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Linguistics professor Louise Banks (Amy Adams) leads an elite team of investigators when spaceships touch down in 12 locations around the world. As nations teeter on the verge of global war, Banks and her crew must race against time to find a way to communicate with the extra-terrestrial visitors. Hoping to unravel the mystery, she takes a chance that could threaten her life and quite possibly all of mankind.

“Arrival is such a beautiful and thought-provoking film that it almost singlehandedly makes up for every bad aliens-coming-to-Earth film you’ve ever seen.” USA TODAY

“Amy Adams is a miracle worker-she makes us believe in this mesmerizing mindbender about alien communication, directed with searching mind and heart by Denis Villeneuve.” ROLLING STONE

“The best film of the year to date, ambitious in conception and extraordinary in execution, has arrived.” THE ATLANTIC

Jackie is a searing and intimate portrait of one of the most important and tragic moments in American history, seen through the eyes of the iconic First Lady, then Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (Natalie Portman). Jackie places us in her world during the days immediately following her husband’s assassination. Known for her extraordinary dignity and poise, here we see a psychological portrait of the First Lady as she struggles to maintain her husband’s legacy and the world of “Camelot” that they created and loved so well.

“Natalie Portman is perfect in Pablo Larraín’s multifaceted portrait of the former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy.” NEW YORK TIMES

LION is based on the incredible true story of five-year-old Saroo who gets lost on a train which takes him thousands of miles across India, away from home and family. Saroo must learn to survive alone in Kolkata, before ultimately being adopted by an Australian couple. Twenty-five years later, armed with only a handful of memories, his unwavering determination, and a revolutionary technology known as Google Earth, he sets out to find his lost family and finally return to his first home.

“See it and I promise your own heart will skip a beat with happiness and joy.” Rex Reed, NEW YORK OBSERVER

“Lion is blessed with a Ripley’s Believe It or Not story line that would warm the heart of a stone.” LA TIMES

Written by Robert Siegel (BIG FAN), THE FOUNDER is a drama that tells the true story of how Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton), a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.

“A ripper of a story in which persistence and determination forge the pathway to success, this is an enthralling film filled with surprises.” URBAN CINEFILE

“Keaton is superb in this role, convincingly repulsive as the conscience-free go-getter who thinks nothing of betraying his professional and personal relationships to get to the top.” DAVID STRATTON

A United Kingdom is based on extraordinary true events. In 1947, Seretse Khama, the King of Botswana, met Ruth Williams, a London office worker. They were a perfect match, yet their proposed marriage was challenged not only by their families but by the British and South African governments. The latter had recently introduced the policy of apartheid and found the notion of a biracial couple ruling a neighbouring country intolerable. South Africa threatened the British: either thwart the couple or be denied access to South African uranium and gold and face the risk of South Africa invading Botswana

“One of the most inspiring, invigorating, and intelligent films I’ve ever seen… It’s brilliant, it’s uplifting, it’s encouraging, it’s warm, it’s touching, it’s funny, it’s endearing.” –First Showing

Devout father Ben Cash (Viggo Mortensen) and his six children live in self-imposed isolation deep within the forests of the Pacific Northwest. Calling an assemblage of yurts and treehouses home, he teaches them Marxism and hunting skills while substituting the celebration of Christmas for Noam Chomsky’s birthday instead. It isn’t until tragedy strikes that Ben is forced to pack his VW (named Steve) and leave his counterculture paradise to embark on a five-day sojourn to New Mexico, exposing his children to Western capitalist culture for the first time.

Under the emotive directorial microscope of actor-turned-director Matt Ross (who scored the Un Certain Regard directing award at Cannes), and with glittering performances from the six youths, and gorgeous cinematography courtesy of Stéphane Fontaine, Captain Fantastic is a heartfelt exposition of the mystifying challenges of fatherhood, fundamental familial values and finding one’s sense of place in a world so often defined by societal constructs.

“Viggo Mortensen gets the role he may well have been born to play … [in this] experience that feels as luminous and enriching as practically every widescreen frame.” –Variety