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A Screaming Man

A Screaming Man (French: Un homme qui crie) is a 2010 French-Chadian drama film by Mahamat Saleh Haroun, starring Youssouf Djaoro and Diouc Koma. It revolves around the current civil war in Chad, and tells the story of a man who sends his son to war...

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  • May 16, 2010

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Abel

"Abel, a nine-year-old boy, has stopped talking since his father left home. One morning he starts to speak again, pretending to be the head of the family. No one dares to challenge this miracle. One day a man shows at the door : his father."
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  • Jan 2010

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Anywhere Out of the World

"Frida loves Hans but Hans has a dream: escape into space. And he has a plan."
Quoting the synopsis from the 2010 Cannes Film Festival site,

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  • May 20, 2010

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Aurora

Aurora is a 2010 drama film written and directed by Cristi Puiu.

"An apartment kitchen: a man and a woman discuss Little Red Riding Hood, their voices hushed, mindful of waking the little girl sleeping in the next room.

A wasteland on the city’s...

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  • May 14, 2010

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Bathing Micky

"Micky has been a member of the local bathing club for almost half a decade. Every day, every season, she swims with her friends at her beloved bathing club. From her story we gain a perspective on ourselves, and on how our existence is but the...

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  • Jan 30, 2010

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Biutiful

Biutiful is a drama film directed by Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu and starring Javier Bardem. It is González Iñárritu's first feature since Babel and fourth overall, and his first film in his native Spanish language since his debut...

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  • May 17, 2010

Blue Valentine

Blue Valentine is a 2010 romantic drama film written and directed by Derek Cianfrance. The film premiered in competition at the 26th Sundance Film Festival. Derek Cianfrance, Cami Delavigne and Joey Curtis wrote the film, and Michelle Williams and...

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  • Jan 24, 2010

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Burnt by the Sun 2

Burnt by the Sun 2 is a 2010 drama film written by Rustam Ibragimbekov, Nikita Mikhalkov, Vladimir Moiseyenko, Aleksandr Novototsky and Gleb Panfilov and directed by Nikita Mikhalkov.

"A searing, epic tragedy of lives caught up in the violent,...

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  • Apr 17, 2010

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Carlos

"Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, Carlos is a central figure in the history of international terrorism in the 1970s and 1980s, from pro-Palestinian activism to the Japanese Red Army. At once a figure of the extreme left and an opportunistic mercenary in the...

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  • May 19, 2010

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Certified Copy

Certified Copy (French: Copie conforme) is a 2010 film by Iranian writer and director Abbas Kiarostami, starring Juliette Binoche and the British opera singer William Shimell, in his first film role. The film is set in Tuscany, and focuses on a...

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  • May 18, 2010

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Chatroom

"When five teenagers meet online, innocent friendships are forged. But soon one dysfunctional member of the group, increasingly drawn to the darker side of the online world, singles out the most vulnerable in the group and seizes the chance to erase...

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  • May 14, 2010

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Chongqing Blues

Chongqing Blues (Chinese: 日照重慶, pinyin: Rizhao Chongqing; literally Sunshine over Chongqing) is a 2010 Chinese drama film directed by Wang Xiaoshuai. It was selected for the main competition at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.

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  • May 13, 2010

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Countdown to Zero

Countdown to Zero is a documentary film released in 2010 which argues that the likelihood of the use of nuclear weapons has increased since the end of the Cold War due to terrorism, nuclear proliferation, theft of nuclear materials and weapons, and...

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  • Jan 25, 2010

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Draquila - Italy Trembles

"Why do Italians vote Berlusconi? The violence of propaganda, the impotence of citizens, questions of the economy, illicit power relationships...
And a catastrophe: the city of L'Aquila devastated by an earthquake... all these combine to show how...

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  • May 7, 2010

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Frozen Land

"Kyung-jae and Byung-jo make money from smuggling illegal immigrants from China into South Korea. One day, all the stowaways, except a young woman, die while being transported in a refrigerator van. Kyung-jae and Byung-jo now have to decide whether...

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  • May 19, 2010

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Gilles Jacob: Citizen Cannes

"In Cannes, from the top of the stairs of the Palais du Festival, Gilles Jacob has seen the film world come to him for more than 30 years. To the impassioned spectator of the whole world’s cinema.
Gilles Jacob owes his position as the president of...

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  • May 17, 2010

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Heartbeats

Heartbeats (French: Les Amours imaginaires) is a 2010 Canadian drama film directed by Xavier Dolan. It follows the story of two friends who both fall in love with the same man. It premiered in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2010 Cannes Film...

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  • May 16, 2010

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Here I Am

"Viktor can’t sleep, so he wanders around the city. He meets various friends as well as strangers. He is looking for something. Just like the rest of us."
Quoting the synopsis from the 2010 Cannes Film Festival site.

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  • Nov 12, 2009

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I Already Am Everything I Want to Have

"The boy is new to the city.
Daniel doesn’t know what to do with himself.
He visits his sister, he visits friends.
Noise begins to emerge:
how to say no to yourself?"
Quoting the synopsis from the 2010 Cannes Film Festival site

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  • Mar 2010

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I Wish I Knew

"Shanghai, a fast-changing metropolis, a port city where people come and go.
Shanghai has hosted all kinds of people – revolutionaries, capitalists, politicians, soldiers, artists, and gangsters. Shanghai has also hosted revolutions, assassinations,...

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  • May 16, 2010

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Iceland

"Wesley, 34. Ostend. Returning to the place he never left. He lets the city be his guide, and a mime player with a strange haircut."
Quoting the synopsis from the 2010 Cannes Film Festival site.

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  • May 21, 2010

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Kaboom

Kaboom is a 2010 film, written and directed by Gregg Araki. The film stars Roxane Mesquida, Thomas Dekker, Juno Temple, Haley Bennett, and James Duval. It premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, where it was awarded the first ever Queer Palm for...

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  • May 15, 2010

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La nostra vita

"Claudio works on a site in the suburbs of Roma. He is madly in love with his wife who is pregnant with their third child. However, a dramatic event comes to upset this simple and happy life. In a rage for life, Claudio energetically fights against...

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  • May 21, 2010

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My Joy

My Joy (Russian: Счастье моё, translit. Schastye moyo; Ukrainian: Щастя моє, translit. Shchastya moye) is a 2010 Ukrainian road movie directed by Sergei Loznitsa. It is set in the western regions of Russia, somewhere near to Smolensk. My Joy was the...

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  • 2010

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Nostalgia For The Light

Nostalgia for the Light is a 2010 documentary drama written and directed by Patricio Guzmán.

"In Chile, at three thousand metres altitude, astronomers from all over the world gather together in the Atacama desert to observe the stars. The desert...

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  • Oct 27, 2010

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Of Gods and Men

Of Gods and Men is a 2010 drama film written by Etienne Comar and directed by Xavier Beauvois.

"A monastery high in the mountains of the Maghreb, some time in the 90s...
Eight French Christian monks live in harmony with their Muslim brothers.
But...

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  • May 18, 2010

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On Tour

On Tour is a 2010 dramatic comedy written by Mathieu Amalric ,Philippe Di Folco, Tom Frank, Marcelo Novais Teles and Raphaëlle Valbrune and directed by Mathieu Amalric.

"Joachim, a former Parisian television producer had left everything behind -...

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  • Jun 30, 2010

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Outside the Law

"After losing their family home in Algeria, three brothers and their mother are scattered across the globe. Messaoud joins the French army fighting in Indochina; Abdelkader becomes a leader of the Algerian independence movement in France and Saïd...

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  • Sep 22, 2010

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Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow

"The film bears witness to German artist Anselm Kiefer’s alchemical creative processes and renders as a film journey the personal universe he has built at his hill studio estate in the South of France. In 1993 Kiefer left Buchan, Germany for La...

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  • May 2010

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Pál Adrienn

"Piroska is an overweight, alienated nurse who can’t resist cream-filled pastries. She works in the terminal ward of a hospital; her life is surrounded by death. One day she sets off to find her long-lost childhood friend. While tracing her...

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  • May 2010

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R U There

R U There is a 2010 Taiwanese-Dutch drama film directed by David Verbeek. It was entered into the Un Certain Regard section of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.

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  • Jun 17, 2010

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Robin Hood

Robin Hood is a 2010 action film written by Brian Helgeland and directed by Ridley Scott.

Robin Hood, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett will open the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, screening out of competition on...

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  • May 12, 2010

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Route Irish

Route Irish is a 2010 drama-thriller film directed by Ken Loach and written by Paul Laverty. It is set in Liverpool and focuses on the consequences suffered by private security contractors after fighting in the Iraq War. The title comes from the...

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  • May 20, 2010

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Socialism

Film Socialisme (2010), alternative French title Socialisme, English: Socialism but often referred to as Film Socialism, is a film directed by Jean-Luc Godard and distributor Vega Film. The film was first screened in the Un Certain Regard section at...

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  • May 19, 2010

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Tamara Drewe

Tamara Drewe is a 2010 comedy film directed by Stephen Frears. The screenplay was written by Moira Buffini, based on the newspaper comic strip of the same name (which was then re-published as a graphic novel) written by Posy Simmonds. The comic...

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  • May 18, 2010

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Thanks, Fine

"Non-flattering, yet intimate insight into a family’s life, reflecting destruction of human relations during the economic crisis."
Quoting the synopsis from the 2010 Cannes Film Festival site.

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  • May 2, 2010

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The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu

The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu is a 2010 documentary film written and directed by Andrei Ujica.

""After all, a dictator is simply an artist who is able to fully put into practice his egotism. It is a mere question of aesthetic level,...

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  • May 2010

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The Fifth Column

The Fifth Column (Armenian: Hinkerort Zorasune), is a Lebanese–American short film, directed by Vatche Boulghourjian. It competed in the 2010 Cannes Film Festival where it was awarded 3rd Prize by the Cinéfondation, La Sélection. In August 2010 it...

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  • May 20, 2010

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The Game

"A group of armed men are wandering in the jungle, tracking each other. Some move in pairs, some move alone, some wear military uniforms and some don’t. Like in any sort of game, rivalries and internal conflicts will not take long to emerge, drawing...

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  • May 2, 2010

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The Lips

"Three women travel to a distant place to do welfare work. They assist, listen, stay with the unprotected. An old hospital in ruins accommodates them. The imposed group life gets more complex as they start to know each other. The relationship with...

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  • May 2010

The Pack

The Pack (French: La meute) is a 2010 Franco-Belgian horror film directed and written by Franck Richard. It stars Philippe Nahon, Émilie Dequenne, Benjamin Biolay and Yolande Moreau. The film is about Charlotte and Max who come across a restaurant....

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  • Sep 29, 2010

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