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Tales from the Prison Cell (2020). In his first feature film, up and coming director Ábel Visky explores the bond between imprisoned fathers and their families with originality, generosity and great skill (Cineuropa). In a Hungarian prison, filmmakers task incarcerated fathers to write fairy tales about their children. Next, they will turn those fairytales into short films, with the prisoner’s loved ones in the leading roles. Link to watch:https://boxoffice.hotdocs.ca/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=125177~741853d5-bf72-40a5-a015-09aded779383&epguid=8096360b-ce32-4b75-868d-893fb4337e9d&

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Searching Eva (2019) by Pia Hellenthal. The central subject of Director Pia Hellenthal’s documentary film Searching Eva is Eva Collé, a twenty-something poet, musician, blogger, model, and sex worker. The film is an honest and unflinching examination of Eva’s life and world-view and will likely make many people uncomfortable. Featuring somewhat graphic sequences of sex and sexuality, drug use, and harrowing journal entries concerning Eva’s upbringing, the documentary presents a warts-and-all snapshot of the unconventional life of this young woman (In The Seats). Links to watch: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/searching-eva, https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/searching-eva

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And Then We Danced (2020) by Levan Akin. A passionate tale of love and liberation set amidst the ultraconservative confines of modern Georgian society, And Then We Danced follows Merab, a devoted dancer who has been training for years with his partner Mary for a spot in the National Georgian Ensemble. The arrival of another male dancer, Irakli–gifted with perfect form and equipped with a rebellious streak–throws Merab off balance, sparking both an intense rivalry and romantic desire that may cause him to risk his future in dance as well as his relationships with Mary and his family. Links to watch: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/and-then-we-danced, https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/and-then-we-danced

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The Serpant’s Stone (2018) by Fernando Sanches. After losing a baby in the third trimester, Joana decides to go on vacation in Peruibe, a small seaside town, known for UFO’s sightings. After a one night stand, Joana runs over a man and kills him. Joana then ignites a strange relationship with Maria, the wife of the man she killed and finds herself immersed in a peculiar story of alien abductions. Link to watch: https://www.amazon.com/Serpents-Stone-Renata-Amaral/dp/B08959JNRV/ref=sr_1_13?dchild=1&fst=as%3Aoff&qid=1591152142&refinements=p_n_date%3A2693526011%2Cp_n_format_browse-bin%3A2650306011&rnid=2921748011&s=movies-tv&sr=1-13

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Sashishi deda AKA Scary Mother (2017). A middle-aged Georgian woman finds freedom, ferocity and freakiness in writing her first novel, in Ana Urushadze’s darkly daring debut. Links to watch: https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/scary-mother, https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/scary-mother

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The Receptionist (2018) by Jenny Lu. An intimate voyage into London’s underworld. First-time feature director Jenny Lu directs this intensely felt personal drama about the immigrant experience in the UK and the accompanying state of invisibility – part survival strategy, part byproduct of prejudice and hypocrisy. Links to watch: https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/the-receptionist

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Adoration (2019). Fabrice du Welz concludes his Ardennes-based trilogy with the tale of two innocent and pure-hearted youngsters, Paul and Gloria, as they make a break for freedom. The film follows in the footsteps of Paul, a boy who lives with his mother on the edge of a mysterious forest, in a small house by the entrance of a rather strange hospital. One day, he’s snapped out of his lethargy by a young girl who appears unexpectedly before him (Cineuropa). Links to watch: http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm-260841/telecharger-vod/

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Mowa ptaków aka Bird Talk (2019). The script was written by Andrzej Zulawski and is his most contemporary story. It’s about Poles and Poland and is concerned with what is happening here and now. It tells the story of brothers, couples and friends, all trying to find a place in contemporary Warsaw. Intellectuals, teachers, musicians and painters, all barely making ends meet, but nevertheless intent on improving their country.  The author was unable to make the film, but before his death he passed the script to his son, Xawery Zulawski. Available to watch on Netflix (Poland): https://www.filmweb.pl/film/Mowa+ptak%C3%B3w-2019-826832

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Those Who Work (2019) by Antoine Russbach. A compellingly social, and broodingly existential, look at unemployment. Belgian actor Olivier Gourmet (‘Rosetta’) plays a lifelong workaholic who suddenly finds himself out of a job in Swiss director Antoine Russbach’s feature debut (The Hollywood Reporter). Link to watch: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/those-who-work, https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/those-who-work.

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A Good Woman is Hard to Find (2019) by Abner Pastoll. Gritty Northern Ireland crime thriller. Vivid performances power the story of a single mother faced with terrifying choices when a drug dealer invades her home (The Guardian). LInks to watch: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/a-good-woman-is-hard-to-find, https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/a-good-woman-is-hard-to-find.