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OLD (2021)
Starring Gael García Bernal, Vicky Krieps, Thomasin McKenzie, Eliza Scanlen, Alex Wolff, Aaron Pierre, Abbey Lee, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Ken Leung and Rufus Sewell. Directed by M. Night Shyamalan.

A family on a tropical holiday discover that the secluded beach where they are relaxing for a few hours is somehow causing them to age rapidly, reducing their entire lives into a single day.

EMA (2021)
Starring Mariana Di Girolamo, Gael García Bernal, Santiago Cabrera, Paola Giannini, Cristián Suárez, Mariana Loyola, Catalina Saavedra, Susana Hidalgo, Josefina Fiebelkorn and Giannina Fruttero. Directed by Pablo Larraín.

Free-spirited, platinum-blonde Ema is a beguiling, stubborn and fiercely talented young dancer and teacher. Her insatiable passion lies in the sexy reggaetón music she and her friends dance to on the city’s streets; she’s forged a career as part of an experimental modern ensemble overseen by her husband, demanding choreographer Gastón.

The couple is reeling from a crisis: they’ve just returned their adopted 12-year-old son Polo back to child services, after the troubled boy set fire to their home and injured Ema’s sister. The couple’s agonising decision spins the marriage into chaos, but the guilt-ridden Ema refuses to let go, and sets out on a strange, secretive, and fearless quest to reunite her family.

REVIEWS Ema - Horrifying yet hypnotic

IT MUST BE HEAVEN (2020)
Starring Elia Suleiman, Ali Suliman, François Girard, Gael García Bernal, Stephen McHattie, Kwasi Songui, Grégoire Colin, Holden Wong, Alain Dahan and Vincent Maraval. Directed by Elia Suleiman.

Filmmaker Elia Suleiman travels to different cities and finds unexpected parallels to his homeland of Palestine.

REVIEWS It Must Be Heaven - A lyrical and absurdist trip around the world

THE KINDERGARTEN TEACHER (2019)
Starring Maggie Gyllenhaal, Parker Sevak, Gael García Bernal, Michael Chernus, Rosa Salazar, Ajay Naidu, Anna Baryshnikov, Daisy Tahan, Sam Jules and Samrat Chakrabarti. Directed by Sara Colangelo.

When a Staten Island kindergarten teacher discovers what may be a gifted five-year-old student in her class, she becomes fascinated and obsessed with the child-- spiralling downward on a dangerous and desperate path in order to nurture his talent.

REVIEWS The Kindergarten Teacher - It's beautiful enough for me

COCO (2017)
Starring Anthony Gonzalez, Gael García Bernal, Benjamin Bratt, Renée Victor, Ana Ofelia Murguía, Alanna Ubach, Edward James Olmos, Gabriel Iglesias, Jaime Camil and Cheech Marin. Directed by Lee Unkrich.

Despite his family’s baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel (voice of newcomer Anthony Gonzalez) dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz (voice of Benjamin Bratt). Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colourful Land of the Dead following a mysterious chain of events. Along the way, he meets charming trickster Hector (voice of Gael García Bernal), and together, they set off on an extraordinary journey to unlock the real story behind Miguel's family history.

REVIEWS Coco - An authentic, joyful animated masterpiece

NERUDA (2017)
Starring Gael García Bernal, Luis Gnecco, Mercedes Morán, Alfredo Castro, Michael Silva, Pablo Derqui, Alejandro Goic, Antonia Zegers, Marcelo Alonso and Héctor Noguera. Directed by Pablo Larraín.

It’s 1948, and the Cold War has reached Chile. Following the President’s outlawing of communism, Neruda (played by Luis Gnecco, bearing a remarkable likeness) and his artist wife Delia (Mercedes Morán) are forced into hiding. Beloved by the populace, they slip underground and are pursued by incompetent, vainglorious police inspector Oscar Peluchonneau (the superb Gael Garcia Bernal), hoping to make a name for himself by capturing the country’s most infamous fugitive.

Whilst life on the run holds little charm for the cultured and hedonistic Neruda, he uses the opportunity to reinvent his work and life, leaving clues for his pursuer designed to make their game of cat-and-mouse even more dangerous and thrilling. Thwarting Peluchonneau at every turn, it’s almost as if the detective is the man Neruda would have written to chase himself...

REVIEWS Neruda - A philosophical snoozefest

ROSEWATER (2015)
Starring Gael GarcÍa Bernal and Kim Bodnia. Directed by Jon Stewart.

'Rosewater' is the incredible true story of Canadian Iranian broadcast journalist Maziar Bahari. While covering the 2009 Iranian elections, Bahari was wrongfully arrested for treason and detained in Tehran's Evin prison where he developed an oddly symbiotic relationship with his interrogator. His universal story about love and freedom caught the attention of world leaders and mainstream media outlets across the globe, including Jon Stewart and The Daily Show.

REVIEWS Rosewater - An impressive debut and a powerful story
Rosewater - The perils of bearing witness

A LITTLE BIT OF HEAVEN (2012)
Starring Kate Hudson, Gael García Bernal, Romany Malco, Kathy Bates, Lucy Punch, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Dinklage, Rosemarie Dewitt, Treat Williams and Alan Dale. Directed by Nicole Kassell.

REVIEWS A Little Bit of Heaven - Tears with no heart

BAD EDUCATION (2005)
Starring Gael García Bernal, Fele Martínez, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Lluís Homar, Francisco Maestre, Francisco Boira, Nacho Pérez, Raúl García Forneiro, Javier Cámara and Alberto Ferreiro. Directed by Pedro Almodóvar.

Two children, Ignacio and Enrique, know love, the movies and fear in a religious school at the beginning of the 1960s. Father Manolo, director of the school and its professor of literature, is witness to and part of these discoveries. The three are followed through the next few decades, their reunion marking life and death.