Simon Abkarian
1) Zarafa
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Inspired by the true story of the first giraffe to visit France, ZARAFA is a sumptuously animated and stirring adventure, and a throwback to a bygone era of hand-drawn animation and epic storytelling set among sweeping CinemaScope vistas of parched desert, wind-swept mountains and open skies. Nominated for Best Feature at **Annecy International Animated Film Festival**. Nominated for Directing in an Animated Feature Production at the **Annie Awards**....
2) Ararat
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In this historical drama from acclaimed director Atom Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter), the making of a film about the Armenian Genocide forces a diverse cast of characters to confront their own histories and identities. Raffi (David Alpay), a young Armenian-Canadian, grapples with his family’s traumatic past, while an actor (Christopher Plummer) investigating film smuggling uncovers deeper truths. Blending past and present, fiction and reality, this...
3) Zarafa
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Under the cover of darkness a small boy, Maki, loosens the shackles that bind him and escapes into the desert night. Pursued by slavers across the moon-lit savanna, Maki meets Zarafa, a baby giraffe, and an orphan, just like him, as well as the nomad Hassan, Prince of the Desert. Hassan takes them to Alexandria for an audience with the Pasha of Egypt, who orders him to deliver the exotic animal as a gift to King Charles of France.
4) The Sonata
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A young violinist unravels her long lost father's past, triggering dark forces that reach beyond her imagination.
5) Persepolis
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In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family. Their long dream is realized when the hated Shah is defeated in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, Marji grows up to witnesses first hand how the new Iran has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this injustice, her parents send her abroad to Vienna to study....
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With two professional assassinations in quick succession, James Bond is quickly elevated to '00' status. Bond's first 007 mission takes him to Uganda where he is to spy on a terrorist, Mollaka. Not everything goes to plan and Bond decides to investigate, independently of MI6, in order to track down the rest of the terrorist cell. Following a lead to the Bahamas, he encounters Dimitrios and his girlfriend, Solange. He learns that Dimitrios is involved...
7) The Cut
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THE CUT follows the journey of one father's search through the Ottoman Empire for his two daughters after they are separated during the 1915 Armenian Genocide.
8) Playground
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A lonely teenage girl joins a school for promising killers and trains hard to become an professional assassin as she uncovers the mysteries of her parents' death.