"Venice, a city of 54,500 residents, receives about 30 million visitors a year. Many are grab-and-go day-trippers from the mega-cruise ships that dock in the Lagoon. In addition, it's estimated that the total number of guest quarters in Venice's historic center could reach 50,000 and take it over entirely. This explosion of tourist activity has forced many of the traditional shopkeepers and artisans out as retail spaces become unaffordable. In addition, each year, some 1,000 residents abandon the city for the mainland, also exiled due to unaffordable rents or the lack of refuge from tourism ... 'Merchants of Venice' takes us into the lives and livelihoods of a traditional bookseller, a leatherworker, and a souvenir seller. The irony is that the tourist trade has destroyed their business and way of life"--Container.

In his final film, Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami created a dialogue between his work as a filmmaker and his work as a photographer. A sustained meditation on the process of image making, 24 Frames is a graceful and elegiac farewell from one of the giants of world cinema.

Director Panahi begins with a smartphone video shot by a young woman who announces to the camera that her parents haveforbidden her from realizing her dream of acting and then, by all appearances, takes her own life. The recipient of the video, Behnaz Jafari, as herself, asks Panahi, as himself, to drive her to the woman's tiny home village near the Turkish border to investigate.

A smartphone video shot by a young woman announces that her parents have forbidden her from realizing her dream of acting and then, by all appearances, takes her own life. The recipient of the video, Behnaz Jafari, as herself, asks Panahi, as himself, to drive her to the woman's tiny home village near the Turkish border to investigate.

A young woman and her friend make their way to a black market doctor and face the choice as to whether or not one of them should have an illegal abortion.

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• 1. The end ; The morning after ; Forbidden fruit ; Could it be Satan?
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• 2. Boy wonder ; Return to murder house ; Traitor ; Sojourn
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• 3. Fire and reign ; Apocalypse then.

After a nuclear apocalypse, the world's chosen elite survive in secure Outposts created by the mysterious Cooperative. On the American West Coast, Ms. Wilhemina Venable and Ms. Miriam Mead run Outpost Three with an iron fist. The unexpected arrival of Michael Langdon, a Cooperative representative determined to save society with a secret paradise, throws their order into chaos. However, underneath the surface of humanity's salvation lies a battlefield for the final conflict between good and evil.

Alyssa, a successful photographer, wakes one morning to find her apartment ransacked and her husband mysteriously missing. Left without even a photograph to offer the police, she turns to his colleague Eve, a talented jazz pianist with charm and disarming grace. Eve helps her confront her husband's longtime struggle with depression, and to accept his absence. While getting to know this woman through such unusual circumstances, Alyssa is surprised to find herself falling in love again.

Things go hilariously awry when a man posing as a blind pianist witnesses a murder. Akash is a young musician who decides to conduct a social experiment that requires him to pretend that he is blind. When Akash is invited to give a private performance for a has-been celebrity, a murder occurs. The young man cannot report the crime because he has convinced everyone that he cannot see. He must now find a way to convince the authorities that he saw the murder take place while maintaining the illusion of blindness to avoid running afoul of those responsible.

• To the is-land
• An angel at my table
• The envoy from mirror city.

The true-life story of Janet Frame, New Zealand's most distinguished author. The film follows Frame along her inspiring journey, from a poverty-stricken childhood to a misdiagnosis of schizophrenia and electroshock therapy to, finally, literary fame.

From director, Todd Douglas Miller comes a cinematic event fifty years in the making. Crafted from a newly discovered trove of 65mm footage, and more than 11,000 hours of uncatalogued audio recordings, the film takes viewers straight to the heart of NASA₂s most celebrated mission, the one that first put men on the moon, and forever made Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin into household names.

Adapted from Émile Zola's novel of the same name, this is loosely based off the 1882 collapse of Union Générale bank, which subsequently crashed the stock market and plunged France into a decade long recession. The story centers on the unscrupulous Nicolas Saccard, played by Pierre Alcover, who makes a bad bet, loses his societal standing and his mistress and tries to recoup it all by backing an aviator with a daredevil plan to cross the Atlantic to exploit raw materials in the New World.

Famed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh spends his final years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world that surrounds him.

A young woman with athletic ambitions has to contend with problems in her family, her job, and her health

On the Jurassic Coast of England, a remarkable 200-million-year-old fossil is discovered - the bones of an Ichthyosaur, a giant sea dragon. David Attenborough joins the hunt to bring this ancient creature's story to life. Using state-of-the-art scanning and CGI, the team reconstructs the skeleton, creates the most detailed animation of an Ichthyosaur, and unravels an age-old murder mystery.

A grieving teenager discovers he has a superpower, an old fisherman thinks the cure for his ailing wife can be found in the sea, and a muse struggles to exit the story her author is penning, in this magical neorealist fable set in a coastal village Haiti, five years after a devastating earthquake.

Raw and smoldering, the film follows a young reggae DJ in Thatcher-era Brixton as he pursues his musical ambitions, battling fiercely against the racism and xenophobia of employers, neighbors, police, and the National Front. Fearless and unsentimental, and set to a blistering reggae, dub, and lovers rock soundtrack featuring Aswad, Johnny Clarke, and more, anchored by legendary producer Dennis Bovell's atmospheric score

An enchanting countryside comedy about the marital woes of a sweetly deluded baker that snowball into a scandal that engulfs the entire town.

An enchanting countryside comedy about the marital woes of a sweetly deluded baker that snowball into a scandal that engulfs the entire town.