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Filmmaker Elia Suleiman travels to different cities and finds unexpected parallels to his homeland of Palestine. (imdb)

Istanbul; then Constantinople is surrounded by Ottoman Turks, and Byzantium is suffering from bad management. Surrendering to ottomans was only salvation. but bad and corrupt Byzantium management had chosen to fight. At the end they lost the city to its rightful owners as the last prophet has welcomed the conquerer. (sukrutaskiran)

The four Meechum kids and their mother move from Marine post to Marine post, following their father... (imdb)

Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboard, is short of money, and is a service-trained expert in his field. The job is a bank robbery, and military discipline and planning are imposed by Hyde and second-in-command Race on the team, although civilian irritations do start getting in the way. (imdb)

The residents of a rural mining town discover that an unfortunate chemical spill has caused hundreds of little spiders to mutate into the size of SUVs. And they're hungry. (Warner Bros.)

Beatrice Prior, a teenager with a special mind, finds her life threatened when an authoritarian leader seeks to exterminate her kind in her effort to seize control of their divided society. (imdb)

Upper-class geometry professor Juan and his wealthy, married mistress Maria José, driving back from a late-night rendezvous, accidentally hit a cyclist, and run. The resulting, exquisitely shot tale of guilt, infidelity, and blackmail reveals the wide gap between the rich and the poor in Spain, and surveys the corrupt ethics of a society seduced by decadence. (criterion.com)

Pirate Captain sets out on a mission to defeat his rivals Black Bellamy and Cutlass Liz for the Pirate of the year Award. The quest takes Captain and his crew from the shores of Blood Island to the foggy streets of Victorian London. (imdb)

A down-on-his-luck farmer makes a deal with the devil for seven years of prosperity. When Mr. Scratch comes to collect, orator and hero of the common man Daniel Webster comes to the rescue (imdb)

A veteran stage star turns to her assistant for solace as she jousts with an arrogant younger actress. (TIFF)