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- DirectorPeter KerekesStarsMaryna KlimovaIryna KiryazevaLyubov VasylynaFollows the real-life stories of 107 mothers in the Odesa prison in Ukraine.
- DirectorYvan AttalStarsBen AttalSuzanne JouannetCharlotte GainsbourgA young man is accused of raping a young woman.
- DirectorBertrand MandicoStarsElina LöwensohnPaula LunaVimala PonsA chimeric future on After Blue, a planet from another galaxy, a virgin planet where only women can survive in the midst of harmless flora and fauna. The story is of a punitive expedition.
- DirectorNadav LapidStarsAvshalom PollakNur FibakOded AzulayAn Israeli filmmaker throws himself in the midst of two battles doomed to fail: one against the death of freedom, the other against the death of a mother.
- DirectorJoel CoenEthan CoenStarsJeff BridgesJohn GoodmanJulianne MooreJeff "The Dude" Lebowski, mistaken for a millionaire of the same name, seeks restitution for his ruined rug and enlists his bowling buddies to help get it.
- DirectorTea LindeburgStarsFlora Ofelia Hofmann LindahlIda Cæcilie RasmussenPalma Lindeburg LethOn a farm in the late 1800s, an intense wait begins when a mother goes into a complicated labour and 14-year-old Lise must prepare herself for a night that could change her life forever.
- DirectorKamila AndiniStarsHappy SalmaLaura BasukiArswendy Bening SwaraNana, a gentle, beautiful young woman, escapes a violent anti-communist purge. Afterwards she lives comfortably as the second wife of a rich Sundanese man but her past re-emerges in her dreams.
- DirectorTerence DaviesStarsJack LowdenThom AshleyOrlando JoplingLegendary 20th century English war poet Siegfried Sassoon embarks on a life-long quest for personal salvation through his experiences with family, war, his writing, and destructive relationships. True salvation can only come from within.
- DirectorClaire DenisStarsJuliette BinocheVincent LindonGrégoire ColinA love triangle story about a woman caught between two men, her long-time partner and his best friend, her former lover.
- DirectorArnaud DesplechinStarsMarion CotillardMelvil PoupaudGolshifteh FarahaniAlice and Louis are estranged siblings who have been avoiding each other for over twenty years and are forced to reunite after a tragedy.
- DirectorMaksym NakonechnyiStarsRita BurkovskaValivots LiubomyrMyroslava Vytrykhovska-MakarReturning home from the front line after being held captive for two months, soldier Lilia (29 y.o.) discovers that she is pregnant after being raped by her warden. Will she manage to survive this trauma and save the child in a society that is not ready to accept either of them?
- DirectorJonas CarpignanoStarsSwamy RotoloPio AmatoCarmelo CaccamoFollows the story of 15-year-old Chiara whose close-knit family falls apart after her father abandons them in Calabria.
- DirectorBernard CampanAlexandre JollienStarsBernard CampanAlexandre JollienTiphaine DaviotTwo men, with vastly different life stories and personalities, embark on a hearse heading to the south of France. During their journey they realize that, however unlikely, they're not so different after all.
- DirectorFlorian Heinzen-ZiobStarsMalou AiraudoJorge Puerta ArmentaGloria U. BiachiTwo spectacular dance projects show how a young generation of dancers from all over the world are rediscovering Pina's choreography: the Semperoper Ballet Company in Dresden rehearses Pina's dance opera Iphigenia in Tauris, and dancers from all over Africa rehearse Pina's ballet Le Sacre du Printemps at the École des Sables in Senegal. A fascinating metamorphosis: while the dancers of street dance, classical ballet, traditional and modern African dance transform Pina's work, Pina's choreography transforms the dancers.
- DirectorManuel Martín CuencaStarsJavier GutiérrezPatricia López ArnaizIrene VirgüezA pregnant teenager comes to a tense agreement with the couple sheltering her.
- DirectorCatherine CorsiniStarsValeria Bruni TedeschiMarina FoïsPio MarmaïTwo women on the verge of a breakup, in a hospital, are further stressed on the night of a big demonstration by the overwhelmed staff and by angry, injured protestors who land up besieging the building.
- DirectorCharo MatoWhen I became deaf at the age of 23, I decided to get a cochlear implant. As I began to regain my memories of lost sounds, I asked myself: How does someone who doesn't hear listen?
- DirectorGeorge MillerStarsTilda SwintonIdris ElbaErdil YasarogluA lonely scholar, on a trip to Istanbul, discovers a Djinn who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom.
- DirectorKornél MundruczóStarsLili MonoriAnnamária LángGoya RegoEpisodes trace three generations of a family, from a surreal memory of World War II to modern day Berlin, unable to process their past in a society still coping with the wounds of its history.
- DirectorPeter StricklandStarsAsa ButterfieldGwendoline ChristieAriane LabedSet at an institute devoted to culinary and alimentary performance, a collective finds themselves embroiled in power struggles, artistic vendettas, and gastrointestinal disorders.
- DirectorBruno DumontStarsLéa SeydouxBlanche GardinBenjamin BiolayA celebrity journalist, juggling her busy career and personal life, has her life over-turned by a freak car accident.
- DirectorLukas MoodyssonStarsAlexandra DahlströmRebecka LiljebergErica CarlsonTwo teenage girls in small-town Sweden. Elin is beautiful, popular, and bored with life. Agnes is friendless, sad, and secretly in love with Elin.
- DirectorPietro MarcelloFrancesco MunziAlice RohrwacherStarsPietro MarcelloFrancesco MunziCarlotta ParodiA portrait of Italy observed through the eyes of teenagers who talk about the places they live in and imagine themselves, torn between the opportunities that surround them, the dream of what they want to become, the fear of failing, the trials they hope to overcome.
- DirectorLászló CsujaAnna NemesStarsEszter CsonkaGyörgy TurósCsaba KrisztikEdina, a female bodybuilder is ready to sacrifice everything for the dream she shares with her life partner and trainer Adam: to win the Miss Olympia. The odd love she finds on her way makes her see the difference between her dreams and her true self.
- DirectorSusanne Regina MeuresThe 14-year-old Leonie, a successful influencer living on the outskirts of Berlin.
- DirectorSebastian MeiseStarsFranz RogowskiGeorg FriedrichAnton von LuckeIn post-war Germany, liberation by the Allies does not mean freedom for everyone. Hans is repeatedly imprisoned under Paragraph 175, which criminalizes homosexuality. Over the decades, he develops an unlikely bond with his cellmate Viktor.
- DirectorCécile DucrocqStarsLaure CalamyNissim RenardBéatrice FacquerMarie, an independent and militant woman, has never needed anyone's help, including when it comes to raise her son. When the latter is expelled from his certificate of professional competence training class, Marie cannot accept it. Dreaming of a brighter future for him, she decides to enroll him in one of the best cooking schools in France. But her income does not allow her to pay the school fees. She has to find a solution, at any cost.
- DirectorMathieu AmalricStarsVicky KriepsArieh WorthalterAnne-Sophie Bowen-ChatetA woman one day simply walks out on her family. Or does she?
- DirectorRenée WebsterStarsSally PhillipsHayley McElhinneyCaroline BrazierWhen her all-male house-cleaning business gets out of control, a mature woman must embrace her own sexuality, if she is to make a new life for herself.
- DirectorClaire SimonStarsSwann ArlaudEmmanuelle DevosChristophe PaouThe relationship between French writer Marguerite Duras and her last partner Yann Andréa, who was 38 years her junior.
- DirectorSophie HydeStarsEmma ThompsonDaryl McCormackIsabella LaughlandNancy Stokes, a retired school teacher, is yearning for some adventure, and some sex. And she has a plan, which involves hiring a young sex worker named Leo Grande.
- DirectorMervi EnqvistStarsLaura Eklund NhagaLaura's mother is Finnish and her father is African. She leaves Finland where he is uncomfortable,for England and then Chicago, as she tries to deal with her biracial identity through poetry and study.
- DirectorAleksi SalmenperäStarsStella LeppikorpiMinna HaapkyläTommi Korpela"Bubble" is a film about a 16-year-old Eveliina who decides to end her mother's extramarital relationship.
- DirectorJukka KärkkäinenJ-P PassiStarsPertti KurikkaKari AaltoSami HelleA Finnish punk-rock band formed by four mentally disabled guys.
- DirectorMax LinzStarsHauke HeumannMartha MechowJeremy MockridgeA composer named Hans List fought on the barricades of the Paris Commune in 1871. He now wakes up to a new life in the present, moving through Berlin-Mitte without identification.
- DirectorRodrigo LitorriagaStarsJaviera GallardoAatos FloresFrancisco OssaFrancisca, a 19-year-old girl, lives with her family in the small town of Tocopilla, in the Atacama Desert, Chile, where they own a little gas station. Francisca dreams of leaving the city, but she needs to take care of her brother, Diego, a 8-year-old boy with autism - because of the disorder, he cannot communicate. Francisca allows Diego to have private classes with Fernando, the school's new teacher who promises to use new pedagogical methods to help the child. But, as the earthquakes that shake their town, Fernando becomes a threat inside the house.
- DirectorValdimar JóhannssonStarsNoomi RapaceHilmir Snær GuðnasonBjörn Hlynur HaraldssonA childless couple discovers a mysterious newborn on their farm in Iceland.
- DirectorEran KolirinStarsAlex BakriJuna SuleimanSalim DawA gently satirical tale of a man and his family trapped by military blockade inside a tiny Arab village in Israel.
- DirectorXavier GiannoliStarsBenjamin VoisinCécile de FranceVincent LacosteLucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, he learns the dark side of the arts business as he tries to stay true to his dreams.
- DirectorEmmanuelle NicotStarsZelda SamsonAlexis ManentiFanta GuirassyDalva is 12, but she dresses and lives like a woman. One day, she's taken away from her house. Dumbfounded at first, she later meets Jayden, a social worker, and Samia, a teen with a temper. A new life seems to start for Dalva.
- DirectorAlauda Ruiz de AzúaStarsLaia CostaSusi SánchezRamón BareaAmaia, who has just become a mother, decides to return for guidance after her partner is temporarily away, to her parents' house along the Basque coast.
- DirectorVincent Maël CardonaStarsThimotée RobartMarie ColombJoseph OlivennesA kid living in Brittany in the 1980s is called up for military service and drafted to West Berlin.
- DirectorNoel ClearyStarsCoco Jack GilliesBenson Jack AnthonyJimmy James EatonWhen Maya, a headstrong little bee, and her best friend Willi, rescue an ant princess they find themselves in the middle of an epic bug battle that will take them to strange new worlds and test their friendship to its limits.
- DirectorDominik MollStarsBastien BouillonBouli LannersThéo CholbiIt is said that every investigator has a crime that haunts them, a case that hurts him more than the others, without him necessarily knowing why. For Yohan that case is the murder of Clara.
- DirectorDietrich BrüggemannStarsAnna BrüggemannAlexander KhuonIsolde BarthDina, an actress, and Michael, a doctor, struggle to balance their relationship with their responsibilities as parents and fears of unemployment.
- DirectorAlain GuiraudieStarsJean-Charles ClichetNoémie LvovskyIlies KadriChristmas Eve is ruined by an act of terrorism in the city of Clermont-Ferrand. As the city descends into panic, thirty-something Mederic falls in love with older prostitute Isadora.
- DirectorMario MartoneStarsPierfrancesco FavinoFrancesco Di LevaTommaso RagnoAfter 40 years of absence, Felice returns to his hometown: Naples. He rediscovers the places, the codes of the city and a past that eats away at him.
- DirectorMariano CohnGastón DupratStarsPenélope CruzAntonio BanderasOscar MartínezA wealthy businessman hires a famous filmmaker to help make a smash hit film.
- DirectorRachel LangStarsLouis GarrelCamille CottinIna Marija BartaitéNika, a woman in her early twenties, leaves Ukraine to follow her boyfriend Vlad, a young soldier based in a military camp in Corsica. While there, she meets Céline, the wife of Commander Maxime.
- DirectorJuanjo Giménez PeñaStarsMarta NietoMiki EsparbéLuisa MerelasA sound designer finds refuge from broken relationships with her ex, her colleagues and her mother in the studio, where she can spend hours recording Foley and wild tracks, editing and mixing. But is her brain starting to slip out of sync?
- DirectorPaolo GenoveseStarsAlessandro BorghiJasmine TrincaVinicio MarchioniThe story of a couple: Anna, a cartoonist with an impulsive and nonconformist personality, and Marco, a physics teacher convinced that everything is ruled by a kind of formula. Linked by no reason, they are the real superheroes: you need superpowers to love each other for a lifetime.
- DirectorHanna BergholmStarsSiiri SolalinnaSophia HeikkiläJani VolanenA young gymnast, who tries desperately to please her demanding mother, discovers a strange egg. She hides it and keeps it warm, but when it hatches, what emerges shocks them all.
- DirectorLaura WandelStarsMaya VanderbequeGünter DuretElsa LaforgeWhen Nora witnesses Abel being bullied by other kids, she rushes to protect him. But Abel forces her to remain silent. Caught in a conflict of loyalty, Nora tries to find her place, torn between children's and adults' worlds.
- DirectorWendla NölleStarsDagmar ManzelRolf LassgårdAnna BlomeierJuditha and Erik in their 60s are facing the wife's illness, the shame and disappointment related to it, as well as expectations and ever-changing hopes. A couple will need to rediscover the foundation of their marriage to find each other again.
- DirectorAndreas DresenStarsMeltem KaptanAlexander ScheerCharly HübnerDesperate to help her son, Rabiye Kurnaz, a housewife and loving mother from Bremen, goes to the police, notifies authorities and almost despairs at their impotence and in the end, against all the odds, something truly remarkable happens.
- DirectorIker ElorrietaStarsFalco CaboUsúe ÁlvarezJaime AdalidAfter his mother's death, Nikolas, autistic and obsessed by the radio, moves to the coast, determined to demonstrate his independence.
- DirectorUlrich SeidlStarsMichael ThomasTessa GöttlicherHans-Michael RehbergThe death of his mother brings Richie Bravo back from his adopted home in Italy to his teenage bedroom in Lower Austria, where Charlton Heston is still flexing his biceps and Winnetou is still alive.
- DirectorDina DumaStarsAntonija BelazelkoskaMia GiraudMarija JancevskaThe friendship of two adolescent girls is threatened the moment they have to face the dire repercussions of their manipulative behaviour.
- DirectorLaura SamaniStarsCeleste CescuttiOndina QuadriIvo BanItaly, 1900. Agata is a young woman who embarks on a desperate journey to reach a mysterious sanctuary to save her daughter's soul from the eternal damnation of Limbo.
- DirectorChristoffer SandlerStarsNikki HansebladMelina Benett PaukkonenEmil AlgpeusWhile desperately trying to find ways to get her ADHD medication, 18-year-old Joanna is trying to figure out her newfound feelings towards her classmate Audrey, but also towards herself.
- DirectorTeemu NikkiStarsPetri PoikolainenMarjaana MaijalaSamuli JaskioJaakko and Sirpa have never met face to face but they talk on the phone every day. When he hears about her declining health, he decides to go meet her in another city; a challenge if you can't see and are paralyzed from the chest down.
- DirectorKurdwin AyubStarsMelina BenliLaw WallnerMaya WopienkaIn a moment of ordinary madness, three girlfriends decide to shoot a burqa music video.
- DirectorJoanna HoggStarsNeil YoungTosin ColeJack McMullenA young film student in the early '80s becomes romantically involved with a complicated and untrustworthy man.
- DirectorJoanna HoggStarsTilda SwintonHonor Swinton ByrneJames Spencer AshworthIn the aftermath of her tumultuous relationship, Julie begins to untangle her fraught love for him in making her graduation film, sorting fact from his elaborately constructed fiction.
- DirectorKristen AbateSteven TanenbaumStarsKristen AbateSasha BoykinAJ CedenoIn a funk, Kristen, a physically disabled New York woman, walks dogs for a living but dreams of being a writer and as her life unravels, she must make a choice to fall apart or straighten up.
- DirectorNanni MorettiStarsRiccardo ScamarcioElena LiettiAlba RohrwacherThe story of three families living in three apartments in the same bourgeois condominium.
- DirectorTony GatlifStarsDavid MurgiaSlimane DaziKaroline Rose SunIn the mystical French region of Camargue, Tom Medina turns up, on probation, on the doorstep of big-hearted Ulysses. Tom dreams of becoming a good person. But he's thwarted by the hostility flung in his general direction, which shows no sign of abating.
- DirectorAlli HaapasaloStarsAamu MilonoffEleonoora KauhanenLinnea LeinoThree young women try to defy the persistent winter darkness in Finland. In the process, they move between dreams, reality, friendship and relationships, and try to make sense of the whole mess.
- DirectorCyril SchäublinStarsAlisa MiloglyadovaElisaveta KrimanOlga BushkovaIn late 19th century Switzerland, a factory worker becomes involved with a local group of anarchist watchmakers.
- DirectorAndrea SegreStarsAnna BellatoRoberto CitranSara LazzaroTwo brothers are in conflict over the way the Venetian lagoon has been transformed, and the identity of the city and its residents has drastically changed.
- DirectorJoão Pedro RodriguesStarsMauro da CostaAndré CabralMargarida Vila-Nova2069, an erotic year if ever there was one, but a fateful year for a king without a crown.
- DirectorJonás TruebaStarsItsaso AranaVito SanzFrancesco CarrilOne winter night in Madrid, two couples of friends in their thirties are having dinner. Susana and Dani rejoice in their new home, on the outskirts of town and close to the countryside, then announce the imminent arrival of a child.
- DirectorDina AmerStarsLorenza GrimaudoIlonna GrimaudoMouna SoualemWhen two young sisters are torn apart, the eldest loses her identity and transforms into someone new in the name of belonging and resistance.
- DirectorKamila AndiniStarsArawinda KiranaAsmara AbigailSekar SariIn her last year of secondary school, a bright Indonesian student is determined to pursue her education and resist getting married, despite the expectations of her community.
- DirectorMagdaleena JakkilaStarsLena LabartTuomas Rinta-PanttilaSaana KoivistoAs an impending invasion of space crabs threaten Earth, Pirjo and her alien pet crab Sebastian attempt a desperate escape.
- DirectorJesse JalonenStarsArttu TimlinIda-Maria OlvaKimiya EskandariA quiet observation of the people among us who are only visible through cameras, their need to be seen and the loneliness that connects us all.
- DirectorBruce GladwinStarsMark DeansZev EleftheriouEmma J. HawkinsDes and Tam are members of a cleanup crew in a strange toxic wasteland. It's a lousy job, but it's the best they can get, and it may just get them what they want. But when they randomly come across what may be the wasteland's last human survivor, these lowly cleaners will have to decide between getting what they were working for, and doing what is right. 'Oddlands' is a story about two unlikely heroes who manage to find a little humanity in the strangest of places. The question is, what will they do when they find it?
- DirectorAndrew PengilleyStarsIan KaneLilibeth LangfordLuke PerczykAn introverted boy is given a magic leaf from 'The Mirror Tree' that transports him to another world.
- DirectorStef SmithStarsChantelle AttardChristine BlanchKate BoxA woman in need of help, uses a VR counselling program to form a new human connection and process old wounds to make it through one more day.
- DirectorJoona TenaStarsSenni PeltoniemiLucas TimperiLumo LevySuperhero Furball undertakes a mission to protect bees vital to the planet, but first must reform a school bully, whose redemption holds the key to saving the environment.
- DirectorPetr OukropecStarsSebastian PötheTomás BambusekKristýna BokováThe forest literally appears to have come to life and Martin finds himself an unlikely hero, in this magical adventure and an upbeat tale with an environmental twist.
- DirectorArild Østin OmmundsenSilje SalomonsenStarsBillie ØstinVega ØstinMette ArnstadTwo sisters set off on an epic journey across the Norwegian wilderness to find help for their father, who has fallen into a mountain crack.
- DirectorAnouk FortunierStarsJohan HeldenberghSavannah VandendriesscheHilde De BaerdemaekerA father leaves his unhappy job at a bank to pursue an acting career.
- DirectorMaurice TrouwborstStarsAnniek PheiferBram BlankestijnDunya KhayameA fighter pilot travels back in time to save the future world from environmental disaster, but a side-effect turns her young again and no-one takes her seriously.
- DirectorJuha WuolijokiStarsKuura RossiMartti SuosaloPirjo HeikkiläA young boy becomes a crime-fighting superhero with the help of a mysterious pharmacist's invisibility powder.
- DirectorIngvild SøderlindStarsKaren ØyeSerhat YildirimCengiz AlHow wonderful and awful isn't it to be in love when you are young!? A story about friendship, love, and independence, being a minority youngster. Based on Maria Navarro Skarangers debut novel.
- DirectorGabriele SalvatoresStarsLudovico GirardelloValeria GolinoFabrizio BentivoglioMichele is thirteen year old, shy, unpopular at school, and in love with Stella. After wearing a costume for a Halloween party, he finds out that he's invisible.
- 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.
- DirectorJean-Gabriel PériotStarsAdèle HaenelJacques DelorsJacques DuclosBased on the novel by Didier Eribon, the film tells an intimate and political story of the French working class from the beginning of the 1950s to today.
- DirectorIiris HärmäStarsMar CabezaÁlvaro Fernández-LlamazaresJob Guol NasakThe story of the film takes place in Turkana, Kenya. This unique place is also known as the Cradle of Humankind where the discoveries of prehistorical human origins are made. The area is nowadays inhabited by the indigenous pastoral tribe called Daasanach. Our main character Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares, Spanish ethnobiologist arrive to Turkana to study the relationship between humans and nature. He becomes friends with a tribe member Job Nasak, who guides him into the daily life of the village. Alvaro gets impressed by traditional fables and animal stories of the tribe and he is asked to collect them for the first ever Daasanach language story book. The stories paint a picture of vivid nature and a rich wildlife. But while exploring the national park Alvaro discovers dry and bare landscape with hardly any animals left. So starts a fascinating story from the Cradle of Humankind, a story of the nomadic people's struggle to survive, of poaching, nature reserve rangers, tribal wars over scarce resources and prehistoric fossils. The two worlds of biologists and the tribe members collide revealing the values of wildlife and nature for both.
- DirectorMagnus GerttenStarsTrien de Haan-ZwagermanLola SylmanNadine HwangNelly and Nadine is the unlikely love story between two women falling in love on Christmas Eve, 1944, in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. For many years their relationship was kept a secret.
- DirectorJoachim TrierStarsRenate ReinsveAnders Danielsen LieHerbert NordrumThe chronicles of four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is.
- DirectorJason KohnStarsDusan SimicMartin RapaportAja RadenIllusions and reality merge, where authenticity and imagination overlap, and questions arise about the value we place on the goods around us.
- DirectorPier Paolo PasoliniStarsEnrique IrazoquiMargherita CarusoSusanna PasoliniThe life of Jesus Christ according to the Gospel of Matthew. Pasolini shows Christ as a Marxist avant-la-lettre and therefore uses half of the text of Matthew.
- DirectorAnna ErikssonStarsAnna ErikssonParco LeeJussi ParviainenTerminally ill Madame Europa languishes at her last post in the company of her Chinese man-machine. There is a sadomasochistic relationship between them. They are on the run from a war that is inexorably approaching through the darkness.
- DirectorMika TaanilaFinnish engineer Eric Tigerstedt solved the dilemma of sound-on-film already before World War I. All images and sounds in this short film are produced from the surviving test materials originally created in 1914.
- DirectorVille HakonenJussi SandhuStarsRisto-Pekka BlomTuija HalttunenJyrki HuttunenThe United Nations selected Finland as the happiest country in the world twice in a row. Finns are still very skeptical about this recognition - they tend to see themselves as melancholic, pessimistic and dreary. Is this really the best possible life? A poetic documentary that plows deep into the nation's soul and visits places where these Nordic people can be found at their happiest.
- DirectorTommi SeitajokiStarsAlma PöystiElmer BäckElwa HöglundThe dissolution of a family in 10 minutes.
- DirectorZaida BergrothStarsKalle HögbackaKatja Küttner
- DirectorAntti HolmaStarsLaura BirnPirkko HämäläinenPietu WikströmBlack drama-comedy about elementary school teacher Kaisa who has lost control of her life.