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The 56th edition of the festival took place from September 28 to October 14. The festival opened with The Favourite and closed with At Eternity's Gate. The Centrepiece Gala was Roma.
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![Happy As Lazzaro](/images/stills/h/happy_as_lazzaro_2018.jpg)
A young nobleman asks a peasant to help fake his own kidnapping.
![In My Room](/images/stills/i/in_my_room_2018.jpg)
A bored man suddenly realises that everyone around him has disappeared and he isn't sure what happened.
![Be Natural: The Untold Story Of Alice Guy-Blaché](/images/stills/b/be_natural_the_untold_story_of_alice_guyblach_2019.jpg)
Documentary about the first woman director, producer and director of a studio in the history of cinema.
![Angels Are Made Of Light](/images/stills/a/angels_are_made_of_light_2018.jpg)
Documentary tracking schoolchildren growing up in Kabul over a period of years.
![Asako I & II](/images/stills/a/asako_i_ii_2018.jpg)
Asako is a 21-year-old woman, living in Osaka. She falls in love with Baku who has a free spirit. One day, Baku suddenly disappears. Two years later, Asako now lives in Tokyo and she meets Ryohei. He looks just like her ex-boyfriend Baku, but he has a completely different personality.
![Transit](/images/stills/t/transit_2018.jpg)
Georg flees to Marseilles to escape the German army. Assuming a false identity, he tries to obtain passage on a ship bound for Mexico. But then he meets Marie and his plans change.
![What You Gonna Do When The World's On Fire?](/images/stills/w/what_you_gonna_do_when_the_worlds_on_fire_2018.jpg)
The story of a community of black people in the American South during the summer 2017, when a string of brutal killings of black men sent shockwaves throughout the country.
![Carmine Street Guitars](/images/stills/c/carmine_street_guitars_2018.jpg)
A shop resisting gentrification.
![At Eternity's Gate](/images/stills/a/at_eternitys_gate_2018.jpg)
The last days of Vincent van Gogh.
![If Beale Street Could Talk](/images/stills/i/if_beale_street_could_talk_2018.jpg)
A pregnant woman tries to prove her lover's innocence.
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