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Hope is buoyed by a superlative performance by Andrea Braeim Hovig, who not surprisingly has won several acting awards this year. There are so many unexpected twists and turns in the telling of the story, all of them authentic and none less than moving, that it comes as a surprise to learn that this is a true story.

There are few actors as accomplished as Golden Globe-winning Reese Witherspoon. Most recently she starred and produced in the acclaimed Hulu miniseries Little Fires Everywhere, as well as taking the lead opposite Jennifer Aniston in the award-winning Apple TV drama, The Morning Show.

This science-fiction feature about an android was the film director Sandra Wollner submitted for her final exam at the film academy in Ludwigsburg, Germany. With it she explores the questions of man and machine, of who and what rules decision-making in today’s world.

In 1995, one of the worst massacres of the Balkan war happened during what was already one of the most violent periods of the conflict in the former Yugoslavia. 8,372 innocent civilians were murdered in the Bosnian town of Srebenica by the Bosnian Serb army under the command of General Ratko Mladic, a particularly brutal commander who now serves a life sentence after being convicted for war crimes and crimes against humanity by the international Criminal Court in The Hague.

Zaza Urushadze, known for the Golden Globe nominated  Tangerines (2013), passed away one year ago in his hometown of Tbilisi, Georgia. He was 54 and Anton is his posthumously released farewell movie.

Luisa is a 20-year-old law student from an upper-middle class background. She is as alarmed by the right wing movements and a move to ultra-conservatism in her country as most of her friends.

The start of talkies in 1929 in Hollywood jumpstarted Lionel Barrymore’s brief career as a director as studios required an experienced hand with spoken dialogue and Barrymore had had great success on stage before he became a movie actor.  Ten Cents a Dance was the last movie he directed, and he was offered the job after being nominated for a directing Oscar for Madame X in 1930.

As a butcher prepares to slaughter a bull whose meat is about to be delivered in preparation for a local wedding party, the bull escapes and runs wild through the village. A small crowd gathers to capture the animal.

Paul Greengrass has a penchant for putting his lead actor Tom Hanks in harm’s way. In their 2013 collaboration Captain Phillips, the British director made his two-time Oscar and Golden Globe winning actor face off against Somali pirates.

Let’s make the world a better place. A premise that we all discuss with friends, sitting around the dinner table, drinking one too many glasses of wine.