Incendies

焦土之城

Denis Villeneuve

Canada / FranceMystery / Drama / War130 min

Nawal dies in Canada, and her will refuses her a gravestone or a funeral unless her twins find the father they believed long dead and a brother they never knew existed. Two letters carry the pair back to the Levant and into a civil war. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's play; nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

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The Night of Counting the Years

木乃伊之夜

Shadi Abdel Salam · Egypt · Historical drama / Drama / Neorealism102 min

Upper Egypt, 1881. After their father's funeral, two brothers discover what has kept their clan alive for generations: selling off the royal mummies buried in the mountain above them. Shadi Abdel Salam — an architect by training who directed only one feature — shot it in Classical Arabic and near-static compositions, turning it into a parable about who owns the past.

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Underground

地下

Emir Kusturica · Yugoslavia / Bulgaria / Czech Republic / France / Germany / Hungary · Black comedy / Absurdist / Epic / War170 min

Belgrade, 1941: a man hides his best friend's family in a cellar and tells them the war is not over. For the next twenty years he grows rich on that lie while the people below keep manufacturing weapons for a revolution that ended long ago. Kusturica turns half a century of Yugoslav history into a brass-band carnival, with a zoo and a chimpanzee. Palme d'Or, Cannes.

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