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A young girl is raised as a killer in the Yanbian province of China. She hides her identity and travels to South Korea where she hopes to lead a quiet life but becomes involved with two mysterious men.
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Jeannette
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France, 1425. In the midst of the Hundred Years’ War, the young Jeannette, at the still tender age of 8, looks after her sheep in the small village of Domremy. One day, she tells her friend Hauviette how she cannot bear to see the suffering caused by the English. Madame Gervaise, a nun, tries to reason with the young girl, but Jeannette is ready to take up arms for the salvation of souls and the liberation of the Kingdom of France. Carried by her faith, she will become Joan of Arc.
The Bold, the Corrupt and the Beautiful
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Madame Tang colludes and mediates between the government and the private businesses for the benefits of her all-female family. One case does not go according to plan, and an entire family close to Madame Tang fall victim to a gruesome murder. Ambition, desire and lust eventually change Tang's relationships with her own family forever.
the guilty
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Alarm dispatcher and former police officer, Asger Holm, answers an emergency call from a kidnapped woman. When the call is suddenly disconnected, the search for the woman and her kidnapper begins. With the phone as his only tool, Asger enters a race against time to save the endangered woman. But soon he realizes that he is dealing with a crime that is far bigger than he first thought.
alphago
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The ancient Chinese game of Go has long been considered a grand challenge for artificial intelligence. Yet in 2016, Google's DeepMind team announced that they would be taking on Lee Sedol, the world's most elite Go champion. AlphaGo chronicles the team as it prepares to test the limits of its rapidly-evolving AI technology. The film pits man against machine, and reveals as much about the workings of the human mind as it does the future of AI.
Team Hurricane
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Radical girls in an ordinary world
Neomanila
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Toto, a teenage orphan, is recruited by a notorious death squad. Irma, the groups leader, soon becomes a maternal figure to the young boy. As the two form a familial bond, their loyalties will be put to the test when one of their targets turns out to be a familiar face.
D’Ardennen
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A brutal home-jacking goes hopelessly wrong. Dave, one of the two robbers, manages to run off, leaving his brother Kenneth behind. Four years later, Kenneth is released from prison and much has changed. Dave has his life back on track and is trying to help Kenneth however possible, but is witnessing how the highly strung Kenneth tries to win back his ex-girlfriend Sylvie.
Een heerlijke vuige, donkere Vlaamse film. Twee broers plegen een overval, eentje wordt er gepakt en verdwijnt vier jaar achter de tralies. Ondertussen krijgt de andere broer een relatie met de vriendin van de opgepakte broer. Je voelt het aankomen, dit kan natuurlijk nooit goed gaan.
Een zelfde benauwde sfeer als in Rundskop, je zit te wachten op de onontkoombare confrontatie. Een hele grauwe, grijze, beklijvende sfeer, schitterend weergegeven in deze film.
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The slow business of Going
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A migrant cyborg (Lizzie Curry Martinez) wanders the globe recording her encounters,
Ik ben altijd op zoek naar die pareltjes van het filmfestival, zoals Too Young to Die. Helaas kom je in die zoektocht ook wat mindere films tegen. The slow business of Going is er zo een. Onsamenhangend, onduidelijk, slow, eigenlijk een soort langzame visuele diaree.
Meisje met schommelstoel op haar rug is op zoek naar? Tja, dat is me niet duidelijk geworden. Ik was niet de enige, deze film had het hoogste aantal weglopers dit jaar.
Heb je zin om anderhalf uur van je leven te verspillen, ga dan lekker iets anders doen dan deze film kijken.
Anomalisa
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A man crippled by the mundanity of his life experiences something out of the ordinary.
Welkom in de wondere wereld van de stop motion film. Micheal Stone is op zoek. Naar wat of wie weet hij niet, maar hij heeft het gevoel dat er iets niet klopt. Iedereen heeft het zelfde gezicht en de zelfde stem.
Behalve Lisa, zij is de uitzondering, een anomalie. Anomalisa dus.