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La Chimera and Green Border
About Dry Grasses (Kuru Otlar Üstüne)
(Country: Turkey, France, Germany, Sweden; Year: 2023; Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan; Writer: Ebru Ceylan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Akin Aksu; Stars: Merve Dizdar, Deniz Celiloglu, Musab Ekici)
A young teacher hopes to be appointed to Istanbul after mandatory duty at a small village. After long time waiting he loses all hope of escaping from this gloomy life. His colleague helps him to regain his perspective.
Blue Sunshine
(Country: India; Year: 2023; Director: Samyuktha Vijayan; Writer: Samyuktha Vijayan; Stars: Gajaraj, Geetha Kailasam, Masanth Natarajan, Manimegalai, Samyuktha Vijayan)
A high school teacher undergoes transition to her new life while working in a conservative small-town school.
The Cemetery Of Cinema (Au Cimetière De La Pellicule)
(Country: France, Senegal, Guinea, Saudi Arabia; Year: 2023; Director: Thierno Souleymane Diallo; Stars: Thierno Souleymane Diallo)
Thierno Souleymane Diallo sets out with his camera in search of the birth of filmmaking in Guinea.
La Chimera
(Country: Italy, France, Switzerland; Year: 2023; Director: Alice Rohrwacher; Writer: Carmela Covino, Marco Pettenello, Alice Rohrwacher; Stars: Isabella Rossellini, Josh O'Connor, Alba Rohrwacher, Lecu Chikovani, Carol Duate)
The story of a group of archaeologists and the black market in historical artefacts.
Cold (Kuldi)
(Country: Iceland; Year: 2023; Director: Erlingur Thoroddsen; Writer: Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, Erlingur Thoroddsen; Stars: Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson, Elín Hall, Selma Björnsdóttir, Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir, Sara Dögg Ásgeirsdóttir, Mikael Kaaber, Ólöf Halla Jóhannesdóttir, Björn Stefánsson, Baldur Björn Arnarsson, Birgir Dagur Bjarkason, Álfrún Örnólfsdóttir, Kristbjörg Kjeld, Anna Gunndís Guðmundsdóttir, Stefán Jónsson, Vala Kristin Eiriksdottir)
Murder mystery chiller unfolds across two time periods as a man and his daughter try to come to terms with a suicide while he investigates historic deaths at a juvenile centre.
The Teachers' Lounge and Disco Boy
Disco Boy
(Country: France, Italy, Belgium, Poland; Year: 2023; Director: Giacomo Abbruzzese; Writer: Giacomo Abbruzzese; Stars: Franz Rogowski, Morr Ndiaye, Laëtitia Ky, Leon Lučev)
The destinies of a man who has joined the Foreign Legion and another in the Niger Delta intersect.
Green Border (Zielona granica)
(Country: Poland, Germany, France, Czechia, Belgium; Year: 2023; Director: Agnieszka Holland; Writer: Agnieszka Holland, Gabriela Lazarkiewicz-Sieczko, Maciej Pisuk; Stars: Jalal Altawil, Maja Ostaszewska, Tomasz Włosok, Behi Djanati Atai, Mohamad Al Rashi, Dalia Naous)
Multifaceted drama about the plight of refugees on the Belarus/Poland border.
Hounds
(Country: Morocco, France, Belgium, Qatar, Saudi Arabia; Year: 2023; Director: Kamal Lazraq; Writer: Kamal Lazraq; Stars: Ayoub Elaid, Abdellatif Masstouri, Mohamed Hmimsa, Abdellatif Lebkiri, Lahcen Zaimouzen, Salah Bensalah, Mohamed Kharbouchi, Amine Arakhisis, Amine Malouf, Hicham Bidar, Abdellah Bensaid, Abdelhak Saleh, Mohamed Jenkher, Amine Aboudrar, Hassan Ben Bdida)
A fateful night in the life of a father and son after a kidnapping goes awry.
A House In Jerusalem
(Country: Germany, Palestinian Territories, Netherlands, United Kingdom; Year: 2023; Director: Muayad Alayan; Writer: Muayad Alayan, Rami Musa Alayan; Stars: Johnny Harris, Miley Locke, Sheherazade Makhoul Farrell, Jiana Awwad, Rebecca Calder, Souad Faress, Mouna Hawa, Shaden Kanboura, Makram Khoury, Riyad Sliman, Rebecca Esmeralda Telhami)
After a grieving dad and his daughter move from England to Israel, she encounters a little girl that only she can see.
Riddle Of Fire
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Weston Razooli; Writer: Weston Razooli; Stars: Lio Tipton, Weston Razooli, Charles Halford, Phoebe Ferro)
Three mischievous children on dirt bikes, armed with paint guns and cocky attitudes, launch an attack at a local warehouse, outwitting a security guard and 'liberating' the very latest video game console for themselves - but to make use of it, they need to figure out the password with which their mother has locked the TV.
Cold and The Vourdalak
The Teachers' Lounge (Das Lehrerzimmer)
(Country: Germany; Year: 2023; Director: İlker Çatak; Writer: İlker Çatak; Stars: Leonie Benesch, Leonard Stettnisch, Eva Löbau, Michael Klammer, Anne-Kathrin Gummich)
When one of her students is suspected of theft, teacher Carla Nowak decides to get to the bottom of the matter. Caught between her ideals and the school system, the consequences of her actions threaten to break her.
The Vourdalak
(Country: France; Year: 2023; Director: Adrien Beau; Writer: Adrien Beau, Hadrien Bouvier, based on the novella by, Aleksei Tolstoy; Stars: Ariane Labed, Grégoire Colin, Vassili Schneider, Kacey Mottet Klein)
Historic vampire tale, adapted from a Tolstoy novella.
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