Two decades later, archival footage and letters allow him to tell his own story, with the help of the director Erez Laufer.
RABIN IN HIS OWN WORDS From Israel, a documentary about Yitzhak Rabin, the prime minister who was assassinated in Tel Aviv in 1995. Investigating with the help of her brother-in-law (Matthew Settle), she discovers other deaths there and begins to understand how evil ancient entities are operating these days. Elizabeth Rice stars in this horror drama as an American reporter whose sister dies mysteriously in Singapore. THE OFFERING Now even demons are tech-savvy. Directed by Paul Duddridge and Nigel Levy. With Susan Sarandon, Sharon Stone and Courteney Cox. MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS Selma Blair is a New York photographer who takes pictures of moms and their grown daughters and begins to pay attention to real mother-daughter relationships. Because they’re sort of the John and Paul of the band. In this music documentary by Jonathan Yi and Michael Haertlein, Red (Kotaro Tsukada) decides to leave the group, and Yellow (Kengo Hioki) can’t even. MAD TIGER Fans of Peelander-Z know it as a New York-based Japanese action-comic punk band whose members adopt crayon-color names.
Variety said the film “kicks the drama into high gear” when Mohammed’s journey to the TV auditions in Cairo proves dangerous. Assaf grew up in Gaza, where he drove a taxi and sang at weddings. Born in Libya to Palestinian parents, Mr. THE IDOL From Israel, the story of Mohammed Assaf, the young singer who won the “Arab Idol” competition in 2013. The title refers to Elstree Studios in England. He and Jeremy Bulloch (Boba Fett) are among the unsung “Star Wars” actors who talk in Jon Spira’s documentary about how the experience has affected their lives. But the man inside the costume, wielding the light saber, was David Prowse. The title character - a Tamil fighter who acquires a fake family and a fake history to help his immigration prospects in France - is played by Antonythasan Jesuthasan, who was in real life a child Tamil soldier.ĮLSTREE 1976 Yes, Darth Vader spoke with James Earl Jones’s voice. Directed by Jacques Audiard (“Rust and Bone”), this drama begins in Sri Lanka during the civil war there and moves to a suburban Paris housing project that could be just as dangerous. It won a documentary audience award at Sundance.ĭHEEPAN It was the surprise Palme d’Or winner at Cannes last year. And then the horse started to win, giving Louise Osmond’s film a triumph-of-the-underdog theme. She persuaded a group of locals to invest in the foal, which they named Dream Alliance. DARK HORSE Take that, sport of kings! One day, a mild-mannered Welsh bartender decided she wanted to breed a racehorse.