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- DirectorRoy AnderssonStarsJessica LouthanderTatiana DelaunayAnders HellströmRoy Andersson adds to his cinematic oeuvre with a reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, its splendour and banality.
- DirectorAtom EgoyanStarsLaysla De OliveiraLuke WilsonDavid ThewlisVeronica wants to remain in jail for a sexual assault she knows she's been wrongfully indicted for. She and her father, Jim, find themselves acting out of the bounds of good behavior as the past haunts them.
- DirectorPietro MarcelloStarsLuca MarinelliJessica CressyVincenzo NemolatoMartin Eden struggles to rise above his destitute, proletarian circumstances through an intense and passionate pursuit of self-education, hoping to achieve a place among the literary elite.
- DirectorYe LouStarsGong LiMark ChaoPascal GreggoryYu Jin is working undercover gathering intelligence for the Allies.
- DirectorRoman PolanskiStarsLouis GarrelChristophe MaratierPierre PoirotIn 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil's island.
- DirectorOlivier AssayasStarsPenélope CruzEdgar RamírezGael García BernalThe story of five Cuban political prisoners who had been imprisoned by the United States since the late 1990s on charges of espionage and murder.
- DirectorPablo LarraínStarsMariana Di GirólamoGael García BernalSantiago CabreraA couple deals with the aftermath of an adoption that goes awry as their household falls apart.
- DirectorVáclav MarhoulStarsPetr KotlárNina SunevicAlla SokolovaA young Jewish boy somewhere in Eastern Europe seeks refuge during World War II where he encounters many different characters.
- DirectorTiago GuedesStarsAlbano JerónimoSandra FaleiroAna Vilela da CostaThe chronicle of a Portuguese family that owns one of the largest estates in Europe, on the south bank of the River Tagus.
- DirectorTodd PhillipsStarsJoaquin PhoenixRobert De NiroZazie BeetzDuring the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.
- DirectorFranco MarescoStarsLetizia BattagliaCiccio MiraMatteo ManninoOn the 25th anniversary of Capaci and via D'Amelio bombings, Franco Maresco wonders what's left of their ideals and struggles in contemporary Sicily, dwelling on its relationship with the Mafia.
- DirectorShannon MurphyStarsEliza ScanlenMichelle LottersToby WallaceMilla, a seriously ill teenager, falls in love with a drug dealer, Moses, her parents' worst nightmare.
- DirectorNoah BaumbachStarsAdam DriverScarlett JohanssonJulia GreerNoah Baumbach's incisive and compassionate look at a marriage breaking up and a family staying together.
- DirectorSteven SoderberghStarsGary OldmanAntonio BanderasAJ MeijerA widow investigates an insurance fraud, chasing leads to a pair of Panama City law partners exploiting the world's financial system.
- DirectorRobert GuédiguianStarsAriane AscarideJean-Pierre DarroussinGérard MeylanIn Marseille, a family gathers for the birth of baby Gloria. But despite the joy, the young parents have fallen on tough times. As they try to make ends meet, they reconnect with Gloria's ex-convict grandfather.
- DirectorJames GrayStarsBrad PittTommy Lee JonesRuth NeggaAstronaut Roy McBride undertakes a mission across an unforgiving solar system to uncover the truth about his missing father and his doomed expedition that now, 30 years later, threatens the universe.
- DirectorKore-eda HirokazuStarsCatherine DeneuveJuliette BinocheEthan HawkeA stormy reunion between scriptwriter Lumir with her famous mother and actress, Fabienne, against the backdrop of Fabienne's autobiographic book and her latest role in a Sci-Fi picture as a daughter of a mother who never grows old.
- DirectorHaifaa Al-MansourStarsMila Al ZahraniDae Al HilaliNora Al AwadA determined young Saudi doctor's surprise run for office in the local city elections sweeps up her family and community as they struggle to accept their town's first female candidate.
- DirectorYonfanStarsSylvia ChangWei ZhaoAlex Tak-Shun LamZiming, a University undergraduate, is entangled between his amorous feelings for a self-exiled mother Mrs Yu from Taiwan and her beautiful daughter Meiling, in the era coincides with Hong Kong's turbulent times of 1967.
- DirectorCiro GuerraStarsMark RylanceJohnny DeppRobert PattinsonAt an isolated frontier outpost, a colonial magistrate suffers a crisis of conscience when an army colonel arrives looking to interrogate the locals about an impending uprising, using cruel tactics that horrify the magistrate.
- DirectorMario MartoneStarsDaniela IoiaEnzo BuonomoDaniele BaseliceThis particular version of Naples is home to Antonio Barracano, the young, vigorous and tattooed Mayor of Rione Sanità who plays by his own rules; a paternal figure who oversees the licit and illicit activities unfolding within the city.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorThéo CourtStarsAlfredo CastroLola RubioLars RudolphA wedding photographer becomes overly intrigued by a young bride-to-be.
- DirectorNunzia De StefanoStarsVirginia ApicellaPietra MontecorvinoRosy FranzeseNevia, a Neapolitan girl that comes from a poor family, joins a circus, trying to escape from poverty.
- 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.
- 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 SajayanJolly ChirayathTeenage 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.
- DirectorPema TsedenStarsSonam WangmoJinpaYangshik TsoA family struggles against the conflicting dictates of nature, spirituality, politics, and free will.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorGrear PattersonStarsJack IrvBen IrvingLily GavinA pair of players on a successful high school baseball team, the Giants, come of age in the American South.
- DirectorValentyn VasyanovychStarsAndriy RymarukLiudmyla BilekaVasyl AntoniakA soldier suffering from PTSD befriends a young volunteer hoping to restore peaceful energy to a war-torn society.
- DirectorFrancesca ArchibugiStarsMicaela RamazzottiAdriano GianniniRoisin O'DonovanLittle Lucilla suffers from asthma and it is immediately evident that it is a psychosomatic affection. Her mother Susi, a dance teacher, is always in a hurry.
- DirectorDavid MichôdStarsTom Glynn-CarneyGábor CzapTom FisherYoung Henry V encounters deceit, war and treachery after becoming King of England in the 15th century, in the aftermath of his brother's death.
- DirectorMatthew Michael CarnahanStarsWaleed ElgadiSuhail DabbachAdam BessaA police unit from Mosul fight to liberate the Iraqi city from thousands of ISIS militants.
- DirectorGiuseppe CapotondiStarsClaes BangElizabeth DebickiMick JaggerHired to procure a rare painting from one of the most enigmatic painters of all time, an ambitious art scholar becomes consumed by his own greed and insecurity as the operation spins out of control.
- DirectorCosta-GavrasStarsChristos LoulisAlexandros BourdoumisUlrich TukurGreece in 2015: the economy is in tatters and the country is on the verge of bankruptcy. A new government rebels against the EU's iron-fisted rule and inspires millions of Europeans. Based on the political memoirs of Yanis Varoufakis.
- DirectorGabriele SalvatoresStarsClaudio SantamariaValeria GolinoDiego AbatantuonoWhen his estranged father, a singer, unexpectedly shows up the mentally challenged Vincent decides to secretly join him on his concert tour, and the baffled father takes him from Italy to Slovenia and Croatia.
- DirectorBenedict AndrewsStarsKristen StewartYvan AttalGabriel SkyInspired by real events in the life of French New Wave icon Jean Seberg. In the late 1960s, Hoover's FBI targeted her because of her political and romantic involvement with civil rights activist Hakim Jamal.
- DirectorSean EvansRoger WatersStarsRufat AliyevFarshid AziziNikoo BaftiA look at Roger Waters' 2017-2018 concert tour.
- DirectorYervant GianikianI felt an urgent need to continue with I diari di Angela - Noi due cineasti. Capitolo secondo, for me a world of symbols and colors. Our long journey together could only be given new meaning again. I set out, with considerable reserve, to make the second part of the film that in 2018 had had a favorable reception all over the world. I thought for a long time about how to make use again of her words, her drawings and her silences. Angela and I filmed and wrote two parallel diaries. The images I shot around Europe, America and elsewhere fit perfectly with her writings.
- DirectorAlex GibneyStarsMikhail KhodorkovskyVladimir PutinLeonid NevzlinThe strange case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once believed to be the wealthiest man in Russia, who rocketed to prosperity and prominence in the 1990s, served a decade in prison, and became an unlikely martyr for the anti-Putin movement.
- DirectorDidi GnocchiCarolina RosiStarsFrancesco RosiCarolina RosiLirio AbbateThe documentary traces the history of our country through the cinema of Francesco Rosi, starting from the film that the director thought told the mother of all negotiations between the State and the mafias: "Lucky Luciano". By lining up his works most linked to the news, politics and Italian society: Salvatore Giuliano, La sfida, Le mani sulla città, Il caso Mattei, Cristo si è fermato a Eboli, Cadaveri eccellenti, Tre Fratelli, Uomini contro, Dimenticare Palermo, we obtain one of the most lucid analyses of Italian history. It is a journey in the civil cinema of Rosi, of the Citizen Rosi, as he liked to call himself. A journey that applies his method of work, the one that has allowed his films to resist the elements of novelty brought over time by investigations and historical analysis. As Rosi did, we worked on documents, desecrated materials from Italian and foreign archives, sentences, qualified testimonies of scholars, magistrates, men of cinema. The documentary is also a sentimental journey because the story of Francesco Rosi's life and cinema is told by his daughter Carolina, who has witnessed her father's work since she was a child and who assisted him with love until his death.
- DirectorLauren GreenfieldStarsImelda MarcosEtta RosalesFerdinand MarcosAn extraordinary look into the political career of Imelda Marcos, this documentary tells a cautionary tale of a powerful leader whose questionable sense of reality divided the Philippines.
- DirectorSergey LoznitsaStarsJoseph StalinNikita KhrushchevLavrenti BeriaThe enigma of the personality cult is revealed in the grand spectacle of Joseph Stalin's funeral.
- DirectorYann Arthus-BertrandAnastasia MikovaStarsNorma BastidasGabriela MelgozaShantel NasirWOMAN is a worldwide project giving voice to 2000 women in 50 different countries.
- DirectorAlexander NanauStarsDan Alexandru CondreaLiviu IoluRazvan LutacDirector Alexander Nanau follows a crack team of investigators at the Romanian newspaper Gazeta Sporturilor as they try to uncover a vast health-care fraud that enriched moguls and politicians and led to the deaths of innocent citizens.
- DirectorTim RobbinsStarsTim RobbinsSabra WilliamsHannah ChodosActor and director Tim Robbins goes to the maximum-security fortress of Calipatria State Prison to teach prisoners about acting and commedia dell'arte through insightful workshops that unite those men on a common goal that can change their lives.
- DirectorAndrea SegreAfter the II World War Italy came out of poverty thanks to industrial development, which gave to the country both new dreams and wounds. Today, Italy is experiencing a profound economic crisis; what remains of that story? To understand it, Andrea Segre entered the heart of Marghera, the Venice's industrial area, one of the largest and most decadent in the country, a space of great aesthetic appeal suspended between land and lagoon, where progress has often 'offended' nature. Following the lives of workers, managers, truck drivers and the cook of the last trattoria in the area, the film tries to understand what is left of that great dream, today immersed in the global flow of economy and migration.
- DirectorKonstantina KotzamaniStarsJuan Carlos AduviriNelly PrinceElisa MassinoOn Avenida Libertador 2050, a building moves and the ceiling shivers, causing a strange nausea that devours its residents. Those who live on the top are afraid they'll fall, the ones who live beneath are afraid they'll drown.
- DirectorGaspar NoéStarsMonica BellucciVincent CasselAlbert DupontelEvents over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in an underpass tunnel.
- DirectorMatthew WellsStarsAnthony FrewinJan HarlanKatharina KubrickPeople involved with the making of Stanley Kubrick's final film Eyes Wide Shut, as well as some of Kubrick's family, give their thoughts on the film, its production, its critical and commercial reception and its meaning.
- DirectorStanley KubrickStarsTom CruiseNicole KidmanTodd FieldA Manhattan doctor embarks on a bizarre, night-long odyssey after his wife's admission of unfulfilled longing.
- DirectorElisa AmorusoStarsChiara FerragniFedezAlanaChiara Ferragni, the first fashion influencer in the world, reveals how the digital revolution has changes business world, communication, fashion, culture, through a portrait in which she's the protagonist, both as a woman and as digital entrepreneur.
- DirectorNouri BouzidStarsNour HajriJoumene LimamAfef Ben MahmoudJanuary 2014. Zina and Joe, around 20, return to Tunisia from the Syrian front where they were sequestrated and raped. Zina has been separated from her two-month-old child, and Joe, being pregnant, locks herself and only talks about Syrian horror through her next novel "Raped". Nadia, a lawyer, and Dora, a humanitarian doctor, accompany them in their long and difficult reconstruction; between violence of relatives, hard feedback from social networks, and misery. Nadia, also a lawyer of Driss, 21, persecuted homosexual and expelled from all schools, asks her to help Zina.
- DirectorFederico FerroneMichele ManzoliniStarsEmidio Clementi1941. An Italian soldier heads to the Eastern Front, the bloodiest theater of conflict of World War II. 2018. Another war starts in the same area, reopening old wounds in Europe.
- DirectorNate ParkerStarsNate ParkerOmari HardwickBeau KnappA Marine veteran working as a school janitor tries to mend his relationship with his son after a divorce. When his son is killed by a police officer found innocent without standing trial, he takes matters into his own hands.
- DirectorGraeme Alistair ScottBuddy SquiresStarsGino StradaFollow NGO medics treating front-line injuries caused by explosions in Kabul, to Refugee Camps in Iraq as well as deployment on rescue boats off the coast of Libya. With rare insights from Emergency's late enigmatic founder Dr Gino Strada.
- DirectorAlessandro RossettoStarsDiego RibonMirko ArtusoMaria RoveranIn a thermal bath town that withstands mass tourism, a builder and his surveyor partner start up an ambitious project: converting twenty abandoned hotels into luxury residences for wealthy retired people. The lack of financial support from the banks and investors triggers a domino effect in their destiny that forever subverts reality.
- DirectorDominik MollStarsDenis MénochetLaure CalamyDamien BonnardA woman disappeared. After a snowstorm, her car is discovered on a road to a small remote village. While the police don't know where to start, five people are linked to the disappearance. Each one with his or her own secret.
- DirectorBartabasStarsBartabasBased on the recording of spectacular equestrian shows from the unique Theatre Equestre Zingaro company over three decades, time of the untamed is an inner journey through times and cultures, an introspection on the passing of time and the relation to others and to the world, a mesmerizing and fascinating tour through the creative mind of Bartabas.
- DirectorAmjad Abu AlalaStarsMustafa ShehataIslam MubarakMahmoud Maysara ElsarajShortly after Muzamil was born, the village's holy man predicts that he will die at age 20. Muzamil's father can't stand the curse and leaves home. Sakina raises her son as a single mother, overly protective. One day, Muzamil turns 19.
- DirectorFabienne BerthaudStarsCécile de FranceNarantsetseg DashTserendarizav DashnyamCorine, depressed after her husband's death, travels to Mongolia to record native songs. The encounter with a shaman who senses her grief is a life-changing experience. Corine returns home but soon goes back to become a shaman herself.
- DirectorJayro BustamanteStarsMaría Mercedes CoroySabrina De La HozMargarita KenéficAn aging paranoid war criminal, protected by his faithful wife, faces death while being haunted by the ghosts of his past.
- DirectorMattie DoStarsYannawoutthi ChanthalungsyVilouna PhetmanyPor SilatsaAn old Laotian hermit discovers that the ghost of a road accident victim can transport him back in time fifty years to the moment of his mother's painful death.
- DirectorDag Johan HaugerudStarsHenriette SteenstrupJan Gunnar RøiseThorbjørn HarrLykke (13), the daughter of a prominent Labour Party politician, has accidentally beaten her classmate Jamie, the son of a local right wing-politician, to death. Lykke claims Jamie's death was an accident, but nobody believes her. The school's principal, Liv, is an idealist who, against her political beliefs, has been living in a secret relationship with Karl Erik, Jamie's father. When they can't keep their relationship a secret anymore, the surroundings react with disbelief. Liv's brother Anders is Lykke and Jamie's class teacher. He was supposed to be in the school yard when the accident happened, and is overwhelmed with guilt for not having been able to prevent the accident from happening. Like water surrounding an undertow, we'll experience how the community relates to the accident and the aftermath. How could it happen - and how is it possible to continue living afterwards?
- DirectorIgor TuveriStarsToni ServilloValeria GolinoCarlo BuccirossoBased on the namesake book, the movie follows Peppino, an old hit man in a '70 Naples, forced to come back in action by the murder of his son. This tragic event also arises reflections on life and on the society in all the characters.
- DirectorJan KomasaStarsBartosz BieleniaAleksandra KoniecznaEliza RycembelDaniel experiences a spiritual transformation in a detention center. Although his criminal record prevents him from applying to the seminary, he has no intention of giving up his dream and decides to minister a small-town parish.
- DirectorManele LabidiStarsGolshifteh FarahaniMajd MastouraAïsha Ben MiledAfter years abroad in Paris, Selma returns to Tunis with the dream of opening up her own psychotherapy practice.
- DirectorJoe OdagiriStarsAkira EmotoRirika KawashimaNijirô MurakamiWhy does one need a ferryman? One needs a ferryman where there is a body of water and a bridge does not exist. The village high in the hills has a ferryman, but a bridge is in the works. The poor peasant is about to become even more poor. The people, livestock and goods won't need his services much longer. His life also takes an abrupt turn another way. He meets a young girl on a day when everything was supposed to go like any other day.
- DirectorIsabel SandovalStarsEamon FarrenLynn CohenLev GornAn undocumented Filipina transwoman falls in love in Brooklyn.
- DirectorStefano CipaniStarsAlessandro GassmannIsabella RagoneseRossy de PalmaJack has always wanted a little brother to play with, and when Gio is born, his parents tell him his brother is a "special" child. That's when Gio turns into a superhero with amazing powers in his big brother's imagination, like the ones in his comic books. Over time, however, Jack learns the truth: his brother has Down syndrome, a condition Jack decides to keep secret. When he goes to high school and falls in love with Arianna, he hides Gio's very existence from her and his new friends. But how can you expect someone to love you if you conceal such an important part of yourself? In no time, the truth comes out, and Jack realizes that Gio's energy and vitality are contagious. Gio's original outlook does indeed change the world, just like a superhero.
- DirectorP. David EbersoleTodd HughesStarsPierre CardinJean-Paul GaultierPhilippe StarckA rare peek into the mind of a genius, chronicling the life and design of Cardin. Exclusive access to his archives and his empire, and unprecedented interviews at the sunset of a glorious career.
- DirectorFederico OlivettiStarsSabrina ImpacciatorePaolo MosioNicola AndrettaA nondescript, law-abiding individual - a real "gray man" - goes out one morning to buy fish at the market, but crosses paths with an excitable mob of people he doesn't know. They think he's a thief and chase him down the street, until he shakes them off by hiding in a basement. A nasty and none too bright cop finds him there, roughs him up and searches him. Once he realizes he's innocent, the cop leaves, after ordering him not to move from the spot till he returns. The nondescript former suspect obeys the policeman to the letter, and waits for days, hands up, not moving a muscle, for his Messiah to come back for him.
- DirectorGianfranco PannoneAmbrogio SparagnaA tragicomic tour of Italy's recent history, and at the same time, a song of peace, the film is a backward glance that takes in over a hundred years, from the Unification of Italy to the present, to illustrate the rocky and often ironic relationship Italians have with the military and power in general. The film combines invaluable stock footage from the Istituto Luce Archives with marvelous folk songs and four diaries kept by: a soldier for the Kingdom of Italy in the 1800s, a fighter in Ethiopia in 1935, a female resistance fighter during World War II, and a sergeant in the Italian Navy in the Kosovo. The result is private stories and the collective memory of a people who, with two millennia of war under their belt, should have a few tips about world peace.
- DirectorMario SestiFootage from 12 erotic documentary films of the Sixties. A dynamic style of editing, sometimes almost hypnotic, is accompanied by contemporary music composed for the film. The rhythm of the editing is fragmented with the author's voice over quoting texts by Roland Barthes. The documentary takes us on a journey delving into the world of strip-tease, evoking desire and sex in the Sixties nightlife. Through interviews with critics and producers we understand the relationship between media and the representation of women. A therapist explains the work she undertakes in psycho-theatre groups on the use of a woman's body and a well-known burlesque performer expresses her art.
- DirectorPhillip YoumansStarsWendell PierceKaren Kaia LiversDominique McClellanAmongst the cane fields of rural Louisiana, an aging mother struggles between her religious convictions and the love of her son.
- DirectorMauro CaputoStarsFulvio FalzaranoOmero AntonuttiAntonio CacaceThe message is all in the white spaces between one letter and the next: the rest doesn't matter. One cold winter morning, Dr. Fleischmann (literally, 'man of flesh') realizes he is starting to lose his memory. So begins a morality tale, in a dream-like state in which truth and fiction become entangled and lose their contours. The main character, a scientist, is reluctantly drawn into a world - his disease - in which mysterious bonds prevail: those between fate and the biological and physiological criteria that regulate existence.
- DirectorTomaso PessinaStarsToni ServilloThe documentary is about the well-known Venetian artist, Emilio Vedova, born exactly one hundred years ago. Our guide to the artist's life is his own diaries, read to us by a superb actor: Toni Servillo. The portrait of the artist is rounded out by interviews with influential figures in the art world who knew Vedova and saw him in action. Above all, however, it is Vedova himself who erupts on the screen, thanks to never-before-seen archival footage and his own painting style.
- DirectorJared P. ScottStarsInna ModjaSonghoy BluesDidier AwadiAcademy Award-nominee Fernando Meirelles (City of God (2002)) and Malian musician Inna Modja take us on an epic journey to the frontline of the climate crisis along Africa's ambitious Great Green Wall.
- DirectorGiancarlo SoldiStarsTinto BrassMilo ManaraMario MartoneValentina the creature of Guido Crepax, the elegant and sophisticated, erotic dream for men, a symbol for women of independence, charm, and seduction. An amazing biographical odyssey, between dreams and desires to discover the great artist.
- DirectorAntonio RuoccoMaddalena StornaiuoloStarsAgostino ChiummarielloAlessio ContePina Di GennaroIn a middle school on the northern outskirts of Naples, a teenager roughly fifteen years old appears before the examiners to earn his diploma. The professors are as skeptical as can be expected about a student who has repeated the year more than once, but the boy isn't intimidated and delivers his oral report about history, his own personal history, marred by a tragedy, and then moves on to discuss the human body and the sculpture The Veiled Christ. The teachers hear him out in silence; a passing grade is all he asks for. The film was conceived and produced as part of a film production course at Vodisca Teatro / La Scugnizzeria held by Gianluca Arcopinto and Vincenzo Marra.
- DirectorHailey GatesStarsAlia ShawkatCristian ValleSara BoutineFarah, a bread seller, walks the streets of a Middle Eastern town, while an American military vehicle, surrounded by soldiers, slowly passes by. A moment's silence. Then, a devastating explosion. Civilians are bloodied, wounded. The horrors of war. "Farah" looks around aghast and wailing. But nothing here is quite what it seems. In fact, "Farah" is a character played by an aspiring actress called Laila. And this isn't Iraq, but a replica village erected on the Fort Irwin army base in California, used to train American troops before being sent abroad. Laila believes her acting talents are being wasted away in this arid simulation, where female role-players are limited to mute, background roles. She takes things much more seriously. Laila plots her way out.
- DirectorLynne RamsayStarsBrigitte LacombeLynne RamsayDaniel BlumbergFramed round a candid conversation between the photographer Brigitte Lacombe and the film maker discussing their process and fascination with images as well as Brigitte's close relationship to her sister Marian Lacombe (whom she works and travels with). Lynne sets up and films a real time photo shoot for Brigitte, selecting a "cast" for her to photograph with a theme of sisters and creative siblings, allowing us to closely observe the photographer at work. A cast of some true relations, close friend's considered sisters and "siblings" with modern re-definitions of family not connected by blood. An insight into Brigitte's creative process, her obsession with taking pictures and how her lens defines her relationship with her subjects and the world.
- DirectorAhmad GhosseinStarsKaram GhosseinFlavia BecharaIssam Bou KhaledLebanon, July 2006. War is raging between Hezbollah and Israel. During a 24h ceasefire, Marwan heads out in search of his father who refused to leave his Southern village and leaves his wife Rana preparing alone their immigration to Canada. Marwan finds no traces of his father and the ceasefire is quickly broken, forcing him to take shelter in Najib's house, his father's friend. Marwan finds himself trapped under the rain of bombs with Najib and a group of elders, friends of his father. Tension rises inside and outside of the house. Suddenly, a group of Israeli soldiers enter the first floor. The next three days sees the situation spiral out of control.
- DirectorMantas KvedaraviciusStarsAdupa John Robert AkikiHanna BilobrovaRita BurkovskaIn a cheap brothel at the foothills of an Athenian fortress, a man recounts the magnificent events of his life. His search for love and glory is retold and relived by many: a prostitute with an unredeemable past, a gangster haunted by bad luck, an icon painter who has no faith - In one of the stories, the man finds his riches, in another he becomes a vagabond prophet, in yet another he returns home to his wife. Memories betray him, but he knows for sure that in one of these lives, he will be killed.
- DirectorSebastián MuñozStarsJuan Carlos MaldonadoAlfredo CastroGastón PaulsA '70s-set homoerotic prison drama based on a low-circulated pulp novel, tracking the sexual, often-violent and eventually murderous experiences of 20-something narcissist Jaime.
- DirectorMarie Grahtø SørensenStarsLisa CarlehedVic Carmen SonneTrine DyrholmViktoria, an odd, extremely self-disciplined researcher in the field of suicide, is invited to a psych ward to treat suicidal patient Jenny. Through intimate nocturnal conversations, they form a tight bond. Viktoria slowly opens up to experience closeness with another for the first time in her life, but the closer the two women get, the more it becomes clear that something is not as it seems.
- DirectorBillie PiperStarsBillie PiperLeo BillKerry FoxAn anti rom-com about Mandy, a career-driven single mother, who falls in love with the charming, traditionalist Pete.
- DirectorShahad AmeenStarsAshraf BarhomBasima HajjarFatima Al TaeiSet in a dystopian landscape, SCALES is the story of a young strong-willed girl, Hayat, who lives in a poor fishing village governed by a dark tradition in which every family must give one daughter to the sea creatures who inhabit the waters nearby. In turn the sea creatures are hunted by the men of the village. Saved from this fate by her father, Hayat is considered a curse on the village and grows up an outcast. Nevertheless, she does not surrender to this fate and fights for a place within her village. After her mother gives birth to a baby boy, Hayat must accept the brutal custom of giving herself to the sea creatures or finding a way to escape.
- DirectorAscanio PetriniStarsPasquale DonatoneOne day, Pasquale decides to change his name and be called Tony. Because despite being born in Bari in the mid-60s, he crossed the ocean with his family at 9 years of age and grew up as a real American, all hot dogs and rockabilly. He has never been back to Italy until when, now a taxi driver in Yuma, he's arrested on account of his side hustle - smuggling illegal immigrants into the US across the Mexican border. He is therefore forced to make a choice: jail in Arizona or deportation to Italy. Once back in Puglia, he finds himself living alone in a cave at Polignano a Mare, looking at Italy as a small, inert country, with no opportunities and no dreams. But Tony is not willing to give up.
- DirectorGitanjali RaoStarsCyli KhareAmit DeondiGargi ShitoleBOMBAY ROSE is a beautiful hand-painted animation created by award winning animator Gitanjali Rao. Amidst the bustle of a magnetic and multifaceted city, the budding love between two dreamers is tested by duty and religious divides.