The Roads Not Taken

Leo (Javier Bardem) lies in bed, confused and lost in his thoughts preoccupied by the uneasy sense that people no longer take him seriously. With proverbial tender loving care, his daughter Molly (Elle Fanning),  accompanies him to  New York. Even though her job is on the line, she sticks with her chaotically minded father who […]

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Roll’em

A filmmaker sets out to make a film about Jeddah, and discovers what the city truly means to him through the process. Omar Nizar works as a filmmaker at an advertising company, a job he abhors. When his partner, Muhannad, asks him to create a shallow take on the history of Jeddah for a soulless […]

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40 Years and One Night

Five siblings and their children come together in the perennial comfort of their childhood home to celebrate Eid al-Fitr. From the warm embrace of their gathering, they cannot anticipate how their relationships will be reconfigured by the morning.  A phone call brings news that their father has been involved in a car accident. Arriving at […]

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Luxor

For her second feature, director Zeina Durra installs her camera in the intoxicating historic city of Luxor, Egypt.  British aid worker Hana (a bewitching Andrea Riseborough) returns to Luxor, escaping the intensity of her humanitarian work treating victims of the war on the Jordanian- Syrian border. On a boat in the ancient city, Hana encounters a […]

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