A rather original film is coming out of Iran this week, which was also the country’s official Oscar submission this year. Shakib, a poor and homeless worker, is hired by a film industry that is making a film about Hitler and the horrors of the concentration camps. However, when a problem arises with the main character, Shakib’s resemblance to … the Fuhrer unexpectedly gives him a role, and with it increased privileges. He uses them to try and save the woman he loves, but he soon finds himself in a bad position and the actors of the film turn against him.

The Seyendi man methodically crafts a story that moves between myth and reality as his protagonist evolves from the last wheel on the train to a “significant” person, at least as long as he faithfully fulfills the production’s orders. As soon as his personal history pushes him towards “revolution”, the violence erupts uncontrollably, and the brutality, this time, is transferred from behind the camera. At the same time, the suspense heats up and, despite some scenario failures, the viewer is fascinated until the completely shocking finale.

Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and nomination for an international Oscar for the new film by Belgian Lucas Dodd, who became widely known thanks to The Girl. And this time, its main characters are two young high school students, Remy and Leo, inseparable friends who spend the summer together in the countryside, continuing to be close even at school. However, a violent event ends their relationship, and now Leo turns to his friend’s mother to find solutions to questions that don’t have easy answers at all.

Dodd wants to talk about difficult growing up again, this time through the lens of trauma and loss. His lens here – at least initially – is filled with color and light as the two boys’ friendship blooms like flowers in Leo’s family fields. The latter will be offered to cope with a terribly difficult situation, retaining feelings disproportionate to his age.

Dodd himself prefers to leave much of what happens behind the scenes, either blurring it, as he often does with the environment of the characters, or completely disappearing; instead, he filters it all through the eyes of a young Eden Dubrin, who also won a European Film Award. On the other hand, the history itself and its depth, which is not entirely proportional to its technical perfection, are alarming here.

The adventures of the Marvel superhero universe continue, this time with our familiar Ant-Man/Scott Lang as the lead character. He and his partner Hope (also a superhero) live a normal life with Hope’s parents and Scott’s daughter. However, when the latter accidentally opens a portal to the quantum world, the whole family gets there in… subatomic packaging. Marvel is on auto-pilot creating a CGI film with some certainly interesting scenes, but one that wears out faster than popcorn.

Manuela Martelli’s film, which won the Best Director Award at the latest Thessaloniki Festival, takes us on a journey through Chile’s turbulent history, especially during the Pinochet dictatorship. The protagonist is Carmen, a fairly wealthy middle-aged woman who moves into the family’s beach cottage to oversee renovations. There, she is persuaded by a local priest to secretly care for an injured dissident youth; contact with him and the purpose she now finds in her dreary everyday life will wake her up and make her feel important.

Manuela Martelli paints an interesting portrait of a woman and at the same time a country living in terror, with regime donors everywhere.

Carmen herself will have to go against the interests of her friends and her doctor husband, as she, too, is struggling to break out of a different kind of marginal.

We see all this in a really well-made film, without any big surprises and pace that would allow it to stand out even more.

The creators of the hit “Oops: Noah’s Gone” are back with another adventure for kids, this time from the magical world of fairies. One of them, Violetta, after failing her exams, takes matters into her own hands, making her way into the human world. There he meets Maxi, a twelve-year-old girl who misses her old country house. Now the two will make a deal so they can help each other and get back to where they need to be. Of course, this is not easy to do…