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Film · 10 connectionsAcross three decades of passion, loss, and hope, Nino and Yasmina are bound by a magnetic relationship. Torn between love and survival, they must decide whether to build a family in Lebanon or leave their home despite tragedies.
Directed byCyril Aris
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2024 · 100 min · Comedy · Romance
Two newlyweds on their honeymoon discover that they are different in almost every way — but can these opposites attract?
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2025 · 97 min · Comedy · Drama · Romance
Diagnosed «crap with girls» by his friends, Anis’ love life has barely a pulse. Three years after the loss of Isma, his best friend and mentor, Anis takes his courage in both hands and decides finally to get out and meet people again. And the person he meets is Madeleine. Thinking she’s way out of his league, Anis gets tangled in a web of silly lies trying to impress her. But something huge is about to start. An unexpected thing. A thing called love.
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2026 · 91 min · Comedy · Romance
After taking care of his intrusive mother for years, Elie is relieved: she is cured. He can finally focus on his own life and falls in love… until his mom’s relapse. Now he has to take care of both the women in his life!
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2025 · 119 min · Drama · Fantasy · Romance
A young man living alone in Croatia encounters a woman who claims to be his wife from the future, sent on a mission to help him correct his bad habits and improve his lifestyle.
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2012 · 162 min · Drama · Romance
Algeria, the 1930s. Younes is nine years old when he is put in his uncle's care in Oran. Rebaptized Jonas, he grows up among the Rio Salado youths, with whom he becomes friends. Emilie is one of the gang; everyone is in love with her. A great love story develops between Jonas and Emilie, which is soon unsettled by the conflicts troubling the country.
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2025 · 114 min · Drama · Romance
A young woman's future is jeopardized by a secret arrangement that throws her life into chaos — but it may be the only way to save her family.
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2026 · 83 min · Animation · Comedy · Drama
Wrestling with writer’s block for her first film, Bouchra, a queer Moroccan jackal living in NYC, starts having difficult yet overdue phone calls with her mother in Casablanca that begin influencing the project. Balancing the precarity of working as an artist, the rift in her cultural identity and an array of romantic interests, Bouchra’s emotional reckoning becomes her path to expression.
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2026 · 185 min · Drama
A family weaves the threads of a heritage that travels between worlds. Joy and pain, memory and transmission. A wedding in France, a commemorative ceremony in Guinea-Bissau. Two celebrations, organically intertwined through bodies and time, leading to a rebirth.
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2014 · 89 min · Drama
The events of the film take place in the Tajik outback. The story which presented is the story of two-three families. The large-scale drama of ideas in the film becomes the drama of several people living in a remote village, and the conflict, which may seem civilizational to someone, ends completely at home and so that everyone has time in the future.
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2017 · 82 min · Drama
Every month, women go to a prison on the outskirts of Paris to visit their loved ones: sons, fathers, brothers, partners. They wait in the summer heat. As they move through security checks, relationships are made and broken, tongues loosen, tension mounts… until finally a riot erupts behind bars.
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