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Small, Slow But Steady and Alcarràs
After Sherman
(Year: 2022; Director: Jon Sesrie Goff; Writer: Jon Sesrie Goff; Stars: Norvel Goff Sr.)
Aisha
(Country: Ireland; Year: 2022; Director: Frank Berry; Writer: Frank Berry; Stars: Letitia Wright, Josh O'Connor, Abdul Alshareef, Ruth McCabe, Joanne Crawford, Emmanuel Okoye, Geraldine McAlinden, Florence Adebambo, Bernadette Carty, Corey Millar, Christopher Livingstone, Brian Manning, Antionette Doyle, Paul Murphy)
A young Nigerian woman seeking asylum in Ireland flounders in a maze of social services and bureaucracy as her situation becomes increasingly dire.
Alcarràs
(Country: Spain, Italy; Year: 2022; Director: Carla Simón; Writer: Carla Simón; Stars: Jordi Pujol Dolcet, Anna Otin, Xènia Roset, Albert Bosch, Ainet Jounou, Josep Abad, Montse Oró, Carles Cabós, Berta Pipó, Isaac Rovira, Joel Rovira)
The Solé family spends the summer picking peaches - but this year’s crop may well be their last as new owners plan to replace the peach trees with solar panels and the family’s livelihood is threatened.
Autobiography
(Country: Indonesia, Poland, Germany, Singapore, France, Philippines; Year: 2022; Director: Makbul Mubarak; Writer: Makbul Mubarak; Stars: Kevin Ardilova, Yusuf Mahardika, Arswendy Bening Swara, Lukman Sardi, Rukman Rosadi, Haru Sandra, Gunawan Maryanto, Yudi Ahmad Tajudin)
A young man working as a housekeeper sparks a chain of violence after defending his boss's mayoral election campaign.
Crows Are White
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Ahsen Nadeem; Writer: Ahsen Nadeem, Matt H. Mayes, Dawn Blackman)
The filmmaker travels to a Japanese monastery in search of guidance but things don't go as expected.
Under The Fig Trees and Liquor Store Dreams
The Girl From Tomorrow
(Country: Italy, France; Year: 2022; Director: Marta Savina; Writer: Marta Savina; Stars: Claudia Gusmano, Fabrizio Ferracane, Francesco Colella)
A young woman violently forced into marriage fights for justice.
Know Your Place
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Zia Mohajerjasbi; Writer: Zia Mohajerjasbi; Stars: Joseph Smith, Natnael Mebrahtu, Selamawit Gebresus, Haileselassie Kidane, Esther Kibreab, Aaron Sahle, Selemun Welderfael, Liza Curtiss, Jacob Eliett, Logan Harper, Melissa Collins Henderson, Melissa Reaves)
An Eritrean American teen embarks on an odyssey through a rapidly gentrifying Seattle.
Liquor Store Dreams
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: So Yun Um; Writer: Christina Sun Kim, So Yun Um; Stars: Mark Burton, Danny Park, May Park, Hae Sup Um, So Yun Um)
A portrait of two Korean American children of liquor store owners reconciling their dreams with those of their immigrant parents, against the backdrop of struggles for racial equity in Los Angeles.
Nayola
(Country: Portugal; Year: 2022; Director: José Miguel Ribeiro; Writer: José Eduardo Agualusa, Virgílio Almeida, Mia Couto; Stars: Elisângela Rita, Catarina André, Vitória Adelino Dias Soares, Marinela Furtado Veloso, Feliciana Délcia Guia)
Drama follows three generations of woman in the aftermath of Angola's Civil War.
The Passengers Of The Night (Les passagers de la nuit)
(Country: France; Year: 2022; Director: Mikhaël Hers; Writer: Maud Ameline, Mikhaël Hers; Stars: Emmanuelle Béart, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Noée Abita, Ophélia Kolb, Thibault Vinçon, Laurent Poitrenaux, Didier Sandre, Quito Rayon Richter, Morgane Portejoie Pinsard)
Paris, 1981. The presidential election heralds the winds of change which find an echo in the life of Elisabeth, whose husband has just abandoned her.
Utama and Aisha
Shabu
(Country: Netherlands; Year: 2021; Director: Shamira Raphaela; Writer: Shamira Raphaela)
Documentary about a 14-year-old Dutch-Surinamese wannabe rapper.
Small, Slow But Steady (Keiko, me wo sumasete)
(Country: Japan, France; Year: 2022; Director: Shô Miyake; Writer: Shô Miyake, Masaaki Sakai; Stars: Yukino Kishii, Tomokazu Miura, Masaki Miura, Shinichirô Matsuura, Hiroko Nakajima, Himi Satô, Nobuko Sendô)
A young Deaf boxer struggles to find the will to fight through the pandemic.
Summer With Hope
(Country: Canada, Iran; Year: 2022; Director: Sadaf Foroughi; Writer: Sadaf Foroughi; Stars: Leili Rashidi, Mahdi Gorbani, Kiarash Anvari, Alireza Kamali, Milad Mirzaei, Sanaz Najafi, Benyamin Peyrovani)
A young swimmer is training for the national championships with his new coach. But the alliance between the two young men elicits disapproval from the people around them.
Super Eagles '96
(Country: UK, Nigeria; Year: 2022; Director: Yemi Bamiro)
Documentary about the history of the Nigerian national football team.
Under The Fig Trees
(Country: Tunisia, Switzerland, France, Qatar; Year: 2021; Director: Erige Sehiri; Writer: Peggy Hamann, Ghalya Lacroix, Erige Sehiri; Stars: Fedi Ben Achour, Firas Amri, Ameni Fdhili, Feten Fdhili, Fide Fdhili, Gaith Mendassi, Abdelhak Mrabti, Leila Ouhebi, Hneya Ben Elhedi Sbahi, Samar Sifi)
Among the trees, young women and men working the summer harvest develop new feelings, flirt, try to understand each other, find – and flee – deeper connections.
Know Your Place and Shabu
Utama
(Country: Bolivia, Uruguay, France; Year: 2022; Director: Alejandro Loayza Grisi; Writer: Alejandro Loayza Grisi; Stars: José Calcina, Luisa Quispe, Santos Choque)
In the Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple has been living the same daily life for years. When an uncommon long drought threatens their entire way of life, Virginio and his wife Sisa face the dilemma of resisting or being defeated by the environment and time itself.
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