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Butterfly Vision and No Bears
Butterfly Vision (Bachennya metelyka)
(Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2022; Director: Maksym Nakonechnyi; Writer: Maksym Nakonechnyi; Stars: Rita Burkovska, Daria Lorenci, Lyubomyr Valivots, Natalya Vorozhbit), Trailer
Drama about a former prisoner of war, who struggles to resume her life in Ukraine.
Coma
(Country: France; Year: 2022; Director: Bertrand Bonello)
A teenager who appears to live alone during Covid lockdown gradually begins to experience the dissolution of boundaries between her real and imagined zones.
De Humani Corporis Fabrica
(Country: France; Year: 2022; Director: Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel)
Five centuries ago, anatomist André Vésale opened up the human body to science for the first time in history. Today, De Humani Corporis Fabrica opens the human body to the cinema.
EO
(Country: Poland; Year: 2022; Director: Jerzy Skolimowski; Writer: Ewa Piaskowska, Jerzy Skolimowski; Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Lorenzo Zurzolo, Mateusz Kosciukiewicz, Sandra Drzymalska, Tomasz Organek)
Tale revolving around an unassuming grey donkey.
Horseplay (Los Agitadores)
(Country: Argentina; Year: 2022; Director: Marco Berger; Writer: Marco Berger; Stars: Bruno Giganti, Agustín Machta, Franco de la Puente, Iván Masliah, Facundo Mas, Ivan Benitez, Carlos Carneglia, Denis Corat, Jordán Romero, Fernando De Simone, Melissa Falter, Gastón Frías, Antonella Yamila Fittipaldi, Victoria Machta, Malena Feijóo)
It's the Christmas holidays, and Andy leaves the city in order to spend some time at a luxury villa with his best friends. As they goof around, their initial consensual horseplay reveals that they each have different personal boundaries.
EO and Pacifiction
Inland
(Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Fridtjof Ryder; Stars: Rory Alexander, Mark Rylance, Kathryn Hunter)
A troubled young man returns to his home town after his mother disappears.
Into The Ice
(Country: Denmark, Germany; Year: 2022; Director: Lars Ostenfeld; Stars: Jason Box, Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Alun Hubbard)
Documentary following scientist's studying Greenland's terrain.
Manticore
(Country: Spain; Year: 2022; Director: Carlos Vermut; Writer: Carlos Vermut; Stars: Catalina Sopelana, Nacho Sánchez, Zoe Stein, Javier Lago, Ángela Boix, Patrick Martino, Álvaro Sanz Rodríguez)
A young man’s long-suppressed secrets and urges rise to the surface as a new woman enters his life.
No Bears
(Year: 2022; Director: Jafar Panahi; Writer: Jafar Panahi; Stars: Jafar Panahi, Mina Kavani, Bülent Keser, Vahid Mobasheri, Sinan Yusufoglu, Naser Hashemi, Bakhtiyar Panjeei, Reza Heydari, Mina Khosrovani)
The director appears as himself, relocated to a rural border town to remotely oversee the making of a new film in Turkey, the story of which comes to sharply parallel disturbing events that begin to occur around him.
Pacifiction (Tourment sur les îles)
(Country: Spain, France, Germany, Portugal; Year: 2022; Director: Albert Serra; Writer: Albert Serra; Stars: Benoît Magimel, Sergi López, Montse Triola, Lluís Serrat, Marc Susini, Pahoa Mahagafanau, Matahi Pambrun, Alexandre Mello, Mareva Wong, Baptiste Pinteaux, Michael Vautor, Cyrus Arai, Laurent Brissonnaud, Mike Landscape, Cécile Guilbert)
On the French Polynesian island of Tahiti, the High Commissioner of the Republic and French government navigates the high end "establishment" as well as shady venues as a rumour abounds about the sighting of a submarine whose presence could herald the return of French nuclear testing.
Subtraction and Inland
SHTTL
(Country: Ukraine, France; Year: 2022; Director: Ady Walter; Writer: Ady Walter; Stars: Moshe Lobel, Saul Rubinek, Lili Rosen, Petro Ninovskyi, Anisia Stasevich, Emily Karpel, Valeria Shpak, Antoine Millet, Oleksandr Yeremenko, Yurko Kritenko, Vitaliia Barco, Aleksandr Ivanov, Markiian Miroshnychenko, Kononenko Olena)
Set in a Jewish village prior to the Nazi invasion of Ukraine in 1941, a filmmaker returns from Kyiv in search of his intended bride.
Subtraction
(Country: Iran; Year: 2022; Director: Mani Haghighi; Writer: Mani Haghighi, Amir Reza Koohestani; Stars: Navid Mohammadzadeh, Taraneh Alidoosti, Ali Bagheri, Gilda Vishki, Vahid Aghapour, Soheyla Razavi, Saeed Changizian)
All is not what it first appears when a woman spots her husband while he's supposed to be out of town on a business trip.
Unrest
(Country: Switzerland; Year: 2022; Director: Cyril Schäublin; Writer: Cyril Schäublin; Stars: Valentin Merz, Clara Gostynski, Alexei Evstratov, Nikolai Bosshardt, Mayo Irion, Li Tavor, Daniel Stähli, Hélio Thiémard, Monika Stalder, Laurent Ferrero, Laurence Bretignier)
A watch factory worker gets involved with a movement of anarchist watchmakers where she meets philosopher Pyotr Kropotkin.
The Woodcutter Story
(Country: Finland, Netherlands, Denmark, Germany; Year: 2022; Director: Mikko Myllylahti; Writer: Mikko Myllylahti; Stars: Jarkko Lahti, Iivo Tuuri, Hannu-Pekka Björkman, Ulla Tapaninen, Marc Gassot, Katja Küttner, Armi Toivanen, Matti Onnismaa, Wanda Dubiel, Tomi Alatalo, Omar Abdi, Cris af Enehielm, Lauri Maijala, Ellen Herler, Maini Korkala)
Trouble brews for a woodcutter in a small town after he loses his job.
Xalé
(Country: Senegal; Year: 2022; Director: Moussa Sene Absa; Writer: Ben Diogaye Beye, Pierre Magny, Moussa Sene Absa; Stars: Nguissaly Barry, Mabeye Diol, Ibrahima M'Baye, Rokhaya Niang)
An arranged marriage leads to violence.
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