Venice 2019 Orizzonti
"Orizzonti" translates to "horizons" and this section was created to spotlight new talent, which is here in abundance. Other Venice sections: In Competition , Out of Competition - Fiction, Non-Fiction and Special Screenings, Docs About Cinema, Venice Classics
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- DirectorKatrin GebbeStarsNina HossKaterina LipovskaAdelia-Constance OcleppoA woman who trains police horses adopts her second child, a severely traumatised 5-year-old girl. When the girl shows violent and anti-social behaviour, her new mother becomes determined to help her.
- DirectorOskar AlegriaStarsOskar AlegriaA documentary drawn from the director's own family experiences, of living alone in the woods for several months.
- DirectorMehdi BarsaouiStarsSami BouajilaNajla Ben AbdallahYoussef Khemiri11 year old Aziz needs a liver transplant after being seriously injured during a terrorist ambush while on holiday in 2011. At the hospital a family secret will be revealed.
- DirectorThéo CourtStarsAlfredo CastroLola RubioLars RudolphA wedding photographer becomes overly intrigued by a young bride-to-be.
- DirectorAntoine de BaryStarsVincent LacosteEmmanuelle DevosChristopher LambertAn actor who enjoyed success in his youth finds his career and life in a downward spiral as he gets older.
- DirectorNunzia De StefanoStarsVirginia ApicellaPietra MontecorvinoRosy FranzeseNevia, a Neapolitan girl that comes from a poor family, joins a circus, trying to escape from poverty.
- DirectorOliver HermanusStarsKai Luke BrummerBarbara-Marié ImmelmanMichael KirchA young man in 1981 South Africa must complete his brutal and racist two years of compulsory military service while desperately maintaining the secrecy of his homosexuality.
- DirectorSahraa KarimiStarsArezoo AriapoorFereshta AfsharHasiba Ebrahimi3 Afghan women from different backgrounds in Kabul face challenges: neglected pregnant Hava; educated Maryam facing divorce while pregnant; and teenage Ayesha marrying her cousin after her boyfriend leaves her pregnant. All by themselves.
- DirectorPeter Mackie BurnsStarsTom Vaughan-LawlorTom Glynn-CarneyMonica DolanColm, mid-40s has a comfortable life: a managerial job in Dublin's docks, two teenage children, and a kind, loyal wife in Claire. After the death of his father, a destructive figure, Colm's emotional life cracks open, and his downward spiral continues when he is made redundant. Drinking heavily and unable to confide in Claire, Colm finds himself drawn to Jay, a 19-year-old who dabbles in prostitution. Their sexual encounters and tentative friendship become Colm's only solace - but this recklessness puts his family-life at risk.
- DirectorDmitry MamuliyaStarsMadona ChachkhianiNatalia JugheliVladimer KobakhidzeA melancholic witness cannot escape the memories of a murder, that twists his mind and makes him observe the dark sides of his own soul.
- DirectorJessica PaludStarsNiels SchneiderAdèle ExarchopoulosRoman Coustère HachezA man in his early thirties returns to the rural farm of his childhood and rejoins the family struggle to get by.
- DirectorGrear PattersonStarsJack IrvBen IrvingLily GavinA pair of players on a successful high school baseball team, the Giants, come of age in the American South.
- DirectorPema TsedenStarsSonam WangmoJinpaYangshik TsoA family struggles against the conflicting dictates of nature, spirituality, politics, and free will.
- DirectorRaymund Ribay GutierrezStarsMax EigenmannKristoffer KingJordhen SuanBattered wife Joy stands up for justice against her alcoholic husband Dante in a turmoil process of the justice system.
- DirectorSaeed RoustayiStarsPayman MaadiNavid MohammadzadehParinaz IzadyarThe police are after a drug lord named Naser Khakzad, but when they finally manage to catch him, he tries whatever he can think of to escape and save his family.
- DirectorSanal Kumar SasidharanStarsJoju GeorgeNimisha SajayanDileep DazTeenage Janaki departs for a day in the city at dawn. Her suitor has arranged for a ride with his boss, a sullen and dark man who lets Janaki know that he knows she's there without her mother's permission.
- DirectorCarlo SironiStarsClaudio SegaluscioSandra DrzymalskaBruno BuzziLena is seven months pregnant and she's ready to sell the baby in her belly. Ermanno agrees to pretend to be the father. Fabio, the uncle of Ermanno, will pay them to buy the child that he and his wife Bianca cannot have. A fake adoption between relatives, a loophole to bypass the law cause in Italy the surrogate motherhood is forbidden. A world in which money is the only standard of value, the only thing that matter. Ermanno and Lena are two strangers that must pretend in public to be a couple and live together until the delivery. They are used to only think about themselves and they fight all the time. But living side by side they start becoming what they were only pretending to be.
- DirectorRodrigo SorogoyenStarsMarta NietoJules PorierAlex BrendemühlTen years have passed since Elena's son, then six years old, has disappeared. Today Elena lives and works at a seaside restaurant until she meets a teenager who reminds her of her missing son.
- DirectorValentyn VasyanovychStarsAndriy RymarukLiudmyla BilekaVasyl AntoniakA soldier suffering from PTSD befriends a young volunteer hoping to restore peaceful energy to a war-torn society.