Although he survives by receiving Poland’s first face transplant, he can’t be saved from falling into an identity crisis. There, he suffers a horrid accident that disfigures his face. He works on the construction site of a giant Jesus statue. Jacek is a good-natured metalhead with a lust for life. Janusz, a criminal prosecutor numbed by over-exposure to corpses his daughter Olga, who is dealing with an eating disorder and Olga’s unconventional therapist who may be able to communicate with dead souls, become surprisingly interconnected as Olga receives treatment in a psychiatric hospital. Over the course of four years, she navigates love affairs and existential uncertainty as she starts deciding who she wants to become.
On the verge of turning thirty, Julie is faced with a series of choices that force her to pursue new perspectives on her life in contemporary Oslo. But his classroom ethics is put to the test when his students begin to challenge his teaching methods… Neither stuffy nor severe, his frankness often takes the students by surprise. Laurent Cantet’s Palme d’Or winning drama follows François and his fellow teachers as they prepare for a new year at a high school in a tough neighbourhood of Paris. But outside of his work, David is awkward and reserved and needs his patients as much as they need him. Tim Roth is superb in Michel Franco’s drama about David, an in-home nurse who works with terminally ill patients, developing strong, and even intimate, relationships with each person he cares for. Aryan is smuggled out by the doctor, who is intent on exploiting his secret. While tending him back to health, a doctor at a refugee camp discovers that Aryan has gained an extraordinary talent-he can levitate. Jupiter’s MoonĪ young refugee, Aryan, is shot while illegally trying to cross the Hungarian border. Accompanied by the memory of his mother, Iracema, and his camera, Aïnouz gives a detailed account of the journey to his father’s homeland, interweaving present, past, and future. Mariner of the Mountainsįilmmaker Karim Aïnouz decides to take a boat, cross the Mediterranean and embark on his first journey to Algeria. Diane Kruger delivers a Cannes prize-winning turn in Fatih Akin’s revenge drama. A police investigation points to a pair of young neo-Nazis as the key suspects, but when a lack of evidence fails to fully incriminate them, Katja is forced to take matters into her own hands. When her husband and young son are suddenly killed in a bomb attack, Katja’s life is torn apart.
But her new marriage and whole way of life are threatened by the outbreak of World War I, encroaching on her world.Įqual parts playful and melancholy, Mathieu Amalric’s Cannes prize-winning French road movie follows traveling burlesque dancers town-to-town, offering a unique window into lives and locations rarely seen on screen. In early 20th-century rural Scotland, young Chris Guthrie dreams of becoming a teacher but is held back by a brutal, religious father and her love of the land. The truth, however, frees Moe’s capability to love. When his granddaughter Moe comes to organize his funeral, she is confronted with a web of lies.
Wet Sand – 1st JuneĪ village on the Georgian Black Sea is full of friendly people convinced they know each other, but one day, Eliko is found hanged. She is ready to sacrifice anything for little Maria.
Along with other mothers, Maddelena takes her daugther to Cinecittà, hoping she’ll be selected and become a star. Bellissima – 31st Mayįilm director Blasetti is looking for a little girl for his new movie.
Here she becomes the central subject, as a director attempts to give a face and voice to this silenced character. Mother of Caliban and imprisoner of Ariel, Sycorax remains offstage in Shakespeare’s The Tempest, dismissed by Prospero as an “evil sorceress”. What’s new, coming soon and leaving soon? Read on for your weekly MUBI Digest.Įmma Suarez and Adriana Ugarte deliver powerful performances in Pedro Almodovar’s compelling, emotional mystery. In the meantime, it’s your last chance to stream Tokyo Sonata and Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project.
For MUBI Go subscribers, a free cinema ticket is available (in participating UK cinemas) for Between Two Worlds. MUBI’s Cannes takeover reaches a moving climax this week with Pedro Almodovar’s Julieta, nominated for the Palme d’Or in 2016.