The 12th annual festival opens with Ian Power’s drama THE RUNWAY, in which a fatherless boy in County Cork comes to the aid of a Colombian pilot who’s crash-landed on the outskirts of town; Power and producer Macdara Kelleher will attend (Fri 3/4, 7 PM).
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Based on a 2008 incident that rocked the town of Gloucester, Massachusetts, this debut feature by French sisters Delphine and Muriel Coulin centers on five close pals at a high school in seaside Lorient who all agree to get pregnant and raise their children collectively.
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Set in a sterile, white-walled dictatorship where all the workers are drugged, this lavish sci-fi feature from Mexico manages to resemble THX 1138 (1971) or the more recent Gattaca (1997) while skimping on full-scale pyrotechnics.
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This 1933 film is the best known of the Warner Brothers Depression-era musicals, though it doesn't compare in dash and extravagance to later entries in the cycle.
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Abbott and Costello were never known for their quality control, but once the comedy duo launched their successful TV series in 1952, their theatrical features really hit the skids.
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Dramas about the porn industry range from expressions of puritanical rage (Paul Schrader's Hardcore) to celebrations of open sexuality (Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights); this one manages to avoid both extremes, as well as anything else that might make it worth watching.
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A stash of rare World War I photos preserved by a small museum in Prague inspired Chicago media execs Bruce Bendinger and John Iltis to trace the history of the "Czechoslovak Legion," a force of 70,000 Czechs and Slovaks who were instrumental in the Allied victory.
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After the battered body of a rent boy is pulled out of the Rhone, two Lyonnaise homicide detectives (Gilbert Melki and Emmanuelle Devos) begin canvassing his teenage peers, sifting through his cell phone records, and tracing his recent online activities.
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German silhouette animator Lotte Reiniger is best known for this enchanting 1926 film—the earliest surviving feature-length animation—that she adapted from one of the stories in 1001 Arabian Nights.
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