Between The Rains and No Winter Holidays
Between The Rains
(Country: Kenya; Year: 2023; Director: Andrew H Brown, Moses Thuranira)
A coming-of-age documentary following a young member of a formerly nomadic northern Kenyan community as they deal with the environmental and psychological effects of climate change.
International premiere
The Body Politic
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Gabriel Francis Paz Goodenough)
Portrait of Brandon Scott, Baltimore’s youngest Black mayor, during his mayoral campaign and first year.
World premiere
Handle With Extreme Care
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Patrick Ginnetty, Bowie Alexander)
The daily life of a New York mortuary struggling to provide a resting place for the dead at the height of the Covid crisis.
World premiere
In The Shadow Of Light
(Country: Chile; Year: 2023; Director: Isabel Reyes, Ignacia Merino)
Life in a town dominated by a power plant and its constant hum.
World premiere
Lonely Oaks (Vergiss Meyn Nicht)
(Country: Germany; Year: 2023; Director: Fabiana Fragale, Kilian Kuhlendahl, Jens Muehlhoff)
Documents the troubled occupation of Germany´s Hambach Forest.
International premiere
Not A Bedtime Story (Cuentos Para No Dormir)
(Country: Ecuador; Year: 2023; Director: Lila Penagos)
Lila Penagos has fond childhood memories of her father telling her bedtime stories. She now asks him to tell her real stories about his past as a guerrilla fighter.
World premiere
No Winter Holidays (Dhorpatan)
(Country: Nepal, South Korea, Romania; Year: 2023; Director: Rajan Kathet, Sunir Pandey)
Documentary portrait of two lifelong rivals, who are forced to share an empty village during the dead of winter.
World premiere
Q
(Country: Lebanon, United States; Year: 2023; Director: Jude Chehab)
The filmmaker explores her mother Hiba’s devotion to an all-female, secretive religious order in Syria.
International premiere
A Year In A Field
(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Christopher Morris)
A year in the life of the Longstone, a natural relic in Cornwall.
World premiere
