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- DirectorFrancesco PatiernoThe film is a historical and socio-anthropological portrait of the provincial capital of Campania, Naples, and the organised crime that afflicts it, and is the fruit of months of rummaging through the treasures of Rai Teche, the archives of the Italian state broadcaster. Surprising vintage footage, most of it never shown before, finds a visceral connection with the original music and songs written by Meg. Camorra delves into the soul of an inscrutable city. The film clips tell the story of the growth of the crime syndicate between the 1960s and 1990s: from its subordination to the Mafia, which controlled the contraband of cigarettes in Campania after the war, until the advent of Raffaele Cutolo, who unified the bands of extortionists into a single, large armed and economic power.
- DirectorTomer HeymannStarsJonathan AgassiMichael LucasJonathan Agassi is one of the world's most successful gay porn stars. This is a rare and intimate look at the world of porn and escorting, as well as on a unique relationship between a mother and son.
- DirectorIván OsnovikoffBettina PerutChola and Football are a couple of street dogs that live in the Los Reyes skatepark. A microcosm is organized around them, composed of things, animals and young adolescents in conflict with an adult world that they reject but are required to enter.
- DirectorNikolaus GeyrhalterWith precisely composed shots and detailed interviews with local police officers, hikers, farmers and small business owners, the film explores the few square kilometers at the Brenner Pass, telling an urgent story of Europe in the process.
- DirectorAmir OsanlouOur daily life is full of voices that most of us do not hear because of repetition, As if they no longer exist.Sounds of car bug, car radio sound, traffic jerky voice, children's voice, bird sounds that read every morning to inform us from the beginning of the day. But in Aleppo, people were accustomed to the sounds of war, rockets, and mortars, To the sound of the mother's cries and the cry of the fathers, Break the glass and destroy the houses. Now the war is over and everything is drowned in silence and wind. Silence is as eternal as is full of fear and loneliness. Full of stories buried under the rubble. Aleppo: The silence of the War film depicting this fragile silence after the war.The silence from years of war.A silence that does not mean peace, nor the meaning of war!
- DirectorCorina Schwingruber IlicUnder the spell of mass entertainment on the high seas.
- DirectorTheresa Traoré DahlbergWe find ourselves in an extravagant garden in Ouagadougou. The French Ambassador's wife dreamt about becoming a famous opera singer. Instead, she is now using the singing as a ventilator to survive her seemingly privileged life surrounded by workers. This film raises questions about power structures, class, intersectionality, post colonialism and feminism in a poetic, subtle and seductive way.
- DirectorNicole VögeleMr. Kuo and his wife Mrs. Lin cook for the city's sleepless. They work all night and sleep during the day, like many others in buzzing Taipei. Until one morning, riding back from the market, Mr. Kuo takes a different exit on the highway.
- DirectorMila TurajlicStarsSrbijanka TurajlicMila TurajlicMira BoskicFor Serbian filmmaker Mila Turajlic, a locked door in her mother's apartment in Belgrade provides the gateway to both her remarkable family history and her country's tumultuous political inheritance.
- DirectorZhiqi PanSu has set up a restaurant without a permit. Unsurprisingly, the authorities send him away. Su then decides to go back home to the countryside, where his wife and children still live. He isn't exactly welcomed back with open arms.
- DirectorBernadett Tuza-RitterStarsMarishBernadett Tuza-RitterA European woman has been kept by a family as a domestic slave for 10 years. Drawing courage from the filmmaker's presence, she decides to escape the unbearable oppression and become a free person.
- DirectorKamran HeidariStarsAliThe story of an aging Iranian pigeon fancier and the toll his volatile eccentricity wreaks on his long-suffering family.
- DirectorMohamed SiamStarsAmal GamalNagua SaidEsraa MamdouhAmal is fourteen years old when she goes to Tahrir Square in Cairo during the Arab Spring to showcase. With youthful hubris she goes straight to the danger. This coming of age film follows her in the years that follow, a period in which the fearless Amal seeks her own identity in a country in transition.
- DirectorTalal DerkiStarsTia AlkerdiYara IbrahimAbu OsamaTalal Derki returns to his homeland where he gains the trust of a radical Islamist family, sharing their daily life for over two years.
- DirectorMarta PrusStarsYana KudryavtsevaMargarita MamunIrina VinerAn intimate portrait of the world's most outstanding rhythmic gymnast Margarita Mamun who needs to overcome mental fragility to take part in the Olympic Games.
- DirectorLaura BariStarsRocío ÁlvarezAldana Bari GonzalezAna RosiTwo cousins come of age together, overcoming the heinous acts which interrupted their childhoods.
- DirectorFeargal WardStarsThomas ReidPhil KellyAnthony McNeillFarmer Thomas Reid lives a solitary life in Ireland. Suspicious of intrusion, Thomas does not welcome the State agents who come to forcibly purchase his home and lands. He vows to resist.
- DirectorFinlay PretsellStarsThomas DekkerDavid MillarAn immersive fllm capturing the very essence of professional cycling.
- DirectorHogir HiroriShinwar KamalStarsFakhir BerwariSheyma IbrahimAbdulla FakhirA portrait of a Kurdish colonel, who disarmed thousands of roadside bombs and mines armed only with his courage and a pair of wire cutters.
- DirectorIeva OzolinaStarsRaitis OzolsSilvija OzolaMaris OzolsDissatisfied with his personality, a young mathematician from a family of divorced academics decides to punish his mother for wrong upbringing. A touching yet humorous story about a mother and son and the creative and destructive power of motherly love.
- DirectorPablo AparoMartín BenchimolStarsSergio AvedañoCristián CatenaSusana DottoriIn a remote town of Argentina, home remedies replace traditional medicine. All diseases are treated by the villagers except a mortal fear known as espanto, the dread. This rare illness can only be cured by an old man who very few dares to visit. The Dread is an investigative human interest documentary stuffed with strong humour and outstanding protagonists.
- DirectorUmesh Vinayak KulkarniStarsLaxmikant BongaleAmbar Joshi
- DirectorDejan PetrovicThe Same is a film that shows the everyday life of convicts and jailers in some of the biggest jails in Serbia by using it as a metaphor to present the loss of personal identity in modern society. This documentary compares a jail system to fixed social rules and raises questions about the relativity of human freedom.
- DirectorCarter GunnRoss McDonnellSeveral beekeepers around the U.S. cope with colony collapse disorder - the phenomenon that has caused millions of bees to mysteriously disappear.
- DirectorSimon Lereng WilmontStarsOleg AfanasyevAlexandra RyabichkinaJarikTHE DISTANT BARKING OF DOGS is set in Eastern Ukraine on the frontline of the war. The film follows the life of 10-year-old Ukrainian boy Oleg throughout a year, witnessing the gradual erosion of his innocence beneath the pressures of war. Oleg lives with his beloved grandmother, Alexandra, in the small village of Hnutove. Having no other place to go, Oleg and Alexandra stay and watch as others leave the village. Life becomes increasingly difficult with each passing day, and the war offers no end in sight. In this now half-deserted village where Oleg and Alexandra are the only true constants in each other's lives, the film shows just how fragile, but crucial, close relationships are for survival. Through Oleg's perspective, the film examines what it means to grow up in a war zone. It portrays how a child's universal struggle to discover what the world is about grows interlaced with all the dangers and challenges the war presents. Thus, THE DISTANT BARKING OF DOGS unveils the consequences of war bearing down on the children in Eastern Ukraine, and by natural extension, the scars and self-taught life lessons this generation will carry with them into the future.