Toutes des connes / Life’s a Bitch (2014) dir. Francois Jaros

COMING MARCH 6

Fandor SVOD Debut | | La Boîte a Fanny

*Francois Jaros' short film, DAYTONA, is also available*

Love. Grief. Shock. Denial. Sleeplessness. Bubble bath. Mucus. Masturbation. Pigeons. Toothpaste. Hospital. F**k. Bye. Hair. Sports. Chicken. Bootie. Kids. Rejection. Squirrels. Cries. Awkward. Ninety-five scenes. Five minutes. Life's a bitch.

The Marquise of O (1976) dir. Eric Rohmer

COMING MARCH 13

Exclusive Fandor SVOD Debut | | Film Movement

*Debuting the same day as Jessica Hausner’s AMOUR FOU (about Heinrich von Kleist, the author of “The Marquise of O”) at Film Forum, New York*

Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1976, Eric Rohmer's film is set in 1799 during the Russian invasion of Italy. A young widow, The Marquise lives with her parents; her father is the commander of a citadel embroiled in battle. With the fort overrun by Russians, the Marquise is abducted by a group of rowdy soldiers and nearly taken advantage of when the Russian commander Count F appears as if from nowhere to rescue her.

Later, the Marquise realizes she is pregnant, though she cannot decipher how the circumstance came to be. The Marquise's scandalized parents banish her to their country estate, where she pens a letter to the newspaper announcing that she will marry the father, whomever he may be, should he only present himself. Rohmer masterfully adapts Heinrich von Kleist's classic, multi-layered short story.

Lourdes (2009) dir. Jessica Hausner

COMING MARCH 13

Fandor SVOD Debut | Palisades Tartan

*Debuting alongside the theatrical premiere of Jessica Hausner's AMOUR FOU*

Christine has been confined to a wheelchair for most of her life. In order to escape her isolation, she makes a journey to Lourdes, the iconic site of pilgrimage in the Pyrenees Mountains. She wakes up one morning seemingly cured by a miracle. The leader of the pilgrimage group, a handsome forty year-old volunteer from the Order of Malta, begins to take an interest in her. She tries to hold on to this new-found chance for happiness while her cure provokes envy and admiration.

Gangs of Wasseypur (2012) dir. Anurag Kashyap

COMING MARCH 20

Exclusive Fandor SVOD Debut | Cinelicious

From Guneet Monga, the producer of THE LUNCHBOX, the most successful foreign-language movie of 2014 to date in the U.S., GANGS OF WASSEYPUR is director/writer/producer Anurag Kashyap's ambitious and extraordinary blood-and-bullets fueled crime saga that charts seventy years in the lives, and spectacular deaths, of two mafia-like families fighting for control of the coal-mining town of Wasseypur, India. Inspired by the real-life exploits of local gangs and beginning with the bandit-like career of Shahid Khan in the 1940s, the film follows the ruthless rise of his son Sardar (a brilliant Manoj Bajpayee) and his offspring, the surreally-named Danish, Perpendicular and Definitive Khans and their numerous wives and girlfriends.

GANGS OF WASSEYPUR mirrors the tumultuous and explosive growth of modern India with ferocious cinematic intensity. As with Al Pacino's Michael Corleone in THE GODFATHER, it's the least likely of Sardar's children, the perpetually stoned Faizal, who rises to the top ranks of the Khan crime family, vowing brutal revenge on their longtime nemesis, the wily and seemingly unstoppable Ramadhir Singh. Composer Sneha Khanwalkar's stunning soundtrack ranks with legends like R.D. Burman, but don't expect Bollywood-style dance numbers: this is a movie that up-ends every expectation of what great Indian cinema should look (and sound) like.

52 Tuesdays (2012) dir. Sophie Hyde

COMING MARCH 27

Fandor SVOD Exclusive Premiere| Kino Lorber

* Debuting exclusively on Fandor day-and-date with theatrical release at Quad Cinema, New York *

Sixteen-year-old Billie's reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans for gender transition and their time together becomes limited to Tuesday afternoons. Filmed over the course of a year, once a week, every week (only on Tuesdays) these unique filmmaking rules bring a rare authenticity to this emotionally charged story of desire, responsibility and transformation.

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March 3-16

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Beyond Bechdel

March 17-30

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Ida (2013)

Academy Award Winner for Best Foreign Language Film

AVAILABLE NOW ON FANDOR

Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski, 82 minutes

From acclaimed director Pawel Pawlikowski comes IDA, a moving and intimate drama about a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland who, on the verge of taking her vows, makes a shocking discovery about her past. Eighteen-year-old Anna (stunning newcomer Agata Trzebuchowska), a sheltered orphan raised in a convent, is preparing to become a nun when the Mother Superior insists she first visit her sole living relative.

Naïve, innocent Anna soon finds herself in the presence of her aunt Wanda, a worldly and cynical Communist Party insider, who shocks her with the declaration that her real name is Ida and her Jewish parents were murdered during the Nazi occupation. This revelation triggers a heart-wrenching journey into the countryside, to the family house and into the secrets of the repressed past, evoking the haunting legacy of the Holocaust and the realities of postwar Communism

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