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The 53rd edition of the festival will run from April 3 to 14 at Film at Lincoln Center and MoMA in New York. It will open with A Different Man and close with Stress Positions.
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![Hesitation Wound](/images/stills/h/hesitation_wound_2023.jpg)
A criminal lawyer faces difficult moral and emotional choices.
![Omen](/images/stills/o/omen_2023.jpg)
When a man who was cast out as a child after being considered a sorceror returns home, he faces prejudice.
![Blaga's Lessons](/images/stills/b/blagas_lessons_2023.jpg)
A woman's moral compass starts to slip after she is conned out of her savings by a phone scammer.
![Stress Positions](/images/stills/s/stress_positions_2024.jpg)
Terry Goon is keeping strict quarantine in his ex-husband’s Brooklyn brownstone while caring for his nephew - a 19-year-old model from Morocco named Bahlul - bedridden in a full leg cast after an electric scooter accident. Unfortunately for Terry, everyone in his life wants to meet the model.
![Intercepted](/images/stills/i/intercepted_2024.jpg)
The destruction caused by the war against Ukraine is shown in lengthy tableaux. Intercepted phone conversations between Russian soldiers and their families set up a parallel world.
![A Different Man](/images/stills/d/different_man_2024.jpg)
Aspiring actor Edward undergoes a radical medical trial to drastically transform his appearance. But his new dream face quickly turns into a nightmare.
![Malu](/images/stills/m/malu_2024.jpg)
Malu - a mercurial, unemployed actress living with her conservative mother in a precarious house in a Rio de Janeiro slum - tries to deal with her strained relationship with her own adult daughter while surviving on memories of her glorious artistic past.
![Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry](/images/stills/b/blackbird_blackbird_blackberry_2023.jpg)
The story of a 40something in a dead-end town who discovers love for the first time.
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