Isaach De Bankolé – MRQE

The Brutalist

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Escaping post-war Europe, visionary architect László Tóth arrives in America to rebuild his life, his work, and his marriage to his wife Erzsébet after being forced apart during wartime by shifting borders and regimes. On his own in a strange new country, László settles in Pennsylvania, where the wealthy and prominent industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren recognizes his talent for building. But power and legacy come at a heavy cost.

The People We Hate at the Wedding

Sun, 14 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A dysfunctional family that can’t seem to get along and get it together reluctantly reunites for a family wedding. As their many skeletons are wrenched from the closet, it turns out to be just what this singular family needs to reconnect.

Cherry

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

At age 19, a young woman is jilted at the altar. This leads to a declaration that she will swear off men forever. Now 10 years later, she suddenly decides she would like to have a child. She advertises in the newspaper for potential mates, whether by traditional methods or by sperm donors, but gets nothing but losers. However, two neighborhood men vie for her attention – her gynecologist and a professional clown.

French Exit

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

My plan was to die before the money ran out, says 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price, but things didnt go as planned. Her husband Franklin has been dead for 12 years and with his vast inheritance gone, she cashes in the last of her possessions and resolves to live out her twilight days anonymously in a borrowed apartment in Paris, accompanied by her directionless son Malcolm and a cat named Small Frankwho may or may not embody the spirit of Francess dead husband.

The Fence

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Over the course of one night near a construction site in Senegal, a group of workers are confronted by a man seeking justice for his brother’s death at the site.

Calvary

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After being threatened during a confession, a good-natured priest must battle the dark forces closing in around him.

Mother of George

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A story about a woman willing to do anything and risk everything for her marriage.

Oka!

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The story of Louis Sarno, an American ethno-musicologist who lived among the Bayaka Pygmies in Central Africa for 25 years.

I Am Slave

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Based on the real-life experiences of Mende Nazer, the story unfolds as twelve-year-old Malia, daughter of champion wrestler Bah, is abducted from her Sudanese village in the Nubar Mountains by pro-government Arab militia and sold into slavery to a woman in Khartoum, who beats her for touching her daughter. After six years she is sent to London, where her name is changed, but her miserable life of servitude continues. Her passport is taken and she is told that her father will die if she goes to the authorities. Fortunately she meets a sympathetic person who seems to offer her the hope of escape and reunion with Bah ,back in Sudan. For all the film’s optimism an end title states that there are around 5,000 ‘slave’ workers currently in Britain.

White Material

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Amidst turmoil and racial conflict in a Francophone African state, a white French woman fights for her coffee crop, her family and ultimately for her life.