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Laemmle Theatres' weekly series of fresh international films, Worldwide Wednesdays! Most are newer obscure films that we want to bring to a broader L.A. audience, screening in multiple venues all over L.A. County so cinephiles will not have to schlep to a single location. The films, however, come from many thousands of miles away! Screenings are Wednesday evenings with encore showings on Saturday and Sunday mornings.
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Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Bauryna Salu
113 mins
Synopsis:
In Kazakhstan, the ancient nomadic tradition of "bauryna salu" dictates that firstborn children be raised by their grandparents. Following this custom, Yersultan grows up and bonds with his grandmother while feeling abandoned by his parents. At age 12, his world is shattered by his grandmother's death, which forces him to leave the only home he's ever known and return to live with a family he barely recognizes.
Playing at:
Newhall,
Glendale,
Town Center 5,
Claremont 5,
Monica Film Center
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Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Brides
93 mins Not Rated
Synopsis:
Nadia Fall's compelling debut feature offers a powerful and empathetic look into the lives of two alienated teenage girls, Doe and Muna, who leave the U.K. for Syria in search of purpose and belonging. By humanizing its protagonists and exploring the complex interplay of vulnerability, societal pressures, and digital manipulation, BRIDES challenges simplistic explanations of radicalization.
Playing at:
Glendale,
Newhall,
Claremont 5,
Monica Film Center,
Town Center 5
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Bauryna Salu
113 mins
Synopsis:
In Kazakhstan, the ancient nomadic tradition of "bauryna salu" dictates that firstborn children be raised by their grandparents. Following this custom, Yersultan grows up and bonds with his grandmother while feeling abandoned by his parents. At age 12, his world is shattered by his grandmother's death, which forces him to leave the only home he's ever known and return to live with a family he barely recognizes.
Playing at:
Claremont 5,
Monica Film Center,
Newhall,
Glendale,
Town Center 5
Dates:
9.17.25,
Wed Sep 17, 2025,
9.20.25,
Sat Sep 20, 2025
9.21.25
and Sun Sep 21, 2025
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Blum - Masters of Their Own Destiny
76 mins
Synopsis:
Having illuminated Serbian war crimes in dramatic fiction films such as Grbavica and the Oscar–nominated Quo Vadis, Aida?, filmmaker Jasmila Žbanić turns to documentary for this film about an extraordinary historical figure, Emerik Blum. Born in Sarajevo in 1911 into a family of Hungarian Jews, Blum survived the Jasenovac concentration camp, and then thrived during the early postwar years of Marshal Tito’s Yugoslavia.
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Brides
93 mins Not Rated
Synopsis:
Nadia Fall's compelling debut feature offers a powerful and empathetic look into the lives of two alienated teenage girls, Doe and Muna, who leave the U.K. for Syria in search of purpose and belonging. By humanizing its protagonists and exploring the complex interplay of vulnerability, societal pressures, and digital manipulation, BRIDES challenges simplistic explanations of radicalization.
Playing at:
Claremont 5,
Monica Film Center,
Town Center 5,
Glendale,
Newhall
Dates:
9.24.25,
Wed Sep 24, 2025,
9.27.25,
Sat Sep 27, 2025
9.28.25
and Sun Sep 28, 2025
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Chainsaws Were Singing
117 mins Not Rated
Synopsis:
Maria is having one of the worst days of her life. But all of her troubles melt away when she locks eyes with Tom in the midst of his suicide attempt. Soon, the gobsmacked young lovers are expressing their undying love through song. Their courtship is cut short though when a killer with a chainsaw and his own musical backstory takes Maria captive. Nearly 10 years in the making, this bastard child of Stephen Sondheim and Lloyd Kaufman is an utterly indescribable Estonian odyssey.
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The Dialogue Police
90 mins
Synopsis:
In Sweden, people have a right to freedom of expression, and the dialogue police are there to protect that right. THE DIALOGUE POLICE is a vérité-style documentary that follows this unit closely as they mediate between protesters, the public, and even their own colleagues. With humor and gravity, the film explores the possibilities of dialogue, delving into one of the great questions of our time: can we uphold democracy and accommodate differences and conflicts without resorting to violence?
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Heads or Fails
86 mins
Synopsis:
Unemployed and up to her eyeballs in debt, Armande Pigeon (26) is struggling in Brussels. On top of that, she has a penchant for gambling and doesn't hesitate to take risks because for Armande, all bets are good. All except one, perhaps the craziest bet she is still struggling to take: love.
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Peacock
102 mins
Synopsis:
At MyCompanion, the cultured and confident Matthias is available - for a reasonable fee - to fill any social role you desire, from 'the perfect son' to the 'enlightened boyfriend', or even 'pilot dad' to impress your classmates at Bring Your Parent to School Day. But while Matthias is at the top of his professional game, his personal life begins to crumble as he detaches from his own identity and burrows deeper into his fictitious lives. Bernhard Wenger's PEACOCK is a biting and hilarious social satire about the masks we wear in the pursuit of human connection.
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Plastic Guns
96 mins Not Rated
Synopsis:
Combine two flippant morticians, a rock star criminal profiler, an innocent traveler, two amatuer sleuths, one actual serial killer, and authorities from two countries competing over who can look the least foolish, and you have a film full of introduce side-splitting and shocking black humor. Director Jean-Christophe Meurisse delivers a fantastical farce highlighting society’s growing apathy toward violence and our inability to change once we know something to be “true.”
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The Propagandist
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Drawing on previously unpublished interviews, journals, family footage and propaganda films, The Propagandist tracks the rise and fall of the Dutch filmmaker Jan Teunissen, who lived from 1898 to 1975.
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Under the Flags, the Sun
Synopsis:
This fully archival journey through the 35 years of Alfredo Stroessner’s regime in Paraguay reveals unseen footage and explores one of the longest-running dictatorships in history, whose effects still resonate today.
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Writing Hawa
85 mins Not Rated
Synopsis:
Afghan documentary maker Najiba Noori offers not only a loving and intimate portrait of her mother Hawa, but also shows in detail how the arduous improvement of the position of women is undone by geopolitical violence. The film follows the fortunes of Noori’s family, who belong to the Hazaras, an ethnic group that has suffered greatly from discrimination and persecution.
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