12 Years a Slave (2013)
A drama starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender and Benedict Cumberbatch
In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon’s chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist will forever alter his life.
Gauguin : Voyage de Tahiti (2017)
A biography starring Vincent Cassel, Tuheï Adams and Malik Zidi
Paul Gauguin feels smothered by the atmosphere prevailing in Paris in the year 1891. Around him, everything is so artificial and conventional: he needs authenticity to renew his art. Failing to convince his wife Mette and his five children to follow him to Paradise Lost, he sets out for Tahiti alone ... (more)
Grev
A drama starring Itziar Ituño, Deniz Tansel Öngel and Pelin Batu
It is the true story of the unique resistance of Muslim and non-Muslim women who went on strike against poor working conditions as silk workers in Bursa in the Ottoman Empire in 1910.
Hatred
A drama starring Michalina Łabacz, Arkadiusz Jakubik and Wasyl Wasylik
Summer of 1939. Zosia is a young Polish girl who is deeply in love with Ukrainian Petro. Their great love will be put to the test when her father decides to marry her to a wealthy widower Skiba. Right after wedding she is left alone because her husband is drafted to the Polish army for the war with Germany. Meanwhile, tensions grow due to Jews, Poles, and Ukrainians living side by side.
Land of Mine (2015)
A war movie starring Roland Møller, Louis Hofmann and Joel Basman
In the days following the surrender of Germany in May 1945, a group of young German prisoners of war were handed over to the Danish authorities and subsequently sent out to the West Coast, where they were ordered to remove the more than two million mines that the Germans had placed in the sand along the coast ... (more)
Te Ata (2017)
A drama starring Q'orianka Kilcher, Gil Birmingham and Graham Greene
The extraordinary life of Chickasaw Nation citizen Mary Thompson Fisher is given a heartfelt tribute in this moving look at a culture in transition, and the way one woman used her voice to keep Native traditions and stories alive. Raised in Indian Territory, Fisher left home to pursue her dream of becoming an actress, only to find that her true calling was at home all along ... (more)