Venice Film Festival 2021

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Our Father, The Devil Our Father, The Devil
Our Father, The Devil and The Cathedral
Al Oriente (Country: Ecuador; Year: 2021; Director: José María Avilés; Writer: José María Avilés, Felipe Troya; Stars: Paulet Arévalo, Oliver Utne, Santiago Villacís, Paulet Arévalo, Oliver Utne, Santiago Villacís)
In current times, Atahualpa works at the construction of a road to the Oriente. In the region there is a rumor of a vast treasure hidden at the beginning of the colony. One afternoon, after his girlfriend Rocío has left the city, Atahualpa feels a provocation, a distant call that takes him back a hundred years.
The Cathedral (Country: US; Year: 2021; Director: Ricky D'Ambrose; Writer: Ricky D'Ambrose; Stars: Monica Barbaro, Brian d'Arcy James, Cynthia Mace, Geraldine Singer, Robert Levey II, Madeline Hudelson, Melinda Tanner, Linnea Gregg, Steven Alonte, Mark Zeisler, Gorman Ruggiero, William Day, Candy Dato, Cooper Carrell, Erich Rausch)
An only child’s meditative, impressionistic account of an American family’s rise and fall over two decades.
The Miracle Child (Country: Italy; Year: 2021; Director: Silvia Brunelli; Writer: Silvia Brunelli, Francesca Scanu; Stars: Gianfelice Imparato, Luigi Chiocca, Pina Di Gennaro, Vincenzo Antonucci, Sofia Guastaferro, Francesco Pellegrino, Gianfelice Imparato, Luigi Chiocca, Pina Di Gennaro, Vincenzo Antonucci, Sofia Guastaferro, Francesco Pellegrino)
In a sunny district of Naples where everyone knows each other, Mario and Lino, two inseparable friends, live day by day in the monotony of neighbourhood life. Until everything changes.
Our Father, The Devil (Mon Pere, Le Diable) (Year: 2021; Director: Ellie Foumbi; Writer: Ellie Foumbi; Stars: Babetida Sadjo, Souleymane Sy Savané, Jennifer Tchiakpe, Franck Saurel, Martine Amisse)
A former child soldier struggling to come to terms with her past finds her world turned upside down with the arrival of a priest whom she belives she recognises.
Our Happiest Dreams (Nuestras Dias Mas Felices) (Country: Argentina; Year: 2021; Director: Laura Mara Tablón; Stars: Matilde Creimer Chiabrando, Lide Uranga, Antonella Saldicco, Cristián Jensen, Claudio Martínez Bel)
Agatha, 74 years old, and Leonidas, 36, maintain an absorbing mother-son relationship but things change after Agatha suddenly wakes up in the body of a little girl.
La Tana (Country: Italy; Year: 2021; Director: Beatrice Baldacci; Writer: Beatrice Baldacci, Edoardo Puma; Stars: Irene Vetere, Elisa Di Eusanio, Helene Nardini, Federico Rosati, Lorenzo Aloi, Paolo Ricci, Irene Vetere, Elisa Di Eusanio, Helene Nardini, Federico Rosati, Lorenzo Aloi, Paolo Ricci)
Coming of age tale about a teenage boy who finds his life changing after the arrival of a woman in the house next door.
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