2023 İSTANBUL FİLM FESTİVALİ
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- DirectorSofia AlaouiStarsOumaima BaridMehdi DehbiFouad OughaouAs she nears the end of her pregnancy, Itto and her in-laws find their lives turned upside down by a supernatural event.
- DirectorRolf de HeerStarsNatasha WanganeenCraig BehennaMwajemi HusseinFollowed by BlackWoman, who is abandoned in a cage in the middle of the desert. Once she escapes the cage, she walks from desert to mountain to city, to find - more captivity.
- DirectorJuly JungStarsKim Si-EunBae DoonaChoi Hee-jinHigh school student Sohee starts training for a job at a call center but the greed of her company leads to her death. Detective Oh Yu-jin, who has something in common with Sohee, starts to probe her demise and finds an unsettling truth.
- DirectorElena López RieraStarsLuna PamiésAlberto OlmoNieve de MedinaIn a small village in south-eastern Spain a popular old belief claims that some women are predestined to disappear with each flood where a storm threatens to cause the river in the village that runs through it to overflow again.
- DirectorPietro MarcelloStarsRaphaël ThiéryJuliette JouanNoémie LvovskyThe emancipation of a woman over twenty years, between 1919 and 1939, a time of great inventions and great dreams.
- DirectorAyse PolatStarsKatja BürkleAhmet VarliÇagla YurgaA German film team is shooting a documentary in northeastern Turkey. In a remote Kurdish village, they witness an elderly woman performing a recurring ritual to keep the memory of her missing son alive. The Kurdish translator of the German crew is also the nanny of Melek, a 7-year-old Turkish girl. Her father, Zafer, works for a sinister organization and is caught between loyalty to them and fear for his family's well-being when his daughter appears to be haunted by a mysterious force. The fateful encounter of these people develops a destructive power. IN THE BLIND SPOT unravels a complex net of conspiracy, paranoia and generational trauma.
- DirectorHouman SeyyediStarsMohsen TanabandehMahsa HejaziNeda JebraeiliAfter being cast in a movie, a day laborer has to secretly shelter his lover on the set or else risk losing her and all that movie stardom has promised him.
- DirectorMartin SkovbjergStarsAngela BundalovicJonas Holst SchmidtZlatko BuricA young woman named Ida disappears without a trace. Her boyfriend voluntarily lets himself be locked up to be questioned by Ida's father and brother, but Sander does not tell the whole truth.
- DirectorDmytro Sukholytkyy-SobchukStarsOleksandr YatsentyukStanislav PotiakSolomiia KyrylovaPamfir wants to be a decent family man, but challenging circumstances force him to give up honest breadwinning to help his family.
- DirectorBaris FertStarsDeniz IsinHaki BiçiciEce Bozkaya1992, Istanbul. Deniz, who lost her ability to empathize and feelings many years ago, has turned into a crime machine. Thanks to her emotionless nature, she improved her economic conditions and became someone in certain business circles. The information that a mysterious computer software is in Istanbul reaches Deniz, Rasit, and Önder, who are together in the state-mafia-politics triangle in which Deniz works. Deniz and Rasit get this software by force. This mysterious software is sent to England on the night of the events via a satellite dish. 4 million dollars is deposited into Önder's account in exchange for the software. Those who knew of the existence of four million dollars and this priceless software have whetted their appetites. Anyone who wants to get past their pursuers and get the money and software find themselves in a chaotic adventure that takes place in one night.
- DirectorBekir BülbülStarsSerkan BilgiEmine CiftciBahadir EfeIn South Eastern Anatolia Musa carries the corpse of deceased wife to the homeland with granddaughter. They face difficulties as they get closer to a country at war, they get caught up by the police they separate in different destinations.
- DirectorOrçun KöksalStarsAli Seçkiner AliciSezin BozaciMünir Can CindorukTwo zoologists are on a journey in Anatolia, researching the extinct Anatolian panther. Their quest for the panther make them question themselves and what they know. They will find much more than the panther they were seeking.
- DirectorFiliz KukaStarsMehmet Bilge AslanTülay BursaAsiye DinçsoyHizir loses his wife Halime, who has been in intensive care for a long time. Her daughter, Hatice, learns from the nurse Evren, who had been devotedly helping her ailing mother, that he caused her mother's death. Hatice tries to be compassionate to her father, who comes to her house. She refrains from revealing the truth to him, but after a while, she can't keep this secret anymore and shares it with her sister, Kader. While thinking that they should tell Evren's confession to their father, Kader thinks they should go to the police. Kader's persistence on her sister creates an existential problem for Hatice, who is crushed under the weight of Evren's confession. All family members have to face the truth at a family dinner.
- DirectorKaan MüjdeciStarsSaadet AksoyAkira MoriErtan SabanWhat happens, when an ordinary family in one of the arguably most advanced cities in the world starts living in two different worlds? What happens, when that fine line between reality and fantasy begins to blur, when a computer game controls the space you live in, re-defines your real life?
- DirectorOnur SaylakStarsKivanç TatlitugFunda EryigitGürgen ÖzA couple from Istanbul, settling in a village in the Aegean region to start a new and peaceful life. However, they will quickly realize that they have many enemies in this village.
- DirectorÇigdem SezginStarsNurcan ErenTarik PapuççuogluFirat TanisFifty year old, Suna has no income and finds a place to live by marrying an old man. She takes care of the man but hates going to bed with him. She gets depressed and starts drinking secretly.
- DirectorBelmin SöylemezStarsManolya MayaLaçin CeylanSenay AydinAylin, Frida and Lale struggle to hold on to their independence in increasingly conservative Istanbul, when their paths cross at Lale's acting courses.
- DirectorUmut SubasiStarsMelis SevinçMelisa BostanciogluIbrahim AriciCoincidence brings four twenty somethings in contemporary Istanbul together in humorous and playful ways. Almost Entirely a Slight Disaster explores the anxieties faced by the new generation with its humorous and intertwined ways.
- DirectorSezer AggezStarsIsmet ArasanEvren ArinReha ArinThe 40 Years After Fatma is a documentary project about the change experienced by the Tahtacis, the actors of Suha Arin's film Tahtaci Fatma (a.k.a. Fatma of the Forest), over the past 40 years.
- DirectorIdil AkkusEkin IlkbagStarsDefne BakirciMisra GundesA story about artistic swimmers, shared dreams, their struggle and their friendship.
- DirectorHelin CelikIt centers on three Jordanian women who barely survived the violence inflicted on them by men, listening to them speak with the opaque logic of trauma.
- DirectorBerna GencalpStarsFeride ÇetinEce DizdarDeniz TürkaliKim Mihri (Who is Mihri) is the painter Mihri's untold story. Director Berna, decides to trace Mihri's journey from late Ottoman era Istanbul onward to Rome, Paris and New York. Mihri, whose image, artistic work and life story have been unjustly obscured, lost and deformed are revived through interviews and fully animated sequences.
- DirectorFikret ReyhanStarsSelen KurtaranUgur KarabulutAlper ÇankayaNesrin who lives with her four-year-old son, struggles with her ex-husband Ömer's oppressive behavior and bureaucratic hardships while she is on the brink of making a critical decision regarding her relationship with her boyfriend Selim.
- DirectorPinar ÖgrenciFollows the story of the production of lokum, one of the most emblematic delicacies of Turkish culinary culture, that extends from Western Anatolia to the Greek island of Syros. Known as 'rahat-ul hulkum' in Arabic and 'lokoumi' in Greek, 'lokum' came to be called as 'Turkish Delight' at the end of the 19th century, when nationalist policies were introduced, and became the breadbasket for refugees fleeing the war that would soon begin.
- DirectorYusuf AnavatanAhmet KaranfilStarsErkan CanVedat VermezWith the immense interest of teenagers and children in football, Ertugrulgazi Mesken Sports Club is established in 1971 in Bursa in the Ertugrulgazi Mesken district. In 1975, Bursa S.C. is rival to the visiting Dinamo Kiev for a match.
- DirectorFirat ÖzelerStarsCem YilmazFunda EryigitTilbe SaranA woman on a voyage of discovery into the oeuvre and world of Turkish director Ömer Kavur. She finds empty sites and other remains of Kavur's productions, like making-of videos and set reports - audiovisual shadows of a life in film.
- DirectorNedim Bora HazarStarsMetin TürközEko FreshSema MoritzThe 60-year story of Turks and Kurds in Germany through their songs, performed together between 2021 and 2022 on renowned stages in Germany and in Istanbul, by an 85-year-old folk singer to a young feminist rapper.
- DirectorMesut TufanStarsRuhi AyangilMuazzez Ilmiye ÇigCenk GürayThe colourful religious music scene of Istanbul, as created by Hellenes, Jews, Armenians, Syriacs, and Muslims; music that brings humans together and connects them with the divine, despite different languages and religions.
- DirectorDervis ZaimStarsMustafa SerttasMetin BilmenDervis CebicCrime considers the themes of crime, crime addiction, society and freedom through the personality of Mustafa Serttas, a.k.a. the Devil (Tavuri) who spent half his life behind bars for theft and fraud. Mustafa Serttas, a primary school dropout raised in a poor, broken home in Cyprus, began stealing as a child. He later developed this early experience into a lifestyle or, as he put it, an 'obsession'. Director, Dervis Zaim knew Mustafa Serttas from the age of eight. The director managed to film the last five years of his life, right up until his death. Some of the filming was carried out during Serttas' time in jail. At the beginning of the film director visits his old friend in the jail and we realize that he has questions in his mind: After last release from prison, can Tavuri manage to create a new life or would he choose to suicide in slow pace? Is there still a chance for him to have compassion even if he may be the biggest 'con artist' of the country? Mustafa Serttas, a primary school dropout raised in a poor, broken home in Northern Cyprus, began stealing as a child. He later developed this early experience into a lifestyle or, as he put it, an 'obsession'. He spent a good half of his life behind bars in Lefkosa's Central Prison. He is well-known for never having used violence during his career as a thief. Married and divorced three times, he had one daughter. When he wasn't in jail, he led an extravagant life of luxury, but was also generous with his money. He was diagnosed by psychologists with personality disorder. He scammed Lefkosa's Central Prison at two different times. The extraordinary thing was that on both occasions he was an inmate at the time. This probably makes him the only prisoner to rob the jail from the inside during two different prison terms. Serttas died in 2019. Director, Dervis Zaim knew Mustafa Serttas from the age of eight. The director managed to film the last five years of his life, right up until his death. Some of the filming was carried out during Serttas' time in jail.
- DirectorOnur YagizStarsThomas CurelCéline Elhan-GünesRedouanne HarjaneThis Saturday is a Turkish wedding day at Espace Venise. Huddled in a car in the parking lot, Fatih, 21, wants to get married. He has set his sights on Ipek, Recep's sister. But neither Murat, his best friend, nor Recep, nor even Ipek are aware of this yet.
- DirectorYilmaz ÖzdilStarsSaman MustefaTarik AkreyîNazmi KaramanZiko the sleepwalker is banished from his village for committing a "serious sin" while asleep. This decision is also announced to all the surrounding villages so that no one hosts Ziko or feeds him. On a cold winter day, half-naked and hungry Ziko must reach the city traversing several villages not knowing what is waiting for him. However, on the same day, a deaf and mute hunter, unaware of all this, has to pass through the same villages.
- DirectorKasim ÖrdekStarsMert DoganHaydar KoyelOsman KurtSevgi and Dogan, a young couple, steal cars in the poorer districts of Istanbul and sell them to the junkyard to be pressed. One day, however, an unsettling event shakes them to the core, pushing them to face some truths about their relationship and the harsh realities of life.
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- DirectorSami Baris KefeliNukhet TaneriStarsOkan AvciDeniz GoktasSinem KöseogluDeniz, a well - liked scholar discovers he has electricity in his apartment during a city-wide black out. Although at first he is amazed by this stroke of luck, as the black out lasts he has to face uncanny feelings.
- DirectorSara Pinar OnderStarsPaul AddisonSerhat BilyazAsli Egeli
- DirectorDeniz UymazStarsDeniz EkinciRiza YurtsevenÖzdemir ÖzdenFiraz, a young girl seeking a way out from her village, is waiting for a relative at her father's funeral ceremony. While taking care of her grandfather becomes a burden, the funeral meal ordered the night before is missing a couple of plates.
- DirectorCharles Emir RichardsStarsMuhammed Ahmed FarisThis is the story of Muhammed Faris, the first Syrian to go to outer space. He is forced to flee his country, as his ideas for a free Syria make him a target.
- DirectorAram DildarStarsAhmet AkmanSilan AlagozKenan DemirA big surprise awaits the teacher who is appointed to his hometown, which he knows like the back of his hand; the village he was assigned is not in the maps or any records.
- DirectorFirat YücelMarch 8, 2020: A Memoir is a multi-voiced desktop documentary attempting to find the blind spots of "touristic cameras." A memoir of the Feminist Night March, the last demonstration in Istanbul before the pandemic.
- DirectorÖnder EsmerTuvana Simin GünayStarsMete AkalinSeza Aksoy KutlarAtilla DorsayIn 1961, the young writer Onat Kutlar goes to Paris to study philosophy. After discovering his passion for cinema there he founds a Cinémathèque in Istanbul to bring the world of art cinema to Turkey.
- DirectorMetin ErksanStarsFatma GirikSevda FerdagReha YurdakulAdaptation of Hamlet, whose father was murdered. But in this story, Hamlet is a woman.
- DirectorFatih AkinStarsEmilio SakrayaMona PirzadKardo RazzaziCapturing the life of German hip-hop rapper, entrepreneur, and ex-convict Giwar Hajabi.
- DirectorJuan Diego BottoStarsPenélope CruzLuis TosarChristian ChecaInterwoven stories told over the course of one day.
- DirectorJesse EisenbergStarsJulianne MooreFinn WolfhardBilly BrykEvelyn and her oblivious son Ziggy seek out replacements for each other as Evelyn desperately tries to parent an unassuming teenager at her shelter, while Ziggy fumbles through his pursuit of a brilliant young woman at school.
- DirectorVasilis KatsoupisStarsWillem DafoeGene BervoetsEliza StuyckNemo, a high-end art thief, is trapped in a New York penthouse after his heist doesn't go as planned. Locked inside with nothing but priceless works of art, he must use all his cunning and ingenuity to survive.
- DirectorHélène FillièresStarsBenoît PoelvoordeLaetitia CastaRichard BohringerA banker strikes up a sadomasochistic relationship with a mistress.
- DirectorFrançois OzonStarsNadia TereszkiewiczRebecca MarderIsabelle HuppertParis, France, 1935, and a young actress has just been acquitted of murdering a famous French Producer. However, this is where the story just begins. Is she really innocent?, or has she gotten away with Murder?
- DirectorChristian PetzoldStarsThomas SchubertPaula BeerLangston UibelA group of friends are in a holiday home by the Baltic Sea where emotions run high as the parched forest around them catches fire.
- DirectorLaura PoitrasStarsNan GoldinDavid VelascoMegan KaplerFollows the life of artist Nan Goldin and the downfall of the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty who was greatly responsible for the opioid epidemic's unfathomable death toll.
- DirectorS.S. RajamouliStarsN.T. Rama Rao Jr.Ram CharanAjay DevgnA fearless warrior on a perilous mission comes face to face with a steely cop serving British forces in this epic saga set in pre-independent India.
- DirectorCharlotte ReganStarsLola CampbellAlin UzunCary CranksonGeorgie, a dreamy 12-year-old girl, lives happily alone in her London flat, filling it with magic. Suddenly, her estranged father turns up and forces her to confront reality.
- DirectorLila AvilésStarsNaíma SentíesMontserrat MarañonMarisol GaséSeven-year-old Sol is spending the day at her grandfather's home, for a surprise party for Sol's father, Tonatiuh. As daylight fades, Sol comes to understand that her world is about to change dramatically.
- DirectorSofia BohdanowiczBurak CevikBlake WilliamsStarsDeragh CampbellA woman moves to Paris to tend to the home of a recently deceased friend and begins a video correspondence with filmmakers Burak and Blake, an interaction that is initially healing but is not what it seems.
- DirectorJoão CanijoStarsAnabela MoreiraRita BlancoMadalena AlmeidaFollows five women who fight for the stability of a hotel they inherited, living an "old and irresolvable conflict," with many conversations that have been postponed and much that remains to be said within a family.
- DirectorJoão CanijoStarsNuno LopesFilipa AreosaLeonor SilveiraFive women are running an old hotel. Guests arrive over the course of a weekend and are drawn into a web of ongoing conflict.
- DirectorCarlos ConceiçãoStarsJoão ArraisAnabela MoreiraGustavo SumptaIn 1974, after years of liberation war, the Portuguese and their descendants fled the colony of Angola where pro-independence groups gradually claimed their territory back. A tribal girl discovers love and danger when her path crosses that of a young Portuguese Officer. Meanwhile, another group of Portuguese soldiers is barracked inside an infinite wall from which they will have to escape once the past comes out of the grave to claim its long-awaited justice.
- DirectorStefan ConstantinescuStarsNicu BaneaAna CionteaBogdan DumitracheIn the midst of the Corona outbreak, Doru returns to Romania for a baptism, but in fact he is secretly pursuing his wife's alleged infidelity.
- DirectorAlice DiopStarsKayije KagameGuslagie MalandaValérie DrévilleFollows Rama, a novelist who attends the trial of Laurence Coly at the Saint-Omer Criminal Court to use her story to write a modern-day adaptation of the ancient myth of Medea, but things don't go as expected.
- DirectorPhilippe GarrelStarsLouis GarrelDamien MonginEsther GarrelThree siblings, a father and a grandmother run a business in the form of a travelling puppet show. When the father dies, the remaining family members try to keep his legacy alive.
- DirectorYorgos GoussisStarsElena TopalidouAntonis TsiotsiopoulosNikos SpanidesHaving met by chance on the way to an island, a woman and a man decide to wander around together in search of a good place to bury a metallic box.
- DirectorTiago GuedesStarsAlbano JerónimoNuno LopesIsabel AbreuA pagan tradition from the interior of Portugal leaves painful marks on a group of teenagers. Twenty-five years later, when they reunite, the past resurfaces and tragedy sets in.
- DirectorMani HaghighiStarsNavid MohammadzadehTaraneh AlidoostiAli BagheriA married couple believe they meet their doppelgängers in Tehran.
- DirectorChristoph HochhäuslerStarsTimocin ZieglerThea EhreMichael SiderisFollows an undercover investigator infiltrating the world of a trans woman who has links to a major drug dealer and with whom he was in love under her former identity.
- DirectorKei IshikawaStarsSakura AndôMasataka KubotaYumi KawaiAkira works as a lawyer. One day, he meets with his former client Rie, who asks Akira to perform a background check on her late husband Daisuke.
- DirectorSomnur VardarWatching the dramatic changes in Istanbul's urban texture, our eyes are drawn to two young men. Ferhat, an unassigned teacher from Mardin (a city on the Türkiye-Syria border,) and his cousin Emrah, an aspiring teacher, work as bricklayers in construction sites, just like their grandfathers and fathers had been doing for decades.
- DirectorPhilippe LioretStarsSabrina LevoyeTeïlo AzaïsNassim LyesFollows Nora and Leo who attend the same high school and despite different social and religious backgrounds and everyday lives, they fall in love at first sight.
- DirectorSalvatore MereuStarsPeppeddu CuccuGiovanni PorcuRaffaele has just assembled his little pile of grain, which serves as his provisions for an entire year. Not wishing to get caught unprepared, he has been sleeping in the countryside for days, far from everybody, waiting for the wind to arrive and help him at last to separate the wheat-grains from the chaff. But the wind will not show up. Only Angelino comes to visit him every day, making him feel less lonely. Maybe one day, when he is all grown up, Raffaele will lend him his indomitable mare and he will finally manage to ride her. But Angelino has no intention of waiting.
- DirectorLaura Mora OrtegaStarsCarlos Andrés CastañedaDavison FlorezBrahian AcevedoFollows five young men and about the marginalized, excluded humanity who seeks a place in the world.
- DirectorJúlia MuratStarsSol MirandaLucas AndradeLorena ComparatoSimone 23-year-old studies criminal law and advocates for women's rights and at night she performs in front of a live sex cam. One night watching a film awakens her dark impulses for a more dangerous means of sexual gratification.
- DirectorHong Sang-sooStarsKwon Hae-hyoLee Hye-yeongSong Seon-miByungsoo, a film director, goes with his daughter Jeongsu, an aspiring interior designer, to a building owned by an old friend already established in the design field. She gives them a tour of the property, which includes a restaurant and cooking studio on the first two floors, her office in the basement, a residence on the third floor, and an artist's studio at the top. The three of them chat and drink amicably until a business call pulls Byungsoo away. When he returns, it's the same place, but a different time, and the building owner invites him up to the second floor.
- DirectorAngela SchanelecStarsAliocha SchneiderAgathe BonitzerMarisha TriantafyllidouAbandoned as a baby, Jon finds himself in prison on a manslaughter charge. He falls in love with prison guard Iro, unaware of their fateful connection.
- DirectorTeona Strugar MitevskaStarsJelena Kordic KuretAdnan OmerovicLabina MitevskaAsja is a 40-year-old single woman living in Sarajevo. She meets Zoran, a 43-year-old banker, at a dating event. Zoran is not there looking for love though, but for forgiveness. During the war in 1993 he was shooting at the city from the opposite side, and he wants to meet his first victim. Now, they both have to relive the pain in their search for forgiveness.
- DirectorFyzal BoulifaStarsAicha TebbaeAbdellah El HajjoujiAntoine ReinartzFatima-Zahra and her teenage son Selim move from place to place, forever trying to outrun the latest scandal she's caught up in. When Selim discovers the truth about their past, Fatima-Zahra vows to make a fresh start. In Tangier, new opportunities promise the legitimacy they each crave but not without pushing the volatile mother-son relationship to the breaking point.
- DirectorSaela DavisAnna Rose HolmerStarsSeán T. Ó MeallaighPaul MescalEmily WatsonIn a windswept fishing village, a mother is torn between protecting her beloved son and her own sense of right and wrong. A lie she tells for him rips apart their family and close-knit community.
- DirectorOfir Raul GraizerStarsOshrat IngadashetMichael MoshonovOfri BitermanAn Israeli swimming tutor living in Chicago returns to Israel after 10 years of absence to bury his father. An encounter with a beloved childhood friend and his newly engaged girlfriend will set a series of events in motion that will affect everyone's lives. A story set between a flower shop and an ancient monastery, between a swimming pool in Chicago and the Mediterranean, between life and death - and somewhere in the middle.
- DirectorMarija KavtaradzeStarsGreta GrineviciuteKestutis CicenasPijus GanusauskasDancer Elena and sign language interpreter Dovydas meet and form a beautiful bond. As they dive into a new relationship, they must navigate how to build their own kind of intimacy.
- DirectorEngin KundagStarsRasim JafarovMerve AksoyFunda RosenlandA young woman, Zeynep, is accused of causing a car accident to harm her boyfriend. She flees from Berlin to her parents' house in the Turkey. With her sexual aggression she turns her parents' marriage and an entire society upside down.
- DirectorCharlotte Le BonStarsJoseph EngelSara MontpetitMonia ChokriA shy teenager on a summer vacation experiences the joy and pain of young adulthood when he forges an unlikely bond with an older girl.
- DirectorJuraj LeroticStarsJuraj LeroticSnjezana SinovcicGoran MarkovicFollows Damir, who's trying to take his own life while his family wants to save him. Everything happens over a period of just 24 hours.
- DirectorCarolina MarkowiczStarsMaeve JinkingsCésar BordónRômulo BragaA family straining to care for their bedridden patriarch is offered a diabolical deal: to put their elder to rest and host an Argentinian drug kingpin in need of a place to hide.
- DirectorValentina MaurelStarsDaniela Marín NavarroReinaldo AmienVivian RodriguezEva a 16-year-old girl lives with her mother, her younger sister and their cat, but wants to move in with her estranged father. Clinging onto him, she tries to balance between the tenderness and sensitivity of teenage life.
- DirectorMakbul MubarakStarsKevin ArdilovaArswendy Bening SwaraHaru SandraA young man working as a housekeeper in an empty mansion. When its owner returns to start his mayoral election campaign, the young man bonds with him and defends him when his campaign is vandalized, setting off a chain of violence.
- DirectorLotfy NathanStarsAdam BessaNajib AllaguiSalima MaatougAli is barely making a living selling contraband gas. The young Tunisian all of a sudden finds himself in charge of his two sisters after his father's death.
- DirectorChristos PassalisStarsAngeliki PapouliaChristos PassalisSofia KokkaliAris and Anna meet one evening in a half-abandoned town surrounded by antennas which emit strange sounds and enable the transmission of human voices. In this bizarre, dreamlike world, where things don't seem quite right - including people's behavior - these two solitary souls gradually start to develop feelings for one another.
- DirectorFridtjof RyderStarsMark RylanceRory AlexanderMark ChristmasINLAND is a modern fairy tale that explores the fractured identity of a young man after the mysterious disappearance of his mother.
- DirectorAmir ToodehroostaStarsAyhan ShayganShabnam DadkhahNora Hanifeh ZadehKindergarten student Roham falls in love with his classmate Rana and discovers the complicated secrets of her personal life, all the while confronting the class bully.
- DirectorEstibaliz Urresola SolagurenStarsSofía OteroPatricia López ArnaizAne GabarainDuring a summer in a village house linked to beekeeping, an eight-year-old and her mother experience revelations that will change their lives forever.
- DirectorMaite AlberdiStarsAugusto GóngoraPaulina UrrutiaGustavo CeratiAugusto and Paulina have been together for 25 years. Eight years ago, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Both fear the day he no longer recognizes her.
- DirectorIsabel CoixetStarsAida FlixMiriam FuentesNúria JuanicoThe story of nine former students at Spain's Lleida Theatre who filed a complaint against two of their teachers for sexual abuse.
- DirectorMark CousinsStarsAlba RohrwacherDonald TrumpMark CousinsDepicts the ascent of fascism in Italy, and its fallout across 1930s Europe.
- DirectorAxel DanielsonMaximilien Van AertryckStarsChris AndersonFelix BergssonUlrika BergstenFrom the first camera to 45 billion cameras worldwide today, the visual sociologist filmmakers widen their lens to expose both humanity's unique obsession with the camera's image and the social consequences that lay ahead.
- DirectorAnnie ErnauxDavid Ernaux-BriotStarsBlanche Madeleine Dumenil DuchesneAnnie ErnauxDominique ErnauxHome videos shot by Ernaux and her family from 1972 to 1981 and feeds into the themes of her work over the past 60 years.
- DirectorSébastien LifshitzIn the '50s and '60s, deep in the American countryside at the foot of the Catskills, a small wooden house with a barn behind it was home to the first clandestine network of cross-dressers.
- DirectorAhsen NadeemAfter decades of living a secret life, a filmmaker travels to a strict Japanese monastery in search of guidance but the only monk who will help him prefers ice cream and heavy metal over meditation.
- DirectorNicolas PhilibertStarsMamadi BarriWalid BenzianeSabine BerlièreFollows patients and caregivers at a psychiatric centre with a unique floating structure located in the middle of the Seine river in central Paris.
- DirectorGiacomo AbbruzzeseStarsMorr NdiayeWahab OladitiSalem KisitaAfter a painful journey through Europe, Aleksei arrives in Paris to join the Foreign Legion. Meanwhile, in the Niger Delta, Jomo struggles against the oil companies threatening his village and the lives of his family.
- DirectorDaniel BandeiraStarsCarlos AmorimAnderson CleberZuleika FerreiraTo protect herself from a revolt by the workers on her family's farm, a reclusive woman locks herself in her own armored car. Separated by a layer of glass, two universes are about to collide.
- DirectorBrandon CronenbergStarsAlexander SkarsgårdMia GothCleopatra ColemanJames and Em Foster are enjoying an all-inclusive beach vacation in the fictional island of La Tolqa, when a fatal accident exposes the resort's perverse subculture of hedonistic tourism, reckless violence and surreal horrors.
- DirectorJoanna HoggStarsTilda SwintonLouisAugust JoshiReturning to a hotel now haunted by its mysterious past, an artist and her elderly mother confront long-buried secrets in their former family home.