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France 1789: Manceron is a gifted chef and works for the Duke de Chamfort. One day, the headstrong chef lets his imagination run wild and is promptly fired. Back at his home farm, nothing awaits Manceron but the bleak prospect of serving bouillon and bread to travelers - until a mysterious woman appears on the farm. While they both harbor revenge against the duke, they decide to open the very first restaurant in France.

Ettore has spent the last five years in jail for a robbery. Once out of prison, he has nowhere to go, his wife broke up with him and doesn’t want him to meet their little daughter who was born right before he was arrested. Alone and desperate, Ettore roams the streets of Rome and meets a strange old man, Nicola. He decides to take advantage of him and rob him. But after breaking into his house, Ettore realizes Nicola doesn’t have anything worth to be stolen and furthermore, the old man tells him a rather stranger thing: he affirms to be Santa Claus…

A remake of the 1961 film about two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.

Carmela is thirty, beautiful and as untamed as an horsewoman. She is jobless and struggles to get by on her own, doing small day-to-day tasks. She makes ends meet by making use of the immigrants who populate the maze of alleyways of Naples' old historic centre. A circle of hell where, even to get a residence permit, you have to pay to work

Thirty-year-old Amina, a practicing Muslim, lives alone with her only child, the fifteen-year-old Maria. When Amina learns Maria is not only pregnant but wishes to abort the child, the two women face an impossible situation in a country where abortion is legally and morally condemned.

After a depression, Signor Imbruttito wants to open a beach bar. However, when he arrives in Sardinia with his family, the dream soon turns into a nightmare: the beach bar is there and the surroundings are beautiful, but the inhabitants of the village are simple shepherds who are averse to anything new.

An ordinary young boy called Nikolas sets out on an extraordinary adventure into the snowy north in search of his father who is on a quest to discover the fabled village of the elves, Elfhelm. Taking with him a headstrong reindeer called Blitzen and a loyal pet mouse, Nikolas soon meets his destiny in this magical and endearing story that proves nothing is impossible…

Yuri, 16, has lived all his life in Gagarin Towers, a vast red-brick housing project on the outskirts of Paris. He dreams of becoming an astronaut. When plans to demolish Gagarin Towers leak out, Yuri joins the resistance. With his friends Diana and Houssam, he embarks on a mission to save their home, which has become his “starship.”

A powerful man, who is also the former prime minister of Georgia, has developed an unusual hobby. He buys century-old trees, some as tall as 15-floor buildings, and has them excavated along the Georgian coastline to collect them for his private garden. In order to transplant trees of such dimensions, the landscape surrounding them is ripped apart and the people living around them are forced to adapt to the disruption. As the film follows this process, it portrays the needs and values of today’s Georgian society and reflects on the theme of forced migration, where "uprooting" is more than a metaphor.

Laura vermisst nach dem Umzug in die Grossstadt ihr altes Zuhause sehr. Als sie eines Abends einen kleinen, vom Himmel herabstürzenden Stern beobachtet und ihn daraufhin mit abgebrochener Zacke wiederfindet, tröstet sie ihn und verarztet ihn fürsorglich mit einem Pflaster. Gemeinsam erleben sie und der Stern magische Abenteuer, die Lauras fantasievollsten Träume wahr werden lassen – und mit der Hilfe des Sterns fühlt sie sich am Ende endlich zu Hause.

Two unmarried women who have become pregnant by accident and are about to give birth meet in a hospital room: Janis, middle-aged, unrepentant and happy; Ana, a teenager, remorseful and frightened.

Two astronomers go on a media tour to warn humankind of a planet-killing comet hurtling toward Earth. The response from a distracted world: Meh.

Take a musical odyssey through five weird and wonderful decades with brothers Ron & Russell Mael, celebrating the inspiring legacy of Sparks: your favorite band’s favorite band.