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- DirectorChristian PetzoldStarsPaula BeerFranz RogowskiMaryam ZareeUndine works as a historian lecturing on Berlin's urban development. But when the man she loves leaves her, the ancient myth catches up with her. Undine has to kill the man who betrays her and return to the water.
- DirectorLaura Herrero GarvínAt the Barba Azul cabaret in Mexico City, The women dance and drink with the men who can afford it. In the upstairs toilets, "Mami", in exchange for a trip looks after their bags and even tries to support them.
- DirectorPhilippe GarrelStarsLogann AntuofermoOulaya AmamraAndré WilmsA provincial youngster who travels up to Paris to sit an entrance exam for a "grande école". His path crosses that of a young woman and they strike up a short-lived relationship.
- DirectorYoon Dan-biStarsChoi Jung-unHeung-ju YangHyeon-yeong ParkTwo kids are moving to their grandfather's house, but everything is going to change when the aunt moves there too.
- DirectorCarolina MoscosoRecording the everyday was always a way of relating to the world. One night the rape happened and everything changed, although the search continued. When revisiting these images, a dialogue arises between light and darkness, while the strangeness remains before the world.
- DirectorRodrigo ReyesStarsEduardo San JuanUpon the 500-year anniversary of the Spanish Conquest, a ghostly Conquistador arrives in modern Mexico. As he journeys toward the capital city, he remembers events from his past while encountering the testimonies of real people, the survivors of contemporary violence. History and the present begin to merge, giving nightmarish reflection on the enduring legacy of colonialism in our world today.
- DirectorBruno Santamaría RazoStarsDayanara de Dios CisnerosEstrella Rodríguez PardoYulesci Castañeda ManjarrezTells the story of a teenager who dreams of dressing up as a woman in a fishing village in the Mexican state of Nayarit.
- DirectorLav DiazStarsNanding JosefBart GuingonaDon Melvin BoongalingA look at how much human beings are like animals.
- DirectorJohn GianvitoStarsNoam ChomskyCarolyn ForchéAuthor, activist, lecturer, and crusader for those with disabilities, the extraordinary Helen Keller was unable to see or hear, yet through hard work became highly accomplished and famously outspoken. Her autobiography The Story of My Life and its dramatic adaptation The Miracle Worker made Keller's name a household word. John Gianvito's new film Her Socialist Smile is a spare, pure, and beautifully composed account of her political life as a supporter of progressive causes. Incorporating footage of her home life, her surroundings, and her teacher Anne Sullivan, the film's focal point shifts to Keller's own words-her many speeches-as she ardently advocates on behalf of the causes in which she so firmly believed.
- DirectorEphraim AsiliStarsAurielle AkereleShirley ChisholmChris JarellA young man inherits his grandmother's house and, with the encouragement of his girlfriend, turns it into a Black socialist collective where community forms the basis of family.
- DirectorCristina HanesIsabella RinaldiArya RotheSomi and her husband met and fell in love while fighting alongside the Naxalites, a communist guerrilla group that has been fighting since the '60s for the rights of the tribal communities of India. After a decade of armed struggle, the couple deserted the movement and surrendered to the police. Ever since, they have been striving to forge a new identity, educate their two children, and eventually reconcile their violent past with the fervent desire to integrate into the hostile Indian society.
- DirectorEduardo GiraltEmmanuel MassuStarsLa VaganciaA young group of millennial sicarios loiter around Sinaloa while trying to cope with growing up, their work, toxic masculinity and desires for the future. A profound portrait of the psyche of Narco lost youth.
- 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."
- DirectorNobuhiro SuwaStarsShoko IkezuShinsuke KatoTomokazu MiuraInspired by an actual occurrence in Japan Haru who has relocated to Hiroshima in southern Japan comes across a rogue telephone booth in the middle of nowhere when she returns to Iwate Prefecture in northern Japan. The unconnected telephone in a white booth is driven by superstition that it is a direct line to the dead. She and several locals converse and they share their stories and the different states of belief regarding the booth that is prevalent.
- DirectorSalomé JashiDocumentary follows trees that are transported, at great expense and inconvenience, from the coast of the Republic of Georgia to the private garden of that country's former prime minister.
- DirectorNino Martínez SosaStarsVicente SantosKarina ValdezRamón Emilio CandelarioLiborio disappears in a hurricane. One day he returns speaking as a prophet, curing the sick and congregates many followers deep in the mountains. The local powers confront him only to see him vanish, until he decides to confront his deepest fears and battles the invading US Marines.
- DirectorLisa MalloyJ.P. SniadeckiA SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME is a borderlands Western that follows Sundog, an eccentric recluse who lives off the land in the Sonoran Desert. As Border Patrol surveillance encroaches on his relative freedom, he becomes increasingly unnerved and ventures beyond the confines of his survivalism. With an unsettling fantasy of eco-terrorism, and with the first cinematic depiction of smoking a Sonoran toad's psychedelic venom, the complex figure of Sundog raises provocative questions about environmental justice and human survival amidst the specter of global collapse.
- DirectorPascal TagnatiStarsJean-Christophe FollyCédric AppiettoJérémy AlbertiCross-section of life in a Corsican village where tradition is revered, observing the locals throughout one summer.
- DirectorAlejandro Guzmán AlvarezStarsFernando BonillaRaúl BrionesJosé Concepción MacíasA deceitful and unemployed 40-year-old man returns to the house of his mother, who has recently passed away, to spend time with his alcoholic father and with a strange monster that oozes skin pieces, employed as fabric on the family's tailor shop business.
- DirectorSandra Luz López BarrosoSurrounded by prayers, music, altars and color, Lizbeth, a transsexual afro-descendant leads the funerary rituals of a small community in Guerrero, Mexico. Liz is heir to ancient knowledge, a particular cultural and religious syncretism in which life and death are part of the same inseparable cycle.
- DirectorOlivier DerousseauStarsJulien BancilhonOlivier BrissonAnne SabatelliThe film opens with the word "us" in italics, for everyone to define for themselves. The sole mission of Northern Range, like any authentically political film, is to seek and invent this "us". It's both its theme and its passion.
- DirectorDash ShawStarsLake BellMichael CeraAlex KarpovskyCryptozookeepers try to capture a Baku, a dream-eating hybrid creature of legend, and start wondering if they should display these beasts or keep them hidden and unknown.
- DirectorRodrigo FiallegaStarsIazua LariosAndrés AlmeidaMartijn KuiperMartijn lives on the outskirts of the city after his son was murdered. Estranged from his wife and diagnosed with a terminal disease, he discovers that his son's murderer will be released from jail, setting him on the trail of revenge.
- DirectorRodrigo Ruiz PattersonStarsAdrián RossiSophie Alexander-KatzFabián CorresLife for a solitary teenager is altered when his mother brings home her new boyfriend to live with them.
- 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".
- DirectorLuciana KaplanStarsMaría de Jesús Patricio MartínezYamili Chan DzulCarmen García de AldamaA healer chosen to heal an ailing country. The Spokeswoman (La Vocera), the one who carries our voices is Maria de Jesús Patricio, the first indigenous woman to aspire to the presidency in Mexico. Her journey also tells the story behind the Indigenous Government Council's fight to preserve nature and for a new way of understanding progress in the world today.
- 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?
- DirectorJacqueline LentzouStarsLazaros GeorgakopoulosNikolas HanakoulasKaiti IbrohoriAfter years of distance, Artemis has to get back to Athens due to her father's frail state of health. Discovering her father's well-kept secret allows Artemis to understand her father in a way she was not able before.
- DirectorVictor KossakovskyStarsGundaDocumentary looks at the daily life of a pig and its farm animal companions: two cows and a one-legged chicken.
- DirectorNicolás PeredaStarsGabino RodríguezLuisa PardoFrancisco BarreiroA pair of estranged offspring visit their parents in an abandoned Mexican village.
- DirectorAna Elena TejeraStarsCebaldo de LeónFernando FernándezCebaldo, an indigenous dule from Panama, is a fishermen's assistant in a town in northern Portugal who suffers of nostalgia. In his loneliness, memories takes him away from his daily routine, immersing in a journey back to his village in Guna Yala, where a botanical doctor confronts him with the impossibility of returning to the past.
- DirectorP.S. VinothrajStarsChellapandiKaruththadaiyaanPhilip ArulodssA young boy travels with his violent and alcoholic father to bring back his mother, who has run away from home due to his abuse.
- DirectorAinhoa RodríguezStarsIsabel María MendozaGuadalupe GutiérrezCarmen ValverdeHow we cling to age old patriarchal traditions, though in a new globalized world, society needs to move on and invent new ways of thinking.
- DirectorFrederick WisemanStarsMarty WalshA look at Boston's city government, covering racial justice, housing, climate action, and more.
- DirectorSharunas BartasStarsArvydas DapsysMarius Povilas Elijas MartynenkoAlina Zaliukaite-RamanauskieneA historical drama set in Lithuania in 1948, "Au Crépuscule" focuses on Ounté, a 19-year old boy who experiences passion and violence after joining a group of partisans resisting the Soviet occupation.
- DirectorVladimir LéonStarsAnne BenhaïemSerge BozonJulie DesprairiesWere my grandparents Soviet spies in the 30s in Paris? I bring to my brother Pierre a suitcase full of memories. Our investigation starts between France and Russia, yesterday and today.
- DirectorDamien OdoulStarsTheo KermelPierre MeunierSonia GondryAfter his father leaves, a 27 year old with Down's syndrome living in the woods has to reinvent his life and open himself up more to things and beings.
- DirectorMaéva RanaïvojaonaGeorg TillerStarsNabiha AkkariEugene Raphael RanaïvojaonaMichelle Eva RanaïvojaonaA young woman works as a prison guard in a hopelessly overcrowded jail in central Madagascar. She passes the time daydreaming about her father, a murderer, who abandoned her as a child after killing his own brother. In her imagination, her father becomes a mythical killer, wandering the countryside and rolling enchanted dice to decide the fate of his victims. Secretly, she yearns for the day her father will turn up amongst the prisoners. When a new inmate arrives claiming to know her father, her fantasies begin to turn to nightmares.
- DirectorKhalik AllahStarsKhalik AllahCamilaFrenchieIn IWOW, Allah focuses on longtime muse Frenchie, a 60-something schizophrenic, homeless Haitian man, who he becomes increasingly intertwined with.
- DirectorBruce La BruceStarsFélix-Antoine DuvalTania KontoyanniAlexandra PetrachukWhen a young man who thought his mother was dead discovers that she may still be alive, he goes on a quest to find her. His journey takes him to a remote cabin in the woods where his mother lives in exile with a mysterious young woman.
- DirectorKhavnAlexander KlugeStarsLilith StangenbergIan MadrigalA reinvention of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, set in contemporary Manila as a rock musical.
- DirectorFelipe BragançaStarsHigor CampagnaroIsabél ZuaaCatarina WallensteinHow to make a film in a country that is losing its identity? This is the question facing Fernando: a bankrupt, thirty-something-white-male filmmaker from Brazil.
- DirectorDenis CôtéStarsMaxim GaudetteLarissa CorriveauEvelyne RompréAntonin is a bit of a dandy. He has a way with words that could have made him a famous writer, but instead mostly serves to get him out of trouble.
- DirectorDiego HernándezStarsDiego HernándezAndrés MadrueñoRenee OrtizDespite a great effort, the professional development of Diego, Andres and Renee, university students, is affected due to a diversion of resources by the authorities.
- DirectorSofie BenootLiesbeth De CeulaerIsabelle TollenaereStarsLashay T. WarrenIn the Mojave Desert lies the unfinished city of California, planned in the sixties to receive thousands of inhabitants, like Los Angeles or San Diego. Today, in the middle of empty streets, the city has a few more than 10 thousand people. The trio of Belgian directors follows these new pioneers, that look for new beginnings, telling about their experiences, giving names to streets or making long walking journeys of exploration of the space.