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I Saw the TV Glow and Brief History Of A Family
Afterwar
(Country: Finland, Denmark; Year: 2024; Director: Birgitte Stærmose; Writer: Birgitte Stærmose; Stars: Luan Jaha, Besnik Hyseni, Shpresim Azemi, Afrim Muçaj, Xhevahire Abdullahu, Florim Krasniqi, Leotrim Kraniqi, Shpëtim Krasniqi, Molike Maxhuni, Gëzim Kelmendi, Valon Selimi, Lirija Abdullahu, Sadije Abdullahu, Shkëlqim Krasniqi)
Filmed across 15 years, the director met cast as children in postwar Pristina and then returned when they were adults... they tell their collective story based on their lived experience.
Aguacuario
(Country: Mexico; Year: 2023; Director: Jose Eduardo Castilla Ponce; Writer: Jose Eduardo Castilla Ponce; Stars: Marsell Moreno Cruz, Hugo Benítez Guerra, Claudio Jurado)
All Shall Be Well
(Country: Hong Kong, China; Year: 2024; Director: Ray Yeung; Writer: Ray Yeung; Stars: Patra Au, Lin-Lin Li, Tai-Bo, So-Ying Hui, Chung-Hang Leung, Fish Liew, Rachel Leung, Lai Chai Ming, Li Lai Ha, Luna Shaw, Gia Yu Yuk Wah, Bonde Sham, Hon-Fai Ho, Michael Khan, Miles Sible)
Andrea Gets A Divorce (Andrea lässt sich scheiden)
(Country: Austria; Year: 2024; Director: Josef Hader; Writer: Josef Hader, Florian Kloibhofer, Hans-Christian Schmid, Bernadette Klausberger, Florian Mischa Böder; Stars: Birgit Minichmayr, Josef Hader, Thomas Schubert, Robert Stadlober, Branko Samarovski, Thomas Stipsits, Maria Hofstätter, Marlene Hauser, Margarete Tiesel, Wolfgang Hübsch, Dominik Warta, Michael Pink, Karl Leopold Furtlehner, Gerhard Haubenberger, Michael Edlinger)
Rural policewoman Andrea wants to end her marriage and become a detective inspector in the city. After a birthday party, her drunken soon-to-be ex-husband runs out in front of her car. In a state of shock, Andrea commits a hit-and-run.
Baldiga – Unlocked Heart (Baldiga – Entsichertes Herz)
(Country: Germany; Year: 2024; Director: Markus Stein; Stars: Birgit Baldiga, Jürgen Baldiga, Bernd Boßmann, Timo Lewandovsky, Ulf Reimer)
Using diary excerpts, photographs and memories from companions, the film paints the portrait of the artist Jürgen Baldiga.
Between The Temples and My Stolen Planet
Betânia
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2024; Director: Marcelo Botta; Writer: Marcelo Botta; Stars: Diana Mattos, Ulysses Azevedo, Nádia de Cássia, Caçula Rodrigues, Michelle Cabral, Tião Carvalho, Rosa Ewerton Jara, Vitão Santiago, Anouk Mulard, Tim Vidal, Caiçara Vibration)
After losing her husband, 65-year-old midwife Betânia is persuaded by her daughters to leave her remote village in a bid for a fresh start.
Between The Temples
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Nathan Silver; Writer: Nathan Silver, C Mason Wells; Stars: Jason Schwartzman, Carol Kane, Caroline Aaron, Robert Smigel, Dolly De Leon, Madeline Weinstein, Matthew Shear, Jaden Waldman, Jacob Morrell, Laurent Rejto)
A cantor in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher re-enters his life as his new adult bat mitzvah student.
A Bit Of A Stranger
(Country: Ukraine, Sweden; Year: 2024; Director: Svitlana Lishchinska; Writer: Svitlana Lishchinska)
Svitlana, a Russian-speaking Ukrainian, examines the colonised part of her consciousness and tries to find answers to the question of how Soviet totalitarianism and Russification influenced the relationships within her family.
Brief History Of A Family
(Country: China, Denmark; Year: 2024; Director: Jianjie Lin; Writer: Jianjie Lin; Stars: Ke-Yu Guo, Feng Zu, Xilun Sun, Muran Lin)
A middle-class family’s fate becomes intertwined with their only son’s enigmatic new friend in post one-child policy China, putting unspoken secrets, unmet expectations, and untended emotions under the microscope.
Crossing
(Country: Sweden, Denmark, France, Turkey, Georgia; Year: 2024; Director: Levan Akin; Writer: Levan Akin; Stars: Mzia Arabuli, Lucas Kankava, Deniz Dumanli)
A retired teacher, has promised to find her long-lost niece, Tekla. Her search takes her to Istanbul where she meets Evrim, a lawyer fighting for trans rights, and Tekla starts to feel closer than ever.
Cu Li Never Cries (Cu Li Không Bao Giờ Khóc)
(Country: Vietnam; Year: 2024; Director: Pham Ngoc Lan; Writer: Pham Ngoc Lan, Nghiem Quynh Trang; Stars: Minh-Châu, Xuan An Ngo, Ha-Phuong, Kieu-Trinh, Phí-Linh, Cao Sang, Hoàng-Hà, Hien Thanh, Van Thai Nguyen, Quôc-Tuân, Thuong Tin)
After inheriting a pygmy slow loris from her long-estranged husband, a woman clings to dwindling ties to her past while her niece prepares for her wedding and worries about the future.
Diaries From Lebanon
(Country: Lebanon; Year: 2024; Director: Myriam El Hajj; Stars: Georges Moufarrej, Joumana Haddad, Perla Joe Maalouli)
Lebanon, 2018. War, politics or revolution: these are the choices faced by Georges, Joumana and Perla Joe. Three destinies and a shared desire to rebuild a troubled country.
Every You Every Me (Alle Die Du Bist)
(Country: Germany, Spain; Year: 2024; Director: Michael Fetter Nathansky; Writer: Michael Fetter Nathansky; Stars: Aenne Schwarz, Carlo Ljubek, Youness Aabbaz, Sara Fazilat, Naila Schuberth, Peter Brachschoss, David Hürten, Moritz Klaus, Sascha Mahlberg, Jule Nebel-Linnenbaum, Dagmar Sachse, Sammy Schrein, Frank Stüdgens, Nadja Zwanziger)
Faruk
(Country: France, Germany, Turkey; Year: 2024; Director: Asli Özge; Stars: Gönül Gezer, Faruk Özge, Derya Erkenci)
Faruk, who is over 90 years old, increasingly becomes the protagonist in the film his daughter is making about the impending demolition of his block of flats in Istanbul.
The Idea Of You
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Michael Showalter; Writer: Michael Showalter, Jennifer Westfeldt; Stars: Anne Hathaway, Nicholas Galitzine, Ella Rubin, Reid Scott, Annie Mumolo, Viktor White, Raymond Cham, Jaiden Anthony, Dakota Adan, Perry Mattfeld, Mathilda Gianopoulos, Jordan Aaron Hall)
A 40-year-old single mother begins an unexpected romance with the 24-year-old lead singer of the hottest boy band on the planet.
I’m Not Everything I Want to Be (Ještě nejsem, kým chci být)
(Country: Czechia, Slovakia, Austria; Year: 2024; Director: Klára Tasovská; Stars: Libuse Jarcovjakova)
After the suppression of the Prague Spring in 1968, photographer Libuše Jarcovjáková strives to break free from the constraints of the repressive Czechoslovakian regime and embarks on a long journey towards freedom.
I Saw the TV Glow
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Jane Schoenbrun; Writer: Jane Schoenbrun; Stars: Justice Smith, Michael C. Maronna, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Amber Benson, Danny Tamberelli, Conner O'Malley, Danielle Deadwyler, Emma Portner, Helena Howard, Will Fitz, Ben Heineman, Ian Foreman, Timothy Griffin Allan, Michael Twaine, Michelle Santiago)
Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show - a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen’s view of reality begins to crack.
Janet Planet
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Annie Baker; Writer: Annie Baker)
A youngster observes her mother Janet and three enigmatic adults who drift in and out of their lives.
Meanwhile On Earth (Pendant ce temps sur Terre)
(Country: France; Year: 2024; Director: Jérémy Clapin; Writer: Jérémy Clapin; Stars: Megan Northam, Dimitri Doré, Sébastien Pouderoux, Catherine Salée, Sam Louwyck, Roman Williams, Sofia Lesaffre, Nicolas Avinée, Yoann Thibaut Mathias, Arcadi Radeff, Sabine Timoteo, Marie Bray, Christian Bouillette)
Siblings Elsa and Franck were very close. Since Franck disappeared during a space mission three years ago, Elsa has struggled to move on with her life. Until one day she is contacted by an unidentified life form.
Memories Of A Burning Body (Memorias de un cuerpo que arde)
(Year: 2024; Director: Antonella Sudasassi)
Repression and taboos have shaped the image of womanhood for Ana, 68, Patricia, 69, and Mayela, 71. Their stories combine to form a kaleidoscope of memories, secrets and longings that are incarnated by another woman’s body.
My New Friends (Les gens d’à côté)
(Country: France; Year: 2024; Director: André Téchiné; Writer: André Téchiné, Régis de Martrin-Donos; Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Hafsia Herzi, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Stéphane Rideau, Moustapha Mbengue)
Police officer Lucie’s solitary daily life is disturbed by the arrival of a young couple and their little girl who move in next door. As she grows fond of them, she discovers that the father is an anti-police activist.
My Stolen Planet (Sayyareye dozdide shodeye man)
(Country: Germany; Year: 2024; Director: Farahnaz Sharifi; Writer: Farahnaz Sharifi)
Farah, an Iranian woman, is forced to migrate to her private planet to be free. She buys other people’s memories in the form of Super 8 films and records and archives her own to create an alternative history of Iran.
No Other Land
(Country: Palestinian Territories; Year: 2024; Director: Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor)
This film made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective shows the destruction of the West Bank’s Masafer Yatta by Israeli authorities and the unlikely alliance which develops between the Palestinian activist Basel and Israeli journalist Yuval.
The Outrun
(Country: UK, Germany; Year: 2024; Director: Nora Fingscheidt; Writer: Nora Fingscheidt, Amy Liptrot, Daisy Lewis; Stars: Saskia Reeves, Saoirse Ronan, Paapa Essiedu, Stephen Dillane, Lauren Lyle, Izuka Hoyle, Naomi Wirthner, Nabil Elouahabi, Posy Sterling, Tony Hamilton-Croft, Seamus Dillane, Danyal Ismail, Scott Miller, Paul Kulik)
After living life on the edge in London, Rona attempts to come to terms with her troubled past. She returns to the wild beauty of Scotland’s Orkney Islands - where she grew up - hoping to heal.
Paradises Of Diane (Les Paradis de Diane)
(Country: Switzerland; Year: 2024; Director: Jan Gassmann, Carmen Jaquier; Writer: Carmen Jaquier; Stars: Dorothée de Koon, Aurore Clément, Roland Bonjour, Omar Ayuso, Duncan Airlie James, Stéphanie Lagarde, Jaap Achterberg, Eva Lenherr, José Roberto Díaz, Marke Temple, Soraya Wells, Amador Xtreme, Beat Wittwer, Jolanda Adams, Vicente Pérez Aznar)
Immediately after the birth of her child, Diane abandons her boyfriend and baby in a Zurich hospital and disappears into a Spanish city she does not know on the Mediterranean. But the changes her body is going through remind her of what she is fleeing from.
Rising Up At Night (Tongo Saa)
(Country: Belgium, Germany, Qatar, Congo, Burkina Faso; Year: 2024; Director: Nelson Makengo)
Portrait of the residents of Kinshasa with their faith, hopes and disappointments, immersed in the beauty of the nights in the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Scorched Earth (Verbrannte Erde)
(Country: Germany; Year: 2024; Director: Thomas Arslan; Stars: Misel Maticevic, Marie Leuenberger, Alexander Fehling, Till Wonka)
Twelve years after he fled, career criminal Trojan returns to Berlin. A valuable painting is set to be stolen in the city. But the meticulously planned heist soon runs out of control.
Sex
(Country: Norway; Year: 2024; Director: Dag Johan Haugerud; Stars: Jan Gunnar Røise, Thorbjørn Harr, Siri Forberg, Birgitte Larsen)
Two chimney sweeps living in monogamous, heterosexual marriages both end up in situations that challenge their views on sexuality and gender roles.
Teaches Of Peaches
(Country: Germany; Year: 2024; Director: Philipp Fussenegger, Judy Landkammer; Stars: Peaches, Leslie Feist, Chilly Gonzales, Shirley Manson, Charlie Le Mindu)
Documentary charts the journey of Canadian Merrill Nisker into the internationally acclaimed cultural powerhouse that is Peaches.
The Visitor
(Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Bruce La Bruce; Writer: Alex Babboni, Victor Fraga, Bruce La Bruce; Stars: Bishop Black, Macklin Kowal, Amy Kingsmill, Ray Filar, Kurtis Lincoln, Luca Federici, John Foley, Adrian Bracken, Kabir Jhala, Fidel Trotman, Paul Miller, Léolo, Mathieu Morel, Aurélien Deniel)
A refugee washes up in a small suitcase on the banks of the River Thames in London. Arriving at the house of an upper-class family, he seduces each and every family member, depicted in explicit sex scenes. A reimagining of Pasolini’s Teorema.
Which Way Africa? (À quand l’Afrique?)
(Director: David-Pierre Fila; Stars: Samuel Fosso, Joseph Ki-zerbo, Imam Souleymane, Simon Njami)
The people of the forests pound their drums to keep their chants alive. Those of the city shriek of “Progress!” Still more rush in to seize the treasures of the land, only to be met by new voices shouting in defiance.
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