- February 1 “The Dark Side of the Moon” the best Spanish film of the year – an exciting crime thriller by Alberto Rodriguez. Southern Spain, 1980. Two detectives from Madrid join forces to investigate the brutal murders of young girls. Winner of 10 Goya Awards, including Best Film.
- February 8 “Janis” an extraordinary biographical documentary by Oscar-nominated Amy Berg (“Deliver Us from Evil”, “West of Memphis”). The director presents an exceptional, profound and intimate portrait of a rock, blues and soul icon. The film features previously unpublished excerpts from Joplin’s letters to her parents.
- February 15 “Son of Saul” – 1944, the Nazi German extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. Forty-eight hours in the life of Saul Ausländer, a member of the Sonderkommando – a unit of Jewish prisoners forced to assist the Nazis in the machinery of the Holocaust – shortly before the uprising breaks out. In a reality that cannot be comprehended, in a situation offering no chance of survival, Saul tries to preserve within himself what remains of the human being he once was. The debut of 38-year-old László Nemes breaks with the conventional narrative clichés of previous fictional films about the Holocaust. The director rejects the epic scale that creates the illusion that we can comprehend the magnitude of this crime. Nemes’s film is characterized by maximum realism and the perspective of an individual observing fragments of hell. The Hungarian film was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Foreign Language Film category. Polish actor Kamil Dobrowolski appears in it.
- February 22 “The Measure of a Man” – Does human life have a price? In today’s consumer society, are people merely products? In an extraordinarily fascinating leading role is Vincent Lindon, who won the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival. This is an interesting example of a documentary-style fiction film about a man confronted with the contemporary labor market and forced to make a moral choice in life. The film moves between realistic social drama and a contemporary morality play, drawing on the cinematic traditions of the Dardenne brothers, Ken Loach and Jean Renoir.
- February 29 “Fúsi” a gentle, bittersweet romantic comedy with a touch of melancholy in the background. It is a beautifully narrated, moving and ironic portrait of a 40-year-old man trying finally to enter adult life. “Fúsi” received three awards at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival in New York (Best Screenplay for Dagur Kári, Best Narrative Feature for Dagur Kári, and Best Actor for Gunnar Jónsson).
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