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Cat Call and Falling Into Place
All, Or Nothing At All
(Country: China; Year: 2023; Director: Jiajun Oscar Zhang; Writer: Ying Bian, Jiajun Oscar Zhang; Stars: Yu An, Xiaoyi Chen, Yanqi Chen, Cuishan Liang, Ruguang Wei)
The fustrated realities of Generation Z in unforgiving contemporary China.
Andrea's Love (El amor de Andrea)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2023; Director: Manuel Martín Cuenca)
An unfulfilled teenager feels she is missing something, and she’s determined not to stop until she finds it.
Ben-Joe
(Year: 2023; Director: Akira Iwamatsu; Writer: Akira Iwamatsu; Stars: Nonoka Ishikawa, Eisaku Shindo, Hako Oshima, Mutsumi Kato, Senko Hida)
Tale of a young woman with bulimia.
Body Odyssey
(Country: Italy, Switzerland; Year: 2023; Director: Grazia Tricarico; Writer: Marco Morana, Giulio Rizzo, Grazia Tricarico; Stars: Jacqueline Fuchs, Julian Sands, Adam Misik, Stefan Sauk, Lukas Loughran)
Drama about a bodybuilder with a thirst for perfection.
Cat Call (Cicaverzum)
(Country: Hungary; Year: 2023; Director: Rozália Szeleczki; Writer: Zsófia Kemény, Rozália Szeleczki; Stars: Franciska Töröcsik, Antal Agatics, Róbert Alföldi, Gergely Blahó, Bálint Bán, Adél Csobot, Zoltán Friedenthal, László Göndör, Aladár Horváth, Zsófia Kemény, Tibor Kiss, Anna Korom, Attila Lestyán, Vincze Lotár, Márta Martin)
An architect finds her search for love complicated by the fact that whenever she falls for someone she forsees their death.
Mr And Mrs Stodola and Tentigo
Dilli Dark
(Country: India; Year: 2023; Director: Dibakar Das Roy; Writer: Dibakar Das Roy; Stars: Samuel Abiola Robinson, Geetika Vidya Ohlyan, Shantanu Anam)
A Nigerian student tries to make it while fighting racism in Delhi.
Endless Summer Syndrome (Le syndrome de l’eté sans fin)
(Country: Czech Republic, France; Year: 2023; Director: Kaveh Daneshmand; Writer: Laurine Bauby, Kaveh Daneshmand, Gem Deger; Stars: Sophie Colon, Matheo Capelli, Gem Deger, Frédérika Milano, Roland Plantin, Patricia Piolet, Nikolina Menik Tute, Margaret Elizabeth Ousey, Geneviéve Agnès Bocquet, Eva Larvoire, Sara Pizarro, Elena Vederi)
A family holiday - and a perfect life - turn sour when a secret is revealed.
Falling Into Place
(Country: Germany; Year: 2023; Director: Aylin Tezel; Writer: Aylin Tezel; Stars: Aylin Tezel, Chris Fulton, Alexandra Dowling, Rory Fleck Byrne)
A romance between two people, who met too briefly over a winter weekend while on the run from themselves.
The Fisherman's Daughter (La estrategia del mero)
(Country: Colombia, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Dominican Republic; Year: 2023; Director: Edgar de Luque Jácome; Writer: Edgar de Luque Jácome; Stars: Nathalia Rincón, Roamir Pineda, Henry Barrios, Jesús Romero, Modesto Lacén)
Drama centring on a father/daughter relationship.
Giant's Kettle (Hiidenkirnu)
(Country: Finland; Year: 2023; Director: Markku Hakala, Mari Käki; Writer: Markku Hakala; Stars: Henri Malkki, Kirsi Paananen, Atte Vuori)
Silent film set in a futuristic world about a family trip back to the past.
Inpaintings
(Country: Turkey; Year: 2023; Director: Ozan Yoleri; Writer: Aysin Kadirbeyoglu, Ozan Yoleri; Stars: Ahsen Eroglu, Hazal Subasi, Özlem Zeynep Dinsel, Osman Iskender Bayer, Ulas Akarsu, Celine Baril, Omercan Celebi, Serra Menderes, Deniz Tekeroglu, Grzegorz Waszczuk)
After a shattering event, Defne drops her PhD studies in Paris, breaks up with her boyfriend Luke and returns to Istanbul. Things change when she receives an unexpected proposal to restore a late Ottoman era painting for an exhibition.
The Moon Is Upside Down
(Country: New Zealand; Year: 2021; Director: Loren Taylor; Writer: Loren Taylor; Stars: Aman Bajaj, Ghazaleh Golbakhsh, Victoria Haralabidou, Elizabeth Hawthorne, Cohen Holloway, Robbie Magasiva, Robyn Malcolm, Roxie Mohebbi, Loren Taylor)
Against the backdrop of New Zealand's countryside and gritty urban suburbs, three characters grapple with an insatiable yearning for connection.
Mo Mamma
(Country: Estonia; Year: 2023; Director: Eeva Mägi; Writer: Eeva Mägi; Stars: Eva Koldits, Helena Lotman)
A mum and daughter facing the loss of a matriarch seek closeness and mutual understanding
Mr And Mrs Stodola
(Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia; Year: 2023; Director: Petr Hátle; Writer: Petr Hátle, Tomáš Hrubý; Stars: Lucie Žáčková, Jan Hájek)
The story of a husband and wife's killing spree.
The Quiet Maid
(Country: Spain; Year: 2023; Director: Miguel Faus; Writer: Miguel Faus; Stars: Paula Grimaldo, Ariadna Gil, Luis Bermejo, Pol Hermoso, Violeta Rodríguez, Nany Tovar, Victor Rebull, Eduard Torres, Álvaro Maisons, Miguel Fernandez, Alejo De Soler, Ayoub El Hilali, Jesús Rubio, Ronald Sosa, Óscar Antares)
Character study of a Columbian maid who goes to work in an opulent home on the Costa Del Sol.
Tentigo
(Country: Sri Lanka, India; Year: 2023; Director: Ilango Ram; Writer: Ilango Ram; Stars: Kaushalya Fernando, Priyantha Sirikumara, Thusitha Laknath, Ranjith Panagoda, Chandani Seneviratne)
Absurdist comedy that sees a family try to cope after the patriarch dies with an erection that won't go away.
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