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- DirectorAdrian CioflâncãRadu JudeStarsCatalin AnchidinLarisa CrunteanuThis is a documentary essay composed entirely of archive photographs and documents of the first big massacre of the Jews in Romania: in the city of Iasi, on the 29th of June 1941, more than 10.000 Jews were killed - first by bullets, than by asphyxiation in freight trains. The film, which is an attempt to use the montage of archive materials in order to offer a deep and special view of History, has two parts: The first part of the film could be titled "the encyclopaedia of the dead": photographs of the people who were eventually killed by the Romanian army and by civilians are accompanied by voices who recite the documents related to their fate in the massacre: witness accounts, testimonies from the post-war trials, interviews with survivors, private diaries etc. The second part, shorter, represents a montage of the remaining photographs of the actual massacre (taken mostly by the German soldiers who were in town). Why a montage film with photographs and texts related to the Jassy pogrom of 1941? Because, as Georges Didi-Huberman shows, "Montage will precisely be one of the fundamental responses to this problem of the construction of historicity. As it has no simple orientation, montage evades theologies, montage escapes theologies, makes visible the remainders, the anachronisms, the encounters of contradictory temporalities that affect every object, every event, every person, every gesture. Thus, the historian gives up telling "a story", but, by doing so, he succeeds in showing that history cannot go without all the complexities of time, all the layers of archaeology, all the dottings of the destiny."
- DirectorBen SharrockStarsSidse Babett KnudsenKenneth CollardAmir El-MasryOmar is a promising young musician. Separated from his Syrian family, he is stuck on a remote Scottish island awaiting the fate of his asylum request.
- DirectorPaula GaitánStarsCarloto CottaClara ChoveauxKanu KuikuroA film like a monument: Luz nos trópicos is a tribute to the rich greens of the Amazon and the forests of New England in winter, celebrating the indigenous peoples of both Americas and flowing as a film as freely as a winding river.
- DirectorAlexandre RockwellStarsLana RockwellNico RockwellWill PattonThe story revolves around two siblings and their struggle to find solid ground in the homes of their alcoholic father and negligent mother. The children ultimately run away and find a temporary life for themselves.
- DirectorVictor KossakovskyStarsGundaDocumentary looks at the daily life of a pig and its farm animal companions: two cows and a one-legged chicken.
- DirectorKuang-Hui LiuStarsEdward ChenJing-Hua TsengLeon DaiIn 1987, as martial law ends in Taiwan, Jia-han and Birdy fall in love amid family pressure, homophobia and social stigma.
- DirectorHilal BaydarovStarsOrkhan IskandarliRana AsgarovaHuseyn Nasirov'In Between Dying' is the love story of Davud, a young man trying to find his "real" family, who completes his life cycle in a single day. When he does find Love, it's in the place he has always lived. But it is too late.
- DirectorStéphane AubierDavy DurandVincent PatarStarsAndrew DanishJean-Christophe DolléCamille DondaOnce upon a time there was a Parisian dog, naive and passionate, called Chien Pourri (rotten dog). With Chaplapla, his faithful gutter companion, Chien Pourri walks the streets of Paris, truffles blowing in the wind. No matter what disasters it causes, it always gets back on its feet! So much so that other dogs are starting to find it suspicious ... A program of five short films to follow the crazy adventures of Chien Pourri and his friends and introduce the poetry of Paris to the little ones! By the Panic in the Village and the Grand Méchant Renard (Big Bad Fox) teams.
- DirectorAnders Thomas JensenStarsMads MikkelsenNikolaj Lie KaasAndrea Heick GadebergMarkus goes home to his teenage daughter, Mathilde, when his wife dies in a train crash. All appears to be a tragic accident until a mathematics geek, who was also a fellow passenger on the train, and his two colleagues show up.
- DirectorAmel AlzakoutKhaled AbdulwahedStarsAmel AlzakoutMade from images filmed by the Syrian artist Amel Alzakout after the boat on which she was fleeing Syria sank off the coast of Lesbos, Purple Sea reports on the moment in which the co-director and the other passengers are floating in the sea in their life-jackets, waiting to be rescued. Her voice-over accompanies this extremely poignant experience.
- DirectorZhangke JiaStarsHuifang DuanLiang HongYu HuaFilmmaker Jia Zhangke chronicles his local literature festival in Shanxi, China which includes a multi-generational roster of the country's most esteemed writers.
- DirectorRadha BlankStarsRadha BlankPeter KimOswin BenjaminRadha is a down-on-her-luck NY playwright, who is desperate for a breakthrough before 40. Reinventing herself as rapper RadhaMUSPrime, she vacillates between the worlds of Hip Hop and theater in order to find her true voice.
- DirectorLynne SachsStarsJulia Buchwald-SachsIra Sachs Sr.Adam SachsOver a period of 35 years between 1984 and 2019, filmmaker Lynne Sachs shot 8 and 16mm film, videotape and digital images of her father, Ira Sachs Sr., a bon vivant and pioneering businessman from Park City, Utah. FILM ABOUT A FATHER WHO is her attempt to understand the web that connects a child to her parent and a sister to her siblings. With a nod to the Cubist renderings of a face, Sachs' cinematic exploration of her father offers simultaneous, sometimes contradictory, views of one seemingly unknowable man who is publicly the uninhibited center of the frame yet privately ensconced in secrets. In the process, Sachs allows herself and her audience inside to see beyond the surface of the skin, the projected reality. As the startling facts mount, Sachs as a daughter discovers more about her father than she had ever hoped to reveal.
- DirectorYu-Chieh ChengStarsMorning Tzu-Yi MoShu-Fang ChenRun-yin BaiA boy lives with his Grandma and Mr. Lin, the tenant who looks after him and Grandma. But when Grandma passes away, the boy's uncle returns to Taiwan and discovers that ownership of the apartment was transferred to other people.
- DirectorAntonio CamposStarsBill SkarsgårdTom HollandBanks RepetaSinister characters converge around a young man devoted to protecting those he loves in a postwar backwoods town teeming with corruption and brutality.
- DirectorKirsten JohnsonStarsMichael HilowAna HoffmanDick JohnsonA daughter helps her father prepare for the end of his life.
- DirectorFrancesco ErbaStarsEva Basteiro-BertoliAnia Rizzi BogdanFederico Cesari1275 a.C. - A young girl is imprisoned in the dungeons of an abbey where an alchemist uses her for his strange experiments. Only a young amanuensis will try to free her at any cost. 2011 a.C. - A couple of young teenagers, Cris and Jessy, go missing in the woods while a young woman comes out from the middle of nowhere. During the first investigations, the police find an odd manuscript from a tomb. Today - Leonardo, the Chief inspector of the Police department, is in charge of the investigation of the two teenagers disappearance. He's compelled to leave his video-testimony, because in the light of his last findings, he fears for his own life.
- DirectorRobert MachoianStarsClayne CrawfordSepideh MoafiChris CoyDavid desperately tries to keep his family of six together during a separation from his wife. They both agree to see other people but David struggles to grapple with his wife's new relationship.
- DirectorRoman KhimeiYarema MalashchukAnnually, thousands of Ukrainian Christians undertake a pilgrimage to Zarvanytsia - a sacred place. Between prayers, they share news, brag about their wealth, take pictures of chapels, give interviews, witness miracles. Witness miracles.
- DirectorSean DurkinStarsJude LawCarrie CoonOona RocheLife for an entrepreneur and his American family begins to take a twisted turn after moving into an English country manor.
- DirectorAurélio AragãoGustavo BragançaRafael SpínolaAna is surrounded. In the apartment below, the ghosts of the past and on the terrace, the ghosts of the future. But she resists.
- DirectorJanicza BravoStarsTaylour PaigeRiley KeoughNicholas BraunA stripper named Zola embarks on a wild road trip to Florida.
- DirectorFélix RoseStarsPaul RoseJacques RoseRose Rose Doré-In October 1970, members of the Front de libération du Québec kidnapped Minister Pierre Laporte, triggering an unprecedented crisis in Quebec (Canada). Fifty years later, Félix Rose is trying to understand what could have led his father and uncle to commit such acts.
- DirectorKiyoshi KurosawaStarsYû AoiIssei TakahashiMasahiro HigashideA Japanese merchant who leaves his wife behind in order to travel to Manchuria, where he witnesses an act of barbarism. His subsequent actions cause misunderstanding, jealousy and legal problems for his wife.
- DirectorBruno MerleStarsPio MarmaïRita MerleCamille RutherfordFor Tim and Chloe, happiness is day-to-day and unattached. But tomorrow summer ends. Their daughter, Tommy, is going back to school and this year, they promise, she won't miss that big date.
- DirectorBence GyöngyössyStarsTibor GáspárKata HuszárikMiklós Székely B.Dr. József Béres researcher bio-graphical drama about the fate of his struggles with the Communist regime between 60s and the 70s. High tension as we see in pictures the birth of Béres drops and the scientist's continued trials.
- DirectorRyôta NakanoStarsKazunari NinomiyaSatoshi TsumabukiHaru KurokiWhen disaster strikes Japan in the form of a tsunami and subsequent nuclear reactor meltdown, a young photographer copes with tragedy by creating photographic portraits of his family.
- DirectorKamir AïnouzStarsZoé AdjaniAmira CasarLyès SalemSelma, 17, who lives in a bourgeois and secular Berber family. When she meets Julien in college, she realizes for the first time the impact of patriarchal rules on her intimacy.
- DirectorBill Ross IVTurner RossStarsPeter ElwellMichael MartinShay WalkerA look at the final moments of a Las Vegas dive bar called 'The Roaring 20s'.
- DirectorZaida BergrothStarsAlma PöystiKrista KosonenShanti RoneyDepiction on the life of Tove Jansson, showing both her personal relationships, and the creation of the popular Moomin books.
- Eye Filmmuseum and the British Film Institute present a compilation film of newly-restored rare images from the first years of filmmaking. Immerse yourself in enchanting images of Venice, Berlin, Amsterdam and London from 120 years ago. Let yourself be carried away in the mesmerizing events and celebrities of the time, and feel the enthusiasm of early cinema that overcame the challenge of capturing life-like movement.
- DirectorLeigh WhannellStarsElisabeth MossOliver Jackson-CohenHarriet DyerWhen Cecilia's abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can see.
- DirectorDag Johan HaugerudStarsAndrea Bræin HovigHenriette SteenstrupBirgitte LarsenTogether with several acquaintances, Ingrid tries to compose a song for the wedding of a common friend. However, she's more occupied with her mother's death, which she'd accidentally contributed to.
- DirectorPrateek VatsStarsShardul BharadwajMahender NathNutan SinhaA young migrant battles hordes of monkeys in the heart of New Delhi as a contractual monkey repeller.
- DirectorShunji IwaiStarsTakumi SaitôShinji HiguchiMoeka HoshiAn actor who has lost his job due to the coronavirus buys capsule monsters online and begins to raise them.
- DirectorWerner HerzogClive OppenheimerStarsWerner HerzogClive OppenheimerSimon SchafferA documentary from Werner Herzog about meteors and comets and their influence on ancient religions and other cultural and physical impacts they've had on Earth.
- DirectorCathy BradyStarsNora-Jane NooneNika McGuiganKate DickieThe story of two sisters who grew up on the fractious Irish border. When one of them, who has been missing, finally returns home, the intense bond with her sister is re-ignited. Together they unearth their mother's past, but they uncover secrets and resentments which have been deeply buried and now threaten to overwhelm them.
- DirectorJonathan WysockiStarsAnna Grace BarlowDanielle KayMegan SuriIn 1994, a closeted teen struggles to part ways with his 4 high school drama friends at their final slumber party before they leave for college.
- DirectorBurhan QurbaniStarsWelket BunguéAlbrecht SchuchJella HaaseA man from Guinea-Bissau moves to Germany, where he is befriended by a drug dealer and two women.
- DirectorHamza OuniStarsMehrez TaherThe film documents 12 years in the life of Mehrez, a gifted dancer and actor from Mohamedia, Tunisia, who struggles with his addiction to gambling and betting on horse races.
- DirectorAnson HartfordJamshid MojadadiStarsTouraj HemmatiAli KeshmiriMohsenThe true life story of an Iranian zoo keeper and his beloved Bengal tiger
- DirectorStefano GiacomuzziSet in Carnia, it may appear to observe life in the mountains, but the microcosm on which the film focuses reflects a wider reality and is an excuse to talk about man, his relationship with animals, nature and above all time. As Franco Piavoli has written, it is "a film that essentially relies on images and sound, where words are also the sounds and music of life and time, flowing without interruption ".
- DirectorPiotr DomalewskiStarsZofia StafiejKinga PreisArkadiusz JakubikOla, a seventeen-year-old, sets off to a foreign country on her own. It turns out to be the trip of her lifetime, where she tries to reconnect with her estranged father, comes to know a different world and changes her approach to life.
- DirectorSpike JonzeStarsBeastie BoysMike DAdam HorovitzHere's a little story they're about to tell... Michael Diamond and Adam Horovitz share the story of the band, Beastie Boys, and 40 years of friendship in a live documentary experience directed by friend and collaborator, Spike Jonze.
- DirectorPhilipp YuryevStarsVladimir OnokhovKristina AsmusVladimir LyubimtsevA young hunter sets off on a journey to find a girl he saw on his computer.
- DirectorYulene OlaizolaStarsIndira Rubie AndrewinGilberto BarrazaMariano Tun XoolTo escape an arranged marriage, a woman flees into the depths of the Mayan jungle, where untamed nature merges the human and the supernatural.
- DirectorPeter MurimiFilmed verite style over five years, I Am Samuel is an intimate portrait of a Kenyan man torn between balancing duty to his family with his dreams for his future.
- DirectorNeel KumarStarsBarkhad AbdiJim SarbhJameel KhanA billboard repairman in Dubai tries to experience the products on his billboards as a con artist takes him under his wing.
- DirectorLawrence Michael LevineStarsAubrey PlazaChristopher AbbottSarah GadonA filmmaker at a creative impasse seeks solace from her tumultuous past at a rural retreat, only to find that the woods summon her inner demons in intense and surprising ways.
- DirectorClarisa NavasStarsSofia CabreraAna Carolina GarciaMauricio VilaIris has been expelled from school and spends her days with her cousins. When she meets Renata, she's fascinated, and they soon start flirting in spite of the growing rumours about Renata's past.
- DirectorRafa RussoStarsAlberto AmmannJoaquín FurrielDaniel GraoThe life of the writers of a television program in Uruguay is affected by the pressures of the military in the year that preceded the military coup of 1973.
- DirectorMiwa NishikawaStarsKoji YakushoSeiji RokkakuYukiya KitamuraA lifelong Yakuza, released from prison after 13 years, journeys to find the mother who abandoned him as a child. He is hindered by his gangster past and struggles to adapt to his new life outside of prison.
- DirectorYu-Hsun ChenStarsPatty Pei-Yu LeeYu Chun LinXiao-Ying BaiA girl who does everything so quickly that she's always one step ahead of others found out that her Valentine's Day has mysteriously passed when she wakes up the next morning.
- DirectorMatthijs van Heijningen Jr.StarsGijs BlomJamie FlattersSusan Radder1944, the Second World War. A British glider pilot, a Dutch boy fighting on the German side and a Dutch female resistance member all end up involved in the Battle of the Schelde. Their choices differ, but their goal is the same: freedom.
- DirectorLance OppenheimStarsDennis DeanLynn HenryAnne KincerBehind the gates of a palm tree-lined fantasyland, four residents of America's largest retirement community, The Villages, FL, strive to find solace and meaning.
- DirectorYûji ShimomuraStarsTak SakaguchiKento YamazakiArata YamanakaThe most famous battle of the swordsman Miyamoto Musashi. Miyamoto fights against 588 enemies, one after the other. There is no room for error, no room for trivial, outdated, or unconvincing movements.
- DirectorAsh MayfairStarsLong Le VuMayaHong Chuong NguyenAsh Mayfair's reworking of her acclaimed film THE THIRD WIFE into a silent, black and white film, creating a completely different cinematic experience. In late 19th century Vietnam, fourteen-year-old May becomes the third wife to a wealthy landowner. She quickly learns that she can gain status and security if she gives birth to a male child, but her burgeoning attraction to Xuan, the second wife, puts her fragile standing in jeopardy. As May observes the unfolding tragedy of forbidden love and its devastating consequences, she must make a choice, to either carry on in silence, or forge a path towards personal freedom.
- DirectorTakeshi FukunagaStarsKanto ShimokuraDebo AkibeEmi ShimokuraA coming of age tale about Kanto, a 14 year old boy, and a descendant of Japan's indigenous Ainu people, who struggles to come to terms with the recent loss of his father. One day, he learns about the small hole in the cliff in nearby forest that Ainu people considered a path to the other side of the world - where dead people live. Kanto decides to visit the hole, hoping to see his deceased father.
- DirectorMichael DweckGregory KershawStarsPiero BottoSergio CaudaMaria CicciùDeep in the forests of Piedmont, Italy, a handful of men, seventy or eighty years old, hunt for the rare and expensive white Alba truffle-which to date has resisted all of modern science's efforts at cultivation.
- DirectorZoé WittockStarsNoémie MerlantEmmanuelle BercotBastien BouillonJeanne, a shy young woman, works in an amusement park. Fascinated with carousels, she still lives at home with her mother. That's when Jeanne meets Jumbo, the park's new flagship attraction.
- DirectorMarcus FlemmingsStarsTábata CerezoHester RuoffDaniel JordanYoung black man Fred struggles to find freedom in modern Britain. Set against the backdrop of Brexit and its impending doom! Interwoven with this is a LGBTQ tale of a love triangle of three matriarchal characters - both stories dealing with slavery, gentrification, art, love, race, mental health and politics.
- DirectorManuela De LabordeLav DiazÓscar EnríquezA FICUNAM commission for four directors, Liminal seeks to play with poetic affinities between film and music. Moving across aesthetic and generational differences, the film-makers explore this relationship through four distinct stories as to context and imaginary. Within the category of world cinéma d'auteur, Philippe Grandrieux and Lav Diaz have much in common in terms of their affinities with radical cinematographic form: both are extremely inventive in their practical relationship between music and narration. With La lumière la lumière (Lights, lights...), the French artist and director evokes the obsessive relationship between two women whose existence is kept by a lugubrious voice and by Alan Vega's and Marx Hurtado's famous Saturn Drive Duplex. In The World is Cold, the Filipino director describes a young man's life and his musical dreams intertwined with images of an erratic, phantasmagoric future full of obstacles. Relying on an entirely different aesthetics, Manuela de Laborde and Óscar Enríquez, two young directors of Mexican descent, approach musical phenomena quite differently. Through chaotic sound textures, Manuela de Laborde takes us towards three radically distinct landscapes in her Azúcar y saliva y vapor/Sugar, saliva and steam where subtle and sensual musical textures interweave with a leitmotiv in the background. In Lady Lazaro, Óscar Enríquez employs opera singing both as a protagonist and as a supernatural means of spiritual healing for broken souls.
- DirectorLeonie KrippendorffStarsLena UrzendowskyJella HaaseLena KlenkeNora from Berlin struggles with growing up and her own identity. Her sister and her best friend are only interested in fashion and social media. Nora tries to do the same, but it does not make her happy. Then she meets Romy.
- DirectorSalka TizianaStarsMelanie StraubJon BaderOle BaderSummer in Sierra Morena. The hill slopes are faded by the sun. Sand roads cross the land. Fences mark the borders of property. A dry water reservoir lays in the valley. Larissa (Melanie Straub) travels with her nine-year old twins Jon (Jon Bader) and Ole (Ole Bader) to the family finca to meet their father. Her mother-in-law Pilar (Pilar del Pino) prepares for the guests's arrival while her younger daughter Amalia (Amalia Amián del Pino) looks after the land. When the father of the twins does not arrive as planned, the estranged family members encounter each other in this foreign, yet familiar place.
- DirectorEmmanuel CourcolStarsKad MeradDavid AyalaLamine CissokhoAn actor past his prime gives drama lessons to prisoners in an attempt to stage "Waiting for Godot."
- DirectorMaximiliano ContentiStarsRicardo IslasLuciana GrassoFranco DuránIt's a soaking wet day with rain pouring down and one of the best things to do is to go seek refuge in a great old cinema. There's just one problem: a murderer is on the loose and he also has taken refuge there.
- DirectorImanol RayoStarsItziar ItuñoEneko SagardoyYon GonzálezWhen a skeleton turns up in their land, Fermin and Karmen reach out to their son Nestor, who comes to their aid. Next morning both Fermin and the skeleton are gone.
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsDennis HopperOrson WellesJanice PenningtonAn intimate and revelatory 1970 conversation between two film giants, Dennis Hopper, then riding high on the massive success of Easy Rider (1969), and Orson Welles, ever the iconoclast and an offscreen interviewer of probing authority.
- DirectorMichael DiBiasio-OrnelasStarsNyambi NyambiRebecca De OrnelasAjay NaiduChronic insomniacs Zach and Sophia wander the pre-dawn streets of New York City on an impromptu first date.
- DirectorBatin GhobadiStarsPayam AlaviNader FallahFarshid GaviliIn 2015, the Syrian boy Aylan appeared dead on Bodrum beach, Turkey. The image shocked and alerted the world to the refugee crisis. The film imagines what could have happened to this kid until the day he died, when the dinghy he was on board with his family, crossing to Greece, capsized in high seas.
- DirectorHubert SauperStarsOona ChaplinFena LeChuckJuan PadrónAn immersive portrait of Cuba, its people, and the role of cinema in political myth-making from Academy Award® nominee Hubert Sauper "Darwin's Nightmare".
- DirectorVictor KossakovskyStarsGundaDocumentary looks at the daily life of a pig and its farm animal companions: two cows and a one-legged chicken.
- DirectorTracey DeerStarsKiawentiioRainbow DickersonViolah BeauvaisBased on true events, Tracey Deer's debut feature chronicles the 78-day standoff between two Mohawk communities and government forces in 1990 Quebec.
- DirectorPascal PlanteStarsKaterine SavardAriane MainvilleHilary CaldwellNadia, an Olympic swimmer in her twenties, faces the challenges of her imminent retirement.
- DirectorZe LiuStarsXiaoran TangHongjing ZhangKunmian LiXia Tian decides to return to her homeland after ending a relationship with a married man. She will have to take care of her father, who suffers from Alzheimer's, facing enormous turbulence when the disease progresses.
- DirectorMatthew Victor PastorStarsWaiyee RiveraCorey ReasonChi NguyenSet sometime in the not-too-distant future, after the worldwide crisis of 2020, Mandy is a 17-year-old Filipino Australian. In her final year of high school and dealing with her parents impending divorce, she navigates a world driven by a new normal of isolation and fear. Added to this she has a crush on her tutor Serena. Meanwhile, a young girl from the backstreets of Manila tells her story.
- DirectorSiamak EtemadiStarsMelika ForoutanShahbaz NoshirSofia KokkaliThe search of an Iranian mother, Pari, for her missing son in Athens will force her on a journey to the dark corners of the city as well as the hidden depth of her own self.
- DirectorRuthy PribarStarsAlena YivShira HaasTamir MulaDespite living together, Asia barely interacts with her daughter Vika. Their routine is shaken when Vika's health deteriorates rapidly. Asia must step in and become the mother Vika so desperately needs
- DirectorIryna TsilykStarsDanylo DydenkoGanna GladkaOlena GladkaTo cope with the daily trauma of living in a war-zone, Anna and her children are making a film together about their life in the most surreal surroundings.
- DirectorNicolás PeredaStarsGabino RodríguezLuisa PardoFrancisco BarreiroA pair of estranged offspring visit their parents in an abandoned Mexican village.
- DirectorOskar RoehlerStarsOliver MasucciHary PrinzKatja RiemannThe life and the impact of iconic German New Wave director, Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
- DirectorJean-Baptiste AlazardTitou will soon be forty. He lives high up in a sheep shed in the Corbières mountains. With Soledad, who lives in a nearby caravan, they make their own wine, compose their music, live their love in step with the seasons - much as you might cultivate resistance.
- DirectorRoxanne GaucherandStarsLou VaultierFlavie PonsLucienne GaucherandIn the middle of summer 2016, the box tree moth takes over Provence. Accidentally introduced into France, this moth forces inhabitants, virtually forsaken by the authorities and helpless faced with the scale of the phenomenon, to improvise defensive systems to fight the invasion of their houses and businesses as well as the devastation of their lands. In this apocalyptic climate, 18-year-old Lou spends her last summer in the South and discovers her feelings for her childhood friend, Sam. As their relationship gradually develops into a love affair, the urgency and upheaval that she feels echo her environment; an ecosystem subverted by an unexpected invasion. Guided by the voice of Lou, Roxanne Gaucherand's film interweaves sequences of journalistic investigation, documentary reporting, amateur video and coming of age account with brio. Edited like a thriller, Pyrale is a resolutely accomplished and intriguing cinematographic object whose universe constantly shifts between the real and the fantastic.
- DirectorHirobumi WatanabeStarsRiko HisatsuguNanaka SudoKeita HisatsuguA normal day for little Riko: she wakes up and goes to school with her best friend and her brother.
- DirectorArman NshanianStarsSamvel TadevossianArman NshanianSos JanibekyanFrom the two time academy award winning producer and writer of "Green Book" and Inspired by true events, comes a film about a childhood friendship torn apart by a horrible empire set out to destroy everything in its path. A brave woman at a time of dire prejudice risks her life and the life of her family to save her best friend who is hunted down for her religious beliefs. This epic portrayal takes place at the turn of the century in Constantinople, taking us on an emotional and musical journey. A film of love, hope, courage, deceit and pain - And music, a film just as much about music...Ancient pagan music. Music that would bind an entire people to the heavens and the earth, to the rivers and the stars. The music of Komitas, also know as Solomon.
- DirectorVeiko ÕunpuuStarsPääru OjaLaura BirnTommi KorpelaA struggling mine owner supplies his workers with drugs so they'll forget a tough existence. Nearby a small community of reindeer breeders also struggles.This critique of capitalism unfolds against a Western like Lapland landscape.
- DirectorDjin SganzerlaStarsGustavo FalcãoJandir FerrariStênio GarciaAfter relocating to Tokyo, a Brazilian writer begins a new novel, provoked by her experiences in Japan and by one of the last scenes she witnessed in Rio de Janeiro: a female swimmer tearing up the horizon with powerful strokes in the wide, open sea. Those two women apparently share no connection, until their lives start to interfere in one another, strangely linked through the sea. Hannah, the writer, plunges into a journey of self-discovery in Japan, while Ana, the swimmer in Rio de Janeiro, oddly has her body transformed into some kind of inner Ocean.
- DirectorMilo RauStarsYvan SagnetMaia MorgensternEnrique IrazoquiAn authentically political, theatrical and cinematic New Gospel for the 21st century.
- DirectorJulia von HeinzStarsMala EmdeNoah SaavedraTonio SchneiderHow far one is willing to go for the sake of one's political commitment.
- DirectorTatiana Mazú GonzálezHow to film something we're not allowed to experience? How to articulate what we can't say? How to register the sound of something soundless? What's the place women have in a mining town?
- DirectorRogério SaguiIn a sun-drenched land, during the greatest drought that the Northeastern hinterland has ever lived, The girl Rosa dives on a long journey through the arid and fantastical caatinga, in search of an encounter with our lady Immaculate, the queen of the hinterland. With an insightful tone, the plot is enveloped by an amalgamation of factors that, in the dryness of the portrayed landscape, becomes fertilizer for the understanding of human drama, from the perspective of the little protagonist.
- DirectorFrancisco BermejoStarsOscar Garrido BastíasSomewhere at the end of the world, where ocean and rocks play their endless games of hide and seek, lives a man. In his mysterious solitude, he is not alone. One day, remains of a white whale are washed by a storm on a beach. In this stranded portrait inspired by H. Melville's masterpiece Moby Dick the director questions our inner reality and our own gaze on it.
- DirectorJuan Mónaco CagniStarsOmar ArafatTwo women who, at various stages in their lives, happen to be in the same place. Being and time. That might sound vague, but this is nonetheless what it is. The young teens spend time in summery fields, in desolate, abandoned warehouses and other buildings on the outskirts of a small provincial town in the Argentinian pampas. The same spaces reoccur a few years later when the young women meet again when one of them returns with a backpack symbolising the knowledge acquired.
- DirectorMohamad SoueidTo deal with his insomnia, Mohamed Soueid meets various people and close friends to ask them to tell him stories that could help him get a good night's sleep. After filming for 15 years, the collected rushes have become a film, a series of dreams that have come true and haunted the filmmaker until today.
- DirectorMarta Sousa RibeiroStarsSimon LangloisMariana AchegaRita MartinsInterspersed with North American images of homeless teens, the images shot between 2015 and 2019 show a child of separated parents grappling with a prickly sister and school exams he has not prepared for.
- DirectorXin ShiStarsHai HuangChenhan LinQiyue MaA coming-of-age story follows the joy, sorrow and struggle of a Chinese boy and his family during the last decade of the 20th century.
- DirectorYohei YamakadoIn France, in a contemporary city, a circle of friends practices the recitation of Virgil's Bucolic text. Omnia vincit Amor; et nos cedamus Amori. Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.
- DirectorIvan IkicStarsMarijana NovakovTijana MarkovicValentino ZenuniReal life people play versions of themselves, in a love triangle set in a facility for intellectually disabled youth.
- DirectorYi-ao WangStarsNuori CaiRangHuijun DaiDaisySet in Xining, the capital of Qinghai province on the border with Tibet, this ensemble film follows the ups and downs in the lives of three friends from the generation born at the time of China's one-child policy. Li is about to get married and wants to be a construction contractor, ready to mortgage his parents' apartments and squander their savings to fulfill his dream of greatness and wealth. Sui is an architect and is expected to design the project that will grant Li access to government permits and funds, but he is an idealist who cannot conform to the current trend of homogenizing the appearance of cities. Xining has been married for 4 years, he still doesn't have a child and is under great pressure from his family to become a father.
- DirectorFrancisco MárquezStarsElisa CarricajoMecha MartínezEliot OtazoCecilia is a sociology teacher. One night the son of her maid desperately knocks on the door of her house. She doesn't open. The next day, his body shows up murdered by the police. Cecilia begins to be haunted by the young man's ghost.