribes her customers his classic works to help alleviate their ailments; it's a little wonder she's still ...
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La Rafle (The Roundup)
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July 16th, 1942. French authorities carry out an extensive raid of Jews in greater Paris, resulting in the arrest of more than 13,000 people — including 4,000 children. After spending several miserable days in the Vélodrome d’Hiver stadium at the apex of summer with little food or water, familie...
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If You See My Mother
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Thirty-year old Max (Félix Moati, THE FRENCH DISPATCH, SIMON AND THEODORE) is a single ophthalmologist and a real mama’s boy. Until she suddenly dies. Max should be devastated, yet he seems to be coping well. Too well. He actually still sees his mother, talks to her. She is not gone, still here,...
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Once In A Lifetime
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A dedicated history teacher at a French high school, Anne Gueguen (Ariane Ascaride), is determined to give the best education she can to her underprivileged inner-city pupils. Overcoming their apathy, however, is proving to be more difficult than expected. Frustrated but undaunted, Anne tests her...
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The Missing Granddaughter
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During World War II, Eva lost her daughter and her baby granddaughter, Sarah, along with the rest of her family during a raid After the war, Eva worked to rebuild her life, becoming a Jewish literature teacher at a high school in Bordeaux, France. One day, Eva recognizes that her student's father...
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24 Days
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January 20, 2006: after dinner with his family, Ilan Halimi gets a call from a beautiful girl who had approached him at work and makes plans to meet her for coffee. Ilan didn’t suspect a thing. He was 23 and had his whole life ahead of him. The next time Ilan’s family heard from him was through a...
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El Cantor
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William Stern leads a quiet life with his wife, Elizabeth, and their son Adam. But then a telegram announcing the arrival of Clovis Fishermann, William's cousin, throws a spanner in the works. William hasn't heard from Clovis for thirty years and is overjoyed at the news, for in their younger day...
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The Duchess of Warsaw
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A stirring tale set in a fantastical Paris where a concentration camp survivor reveals her past to her grandson. Valentin, a painter struggling to discover love and beauty, is reunited with his grandmother Nina. As they wander together through the capital, Nina unravels the past to her grandson, ...