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From the Oscar-winning director Asghar Farhadi, 'Fireworks Wednesday' is an engrossing portrait of three marriages set against the backdrop of the Persian New Year.

The story begins with Rouhi (Taraneh Alidousti), a young bride-to-be who takes a temporary job cleaning for a family in northern Tehran. Upon arriving at the apartment she finds herself in the middle of an explosive domestic conflict between Mojdeh (Hedieh Tehrani) and her husband Morteza (Hamid Farokh-Nejad). Mojdeh suspects that Morteza is cheating on her with the next door neighbour. Over the course of the day, the young woman, the sparring couple, their small son, the wife's sister and husband and the beautician next door engage in a series of exchanges, confrontations and prevarications as the truth unfolds.

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When Ali loses his sister Zahra's school shoes, this young pair dream up a plan to stay out of trouble: they'll share his shoes and keep it a secret from their parents.

But if they're going to successfully cover their tracks, Ali and Zahra must carefully watch their step on what rapidly turns into a funny and heart-warming adventure!

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A French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) and a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) engage in a brief, passionate affair in post war Hiroshima.

Their deeply intense connection brings out scarred but fading memories of love and suffering, which Resnais communicates with the use of flashback techniques innovative to the time.

In 1936, as Palestinian villages revolt against British colonial rule, Yusuf (Karim Daoud Anaya) navigates between Jerusalem and his rural home, amidst escalating unrest and a pivotal moment for the British Empire.

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"I Swear" is the powerful true-life story of Tourette Syndrome campaigner John Davidson (Robert Aramayo).

In a funny and moving account of his experiences, the story follows John throughout his adolescence and early adulthood and explores what was a little known and entirely misunderstood condition in 1980s Britain.

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Jules (Frederic Andrei) is a Parisian mail courier in possession of two highly sought-after tapes: the first contains a rare recording of American opera singer Cynthia Hawkins (Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez), with whom he has fallen in love; the second is a tape slipped into his bag by a young

woman just before she is murdered. The unwitting Jules thus finds himself being pursued by Taiwanese bootleggers and a thuggish gang of drug dealers who will do anything to get their hands on the cassettes.

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Based on a true story, this heartfelt, underdog comedy follows the American Samoa soccer team, infamous for their brutal 31-0 FIFA loss in 2001.

With the World Cup qualifiers fast approaching, the team hires down-on-his-luck, maverick coach Thomas Rongen (Michael Fassbender), hoping he will turn the world's worst soccer team into winners.

Set in the holy city of Mashhad, Ali Abbasi's haunting latest feature follows journalist Rahimi (Zar Amir Ebrahimi), as she investigates the murders of several sex workers by the 'Spider Killer', who believes he is on a divine mission to cleanse the city of sinners.

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"The Peanut Butter Falcon" is a modern adventure starring Shia LaBeouf as Tyler, u a small time outlaw turned unlikely coach, who joins forces with Zak (Zack Gottsagen), a young man with Down Syndrome, who is on the run from a nursing home.

Zak has a dream of becoming a professional wrestler, but with Eleanor (Dakota Johnson), Zak's loving yet stubborn carer on his trail, success is less than guaranteed.

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Set in Newcastle towards the end of World War 2, this romantic drama chronicles the sacrifices made by a blue-collar woman and her family. This is the story of the Stotts, an eccentric family waging their personal battles against the terrifying backdrop of Britain during WW 2.

Adapted from the novel by C.P. Taylor. Amidst the air raid sirens and fears of poison gas, Mam frets about church bombings... Dad spouts communism while pounding the piano...Grandpa mourns his dead whippet... daughters Joyce and Helen grasp fervently at the joys, frustrations and heartbreak of first love. With a constellation of British acting stars, 'And a Nightingale Sang" is a touching and richly comic account of this Geordie family's war.

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One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam (Andrew Scott) has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor Harry (Paul Mescal), which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life.

As a relationship develops between them, Adam is preoccupied with memories of the past and finds himself drawn back to the suburban town where he grew up, and the childhood home where his parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell), appear to be living, just as they were on the day they died, 30 years before.

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Jazz and decolonisation are entwined in this historical rollercoaster that rewrites the Cold War episode that led musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach to crash the UN Security Council in protest against the murder of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba.

It is 1961, six months after the admission of sixteen newly independent African countries to the UN, and a political earthquake shifts the majority vote from the colonial powers to the Global South. As Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe in indignation at the UN's complicity in the overthrow of Lumumba, the US State Department swings into action by sending jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to Congo to deflect attention from the CIA-backed coup. Featuring footage with Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Abbey Lincoln, Max Roach, Nina Simone, Miriam Makeba, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Malcolm X and Nikita Khrushchev.

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In 1981, four Polish builders arrive in London to renovate the home of a rich fellow Pole, with only the foreman, Nowak (Jeremy Irons), speaking English.

Whilst the military crackdown by the communist regime is underway in Poland, a string of disasters is unravelling for the builders, who are unaware of the turmoil back at home as Nowak keeps events hidden from them in order to get the job finished.

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In the treacherous and swampy forests that make up the so called "green border" between Belarus and Poland, refugees from the Middle East and Africa trying to reach the European Union are trapped in a geopolitical crisis cynically engineered by Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko.

In an attempt to provoke Europe, refugees are lured to the border by propaganda promising easy passage to the EU. Pawns in this hidden war, the lives of Julia (Maja Ostaszewska), a newly minted activist who has given up her comfortable life, Jan (Tomasz Wlosok), a young border guard, and a Syrian family intertwine. 30 years after 'Europa Europa', three-time Oscar Nominee Agnieszka Holland's poignant new feature 'Green Border' opens our eyes, speaks to the heart, and challenges us to reflect on the moral choices that fall to ordinary people every day.

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Cairo just before January 2011: Noredin (Fares Fares) is an everyday corrupt police detective who makes a buck accepting bribes from street vendors and landlords. By routine, he extorts money from the local criminals.

Under the influence of drugs and alcohol, he can still function in a system that is on the brink of collapse. One night he is assigned a murder investigation. A singer is found dead at the Nile Hilton. What initially seems to be a crime of passion turns into something that concerns the very powerful elite of Egypt. As Noredin follows the clues, he finally has to start acting for something beyond his own self-interest. A political thriller based on a true story.