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Greta Gerwig stars as Frances, an apprentice in a dance company who wants so much more than she has but lives life with unaccountable joy and lightness. This modern fable from Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale, Greenberg) explores youth, friendship, class, ambition, failure and redemption. (tiff.net)

Based on a short story by Nobel Prize-winning author Kawabata Yasunari, this lighthearted road film follows the rolling wheels of a country bus manned by a driver who says "thank you" to everyone he encounters. "Mr. Thank You" drives into various humorous and telling episodes with different passenger and travelers as he rumbles his way through the mountainous countryside. (Shochiku DVD)

A young woman who models for a well-known photographer, as well as for a sculptor, attends an exhibition of the work in which she features as a subject, and notices a strange man paying very close attention to the feel of a sculpture of her body.

Vietnam vet loses it when punks attack and maim his best friend. (Chas. Balun)

Adapted from a poem, this romance from 1984 is about a working-class girl in love with the wrong man.

An official history film about the foundation of Türkiye.

Luther Krank decides to skip Christmas and all the surrounding trappings and go on a vacation with his wife Nora instead. But when his daughter decides, at the last minute, to come home for the holidays, he is forced to put christmas back together.

After a vicious attacks leaves him brain-damaged and broke, Mark Hogancamp seeks recovery in "Marwencol", a 1/6th scale World War II-era town he creates in his backyard. (imdb)

Two intersecting love triangles. Obsession and betrayal set against the music scene in Austin, Texas (imdb)

Eleven articulate people work through affairs of the heart in L.A (imdb)